I'm "paranoid" and "alarmist" for things like refusing to sign in to windows with a Microsoft account over privacy and control concerns, but then when this kind of shit happens my critics always conveniently forget that I told them so: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/
In our house, you can eat whatever you want as long as you pay the cat tax.
Not pictured: my pizza
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From the ACLU: #Flock lies to city managers about what they do.
“Flock’s chief information security officer, who was in attendance, told the council that Flock’s system did not “create a pattern or heat map of an individual’s movement” through the tracking of their vehicles. At the end of that meeting, the Oshkosh City Council approved a contract with Flock. The very next morning, the city learned that Flock had lied.”
I took all of the pictures in this thread at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, a no-kill animal shelter in Kanab, Utah: https://bestfriends.org/sanctuary
At any point in time, they have about 1,600 animals in their care. Most are available for adoption. You can visit, you can stay there (we stayed right by some of the horses), you can volunteer. I cannot recommend it enough.
The shelter is a whole campus in the high desert, surrounded by red rocks, white sandstone cliffs, juniper, and sage. Various parts of the campus are called "Dogtown", "Cat World", "Horse Haven", etc.
The standard of care there is amazing. This is not some kind of warehouse: every animal has a name, and the staff know every animal well. They have special housing for special needs: for example, there's an entire building for the cats who have FeLV, who need special care because they have weakened immune systems and need to be kept from spreading it to other cats. There are buildings for animals that have sensory deficiencies and need spaces where they can be both mobile and safe. Volunteers put the cats in baby strollers and take them for walks. Dogs with neurological conditions get special carts to enable them to walk. Birds that have lived in neglectful conditions, causing them to pluck their feathers out, get capes to wear.
This group does work with groups all around the state and all around the country. They do mobile vet clinics in the Navajo Nation (our tour guide was Navajo). They bring in animals in need from all over. When there were fires in LA, they took in a bunch of animals in California shelters so that the pets displaced by the fire didn't have to go far. When Michael Vick was caught running an illegal dogfighting ring, they took in the pitbulls, helped them recover, and got them adopted out; one even became a therapy dog.
They have adoption centers in several states: https://bestfriends.org/visit
It's an overwhelming experience seeing how people can come together to care for creatures that need it the most.
Let's treat our fellow humans like this too.
One of the fun things about this sculpture is that the head on an axle, and it has blades that catch the wind so that breezes make it bob its head
Jasper is ready for his close-up. Sprout, not so much.
We can agree that this horse definitely listens to Emo, right?
Apu goes for walks
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upper reaches of Fawn's Family Rescue #caturday
it's huge pancake day
Binged Star City Season 1 and I think you should too. It’s very well made and apart from everyone speaking English, it definitely gets that “soviet texture” from those days.
cuddles & licks #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #lovey
Joey & Eric #catnaps #blackcat #cat #catTuesday #catsofMastodon #cats
made the mistake of only buying snacks on my last costco run