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I feel very tired. Trans visibility day always falls on March 31. Easter happened to fall on March 31. Certain Republican douchevolcanoes decided to pretend to be angered by this and demanded an apology from trans people in a blatant attempt to stir up outrage among their voters. This is offensive in so many ways. Just to mention a few: 1) They are demanding that trans people apologize for existing. They know perfectly well we won't and plan to use our refusal to further outrage their befuddled and frightened voters. 2) Their pretense that it is somehow the responsibility of trans people that a holiday that falls on a different day EVERY YEAR happens to coincide with an unrelated holiday this year. 3) Their use of a holiday meant to honour a man who preached tolerance and acceptance as a tool to further promote hatred and intolerance. 4) Their assumption that their voters are so blisteringly dim-witted so as not to know how calendars work. 5) The possibility that a number of them actually are that dim offends me personally. Sigh.

You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.

I am thinking that an Immortal who marks a person leaves some detectable trace behind, so they effectively have Pandora’s “fingerprints” on them.

Shouldn't those boxes be classifed as Hope Chests?

My grandfather was in the Army Air Force and spent the war in Alaska and the Aleutian islands. As far as he was concerned the weather was as big of an enemy as the Imperial Japanese were.

My dad's job during WWII was aircraft quality control across multiple factories. He was not only exempted from the draft, he was kicked out (and sent back to flying his private plane over the western US and Canada making sure airplane parts from factory A connected properly with parts from factory B ) all four times he enlisted.

Speaking of the defeat parade, apparently the T-34 caught wind of a rumour that it was to be sent to Ukraine after the parade and tried to injure itself to avoid going into the grinder. https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1655946975836262400?cxt=HHwWgMDS2YfAjfstAAAA

Thus causing millions of people to get more exercise by taking the stairs, instead. Brilliant!

Can I believe someone who claims to be an expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Politicians make excellent subjects for beginners’ anatomy classes: they have no brains, no spines, no hearts, no guts, and no balls.

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-035 I am seriously wondering how much of a mess Pandora left her memory, expecting Hope to sort it all out later. Pandora left the keys to her brain under the mat and Hope walked in without getting the realtor or landlord to sign off on preexisting damage.

The sensei thwacking the student scene is a staple of martial arts movies.

Whatever you send the human, make sure the box fits the cat.

I remember one time when we were visiting a friend, a sudden ruckus came from down their hall. Which I was in position to look down. So they asked "What's that noise?" I replied "Your cat is fighting with a box. The more intelligent one is winning." Immediate response: "Oh, poor Misty, is that box beating up on you?"

"The Human kicked this blanket off the bed last night because he was over heating. He didn't put it back on the bed. He can wait until I'm done napping on it to put it back." - Explorer the Cat.

"The Human got a shot yesterday,so he's feeling a bit down this morning. I'll help by being close and purring" - Explorer the Cat.

Latest Ruzzian seige system.

My partner once got six economy-sized bags of cat treats she didn't remember ordering. When challenged on the matter, her cat pretended to complete innocence.

Proof the world is not flat: if it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

The Human seems to be staying here. I'll just sit in his way for a bit, then go get something to eat.

Herein lies the folly of assuming that the arithmetic mean is more descriptive of a population than the median or the mode.

Ruling the whole world is too much stress and responsibility. I just want to dominate the people I meet, not a bunch of strangers I will never see.

You say that, but one broke down during their first parade. They blamed it on driver error, but it took 30+ minutes to get it going again.

I would call Ron DeSantis a pretty good argument for abortion into the 138th trimester.

I still fucking love that when Putin declared that Ukraine was not a country, the Ukrainians responded by withdrawing Volodymyr the Great's charter for the founding of Moscow, revoking its right to exist as a city.

“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”

You don't belong at this desk!

Way back in the day, like 76 or 77 the DM for one of my games was an Episcopal priest, just for what it's worth.

Does the comics authority still censor issues where the characters get stoned?

"I feel frisky and The Human put his foot near me. Must Attack The Foot" - Explorer the Cat.

My dad was in the Army Air Corps in WW II, and he performed a valuable service, but he was not near combat. He was essentially a remote air traffic controller.

Russian tank identification guide for Ukrainian AFV For those that don't get the meta joke the tank labeled as "M1 Abrams" is in fact a Leopard 2. Also for those that don't follow the Ukrainian war daily, Russia has claimed it's destroyed multiple Leopards and has released a video of one being destroyed by a helicopter fired anti tank guided missile. The thermal image is of the tractor in the lower right. Leopard 2 have not been used in combat by Ukraine at this time

"I'm under the desk. Not in the way of anything except maybe your legs. You can scoot around" - Explorer the Cat.

Their treatment of Hong Kong qualifies as a show stopper as well.

It was one of the defining moments of my post military life. To this day I try very hard to avoid buying things made in the PRC. I'm aware that this is harder than it should be.

"The Human seems a bit upset. He doesn't know for sure if I knocked the glasses off the desk or not. He found the lens after only a few minutes crawling around. He needs to keep his glasses in the glasses case when he's not wearing them" - Explorer the Cat.

The problem is that urban warfare is a rather different animal than urban law enforcement. I am very much afraid that the proliferation of automatic weaponry, hand grenades and more modern tactics has made it a bad time to be a horse in a place like Kherson or Bakhmut. This is not even mentioning open land. Horses might still be useful for transport, I admit, but the wise rider will keep his animal away from the front lines. This gives me an amazing mental image of a moon base where astronaut cavalry patrols its environs on spacesuited horses.

I imagine Odin and Athena had quite a play-by-mail chess game going with Nymphs and Valkyries delivering the moves back and forth as well as acting out the game on a giant board.

"Gonna jump up on the desk, get in the way for a few minutes, then get down and eat. Haven't planned much past that." - Explorer the Cat.

One T-34 in the Moscow May 9th parade. Might as well not have any tanks. They have, at last count, 30 functional T-34 (bought from Laos just for parades). No T-14, none of the "modern" APC/IFV. As a victory parade goes, this was close to not having one. https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1655843168225488899?s=46&t=axBHjyvbThecDAhWKWTJNw

"Shouldn't you get dressed before you start using the flashy thing?" - Explorer the Cat.

"Gonna hang out here in the living room in the sunbeam. Then I might get up on The Human or help him on the desk" - Explorer the Cat.