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Dog people don’t quite understand that well-cared for indoor cats regularly live into their late teens, some into their 20s. Also cats don’t tend to show visible signs of aging like dogs do. A 10-15 year old medium/large breed dog is usually visibly old and often slowing. Cats at that age who have good genetics and have received good care look completely like their younger selves and still have play drives and energy and their personalities. Not my cat though. She’s only 5 and she’s looked like roadkill since birth. People often think she’s a senior cat because her body type is weird and she doesn’t groom herself. This is because she is just a little weirdo.
I love her so much but that just doesn’t negate the fact she looks like the Pet Sematary reanimated evil version of someone’s beloved pet. She looks like she’s decomposed just enough for her skin to start slipping. She has cat dandruff. She never cleans under her claws so they’re often black. Her face is crusty and she tries to kill you if you clean it. She’s just built DIFFERENT.
nope! here are her baby pictures (from 2017)
she went through an almost normal cat phase around 3 months of age but reverted back to being yucky
yes she is the toe biter and also the little cat that messes up all the pillows
This is my boy, who is nine, with his grampa, who was 19
I like how Al began with a short psa about how indoor cats age like fine wine, unlike dogs, who age like milk on a warm summer evening. But then decided to dunk on poor little Tommy for daring to have some personality
Tbh I got halfway through the post about cats aging gracefully and remembered my cat was the scruggliest being on earth and I didn’t have a leg to stand on.
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Beautiful coffin pendant with woven hair inside, England, 1703 (source).
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Whalers medicine chest, c. 1835
This chest belonged to Robert Jillett, ashore Whaler stationed on Kāpiti Island, New Zealand, 1836-1845.
It was supplied by the Apothecary’s Hall, London, and replenished at Hobart Town, Tasmania.
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This Woodcut Wednesday, explore London’s Inns of Court in these intricate engravings by artist Hilary Paynter.
Beautiful wood engravings by British printmaker Hilary Paynter from @riesenfeldcenter (Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center at the University of Minnesota Law School) in their copy of Legal London Engraved, printed in an edition of 135 copies by Sebastian Carter at his Rampant Lions Press for The Primrose Academy Ltd.
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Ok, I’ve seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I’ve been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-
Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.
Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.
Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.
As a librarian, can confirm, please let us help you
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Astronomical Clock 1540, Munster, Westfalen, Paulusdom Photographer: Groenling
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“Bouquetière” by Boué Soeurs, 1927-28
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Anonymous photographer - Portrait of Three Women. N.d., 19th century
we irritating 😂 😂 😂
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Faculty: This is a student of mine, they want to write a paper on [topic my colleague and I have spent 6 years finding, accumulating, and piecing together sources about in hopes of understanding our collections and encouraging greater usage of them.]
Me: *proceeds to infodump 6 years worth of information on this student*
Hopefully I didn’t scare them off. 😬