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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

Via James Lucas on X/Twitter

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*walks up to a couple* so which one of you is the cheetah and which one of you is the golden retriever who keeps the cheetah from stressing themselves to death

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“how dare you let that disgusting Jew play Mary” statements made when they’re finally honest with what their actual motive is.

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also Elica with an apparently much needed history lesson:

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Question to English-speaking diaspora Jews: How do you typically refer to books of the Tanach? Is it by their Hebrew name (e.g. Bereshit) or by their English-given name (e.g. Genesis)?

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while we’re all publicly critiquing the “male loneliness” hysteria i want to mention that the “men’s mental health!!!” handwringing is a part of it. which is not to say that I am not empathetic to the mental health struggles of men as individuals. my wish is for everyone to have access to quality mental health care, and for people in the depths of mental illness to find support and get better.

But it’s frankly a disservice to women and everyone else to frame “men’s mental health” as a uniquely urgent social issue. I’m not going to unpack all of the statistics right now, but suffice to say men’s mental health issues are not inherently worse or more prevalent than anyone else’s. In fact, women suffer from depression at higher rates than men.

Yet women’s collective mental health does not generate mass concern or rhetorical pandering like that of men, because:

(1) our society at large does not encourage/reward collective empathy for women the way it does for men. conversely, efforts to talk about women’s issues are often treated as suspect and met with overwhelming anti-feminist backlash.

And (2) women’s mental health cannot be dredged up as an apolitical scapegoat for things like mass murder and sexual violence. because women as a group, despite suffering from equal or greater mental health struggles, do not commit those crimes at nearly the same rates as men. And when they do, no one is saying “but she was depressed” or “we should have been nicer to her” or “if only he hadn’t rejected her.”

And all this lip service to “men’s mental health” does not address or even attempt to address the explicit radical misogyny that these disaffected young men are embracing. because that would require a serious critique of systemic patriarchy and gender politics, which tends to unsettle the people who are invested in maintaining that system.

Anyway. It is extremely tiresome to see widespread patriarchal violence and resentment toward women’s social advancement dismissed with cries of “men need to be coddled more!!!”

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gonna start asking hockey dudes on tinder if they can define goaltender interference and if they give me any answer other than “i don’t know” i’m unmatching them

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also, this isn’t going to go over well among all of you leftwing misogyny fans but educated white women broke for Harris by 20 points, which is a better margin than nearly all men of color.

I am not interested in simpering over dudes who hate my guts & voted to prove it, while smirking / scolding some tired woman whose entire social cohort broke for Harris & who is living in terror that her routine pregnancy might end with her dying of sepsis or bleeding out in a parking lot.

Like. Be so fucking real right now. Stop yelling at people who did the right thing simply because they don’t score high enough on your stupid Oppression Olympics scale, while caping for men who left us in the dirt.

I also have follow-up questions for educated white men. We’ve all apparently accepted that uneducated white people mostly hate everybody but it’s rude to ever address this, but what the fuck is going on with educated white guys? It’s nice that they’re less insanely reactionary, but pick up the fucking pace buddy.

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Bro I've been critical of the Pro-Palestine movement all year long, but I know that it did not have a real impact on the election. It would be so easy for me to blame them, but I'm not, because I'm not a liar. But for them to say "akshewally this is Dems' fault because they didn't court the movement that refused to vote for them and [repeats lies about Biden-Harris not calling for a ceasefire]" is just cope. It's cope because they want to feel more important than they actually are, they don't want to admit that American voters do not care about Israel, and it's because the whole fucking movement is detached from reality. Even now, even as someone who will be so much worse for Palestine is becoming president (again), they just can't stop lying about Democrats and the autonomy of Israel and Hamas.

And these are the people outraged that Democrats are moving away from the left. Yeah, this is why. Democrats learned to ignore the unwinnable voters whose rhetoric just repels normies who actually vote. You can't spit in Dems' faces for 8 years and refuse to work with them and then get mad when they stopped listening to you. And this is simply not the reason why Harris lost. It's not. There's zero incentive for Democrats to listen to these people. In fact, it's the opposite.

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what if biden just drone strikes trump and then fakes dementia when confronted about it

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gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

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This whole "this isn't who we are" dialogue bothers me. It has bothered me for a while. What happened in this US election is that far too many people in this country loved their own bigotry, fear, hatred, and selfishness more than they care about their loved ones or even themselves, since they don't see how they backed someone who is going to harm them, too. It's not all we are as a nation. But we really need to face head-on this aspect of US society exists and shake it vigorously and figure out what to do to address it. There's a lot of good here, but the bad is also part of "who we are" and denying it won't help. Look at US history. The bigotry always comes back. For every gain, there's a backlash trying to drag things backwards.

The US is very divided. A huge number of people in the US stand against that bigotry, fear, hatred, and selfishness and are pissed af right now. And it's not only people from blue states who care. Red states aren't solid fields of red, btw, if you look at any detailed electoral map, every state, red or blue, is a patchwork, and there are so many people who live in red states who care, and stood up for what's right, and they don't even have the sanctuary state buffers those of us in blue states have (for however long it can hold the line).

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Also, as respectfully as possible, a lot of men can, have, and will continue to see the anger and frustration and fear and horror from women and continue to go about their day and continue to vote and act the way they do regardless.

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Non-voter holding out the bloodiest hands you've ever seen in your entire life for you to admire: well at least my hands are clean because I voted my conscience 😊

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Please knock it off with the “you survived him the first time you’ll survive him again” posts right now. Between his border policies and his foreign policies and his handling of COVID and and and millions did not survive the first Trump administration.

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“if they lose democrats should’ve done [x pet thing i personally think] and then they wouldbe won” “democrats shouldn’t have done [x pet thing i personally think] and then they would’ve won” idk man it sure just looks like there are a hell of a lot of people who are fascist and are motivated to vote for a fascist to implement fascist policies regardless of what the left is doing

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Can you help me find this fic? Caroline went to NOLA post season four ending, i think her family had witches in it and that’s why she goes there. There’s this scene where tyler finds out she and Klaus slept together because he also went to NOLA after Klaus and sees the both of them coming down the stairs with wet hair. Last scene was during mardi gras I think.

No idea, sorry.

If anyone knows, feel free to jump in.