There's a few shelters out this way that actuslly adopt ferals out specifically as WORK cats. We have a lot of rural properties/farms/ranches/Etc. that function well as safe homes for these cats. The cat people out here are SUPER connected and I love the kind culture that surrounds it.

Hey mature content creators! Don't forget to inform your followers to turn on their settings so they can view your work!

I really think some of these should be set to 'warn' by default. 😅

Someone reached a Pokeball!

While Scholastic is a publisher their school book fairs sell cheap editions of books from many different childrens publishers. And in underserved communities are often the only way kids get to buy books.

Question! What of people who persist at something dor a very long time but never seem to 'improve' relative to expectations? Are they limited by some natural barrier? Or inhibited by refusal to change their process? Some other third thing?

Sweden blew it. Absolutely damning analysis of pandemic policy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New story up on the patreon! At 15,028 words it's one of my longest pieces and part of the reason I raising my commission pricing. Originally developed under the working title 'Labgrown Lesbians', Stem Cell Gothic is a biopunk tale about family, queerness and purpose. Let me know what you think!