Looks like most #cats have #AuDHD with all its contradictions:
They need routine and don’t feel OK when the normal routine is disrupted, but sometimes out of nowhere suddenly start doing weirdest things
They have strong food preferences, but sometimes would occasionally devour something highly inappropriate or get interested in something that is totally out of their normal eating range
They are curious and every new object draws their attention, and they hate to be disrupted when occupied, but would suddenly switch attention to something else half-way to their goal
They easily get bored and lose interest in playing, and the toy that was their favourite yesterday annoys them tomorrow
Extremely demand-avoiding, but actually seek good pats
Sometimes would spend 20 hours a day on a coach doing seemingly nothing
Temperature and texture sensitive
Seem unpredictable to outsiders and would sometimes have a meltdown totally out of the blue (to the bystander eye)
Need to be alone to recover from undesirable interactions
📗 Mélanie Toulhoat's doctoral thesis led to the book "Rire de la dictature, rire sous la dictature. Brésil (1964-1982)", published by Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.
🇧🇷 This book reveals the fundamental role of graphic humour and satire in shaping the struggles, as well as asserting the differences and tensions, of democratic opposition movements in #Brazil.
Excerpt from Tales of the Incorrigible: A Song of Wood and Meat about a poet who lived the dream.
The story takes place in an absurd far future. Ting was an acquaintance of both Greasly and Throom. Ting spoke often of his "poet friend". That's all you need to know for this.
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Greasly told Throom the story of Brio Tojita. At the time that Ting knew Tojita, the poet was living comfortably off the proceeds from his best-selling poem “A Haiku Concerning the Fire Flowers of Southern Knurl As A Metaphor for the Endless Possibilities of Recombination.” In fact, Ting met the poet at a reception following a public reading marking the fiftieth anniversary of the poem’s publication and celebrating it as the most successful debut poem by a young left-handed poet in history, excepting two.
At the reception, Ting asked Tojita to read some of his other poems. He was shocked at Tojita’s response: “There are no others.”
Tojita had never written another poem. That evening Ting had heard Tojita’s entire corpus of work---all seventeen syllables of it. He carried in his mind the entire life’s work of a best-selling poet!
Ting had told Greasly that he remembered it word for word, but even in an otherwise empty room on a ship in Flitzville, he would not recite it. The reason being that the poem’s publisher was Gatekeep and Gouge.
Gatekeep and Gouge were notoriously keen on squeezing every last millimoola out of their properties. In the case of “A Haiku Concerning the Fire Flowers of Southern Knurl As A Metaphor for the Endless Possibilities of Recombination,” they completely removed it from print to better be able to control its distribution. Instead, they sent it out on reading tours every ten years. The rest of the time it was kept in the “G&G Vault,” safe from the eager eyes and ears of the public.
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“He never did tell you the poem?” Throom asked.
“Never.”
“I wonder if it was any good?”
“Ting said it dragged a little in the middle but picked up at the end.”
I think it's interesting seeing people in the restroom. Like if it's just some number 1, conversation time. But if it's number 2, no eye contact, no words to be had. Like you're ashamed of your own poo baby. Be proud of that loaf bro... You made that with your own body.
She Goes to Summer Camp is now available as both a free Ebook and an inexpensive print edition ($9.99 from Barnes and Noble).
This is the novella included at the end of She Goes to War, all by itself. So, if you want to get a taste for my Ashen Blades series without paying for it, this little Novella might be just the ticket.
A local right wing asshat has threatened to “lose respect” for me, and warned that “you don’t want to experience that.” He is upset that I shared data showing US citizens commit far more violent crime (absolutely and per capita) than undocumented immigrants. The far right is completely spineless when confronted with reality. #USPol#Extremism#Immigration#Petaluma