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@neeneeruth He’s scared and hiding. He’ll emerge for food, which is why you need to bait humane traps near your house.

Thanks to everyone for their prayers and support, I’m a complete mess, he still hasn’t shown up. A friend came late last night and took over so I could sleep, he searched a three block radius. I went out again early this morning and searched until the sun came up. Nothing.

@neeneeruth Knock on doors and hand neighbors flyers. My cat got out a few years ago and was under a nearby shed. Neighbor said “that’s who’s under the shed.” Contact TNR organizations and bait traps. Kitty is scared and hiding, but will emerge for food.

I did all the things people recommended in the replies, have posted on local groups, put up flyers, left litter box, food, blanket on the porch for him. I’m going to go out and look again when it’s dark, hopefully he emerges from wherever he’s hiding.

Bear escaped when my roommate left the door open this morning, I’ve been searching the neighborhood for three hours and I can’t find him anywhere. Please pray for his safe return, I’m losing my mind I’m so worried idk what I’m gonna do if I can’t find him.

@Rottentothecaw @PempressP You’ve just jinxed yourself.

@PempressP I went on a flight and nobody was in my seat. So I sat in it. Nobody came up and tried to pressure me to give it up for their own selfish reasons. I flew all the way to the destination without any problems. Why am I the only one who is missing out??? It's just not fair!!!!

I was flying home with a terrible migraine and all I wanted was to sit in the window seat I paid for, put in my earplugs and sleep mask, close the window shade, and rest. But when I got there, a little girl was sitting in my seat next to her mom. The mom casually told me to just take the aisle seat instead. Absolutely not. I asked them to move, and the mom ended up putting her daughter in the middle seat, which caused a full tantrum. Then she told me that if I wanted the crying to stop, I should give up my seat. Instead, I looked at the child and firmly said, “Enough!” The mom was furious, but the little girl immediately went quiet.

@cogonnaya @luxemiaa Nope. Mom should instead set the example of paying for a window seat instead of guilt-tripping the actual seatholder.

@luxemiaa You and window seat na 5/6, you should grant the toddler his wish

I paid extra for a window seat on a flight that was really important to me. I specifically booked it ahead of time because I wanted to enjoy the view and have my little main character moment in peace. I get on the plane and there’s already a woman sitting in my seat with her toddler on her lap. I politely told her she was in my seat and she immediately asked if she could just stay there because her son wanted the window. I said no because I literally paid extra for that exact seat. She sighed dramatically and moved to her middle seat like I had personally ruined her family vacation. Then she started talking to the kid in that passive aggressive voice parents use when they want strangers to feel guilty. “It’s okay buddy, you can still see out the window.” Now why would she do that. At that point I became.......

The people who built gallows to execute a sitting VP on Jan. 6 are demanding that you turn down the temperature.

This is genius 😎

@stuffierescue So very, very sorry. The disease is awful.

Before the chocolate eggs and the pastel baskets, the medieval rabbit was something else entirely. Flip through enough 13th-14th Century illuminated manuscripts held in British Library and Bibliothèque de Verdun, and you will find something deeply strange in the margins. Rabbits. Enormous, furious, heavily armed rabbits. Rabbits wielding axes at kings. Rabbits laying siege to castles. Rabbits shooting hunters in the spine with bows and arrows, tying them up, hauling them before a rabbit judge, receiving a guilty verdict, and joyfully beheading them. Rabbits roasting hunters over open fires and boiling their hounds. One rabbit, in the Smithfield Decretals illuminated in London in the 1340s, presides over an entire multi-page revenge sequence that unfolds like a comic strip across the manuscript margins. It is extraordinarily violent, meticulously illustrated, and clearly someone's idea of a very good joke. These images are called drolleries, and they belong to a tradition that peaked between 1250 and the 15th century, drawn in the margins of serious religious texts by the monks copying them. The concept is called le monde renversé, the world turned upside down. Medieval artists loved depicting reality in reverse, hunters being hunted, prey becoming predator, the powerful made powerless. Rabbits, being the most docile and frequently eaten animals in the medieval world, were the perfect candidates for this role reversal. In real life they were on the menu at every feast and hunted daily with dogs and arrows. In the margins of manuscripts they got their revenge in spectacular and extremely graphic fashion. The earliest known killer rabbit, found in the Arnstein Passional from around 1170, shows two rabbits who have hanged a human hunter and are standing on their hind legs pointing and jeering at the body. Not everyone found this funny. The Cistercian monk Bernard of Clairvaux complained about the drolleries in terms that feel remarkably modern, asking what these ridiculous monstrosities were doing in the cloisters and what purpose was served by such unclean monkeys, fierce lions, and monstrous centaurs. He also noted, with some irritation, that even if the foolishness caused no shame, one might at least balk at the expense. He had a point. These books were extraordinarily costly to produce. Someone was spending serious money on manuscripts decorated with rabbits committing war crimes. For several hundred years the medieval version of the Easter rabbit was carrying an axe, had an outstanding grievance against humanity, and was depicted in the margins of the most sacred books in Christendom getting extremely satisfying revenge. The Monty Python killer bunny was not just an invention; it was a history lesson.... © Eats History #archaeohistories

@atrupar Did they call the protesters "fucking bitch" after shooting them in the head??

An amazing poem. • Paul Durcan •

@ProfDuff Save me one with ricotta filling! 😀

Happy Saint Joseph’s Day from South Philadelphia!

More importantly though, today is also Saint Gertrude of Nivelles day. Saint Gertrude is the patron saint of cats, cat lovers and gardeners. Take extra naps and enjoy special treats to celebrate 🐈‍⬛🐈

@stuffierescue Happy Birthday 🎂🎊🎈🎉🎁!

A beautiful tabby on the #Oxford canal🐱 Tabby was a 17th century word for striped silk taffeta from the Arabic 'attābiy' - a district of Baghdad famed for its striped silks. In the 18th century it was transferred to cats with brindled coats🐱 #Caturday #etymology 🐈‍⬛🐈

The sudden realisation that you would have been much better off having left the kids at home - 15th century, BnF Latin 919, f. 9v

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media, calling him a “real loser” for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE. RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump!