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Mira: [Steps onto the coffee table from the couch]
Me: (mild annoyed shushing sound) "We don't do that, girlie."
Mira: [Attempts to backtrack but cannot, as she is in the air with her front paws on the coffee table and her back paws on the couch.]
Mira: [Looks at me somewhat helplessly] "Mreeeeehhhh!"
Me: 😻😻😻😸😹

cc: @mirabilos

#FloofDaughter #Mira #Cats #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

in reply to R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

hehe, I can visualise that.

Of course, our cats own everything and are generally allowed everywhere. Exceptions are in the wastebin, eating from our dishes, and in dangerous areas (like where something is soaking in cleaning solution).

in reply to mirabilos

Yeah, I don't have too many hard rules, but I do try to discourage them from totally roaming anywhere.

She has yet to figure out how to jump onto the top of the fridge from the countertop and pace around on top of the kitchen cabinets like it's her own personal catwalk the way Hobbes used to. I think she's more chill (and a good bit more little) than he was, but I do hope she tries it some time. ^__^




"Yet the classical appearance of the Latin alphabet did not emerge fully formed. Rather, it developed in gradual stages, links in a chain of alphabetic acquisition and adapation that connected Roman writing back to Egypt."
dannybate.com/2024/10/29/relic…


Just in case you thought SpaceX Crew Dragon returning NASA astronauts when Boeing's Starliner failed makes SpaceX the good company and Boeing the bad company, they're actually both bad companies...

NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations

A crew of astronauts was recently hospitalized following a return to Earth on board SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

gizmodo.com/nasa-tells-spacex-…



The Pizza Effect - The phenomenon of a nation's or people's culture being transformed elsewhere, then re-exported to their culture of origin

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_ef…

in reply to 𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

I think it's weird that one can order a "caffè all'americana" in Italy. Why would one do that? When in Roma, drink coffee as the Romans do.


Had an unexpected meeting with an Indian immigrant to NZ from Mumbai today during a boys cricket game. We were chatting about the IndvNZ test match being played in Mumbai and somehow drifted into religion. Turns out my friend is Jewish, I had no idea there were Indian Jews. He told me many of his Indian Jewish friends had moved to Israel although found it difficult to get ahead there being Indian and he much preferred to be in NZ. He then kinda laughed and said we're all basically atheists.
in reply to Jeremy Buffer Jones

One can convert to Judaism from anywhere on the globe, and subsequently, migrate to Israel.

Palestinians, Christian or Muslim, are not allowed even if their families had been living there for the last thousand years. Yeah.

in reply to GM7077

@GM7077

After searching google for origins of Indian Jews this was the response:

There are three main Jewish communities in India, each of a different origin and with different cultural characteristics and traditions: the Cochinis, the Bene Israel and the Baghdadis. None has faced direct persecution, but they are all declining in numbers due to emigration to Israel and other countries.



Received my copy of @glennf’s “How Comics Were Made” and looking forward to making time in the coming week to read it.
in reply to Paul Goracke

I know of some other folks on the “I Read Comic Books” podcast discord who are looking forward to their copies, they just don’t have the shipping advantage of living in the Seattle area.
in reply to Paul Goracke

Awesome! The printer is in Canada, you may have seen, so they drive to Blaine, WA, to ship USPS and it fans out. Most people will get their books on the east coast between Nov. 4 and 10 by current estimates.



Enjoying my belated birthday beer, a Unibrou Terrible. It’s definitely not terrible! Or weak (10.5%). Happy weekend to all!
in reply to simonbp

@simonbp This has been sitting in my fridge for over a year now. My first sip and I thought there was something wrong about it. By the time it warmed up properly… oh my! Unibroue does not disappoint.




More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage (Independent, 2024-11-01)




Watch Dragnet’s 1967 LSD Episode: #85 on TV Guide’s List of the Greatest Episodes of All Time

openculture.com/2014/11/dragne…

#85


Here’s what we’re reading today:

Poland has begun construction of a line of defensive fortifications called the Eastern Shield on its border with Russia.

$2.5 billion has been allocated to strengthening Poland's borders with Russia and Belarus in an effort to deter aggression.

x.com/donaldtusk/status/185208…

in reply to Tim Mak

The Polish Foreign Ministry replied to #Zelenskyy after he said that he had asked Warsaw to hand over MiG fighter jets, but Poland had not.

The Polish FM justified this by pointing to the aid his country had already provided and the fact that Russia was also a threat to #Poland.

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-1…



A big thank you to our sponsors for this year's #openSUSE.Asia Summit. Thank you SHIFT Inc. for sponsoring our #community #summit. en.shiftinc.jp


For All Mankind started 5 years ago today on AppleTV+ 🥳

One of my favorite current sci-fi series, whose fifth season is currently being filmed. Coming soon to the 2010s in this alternative timeline!

And so, logically, it's the theme of my next piece on Patreon, later today.



Dear Donald Trump. You did try to kill the Affordable Care Act. In July 2017, 31 of us got arrested in the Senate Gallery trying to stop the motion to proceed. The ACA was spared by John McCain's no vote. You're a liar and hazardous to our nation's health. cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/se…


Pour Halloween, CNews fait revenir Jean Testanière, le médium du tout-Paris dont Balkany et feu Tapie, condamné à deux ans de taule pour emploi fictif dans l'affaire du cercle Wagram. Il ne l'avait pas vu venir, celle-là... 😂 Le groupe Bolloré, entre extrême-droite et exploitation de la misère humaine.

#Politique #Bollore #Medium #Halloween #LOL #Toussaint #Medias #Bollore

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