A brown tabby cat and an orange tabby cat are eating near each other alongside a blue rug. They are eating wet cat food in elevated bowls.
Dinner has been provided, in accordance with the prophecy.
A brown tabby cat sits on a rug looking up at the camera while an orange cat sits next to a door likewise looking at the camera expectantly.
They know nothing of daylight savings time, but they are huge fans of getting dinner an hour early.
China and Russia are most likely not going to war on behalf of Iran, although they’ll almost certainly supply them, and Israel would likely undermine any security guarantees provided by European powers. An ongoing conflict helps Russia with Ukraine and China with Taiwan. It’s all so, so stupid.
Normally war end in negotiations. This one started in the middle of negotiations. Iran claims that the United States can’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith, and as this point it’s hard to argue with them. Normally there would be some kind of security guarantees, but who could provide them?
The solution is simple. Iran should announce that they’ve elected Netanyahu.
This is the most accurate description of I-35 I have ever seen. www.instagram.com/reel/DVjjcs9...
Some people weren’t shoved into lockers enough as children, and now they’re making it everyone else’s problem.
A brown tabby cat is curled up inside a large wicker basket filled with blankets. His eyes are closed and he is sleeping peacefully.
A pale orange tabby cat lays on a black, yellow and orange blanket looking up at the camera with pale green eyes. A portion of the blanket is folded over his back and side.
I felt terrible today having to scoop Thomas out of his basket this morning, but he had a vet appointment so it was necessary. He has a clean bill of health in his follow up visit. Alexander, meanwhile, was comfortably tucked in this morning.
BDA is hard and we may never know with certainty how accurate and useful the AI based strikes were or how many hit civilian targets. I don’t think this administration cares, either, and AI proponents will claim this as a great success that requires us to use more AI going forward.
It makes its own gravy!
Resign, you spineless worm.
A spicy brown curry sits in a red bowl next to a pile white rice. A black plate is behind the bowl with two pieces of naan on top of it. Pieces of chicken, potato, chickpeas, onion, and peppers are visible in the curry.
Homemade curry is even better the second day. This is chicken, chickpea, and potato curry with rice and garlic naan. I’m so happy with how this turned out.
Hard R incoming in 3…2…
A brown tabby sits in a closet below the edge of some dresses. He is wearing a pink donut with sprinkles around his neck and appears very grumpy about the entire experience.
Hopefully the last picture of Thomas as a fashionista for a while. We ended up ordering the donut in a smaller size after the first one was still a bit too big. He did not approve of the smaller version either, but we took it off for dinner last night and he’s been very good about not overgrooming.
We contemplated getting the pink one, but that couldn’t get here until Tuesday while the blue one arrived this afternoon. MJ looks adorable.
A brown tabby cat lays in a wicker basket full of blankets with a cloth cone that looks like a donut. His expression indicates that he does not approve of his new attire.
A brown tabby cat sits on the base of a black and red cat tree. He is wearing a cloth cone that looks like a blue donut and looking off to the side with a slightly disgruntled expression.
Update 2: The sunflower cone was giving Thomas a bit of difficulty moving around so we ordered something that would hopefully give him a bit more mobility. Looking at his expression it doesn’t seem like he feels better being the world’s grumpiest donut but he is navigating the house better.
Video of the cuddles, he’s such a sweet boy. Kind of wondering if this was a chronic health issue and he’s just feeling so much better now.
A brown tabby cat is curled up in a cat bed wearing a cloth cone that looks like a sunflower around his neck. His expression appears incredibly grumpy.
A brown tabby cat with a cloth sunflower cone around his neck has his eyes closed in bliss as a hand reaches out and scratches under his chin.
Update: Thomas still LOOKS like the world’s angriest sunflower but he accepted skritches and crawled into my lap to cuddle immediately after this picture was taken.
A brown tabby cat is sitting with a yellow ruffed collar meant to look like a sunflower wrapped around his neck. His feet are visible poking out from under the sunflower and his facial expression is extremely irritated.
After an unexpected trip to the veterinary urgent care Thomas is currently the world’s angriest sunflower. He had a ruptured anal gland and the other one was impacted. Two weeks of antibiotics and a recheck planned.
This suggests you have a high enough density of books in your office that you’re having L-space incongruities but as long as you don’t find a hypothetical book or a surprise orangutan…
A brown tabby cat lies across a man’s chest. A hand is scratching the side of the cat’s face and the eye closest to the hand is closed.
A brown tabby cat sits atop a man’s chest with his head curving down as he is being scratched behind one ear.
An extremely close up picture of a cat’s nose as he pushes his head forward toward the camera. His ears are flattened where he had pushed up against the hand of the person petting him.
The view when Thomas comes up to cuddle. He is very insistent.
Gee, separating warriors from scholars. Good thing nobody will be attending those universities and learning how that usually turns out.
We’re losing ground with allies and partners around the world, and at the end of this administration the U.S. will be weaker on the world stage than it’s been in decades. At this point the adults in the room need to be thinking about how to strategize as a declining power.
Despite their blathering about lethality, Hegseth and the current set of joint chiefs are going to leave us with a less effective, less capable military. They’re flailing at the strategic level and even in the rare cases where they identify an actual problem their solutions are nonsense.
A quote from the novel Snuff, by Sir Terry Pratchett. It reads: It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.
Terry Pratchett, as usual, had something to say about this.
There’s a certain peace when bad weather that’s been forecast finally arrives, like the natural order of things has somehow been restored. I can hear the ice pattering down on the roof and the windows and it’s almost a comforting sound.
An orange cat curls up inside a small hut in the middle of a black and red cat tree. He is looking at the camera and the sun is shining on his fur.
A brown tabby cat sits in a dark blue cat tree with his rear end hanging out of the back of a hut in the center. One of his paw is sticking out the side opening swatting at a wand toy.
A brown tabby cat sits in a hut on a dark blue cat tree, looking directly at the camera with his eyes open and whiskers spread.
The top of a brown tabby cat’s head peeks out of the hut on a dark blue cat tree, looking down toward an orange cat who is scratching at a sisal post at the base of the cat tree.
In brighter news, we got a new cat tree that Alexander is a big fan of and getting back into our normal routine had some playtime this morning before I went for a run. Alexander and Thomas even used the tree together… although there was some bapping a second after the last picture was taken.
Update on the Hertz banditry: received an email today stating that they would be refunding the gas charge plus an additional five dollars because in addition to charging more than three times the current price per gallon for gas they also charged sales tax on top of that. Literal highway robbery.
Obviously Maelle is trying to teach Anna to “parry it!”
I’ve been replaying Hades since the first time I played my wife didn’t get a chance to watch and I’ve unlocked everything except Sisyphus. I realized today that I missed a step so I’ve been doing the same thing repeatedly and making no progress which is actually pretty funny if you think about it.
