She is not a cat-blanket. You’re a heater-human.

A worthy sacrifice for kitty happiness

Konsi? Being deliberately cocky?

Reality would fall apart.

A confident Konsi? I don’t know, that might be too much. Has she ever been smug about anything?

Smug Konsi feels like a bit of a cataclysmic concept.

Sweet, sweet Razira, wearing your heart on your sleeve like this, is why you lost.

!foxes@lemmy.world

Did someone say !dungeonmeshi@ani.social?

While you’re not wrong, I think a lot of people misinterpret normal cat behaviour for actual malicious intent. As if they knock stuff over specifically to piss you off.

And like I mentioned in another comment cats intuitively use the amount of claw that’s safe with a fellow cat where there’s a coat of fur between claw and skin. So when they scratch at us, interpreting it as intentional hurt isn’t accurate.

Cats don’t wanna bloody each other during play, they just don’t know they have to use even less claw with a human than with a fellow cat, and yet people act like their cats are out for blood at the drop of a hat.

Yup. As long as you actually give off a consistent indication of when you feel more claw than you’d like, cats seem to learn where the line is. They don’t actually want to hurt you, until they do, and at that point the behavior is a completely different level of aggressive.

It’s just that fellow cats are protected by a coat of fur, so the “intuitive” amount of claw that a cat will use is a bit more than what we furless humans can deal with. The cute part is that given time, a cat will even learn to tell clothing apart from skin. My boy uses plenty of claw sitting on my shoulders when I wear a hoodie, and basically none at all, even falling off rather than put claws in me, when I’m in just a t-shirt.

I’ve never used my hands directly for play, so that probably makes a difference. He only gets to go full wild animal on wand toys and such. I don’t mind some scratches either, but I made it a point to really make even the slightest catching on skin to be off-limits, so as to be able to let others handle him without worry. Especially with one of sisters starting off quite scared of him.

And yup, the kneading can go from 0 to 100 very suddenly.

Am I the only person with a cat that is super careful with their teeth and claws, such that they don’t pierce skin? He’ll lightly place his claws on skin or take a finger between his teeth and apply very light pressure when he doesn’t want to be touched.

The “scream in pretend pain whenever you feel anything sharp” method has trained him to be very aware of his killing tools.

The only time I have claws viciously dug into me is when he kneads me in relaxation, and that’s an instinctual behaviour I don’t think he can resist.

Razira looks like she’s about drop her the last few feet for endangering herself like that.

Boost probably inherited the habit of reddit apps to use imgur as an image host, then. Most apps upload to the pict-rs server provided by the lemmy instance, not imgur.

Does boost have support for animated webps? Edit: tested it, it does load, but does mot animate.

The gifv is an imgur thing (they convert gifs to mp4 files), but you can edit the post and just change the .gifv to .mp4, that will at least make the video work in some clients.

Stills should work just fine, as long as boost is using the direct file link after upload.

Video support on lemmy is a little tricky atm, depends on the client, but gifs and webp both work, as long they are direct links to actual such files. Which you can’t do with gifs on imgur, as they turn them into video files.

It’s also time for lunch, and a small snack, later, it will also be time for a small snack, and also breakfast again. Maybe some dinner.

I’ve been consistently moving him onto the floor or my lap if he steps onto my desk size mouse pad while I’m at my desktop. Eventually he picked up on the fact that he’s not allowed on the mouse pad, and will now either sit at the edge of it, or climb into my lap.

There’s also a catbed behind my second monitor, which he preferred for a long time, but my lap has been the more popular option in recent months.

If you use a direct file link, which for gifs on imgur would be .mp4 instead of gifv (which isn’t actually a direct file link), the video will embed in some clients. I’ve not seen it work in a comment, but posts will have an embedded player if the url submitted is to a direct video file.

Alternatively, if you’re posting a gif or don’t need sound, turn it into a .webp. The file will be much smaller than an actual .gif, and play in most clients. It also works in a comment, like so:

He’s pretty forgiving, I can adjust my sitting position once or twice and hell get up and lay back down each time.

He was resting his head on my arm but looked up at my phone because I picked it up to take the picture.

It’s honestly just actual child neglect. Tying up your kid in the basement also stops them from complaining. A pacified kid isn’t automatically a healthy kid.

Games have become so dialed in on pressing all kinds of dopamine buttons, a lot of adults can’t regulate their gaming habits.

There’s a lot of exploitative mechanics that have no point beyond fiddling with people’s hind brains that could be outlawed at a governmental level.

Beyond that, I agree, parents need to stay on top of their kids, as they always have. But video games along with tech in general has become a way to make a kid keep to themselves for hours, so they don’t bother you, and a lot of parents are taking this easy way out, at the expense of the development of the child.

It’s almost like wars are huge lose-lose clusterfucks that no half-sensible leader would ever start… Moreso now than ever before.