Three Cats on a Porch

This is a blog dedicated to my cats, Grace, Sasha, and Bunny.

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What if Howl’s bird form was just a little guy?

Prints

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hustle culture

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Look Scared.

P.S. I'm selling a set of limited edition signed prints for the next few days only! See them here: https://poorlydrawnstore.com/pages/ea_poorly-drawn-lines

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i love my misandrist mother i asked her one time if she liked lord of the rings and she said “i’m tired of men going on adventures”

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btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

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Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

[not-poignant]

Also good for writers

[slayerchick303]

If you’re looking to really support your fingers and wrists, I recommend adding a reusable putty or slime to #2. I also suggest squishing, flaring out, and rotating your fingers in the putty or slime. It increases strength in multiple directions, which can lessen the strain on your muscles from gripping things.

Stretches provide very little to no resistance that will build strength. The putty provides resistance in all directions, as opposed to gripping something, which only applies it in one. Increasing strength in other areas of your hands, wrists, and arms is great for hand function. It improves dexterity, stamina, and lessens your chance of getting things like carpal tunnel.

These and the putty exercises I suggested are some of the exercises I do for my degenerative neuromuscular disease. I’ve been doing them for a decade, and I’ve maintained use of my hands longer than doctors anticipated in part because of them.

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[crossdreamers]

Nonbinary Swiss Singer Nemo Wins the Eurovision Song Contest!

Nemo becomes the first known nonbinary winner in the European pop contest's history.

NBC News reports that Nemo had to "smuggle" a nonbinary flag into the event because "Eurovison said no. Nemo said: "Maybe Eurovision needs a little fixing too every now and then."

The musician, 24, said they were "incredibly proud" to be the contest's first nonbinary winner, adding that queer people "need to be heard and need to be understood."

They added: "To know that a song where I speak about my story has touched so many people, and maybe inspired other people to stay true to their stories, is the most insane thing that has ever happened to me."

From the lyrics:

Welcome to the show, let everybody know I'm done playing the game, I'll break out of the chains You better buckle up, I'll pour another cup This is my bohème, so drink it up, my friend ... I, I went to Hell and back To find myself on track I broke the code, whoa-oh-oh Like ammonites I just gave it some time Now I found paradise I broke the code, whoa-oh-oh ... Somewhere between the O's and ones That's where I found my kingdom come My heart beats like a drum

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Why the tiger has become a transgender symbol in Japan

Gay Breakfast Pin Club writes:

Recently we learned about how some trans folks in Japan like to use tigers as a symbol for the trans community. It's a pun: Tora [虎] is the Japanese word for tiger, and when you sound out "trans" in katakana it basically starts with "tora." To-ra-n-su [トランス].

Toransu is clearly a loan word from English ("trans") that has been adapted to Japanese pronunciation (adding vowels/vowel epenthesis helps you avoid unpronounceable consonant clusters).

See also: MishimaKitan

The pin is available here.

[pelicanhypeman]

i’m fucking dying. it’s been brought to ben collins (the rad new owner of the onion’s) attention that Google AI summary is using The Onion headlines, resulting in this:

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simple pleasures

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Image: picture of tentacles and a tweet from imani that reads “I’m 100% sure them calling this latest COVID variant the “Kracken” was a branding cry for help…” https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpIKLCugw-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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cat and ghost

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been thinking

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Peanut loves Sasha💕