Hidden disability? Visiting Japan? You can ask for a 'help mark' at onsens and train stations and be given priority assistance in queue or scarce seating situations. Japan. It's cooler than here.

Slinky Cat is snoring and the 1812 overture has been in full swing since dawn. Duck hunting season is off. So, my farm will be full of slightly dazed but smug ducks for a month or two as they enjoy their local haven.

Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

I give you Tyre Cat, aka Airplane Ears, by way of return gift.

Airplane Ears, denizen of the tip, used to have disproportionately large ears. They also used to hold them flat in fear. They've grown into them at last.

Handsome

(He's still blue eyed and triangle tailed and so cute)

Thanks Nai. There's one wild tiny tabby in there with jetplane ears and eyes like saucers

Trough Frog wants to know if you're having a good day

At my local dump. Meeting new friends T.T

I'd love to have been with you. Much love ❤️

I hope you guys had a great walk. Beautiful day 🌞

My day started with horse kisses and froggies leaping about. Now a gifted healing ritual. It's a beautiful day.

in case any Kiwi authors didn't see this, you can register any of your titles that were stolen in the LibGen Meta AI fiasco with the NZ society of authors here

(you don't have to be a member)
authors.org.nz/new-zealand-...

My neighbors are playing loud music with added karaoke 🎤 None can sing 😅

Mr Hare visits me

Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.

I get nostalgic for live journal 😌. It was private probably, free of a world of advertising, and conversations happened - intelligent ones

a cell phone with a picture of a cartoon rabbit on the screen ALT: a cell phone with a picture of a cartoon rabbit on the screen

A boss choice there. The daddiest. I almost came back with Pedro Pascal for added Daddy Who but decided to stretch the 'verse instead. Why not a Who Jr toon or book about the youngest incarnations of Father Time.

4. Rainbow and trans iiuc

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

i'm a grandchild of four holocaust survivors. all four of my grandparents were in the camps and lost their families and communities to the gas chambers. how am i not supposed to take this as a direct threat to my life and those of my family and community? it's us or them, folks.

Love it. Tauranga when I'm watching that. Jay Blades 🥰

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Argh!

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Yup those are car rego papers and his favourite pipe cleaner in my bath 😬🤭 I turned my back for less than 40 seconds, only turning back when he announced his art with a cheeky chirp that sounded like a kid calling 'Mum!'

They're the worst

Today I needed the fire extinguisher in my car for the first time ever. Because it was immediately within reach I didn't lose my car, my motorbike, my house, or my life.

I never needed it for 35 years but in the moment of an unexpected fire? I was so lucky it was there.

The River was beautiful today. Children leaping from the cliffs, reggae music, and that blue-green water lifted my heart. Several watched over the leaping kids, yelling to them when the path for their leap from the cliffs was clear.

The cold shock of the water feels so good on skin.

It's not that hard. If I want to include a song lyric in my book, I have to pay whatever the copyright holder asks for. Otherwise, I can't include it. This should be the same. Ask permission. Ask how much I want for those rights. If you can't or won't pay that amount, don't use it.