Thank you, everyone. We are a bit overwhelmed, at the expressions of kindness from so many people. ☺️

Our sweet old Tiger has gone. He walked up the driveway about 15 years ago and helped my dad walk the dog every night. We never found his first owners, so he stayed. He loved the dog, and for the past two years acted as big brother to teach our injured feral cat how to live indoors. He delighted us.

Fact.

A lovely overview of the art and career of British illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe.

La Bandita is noodling around for something yummy in the alligator ditch. She turns up with four or five kits every spring, the building owner has them trapped and removed, but she’s too smart to be caught. You go, Bandita!

My neighbor’s grandkid graduated from something today, and about 20 girls are in a giant bounce house in their back yard playing “Party in the USA” over and over and singing along and having a fabulous time 🥰. No complaints here, the sound of happy kids is great!

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

Baltimore peeps, come git yore new ca'at!

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

🇺🇸 My uncle Charlie Reardon is in Arlington National Cemetery. He served in Vietnam.

I am a nurse and a paramedic. I’ve been in healthcare for 40 years. I retired 3 years ago but I keep up on the research. Thankful I have good friends at Stanford and Mayo and a few others. Science doesn’t care about what you think. It only cares about what you can prove. Science

telling me that LLMs are gonna lead to artificial general intelligence eventually feels like holding up a paper airplane and telling me it's gonna become a bird

Wow, bot invasion underway!

Happy #Caturday morning, friends!! Here's our giggle for the morning. I do apologize for the lack of cats on the Caturday morning post. Yins can always drop your cats in the replies😻 Anyways, y'all have a day!! #SheShed #CatsOfBluesky

#Caturday The old Tiger is now deaf and mostly blind, skinny and feeble, but he still loves to help me read before bedtime and then sleep under the covers. Sweet old thing 🥰

Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. Honestly, voting is like taking a bus. If there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay at home and sulk—you take the one going closest to where you want to be. We can vote better than they can cheat. 💙🗳️

So it sounds a lot like we’re invading Cuba next? Right?

Vaccines are starting to gain traction in cancer treatment. A DNA based vaccine is a potential treatment for glioblastoma. Developed by Geneos Therapeutics, it transforms “cold” tumors into “hot” tumors that can be targeted by the patient’s own immune system. 🧪 medicine.washu.edu/news/persona...

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

Call me crazy but I think when the president of the United States says he doesn't care about American's financial situation, it's time to get rid of him

Supreme Racism. A political cartoon by Bob Whitmore about the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Supreme Court.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Remembering Emily Dickinson on the 140th anniversary of her death (May 15, 1886).

This cartoon hits hard 😢 #JimCrow2.0 via @seattletimes.com

To watch all the NFL games next year you'll need: CBS FOX NBC Peacock ESPN Amazon Prime Netflix Hulu Paramount Plus AppleTV Minus Disney ExactlyTheSame The Rice-a-Roni app LG Model 3120G Washer/Dryer with CleanSwish™ Tumble-Pro Technology 2000mg of LSD that allows you to access The Phantasma Realm

I would like to call my Papa on the telephone today, said Wolf at breakfast. Old Fox came to sit next to Wolf & poured him a cup of cocoa. And he explained, as he did every couple of months, that Wolf's father had died, many years ago. He had loved Wolf greatly, but he had died.

Around the office park: crows chasing a hawk

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

Just spent an hour in a dark house at 4 am trying to find this elderly goober. Turns out he crawled under the sheets to the end of the bed, fell down, and just slept in the pocket at the end of the bed.

A look at why Skyrim continues to remain our collective home away from home 15 years later… ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

When you’re home with an ear infection and just sitting down with a big bowl of beef barley and your phone goes off and you jump and drop the soup and it explodes everywhere and it was your boss asking how you’re feeling… 🤦🏻‍♀️

A lot of people don't seem to understand how the bad the circular financing situation is, so I've written it out in the style of a caveman so that I can meet AI boosters where they're at. Me am explain circular finance simple for them. www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-to-be-impressed/

I want to see a Star Wars movie that shows all the Sith Lords learning how to create their own custom masks in arts and crafts class

El Peregrino loves it when the sun shines into the dining room!

Around the office park: walked outside and caught this solar halo!! It was gone about 10 minutes later. I hope I didn’t ruin my phone camera.

Around the office park recently: Inquiring Ibis wants to know, “Are you going to eat that entire Cuban sandwich by yourself?” Great egret fishing in the reeds. Cat’s paw (relative of the dandelion) for spring.

Here’s a nice recap of Kurt J. Mac and Wolfie’s long journey. $531,000 raised for charity along the way. ❤️

Creative persons and writers may find this new program of interest for world creation, tracking character development, etc. This also looks to me like it could easily be used to catalogue your collection of whatsits. Uses markdown language, which is very easy to learn.

How can there be this many mosquitos in a severe drought?!?

Moonrise!

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

While it’s too early for the rainy season, the sky is practicing at forming up some cloud drama. Getting in shape to break this awful drought, we hope!

Freaking wow!!!!

My grand-dog had a spa this week and came back all spiffed up. She is smaller than my cats.

At Morikami Japanese Gardens the other evening, the cottontail rabbits were out in the dusk busily trimming the lawns.

#Caturday Boonie is not to be outdone in the whiskers department!

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

The doc says Tiger is doing pretty good for being in his mid-teens and having chronic kidney disease. CKD is now a condition that you can maintain them in reasonable comfort for quite a while. 😺