Orion Scribner @frameacloud@dragon.style

@thedaemon

Hahaha! I guess he is.

(Background: we searched for our missing cat for 5 days. When we found him, we was injured, and we had to rush him to the vet for emergency surgery. Now he's recovering very well.)

Clever Mr. Dreamypants managed to remove his cone collar during the night, and chewed on his stitches. No *serious* damage done, but we really don't want him to have to have another surgery if he hurts himself. It's already been around $5500.

The vet told us to put a soft shirt and harness on him, and fasten his cone to that. We looked for Youtube videos about how to put the shirt and harness on him, but it turns out that the videos that claim it's easy are ones that involve cats that are much more cooperative. We managed it, and I think this harness is just his style.

A day later, he seems at ease with having to wear clothes. No sign of it being irritating or itchy. Maybe it helps keep him warm, since a lot of that shoulder is shaved.

My family would appreciate any help with paying for the emergency surgery that saved our cat:
http://ko-fi.com/frameacloud

@porsupah

Wow!

@Ayior

I like and relate to stories about fantasy nonhumans. I like and relate to stories about enbies. These are both my favorites.

When both are conflated, though, then it doesn't count much for representation, because it sends the message that enbies can't exist unless if there were magic shapeshifters or aliens with three sexes or robot bodies. So that's the opposite of representation. It reminds me of arguments I had years ago with dweebs who insisted that nonbinary genders can't exist because of human biology having "only two sexes."

Meanwhile, stories about nonbinary nonhumans can still explore aspects of enbyhood very effectively: about feeling othered, or embodiment, or culture, or speculation. And I can still dig those stories because they combine my two favorite things! But they just fail at showing that enbies can exist in real life, and we badly need that.

Anyone interested in it if I ever draw the final few pages of the Mermaid Bride Motif comic? (A short about queer merfolk who face a personification of compulsory heterosexuality.) It's recently turned out to be still something I need to get off my chest, artistically, but I don't know if it's worthwhile to process it so that other people can see it.

@porsupah

Yes! I need a kind of germ/dust mask that doesn’t smush my actual snoot.

@salameleon

That’s casual fursday.

@packbat

There’s so much to like about Mastodon and how it undoes the conditioning to behave like a machine on other social media.

It’s doubtful that wearing a surgical mask protects me from germs on the bus, but it does keep my nose warm.

@Tathar @anthracite @sullybiker

In Second Life? Cool.

This café is alternating peppy 20th century Christmas songs with “I will survive” between every song, which I guess is a mood

What if there was a baby name list, only it was a list of cool names for plural systems?

@anthracite
Some LCD monitors make a worse noise than any CRTs, because it's dissonant tones.

@JulieSqveakaroo

That's a hard thing to have gone through.

Serious question, how do you find light bulbs that don't make a high-frequency noise?

@JulieSqveakaroo

It is a big wound. And it's a lot smaller than it was!

Here's how he looks today. Since it's been about a week since his surgery, I've started letting him out of his recovery cage for short periods, so he can roam around the house, closely supervised to make sure he doesn't hurt himself. He's not supposed to climb during this phase of his recovery, but I wasn't fast enough to stop him from hopping into this empty bookshelf. He's very pleased with himself and purring loudly. I think being up there helps him feel more secure.

My family would appreciate any help with paying for the emergency surgery that saved our cat:
http://ko-fi.com/frameacloud

@spud @NonbinaryWiki

I want to make sure I understand the stats right. Would I say it like this:
"US Census data from 1880 to 2016 shows that the name Riley was used 50.85% for girls and boys"
?

@Jaddy

That's so cool! :D