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Humans, cats,dogs, birds, otters, geckos, countless other creatures—there’s something downright wonderful that each gives up a bit of their X-ness so as to meet another somewhere in the middle

Cool the dance starts with J-Lo’s same face and breath work

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But a 2-way earnest effort to acquire the other’s alien language is, I maintain, among the most joyful and satisfying thing imaginable…for both ‘conversants’. Humans LIKE to be understood; Cats LOVE to be understood, and will love the humans who understand them ☺️😽

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Talking to one’s cat is absolutely a thing. It’s just that many folks do it w/out buttons.

Cross-species comms is inherently full of ambiguity and the translations can be a bit rough (at best) and scrambled (at worst).

Just like that 🤮 PDA at some roast (or something) 48hrs after the last humiliating report

Oops sorry wrong place (those damn thread lines so hard to see 🤓)

Just like that 🤮 PDA at some roast (or something) 48hrs after the last humiliating report

Ha! Efficient memory filters, then 👌

Never a crypto transaction, but plenty with Hp Laserjets — so this tells me everything I need to know about the former.

Or the best 😏

Exactly. Wouldn’t even expect a ‘riposte”. But if this was Earth 1 and humanoid sensibilities plus natural social impulses were in effect, you’d certainly expect the *others* in that group to immediately, instinctively, humanely blurt out “Hey! HEY! HEY!!”

Don’t think it’s the *rain* she hates 😏

Love the name!

The MITTS on that derp! ☺️

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Big-time (effective) General Strike not feasible for a while (see eg Plan 2028).

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Well past time to start ramping these up.

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Amazed daily this hadn’t already been done starting months ago

Fret not: KO’s got a regular segment on his Pod
“Things I promised not to tell”

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So you may not even get the Appalachian Trail jokes either.

The perks of Old are few and far between 😏

Cowards

The REAL scandal — talking RL here — is that we don’t hear *other* journos immediately exclaiming “Hey! HEY!” here

OG fam,
isn’t it nice —one perk of aging — to get some of the best jokes on bsky?

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Peak kat

One of mine will play fetch….but ONLY if I throw it past him from the top of the stairs while he’s at the bottom.

He’ll fetch, run upstairs to deposit for me, then run back down to await the next throw

😺

OhNeeLahNah Bridge

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So much so that on a scenic drive several days into their trip, calling out waystops, she points to a road sign, exclaiming “How pretty! Here’s Oh-nee-la-nah Bridge!”

They swear the didn’t revise their understanding for several more miles

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So after days of hearing map intonations like Hal-lee-a-h-ka-la (Haleakala), High-lee-mile-lee (Hali’imaile), A-ah-you-weh-la (Aahuwela), Ae-hu-a-pay-an-ee (Ahuapaani) they feel they’re finally absorbing Hawaiian phonemes.

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Here I must tell the (true) story of a couple of who toured Hawai’i (Ha-why-e-ee) in the ‘80s.

If you’re not aware, spoken Hawai’ian commonly pronounces all or most vowels, yielding more syllables than the English ear expects.