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I can hardly bear to eat out anymore at just the sickening thought that someone with tattoos would be cooking, preparing or serving the food and taking out all the enjoyment for me. I know it's a personal choice, but why would anyone be proud to show them off like a really ugly piece of art on an ugly or aging body? Beats me. I don’t know what to do about this.
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icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2026-05-13 01:45 pm23 Cat Lady Memes Celebrating Women Who Proudly Prioritize Peace and Cats
Cat lady memes have officially evolved far beyond outdated stereotypes and into something much more aspirational. These days, being a cat lady mostly means protecting your peace, embracing cozy happiness, and surrounding yourself with tiny furry roommates who provide emotional support, mild chaos, and absolutely zero judgment about your life choices.
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2026-05-13 08:00 am20 Scholarly Cats Conducting Important Meowdical Research
The myth that cats are below average intelligence is…just a myth! If you scroll below, you'll see that cats actually have made significant dents in scientific research over the millennia.
The world of scientific research is serious business. There are hypotheses to test, data to analyze, and groundbreaking discoveries waiting to be made. Science never stops. Why do you think your cute kitty is having midnight zoomies at 4 in the morning? They're conducting indelible research while we're lazily sleeping. We love to poke fun that they don't pay the bills, but who's out there getting their paws dirty with real world issues to be solved? These cats aren't just scholarly, they're successful scientists who deserve more praise than we give them. These feline intellectuals have fully dedicated themselves to the pursuit of knowledge. Their contribution to the academic world cannot be ignored!
These kitty conductors are truly the best source of real world news in real time. They're solving equations of difficult arithmetic, differentials, discovering the cure of cat-cer, and a slew of other accomplishments.
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2026-05-13 05:45 am'Her distribution was foretold': Tiny mountain-road kitten named Kismet matches the cartoon cat on a
Kismet's whole story felt like fate stepped in and delivered a kitten.
A tiny kitten showed up alone on a dirt road while this family was driving back from the mountains, and then a second look revealed she somehow matched the cartoon cat on the daughter's sleeve perfectly. That already felt like a sign. Everything about the moment sounded unreal in the best way, like this little kitten had appeared exactly where she was supposed to. She wandered right into their lives and never really looked back.
She definitely had a rough start though. Kizzy was this scraggly little four-month-old kitten weighing only three pounds when they found her. She was tiny, skinny, and clearly having a hard time. It took time before she finally started filling out, gaining weight, and looking healthy again. Little by little she got stronger, more comfortable, and more confident around the house.
Now she sounds completely fearless. Going from a sick kitten found on the side of a dirt road to a healthy six-pound cat fighting the heavyweight boys in the house is a pretty incredible glow-up. Cats always seem to make up for lost time too. One minute they're wrapped in blankets looking tiny and fragile, then suddenly they're sprinting through the house acting like they own everything in sight. Kizzy clearly decided this was her home from the very beginning.
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2026-05-13 04:00 am20 Purrsistent Memes of Cats Interrupting Everything for Pets and Attention
The cat could ignore you all day, then suddenly decide affection is mandatory.
Cats always seem to need attention at the exact worst possible moment. Open a laptop, answer a phone call, try to fold laundry, suddenly there's a cat involved. Loud meowing starts out of nowhere like the cat hasn't been acknowledged in years. Other times it's straight to climbing on keyboards, stepping across important papers, or weaving around people's legs until walking becomes a safety hazard. Full purrsonal space invasion.
The staring is always part of it too. Cats will sit nearby making direct eye contact until somebody finally gives in. Ignore them long enough and the complaints get louder. Tiny furry diva behavior. Meanwhile the cat acts deeply offended that attention was not provided immediately upon request.
Clean laundry attracts cats instantly. Beds become impossible to make because a cat decides the blanket moving around is now a game. The second somebody sits down to relax, suddenly there's a cat climbing onto their chest demanding affection right now.
Once the attention finally happens, the entire attitude changes. Loud purring. Headbutts. Rolling around dramatically for more pets. Cats really act like affection is a required service included with the house. The second cuddle o'clock begins, nothing else matters anymore.
snopes_feed) wrote2026-05-13 11:00 amDid Ted Lieu say 'unreleased Epstein files show Trump raping children'? Don't be fooled
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olivermoss) wrote2026-05-13 04:28 amI am bad at tracking author names
Off Campus is a M/F hockey romance book series, and the TV show based on it just dropped
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abyss_valkyrie) wrote2026-05-13 06:49 am20+ icons of Daphne Bridgerton for round 26 @ tvmovie20in20
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tvmovie20in20 and had quite an interesting time with the iconmaking. Most of the icons wanted to end up blue/purple/pastel so it was fun trying to make them not be, but I do feel like the whole set did end up being in those colours,lol. They are free to take and use. Comments are loved. Preview:
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snowazalea) wrote2026-05-13 05:55 amSoft Questions, from maevedarcy's Dreamwidth memes, Day 12
What is your go to comfort show?
His Man 4
What’s your favorite candle scent?
Bath and Body Works' Belle
Who do you feel most like yourself around?
My husband
What calms you down?
Spending time in nature
What's something upcoming that you’re excited for?
Going to Taos, NM in the fall
Have you ever written or received a love letter?
Yes
Tea, Coffee, or hot cocoa?
Tea
How many pillows do you sleep with?
2
Do you have a comfort book? Which one?
Diamond Fairy Tales, by Jane Carruth. I have had it since I was a child.
Life Notes:
Taking supplements. Getting up every morning, even though I'm so tired. Took two Aleve this morning, and my head is still throbbing. But it's not a good time to take a sick day, and I'm going to be off for a week and a day after Friday. I'm trying to hang on.
I've been working in my writing folder for the past two days, and that might be why I have a headache and feel extra tired. I found a story yesterday that looked promising, and I wrote out how I would finish it. Ignoring my writing feels like I'm betraying an important part of myself, but taking it seriously leads to this extra strain. I'm not sure I have what it takes to really sit down and focus on a story for an hour or two each day. I have 15 minutes here and there that I use for re-acquainting myself with my old stories and taking notes on them.
I'm not sure if I'm skipping my period this month, or if it's coming later. It's a bit of a distraction to keep wondering, expecting it every day. Perimenopause is hard, but at least I'm not experiencing the stuff I experienced a few years ago.
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2026-05-13 03:15 amFriendly stray cat stops couple during their evening walk to demand cuddles, they take him in hopes
When you come across an extremely friendly feline on the street, it's easy to assume they have a family waiting for them back home. How did they get so friendly, otherwise?
With all the hardship stray cats must experience out on the street, you would assume they would grow weary of hoomans they don't know. However, many of us come to learn that some of the most furiendly and loving cats out there often don't have a home, and their trust in us hoomans is simply something they were born with and refuse to let go of, no matter what.
snopes_feed) wrote2026-05-13 10:00 amTrump said acting AG Todd Blanche kept him 'out of jail for years'
fred_mouse) wrote2026-05-13 05:09 pmLife lived in dot points
It's been about three weeks since I've had the oomph to update.
- study: I now have a literal basket of books to read, ahead of giving a presentation in the academic stream at Swancon (coming up at the end of the month, for those planning to attend who haven't got that on their radar)
- study: response to reviewers for ethics got submitted. It has been discovered that the project agreement went missing somewhere in the system, and my primary supervisor followed up from an email from February. (I do not pretend to understand what is going on, but the uni with the primary ethics approval is not the one I'm enrolled at/not the node I'm allocated to, and thus there is Paperwork)
- body: i thought all the healing was done, but there is still some swelling in the right armpit, which is very slightly tender. Also, I keep bruising, so I'm going to throw vitamin C at things, and if that doesn't help I'll go see a doctor.
- health: I still have not got the 'get a cardiology appointment' sorted, because I put the paperworks somewhere sensible the last time I tried (and got lost in the phone transfer).
- body/health: I took today off to get my covid and flu vaccines.
- health: I nearly managed a 30h week last week! I actually feel like I'm making progress!
- body: yet again - injured a 'shoulder' muscle (down the back, near the shoulder blade). Same place as December. Diagnosis is 'probably sprained'. Took ages to be able to sit for half a day, so I did a lot of study from bed.
- oops: Youngest lost a fight with gravity / the barrier / the ice very early Sunday morning and we were called to take them to emergency. There was a very fretful coach asking if we didn't just want an ambulance called; I'm glad we didn't need it. 6am is a dreadful time to be woken by the phone, but all good. Half a dozen staples, mild concussion (lowest diagnosable level, is always concussion if the head hits hard enough to bleed is my new understanding), a week off exercise
- appliances: the washing machine has been broken for ?2 weeks. Solenoid that controls the spinning failed. Part is back ordered. We are relying on the kindness of chaosmanor and of Middlest for getting our washing done.
- swancon: the convention is getting close, we are now at weekly meetings, and it has reached the point where it feels like the wheels are coming off (this does not mean the wheels are coming off, just my ability to perceive the tasks to time ratio has failed).
- scheduling: i apparently had a radiation oncologist appointment this week, but I hadn't been notified well enough to have it in my diary, and the reminder message came through just before 9am the following day, so I called and explained and now I have an appointment in June.
- music: I made it to rehearsal Monday, but I'm not going tonight - I had hoped to, but I'm too tired to drive. This is an improvement on last week, when I was too tired to be safe to drive both Monday and Wednesday.
- medication: the new hormone suppressing medication isn't doing anything I'm noticing, which I'm counting as a win. The first couple of weeks of screaming insomnia (not actually the worst insomnia I've had, but it has been a little while and I'd let the memories fade some) seem to have settled into 'no point trying to sleep before 11pm', except on nights when I literally can't keep my eyes open.
- garden: we have harvested some of the prickly pear (tasty) but it doesn't seem to get loose the way I was informed, so I didn't get as many off and they are getting quite ripe. Next pass I'm going to take a very sharp knife to cut rather than tear (along with a different get of tongs, because the last time the tongs cut the fruit).
- weather: it has turned cold. By which I mean we have had days where the temp doesn't get above 20°C. I have pulled out my slippers. The heavy quilt is out, and i've put my extras back on the bed.
*craft: I had a week and a bit where I made progress on Eldest's quilt. I have 10 incomplete blocks. I pulled out chaosmanor's pillow (although that might have been long enough ago that I've already blogged it) and if i could work out why I'm blocked on doing something, I'd have made progress (sorry hon, it will happen).
sovay) wrote2026-05-12 11:38 pmNe 'z in ket da gorolliñ
The copy of Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld's Duck! Rabbit! (2009) which I sent my godchild for his first solstice was familially referred to for years as Baby's First Wittgenstein. I have no idea what Wittgenstein would have made of this cartoon, but I'm impressed.
I am not sure that I am much more than physically extant at the minute. I am clearing the refrigerator and the countertops. I am absorbing as much sunlight as I sleeplessly can. Yesterday kicked off with a doctor's appointment that was too early in the morning to be as unhelpful as it was and only dropped the bar from there, so this afternoon I made sure to secure a half-dozen donuts from the reliable Lyndell's and eat a jam-filled one as soon as I had finished walking home. The neighborhood smelled like alternating drifts of lilac and mulch. I have had the same headache since the weekend and am hoping it is related to the sexing of the trees. The nine o'clock advent of leafblowers to our block was inhumane.
fred_mouse) wrote2026-05-13 01:29 pmFrom the lost drafts folder: On Gender
(this is dated 2025-10-05; I suspect I had plans to write more or edit it down, but I no longer care)
Today I got to completely baffle another non-binary individual (I'll call them Q). Because I have a simplified explanation for gender that I trot out as a 101 explanation when I'm not in a situation to actually do the proper couple of hours Ally Training spiel.
In this explanation, I get my new ally to think of a graph (in person there is a lot of hand waving around), where across the bottom is how much someone considers them self to be a woman - at the left, 0%, at the right, 100%. And likewise, up the side is male, where at the bottom is 0% and the top 100%. And I said that lots of women might put themselves right at the bottom right. But that say, someone who is a tomboy might still think of themself as 100% woman, but maybe 10% man. And yes, I get that I'm doing some dodgy things about defining femininity here; the person I was talking to is in their late 70s or early 80s, and while they absolutely are an ally, they haven't ever had to think about this.
But my explanation kept being interrupted as Q kept going 'what'? They truly were expecting me to explain using a line, with man on one end and woman on the other. They had a moment of 'are you treating these as independent variables'? And I was yes. yes I am. Because how much 'man' I feel on any given day appears to be completely independent of how much 'woman' I feel on any given day. And yes, actually, I agree that it is more accurately an n-dimensional whatsit (Q is doing a PhD in mathematics, they understand so much more math than I). But this is what works when I only have a little bit of time to explain.
downgoesbrown_feed) wrote2026-05-11 12:28 pmAll 12 Stanley Cup finals matchups left in play, ranked purely on narratives
You know what they say: When it comes to a hockey playoff series, all that matters is what happens on the ice. You wave away the distractions and noise and just focus on the games being played.
That’s what they say, because they are fools. It’s the playoffs. It’s all about the narrative, baby.
OK, I’ll acknowledge the slight possibility that my media background is shining through here, and not everyone cares about pre-built storylines quite as much as I’ve been trained to. But it’s my column, so today we’re doing narratives.
Specifically, we’re looking ahead to the various possible matchups we could see in the final. With the Flyers out, we’re down to 12 possible combinations of teams, and please don’t ask me long it took to figure that math out on my own without asking Dom.
Let’s look ahead to what June could bring, ranked from the least to the most enticing, based purely on the narratives that people like me will beat into the ground.