Julianne Benford

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Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Our operations fund disappeared overnight We recently took in a beautiful British shorthair called Honey who was sold for £400 in a car park. Her new owner quickly found that she was a) pregnant and b) epileptic. She gave birth to 10 kittens, of which 8 survived. When they'd all been sold, her new owner decided she didn't want her anymore because of her (untreated!) seizures. And so she came to us. We took her to the vets and ordered some phenobarbital, which we've used with great success on two other epileptic cats. However, before it came in, poor Honey had a severe seizure and then two more in the space of a day. Our fosterer took her to the emergency vet, where she had to be kept in on an IV to get her phenobarbital level up quickly to stop the seizures. She's recovering beautifully, but her treatment has completely emptied our bank account, and we had quite a few operations planned that we still need to do: - Lemon, an old lady found on the street needs a full dental and a scan to find out why she's so wheezy - Thomasina, another golden oldie stray, needs a full dental now she's stable on her thyroid meds - Lenny, who spent 2 years wobbling on the streets, needs his neuter and jabs - Sabrina, who survived the panleukopenia that killed her kittens, needs her spay and jabs - Kirby, a sweet grey wobbler, needs his neuter and jabs - Boots, a handsome orange boy who recently spent his 14th birthday outside as his owners didn't want him anymore, needs a fair bit of treatment, plus a birthday party! If you can help with any of this, we would hugely appreciate it. I'm taking some of my jewellery to be sold at the weekend but I don't think it's worth very much unfortunately. I'm really glad we could help stop Honey's constant scary, debilitating seizures, so I know we did the right thing. It's just that the others have been waiting so patiently for their treatment so they can find wonderful new homes, and I don't want to let them down. Thank you. Love Holly and the moggies x

Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

my table at MCM comiccon, laden with comics. I am not visible because I am taking the picture.

map of artists alley at mcm comiccon with an arrow to my table L19.

Now live at MCM comic-con in the Excel Centre! Here all weekend! Come buy some of these lovely comics! Bundle discounts available!

(I am not visible as I don't have a second person today to take the picture, but yes, you'll also get to meet me.)

Oh wow, 10/10, so accurate! 💖
Although we’re a little jealous... Imagine if our tiny bookshop had enough space for such a lovely art gallery! 😮

Me too, it's lovely.

This is brilliant

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

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Women do like the vehicle

here is a question I’m reflecting on: what do you WANT your relationship with social media to be? Like, stepping back from it, what platforms would you LIKE to be spending time on (if any), how much time and doing what?

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

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Women do like the vehicle

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Like you can absolutely sit at a computer or the library for a few years and learn the course material and sit a private exam. Nobody is stopping you doing it. You can do it any time. Most adults do not, which also should be a clue about why most young people also probably won't want to

It's reductionism to think that most students are at university solely for either exams or information, especially given how few older adults do that. It serves a much, much wider function of self discovery and socialization after leaving home that is broader than information or accreditation

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

To those who doubted Celebrity Traitors would work I give you CELIA IMRIE FARTING IN A CABIN

Who could have predicted that this would not produce overwhelmingly positive consequences?

Remember when everything gave you a Tip of the Day? Most people probably turned those off immediately but I'd leave them on until it started repeating, like a proper nerd

I got a new computer recently and have switched to LibreOffice rather than attempting to install MS Office 2000 or whatever ancient version I had on the old computer and something I love is that by default when you open it up there's a Tip of the Day! It makes me feel nostalgic!

Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th – Broken Frontier Details on exhibitors and events at the Goblin Market small press comics fair at Stanley Arts in South London.

News! Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th. www.brokenfrontier.com/goblin-marke...

"I want to go check how many people died in Hamlet" is the new code for 'after dinner snooze' #TheTraitors #Traitors #celebritytraitors

Screenshot of a post on X by anti-trans SEEN in Journalism ® @JournalismSEEN X.com “A very big shift. There was saturation coverage of the death of Alice Litman, very notably on the BBC. This is the extent of the coverage (so far) of the death of Leia Sampson-Grimbly. Is guilt setting in at the media's role in telling minors they were born in the wrong body?” The tweet is accompanied by a screenshot of a headline in a local online new outlet “Teenage girl took own life waiting for gender dysphoria treatment”

GCs doing their thing, being utter ghouls about the suicide of a young trans person. Claiming a lack of news coverage as a victory for their cause.

Alice’s death got coverage because my family sought press attention to highlight the appalling state of trans healthcare.

As for saturation coverage…

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

Even if the author has previously written YA...this might not be!

"we shat the bed so comprehensively, for so long, that just going back to the standards we used to adhere to in less than a generation is literally impossible" is a bold line to take for an business hoping to avoid going into administration