Is that a forehead whisker? Is he unhappy about being a unicorn, or are you just not being prompt enough about food time?

This picture is my life goal. Content, comfortable and safe snoozing. Give winter a gentle pat for me, I wouldn’t want to wake them up.

Apex predator, so majestic

He’s a beautiful little lamp. I love how his shade contrasts his natural coloring. Very fetching.

Sorry buddy, fashion is pain.

Well that’s just precious. And you have great taste in music. Please snuggle her for me and let her know she’s a great cat.

Love it. Thanks for reminding me of the sound of my cat galloping across the floorboards like a clumsy Clydesdale.

Awww look at the tiny little floof. For toys, my cat also loved little crunched up foil balls. Loud enough to be fun, oddly shaped enough to be unpredictable, light enough to be thwacked great distances.

Also, I’m going to need you to keep posting a lot more pictures.

Thanks friend, I really do appreciate it. I’m still one of the much luckier ones at the end of the day, even if I’m having no fun being one.

It has been exceptionally frustrating to become someone who gets treated with suspicion by pro-science people though. Even though my statistical insignificance puts me in the company of literally millions of others, there are many millions more who really did make bad choices that warrant some suspicion. (Edit: Actually no, I’ve changed my mind. Nobody deserves the suspicion at all.)

Yes, I’m very aware of my statistical insignificance that causes everyone to assume I did something to deserve long term consequences of covid. Between the antivaxxers who scowl at me for wearing a mask the rare times i dare be in public, the extreme pro-vaxxers who ask increasingly invasive medical questions to find a reason that I must have done this to myself, society leaving me to rot now they’ve all moved on because the vaccines solved everything, and the doctors telling me they have no strategies for me because there isn’t enough research… I promise that I haven’t forgotten that I’m the tiny and easily dismissable minority, despite my covid-triggered amnesia.

People always remind me of it when I don’t fit their narrative of the irresponsible or gullible fool who bought into the anti-science grift or flouted restrictions. Perhaps it’s because it’s more comforting to remind themselves that it’s improbable that they will also end up as one of the forgotten. At least, for now, until the ridiculously contagious and quickly mutating virus happens to not play nicely with their own latent medical issues and unknown genetic errors.

I’m sorry your friend was deceived by the propaganda that the vaccine was worse than the disease. And I’m sorry that you blame them for being deceived instead of understanding that fear causes people to make poor choices.

I got long covid after 4 timely boosters. It blows that people assume we don’t exist.

0% chance I could resist tickling the toes if I walked past

I love everything about this picture. You’re all adorable.

And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff’s errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

I’m also pretty convinced this was an intentional cost-saving move, given the rest of the food. Either way, I just won’t be back a second time.

Sealed opaque bag that I didn’t personally pick up

You know, I’ve never seen grapefruit in a fruit salad where I live. This had never occurred to me before, but I am grateful for it.

Because I wanted a fruit salad and did not anticipate this level of cheaping out by the people who made it. Do you open your burger at a fast food place and count the ingredients in front of the staff to make sure the cook didn’t short you?

I assumed they would fill it with the cheapest possible fruit, which at the time I knew happened to be watermelon. If it were honeydew, I wouldn’t have bought it at all, I think. I share your dislike of honeydew

He is just the cutest little thing. <3

That’s caused by intentionally breeding cartilage deficiency genes that cause arthritis and joint pain as the gene effects more cartilage than just in the ears.

Selective breeding for variants like stunted legs will also cause a whole bunch of joint pain and arthritis. Especially with legs, which are taking the entire force of a regularly leaping creature on a small surface area, unlike other body parts which have the full impact cushioned by the lower body muscles and joints.

Skeletons just aren’t made to be fucked with by anything except evolution and maybe a skilled surgeon. Even then there are no guarantees it’s a good mutation or a good surgery.

I think this one is a regular cat who is still crouched down from sniffing its stylish accessory. It just looks like it’s a fully standing Munchkin because of the perspective, diffuse lighting and floof ruffles on the shoulderblades that are very slightly out of frame. The curve top right looks like it might be its left hip.

Also wishful thinking. I hope the lizard went on to lead a long and fulfilling life too, for what it’s worth.