He has such a cute little face!

But I’ll bet Lucy is loving it on her walks.

The meaning of the Jerusalem cross is to go spread the gospel to all the nations, the 4 corners of the earth represented by the 4 smaller crosses. I fear they are using it as a call to spread their fascism and white supremacy.

I needed to replace my iPad Air. I replaced it with a standard iPad as the current version of iPad Air has A.I. built in. I’m not paying for something I’m opposed to.

I’m so sorry for your loss. I have been greatly enjoying your photos and stories about the cats on Discord. Pig was a special little guy. 💔

We hired cleaners years ago becauseI was working long hours and it was too tiring for me. Now I’m retired and disabled and it’s a necessity.

I’m a boomer and I think it’s a great, considerate idea.

I would want their definition of morality spelled out. Do they consider LGBTQ folks to be immoral? What about poly folks? I’m a squeaky clean cishet married church lady and I would be wary.

or Barnes & Noble, but they only list the paperback. I don’t want to give any money to Bezos if I can avoid it. I prefer to support independent shops. The last time, B&N and Bookshop did finally list it, but it was days after Amazon did.

Welcome back

1.5. My parents may have owned encyclopedias but I did not. I owned boomboxes - still do - but never blasted music from them on my shoulder. They sat on the table as I washed dishes.

Velveteen from Seanan McGuire’s stories

It helps that Cardinals can age out of being allowed to vote for the Pope, and Pope Francis created new cardinals from under-represented parts of the world.

Diwali is very big in my area (south SF bay). It’s so festive, all the lights and the joyful music.

As to why, on the SF bay peninsula, the protests have been miles long lines of protestors down El Camino. They wanted sign ups so they could identify which locations had too few people and which had enough. I will point out to the organizers the problem with this.

Wow. Patel is much too emotional to be in such a position. He needs a timeout and his blankie.