I am Runner 5

Grumpy runner, happy cat. Now running season 11 of Zombies! Run!

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I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lostwolfling]

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

This was such a big moment in getting sober for me. Something I was terrified of when I was still an alcoholic about getting sober is not knowing who I was if I wasn’t this. In the end, I did it scared and fully believing that i wouldn’t be anything on the others idea, only to realise that I could finally do everything I’d dreamed of as a child because I wasn’t broke and drunk anymore.

[radicalgraff]

"Save the Forest, Destroy AI Data Centers"

Fern Gully poster spotted in Sydney

[sexygrammaticalerrors]

[musingsofahistorymajor]

https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/846454474654781442

[little-scribblers-heart]

There’s this feeling I sometimes get watching humans do the cool things that humans have been doing for thousands of years. It makes my chest expand and my heart thud and I love it. I love this.

[doctorbeth]

Procrastinating to tell a mouse story

The hospital is really busy right now (major surgeries booking into October), including lots of big patients (some have been bigger than me!) and that means the space is at a premium even just for me to walk around.  But sometimes I need to do something other than sew and writing up the stories of patients is one of my happy procrastinations where I don’t feel too guilty for letting them sit.  So thank you for being a reader, and letting me procrastinate with a bit less guilt! 😊

I have two recent stories I really wanted to share, so here is the first, the story of a mouse.

Unlike the patients above, Mouser is actually fairly small. Not tiny, but about ten inches tall. His person first wrote back in 2020, when Mouser was 29 years old. He had had an unfortunate run-in with a dog. Here are the diagnosis photos from then:

She also sent a photo of a similar (though not quite the same) younger mouse as a comparison:

We all know how 2020 went, so Mouser didn't come in then, but six years later (he’d been kept in a safe space all that time) his person wrote back. She was finally ready to send him to the hospital.

We agreed that the best treatment would be:

Repair injured foot

Recover both footpads

Fix finger toe stitches

Repair muzzle with new nose

Two new ears

Repair arm with new hand pad

Repair tail attachment

Gentle spa

Of course, these were subject to change as treatment proceeded (and you’ll see they did a bit) but that was the plan.

He took a short flight down the coast from Washington and started his treatment with a gentle spa. Here he is in his bubble bath:

You can sort of see in the photo, he’s kind of a bluish gray, which I couldn’t match exactly for his new ears and back of his missing hand, so there were two choices for his human to choose from:

She chose the shorter fur and surgery proceeded. I had a really good match for his pawpads.

Here's his heart being made and installed with a bit of original stuffing:

And here were his initial chubbiness approval pics:

He still needed some new toes and fingers:

And new whiskers:

And then, he was ready to fly home! His person wrote: He looks amazing!

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If you enjoyed this post, you may be interested in my substack newsletter, doctorbeth.substack.com. It's free, and you get the stories straight to your inbox. I also do occassional retro posts from the backlog through the newsletter. But don't worry, I'll keep posting everything new here too.

[abletownshipnumber5]

Why tf am I getting recommended conservative maga posts on here? I keep blocking the users. Any ideas?

[mantisliberationfront]

I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

[prismatic-bell]

OP there is an entire Broadway musical explaining why you don’t want that

[bbcwhereareyou]

There’s a Broadway musical about them, too.

[cipheramnesia]

There’s gotta be a better way to learn about things than Broadway musicals.

[depsidase]

[veryverytemporary]

Taylor Dahlin, A new mural going up on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis’ Whittier neighborhood, depicting Alex Pretti filming an ICE agent with his phone, shortly before ICE officers murdered him, just four blocks south of the mural.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

"I don't have a choice, I'm just following orders"

Have you considered smoking one (1) joint?

[ngkiscool]

[mndvx]

Chris Eccleston on that shit let him talk!!!!

[regenderate]

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Although Eccleston has reprised his role as the Doctor for audio dramas from Big Finish in recent years, he's famously stayed away from playing the character again in the television series, even as contemporaries like Billie Piper and David Tennant have returns to the show. Asked during his C2E2 2026 spotlight panel whether he'd return to the series, he was blunt in his honesty: "I thought about this, [and] not with the four people who are running it now."

That said, he immediately then outlined what would bring him back to Doctor Who on television.

"Here's the thing: Doctor Who's written for boys. There has never been a female showrunner of Doctor Who," Eccleston said. "So my dream is this: there was a little girl who was, I don't know -- six, seven, eight -- in 2005 when my series went out, and she gets the job, and she asked me back? I'd go back like a shot."

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[the-haiku-bot]

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text from a news article.

text reads as follows:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[annaplexis]

Pinhole cast on

This cast on allows you to knit in the round starting from the centre without leaving a hole!

Shown here: Square 43: The Lifted One, from my book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares, which introduces this cast on alongside lifted increases

Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this website along with some new ones introducing more exciting and advanc

I'm thinking of knitting little spring baskets as gifts and this is the ideal way to start 🙌🐣🎁💝

[the-big-mood]

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[the-big-mood]

From what I can see it's real, its someone from Canada who trains rescue rats 🐀 Source below

Kuzko & Kronk (@emperorsofmischief) • Instagram photos and videos

241K Followers, 119 Following, 103 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Kuzko & Kronk (@emperorsofmischief)

[mandatoryrollercoaster]

This is Progress