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For @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social and everyone else reading Moby-Dick!

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

The season’s first orphaned Ruru was admitted to Birdcare Aotearoa's nursery. BCA says with food, rest, and flight practice this feisty youngster can be released in a safe location. Want to donate? birdcareaotearoa.org.nz/donate/ Video source: instagram.com/p/DR-9wwck0OQ #owlsintowels 💛🦉 🇳🇿

forgetting the word Domesticated and telling people at this party raccoons have gotten "more coachable." at some point i start adding "over the offseason" which i don't think raccoons even have yet

#Caturday 🐱: Edward Gorey (USA, 1925-2000) #Cat Fancy, 1993 Original cover illustration created for The New Yorker magazine Watercolor, graphite, & ink on paper 280 x 215 mm (11 x 8 1/2 in.) thehotbid.com/2019/06/05/s... #CatsInArt

Every time I see this one in my meme folder, I can't stop laughing. Enjoy.

This is one of my oldest friends. We've known each other for thirty years. Yesterday she had to help stop a kidnapping of her neighbor and then helped a fellow observer recover from federal assault. She says if you want to help Minneapolis right this minute, donate ice crampons and yaktrax.

Maneki neko statues at Gotokuji Temple in Tokyo, Japan. #Caturday #ManekiNeko #LuckyCat

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One of Kish's illustrations for Ch 35: "There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea" 🐋 everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/2010/02/moby...

Meet the caracal. Scientists think this cat twitches its ear tassels to communicate with others (in addition to meowing, purring, hissing, and more). It can jump up to 3 m (10 ft) & can even swat birds out of the air for a meal! Photo: Paul Fenwick, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

This is Violet - isn't she beautiful? For some reasons the other outdoor ducks all picked on her and no matter what social combination we tried she ended up hiding, so we brought her indoors to live with the bunnies and special needs birds.

Well, that was a funny conversation. Weeks of vague miscommunications, and we just realized that despite our job titles, we are each informally "the lawyer" at work. We were both trying to translate legalese into numbers and business jargon, but it turns out we could just speak lawyer to each other!

Forgot the 🐋📖

I saw we had a cat on the surgical roster named Nuno Gloop this morning and was not at all disappointed by how great he is. And he is going to be available for adoption shortly too!

"God keep me from ever completing anything", I say as I stack the 7 books I'm in the middle of, start a craft project before I finish that quilt I've been working on for 3 years, and clean up a cold, half-empty cup of tea. 🐋 #adhd

"Hey Siri, how do I talk to my 6yo about masked secret police assaulting their elementary school?" (Don't @ me about AI. I don't even have an iPhone. this is a joke, random stranger.)

Do you know how hard is was for these folks to not utter the words "You just have to rock it out, back and forth. You got this."

I'm not sure people who live outside of snowy Northern regions understand the level of hostility required to ignore a stuck motorist. It's almost like the hospitality taboo in the desert, where you know it could be you some other day. This basically means ICE is being completely shunned.

Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat https://theonion.com/ken-burns-announces-new-10-part-mr-biscuits-documentary-after-adopting-cat/

Speaking of narwhals, have you seen the narwhal that adopted a beluga? 🐋📖https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/adopted-lone-narwhal-traveling-among-belugas-may-produce-narluga-calves-180979695/

Fork-marked lemurs and African needle-clawed galagos are a classic case of convergent evolution—they’re both small, nocturnal, primates with strikingly similar looks and lifestyles. The twist? They live about 3,000 miles apart and aren’t closely related 📷: Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino

Don't ever do business with someone who's weird and defensive and lashes out about money. Not even if you're both supposedly anti-capitalist types who are supposed to be focused on the art or the cause or the mission. Maybe especially if you're both those types.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

It really do recommend making your shitty day the problem of your shitty senator's voicemail every night, it doesn't have to be a chore. It is a actually cathartic

DEEP. SEA. SHIPWRECK. 🐋

By request: an baby

Good morning here is your emergency sloth

I see that Cybertruck Guy is the kind of person who only clears the snow off his windshield and lets the wind take care of the rest. For everyone else's sake, I hope the rest is gone by the time he gets to the I-70 ramp.

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

Adult black-footed cats only weigh around four pounds when fully grown! This means kittens are only a few ounces at birth 😻

New Riley Black book! New Riley Black book!

I've told myself more or less the same thing at 7:59 AM on the due date of the term paper, after 8 cups of coffee and zero sleep, no longer fully remembering everything I wrote. 🐋

A lovely line.🐋

This line makes me laugh as a really good zinger and makes me want to gently pat Ishmael on the back as being himself a citizen of The Kingdom of the Long Words. 🐋

🐋 couple days of reading where i forgot to post — every man in whaleworld has a philosophy of Whale. none of them agree.

anyway good night

CETOLOGY is the book promised to us by the wicked academic satirist who wrote ETYMOLOGY and EXTRACTS. The whale is a spouting fish with a tale, that is to say, a book. Some writers will essay a dolphin, yet though it sell by the superpod, they have not wrestled with the whale. In this essay, Ahab ca

Speaking of the zoo - while I was there one of the sand cats was sleeping in a hammock and another tried to climb the branch above them and fell into said hammock. The sleeping one was like WTF bro and batted the other on the face. I got a great pic of his expression after but it was out of focus 😭😭

Stress Break, Behold!

Excited to re-read the legendary, magnificent "Cetology" chapter tomorrow. To whet your appetite, please enjoy Rockwell Kent's appropriately bizarre illustration from the front of the chapter. 🐋

Ishmael taking bold new taxonomic stances 🐋

I love Matt Kish's illustration of the merman from Stubb's dream. 🐋 everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/2010/01/moby...

Chapter 32 is what happens when you ask ChatGPT to do your homework. 🐋

Month of Dick readers when we encounter a BIG OLD CHAPTER O' WHALE FACTS 🐋

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

I don't know which way round is funnier 😆