I’m more than happy to chip in to send some doordash to her room …

Depends on how many people you’re envisioning in your commune, but you’ll likely need more than a one-acre garden. And working that garden is quite a bit of work!

Every time I see something mild but stupid (like this) that’s done by administration, all I can think of is that OSS sabotage manual that was like “make mistakes”, lol.

Keep some dry food available at all times, so they can snack as they please, but feed them wet food a couple times a day for their main meals: dry food is harder on their kidneys and increases their chances of diabetes in later age. (Both kidney and diabetes issues are manageable with care, but it’s much easier to avoid them if you can!)

Figure out their favorite flavors, including ‘odd’ flavors like duck and venison. Those flavors may change over time, so verify favorites once a year or so. You’ll want at least one, preferably two, “best” flavors for each cat. Then do not feed those flavors to the cat, except to verify they still like them. When it’s time to give them medicines, you want flavors that they don’t eat everyday and that will definitely pique their interests.

If your cat ever needs appetite stimulants, get the transdermal versions. There are two: mirtazapine and ciproheptadine. Mirtz is more commonly used, but it makes some cats very agitated and meow-y. For those reasons, I tend to avoid it: I’m giving appetite meds to the cat because it’s feeling poorly, and I’d like to know that any odd behavior is due to their health issues, not debate myself over whether it’s a health issue or a medication side effect. Ciproheptadine is less common but has less side effects; you should be able to get it made at a compounding pharmacy.

To use: wear surgical gloves, put a dose on your finger, and gently massage it onto the inside of their ear. Their appetite will perk up in about an hour. Alternate ears, and clean the inside of the ears with a damp cotton ball every few days, to avoid medication build up.

If you have other meds to give, pull their regular food, then give them the appetite stimulant. Wait until they’re hungry, mix the meds into their regular food and feed it to them.

Don’t give churu’s or similar gravy as a regular treat; you want to be able to use them to mix meds into.

Get them a cat tree for the living room, someplace they can be tall. Arrange furniture so there’s something for them to sit on at most windows. If you can put beds in a couple of their most-favored places, that would be great!

They’re going to be cautious in a new environment and with new people. Ask if you can bring something from their old home to your new one, to help them settle in: the blanket they slept on (don’t wash it!), something like that. Find out what food and litter they had in the old place and start out using those at your place so they’ll feel a bit better settling in, then slowly transition both over to whatever it is that you prefer.

Put them into one room to start and give them a couple days to settle before slowly introducing them to the rest of the house, especially if you have young children, dogs, or other pets.

They’ll likely take some time to truly warm up to you; be patient.

At first, don’t just bend down and pick them up or bend down and pet them: their instinctive reaction is that something is coming out of the sky for them. Instead, stand a couple feet in front of them and dangle your hand where they can see it. They’ll consider, approach, sniff, then likely brush your hand. This is the signal that it’s okay to touch. Eventually they’ll adjust to you and you won’t have to do that, you can just bend over and touch, but at the start it just makes them tense, especially in a new location with new people.

Probably other stuff, but I don’t remember.

According to various news reports, the suspect’s car had a manifesto, a hit list of people to target (one report said the list had a bunch of politicians, another said the list had a bunch of pro-choice activists), and apparently the car also had a bunch of No Kings signs in it. I’m guessing they thought he was going to slip into a protest and try to hurt people?

Something important to know about the two people who were shot: until her death, Melissa Hortman was a member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives; and John Hoffman is a member of the Minnesota State Senate. Both were Democrats.

And up until they were shot, the Minnesota House had 134 Members: 66 Republicans vs 67 Democrats (with one seat empty to be filled later). And the Minnesota Senate had 67 members: 33 Republicans and 34 Democrats. If the assassinations had both been successful, both chambers would have been tied. As it is, they’re only saying that Hoffman is “stable”, but there are no further details.

And he’ll vote for them again because he supports them and thinks “they just did it the wrong way”. Dude, this is exactly the way they were always going to do it, but you never listen to the other side because they’re “woke”. And by the time you wake up, it’ll be too late for all of us. Not just the fascist USA, by the way, because corporations and their enablers now have free reign to deny science and avoid action until the rest of humanity is dying in a cataclysmic hellscape. But I’m glad you were able to avoid seeing a couple of people holding hands, I’m glad all this was worth it to you.

Does the bill still have that clause that says judges are no longer allowed to try to limit the executive branch? Because that’s the clause we should be campaigning against.

I have no idea who Bo Loudon is, and I believe my life is richer for it.

Boo! :(

No idea. He entered on an Italian passport (he has dual Italian-Senegalese citizenship, and they referred to him as “Seringe Khabane Lame, 25, a citizen of Italy” in a press release), so he should have up to 90 days in the US without a problem.

He was on like day 30 of a 90-day visa and was heading to his scheduled flight out of the country. Afaik, they had no reason to pick him up, they just like sitting around in the air conditioning to pick people up at airports and courthouses instead of chasing them across fields or something more exercise-y like that.

Those things that project images on walls and things - be nice if we could project images either in front or behind him, less likely to cause issues with the FAA, more likely to get media coverage.

16 states have proposed or passed legislation that would make ivermectin available over the counter. The intention is to make it much easier for people to get ivermectin and use it for any ailment they believe it can cure. Idaho, Arkansas, and Tennessee have passed laws to make ivermectin available over the counter. On Monday, Louisiana’s state legislature passed a bill to do the same, and it now awaits signing by the governor. The other states that have considered or are considering such bills include: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

I’ve tried the foam earplugs from a drugstore/chemist’s. They’re extremely difficult to put in properly

Take the earplug and roll it between your fingers until it’s a smaller size that goes in easily. Take your other hand and grab your earlobe toward the back and bottom. Pull your lobe backward and away from your head; that straightens and opens your ear canal. The combination of these two should make it easy to insert the earplugs.

[If you like, you can play around with putting the tip of your finger at the entrance of your ear canal and then pulling the lobe with your other hand, to feel how it changes the entrance to your ear canal.]

and get dirty after a few uses.

Maybe clean your ears? Also, most of the cheap foam earplugs aren’t meant to be a long-term solution, they’re definitionally disposable.

I don’t see any cats in this picture.

^^/s

Yeah, I suspected you were a troll. Blocked. Goodbye.

Fuck spez, fuck his not-covert support of Trump, misogyny and the alt-right neo-Nazis, and fuck him blatantly trying to profit from my comments and submissions.

Well, that’s a shame … /s

Apparently there was some school of teaching for a while, where the teachers were emphasizing getting your ideas down on paper quickly, without regard for spelling, spacing, paragraph-ing, punctuation, verb tense, etc. I ran across it when I was trying to find out why there was this generation of fanfic writers who had interesting concepts but couldn’t write to any kind of standard - and who were extremely resistant to any suggestions. Some of the concepts sounded really interesting, too, but it was entirely too much work to try to parse the story.

When texting (ie, fast reading and writing), I’ll occasionally do it for legibility when using exclamation points, when the sentence I’m writing ends in too many thin, upright letters. Like in a text, I think I will !

reads faster than I will!