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Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.

If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.

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White 1972 Jaguar in her natural habitat, the petrol pump. Feasting in preparation for hibernation.

Ending the car show season at the same gas pump where we started. Fuel stabilizer in, working tank topped up. Now for winter working-on-car season.

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

“Heavy music teaches us things such as we’re not alone; when life is dark, we do something about it. We’re not just a prisoner to that darkness. But also that our risk fluctuates, that our misery isn’t gonna last forever. There are ways through it.” www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Floofy tuxedo kitten upside down on the couch, fast asleep.

Today I learned that kittens can sleep like this, and can loudly fart in their sleep.

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Dinner with @labcoatguy.bsky.social and a kitten who has zoomies: “Can you designer breed a flying kitten?”

Walked into salesgremlin habitat, and someone was blowing bubbles

@labcoatguy.bsky.social I’ve rescued one series 1 XJ6, how hard would another be? 😻

The most serious consequence of coming in early for a meeting: now my brain has gone back to bed, can’t remember what else I need to do today

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Oh also - lawyers aren’t allowed to tell jurors this so i do:

“Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”

If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.

It’s that time of year again, tire pressure light season

For some reason, despite all of today’s coffee, it feels like it didn’t kick in

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Have you ever had a dream about feeding cats, detailed enough that you’re surprised when the cats wake you for breakfast

Okay fine we did a lot today, can I go back to bed yet

A post captioned “There's nothing funny about the Norwegian word for speed. Grow up.” And three Norwegian traffic signs that read: Fartkontrol, MAX FART 5 (kph) Fart-hinder

No, I will NOT grow up, thank you very much! 😆

It has been a morning of constantly having to stop and triage other people’s problems

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It may be a long painful day, but I just spent a while talking classic cars with a customer and I just feel inherently better

I am not awake enough for a Very Important 8 am meeting where I have to sound coherent and professional

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Latest kitten nonsense: knocked a tin off the counter along with her vet appointment reminder card, and then looked surprised when she got jumped by her orange brother

Oh that’s weird, never seen that on an E-Type before

Oh my gods, I am surrounded by absolute fucking walnuts today

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A black cat is GLARING at the plate of sushi that the humans just aren’t sharing with him. I may need to sleep with one eye open.

“That’s a nice plate of sushi you’ve got there, would be a shame if something happened to it”

Marechal Foch is such a confusing wine. It smells and tastes like cherry brandy, but it’s definitely wine.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

Morning in my house: watching the orange vault over the kitten