reasonably cynical, stupidly optimistic

Kayle. Theology nerd. Cat enthusiast. Terrible at emotions. Icon is my cat, Princess, who won't let getting hit by a car keep her down. #Goals.

[call-me-overcomer]

[thededfa]

I have two black cats, Sera and Ceridwen. They are sisters and look exactly alike and like to sit next to each other in the exact same position.

Sera is sweet and loves to be petted.

Ceridwen is sweet and loves to pretend your hand is a mouse she wants to disembowel. 

My kids will stand in front of them both and try to guess which is which, even asking the cats, “Which one of you likes to bite?”

Every now and then I’ll hear a, “Wrong one! Wrong one!” followed by my kids running through the house chased by a delighted kitten

[inkdrgn]

this feels like the cat version of the thing where one creature always speaks the truth and the other always lies

[call-me-overcomer]

Last night we did a little q&a with my grandparents in honor of their 65th anniversary. One of the questions was "How/when did you know you'd found the one?"

My grandpa's answer was on the first date because she had everything he was looking for: short, dark hair, and would talk to him.

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

[call-me-overcomer]

"You must excuse me, Anne. I’ve got a habit of being outspoken and folks mustn’t mind it.”

“But they can’t help minding it. And I don’t think it’s any help that it’s your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying, ‘Excuse me, you mustn’t mind it … it’s just a habit I’ve got.’ You’d think he was crazy, wouldn’t you?"

Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery, chapter 9

[wowbright]

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

[minyardlumberyard]

tags too good to leave in tags @hyperrbolic-orange

[anxiette]

also way too valuable to leave in tags! from @carolinanadeau

[call-me-overcomer]

We got my grandma extended release Tylenol so she wouldn't have to get up during the night to take more and what does she do? She takes the regular stuff 15 minutes before deciding to go to bed because she was due for a dose and couldn't be bothered to ask where my aunt had put the new bottle 🤦‍♀️

[killieweegie]

Happy Caturday 🐈

[soundlessdragon]

[call-me-overcomer]

[call-me-overcomer]

[call-me-overcomer]

Ma'am you are sitting on my yarn

[woodenrosary]

"all creation is inherently evil"

noooo my sibling in Christ you got that from‼️gnosticism‼️‼️ that's a heresy ‼️

[thisbibliomaniac]

Everybody is so hellbent on fixing and euthanizing thr feral cats, then they get on facebook and complain about the booming rabbit / squirrel / chipmunk / rat populations 😐

[tomicscomics]

07/17/2026

Yuck-o-rama.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY:

In Matthew 13, Jesus speaks to a crowd in parables. After opening with the Parable of the Sower, He continues with three more parables that kind of flow together, each beginning with, "The kingdom of heaven is like..." and going on to describe something unexpected.

Weeds Among Wheat This parable compares the kingdom to a man who sows healthy wheat in his field, but before it grows, an enemy sneaks in and sows weeds among the wheat. The man decides to let the plants grow together until harvest, at which point his reapers collect everything, sorting the wheat into his barn and the weeds into a fire.

Mustard Seed This parable compares the kingdom of heaven to a mustard seed, colloquially known to the people around Jesus as pretty much the teensiest little thing ever. The mustard plant is a somewhat invasive shrub, and not very grand, but Jesus describes this tiny seed being intentionally sown, then turning into a giant plant so big that birds can nest in it.

Hidden YeastThis parable compares the kingdom of heaven to some yeast (fungus that eats sugar to release gas and expand dough) that a woman hides in an enormous measure of wheat flour to make bread. Yeast is technically an unclean ingredient to Jews, but Jesus describes this yeast causing the dough to rise as a positive. It yields a crazy amount of bread.

Altogether, these stories paint a strange picture. Jesus says these scenarios are each like the kingdom of heaven, and we're left with images of unclean or undesirable things mixed in with the good until the end of the age when everything is sorted out, along with images of small and unassuming things invading the world around them, expanding, and taking over, providing fruit or life or shelter or food by spreading out generously.

In this cartoon, each of Jesus's three parables (from Matthew 13:24-35) is summarized into an absurd one-sentence blurb that is technically accurate but a little more jarring than the wording we're used to. Some of us long-time Christians grew up with these parables, so their intended oddness can be lost on us. Hopefully this helps communicate how bizarre some of the imagery would've been to a listener back then. Anywho, a guy in the crowd notices Jesus's odd metaphors and complains, then talks himself into a theological awakening, then talks himself out of that awakening because it makes him uncomfortable. We all do be that guy sometimes, ahaintgonlieboutdatmaynsheeeewt.

[caats]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

This has become one of those lines that I'm now happy to lose friends over, whether they identify themselves as "left" or "right": if you are gleefully celebrating the deaths of your fellow human beings simply for voting differently to you or caring about issues you take the opposite stance on, you yourself have become the monster, and the enemy of all humanity, regardless of whatever those within your belief bubble tell you when egging you on.