Good news on my tiny rescued-from-the-Boy-Scout-camp kitty Oreo. She has survived the big abscess drain and is gaining weight nicely. She comes out from my sewing room hideout at night and is beginning to make friends with my husband and son. She and Wizard get along though he is puzzled that she won't play with him. She was in heat last week and there were a few bathroom accidents so I now have a litterbox in my sewing room; less than ideal but temporary, I hope. I feed them Delectables twice a day and they are now licking the stuff off each others' faces. I highly recommend this "kitty crack" for getting cats acquainted with each other. There have been a few late-night spats but nothing even close to serious; good thing as he's twice her size. She is spicy and has backed him down a couple of times.
Retired Park Naturalist/Educator, #MonarchButterfly #Milkweed #OldPeopleOfMastodon #pollinatorGarden #NativePlants #nature #TuxedoCats located in Ohio. White, female, straight, married 54 years, 2 sons, 1 grandson, atheist, Democrat, disabled by lumbar stenosis but still walking. Once a Girl Scout, always…..
@Edmonds_Scanner I hope this isn't my husband's horoscope: he's trying to pass a kidney stone.
People from India remember life before the polio vaccine. They don’t want to go back
@godpod No, we don't; we voted in a goon.
Great news - the semi-feral tuxedo cat Oreo that my husband trapped at Boy Scout camp is very likely pregnant. We’ve had her for 30 days and I don't think she's just getting fat. I feel pretty committed to keeping her as we’ve spent $700 at the vet already for shots and a major abscess surgery. She will be our 16th long-term adult cat.
We have her as well settled on the unheated enclosed porch as she’ll let us. She has a heating pad and a partially curtained shelter (though not a box - she’s scared of being boxed in) and a small electric heater blowing into it. She seems content and is coming up on my lap for food and pets though she won’t let me pick her up. She’s sweet but so very afraid of us.
So now I get to figure out how to get her off the porch and into a cage in the house because it’s 20F outside and she can't have kittens out there. Our resident cat Wizard is none too happy with her presence though it's only been hissing so far. We’ve let him out on the porch for supervised meetings but she’ll have to come in soon. He hasn't met another cat since we got him from the shelter at 8 weeks old. He's twice her size and terrified of her - the big chicken!
I’m 74 and didn't think we’d ever have kittens in the house again but I’m kinda hoping it does happen. I’m a total sucker for kittens.
Musk’s new made up office DOGE shall from this point forward, be pronounced DOGGY or DOGEEEEEE!
Inspired by the great classical work "Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, I call this photo "Woodpecker Ascending". Female downy woodpecker, composite of 4 images. Clifton, Virginia, USA 21NOV2024 #birds #BirdPhotogaphy #BirdsOfMastodon #naturephotography #Nikon #NikonZ8
#trump #mattgaetz #pambondi #doj #ag
I just learned that Trump picked Pam Bondi to replace Matt Gaetz as AG, she received a $25,000 bribe from Trump, democrats know now how to handle situations like this , the Matt Gaetz situation taught them .
“In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Charitable foundations like the Trump Foundation are not allowed to engage in politics. Even more problematic was the fact that the contribution was given as Bondi’s office was deciding whether to take legal action related to Trump University.”
Via Kyle Griffin:
#Harris' 2024 vote total — now sitting at 74.3 million votes and counting — has surpassed #Trump's total in 2020 for the third-highest of all time, according to an analysis by Axios.
The Trump-Harris popular vote margin is the narrowest since Bush vs. Gore in 2000. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-3bf8ba50-a7aa-11ef-a78c-418139a86ee5.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare
@barney@mas.to
Do a quick cost benefit analysis:
Cost of impeaching Trump 100 times = 0
Potential benefit of impeaching Trump 100 times = gargantuan
ask yourself:
what did Pelosi gain by ignoring Trump's crime spree?
what did the American people gain from Pelosi ignoring Trump's crime spree?
#FascistEnablers #uspol #uspolitics #trump #pelosi #resistance #FascistTakover
@inthehands And in any sport, 76-74* would be a cliffhanger, not a blow-out.**
* million
** mandate.
The Senate must stay in session seven days a week to confirm these nominees before it’s too late. Anything less is a surrender to chaos and an open door for far-right obstruction.
Sign the petition!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/schumer-must-confirm-bidens-outstanding-appts?source=direct_link&
Mass deportations:
1. Undocumented immigrants do construction. More expensive labor will replace them. Housing costs will rise.
2. Deportations will be expensive. Deficit will increase.
3. Undocumented immigrants pay taxes. Deportations will increase deficit.
4. Undocumented immigrants pay social security., though they cannot claim benefits. Social security lifeline is made shorter.
#Trump #USPol #politics #USpolitics
@ianb Elizabeth Warren said it best.
"You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did."
She continues: "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
I swear I'm quite active on fedi, just not so much on this account 😅
Just glued the edges onto the latest marquetry panels, still some sanding to do before finishing with tung oil. Fingers crossed everything goes well!
@inthehands In any sport, 76-74 would be a cliffhanger.
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In any sport, 76-74 would be a cliffhanger, not a blow-out!