Who d'you suppose decided the birds are free?

The Kremmit - like a super hero, but with more nerd. Forever spamming: Black Widow, Digimon, animals. Current obsession: Critical Role. Tagging is fairly consistent.

[scutellatebooted]

I got myself a puppy for my birthday. His name is Garrus and he is a Beauceron. I made him a blog if you wanted to follow along with my dog ownership journey or just wanted to see a bunch of puppy pictures:

[draconiclullaby]

Does anyone know of good resource(s) for training/socializing kittens/young cats? Specifically for handling, carriers, and going to the vet?

Thanks!

[elvenferretots]

@scutellatebooted?

[scutellatebooted]

I sure can be a resource!!

I will post full thoughts after work today but you will need:

High value treats! My cats will eat garbage so any ole treat will do for them, but for other cats I always recommend something like Churu for prolonged handling sessions or small and soft treats for quick learning

A crate or backpack. If you want your cat to learn how to be outside adventure kitty, I recommend a backpack. If you are just looking to get them in a carrier for vet trips, any carrier will suffice. I personally prefer hard sided carriers.

A room to train in. Especially if you have more fearful or feral cats, being able to close a door and create a distraction-free place is super helpful.

A clicker. I find my cats respond better to the clicker than a "yes" cue. And if I am training my dog at the same time, it's not as confusing who I am rewarding (the dog cues to a verbal, I haven't taught him a clicker)

And for general vet visits, see if your vet will allow Happy Visits! These are generally half hour sessions where you and your pet (not necessarily a cat) sit at the vet and get cookies and chat with the staff. My clinic team will set up a full game plan as needed to prepare a patient for a successful visit, but sometimes all you need to do is walk in and sit in the lobby during a quiet time of day and then boogie-oogie on outta there.

*Cats CAN be trained!! Both of my cats know several commands, can come when called, and are fully leash trained! Don't give up on them just cause they aren't traditionally biddable creatures!*

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[godzillabreath]

Nowhere King for Birb 🦌

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard

[lyricwritesprose]

There is sports discourse. There is yarn discourse. There is food discourse. There is academic discourse (dear sweet god is there academic discourse). If there are people out there collecting brass buttons specifically from 1921, they are going to have discourse about which buttons are trash and whether Person A cheated person B. To be human is to engage in pointless wankery sometimes.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ramshacklefey]

No IDs, but these tags got me in a huff:

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

Yoga pants. Hmf.

[elodieunderglass]

people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.

From wicking up road salt.

[hannahmcgill]

Capture them gently

[img id] Digital cel-shaded art of a white unicorn fleeing an unseen hunter in the woods. The unicorn leaps across an isometric chunk of land vegetated with plants drawn in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript -- stylized grass and unknown plants, twisting painterly tree trunks, and broad paisley leaves. An arrow with red fletching stabs a tree behind the unicorn, just missing its mark. Below the unicorn, a small hedgehog mom has just rolled in some fresh grapes and is bringing them on her spines to her children in a burrow underground. [/id]

[carrotchipper]

my little lascaux

[scutellatebooted]

I went axe throwing tonight and it was a fustercluck.... Absolute embarrassment.

My friend who works there was judge on one of my last games and looked me up down and just said "you are having a lot of trouble actually committing to your throws. You get halfway thru and then you just *fart noise.* What is going on?" And I nearly started crying then and there.

It's fine.. it's awesome. Don't wory about me.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[enchantedbook]

'Werewolf' by Jakub Różalski

[millionsknives]

oh edward elric bleeding out and nearly dying impaled by a massive steel beam shaving pieces off his soul and years off his life because he chose not to kill the objectively worst guy he's ever met but he's just like. ah. if this is the price i have to pay for mercy i'm glad to pay it. 16 years old, unshakeable belief in the value of a life, shortest fuse in the world, mad as hell at all times, heart of gold for all of humanity. no one is doing it like him

[millionsknives]

it had to be kimblee too. it's a necessary part of any hardline pacifist's story to come up against the worst guy ever and still choose principle. anyone less evil would have been worth risking his life for. kimblee wasn't worth it at all. still ed doesn't mind. a lesser story would have made this the turning point where ed learns that he should kill but nope, that's not who he is, this doesn't change anything, the value of a person does not change. he's gonna live with his decision. he knows kimblee's never gonna change he knows his mercy is wasted he knows everyone thinks he's stupid but it's the principle of the thing. and it's the outflow of the action. mercy won't save kimblee but it saved his 4 men. it's a beacon for miles. it saved winry. it can save scar. as soon as 1 person isn't worth it, none of us are because one is all and all is one.

[silentwalrus1]

tags from @parkersgeorg

[defconprime]

Voyager Season 5 Crew

[heedra]

so far one theme of the 30s for me has been realizing that literally every human being on earth who appears completely cool and collected and together with it at first glance has some threshold past which enough known information about them will shatter that mystique completely. i don't even say this negatively or pessimistically it's just been helpful to keep in mind that we're all like that.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Explaining Operation Metro Surge to people 20 years from now