Bomb Chibis
In ancient Ireland, around the time of the Roman Republic, one demonstrated one's fealty to the King by publicly sucking on the King's tits. Some things, you never expect. It makes sense in a symbolic way, but still doesn't fit with my idea of kingship.
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Interestingly, when thousands of cars got stuck in the blizzard in Virginia, people got pissed off at the government's fecklessness, but everyone made it home. When the same thing happened in Pakistan a few days later, a bunch of them died. I'm tempted to make jokes about American moral superiority, except that several dozen of the Pakistanis seem to have died because they failed to take the basic precaution of clearing the snow from their exhaust pipes, and asphyxiated themselves in a completely preventable manner. So, yeah.
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I have, provisionally, an extra Qat. An entirely black stray, I think a female, showed up last week. I've been supplying her with Qat Füd and water (putting out water several times a day, in fact, as it keeps freezing), and so far she seems inclined to stay, although she's very shy about letting me get close. Hopefully, by the time the weather warms up, she'll have calmed down, and then we'll see if she and Alexandra get along. If so, I'll try to bring her inside.
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* ***** Original posted at https://rain-gryphon.dreamwidth.org/240877.html
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Interestingly, when thousands of cars got stuck in the blizzard in Virginia, people got pissed off at the government's fecklessness, but everyone made it home. When the same thing happened in Pakistan a few days later, a bunch of them died. I'm tempted to make jokes about American moral superiority, except that several dozen of the Pakistanis seem to have died because they failed to take the basic precaution of clearing the snow from their exhaust pipes, and asphyxiated themselves in a completely preventable manner. So, yeah.
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I have, provisionally, an extra Qat. An entirely black stray, I think a female, showed up last week. I've been supplying her with Qat Füd and water (putting out water several times a day, in fact, as it keeps freezing), and so far she seems inclined to stay, although she's very shy about letting me get close. Hopefully, by the time the weather warms up, she'll have calmed down, and then we'll see if she and Alexandra get along. If so, I'll try to bring her inside.
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* ***** Original posted at https://rain-gryphon.dreamwidth.org/240877.html