I can, without seeing this cat, guarantee it is not a bobcat.

The person told the owner het kitten was a bobcat because it has ear tufts.

Tiny ear tufts.

Because it is a short-haired torbie with a very long tail.

I've had people ask that about Sausage McMuffin(the smaller manx) because she's HUGE, with giant paws, no tail, fuzzy paws but no ear tufts. Although she's not as big as Didymus, they are not related btw.

But somehow I suspect she is part maine coon the same as he is(this is NOT a small coffee table)

Honestly this is just a ploy to make ya'll look at my hairy kids.

I can personally confirm both of these cats are HUGE.

You suddenly switch bodies with your icon. On a scale of 1 to 10, (10 being the highest value) how well are you coping with that change?

Shop closing down

All the issues on Etsy have been giving me a headache of late. While I haven't really felt the higher fees issue (when I opened my etsy shop 12+ years ago I was paying 5% conversion fees through paypal, so my prices were shielded from a lot of changes over the years), but I have been having issues with bots deactivating listings for the wrong reasons with no recourse. Also I've seen multiple people post that they won't buy from Etsy which makes things hard.

But Etsy is the only place I have found so far which manages all the varying international tax obligations for you, and it's been a large part of why I have stayed. Also I generally don't make enough sales to justify the larger upfront fees of some other sites, so it makes it not worth my time.

So I'm planning to go on hiatus for awhile. I'll be closing my shop at the end of October, and taking some time out to just sew for myself and work out my next options. I will be back selling bjd clothes, even if it's just one off designs, I'm just not quite sure how that will look.

Sales haven't worked well for me for a number of years, so instead I'm offering free shipping for orders over $100 AUD. That's $65 USD, or 60 Euro. I've never really had a following that sells things quickly, so any help getting the word out would be greatly appreciated! I'll no doubt be making a number of posts over the next couple of months.

Shop link: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/dorsetclothing

My house is on fire.

Everyone is out safe. I’m at work.

I feel numb.

Update: it turns out my room was the least damaged because my door was closed. And I am deeply deeply hurt for my friends who lived with me and lost more, but I’m only human and therefore can’t help being relieved about this

One of the firefighters moved my dolls further away from the fire while they were in there putting it out. I think I will remember that forever. Of course, they’re not people and they don’t matter as much as the lives that were in the building (and again, are completely fine and safe, to be clear; that’s what matters far more than any objects)

But. Well. It still means a lot to me, since everyone is in fact OK

Second update: my landlord is now saying we’re not going to be allowed to get our intact stuff back. This does not seem legal, so I’m busy putting everyone’s feet to the fire about it.

If anyone has any advice about this, I would really appreciate it. I’m going to be contacting my city and the fire department specifically to see what they can do

I and my housemates are not willing to let our belongings go without a fight, since some of them are still salvageable in there per the firefighters



That absolutely does not sound legal. Speak to the fire department perhaps the police’s non-emergency line if you feel comfortable doing so.

Like, I cannot think of any reason at all why your landlord should have any claim to your stuff, regardless of the state of it. It’s your fucking stuff.

The only thing I can think that might delay it would be if there’s a fire investigation under way and they need to keep the scene intact, but once that happens you should be able to collect your belongings.

Just in case, I’d see if there’s a housing lawyer that does pro-bono work (if you need that) or if there’s a housing advocate in your city.

the only reason you couldn't go back in would be if the building was somehow unsound. Maybe your landlord is covering their butt legally? If that's the case maybe you can ask if you can just sign a waver and get your stuff.

Hi, person here who’s dealt with a house fire and needing to retrieve belongings after the house was deemed “uninhabitable” due to substantial damage. Fire dpt will do a walk through and ensure there are no remaining hot spots, they’ll also check for any potential  areas that may fall/cave in (roof or floor) Gas/electricity will have been shut off already by this point. After that they will make the determination if the building/space can be safely entered by non fire personnel. Ultimately the fire department has final say on if the house is safe for re-entry following the fire, not your landlord. If the fire dept deemed it unsafe for re-entry you will NOT be able to go back and retrieve anything.  You should be able to contact the fire department to see if they gave some sort of no-entry decree, you can also contact them for a report/case number for any sort of renters insurance you have (You can also possibly use this reason to gain access to the building for documentation purposes) In the event you can get back in and get your belongings my recommendations: wear shoes/clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, wear a mask, bring gloves. bring flashlights/head  lamps Things are going to be wet, slimy, sooty, and gross. Any items in rooms directly affected by fire are likely a total loss- if not from fire damage, they’ll bey soaked in burned wood,paint, metal, plastic, etc (all the stuff houses and buildings are made of, washed down by the water) 

For items not in rooms directly affected by fire your main concern is smoke. Bag any anything that is pours and washable in a washing machine (clothes, linens, plushies, etc) that were in rooms not directly effected by fire. wash these as soon as possible. Throw out any larger cloth/textile items that can’t be washed. Box/bag hard surface items and at the first possible chance clean them either with soap and water if possible or damp cloth. for items you can’t wash and may only be able to wipe down, boxing with activated charcoal or baking soda for a few days may help, but some surfaces soak smoke more than others so results may not always be great.

rocks are here

last photo is my keepers

my plan is to make custom ceramic and/or wire bases for these

My kid saw this picture and was VIBRATING, got wide eyed and just muttered “so many....” and then wandered away

Check out this sweet collection of natural oddities housed in a vintage 1950s mint tin! Get it HERE in my Etsy shop!

Buy this tin full of junk that literally anyone could find ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m very grateful to say that this is the only rude comment I’ve ever gotten on any of my curiosity collections. To mark this occasion I’ve prepared a few words.

The “junk” in this box is from all over the world. There are specimens here from Morocco, Madagascar, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Pakistan, all over the US, and more. It took a lot of hard work and time for them to be found and distributed in the first place and it took a lot of time (and money too!) for me to track them down and bring them all together. There are fossils and mineral specimens here that are millions of years old. Fossils from creatures that are extinct. There are bones that I salvaged and worked to clean up so they can be something that others can find inspiration in, study, and admire instead of just turning to dust in a field or being thrown in the garbage. 

I get that these aren’t for everyone. Totally do. But to a lot of people (myself included!) oddities like these are endlessly fascinating and we enjoy collecting them. I’ve been collecting natural curiosities like these for 20 years now, selling them for over six, and hope to continue to do so for many years to come. It’s very fun and rewarding to get to share this junk with other enthusiasts. :)

@toxicwaltz SURE anyone could source all these things individually from multiple shops/sellers (that’s what you mean by “find” right? cause you don’t just walk outside and pick opals and fossilized teeth off the ground and 60 year old tins in the trash). Or you could spend a lot less time, energy, and money and buy this thoughtfully curated collection from someone who has already done the legwork to track down reputable sellers, pay for shipping from lots of different sources, and has seen all the pieces in person to verify their quality. If someone’s selling something that doesn’t appeal to you, why be rude?

oh man, I wish I’d seen this sooner for Xmas! My kid would loose her mind over this sort of thing. She A, Loves minerals and crystals and the like (we have literal pounds of geodes, crystals, stones, gems etc), and B loves collecting random stuff to look at under her microscope. she has a huge box full of acorn tops, dried moss,  random bits of bark, bones, a whole intact bumble bee, shells, broken glass, few old metal bits etc she’s found at school or on walks Definitely snagging her something for her birthday.

Yaaaaalllllll!!!

CHICKENS ARE FLUORESCENT!!

Look. I’m unnaturally excited about this. I learned that owls fluoresce so I had to know: Do chickens? Google wasn’t helpful. But I have all the things I need for this experiment.

Please please please if you get photos or video of your chickens under a black light tag me or this post! I WANNA SEE!!!

Fluoresce the girls @pangur-and-grim

I’ll have to check our girls when it’s not holy fuck cold out side.

he’s so right for this

other best tweets include

reminder that, as far as anyone knows, this man is literally 100% cisgender. this is fantastic. I love him ever so

This is a streamer, and one of his chat rewards for subs/bits/etc is "girl month," where he dresses like a girl and does his make up for a whole month.

Last I heard, his chat had gotten him to, like, 6 months straight of "girl month."

This man is cis. He is not trans, and has no desire to transition.

He just wanted to do something fun for his chat, and he has a great time. He looks comfortable, he doesn't make a mockery of women or femininity. It's just wholesome cross dressing fun.

Hey, a bro's gotta hustle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I literally watched a clip of him where this guy had bought him an outfit and asked him to change. Finn was like “oh but I just put this outfit on.” And the guy sent him $2,000 with just the word “Change.” If I were him I’d be doing that shit too that’s like nearly a month of my salary.

Finn’s been at this for a while- red head in the top frame is Finn https://www.reddit.com/r/SuddenlyGay/comments/gogicx/show_me_your_girl_voice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

NOOOOOOOOO-

AW FUCK

MOTHERFUCKER

Son of a bitch!!

DAMMIT

SONOFABITCH how dare you make me see this with my own eyes. the audacity the nerve the gumption. more must see this.

Seven years old sounding like we bout to sell solar panelling 'hi Mrs Smith is Kacey available to speak? '

yes. And if you didn't dial fast enough a deep, terrifying male voice would call out, "IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE A CALL HANG UP AND TRY AGAIN." I chucked the phone across the room the first time it did that.

Ours was a female voice... i wonder if it was a regional thing?

Hey babes! I made a cover for the Tapas mirror of the comic, thought I'd share it with this update. :D

BOHICA!!

Y’all, I’m over here DYING cuz Google suggested me this article about the crisis of backyard chicken keepers– which is that they love having chickens so much that they keep getting more, and then don’t know what to do with all the eggs.

Which I can see how this would be a problem, but it’s just so funny to me because they had interviewed this one guy who started off with 3 chickens, and then kept adding more and more, and eventually started donating the eggs to a local food bank, and at the end of the year when they wrote him a tax receipt, he discovered he’d donated over 400 dozen eggs.

Seriously, it was a whole article talking very seriously about how people are so into chickens that they just keep collecting them like pokemon and then have to “scramble” (their words not mine) to get rid of the eggs, because they weren’t even thinking of egg production, they just loved having chickens.

And while I may be over here laughing a bit too hard, honestly? Big Mood.

“but without the profit motive people won’t work”

If this is you:

Dinosaur Anti-Capitalism

I feel personally attacked.