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limelight79

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  • Tubby is trapped in our garage

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  • Update - I left the door open for several hours yesterday, then closed it in the evening and put food inside. This morning, the food was still there and the litter box was untouched, so it's a safe bet she left. I'll keep an eye out to see if she seems to be looking for a way to get back inside.

  • M Ö T H

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  • I used to live on the 15th floor of a high rise building. One day I had the windows open and my cat saw something outside that he tried to attack. There was nothing outside to catch him if the screen had given way: it was a drop straight to the ground. Fortunately the screen held in place, but it was scary.

    I never opened the window that far again.

  • Rochester city councilor calls for removal of bike lanes

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  • The opponents say that every time. "No one ever uses them."

    I can't speak to those specifically, but I see bike lanes in use all the time. Every time I'm in DC, cyclists in the bike lane, no matter the weather. Every time I ride a path that used to be a railroad, there are dozens of people also using it.

    I'm in an abandoned rails group on Facebook, and some of them are very angry about abandoned railroad lines being converted to bike paths. The line will have been abandoned for decades and they still whine. "They should run trains on that!" To abandon a rail line, the company has to demonstrate that there's not enough business in the line to make it viable. They can't just toss it on a whim. Occasionally I've asked how much money they personally will contribute to reactivating the line, to which they inevitably say - apparently in earnest - the government should pay for it. Did I mention these guys are almost always right wingers?

    It's so bad, that I created this gif to use:

  • Tubby is trapped in our garage

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  • Yeah, I opened the garage door partway so she can get out if she wants. The plan is to close it again later, then put food out again, and see what happened to the food in the morning.

    I told my wife that if the cat is going to live in there, I want to put in a cat door for her. And get her cheaper, non prescription food (our cats, all indoor only, are all on prescription food, for various issues). I don't want to steal my neighbor's cat, of course, but if that's where she chooses to shelter, I'm sure my neighbor will be happy she found a warm place indoors. Apparently the neighbor was hoping to domesticate her but wasn't successful, so this might be a good compromise for her. I'm sure our neighbor has a shelter set up for her, and food is out for her at that house, so it's up to the cat what she wants to do.

    I'm not looking to take on responsibility for another cat, but I won't force her out, either.

  • Tubby is trapped in our garage

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  • Yeah that's what worries me, as far as I'm aware, there are no critters in there. She did eat both servings of food I put out. I left the door open a bit to let her escape if she wanted.

  • Tubby is trapped in our garage

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  • Yeah I feel so bad, I had no idea she was trapped!

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    Tubby is trapped in our garage

  • My list starts somewhere around the Challenger explosion and really doesn't let up from there

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  • ... Spoils the entire bunch.

    That's the rest of that phrase. The people who defend the police always forget that part of the phrase.

  • 28 February 1989

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  • But if you were referring to Kellogg’s (wildly unfounded) hypothesis that bland food would somehow repress sexual urges, I don’t think he’d approve of adding sugar to make it taste better.

    Yep, that was the reference, in a Ned Flanders-ish way of saying it! I agree, he wouldn't approve of the sugar at all. I was just noting that the base food - corn flakes - is the same.

  • gotcha when changing hostname

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  • I use DHCP for everything, even my server, with a reserved IP address in the router for the server and my desktop and a few other things I don't want to move around (printers, some IoT things, Home Assistant, etc.).

    I think the issue is the bridge interface I have to set up for Home Assistant.

  • bold words

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  • Office work sucks.

  • 28 February 1989

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  • I think you're right, but aren't frosted flakes just corn flakes with a bit of sugar added to make them slightly more edible?

  • The 4th being "You can always just erase the evidence from the timeline"

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  • Oh, don't worry, she didn't abandon him. At all!

    It really would have been interesting to get Neelix and Tuvok's takes on the separation afterward. Presumably they remember everything that happened when they were combined, right?

  • We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now.

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  • Oh that's amazing. I have to watch that video.

  • gotcha when changing hostname

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  • This reminds me... My server demands to be known as hostname.local on my network. The other machines just respond to just hostname. I really should figure out why that is.

  • We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now.

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  • It shut down after they exposed it? That's great, but I'm shocked the site owners cared about the exposure. (I haven't watched the video yet.)

  • Waking up in the middle of the night with this guy next to my head

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  • Oh god mine will. Sort of, he's not sprawled out, but he's against my head. I want to breathe without inhaling cat fur? Too bad. I will be cuddled.

    He doesn't do it every night, but he did it a few times last night. Dude, please let me sleep. I love him, but I need sleep.

    He's pretty good (not perfect) about not waking me up, but when I wake up he sometimes shows up for attention. So when I would usually fall back asleep quickly, instead I'm now wide awake.

    I love him. Someday I will miss it, I know.

  • 28 February 1989

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  • Keeps the urges down!

  • A Fistful of Bitches

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  • Bitches of Both Worlds.

  • Unfinished or...

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  • Yeah I'm feeling that, too.

    A few years ago, the clothes rods in our closet fell off the wall (poorly installed by the previous owner). We took the opportunity to repaint and install a new modular system. Before we started, I said to my wife, "I want this project to be done quickly. I don't want it to drag on for months or years." And we did!

    Now for all of my other projects...

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    Stitch curled up on my lap

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    Nibbler curled up on my arm

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Tip - you can create custom macro templates for things you reuse

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI went nuts on my website and generated a $155 excessive bandwidth bill

  • Photography @lemmy.world
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    Some of my collection of cameras

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    Nibbler enjoying a quiet New Year's Eve

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    Stitch enjoying the heat from our pellet stove

  • Photography @lemmy.world
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    The 20 Breathtaking Winners of International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2025

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    I think Inky is waiting to ask me three questions

  • DRONES @lemmy.world
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    Passed my US FAA part 107 test today!

  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    Stanley Pup