Ich bin ein NERD

✗ AS̷CE I'm getting too old for this shit.

[prettypangolins]

Happy Caturday to all who celebrate!

Here are some photos of my kitty-babies Pumpkin and Salem! They're brothers/litter-mates. Salem likes to yell a lot. Pumpkin was named before I realised his eyes are orange (Salem's are green), and before he got his round little tummy-tum (his weight is monitored to make sure he stays as healthy as possible!).

[Image IDs: Image #1 shows a black cat in a cardboard box. He has turned to look over his shoulder up at the camera, and is in a very cute photogenic pose, and looks like a model.

Image #2 is of the same slender black cat - Salem - lying on his side on a pink blanket, close to his owner. A white hand is just visible giving him head-scritches. He has his eyes closed and is very content. His face is side-on to the camera, and he looks like he's smiling.

Image #3 looks down on two black cats lying back-to-back on a grey floor. The cat on the left is a little tubbier - this is Pumpkin - and is looking over his shoulder to his brother. Salem's coat has 'rusted' in the sunlight and is showing the copper colours beneath it.

Image #4 looks up at a cat perched on top of a wooden interior door. Most of his body is obscured by the door and the angle, but he has very fuzzy edges, and is looking very inquisitively down towards the camera with big round eyes.

Image #5 is of a slender black cat trying to lie down on the top of a wide radiator in a bathroom. There is, however, a toilet roll in the way. His front paws are either side of it, and the top of the loo roll is against his chest, stopping him lying down. He seems a bit perplexed as he looks down and tries to think in his tiny kitty brain 'what is going on??'.

Image #6 is of the interior of a very long white mattress box. At the far end, a little black kitty is looking up at the 'roof' of the box in consideration of who know what. His eyes are glowing thanks to the camera flash that's gone off.

Image #7 shows two black cats curled up in a fuzzy white round cat bed that has brown paw prints on it. There's more black cat than there is bed. Salem is contoured to the curve of the bed, while his brother is splodged with his butt against his brother's chest.

/END ID]

[nnjrwpu]

oh goodness! oh dear!! oh no!!!

[targetedknowledge]

[wokefrogvirus]

let’s have a blast with mama

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

Holo Pangolin!

And a mini Holo Pangolin!

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

Gotta show some pangolin love! They're so amazing and yet so endangered!

[artemissaggezza]

Thank you @bimmyjimmy for the spring idea! Our new cat loves them. Isn't that right @starlghtstarbrite ?

[bimmyjimmy]

SPRING REVOLUTION !!

[everystarstorm]

You know how kids are supposed to be exposed to some level of dirt and grime as they grow up so their immune systems can learn what's a deadly disease and what just causes some slight irritation? And if a kid grows up in a too clean environment they're likely to develop severe allergies or a hyper immune disorder?

I think the over sanitation of the internet is doing similar things to people's psyche.

No that ship with an age gap isn't the same as pedophilia, you're just having the moral equivalent to hay-fever.

[i-twink-therefore-i-am]

new type of guy just dropped

[allsadnshit]

Woke up from a weird nap and saw this reel and it's making me feel like I need to get up and walk for like an hour

[depsidase]

[sublimepizzastarfish]

Shame might not work forever, but it *is* working *right now*.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

Key quotes from the article:

Researchers have known for decades that there are two primary types of people who perpetrate violence. The first is the small fraction who are independently motivated to commit violent acts. The second, and much larger group, are those who commit violence to seek approval and status from others. This is especially true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity. Research on gender is particularly relevant for understanding ICE, which has an overwhelmingly male workforce and uses messages of masculinity and domination in its recruitment materials. A lot of men may be joining ICE because they think it will allow them to bond with other men and gain power in our society. ... To put it another way, the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.

And, the kicker? Where it takes 2 or 3 agents to make an arrest elsewhere, they are traveling by the half dozens in Minneapolis:

ICE Watch organizers have also observed that it takes many more agents to make a single arrest when they are around. In other cities, ICE traveled in groups of two or three, but in Minneapolis, we primarily see groups of 6 to 12 agents. The Department of Homeland Security has pulled agents from other cities to ramp up efforts in Minnesota, which guarantees there will be fewer deportations from the places they left. Plus, ICE's fixation on breaking up ICE Watch groups and detaining observers — often white citizens — has interrupted its original mission.

ICE Watch is shaming ICE (among other things, including documenting their crimes and providing a lifeline to those who are kidnapped).

And it's working.

And even if it wasn't working to the efficacy as shown, it's (1) cathartic to jeer at these fascists, (2) shows support to the community that you are not alone in thinking these agents are scum, and (3) still helping because everyone who joins ICE is a social pariah and knows it *because of this outward and ongoing shame*.

It doesn't matter if they think we're degenerates. Sometimes the things us "degenerates" say will stick and hit a nerve.

[leebrontide]

These boys are falling apart so fast ICE is trying to recruit therapists. Which is what inspired my earlier post about how treating these guys is a huge liability therapists don’t want to take on.

Also it is critical to us in the target area to signal unambiguous support for our neighbors and that those opposing ICE have significant and broad support.

[onbearfeet]

"ICE is trying to recruit therapists" is a profoundly heartening sentence, and I thank you for it.

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[ros-sauce]

Wtf there's a weird bug in my bathtub

[catcrumb]

[scullysflannel]

"just skip the bad episodes" and miss the thrill of a mid x-files episode after a terribly offensive one???

[huntress1013]

Yesterday, Disney asked users on Threads to use Disney quotes to show how they are currently feeling. To say that this did not go according to Disney's plan would be an understatement 😂

They deleted the thread, but they should know that this doesn't help because now the videos are making their rounds 🤣😂

[pardomagus]

Blue the elegant one.

[ltwilliammowett]

Soft toy elephant named ‘Pumpie’, dressed as a sailor in an elegant dark blue woollen jacket with lots of brass buttons and matching trousers. Pumpie also has other items of clothing, such as a kilt and a jacket. This sweet little critter was made from felt and filled with straw and wool, England, circa 1900.