Gordon's Mindless Blog

[pewresearch]

Republicans’ views on expanding presidential power have changed markedly since last year. About half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (51%) now say it would be too risky to give presidents more power, down from 70% last year.

The share of Republicans who say presidents could operate more effectively if they did not have to worry so much about Congress and the courts has increased 16 percentage points since then, from 27% to 43%.

Republicans Now Are More Open to the Idea of Expanding Presidential Power 

[seinfeld-daily]

[video-game-jams]

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Mario Kart 64 - Toad’s Turnpike

[thisherelight]

harvest comes early this year. it kills me with it’s scope, and beauty. every year, new again. 

[thenatsdorf]

[eversongwoods-deactivated202001]

Wtf how is he so big

[204-moved-deactivated20201117]

he just has a really healthy diet

[seinfeld-daily]

[n64thstreet]

[skywalker-76-deactivated2018061]

effort is the most attractive thing someone could give you

[bitterfucked]

DM idea

become an evil wizard in real life so when your players reach the final boss you can flip the table and engage them in real combat

[hexmaniacmareen]

what they say: cats are evil and unable to love

what they mean: i dont know how to handle small animals and consider them lashing out in SELF DEFENSE an insult

[rad-roach]

Usually what it boils down to is “I’m mad because the cat didn’t act like a dog”.

[black-nata]

[luvtonique]

Pushing fragile things off tables and breaking them: Self defense. 

Destroying Christmas Trees: Self defense, I mean the tree attacked them. 

Scratching their owner’s eyeball: Self defense. 

Scratching their sleeping owner’s face: Self defense. 

Jumping on their owner’s back and clawing into their spine: Self defense. 

Admittedly yeah 

A dog doesn’t do those things because a dog’s version of self defense is to be a good animal who loves you and doesn’t attack you unless you attack them first. 

I mean if a cat feels that threatened by everything in their owner’s household maybe the owner shouldn’t have gotten a cat. 

[amphiaria-deactivated20250226]

Pushing fragile things off tables and breaking them: Playing. Cats are well-known to like to play with small objects. Your cat does not know what “fragile” means and does not understand the distinction between toy and not-toy objects. Place fragile things out of a cat’s line of sight and reach, and if you don’t provide them with enough enrichment items that they go looking for them, that’s on you.

Destroying Christmas Trees: Cats like to climb things. They’re not doing it to spite you.

Scratching their owner’s eyeball: Probably an accident, due to overstimulation when playing. It wasn’t trying to hurt you. Don’t anthropomorphize animals by attributing spite to them. Animals don’t do spite the way that humans do.

Scratching their sleeping owner’s face: Trying to rouse you with its paw, probably gently, because it loves you and wants to play with you.

Jumping on their owner’s back and clawing into their spine: Come on. If a cat is jumping on you, it loves you and wants to be close to you. Digging in with its claws is how it balances itself on an unstable surface and is purely a reflexive reaction. It isn’t intending to hurt you.

99% of cat behavioral problems stem from bored cats. Cats need to climb, need to scratch, and need small objects to play with. I only recommend adopting cats in pairs, so that they can keep each other entertained. Cats are not purely solitary. They get lonely, and lonely cats act out. Once again, your entire problem with cats as a species seems to stem from the fact that you don’t understand how cats express affection and it upsets you that they don’t do so the way that dogs do. Cats aren’t small dogs and cannot be expected to behave as such.

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[elliehopaunt-deactivated2025073]

worth watching for the end

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[unknowngordon]

I just learned that “obsoleting” is a word.

[mangaluva-deactivated20220930]

Sometimes I can’t stop thinking about how Zuko accidentally spoke against his father and begged for forgiveness, on his knees with tears in his eyes, and got half his face burned off and banished from his home

Then Zuko betrayed his uncle and everything Iroh had ever taught him, begged for forgiveness on his knees with tears in his eyes, and got a hug and complete forgiveness and unconditional love

[alibomaye]

“what did you do over the weekend?”

me:

[unknowngordon]

Got tagged by @johnnyappleshy let’s go:

Name Luke

Nicknames Gordon

Zodiac Pisces

Sexual Orientation Heterosexual, and maybe panromantic

Favorite Fruits Bananas, or tomatoes

Favorite Season Autumn, I like the cooler weather, the changing and falling of leaves. Autumn months have usually been less anxious or stressful for me in the past few years.

Favorite Book Not sure which single book stands out from the rest. I do like me some Stephen King though.

Favorite Flower I’ll get back to you on that.

Favorite Animal Cats, and any sort of feline by association.

Coffee, tea, cocoa Cocoa for sure, closely followed by coffee. Never been much of a tea guy.

Cat or Dog person Cats forever

Favorite tumblr Been a bit inactive on tumblr lately, but off the top of my head... @tokarphoto @thisherelight @tolackcolour @seinfeld-daily @kristamaxinephoto @earthdaily @stephenkingsbooks @puroresu-musings @brucespencer @johnnyappleshy

Dream Trip A long road trip with a few close friends. Kinda cliched but eh.

[tiinatormanenphotography]

Arctic minimalism. 

Käsivarsi wilderness area, Finland. 2017 

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