I used to wash the cats’ water dish every day, and as long they ate all their dry food, those dishes would get done too.

The hounds were super messy, so both dishes at both meals.

The wildlife gets new dishes every morning.

I’m sure they all could handle the grime, but they deserve as good as I can give them.

I’d rather the bear than Shoggoths, Elder Things, or possibly a Great Old One!

CalMatters (Click on Votes)

In the assembly, it looks like 8 Republicans voted against and 5 more abstained.

ACLU California Action and the City of Mission Viejo also opposed the legislation. (Click on Supporters and Opponents to read the ACLU’s opinion.)

Depends how engaging that one person is.

That’s why I try to reply to everyone, even if it’s something simple.

Loved this movie, and just saw it in the theatre again last week and had just as much fun with it as ever.

My wife went with and had never seen it, and I asked her if her sisters would let their kids watch a movie like this today? 😆

When they got to the acid pool scene, I just heard her say “oh my god!” and I was like, yep, this and Watership Down where what we watched as 80s kids.

It’s honestly really good! And all Aldi ingredients, so it’s cheap. Was even better when I was working from home, as I could warm it in the toaster oven!

I used to apologize for people needlessly antagonizing them, but they said it didn’t bother them, so now I just roll my eyes people can’t get over it after so long now or just block them. That people just go around purposely doing petty shit like downvoting them in every comment is just a really sad look for those users.

I think those are either a new addition or AI. Mine came empty, likely for the better. Plus those strawberries look very small.

Yeah, I don’t know if it was a bit, a troll, if they were really like that, or whatever, but other than the unorthodox pronouns, there was nothing different about talking to them. Always positive interactions with them. I hated seeing everyone here dogpile on them, as I thought a big upside of this place was supposed to be letting people just be who/what they want to be. Never saw them be rude to anyone, just asked to be called Dragonfucker/rider depending on the time period and to use drag in the place of any pronoun. With some phrasings it sounded odd, so I took it as a creative writing exercise to format my responses in a way the language flowed better. I just thought it was shitty how people couldn’t just ignore them if they didn’t want to humor drag. I don’t know if they took it serious or not, but I’d rather know I’m not being shitty to someone that is either having innocent fun, or may have some severe emotional or mental issues. We’re all real people on the other side of the screen.

I’d trade for matpakke. You guys look to have a lot of ingredients we don’t get here in the US like all kinds of cheeses, pate, that caviar in a tube, different breads, etc. A lot of pics had cucumber in them though. I have yet to find any form of cucumber I enjoy, so skip that and we have a deal.

These are the little containers I have, but my lids are orange.

I have stainless containers with silicone lids. Turkey sandwich with cranberry goat cheese on ciabatta and a side of cheese crackers, and something like a rice krispie treat for a late afternoon snack.

I can’t remember how long I’ve been eating that, but it’s simple and I haven’t grown tired of it. My wife makes it for me, and I make her a nice fancy coffee every morning in exchange.

The thorn is so harmless, and honestly, sxan has been one of my favorite people to converse with here for a long time. I’ve never gotten anything trollish from them at all.

I enjoyed drag as well, though I can understand why drag was much harder for people to cope with. I always found it a fun challenge to try and speak drag-speak, and I always had fun with them otherwise just treating them as though there were nothing out of the ordinary with them. Drag talked to me about things I found interesting, and frankly there are too few regular commenters in general for me to just weed them out for harmless things. Conversation has felt a bit dead the last few weeks, and I’d love to have another quirky weirdo here to talk to most days. Way better than all the political extremists and accelerationists we never seem to fall short of.

I like your style!

It was my last official day at the animal rescue for the year. There is still other stuff I can do, but this was my last day with my regular team. So that was a little sad, but I went with 2 of my friends there to hot pot for lunch afterwards. So I really enjoyed that.

I had a great time feeding the baby mice today, which I do not usually enjoy, but they were so sweet today! It was nice to end the term on a surprise high note.

I did get bit by another squirrel, but not near as bad as last week, so that’s neutral, just part of the game, and it’s rainy and bleh from this noreaster storm, but otherwise a great day and all went as planned!

I volunteer at a wildlife rescue and study music. Both are challenging physically and mentally, and it takes my mind off of other things when I’m doing them.

They give me pride and a sense of satisfaction when I have success, and my coworkers or teacher give me support when I’m having trouble.

Having a strong support structure while doing something that requires my full attention just does something good for me mentally.

Volunteer work I strongly recommend to anyone. I avoided it for years even though I thought it might be fun because even so, why would I want more work?

What I do at the clinic is more challenging and demanding than my real job, but unlike my real job, this is actually something I’m passionate about, everyone I’m there with also wants to be there 100%, and all our effort goes into saving the lives of animals and making our local environment a better place. Every time I go, I can actually see the world becoming a better place then it would otherwise be if all of us weren’t there.

I imagine this would be applicable to most any type of volunteering like helping kids or the elderly, cleaning up neighborhoods, or feeding people, etc. A lot of activities can just serve as distractions, but the intense work makes me physically and mentally feel I actually did something, and every animal that recovers and goes free is a result that is inarguable.

Since so many communities here are run by one or maybe 2 people, maybe adding a message about necros welcome or not welcome could be a thing.

I was coming here to say this exact thing.

We’ve been conditioned for a very long time not not to necro posts. I know for many types of posts, they may be more in the moment type things (jokes, current events, etc) but things like all my animal stuff, that doesn’t change, so I wouldn’t care if someone would comment on an older post. If anything, I know more about the subject now than when I originally posted, but I know that probably isn’t the majority of cases.

Finally, some proper terminology around here… 😉

Superbowl is in the clear then! I just use a background remover and layer a nice scene for our banner.

Does using something like a background remover utility count as AI, or just generative AI?