A protean insomniac

Okay, I wanna go over the "Loid meets Donovan" scene and talk about why nothing has happened with that yet in spite of the potential mind-reading powers.

So from this, Donovan is possibly aware that Loid is someone looking for information on him and his stance on a potential war, but he doesn't know why Loid wants this info - the last panel especially indicates that Loid's mind might be running too fast for him to read accurately, since we know Anya has the same problem.

This page doesn't have anything to do with Loid specifically, but does kinda support the mind reading as Donovan is probably annoyed at Damien's thoughts that he should actually care about him getting hit.

So here Loid's thoughts indicate that he's most likely someone opposed to war, but he's also somewhat agreeing with Donovan internally while verbally seeming to agree completely to suck up to him.

But then

He verbally and internally refutes Donovan's philosophy while reaching out to Damien, instead of just fully pretending to agree with everything the man says to gain his trust.

And yes he does think "I am a spy", but he doesn't state who he's working for or to what end - for all Donovan knows he could be from a political rival or another party. Nothing to indicate that he's Twilight.

...And he goes back to sucking up to Donovan, but continues praising Damien after his own father dismissed him.

I think it's this contradiction - that although Loid is a spy wanting information on Donovan and it would have been in the best interest of the mission to just pretend to agree with him on everything to try and get closer, he instead chose to counter his argument and stand up for Damien - that Donovan found interesting.

I'm sure Donovan has to deal with lots of spying and false sycophants and fake politicians whenever he's out now so he's probably used to that. But one who sticks up for a kid that is basically a "stranger" to both of them where others would have blindly agreed in spite of the fact that it might hamper his mission...now that's new. And interesting.

TL;DR: Donovan hasn't interfered with Loid because 1. he doesn't know who he actually is or what he's after yet, but also 2. his actions in sticking up for Damien even though there was no personal gain and it might have even been a detriment to him.

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Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

I don't want Elon Musk to kill himself because that would get him some sympathy from liberals and "oh so you don't care about mentally ill people?" would become a common line. Ideally I'd like him to be assassinated Luigi-style, but again that runs the risk of him becoming a martyr. No, the best way for him to die is in a stupid accident of his own creation, which I'm frankly shocked hasn't happened yet. Y'know like Tesla malfunction, falls over the non-OSHA-certified guard rails in his own factory, SpaceX explosion, crushed to death trying to fuck one of his ugly robots, ect.

Here's your good news post for the day.

Imagine $TSLA at $120 and Elon is insolvent.

Elon's wealth is a symbol of a rigged system. His wealth is a mirage built on leverage and margin.

He wields the mirage of wealth to cripple social safety nets and stop investigations into his criminal and fraudulent companies.

Again, his stock could be worth $120 per share and he would be broke. C'mon $100!!

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Moroccan architecture (specifically, amazigh from Chefchaouen)

Post-colonial Algerian architecture (Algiers and Constantine):

Mozabite architecture (from Ghardaia, Algeria):

I just looked through OP's blog and every single poll is a popular m/f ship vs. reylo (with similar results). I don't understand.

There was an actual bracket, but reylo got obliterated in round one, and after the poll was done, someone suggested it would be funny to do a "bonus round" where every tournament contestant is pitted against reylo to see how many ships, if any, reylo can beat

I hope it's none.

It is beating exactly one of them.

NOTHING could have prepared me for that

Bashful Smeemy

They're also gutting the Post Office, National Parks, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and dozens of other services people rely on.

Notably, these are also the institutions that, from a capitalist perspective, don't really make money.

Which is why our government shouldn't be run like a business. I shouldn't have justify the expense of making sure people can read, because the value of that is self-evident as soon as you stop trying to view a dollar value attached to it. I don't care that having trees doesn't make a profit, because that's not what they're for.

I believe in gentle parenting. Unfortunately many people refuse to parent their child at all under the guise of gentle parenting. Sometimes you’ve got to look your fourth grader in the eye and say “Little dude, that was an asshole move.”

the other side

Both equally important feedback to give children.

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Btw I'm at the vet now to be taken the medical checkup......give me some food......

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I have no problem!

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Explore - Hsin-i Kuo , 2021.

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Watercolour , 28 x 38 cm.