Twice to-Ennien, four times the crazy.

Domain of Fortunate Nuclei, Kingdom of the Air-Souled. May our stars outlive those who would destroy us. Also at https://comfy.social/@thelaughingmuse

[talesfromtreatment]

Please please please. Please. PLEASE.

If your pet has a surgery, and is sent home with a "cone of shame"... LEAVE THE FUCKING CONE ON.

We did not put that cone on to torment your pet. We put that cone on so that your pet's insides stay inside. Yes, I know they're running into things and look very very sad. I am not being heartless when I say "I don't care. The cone stays on." I'm trying to keep your pet safe.

We've had 5 different clients take the cone off "for just a minute" in the last 2 weeks. One incision we were able to restaple. One we knocked out to resuture, which the owner had to pay for. Two we are currently managing as open wounds because the owners took the cone off a second time.... and one had to go to emergency to have her guts put back into her body after they were dragging on the bottom of the crate ("but it seemed uncomfortable to sleep in...")

In the VERY VERY RARE occasion that you need to temporarily take the cone off for the pet to eat or drink properly you must be actively staring at your pet the whole time the cone is off. Not just in the same room. Not on your phone. Not cooking. Not "turned around for a moment". Actively staring like you're a little kid who just found the most fascinating bug to ever cross your path.

Until your vet says otherwise, your pet is a Mandalorian, a Child of The Watch. The cone STAYS ON.

[pangur-and-grim]

it's been hard balancing the meals for all three cats, because Belphie is gaining weight while Pangur is losing it, proportionally. almost like a certain old meemaw likes to graze over the course of several hours, but is finding her portion has mysteriously vanished.

anyway, it turns out Belphie is too stupid for puzzle feeders, so that's my solution. Pangur might be a neurotic mess, but she's actually quite clever, so now we can get the belly off Belphie and put it on Pangur!

I am a little disappointed about his low cognitive abilities though. obviously by looking at him, you can tell that he's stupid, but I had hope. I thought he could be more

[pangur-and-grim]

[naamahdarling]

If it's any comfort, I've had two cats now who didn't get smart until they were 8+ years old. There's hope!

[porterdavis]

[macsarcule1]

All this stuff is probably true, but it makes it sound like the workers are contaminating lettuce.

Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.

Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldn’t be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldn’t last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).

Food borne illnesses are almost always from shortcuts companies do to save a few bucks (don’t test the water, don’t test the produce, etc.)

[mrshamill]

this needs to be shared far and wide

[thelaughingmuse]

Growing your own lettuce isn't as difficult as, say, growing tomatoes. (I love me some tomatoes, but lawd are they persnickety plants.)

You grow the lettuce in a container, preferably up on something like a bench or a table so that a) it's further from the ground and insects and whatnot and b) it's that much easier to pull off a few leaves for your salad, sandwich, whatever.

It can take about 80 days before you can start pulling a few leaves a day off your Romaine lettuce, and the leaves just keep growing. (Lettuce is like potatoes, in that if the temperature and water are right, they just keep growing - especially if you don't harvest an entire head, you just pull off a few of the outer leaves.) Romaine lettuce, which I personally prefer, is happier in cooler weather.

[d0gbite]

i love looking at pictures of cheetahs because some of them are just the most beautiful breathtaking majestic-looking animals

and some of them are her

[cannedchippy]

the most beautiful girl you have ever met and her girlfriend

[porterdavis]

[macsarcule1]

All this stuff is probably true, but it makes it sound like the workers are contaminating lettuce.

Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.

Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldn’t be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldn’t last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).

Food borne illnesses are almost always from shortcuts companies do to save a few bucks (don’t test the water, don’t test the produce, etc.)

[mrshamill]

this needs to be shared far and wide

[himekokosu]

Viola

[theoneofwhomisblue]

Wunk regains the land

[digitaldiscipline]

That is a catfish in the sense of I HAVE NEVER BEEN FED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

[fucxingcuties]

[fipindustries]

i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.

[fipindustries]

like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"

[fipindustries]

you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.

[phaeton-flier]

The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[writing-prompt-s]

"Fool! No weapon forged by mortal hands can defeat me!" "Oh i know, that's why I brought the rock." "What?"

[blignick]

[chainsandcherries]

[hornshaving]

I've been doing an old fashioned internet dive following links on very old quilting websites, and I found the website of Caryl Bryer Fallert and her really amazing quilts--many of them are all hand-dyed fabrics on top of intense geometric piecing

[microsff]

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.

There was a new sign:

"This sleeping willow is full."

And a map of other locations to try.

[aphony-cree]

Saw a commercial that said “without the letters A B and O there’d be no you”

It was about blood types

As someone versed in fanfic tagging, that’s not the first thing I thought of

[sorryimnotthatkindofdoctor]

This needs to go with the deli sign that asked, “how do you top your sub?”.

[aphony-cree]

This is now officially a thread for things that make fanficcers stop and blink

Please add more

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t want to reblog this but i genuinely want to read more examples so

[extreme-technicality]

May I present:

This monstrosity

[moonblossom]

Every time I see the title of this TV show on the program guide I do a double-take

[zoycitem]

My humble contributions

[hey--its--hay]

My Twinkies Halloween edition

[todesboten]

…

[wordsofdiana]

I’ve had this saved on my phone for like a year and I just …

[libraryogre]

[cipheramnesia]

Call out post for literally everyone I know and also me.

[lesbianladyeboshi]

[arialerendeair]

I will never be over needing to reset my password on my Prime account only to be granted my OTP.

My One True Password.

I died.

[transmortifried]

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

I’m dying over the knock-off Kit-Kat! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[s-h-a-s-e]

my contribution :)

[pointless-letters]

One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

[pointless-letters]

57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.

[radiofreemonday]

Radio Free Monday (July 20, 2026)

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