Cats do grieve, I’ve seen it. We had a bonded pair Spike and Hurricane. We lost Hurricane at about 10 to a sudden stroke or cardiac infarction (didn’t have the vets look didn’t seem worth $500-800 for a necropsy). Spike would roam about the house to Hurricane’s favorite spots and make the “where are you” call (you know what I mean if you’ve hung out with cats much). If after check the half dozen spots he didn’t find Hurricane (which of course he couldn’t) he’d start to make a horrible noise sort of a caterwauling keening. He barely ate (this in a boy who would always put the feed bag on), and didn’t purr (this in a cat who if you looked at him and said “Spike is a good kitty” would purr like a Cummins diesel). Say what you will but that cat missed his buddy horribly.
Ultimately, we got two new kittens to keep him company. He was dubious of this to say the least, but over time he accepted them. They would cuddle up to him and you could kind of see him thinking “Wait a minute, I’m a boy kitty and neutered, how did I have kittens?” He hung out with them and let them sleep on him even when both of them outmassed him and Spike lived until almost 19 so they added 9 years to his life, and he socialized them nicely.
When we had to put my mother’s cat down, for many weeks after, my Diccon would look in all her usual spots and on not finding her, he’d go to her primary spot, lie down with his chin on his forepaws, and if a cat could shed tears, his paws would have been soaked. And they weren’t even a bonded pair.
Jace missed his kitty buddy. The pair were adopted separately from the no-kill shelter after their first owner died. She’d left funds for their care, as well as volunteering at the shelter, so they were taken in. Buddy cat had already gone to his new home when we got Jace.
I had to move from my chair to the place on the couch where DadRed sat, so Jace would stop looking for Dad.
When Thibodeaux passed Pierre was moping, and aged rather quickly, looking bad and ungroomed. Annie popped into the house one day, and he perked up, took to dealing with the kitten’s antics with antics of his own, and the next year, we acquired Annie’s sister from another litter, and he was the watchful grand old man as they went about the day until he finally went on to the great beyond. The kittens added some days to his years
The fact that the “Moms demand action” female is way too cute for members of that group broke my suspension of disbelief and threw me right of that meme.
They’re not all purple haired, poorly tattooed, looks like they dove face first into a tackle box and fat as a house. There are women on the left that look conventionally attractive if you don’t hear them talking or see their actions. That latter, though, tells the tale.
On letting family read one’s MS: I gave my dad a copy of one of my WIPs a year or so ago, as an Alpha-Reader sort of thing, and his main assessment was not what I thought it’d be: here’s a paraphrase…
“I’m really concerned about some of the themes here. How’s your prayer life and Bible reading?”
“Um. Could always be better, but what’s that have to do with it?”
“In short, zoophilia.”
“Are we talking about the same book at all, Dad?”
(My MC is half-alien, and his mom’s race look like satyrs. Oy.)
On letting family read one’s MS: I gave my dad a copy of one of my WIPs a year or so ago, as an Alpha-Reader sort of thing, and his main assessment was not what I thought it’d be: here’s a paraphrase…
“I’m really concerned about some of the themes here. How’s your prayer life and Bible reading?”
“Um. Could always be better, but what’s that have to do with it?”
“In short, zoophilia.”
“Are we talking about the same book at all, Dad?”
(My MC is half-alien, and his mom’s race look like satyrs. Oy.)
Ive both seen. And heard about, too many grieving animals not to believe in that.
The obe about 4 authors would be even funnier if it was redone with four actual authors, but picking which 4 is tough. I have 3 candidates for the last guy with grrm being the top choice.
Thr one about age verification gets worse, ive just started on linux and learned that there are new laws floating up that the age verification thing is about to go to the OS level. Future windows (and other systems) will require age verification at tye instilation level. So, yeah, this is “for the kids”
No, its to make sure that there will be no way to do ANYTHING with a computer that wont trace back to you
The thing about the telescope meme, is that I am not a telescope engineer, and do not know the history of telescope engineering.
(Kenny Jackass Brown does not have a biology degree, and I do not have a physics degree.)
So I first think that I do not know who invented what, and that for all I know, it could have been anyone.
Then I recall that there are a lot of telescopes.
Then I recall that we have had telescopes for a while.
I have an extremely weak grasp of the history of optics, and there is a whole lot of literature on light and shadow that I have not read.
I eventually come around to understanding the point of the meme.
If I do not have a job, and I do not understand how I would come to have a job, then maybe there is no cost to ‘losing a job’. Maybe any reason is good enough.
I’m not sure where one would go to get paid to become an autistic sperglord for who did what telescope designs when.
I would not go into academia to say ‘a black woman did not invent “the telescope”‘. There are true things worth saying simply because academia’s answers seem to be deliberately wrong. Academia is where one goes in hope of finding debate partners that do not believe in peace, and will not hold that any moved is barred or unfair.
“I don’t know why he stole my meme. Maybe in those last moments, he loved knowledge more than he ever had before. Not just his knowledge, anybody’s knowledge. My knowledge. All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him reboot.”
They tut-tutters are jealous of more than horses and jetpacks. They’re jealous and afraid of guns and awesome weapons of all types, and westerns and sci-fi both are chock-full of both.
The only gun I could conceivably sell *back* to the goobermint would be the M1 Garand I purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program back in 1984, if I hadn’t lost it in a tragic boating accident . . .
Remember that Ashley J. Williams worked in retail.
Yep, that sounds like a valid basis for an Asperger’s diagnosis.
Cryptids rings right.
I knew horses would eat mice, but cows eating snakes? New one on me….
Aww, the monks get to call kitties!
“except everyone who knows you.” Word.
“Results may vary.” SNRK
“The government would never do that!” – Obviously someone who missed the X-Files, or that they were in fact based on some real weirdness….
The purpose of cops is to get suspects to trial alive. People forget this.
“Not all monsters stay in fairytales” – I actually think this is an excellent reason to write all kinds of weird fiction, to get people to consider what if? Why not prepare for a zombie apocalypse and train in firearms? You’re not hurting anyone.
Reading a book instead of watching Netflix – oof, I feel this one.
According To Hoyt 
“You’re just all jealous of my sentience” (furry fiction).
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“…Jealous of my boyfriend” (romance). “…Jealous of my ratiocination” (mystery). “…Jealous of my body count.” (Vigilante thriller).
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All these memes go hard today. Bravo!
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The poor grieving kitty! 😭
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Cats do grieve, I’ve seen it. We had a bonded pair Spike and Hurricane. We lost Hurricane at about 10 to a sudden stroke or cardiac infarction (didn’t have the vets look didn’t seem worth $500-800 for a necropsy). Spike would roam about the house to Hurricane’s favorite spots and make the “where are you” call (you know what I mean if you’ve hung out with cats much). If after check the half dozen spots he didn’t find Hurricane (which of course he couldn’t) he’d start to make a horrible noise sort of a caterwauling keening. He barely ate (this in a boy who would always put the feed bag on), and didn’t purr (this in a cat who if you looked at him and said “Spike is a good kitty” would purr like a Cummins diesel). Say what you will but that cat missed his buddy horribly.
Ultimately, we got two new kittens to keep him company. He was dubious of this to say the least, but over time he accepted them. They would cuddle up to him and you could kind of see him thinking “Wait a minute, I’m a boy kitty and neutered, how did I have kittens?” He hung out with them and let them sleep on him even when both of them outmassed him and Spike lived until almost 19 so they added 9 years to his life, and he socialized them nicely.
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When we had to put my mother’s cat down, for many weeks after, my Diccon would look in all her usual spots and on not finding her, he’d go to her primary spot, lie down with his chin on his forepaws, and if a cat could shed tears, his paws would have been soaked. And they weren’t even a bonded pair.
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Havey has only stopped calling for Greebo when his mind started going. (He’s Biden as heck now.)
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Jace missed his kitty buddy. The pair were adopted separately from the no-kill shelter after their first owner died. She’d left funds for their care, as well as volunteering at the shelter, so they were taken in. Buddy cat had already gone to his new home when we got Jace.
I had to move from my chair to the place on the couch where DadRed sat, so Jace would stop looking for Dad.
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When Thibodeaux passed Pierre was moping, and aged rather quickly, looking bad and ungroomed. Annie popped into the house one day, and he perked up, took to dealing with the kitten’s antics with antics of his own, and the next year, we acquired Annie’s sister from another litter, and he was the watchful grand old man as they went about the day until he finally went on to the great beyond. The kittens added some days to his years
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People talk about “stealing memes” but is it really stealing when there’s no price tags on the memes? [Puzzled Smile]
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Also, they’re not nailed down.
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Some of them are red-hot, though….
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A meme is not a meme until it is stolen.
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SFBS!
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The other reason the government wants to disarm you is the mile high list of things they’ve already done and are afraid you’ll find out about.
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The fact that the “Moms demand action” female is way too cute for members of that group broke my suspension of disbelief and threw me right of that meme.
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They’re not all purple haired, poorly tattooed, looks like they dove face first into a tackle box and fat as a house. There are women on the left that look conventionally attractive if you don’t hear them talking or see their actions. That latter, though, tells the tale.
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Hmm. Best use of a hajib I’ve seen, ever.
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Best ten uses, it looks like.
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On letting family read one’s MS: I gave my dad a copy of one of my WIPs a year or so ago, as an Alpha-Reader sort of thing, and his main assessment was not what I thought it’d be: here’s a paraphrase…
“I’m really concerned about some of the themes here. How’s your prayer life and Bible reading?”
“Um. Could always be better, but what’s that have to do with it?”
“In short, zoophilia.”
“Are we talking about the same book at all, Dad?”
(My MC is half-alien, and his mom’s race look like satyrs. Oy.)
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Sometimes I’m so glad my Portuguese family doesn’t read sf in English. (They do read mystery, but that’s….)
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On letting family read one’s MS: I gave my dad a copy of one of my WIPs a year or so ago, as an Alpha-Reader sort of thing, and his main assessment was not what I thought it’d be: here’s a paraphrase…
“I’m really concerned about some of the themes here. How’s your prayer life and Bible reading?”
“Um. Could always be better, but what’s that have to do with it?”
“In short, zoophilia.”
“Are we talking about the same book at all, Dad?”
(My MC is half-alien, and his mom’s race look like satyrs. Oy.)
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Ive both seen. And heard about, too many grieving animals not to believe in that.
The obe about 4 authors would be even funnier if it was redone with four actual authors, but picking which 4 is tough. I have 3 candidates for the last guy with grrm being the top choice.
Thr one about age verification gets worse, ive just started on linux and learned that there are new laws floating up that the age verification thing is about to go to the OS level. Future windows (and other systems) will require age verification at tye instilation level. So, yeah, this is “for the kids”
No, its to make sure that there will be no way to do ANYTHING with a computer that wont trace back to you
Thst is NOT going to fly with open source OSs.
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Um, I finished one chapter and got a chunk ofthe next one done today, does that count?
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The thing about the telescope meme, is that I am not a telescope engineer, and do not know the history of telescope engineering.
(Kenny Jackass Brown does not have a biology degree, and I do not have a physics degree.)
So I first think that I do not know who invented what, and that for all I know, it could have been anyone.
Then I recall that there are a lot of telescopes.
Then I recall that we have had telescopes for a while.
I have an extremely weak grasp of the history of optics, and there is a whole lot of literature on light and shadow that I have not read.
I eventually come around to understanding the point of the meme.
If I do not have a job, and I do not understand how I would come to have a job, then maybe there is no cost to ‘losing a job’. Maybe any reason is good enough.
I’m not sure where one would go to get paid to become an autistic sperglord for who did what telescope designs when.
I would not go into academia to say ‘a black woman did not invent “the telescope”‘. There are true things worth saying simply because academia’s answers seem to be deliberately wrong. Academia is where one goes in hope of finding debate partners that do not believe in peace, and will not hold that any moved is barred or unfair.
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The telescope is generally attributed to Christian Huygens in the mid-1600s.
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“All these memes, lost, like tears in the rain.”
…..
“Time to reboot.”
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“I don’t know why he stole my meme. Maybe in those last moments, he loved knowledge more than he ever had before. Not just his knowledge, anybody’s knowledge. My knowledge. All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him reboot.”
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They tut-tutters are jealous of more than horses and jetpacks. They’re jealous and afraid of guns and awesome weapons of all types, and westerns and sci-fi both are chock-full of both.
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More to the point, they are jealous and afraid of men who cannot be ruled or subjugated.
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The only gun I could conceivably sell *back* to the goobermint would be the M1 Garand I purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program back in 1984, if I hadn’t lost it in a tragic boating accident . . .
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All hail ancient memes!
Remember that Ashley J. Williams worked in retail.
Yep, that sounds like a valid basis for an Asperger’s diagnosis.
Cryptids rings right.
I knew horses would eat mice, but cows eating snakes? New one on me….
Aww, the monks get to call kitties!
“except everyone who knows you.” Word.
“Results may vary.” SNRK
“The government would never do that!” – Obviously someone who missed the X-Files, or that they were in fact based on some real weirdness….
The purpose of cops is to get suspects to trial alive. People forget this.
“Not all monsters stay in fairytales” – I actually think this is an excellent reason to write all kinds of weird fiction, to get people to consider what if? Why not prepare for a zombie apocalypse and train in firearms? You’re not hurting anyone.
Reading a book instead of watching Netflix – oof, I feel this one.
Cultural appropriation. *Cackles*
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Replace the iced coffee with tea in the paw of the white cat with the bowler hat, and that’s me pretty much.
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