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RickiTarr, 13 days ago to random

Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

johnglass, 2 months ago to random

Ga. Senate passes bill banning American Library Association

https://www.advocate.com/politics/georgia-senate-ala

theropologist, 3 months ago to random

The most effective propaganda perpetrated by the right over the past 40 years has been creating a world so mind-numbingly shitty that even progressives can't imagine a brighter future anymore

christymarx, 9 months ago to random

The flowers on the hens&chicks succulents look like an alien lifeform.

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

Okay, I'm thinking about gift giving today. A little backstory about why:

Every year my Father-in-law attempts to get my Mother-in-law a gift. She is a bit of a shopper, and is notoriously difficult to shop for. Every year he gets her something he guesses a woman would like (perfume, sweater, jewelry), and every year she doesn't really like it, and ends up begrudgingly using it or returns it. They have been married over 30 years, and seem to have a pretty good marriage otherwise. It's like she wants him to magically understand what she wants, and he is sort of equally bad at the whole thing too. I will never understand why they don't just have a conversation about this. Just for extra fun, she is the most bizarre gift giver, also, to the point that it has become an annual tradition that I show my friends what she got us. A small list of things we have gotten:

A couch cover with grapes on it
A sexy nightgown
A painting of the house they live in
A gourd painted to look like a cat eating a bird
A package of tea that I would have absolutely loved, stuffed with cheap tea bags
Children's Lego sets
Toy trains
Underwear that didn't fit either of us
A wooden board covered in seashells that is supposed to hold a curling iron
A waterproof bed cover

I could go on and on. Just to clarify this doesn't bother me or my husband at all, we actually get a kick out of the weirdness. I don't personally care about presents much, I'm more of an experiences person.

SO, if you've managed to get this far, how do you feel about gift giving/getting? Feel free to elaborate and give examples!

christymarx, 4 months ago to politics

#MarxToot #politics

christymarx, 1 month ago to animals

Ozzy the Monorail Moggy.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #Ozzy

christymarx, 4 months ago to animals

Dapper Kelly demonstrates the Art of the Yawn.

Pretty fang-tastic.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #KellyCat

Kelly, a brown and black tabby, lounges on the top of a printer with his front paws crossed and starts to yawn.
Kelly, a brown and black tabby, lounges on the top of a printer with his front paws crossed in mid-yawn displaying impressive fangs.
Kelly, a brown and black tabby, lounges on the top of a printer with his front paws crossed with mouth widely open in a full yawn displaying a full set of teeth and fangs.

christymarx, 5 months ago to animals

Ozzy in motion, all green eyes and coral nose.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde

christymarx, 3 months ago to LGBTQ

"Deadline: Feb. 23. Issue: Apr. 15. We'd like to hear about forthcoming adult and children's books with strong LGBTQ themes. Please be sure your pitch indicates why the book and author are appropriate for this feature. Pub dates: mid-April through mid-October. Visit publishersweekly.com/lgbtqspring24 to submit your titles. "

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewDuhrcxGleBvnYp3XOAyHBx1HF9-dRqnTHenVC5GrxLRSeg/viewform

#MarxToot #LGBTQ #publishing

christymarx, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to animals

Ozzy needs to get started on his exercise regimen. He’s nearly 20 lbs, in spite of the diet food. Don’t think he can reach the pedals, though.

The only exercise he gets is when Tuxita chases his giant fluffy ass from one end of the house to the other.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde

christymarx, 2 months ago to random

Giving a friend's book a boost. Gay love + beyond death fantasy.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210060340-heaven-can-t-wait

#MarxToot

christymarx, 1 month ago to animals

Poor Kelly. We had a couple of men servicing the HVAC, which meant they were talking in the hallway outside my closed office door. Even though Kelly was safely inside my office, the sound of the mens’ voices was enough to scare him. He hid amongst the office supplies on the highest shelf in my room and wouldn’t come down until well after they left.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #KellyCat

Close on Kelly’s face, a black and brown tabby with pale green eyes, as he hides and looks down from a high shelf, with a large, yellow padded envelope covering the rest of him.

christymarx, 1 month ago to photography

The big raven continues to come around at random intervals. The smaller raven has never worked up the nerve to come down from the neighbor’s roof. The big raven has become comfortable enough that today she sat on the rock fountain to eat a few peanuts before grabbing one and taking off with it.

Days earlier, I tried getting photos of the raven, but she was hyper aware of me and I wasn’t able to get much.

#MarxToot #photography

Raven with wings folded forward in flight and talons hanging down approaching a rock fountain with a peanut waiting for it on the rocks.

christymarx, 3 months ago to animals

Boosting a friends gofundme for her cat's surgery.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

#MarxToot #CatsOfMastodon

christymarx, 3 months ago to animals

Kelly was casually making one-pawed biscuits.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #MoggyHorde

Kelly is a brown and black tabby perched on top of printer (with a black over). His right front leg and paw hang all the way down and he’s opening and closing his paw in the motion known as “making biscuits”.

christymarx, 2 months ago to animals

Kelly has playtime in the sun.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #KellyCat

Kelly, a black and brown tabby, lies on his side in a pale hardwood floor, lit by striped sunlight. He plays with a green and blue toy on the end of a string.
Kelly, a black and brown tabby, lies on his side in a pale hardwood floor, lit by striped sunlight. He plays with a green and blue toy on the end of a string.

christymarx, 3 months ago to animals

We continue to feed the fluffy orange tabby. I started out calling him Mr. Peaches because he reminded me of a big fluffy peach, but Randy always calls him Orange Boy. Orange Boy became shortened to OB, and that evolved into Obi, as in Obi-Wan.

Out of room. Read the rest at the Moggyblog: https://www.facebook.com/MarxMoggyBlog/posts/pfbid0D3VJY3x3oc1xTzT15K6ehQhYm4jJpHa5JTvMYxrKDZ8ChyxmjfFYvuunxdarJ7s6l

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde

christymarx, 29 days ago to animals

The face Ozzy gives me when I turn the blender to full speed.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #Ozzy

christymarx, 22 days ago to photography

Looking up the trunk of a lovely sequoia tree growing right outside the corner of our property. It’s only a baby, but it already towers high.

#MarxToot #photography #sequoia

christymarx, 22 days ago to photography

A Grosbeak being his pretty self.

#MarxToot #photography #Grosbeak

A Grosbeak with a short, thick beak, a black head, bright orange neck and chest, with black and white wings sits on a tray of seeds attached to a bird feeder pole. Above the Grosbeak is a ceramic bowl of water. To the left is a caged birdfeeder with a pale brown Goldfinch eating at the feeder.

christymarx, 21 days ago to animals

Kelly practicing his balancing skills on the scratching post.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #KellyCat

Kelly, a black and brown tabby with pale green eyes, stands perched on the top of a tall scratching post. His ears are cocked slightly sideways as he looks at the camera with a quizzical expression.

christymarx, 1 month ago to animals

Tuxita – Beware the Crazy Eyes!

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggyHorde #Tuxita

A closer view of the previous picture. Tuxita is a black and white tuxedo cat with green eyes. She’s clinging to the arm of a brown leather sofa, caught in mid-play, and has a crazy look in her eyes.
An even closer look at Tuxita’s crazed green eyes.

christymarx, 2 months ago to random

One night, I woke to the sound of a cat making the “I’m about to go into battle” yowl, followed by the sounds of a brief cat fight.

We looked at Obi (the orange tabby stray) as carefully as we could when he showed up the next morning, but if he was in a fight, there was no sign of it.

Today, he let me pet him the entire time he was eating the gooshy food, and even let me pet him a couple of times after he was done and looking up at me. Baby steps of progress.

#MoggyHorde