"the brain parasites compel me to reach out" [toxoplasmosis]

Congratulations on your cornea-on-a-stick!

Windmills are beautiful.

We could compromise and allow him the surgery, but not the antibiotics?

Growing up, our family dogs could never tolerate my playing the trombone. (Some jokes tell themselves.)

ABSOLUTELY *NO* STAIRWAY

Growing up, our family dogs could never tolerate my playing the trombone. (Some jokes tell themselves.)

The words "billion" and "trillion" obscure too much meaning. In some contexts I'm going to start using "thousands of millions" and "millions of millions" instead.

When on the urging of a friend you're finally getting around to watching Babylon 5, and holy shit that's Walter Koenig?! ... playing a character named "Alfred Bester" ayfkm

On moving in, my cats discovered a golf ball under the washing machine forgotten by the previous tenants, which has become Ceilidh's favorite toy (hopefully not to the annoyance of the downstairs neighbor).

Pig's ears are also excellent for this.

I solved this with a loose roll of packing paper to create a bumper under the fridge, far enough back that claws can't reach it.

I want James Burke's Connections episode on the salted caramel mocha latte.

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I know, I know. Everyone is in desperate need right now, but our rescue needs some help paying vet bills.

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Two cats curled up on the legs of a person wearing jeans and sitting on a bed.

Guys, I have to make *my* dinner

pull the moat around

Dammit, I was all excited about a Pluto mission I must obviously have forgotten about with an actual live feed

/me looks back in AIDS crisis

oh
oh no

Huh, expected self labeling would mask the text and not just the relatively innocuous image

wordfather: writing tip: if you push buttons on a keyboard, letters will appear on the screen, and with that power you can do anything lychgate: i think it was cruel to give lightning mcqueen a foot fetish, as he lives in a works where all feet are wheels. he has nothing wordfather: sorry i wasnt talking to you i think

He had known this made him a monster-fucker, but in that moment, his entire awareness was consumed by those perfect toes pressing on his accelerator with just a little more pressure than was comfortable -- *oh shit wrong window*

Says the person who wrote a world based on retirees hitting boot camp

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

Info on the new BLM plan to clear cut Oregon old growth forests so regime buddies can rake in cash without any consideration of ecosystems, watershed, salmon habitat, recreation, etc etc.

Comment period open until March 23. You can write in!

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Yeah, well, you will read second person and decide for yourself if this is your thing.

IT'S A TRAP

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You watch the patterns of faces lighting up

>celebrates Irish holiday
>isn’t staunchly against large government oppression

?????

My high school staged the 80s musical version and it's been a permanent part of my inner soundtrack ever since

"Jonah fell
Into the hell of a whale"