I like when they’re mostly under something but their tail’s flicking around so you know they’re having a silly time.

I’m worried they’re going to provoke someone into shooting up a daycare

2012 sounds right for that, actually. There definitely was one, but I couldn’t have guessed the year. There was just a time when I made a bunch of cupcakes because I kept seeing fun recipes online.

You can probably start with careful exposure therapy. I’m not sure how to do that with germ phobia. I dealt with a fear of spiders by reading about them and looking at pictures until I stopped feeling disgust/anxiety. I then just kind of noted and moved on when I saw one in real life. These days I see a spider and can even move it if it’s in a bad spot without feeling anxious.

Not knowing your triggers, I can’t say if that path would help or make it worse.

https://fherehab.com/learning/germophobia-treatment This could be useful for learning terms so you can look up and find reviews for self help books.

For my social anxiety, I started out getting books from the library about that specific phobia. It took a lot of time to get from there to telling my doctor I was anxious all the time, to medication, and then therapy. I doubt I’ll ever be free of it, but I can do a lot of things now I once couldn’t (small talk with customers? wow!)

It kind of has to be guided by you and the specifics of your phobia, unfortunately. Like, would looking at a picture of a dirty surface for five minutes a day make you anxious? Just a little, or a lot? If a little, try it. If a lot, scale it back further. Hopefully someone with a similar phobia comes around with more relevant advice. Good luck?

I get it but I also like that it’s there as a reminder how up there he is. But I’ve assumed for a while I’ll find out about his death because I’ll reload tumblr and be confronted with a wall of crab rave gifs.

https://www.fox23.com/news/local/kiefer-ok-mentioned-in-epstein-files/article_d8483262-b1fd-4f79-8322-31631887f732.html

When speaking to the police, they said they reached out to the FBI to see if the Bureau could help the dept. in clearing some of the redactions in the filings for them, so they could search records for specific names, but the Bureau was unable to do so.

https://archive.ph/lbL4F

I wish we could offer the victims lifelong protection from retribution if they agree to name names. They deserve to live full, healthy lives and the people who hurt them need to face justice. As it is…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-survivors-list/

When they’ve tried to do anything, nothing comes of it and their lives get worse.

“Most of the individuals, the victims, are very scared to say these names because they could get sued. They’re going to get attacked, and nobody protected them the first time and that was against one person,” Edwards said.

Henderson added, “I think if someone’s interested in prosecuting, they may have something different to say about sharing a list, but they’re not sharing a list for nothing to happen. And that’s the experience that they’ve had for all of these years.”

All their lives, they get treated like a sacrifice for other people to get what they want. They get raped to fulfill the fantasies of the powerful. They get threatened if they ever say anything. Now, the well intentioned keep pushing them to come out with names for the greater good. Are there negotiations behind the scenes to make sure the people who victimized them don’t use their considerable power and lack of interest in abiding to the law (by definition, if someone raped a child, they don’t care about exclusively following the law) to further harm them? And everyone they care about?

I remember when we found a chihuahua’s christmas sweater at a garage sale, and that our cat didn’t mind wearing it. What a patient boy, he was.

I’m not familiar with bluesky feeds. Can someone explain in more detail the purpose of this community? It’s just curiosity, so don’t feel obligated.

I had a cat who lost her mother and she would occasionally try to nurse on my bathrobe.

Yup.

Some other articles on this arrest:

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-leaders-say-us-citizen-was-wrongfully-arrested-by-ice-agents/

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/somali-resident-mayor-frey-to-detail-erroneous-ice-detention/

Regardless of citizenship status, he shouldn’t be put in a chokehold and assaulted for…walking down the street while being non-white? A lot of citizens are living under the illusion that citizenship status protects people from this treatment. It doesn’t, but even if Mubashir was here illegally, he didn’t deserve this. The chokehold could have killed him, and now he has to live knowing that he can’t leave his home without risking being killed by an armed gang.

No, but it’s something I’ve heard other people describe. I don’t know if it’s common, but it doesn’t sound odd.

People at church when I went as a kid would talk about a sense of feeling guided. People talked about feeling “called” to something. I always felt a lot of nothing, but I don’t think most of them were lying about that feeling, even if I suspect a different source than they did.

If there’s one thing Trump knows, it’s fraud

Search on their site shows best of year lists going back to like 2011

https://parade.com/food/cheese-recall-aldi-target-walmart-december2025 This article’s a little more extensive. It’s weird apnews didn’t link to the fda report that briantheebiscuiteer linked to, since that has the actual actionable info people would need.

Cats can be so different at a shelter or even at a foster home than they will be when they get settled. I remember my sister was told the cat she got was “a little playful” like if you made an effort, but twenty minutes after the cat settled in she was flipping her shit over a string toy. Even years later, sick, tired, and elderly, she’d dredge up some energy to bat at a toy.

Are most of them from the same litter, or do you just really love stripey guys?

My first thought was that there was a bright light shining on it for some reason.