We’ve had a few fat cats… I’ve never seen something like that on cats (other than abscesses). The only way I could see two bilateral abscesses like that would be from some other cat digging its claws in from behind, but given the time since it has been on the street that doesn’t seem likely. If you can afford it, I’d get it checked out now rather than later.

I think Holtec mostly just makes storage containers for spent fuel. They’re not exactly simple, but orders of magnitude less complex than running a plant.

While a ship, the Lexx was primarily designed as a weapon that could destroy planets, so I’ll go for The Lexx.

Usually one of the Star Trek series; currently DS9.

Not really; only when somebody uses peertube to share a video

I just recently joined Lemmy; never had a redditt account. Have been using Mastodon for quite a few years now; only ever dabbled in twitter. I like that the fedi stuff seems more organic and less manipulated by algorithms, although, that also makes it easy to miss stuff as well. Still getting a feel for Lemmy and discovering interesting communities. My ultimate social platform was Google Reader (still miss my sharebros/gals. My primary social media after the demise of GR was the comment section, BBS, of BoingBoing – we had a mass departure after the publisher did some petty bans (started our own discourse instance)

THIS! I recall somebody doing contract review and having AI summarize the contracts just to see how well they did… The AI left out some really important stuff and also occasionally hallucinated stuff that wasn’t there. Summarizing a contract should be pretty black-n-white – if AI can’t handle that properly, I’m not going to trust its summary of something more complex.

Don’t be Afraid of the Dark (1973) scared the crap out of young me… The little creatures lurking in the dark and dragging them away. My older sister reinforcing the fear with stories/teasing didn’t help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_(1973_film) I’m sure it would be laughable now, but my sister really knew how to push my buttons.

$19 can purchase many donuts today

I’m just happy when I go to a site and all the source for the page is 1st party.

Looks exactly like my Ollie… He’ll be back, but will probably poke my face with his cold wet nose before settling back down between my feet.

When I was in first grade, a second grader had a coconut that was still in the husk… He convinced a lot of us that it was a bat egg. He would put it up to your ear and scratch the other side and tell you that was the baby bat getting ready to hatch.

Whenever there is some viral story about some youtube/ticktock celebrity.

Always love idioms from other languages. Had a book called “Idioms Delight” that explored equivalents from several different cultures/languages.

That used to be my drug of choice

Tulsi (Holy Basil): Has just enough anti-anxiety properties to quiet the inner voice that keeps me up at night.

Sugar is great for when I’m sleepy in the afternoon (good strong black licorice is a good complimentary to that, since it seems to keep my blood sugar from dropping in the first place)

Well, ya; not with that attitude

Blow up the mooooon!!!

Two favorites that I reread several times in my teens/twenties/thirties that I was recently thinking about:

• “Geek Love” by Katherine Dunn

• “At the sign of the naked waiter” by Amy Herrick

Mom told me that dragonflies would sew my mouth shut.
Was afraid of them until I was at least 6 or so…