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Cake day: May 11th, 2024

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  • I remember years ago being super depressed and just in my bed and my limbs feeling weighed down and then my cat comes over and she wants attention she’s licking my hand so i pet her and that bit of moving slowly got me sitting up and out of bed.

    sometimes i think it’d be nice to have a program that subsidizes care of pets for people who are helped by them (and not abusive, obviously) but can’t afford them. there were cats at the alzheimer care place my grandmother lived at, and my grandmother adored them and it made her final year less of a misery for her.

    anyway, this manga makes me remember stuff like that, so that’s nice. since it’s 2AM and my current cat decided it was time to yell and now i’m wide awake. cats being annoying is good…sometimes…


  • I don’t particularly care about the downvoting, but I do prefer bidirectional blocking when possible. Obviously a public profile is still visible, but if someone blocked had to make a new account to interact with you, that’d be nice.

    That’s just a preference. Whatever the consensus is, I’ll be fine with it. The most important thing is that it’s clear and known how it works. Someone with a stalker should quickly be able to get how things work to decide if they want to be on here.


  • I’m not attempting to guilt anyone. I apologize if it seemed that way.

    This was mostly notice to myself to avoid these comment sections, so I’d see my comment in my profile and remember not to click certain articles. If someone describes the pain in detail they wish on him and it’s relevant to my uncle’s illness, i will imagine my uncle experiencing that pain. i just will, and i see no need to train myself out of it. there’s no value in that, for me. I like reading news comments, so I’ll often just click an article I see with them without thinking.

    It’s none of my business what you post.












  • lots of reasons - early indoctrination, for one. but there are also benefits for women like this.

    women who buy in are given a lot of power - over other women, minorities, children. they’re also told that they’ll be protected from the harm they see happening to other women (that they and the men in their lives participate in creating). i recall a recovering white supremacist woman who believed the white men around her wanted to protect good white women and girls until she was at an event and witnessed a bunch of guys raping a girl. she understood the lie, then.

    so, for the same reason as the men. fear and control. and for public figures like this, money and power. women are as painfully human as men are, so over the years i’ve come to accept that the only reason more women aren’t shitheads politically in the way conservative men are is because the harm from being a shithead hits them in more direct ways, like not being able to get appropriate healthcare.

    anyway, that’s my rambling answer.






  • Trump won the 2024 election on the promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history”, but few anticipated a crackdown on documented immigrants, including visa and green card holders and citizens who have the status by birth or naturalisation, or tourists.

    Plenty of people anticipated this. Who’s easier to deport when you want to get rid of a big number quickly? Someone living under the radar? Or someone who’s right on file and complies with orders to come in? And if there’s no due process, you can say they committed any crime you want to justify it. It’s not like morality or honesty would stop anyone involved in the process.


  • celeste@kbin.earthtocats@lemmy.worldMonster
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    15 days ago

    something about how upright the cat’s sitting? i don’t know, exactly. i just looked at the pic before reading the caption and thought “uhoh.” the long-term effect of having a cat who’d occasionally piss in the wrong place when she was young, i guess.