I took my girls in for a lion shave yesterday (Portia, because she recently had a hairball so large it had to be removed endoscopically, and Puck, to help manage her allergies). And as much as I love them at maximum poof, I also adore them as scrawny plucked chickens! They are impossibly soft and so tiny! Plus, their fur changes colour - their core is mostly white at full growth, but initially comes back in their point colours.

Here’s Puck before, mid-regrowth, and after - truly 90% floof 😂

[Image ID: Three photos of a tortoiseshell Ragdoll cat. In the first, she sits on a windowsill on a spring day, with a full coat of long white hair. In the second, she sleeps in a cardboard box with a short coat of red and brown fur. In the third, she sit on a couch, freshly shaved and staring at the camera with a look of betrayal. /End ID]

Tagging @star-anise in case she needs a pick-me-up and/or a good laugh.

catchymemes:

vague-humanoid:

ALT

Sex Ed Books Don't "Groom" Kids and Teens. They Protect Them.

Authors of sex ed books and the librarians that carry them are being accused of "grooming" kids, but these books can help keep them safe.

BOOK RIOT

piratepolls:

everythingfox:

Box!

(via)

shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey:

nbmudkip:

“how could you have forgotten that” i forget Everything. unless i remember

“how can you remember that” I remember Everything. unless I forget

so-over-ableism:

happy disability pride month everyone! i wish you all supportive families, schools, and doctors, low pain, low symptoms, access to care and accommodations, and a lack of ableist assholes in your life for whatever your disability might be!

msilverstar:

vaspider:

vaspider:

I have never felt so validated in never having given up on Tumblr.

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IT GETS WORSE!

Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸 (@sysop408@sfba.social)

Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this mornin

SFBA.social

“This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed’s been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I’m being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it’s jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon’s latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It’s amateur hour.”

So he artificially limited the number of tweets you can see per day with a “free” account.

Once you hit your limit, it stops you from loading the page. But it also doesn’t know WHY it isn’t loading, so it keeps TRYING.

Twitter is literally hitting itself in the face ten times per second per user.

This is so completely amateurish it’s unbelievable. It’s like putting your car in neutral and slamming your foot on the gas until your engine redlines and then wondering why it’s making a horrible noise and a terrible smell but not going anywhere.

(DDOS means “distributed denial of service” – a bunch of zombie computers hitting a site so hard that it can’t respond. In this case, the zombies are everyone’s computers and cell phones, and Twitter itself! No engineers could have anticipated this, because previous competent management never anticipated doing such a damn stupid thing.)

thehillywoodshow:

ONE MONTH until the “WAIT & SEE” is over.
ONE MONTH until Good Omens Season 2.

- Good Omens Parody

blastovkatamarinecromancy:

abandonedandurbex:

Abandoned intersection near Ottawa. [720 × 404].

The Parliament of Traffic Lights will decide your fate

purr-in-ink:

ds9vgrconfessions:

cornballer:

thetrekkiehasthephonebox:

cosamaru:

queenology:

gloriousunderstanding:

Jeri Ryan RT’d this. We have arrived.

#the magnitude of this RT is something you won’t understand unless you’re a trek fan #particularly a 90s femslashy one #basically this is the first time they’ve reconnected in 14 years #because they had bad blood and their characters were one of the biggest lesbian ships of the 90s #and here jeri ryan is retweeting a picture of her and kate #PRAISE THE LORD #this is kind of the trek gillovny (via gloriousunderstanding)

Kate and Jeri had bad blood?! I had absolutely no idea, is there some way to read more about whatever happened?

Yeah.

Jeri Ryan talks about it without naming names (but it’s clear who) here: http://trekcore.com/blog/2014/11/ryan-mulgrew-feud/

Jeri Ryan and Garret Wang talk about it on a panel here: http://trekcore.com/blog/2015/04/wang-voyager-tensions/

Kat Mulgrew alludes to it a bit here: http://trekmovie.com/2014/08/03/stlv-kate-mulgrew-talks-jeri-ryan-relationship-more-from-voyager-cast-dancing-ferengi/

The book “The Fifth Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” (book 2/2, both definitely worth reading) goes into a lot of detail about this through interviews with both Kate and Jeri.

Basically, Kate felt an enormous amount of pressure as Star Trek’s first female captain lead, and one of the first female leads of a sci-fi action genre show in general.  She says how she felt strongly obligated to set a good example for young girls in the audience.  She also didn’t want the show to falter or fail and have it be attributed to her gender.

So we get a few seasons in and the show isn’t hitting the stride everyone wants it to hit.  The producers decide a shake up is necessary and originally choose Harry Kim to be kicked off the show in favor of a new sexier character.  But then People Magazine selects Garrett Wang as one of their most beautiful people, prompting the producers to instead decide to eliminate Kes (Jennifer Lien) from the show.

Regardless, this opens up a spot for Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine character.  Kate sees this new character and obviously notices how Jeri looks and how they end up dressing her and takes it as a judgement on her ability to carry the show as a woman of dignity and authority.

So all at once, she concludes a) she failed to make the show a success, b) television audiences require women to be presented a sexual way to be found interesting, and c) this new character is going to be taking up time away her and all her fellow actors on screen.  She is not happy.

Meanwhile, Jeri Ryan has been just thrown into all of this.  She’s a professional and is there to do the best job she can, she has no issues with anyone on set.  But Kate is NOT pleased that she’s there.  And while I don’t think they ever fought openly on the set, it was clear to cast and crew that there was an enormous tension there.

In later interviews, Kate has made clear that she’s not proud of how she acted towards Jeri back then because it really wasn’t Jeri’s fault.  And from what I’ve read, Jeri is super gracious and completely sees how Kate felt the way she did, and agrees that it has always been difficult for women in show business.

Basically, their initial friction and eventual friendship is so Star Trek.  Two good people trying to do their best experience conflict but eventually come to understand each other’s points of view.  Makes me feel good.

I’m so glad that they have been able to not hold on to the past. In large part because Jeri could forgive, but importantly Kate was big enough to apologize. It truly takes two people, and it’s far too rare. Look at Shatner and Takei? 57 years they’ve been at it.

demilypyro:

freytful:

demilypyro:

catgirl-smash:

demilypyro:

I know I’ve been over this but man HRT is good stuff. I wanna shake the hand of whoever invented it. It’s a crime that I don’t know who that is actually. They’re more important than Einstein

id also been really curious about the history of hrt so i had some tabs open:

The first hrt treatments were mostly estrogen extracted during pregnancies to be used for menopause symptoms, but the first usage of those medicines for trans women is credited to the world’s first Trans Clinic, opened in pre-WW2 Germany by Magnus Hirschfield, a gay jewish man.

Oh he looks delightful

Thank you grandpa

The comparasion to Einstein was actually made at the time too! He was commonly refered to as “the Einstein of sex”, to which he supposedly once replied that he would rather Einstein be called “the Hirschfeld of physics” lmao

Oh my god

random-chaos-thoughts:

not-your-pussikat:

jaubaius:

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Madam, you are looking very posh in your fancy dress, if I may say so.

Those earrings are a delight, darling and I love what you did with your hair.

greelin:

greelin:

let me dig this bullet out of your shoulder in the most homoerotic way possible. that’s crucial to the healing process. i know what i’m doing

one in your thigh and abdomen as well? say less

border-collie:

Part one of sashing done, each row of kitties gets sashing between them to further separate them out.