I Am Completely Serious

My animals have created a horrible surprise for me.

Some of you post wrong

Did Viz ever re-release FMA with the swapped speech bubbles and inconsistent transliterations fixed?

The wire-and-plastic "greenhouse" shelf I bought for $30 more than a decade ago - which Bu Cat has knocked down repeatedly - has started making noises when something moves near it. The plastic joints are also developing pale discolored lines. But I'm sure it's fine.

Ow

A problem with allowing DMs on a public blogging website is that, when you ban users due to their behavior in private messages, no public record exists of what the problem was. Because most users do not use DMs, it doesn't occur to them that that might have been the issue.

Something I learned today is that I've had the head of Automattic's Trust and Safety department blocked for a while.

Woke up at 4:30 AM convinced something terrible was happening and I had to get up and fix it, as I often do. Came out to the kitchen for a drink of water and discovered that Dupe Cat had opened the trash and removed a moldy hot dog, which he was chewing on in the middle of the floor while Bu watched thoughtfully, trying to decide whether to join in. Just this one time, my instincts were correct. I will never be able to get back to sleep again.

ORVSS has confirmed that the Christian god does not exist in ORV: when the angels need a god, they appoint a human to play the role temporarily and then die. Unclear whether it's always been this way, or Mitra or His Dark Materials or something happened in prehistory.

When Belphegor said "I couldn't undo everything," he meant "The Pope is still in hell."