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Ray Radlein
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Old. "Atlanta." He/Him.

Cats, SF/Fandom, Women's Soccer, Cats, ME/CFS, Politics, Cats

I Wear a Kitten Now. Kittens Are Cool.
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Three Years Ago Today: D'Artagnan at the vet
An astoundingly floofy NainexCoon tabby cat in a soft-sided cat carrier on a vet exam table.
January 26, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Three Years Ago Today: Bought some Topps throwback baseball
cards and the VERY FIRST CARD in the first pack I opened was my childhood favorite player, Des Plaines' own Ron Santo
A bunch of pack of Topps Archive Baseball 2021 cards spread out on a bed, with a Ron Santo card showing.
January 26, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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Seven Years Ago Today: Two goofballs at the Arlo Guthrie concert
A blond woman and a bearded idiot.
January 26, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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Seven Years Ago Today: Arlo Guthrie in concert
A man with long white hair and a mustache on stage, with a blue 12-string guitar resting on his knee as he sits on a stool with a microphone in front of him.
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Twelve Years Ago Today: Beautiful floofbaby at the vet
A gorgeous fluffy dilute tortie cat curled up in a cat bed in a cage in the lobby of a vet.
January 25, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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Seven Years Ago Today: THE SENIOR CITIZEN HAS DISCOVERED FILTERS

I REPEAT: THE SENIOR CITIZEN HAS DISCOVERED FILTERS

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Was I bored while trying on new glasses frames? YOU make the call
Bearded idiot in a Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series t-shirt and a pair of glasses whose lenses are covered in weird yellow markings that presumably mean something to optometrists. He appears to have deer antlers and ears and nose and a tiny crown of flowers thanks to the magic of cheap-ass phone camera filters. He has an expression of bewildered annoyance on his face like it wasn't his own idea to activate that particular photographic filter.
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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Binys Eight Years Ago Today shot of Mercury and his baby sister Daisy
A grey and white cat stretched out asleep with a smaller dilute tortie kitten stretched out asleep up against him, tummy to tummy.
January 24, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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Eight Years Ago Today: Mercury and his little baby sister Daisy on daddy's lap
A large grey and white cat curled up in a sleeping ball with his head pressed into the tummy of a dilute tortie kitten who is stretched our asleep on the cross-legged lap of a guy in a grey robe.
January 24, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Great thing about having a Mega-eveolved Buddy is that it makes Zoruas stand out like a sore thumb.

YOU'RE IMPERSONATING SOMETHING THAT NEVER OCCURS IN THE WILD, ZORUA
A PokémonGO screenshot showing two Mega-Gyardoses wandering around. Since Mega-evolved Pokémon are never spotted just wandering around, it's REALLY obvious that it's a Zorua, a Pokémon who impersonates whatever Pokémon is your buddy at the moment.
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Four Years Ago Today: Oort and Clementine supervise the railway
A black cat and a tortie sit by the side of an HO-gauge model railroad track on a living room floor.
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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Six Years Ago Today: Beautiful baby at the vet
A gorgeous fuzzy black kitty with a white tummy patch looking up at the camera with huge golden-yellow eyes.
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Ten Years Ago Today: Calliope at the vet
A tortie kitty in a black soft-sided cat carrier on an exam table at the vet.
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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It was (theoretically) doing some kind of recovery on the Mint hard drive partition (here's a photo of it after three days or so). Given that the eventual e2fsck from the Ubuntu partition seemed to pick up almost exactly where the Mint process had progressed to when I gave up on it, maybe it worked?
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Interestingly, the inode count on that e2fsck screenshot there didn't start until the 680k range, which isn't TOO FAR off of where the first numbers in the weeklong bootup were at when I stopped it today.
Screenshot of the bootup attempt in Mint several days ago, with a steady stream of errors and some steadily incrementing numbers which I thought were sectors and tracks or something but MAY have been inodes?
January 22, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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Okay, a week was more than long enough for Mint to do whatever-it-was on its partition, so I shut it down and booted to Ubuntu instead. Since Ubuntu tried to mount the Mint partition, it wouldn't boot at first, but I was able to run e2fsck on it from the command line and then boot it up.
A Linux pre-boot command line running e2fsck on my mangled Mint partition. My old laptop, booted successfully into Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Several Steam game icons are on the desktop.
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Seven Years Ago Today: The Tortie Twins and Mercury help me use the computer
Two large tortie kittens and a large grey and white cat on a lap and on top of a left arm attached to a left hand which is trying to type on a laptop computer keyboard.
January 21, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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Yeah, I think I remember it from Keenspace

(Woot! FTW)
The ad copy for today's Woot! deal category, SharkNinja frozen drink makers, with their tag line of "SharkNinja sounds like the worst Webcomic of 2006."
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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Eight Years Ago Today: Daisy ADORED her big brother Mercury, who adored her too, of course
A gorgeous sleeping dilute tortie kitten holding on to a large sleeping grey and white cat who is laying partially on top of her.
January 20, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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Man, at least when the Batwoman pilot episode had a newspaper headline about the accident that killed Katherine Kane's mother and sister they went to the trouble of writing an article to go with the headline, even if they re-used some article about Global Wrming for the sidebar article
Mock newspaper from the "Batwoman" pilot with a headline article about the automobile accident which killed Batwoman's mother and sister.
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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Going all out for the National Championship and drinking a Hoegaarden.

First beer of the new year for me.
A pint glass with a South Carolina "Block C" logo etched in it, holding a golden straw colored pint of Hoegaarden Belgian White Ale, next to an open laptop.
January 20, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
A Siamese cat in a cat carrier at the vet, making known her opinions.
January 19, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
January 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Four Years Ago Today: D'Artagnan, Faraday, Yuki, Oort, and Muffin volunteer to help Angie eat in bed
Two fuzzy tabby cats with a Siamese kitty winding in front of them and a black cat and a dilute tortie cat all clustering around a woman laylng in bed eating from a small paper bowl.
January 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Four Years Ago Today: Buttercup, Luna, and Gemini on the bed
A chonky tortie kitty laying up against the butt of a large grey and white tabby cat on a bed while a large white superfloof hovers nearby.
January 18, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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NINETEEN Years Ago Today: Mercury on the uneven parallel bars
A grey and white tabby kitten perched precariously on a wooden laundry drying rack.
January 18, 2026 at 5:48 AM