“Wreck the tree and blame the doggie… Fa la la la la la la la laaaa!…”
Photos via >^..^< in a Christmas Tree
“Wreck the tree and blame the doggie… Fa la la la la la la la laaaa!…”
Photos via >^..^< in a Christmas Tree
Foster mom welcomes another baby into her litter.
“Yes, good, this is also my baby. Put her with my other babies.”
I’ve introduced kittens to foster moms before! Some cats are so taken up with parental instinct they’ll accept a new baby instantly, but some can hiss and see the baby as an intruder that can potentially harm her kittens. When this happens, I like to to rub the new kitten with a piece of cloth that smells of the mom’s kittens, ideally whatever was being used as bedding when she gave birth. They go like “Oh! A baby I haven’t cleaned yet? Unacceptable! Hand them over”
That was the cutest addition to an already adorable post.
It honestly feels like a lot of their problems came from the fact that their entire team was composed of cats, and the people who were supposed to be herding them were also cats.
OBluesingerO - Saudi Arabia
color pencil in negative, 2013
An Engineer’s Guide to Cats (Part 1)
The sound is a bit of a mess (probably only noticeable if you only have 1 working speaker and Windows won’t let you force mono), but otherwise this is brilliant.
As any fan of Dwarf Fortress will tell you, you gotta be careful with cats, or you might get a catsplosion.
Turns out, Dwarf Fortress isn’t the only place this can happen.
Hi everyone. This is the sixth straight Christmas I’ve worked, but to be fair these last two have been my personal choice. Christmas doesn’t mean much without family or money.
Given that opening paragraph, fair warning the rest is depressing.
Everyone right now is wishing everyone else a Merry Christmas, but there’s some of us out there who think having a “merry Christmas” seems impossible. We’re envious of what others have. We don’t often mean to be; it’s the holidays, after all, and even atheists and agnostics like yours truly want in on the togetherness and love the season promises.
I’m sorry. You might feel like it’s your fault, like you’re the one who’s broken. I’m here for you. You might feel like no one loves or cares about you, like this holiday is merely one long punch in the gut reminding you how alone you are. I’m here for you. You might have a toxic family who mistreated you or doesn’t accept you and you’re surrounded, no, HOUNDED this time of year with guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt. Talk to your family, they say; it’s the holidays, they say. You know you can’t because that’s what’s best for you. I’m here for you.
Please reach out to those who have a hard time during the holiday season. I’m sure even if you aren’t affected, you know someone. Please don’t just wish them a Merry Christmas. Please tell them you’re glad you’re friends. Please tell them the reasons you like them. Please tell them that you’re proud of them. Please tell them they’re loved. Please GIVE someone a reason to feel merry instead of just wishing them merriness. They need it so badly.
If anyone needs to talk, please PM me. As I said, I will be working tonight, so I might not be able to respond as much, but I’m happy to listen and to tell you that it’ll be ok.
Merry Christmas. Please take care of each other.
Me: Can you repeat that?
Them: Never mind, it's nothing important.
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Me: *Signs to a friend*
Them: Can you translate that?
Me: Never mind, it's nothing important. 🙃
Friends and I were sitting in the library once discussing(verbally) disability rights when a random man decided to educate us. He was Native American and he used a cane and thus felt entitled to tell us, complete strangers, that there was an easy solution to ableism and racism: you simply ignore them and live your life. I attempted to tell him that in many cases prejudice and stigma causes people to purposefully put blocks in people’s way, some folks are not given a chance to prove themselves. We just get locked out of the conversation. He completely ignored me and just kept saying that folks just need to put in more effort. So I signed to my friend that it was worthless to keep talking since he was obviously willfully ignorant. He wasn’t happy that I cut him out of the conversation :)