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He was washing dishes when a delegation came to inform him he had been chosen to become cardinal but refused to talk with them before he had finished his job. To him menial work was far more holy and important than glitter and power and he even told the delegation to hang the cardinal robes on a tree outside while he continued washing dishes.

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mountain lions are the biggest of the small cats (Small Cats can purr but can't roar and are all more related to each other than to any of the Big Cats, who can roar but not purr and are all more related to each other than they are to any of the small cats. Basically.)

they can get to be 200+ lbs, hold on

okay do you know how hard it is to find a picture of a large mountain lion next to a human that is NOT a picture of someone bragging about how they've murdered it? Finally found this, from a team tranquilizing mountain lions to put tracking collars on them

if you can't make out the writing, it says: "Brian Kertson, right, and Bart George sit next to a 197-pound cougar they caught and collared on Monday, March 5, 2018. Kerston, who is 6-foot-2 and 270, said the tom cat’s forearms made his arms look puny. (Brian Kerston / Courtesy)"

when they aren't drugged they look a liiiiitle more impressive

they are incredible climbers and astounding jumpers.

They can leap 20 feet straight up in the air from a stand still. That's from the ground to the roof of a two story apartment building. With a running start they can jump across a 40 foot river.

Their favorite hunting method is Jump Upon Creature, often from a high point on a tall rock or from in a tree. And that means you get pictures like this

that one on the bottom is about 9 months old imo

The fur is texutred in a way that my brain reads as juvenile and not the smooth uniform adult coat, but idk how reliable that is.

For sure tho the body proportions look young, and it looks young in the face. Plus you can still see some of the stripey spots they have as kittens left over on the legs

Cougars kittens start off spotty, like so

Some of the spots can be kinda stripey, especially on the legs and tail. As they grow up, the spots fade, and from what i've seen, seem to stay longest or most noticeably on the legs

on the one jumping, you can see what looks like the remains of juvenile spots

the spots are usually faded almost completely by aroooound 6 months old.

I think the mountain lion in the bottom pic of the original post

is probably a couple months or so older than this one, which i would put right around six months maybe

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

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The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"