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Carol Mitchell
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pet-rescue driver, retired primary care doc
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Noel Coward (notably not an introvert 🙂) described this perfectly long ago:
Screenshot of a Noel Coward quote: "I love travelling, but I'm always too late or too early. I arrive in Japan when the cherry blossoms have fallen. I get to China too early for the next revolution. I reach Canada when the maple leaves have gone. People are always telling me about something I haven't seen. I find it very pleasant."
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Are any of your kitty residents fond of / allowed to have catnip-filled toys? Starting a new batch of these for my local cat-rescue group and would be happy to put some aside for your Herd House babies if they would like them.
🐙🐟
photo of 3 crocheted cat-toys: an octopus made with pink yarn with multicolor specks, and two smaller fish, one made of the pink yarn and one made of orange yarn with white stripes
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Screenshot: Groucho Marx as Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding stands next to Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Rittenhouse in "Animal Crackers" as he tells her that in Alabama...
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Also - tacky game show host is using tacky game show font on everything. Not HIS game show, true - the United States of America is now a Chuck Barris production. 😔
screenshot of the title screen of "The Newlywed Game," with its overly-elaborate whirly-swirly font
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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My calendar arrived safely in the mail today and it's beautiful!!!
❤️🐶🐶🐶🐱❤️
Photograph of the front of the 2026 Bunsen, Beaker, and Bernoulli calendar, with the subtitle "Science, Empathy, and Cuteness." It features a lovely photo of the two Bernese Mountain Dogs and one Golden Retriever sitting side by side in a beautiful mountainous setting, all looking very happy. A photo of Ginger the cat's head and neck is cut in to the larger photo at an angle off to the side - it looks like she is peeking around from inside a picture frame to get herself into the picture. There is also a cute sticker with a cartoon-style drawing of the three dogs plus Ginger, all in science lab attire.
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Be sure to note the "GAME WARDEN" cosplay on their uniforms - screenshot from the same article. In another image their truck has "Wildlife Resources" on the door panel. Call me skeptical of "game wardens" having legit duties carrying out a chase in Frayser.
Uniformed men standing around after a multivehicle crash caused by a pursuit - "GAME WARDEN" is clearly visible on the backs of their uniforms.
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Lovely - just needs the wonderful voice of Danny Kaye. (and some marigolds)🥰
Screenshot from the film "Hans Christian Andersen" showing Danny Kaye and young friend leaning in close to a clump of yellow marigolds as he sings the song "Inchworm."
September 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I found at least 4 different arrangements since he moved in, & if I looked harder there may be more - can you imagine he's spending time pacing in front of the mantel yelling "More urns. Did you hear me - I said MORE URNS!" Insane.
Screenshot of a Getty Images photo of the Oval Office Feb 4, 2025 cropped to show 9 assorted gold items lined up on the fireplace mantel, tallest on the outer edges and shortest in the center. The following 3 screenshots show how the objects have been repeatedly shuffled / replaced since then. In their proper places they are all valued, beautiful objects with histories of their own - but now they are just being treated as knick-knacks. Shameful. Screenshot of a Getty Images photo of the Oval Office Feb 28, 2025, cropped to show that there are now 7 gold knick-knacks on the mantel, with the tallest in the center and shortest at the ends. Screenshot of an official White House photo of the Oval Office on July 9, 2025, cropped to show that there are now 9 gold knick-knacks on the mantel, with the center item now being a hefty gold base supporting a clock with a dark figurine sitting on it. The two matching end knick-knacks are smaller and lighter overall than the rest. Screenshot of an AP photo of the Oval Office on August 18, 2025, cropped to show that there are still a total of 9 objects on the mantel but the weird clock is gone and there are more urns. The center item is the tallest but overall there is much less height difference across the top-line of the knick-knacks.
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Agree - and for another use, I drive 🐾rescue relay-transports, and FB groups are key to hooking up transport coordinators with drivers and the multi-state routes where we are needed. That's just not reproducible at scale elsewhere at present. Reilly says "Please don't boycott me!"
An orange kitten with white paws and green eyes, wearing a paw-print collar with attached bell, rests in a hard-sided travel kennel with pellet litter in a box in the front and soft blankets and a plush toy in the back. He looks out past the camera with a mixture of concern and hope.
August 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Can we hope for poisoned figs?
Screenshot from "I, Claudius" with Livia, played by Sian Phillips, embracing Augustus, played by Brian Blessed. He leans in to her shoulder for comfort as she looks off into the distance with a cold, calculating, malevolent gaze.
August 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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just the very comfortable-looking chair left now - but it can't be shipped to a gift address 😟
screenshot of text from Amazon order page: We're sorry. This item can't be shipped to a Wish List or gift registry address.
July 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Yes and it's charming how the WaPo buried that fact way down towards the end...
screenshot from the article: Del Monte Pacific Ltd., which acquired Del Monte Foods in 2014, had also taken out loans to finance that purchase, adding to its debt burden. A rise in interest rates caused its cash interest expense to nearly double — from $66 million in 2020 to $125 million in 2025 — putting enormous pressure on its cash flow.
July 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Here's my recent transport-relay rescue pup Stella - so happy and confident in spite of her past hard times, and
how
Is
she
real????? 🥲
A small, adult, caramel and cream colored Yorkie? - Havanese? - Benji - mix shaggy (but well-groomed) dog is sitting up on a turquoise blanket inside a wire travel crate in the back of a vehicle. She is wearing a purple harness with a pink collar and a pink leash. She has a cheerful expression and appears to have a merry disposition as she looks out at her drivers, with bright button-eyes, an adorably boop-able black nose, and a big smile showing her little pink tongue.
June 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Gotta be Flubber - others have posted already, but I don't see one with a pic from the inimitable Fred MacMurray "The Absent-Minded Professor" original. 😃
Screenshot from the classic 1961 B&W movie "The Absent-Minded Professor" - Fred MacMurray as Professor Brainard and his shaggy dog Charlie "drive" through the night sky in the professor's Flubber-powered Model T. In this close-up view from in front of the car, Profressor Brainard leans over the steering wheel with an expression of intense exhilaration while Charlie, ears flying in the breeze, appears to be enjoying the ride.
May 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Lipton's reply to criticism of the word "potentially" is even more maddening. I guess if DJT doesn't call him up and say "Hey Eric here's my explicit quid pro quo, write this down!" then it's all fine and dandy. And that dismissive "what social media wants" - totally missing the point.
Post by Eric Lipton NYT May 12, 2025 at 8:02 am, responding to criticism of using the word "potentially" about DJT's corruption: Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Forever haunted by the the dates on the gravestone of the healthy-until-he-wasn't older brother my mom never knew. Three days before his 11th birthday - had they planned a party? Bought presents? My grandmother would have welcomed a vaccine.
Screenshot from Find-A-Grave Photo: Gravestone of Wallace Orr Hall, son of F. K. & Jane Hall Text: Birth 12 Aug 1910 Death 9 Aug 1921 (aged 10) Burial Glenwood Cemeter, Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi, USA
May 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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You'd no doubt have yelled at Sam Gamgee for thinking of Rosie Cotton for a moment on the final trek to Mount Doom - maybe just maybe we all need a spark of joy to lighten our hearts, remind us of the good not yet lost from the world, AND inspire us to keep going. Also Snickers says fuck off.
Photo: an adult tortie-point Siamese cat is enjoying a beautiful afternoon in dappled sunshine on a brick step in a courtyard. Her head is twisted sideways to give the underside of her upraised left rear paw a thorough cleaning with her pink tongue.
April 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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They're actually valuable parts of the White House collection - they'd be lovely displayed in their rightful places but DJT destroys beauty as usual. I'm imagining distressed curators cringing being asked to move them there & line them up together like that.
Screenshot of a paragraph from Washington Post article 3/18/2025, "The Growing Legend of the Missing Oval Office Ivy": No, the gold vessels are not golf trophies. They’re artifacts from the White House’s own collection. The central gilded bronze basket, called a compotier, was made in France around 1815 and gifted to the Nixon administration in 1973. To its left and right are a pair of urns from the Monroe Plateau, a set of gilded tableware acquired by President James Monroe in 1817, shortly after the British burned the White House. The outer two sets are from a collection acquired during the Eisenhower administration that are usually displayed in the Vermeil Room, which is named after its contents. (Vermeil is gilded silver.)
April 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Those are actually from the White House collection - picturing some really stressed curators trying to meet impossible demands the best they can. "But these will just look tacky on that mantel - they are beautiful & belong where they were!" "We don't care. Boss wants it. Do it."
Screenshot of a paragraph from Washington Post article 3/18/2025, "The Growing Legend of the Missing Oval Office Ivy": No, the gold vessels are not golf trophies. They’re artifacts from the White House’s own collection. The central gilded bronze basket, called a compotier, was made in France around 1815 and gifted to the Nixon administration in 1973. To its left and right are a pair of urns from the Monroe Plateau, a set of gilded tableware acquired by President James Monroe in 1817, shortly after the British burned the White House. The outer two sets are from a collection acquired during the Eisenhower administration that are usually displayed in the Vermeil Room, which is named after its contents. (Vermeil is gilded silver.)
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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My camellia (40 yr-old cutting from a 90 yr-old parent) was blasted w/ single-digit temps + snow in Feb just as the buds were plumping up. It's now covered in blooms, & I love the many brave, bruised, battered survivors as much as the one perfect bloom. Camellia's just out there giving me hope.
Photo: A ruby-red Camellia japonica bloom sits among dark green leaves. It looks battered, droopy, and freeze-burned due to severe weather that hit as the bud was plumping up - but it survived and opened. If a flower can be said to look proud of surviving adversity, this one looks proud. "Nevertheless, she persisted." Photo: The one undamaged ruby-red flower on a 10 foot-tall, 40 year-old Camellia japonica sits among dark green leaves. Other blooms with varying degrees of freeze damage are bravely open in the background. The bloom sits quietly and modestly in a sheltered spot and is not trying to show off to her battered cousins. They are all in this together.
March 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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image from "The Philadelphia Story: Katherine Hepburn as Tracy Lord is in the Lord estate's swimming pool, holding the miniature copy of "the True Love" sailboat at the point where she says "My, she was yar."
February 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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He's going to destroy entire effin' ecosystems but Graham the forestry technician thought he would boost the economy and close the border so here we are... www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
(Can we breed lampreys with a specific taste for orange bronzer?)
Screenshot of text from the linked article: Peters feels betrayed by politicians he helped put in office. He voted for Trump in November, impressed by his vows to bolster the economy and slow immigration across the southern border. “If I had known that this was going to happen,” he said, “I wouldn't have voted for him.”
February 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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And of course...
Screenshot of text from the linked article: Peters feels betrayed by politicians he helped put in office. He voted for Trump in November, impressed by his vows to bolster the economy and slow immigration across the southern border. “If I had known that this was going to happen,” he said, “I wouldn't have voted for him.”
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Serious response: I hate what ICE is doing. I also hate what the owner of this 🌮🚛 has been doing to workers for a very long time. Exploited & abused, now carted off who-knows-where - those poor men. Screenshot from reddit & I think you can see this news link without a paywall: tinyurl.com/db4yyk7t
October 16, 2022 reddit post by Hotasbutterscotch: Incoming rant. So this absolute monstrosity of a person was not only a taco stand owner, BUT ALSO A LEADING PASTOR FOR NEW DIRECTION. He was supposed to be a religious leader. He shamelessly and successfully tried luring taqueros from Mexico City without proper authorization “but safely” (aka he had the plug to bring them in illegally). And then: he would hold their undocumented status over their head. It wasn’t legal action as in “going to the police bc they stole a soda can”. No. The real threat was being turned in to ICE which has some of the worst police brutality- happy individuals. All the while boasting on buying his kids 50-60k dollar cars in king cash. Hope he roasts in hell.
February 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Driving rescue transports 🐶🥰
An adult black Lab-mix dog with a frosted muzzle, wearing a black harness and blue slip lead, stretches her head out the open back window of an SUV to give kisses to her next driver, who is standing right outside the window and lovingly cradling the dog's chin in her hands.
February 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM