I know they have a duty as journalists to include that author’s side of the story, but holy fuck is that guy insufferable. Like, even if he wasn’t being a transphobic POS, he sounds like a condescending absolute dickbag. I had a hard time getting through those sentences.

“My olive branch was rejected, however, and a petition begun to have me exiled to Elba [the island that French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was famously exiled to], which supposedly garnered 821 signatures,” Boyne wrote. “For a time, I called it the Loch Ness Monster of petitions – everyone had heard of it, but no one had actually seen it – but then, at last, I managed to procure a copy and realized why it had never, in fact, seen the light of day. To be polite, it lacked a certain name recognition factor.”

Just shut the fuck up, dude.

Me too! Mine’s a lil monster though.

Can the mould just finish the job already

Here’s AP’s version, I think they’re better?

I like this one cause it’s also got a fun little Trump lawsuit tracker.

At a staff meeting, my boss the other day mentioned that his boss (who usually does weekly update emails) has been out on vacation for a while but he said let him know if we need anything from her urgently.

Well, in her updates, she always includes pictures of her cats, so I jokingly said “we need pictures of her cats”. I shit you not, he mentioned this to her and while on vacation, this woman sent us all an “important update” that was just photos of her cat.

I feel like the doorknob is weird too but maybe doorknobs just be like that sometimes

Same same same. Thanks for asking this because I’ve never wanted to put it into words and am learning a lot from this thread.

With regards to third gender, India was more progressive than Britain until Britain colonized them.

Hijras are officially recognised as a third gender throughout countries in the Indian subcontinent,[10][11][12] being considered neither completely male nor female. Hijras’ identity originates in ancient Hinduism and evolved during the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526) and Mughal Empire (1526–1707).

Beginning in the 1850s, colonial authorities deployed various strategies to end hijra practices, which they saw as “a breach of public decency” and incapable of “moral transformation,” as part of their influence on colonial-era sexuality in India.[47] Although hijras were already criminalised by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, in 1861, authorities of the North-Western Provinces (NWP) sought to enact a ‘special law’ against hijras.[48] By 1870, no high-ranking British officials argued against the implementation of special legislation to address the ‘hijra problem’, thus solidifying an anti-hijra campaign all across the Indian subcontinent.

Hijra wiki

Colonialism is a plague.

I wish this upset me more than it does but my cat literally wakes me up by shoving her paw in my mouth every morning and while it is disgusting and I know it is disgusting, there’s not that much I can do about it so I just live.

Doesn’t mean I’d feed someone else cat shit pie though.

Bonus disgusting fun fact, I had an old cat piss on a cake and I fully ate some of it before I realized. I’m full of toxoplasmosis.

Outdoor cats (house pets as well as feral cats) are by far the largest cause of human-related mortality in North American birds. Link

Not to mention the average lifespan of an indoor cat is 3x longer than that of an outdoor cat.

Free roaming outdoor cats are more likely to be hit by cars, have health complications, be attacked by wildlife, or be harmed by humans.

Don’t let your cats free roam outside. Domestic cats are pets and they deserve love and warmth and safe playtime.

As someone who was woken up by a dirty paw in my mouth an hour before my alarm this morning, I’m not so sure.

Can I throw bricks too? I’m angry enough, I’m ready.

Is there a reason you’re unable to provide wet food? I know it can be a bit more expensive, but my vet said even literally a tablespoon of wet food a day mixed with some water is extremely beneficial for their health and will lead to lower vet bills over time.

Put scratching posts (both vertical and flat) near the areas where they are doing this. Redirect when you see them doing it in the wrong spots, and you can get sprays to make certain areas more/less attractive for scratching. They also might want more play time. Scratching is normal cat behaviour but there are ways to give them healthy ways to practice it.

I think she’s saying that because he’s black he’s “untouchable” otherwise it’s discrimination. It’s the incorrect logic they use when arguing DEI. They think just because someone’s black it means they get a free pass to do whatever they want and if someone tries to stop them, they can pull the “race card”. (Note I don’t agree with this at all, I think this is just the way this person’s brain worked based on that quote)

Couldn’t they ban it from America? Like obv it doesn’t collect data in the way tiktok does so they wouldn’t have any sort of case, but I feel like they’d try to find something anyway.

Why does this picture look like an early 2000s punk rock cover except with actual assholes instead of punks pretending to be assholes

Seconding racists, but also probably those LGB without the T people too

My brain somehow didn’t grasp that I had never heard of a Homepod before, then when I saw your comment I had to think back and was like “wait a second, Siri? That’s not google or Alexa” and I had to reread to understand.

Anyway all to say, I’m tired and not reading well but their advertising must be pretty shit if this is the first ad I’ve ever seen for it.

I’m gonna ask for t for totally cis reasons now. I’m definitely a body builder and absolutely not an 🥚.