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Just Sven
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1 year ago

Hmmmm. Being unfamiliar with the transformer thing, I had to guess at today’s thread pic.Regardless, it’s cats. Bah.

Happy day, GN.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago
Reply to  Just Sven

Clearly this cat is more than meets the eye.

Paddy O'Furnijur
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1 year ago

Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!

I’m sure Optimus Kitteh doesn’t like getting kicked when he’s in his soccer ball configuration.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago
Reply to  Mac

probably.

Just Sven
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1 year ago
Reply to  Mac

Heh. They are clever and determined creatures.

Just Sven
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1 year ago

More poets: Czeslaw Milosz

Yet Milosz also warned of the dangers of political writing. In a PEN Congress talk reprinted in the Partisan Review, he stated: “In this century a basic stance of writers … seems to be an acute awareness of suffering inflicted upon human beings by unjust structures of society. … This awareness of suffering makes a writer open to the idea of radical change, whichever of many recipes he chooses … Innumerable millions of human beings were killed in this century in the name of utopia—either progressive or reactionary, and always there were writers who provided convincing justifications for massacre.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

“A Task” by Czeslaw Milosz
In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfill my life
Only if I brought myself to make a public confession
Revealing a sham, my own and of my epoch:
We were permitted to shriek in the tongue of dwarfs
   and demons
But pure and generous words were forbidden
Under so stiff a penalty that whoever dared to
   pronounce one
Considered himself as a lost man.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago
Reply to  Just Sven

Dark stuff. Been watching old Yuri Besminov lately.

Just Sven
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1 year ago
Reply to  dv8

Indeed, but to me it’s an apt description of today’s cancel culture and overall fear of speaking the truth in public places.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago
Reply to  Just Sven

yup

Just Sven
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1 year ago

We have many fewer coons in the last couple of years than previously and that’s a blessing. I rarely see them myself, but the trail camera captures them outfront in the early morning hours. Mostly they poke around the bird bath and then leave.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago

Well….

Woke up this morning

I think I slept a long time.

After The Big Route on Tuesday/Wednesday, I didn’t go to sleep on Wednesday morning. I had some stuff to do, and some Government Lady came by and talked to us about “Aging Services.” Thrilling.

So after my encounter with the Politburo, I couldn’t really relax, although the encounter was far from upsetting, to be honest.

But we watched a few episodes of “Pie in the Sky.” before I could get relaxed enough to sleep.

According to FitBit, I was in bed for almost 11.5 hours and asleep 10.5 hours total.

I feel pretty rested, I guess.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago
Reply to  dv8

I think this will work:

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Just Sven
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1 year ago
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“Aging services.” That’s funny and what happens when you don’t color your hair.

dv8
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dv8
1 year ago
Reply to  Just Sven

yup. I decide not to color my hair anymore and aging services shows up within two days.