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#caturday #catsofmastodon

Gomez is sitting in a new cat chair that let's him be at level with the back of the couch. He normally sits on the thin back rest of the couch and nearly falls off every twenty minutes. This new seat keeps him safe. It keeps him near us as we watch TV.

Fixed a (minor) bug so old I can't even find a version where it worked.

Volewica: Governments looked at the climate crisis – and decided to persecute the activists

volewica.blogspot.com/2024/01/

The ambassador of Great Britain bathed in the Dnipro River along with the people of Kyiv on the Epiphany holiday

After diving into the river, diplomat Martin Harris congratulated Ukrainians on the holiday.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️

A quote from OPPENHEIMER that feels like it might stick: “My husband offered both our futures to stop one fascist bullet from embedding itself in a mudbank. That's the definition of nothing.” —Kitty, on her late husband, who ‘died for nothing’ in the Spanish Civil War

Today I learned that Fantagraphics has published a collection of cartoons and short stories Gagan Wilson published in *The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy* between 1964 and 1981.
Wilson’s short stories are as darkly humorous as his cartoons — and discovering them in the year of public domain Mickey Mouse is surprisingly appropriate.

COVID is rising, and with it the misinformation on COVID.
Inoculate yourself against that misinformation.

This article contains "some steps that consumers can take to identify and prevent health misinformation spread."

theconversation.com/health-mis

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While those of us in the Northeast US are doing #storm prep and worried about outages, seems like a good time to remind you that you should get a #TV #Antenna.

You can get a really good one for around $150 (plus the cost of a handyman to stick it on your roof if, like me, you have a thing with heights):

channelmaster.com/collections/

You can search your address here to find out where to point it:

tvfool.com/index.php?option=co

#Snow #Snowstorm #FreeTV

Blinken: fast-tracks munitions approvals and by-passes congress.

Also Blinken: gives the same spiel in the Middle East about caring about civilians he just paid to drop the bombs on

🙄 #uspol

You know how anti-feminists always say stuff like 'women are even meaner to other women than men are'. I'm always like really? Then why are men doing the vast majority of the assaults / murders on planet earth? Gossiping and talking shit isnt the same as like, killing someone with a hammer.

Ventura County is still tracking COVID-19, new numbers from Friday, January 5, 2024

New deaths: 2
Current hospitalizations: 44 (+4)
Current ICU: 7 (+5)

The number of people in the ICU with COVID-19 is rising. Hospitalizations are more than double what as going on in November of 2023.

Source:
vchca.org/covid-19

#Covid19VenturaCounty #VenturaCounty #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

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