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Photo: view from behind the head of a brown and black tabby cat looking down through an open window at an orange cat sitting in the backyard on a weathered wood table, staring up at the tabby.

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How your email finds me.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

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Ten years ago Mastercard issued the same denial about pressuring PayPal when it purged and banned erotica/romance writers and publishers: www.engadget.com/2015-12-02-p...

Seriously, he's a real one. FWIW I've been a fan of his for a long time.

‘I’m absolutely useless’: Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari should replace him after qualifying 12th A disconsolate Lewis Hamilton said he is ‘absolutely useless’ and claimed Ferrari need to replace him after he qualified 12th for the Hungarian Grand Prix

Keeping an eye on this because Hamilton is one of the few celebs who have been open about struggling with #LongCovid and its impact on his functioning 😢

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I think the EU should consider funding a Voice of Democracy program to broadcast pro-democracy content into the US...

A kind of iron curtain descends over the USA with the end of PBS and NPR as we knew them.

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Oh noooo! My friend, I am so sorry. What a crap turn of luck. I hope the healing period goes by fast and I'm sending you a gentle *hug* all the way from Aotearoa, you're in my thoughts ❤️

Jerce was accused of being a gang member based on a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock-and-roll" hand gesture he made on social media years ago.

For this, he was disappeared from the US and sent to one of the most infamous prisons in the world, where he endured "countless" beatings

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Hon, I keep trying

I wrote a book about this:

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Does this count?

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Yesssssssss

He loves the belleh rubs 🥰

Still thinking about a conversation with an Aotearoa surveillance historian at the researcher meeting this week where I said I think the loudest parts of any story are its missing parts.

Photo of a chonky silver tabby cat on his back on a white carpet under a pink light with a shaved belly with front paws daintily curled and back legs maybe kicking looking like he's freaked out someone sees this and I have no idea what is going on. His name is Sam

Totally normal cat moment happening here

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This will also harm domestic violence survivors.

Autistic woman just assumed everyone was consuming media critically An autistic woman has made the foolish and illogical assumption that other people consume media critically instead of taking everything at face value, it has been claimed. Megan Aldrich, 33, was shock...

“You can’t seriously tell me that people are unquestionably adopting things into their belief systems because someone on TV or in the papers said them? I will never allow anyone to call me ‘gullible’ again.”

We want to give someone $500 to keep writing queer planty lit!