Lenny

There are actual flag players who have worked for years on perfecting their game, but the NFL is going to find a way to force their way in for a marketing opportunity. Utter bollocks.

YouTube video by Ace Phan Tim Barry - This November - Fest 18 - 11/2/19

Whoever you are reading this, you can get through. You are loved. youtu.be/vKFjlgyS--s?...

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All of them, though, bring me light when I may not see it elsewhere. youtu.be/si2pZRifgIo?...

Some of these are from when I was at my lowest and remind me that this, too, will pass. Others are from other points of my life when I needed help to get back up. youtu.be/NucJk8TxyRg?...

YouTube video by WeAreJamesTV JAMES – Sit Down (Live ft. Joe Duddell & String Quartet for Musicians Against Homelessness)

I guess I'll turn this into a thread of songs that help me when I need it. Music is a powerfull tool we can use to hold us up. youtu.be/A-CS5E6Cm0M?...

YouTube video by The Line of Best Fit Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison performs "The Modern Leper" for The Line of Best Fit

It's Mental Health Week. I'm not going to post advice you haven't asked for, or share my own story unless you ask for it. But, whatever you're going through, I've been there. It's 25 years since I was stood on a bridge. Just please, believe me when I say, you're not alone. youtu.be/ob3X77TwqEw?...

Your job is not your identity. Your car is not your idnetity. Your house, your clothes, your degree, none of these are an identity.
Read, continue to learn, be motivated by compassion and never stop growing. This is how strength and resilience becomes natural and you can know yourself.

Also, I should say, I am okay. I just got brutally called out by the youngest this morning who compared my fashion sense to a "standard 40 something dad". Also, I apparently "dress like a Peanuts character". If you don't want to adopt a cat you can have my child.

A litter of week old black and white kittens feeding on mum while one little black scallywag pins mum down.

I'm consoling myself this #Caturday with kittens, meet 1 week old foster, Ube. He's snuggling mama Sweet Potato extra agressively while his siblings have lunch. #AdoptDontShop.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

A genderswapped Marty McFly from "Back to the Future". She is depicted against a yellow to blue gradient. She's a brunette, wearing a long denim jacket over a colorful 80s style shirt, with a short denim skirt over orange leggings. A speech bubble shows her saying "This is heavy..." Source: https://www.tumblr.com/stayteoftheart/78873396846/30-day-movie-drawing-challenge-day-seven-todays

Listen. This whole recurring "woe is the poor young man today; they don't have any good role models" discourse?

Not actually a new problem! Just another problem that America's been kicking down the curb for decades, like so many others.

Take a trip back to the 80s and 90s with me: (1/x)

Ah, fair enough.

But how would one even mow a second floor lawn?

1 day old black kitten, wearing a green collar to distinguish them from a sibling, on the hand of a 16,904 day old man.

On Friday we took in a foster cat named Sweet Potato, she brought with her her 5 newborn kittens. This little one right here is called Taro and he is very wiggly.

My tortie cat curled up around my foot.

It's nearly time to cook dinner but the kids will have to wait because Hobbes has me trapped. #Caturday

Calico cat feeding 5 hungry new borns.

I ended up half in her pen at one point, fighting off falling asleep because she'd fallen asleep on my hand and I'm not the kind of guy who wakes a mum 6 hours after she gives birth. #Caturday #AdoptDontShop

Friendly calico cat enjoying head rubs

It's #Caturday and we have new fosters as of yesterday. We knew Sweet Potato was coming a week ago and that she was "very heavily pregant". Well, she gave birth yesterday and came to us just 3 hours later. Despite such a massive day she's incredibly friendly.

Illustration of a high street. A news screen on a big building says ‘UK leads on trans rights’, the sign over a shop says ‘new housing communities for older LGBTQ+ people’, the advert on a bus says ‘hate crimes at historic low’ and a billboard says ‘the UK a safe haven for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers’. Underneath the graphic text says ‘The Dream vs Reality: transactual.org.uk/the-dream-vs-reality At the bottom of the graphic are the My Genderation, Lush and TransActual logos.

Imagine a world where the UK leads on trans rights and is a safe haven for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers. Hate crime at a historic low and services designed to meet the needs of trans people. At the moment that feels like a dream. Read about our dream (and our reality) at transactual.org.uk/the-dream-vs...

Muditā is when you bask in the reflected joy of someone else's happiness, a joyous empathy that delights in the vicarious happiness of another.

In my experience it's the best, and most pure form of happiness.

Tuxedo cat, Seraphim, lounging on her back like one of your French girls.

This #caturday, foster mum Seraphim would like you to know that the belly may look like it's open for strokes, but doing so may cost you your life.

Given JD's effect on the pope, can we not just find a grassy knoll for him to watch RKF drive past?

Given JD's effect on the pope, can we not just find a grassy knoll for him to watch RKF drive past?

Despite all that, she was super affectionate, even as she was coming out of the carrier when she arrived at our house. She settled in immediately and, a week later, gave birth to a beautiful litter of 5 crumbs. We'd decided we were going to keep her very soon after that. #AdoptDontShop #Caturday

Hobbes came to us as a foster, named Toast. She'd been left behind in an empty flat to be discovered by the landlady at least a week later. She was incredibly thin, and very pregnant. #AdoptDontShop #Caturday

Now I'm convinced it's possible and I don't want to find out it isn't.

You can guarantee one of the dads thought he had a shot at winning.

It's a matter of time before some greedy bastard sets up a barn in the middle of nowhere where he pays $10 per day to immigrants so he can milk them.

Or they survived and now there are an unknown amount of rogue appendices doing whatever they want in there.

If there's going to be news that would convince me to move to the US, it's this. Every doner kebab I fell asleep next to and ate before the pub, every forgotten tub of leftover take away that made me say, "what's the worst that can happen", the poverty soup that would sit unrefridgerated for a week.