I should say that I'm in the lucky position of...never being a fan. Just didn't do it for me. That doesn't make me special but it's pretty easy for me to go "goodbye forever" to Neil fucking Gaiman.

TBF, if someone commented on the state of the roads to me, I’d actually try to DISCUSS the state of the roads with them, so one can’t win.

I don’t know about that — some “early Twitter” folks were incredibly bitchy, snarky, high-schoolish, in dire need of therapy kinds. I consider them crappies too. Not just the extreme abusive trolls and right wingers. I like grown up, decent behaviour.

Oh, I block freely and copiously. Must have blocked half of Twitter over the last five years :D

Spoke too soon, the crappies are here. :-/

The pinned information on @mommunism’s profile is helpful, and she shares a lot of requests by people that she herself has verified, by video chatting, etc. Gaza Vetters has a list of verified fundraisers as well, as does the Butterfly Effect Project. :)

Anyway this is part of why when people are like "oh no think of what we lost when old twitter got bought" i'm like nah it was toxic af even then a whole bunch of what we "lost" was just we lost is people getting to be wildly toxic from the left instead of nazi from the right

Not just that, it’s also the fact that they inevitably suffer with that sort of life. They get into fights/get attacked by other cats and animals; get killed by dogs/foxes/traffic; pick up diseases from birds and rodents that they hunt; and way too often, they get lost and are never found again.

I’ve had cats my entire life and so did my mom, and some extended family. I think previously the norm was to let cats roam freely, feed them when they (choose to) come home etc. This is still relatively common in parts of the UK (I don’t like it).

Also true. IMO people who want “Persian” cats aren’t true cat lovers, they just like the aesthetics of a long haired cat (esp in India, “Persian” is euphemism for any long haired cat). Here, people do this with Maine Coons — both breeds have distinctive features which these ppl know nothing about.

Very true, and I was talking about this just yesterday. Stray dogs and mongrels aren’t really a thing here — only lost or abandoned ones (and those are quickly rescued and re-homed — the British LOVE dogs). I’d love to adopt a stray mongrel, but no chance of finding one here.