Anna Carey

Regardless I have informed the owners of said cats of the new friend in the hunting grounds and hope they will respond accordingly.

Two sets of animal tracks in the snow. On the right, degraded, a set from a domestic cat. On the left, fresh, an unidentified canine with a calm gait pattern.

I keep finding these canine tracks walking leisurely the secret path through the strawberry patch behind my house. Same path the neighborhood outdoor cats like, but never at the same time.

Best guess is a coyote, or a domestic dog loose in the neighborhood for over a month that I haven't seen.

lololol sounds about right

Especially given that like ... they're everywhere, loudly, and have been for at least thirty years.

‘AI’ is not a source. It’s a literature review. Always check the sources.

The US really playing out the last phase of the game where you get bored of trying to maximize for any of the other win scenarios and just blow everybody up.

THE INCIDENT IS HORRIBLE but if you need to watch it happen to understand how horrible it is THEN SOMETHING IS DEEPLY AND IRREPARABLY WRONG WITH YOU

Hi world!! I would like to never see another autoplayed video of a man's arm being broken ever again jfc!!! Why are we doing this!

Sometimes I think my cat sticks her toes under my feet just a little bit on purpose when she thinks I haven't been giving her enough attention.

Just tapping the sign. No reason.

No problem, and I hope my supported inquiry teaching mode didn't land too badly. 🙂 The way palm tree trunks most resemble the leafstalk of an allium like onion, garlic, or other bulbs rather than a woody stem has fascinated me since I learned it.

A cross-section of the trunk of a palm tree after cutting.

I'm saying you should look it up! It's really interesting but those two trees are a great example of two completely divergent kinds of plant growing into something most people recognize as a tree.

Below is a cross section of a cut down palm. What do you notice?

Have you ever compared the structures of an oak tree and a palm tree?

Which part

This signals a big fat "you can't make me send an actual official because international law isn't real" message that I have not yet seen anybody else point out.

Today has really made clear how very much I'm just teetering on the precipice of falling apart at any given moment.

Have fun starting your day in the dark for ALL OF October to March, I guess. Enjoy Christmas daybreak at 9am.

The whole point is to buy now on the hopes that the odds will play out and you'll get money for free. Gambling.

It's just more poker than plinko.

Maybe they both matter but don't have to be compared to each other as if our ability to recognize atrocity is finite.

Even the Chicago board of trade selling seed corn futures is just gambling, my friend. It's all gambling. With corn futures you're gambling mostly on the weather.

Because he was about to get to at this time in 2020 but we all got distracted?

Are you not familiar with how threaded conversations work?

Ok but that doesn't undermine my point in any way especially because I already allowed for it in the post you're replying to.

None of which is to say Hildawg isn't lying through her teeth here; maybe she is. But it's not unfathomable that a person could have a very pleasant friendly lunch with someone on a weekly basis and never know what they get up to when they have power over someone else.

"I never saw that side of him" is a real thing that real abusers do on purpose to help hide their abuse by creating an alibi. They cultivate people who believe in their innocence with the same energy they groom their victims.

Abusers, especially prolific ones, do regularly have a social network completely separate, which they appeal to when somebody accuses them of anything. "I can't have done that, just ask Hil, she knows what I'm like" went a long way for a long time even if it was plausible deniability.

I do those things in the daytime.

Part of the reason the whole country hasn't been screaming about trans Kansans who drive being made criminals overnight is because there's so much else that's unconstitutional and horrifying.

But part of it is because it's happening to trans people.

(there are doulas who support home births without a medical provider, but they're uncommon, and generally considered unethical. These are extraordinary circumstances and I assume everybody involved is doing something they normally would not do)