ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα...

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

So I posted to my followers that I’d lower the threshold to 700,000 because I love you all and I’m starting to worry about a handful of you.

Look at that chart. He entered the governor's office in 2019.

California is the world's fourth largest economy, all by itself. The governor of California is one of the most powerful people in the country, and thanks to that, a general leftist and liberal history, and particularities of US environmental regulation, California also has more regulatory power than any other state in the country.

Not only do executive orders in a state the size of California actually hold potentially massive power, but also, Gavin Newsom has enjoyed a Democratic majority in both houses of the California legislature, and for part of the pandemic iirc a Democratic supermajority.

Gavin Newsom could have genuinely, stopped this trajectory at any point, especially during the pandemic.

But he hates poor people and homeless people and Latine people and undocumented people way too much for that!!!!!

He's pretending he's powerless in the face of California's homelessness crisis, like half of it isn't literally his fault.

Also he came and spoke at my college campus in 2018, when he was running, and in response to student questions about tuition, he basically said he didn't care that we couldn't afford tuition to our faces, he had no real plans to do anything about it, and then ignored all our questions about tuition and the affordability and homelessness crisis, and pivoted every answer to gun control for the next 40 minutes.

(Fun fact: my university has a Homeless Student Union. Iirc in 2018 it had about 200-300 members. At an incredibly prestigious university that, as a UC, Gavin Newsom is also in charge of. The homelessness crisis has only gotten worse since then, especially in CA. Much of San Francisco's good reputation as a tech capital is dependent on massive, city-wide police sweeps to round up every homeless person they can find and arrest them or dump them outside city limits before major tech conferences or big national events.)

The fact that radical leftist activists and anti-homelessness activists are basically the only ones I've seen correctly blame Newsom for his massive role in causing and perpetuating the brutal and literally deadly homelessness crisis that's been killing Californians for years.

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

Credit to @perfectlyvalid49

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

quotes taken from the source

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok

éowyn pretended to be dernhelm, a man. to fit in, she must have worn men’s armor. so the armor in the illustrations is normal for rohirrim.

therefore, all the rohirrim rode to war just like that:

male or female

hero or villain

sea or land

even in the snow

“I am definitely an ass man. It blows my mind. Talk about simple shapes. Two very simplistic curves. It’s so dumb, but they are fascinating as hell. It’s more than that. It’s the way the rest of the anatomy ties into that area — incredible beauty”

From there we were able to ask him the right questions and he’s on a diet that’s helping a lot and he’s got the right doctor referrals but it killed me to not know how to help him for so long.

Now we have a chart with descriptions on it so he can explain what he’s feeling and where.