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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 1h

You would need 150 tennis balls because he doesn't bring them back.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 1h

Um. Did he really post AI that he "literally" shit on Americans?

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3h

Ben and I had to do a billion things to get him ready for his trip next week but I wore my No Kings No Bootlickers hoodie, then came home and marched my neighborhood in my bee suit. I might do that every week, but with different signs.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 6h

Rufus says thank you for the birthday wishes and donations to A Little Extra.
He wants you to know that he hates this birthday crown/hat thing. He thinks it is a stuffie and wants it in his mouth. It now belongs to me and Waffles because we love hats and costumes.

A picture of a kind of sad looking golden retriever wearing a soft fabric golden birthday crown with multicolor pom-poms. He would like to swipe it off his head and play with it.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 15h

Happy 6th Birthday to our own personal Red Tornado-Rufus! If you'd like to celebrate with us he suggests: Walkies, throw tennis ball 150 times, play keep away with a stuffie, and make a $6 donation to A Little Extra. alittleextrafund.org

A birthday card for Rufus, a red golden retriever. The card says Happy 6th Birthday Rufus Russo Rojas, there are two pictures of him, one sitting on the bed with his mouth open and tongue out and his eyes half closed in bliss, and the other, a close up of his nose, sleeping off his second to last heartworm treatment on the floor of the animal hospital. Rufus was adopted from the municipal shelter here in VA with kennel cough and heartworm disease and it was easy for us to treat because of my employment at the animal hospital and the Golden Ratio Foundation. But not everyone is that lucky to have a vet discount and friends who subsidize treatment!

A Little Extra Foundation exists to help pets and their people pay for animal health care, as well as people mutual aid (so pets and people can stay together.)

100 $6 donations would help cover the cost of several low-cost spay neuters or vaccine clinics, diagnostic testing for 2 sick pets, a portion of the cost of emergency surgery, or an infected tooth removal, or the "walk in the door and get looked at / triaged" for an emergency trip to the pet ER.

Donations over $66 get a pet poem, donations over $96 get a very very poorly drawn pet and you know how poorly I draw those pets. Just email me a picture/name of your pet: alittleextrafun@gmail.com for poems and pics or post on bluesky and tag me so I see it!

Thanks. Rufus appreciates whatever you want to do to celebrate him!

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 6h

She wants some pink star underpants now!

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 7h

No fucking kings. No fucking bootlickers.

A photograph of a person wearing a bumblebee mascot costume (it is yellow and black, fuzzy with a big fat head) holding a little poster saying "No Kings No Bootlickers, 250 Years"

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 12h

No Kings graphic, red bleeding crown with text above NO KINGS
and text below
NO BOOTLICKERS
250 YEARS

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 14h

That is Clown Shoes' best friend (besides me)

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 15h

He also says "NO KINGS RALLY" for real.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 15h

Happy 6th Birthday to our own personal Red Tornado-Rufus! If you'd like to celebrate with us he suggests: Walkies, throw tennis ball 150 times, play keep away with a stuffie, and make a $6 donation to A Little Extra. alittleextrafund.org

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 18h

If it was maybe even $35 or $40 I would probably buy it but $75 is to much

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 1d

I am already in my jammies.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 1d

I am absolutely not buying this, nor am I encouraging anyone to spend $75 on a cupcake pan but how cute is this? www.williams-sonoma.com/products/le-...

a cupcake pan from Williams-Sonoma that makes tiny little cakes that look like le creuset dutch ovens. there are two pans, a bottom for the dutch oven base and a second pan for the lid. There are a few little red velvet (maybe?) cakelets in front of the pans that look like are maybe filled with cream, like a whoopie pie.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen Laddie Marmalade lately? I think he now has the biggest whisker array in the household.

A picture of a goofy orange cat with amber eyes, a red and green christmas collar and a tag that says "indoor cat-if I'm outside I'm lost" he has super long whiskers that are white, and a very pink nose. He's laying on a blue coverlet and he's waiting for the braincell for the day. But it might not come until tomorrow.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 2d

If it helps, my new hire has a PhD in Salamanders. Literally.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 2d

"Unfortunately, it is probably a combination of climate change and a fungal pathogen, which has been decimating amphibian populations, worldwide known as BD. Hypothetically, they should still be in the same area, but those specific populations may have suffered disproportionately."

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 2d

French Fries!

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 2d

OK i have added it to the questions list and will respond when I have an answer!

Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3d

Clown Shoes is in the background, pretending not to be upset that Blueberry got the catnip butterfly first.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3d

Blueberry got a new catnip butterfly today and he loves it

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3d

I actually got a response from the FOIA system saying DEQ staff could respond to my request, because it wasn't anything secret, but they did not. The idea that all information is top secret first is bonkers

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3d

The amphibian! Not to be confused with skinks and/or newts.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I have a fun FOIA story-I asked DEQ for the list of people on a legislative work group on the Litter Tax in advance of a meeting and was told I needed to FOIA that info. Got the list from the bill patron who said it was not a FOIA item.

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Jen Cold Claws @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 3d

Ben is home! He went home early when I sent him that video!

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