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I wish it was me, that my boy was still with us. Because I didn't celebrate anything, I didn't played with the other cats, I was too grim to do something special for the reptiles... Ah, this sucks huh.

After changing a few things in the house, I could always save up for another kitten.. I actually found a breeder with a health guarantee of FIVE years including two years for the FIP... We'll see..

Athéna and Pumpkin would have to show themselves ready, too. I do trust Athéna, but I don't know how Pumpkin would react, as she's not really my cat and refuse to spend time with me.

I do trust that a well bred kitten chosen by his character would do very well here, just like Coffee did.

2022 did not go well, nor 2023 and 2024 and yet again 2025 is... Hard.

how incredibly beautiful!

the colour is called 'black smoke', and this guy displaying it more clearly than most (which makes me wonder if she has two copies of the gene?), but looking past that, those white markings are so spectacular!

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If you don’t know anything about Turkmenistan it’s an oppressive dictatorship in the same ballpark as North Korea. The Gates of Hell is one of its only tourist attractions and the way it came about is pretty weird actually.

Sources vary because this thing happened in the Soviet era so record keeping wasn’t great but it seems like the most likely story is that geologists were digging in the area when they hit a natural reserve of methane. And if you don’t know, methane is many many times worse then carbon dioxide for the environment.

So whoever was digging out there set the methane leak on fire, probably figuring it would burn up and only release carbon dioxide into the air which is like, bad but it’s not as bad as a buttload of methane and they probably expected it to just burn for a few days.

But here’s the thing, guys. It’s been burning now for almost 50 years. 50 years this methane leak has been burning up in a giant hole in Turkmenistan. And nobody knows when it’s gonna stop burning. The methane could run out tomorrow, or it could run out a hundred years from now. But leaving it burning is the safest bet because it’s keeping the methane at bay and it’s one of the country’s only tourist attractions.

Enter Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. A dictator, and, as most dictators are, an idiot. But he’s even an idiot by dictator standards. He does things like recite love poems about horses on national tv and try to sterilize public places against covid by burning a bunch of grass in them for some reason? But anyways, this guy announced he wants to extinguish the gates of hell which honestly seems like shooting himself in the foot for a multitude of reasons including the health of his country’s tiny tourism industry but what’s even wilder is he claims he wants to put it out because it’s a “danger to the environment”