Feist has apparently forgiven me enough for grabbing her up to put flea treatment, that she is willing to jump up on the bed and mug me for attention again. Almost a week later.

Wasn’t about to set off the flash at her too right now 😿

Not unflattering, but this is my sister’s boy Lester. He has cerebellar hypoplasia so he’s a very wobbly friend but we love him very much and he is the baby

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The Troubled Resurgence of the Confederate Flag | History Today

clatterbane:

I wish I could find one thing I read a while back, with someone talking about the actual history around the Civil War in the North Georgia mountains compared to the number of assholes currently flying the stars and bars under the carefully pushed impression that it really is their “heritage”.

Depressingly similar pattern in my part of Virginia, yeah. The bit that only didn’t get split off to make WV because it already had enough rail infrastructure that Virginia wanted to hold onto.

@illuminatiswag – Yeah, I’m in the UK now, and I thought I was going to have a stroke the first time I saw something like this:

(Westminster, London, UK, 4th July, 2015. Confederate flag at the protest against the ‘Jewification’ of London Credit: Fantastic Rabbit/Alamy Live News)

Turns out that it’s popular among certain circles across Europe, too.

Why do Italian soccer fans and other foreigners fly the Confederate flag?

Outside the soccer stadium, European extremist political groups have been known to fly the Confederate flag, too. European skinheads and neo-Nazis have sometimes adopted the Confederate flag, especially in Germany, where the swastika and other symbols of Nazi Germany are officially banned by law. Many Europeans see the flag as a de facto sign of far-right political leanings: A Confederate flag that was spotted in a photograph of a French police station last year caused a minor scandal.

Bizarrely, American Civil War reenactions have become popular in Germany, with significant numbers of Germans preferring to fight on the Confederate side. “I think some of the Confederate reenactors in Germany are acting out Nazi fantasies of racial superiority,” Wolfgang Hochbruck, a professor of American Studies at the University of Freiburg, once told American journalist Tony Horwitz. “They are obsessed with your war because they cannot celebrate their own vanquished racists.”

It’s disconcerting enough elsewhere in the US. Where it’s a lot harder to claim ignorance of some of these connotations, even with some of the rest of the weird resurgence that apparently started in the ‘40s. It’s a mess.

fishyscales:

Honestly Tamatoa has got to be the prettiest pet I own. I love his colouring and it’s just as impressive in person.
And lets just say that whenever we have guests, someone always manages to steal the show.

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comcastkills:

It is genuinely concerning how many popular media outlets will characterize left-wing protests as inherently bad because they pose a threat to the ruling class, and therefore us.

People believe that stuff. They see authority as always in the right, whether or not they want to admit it: Police attacking protesters is completely expected, but protesters fighting back is violence.

Yet history shows us that disrupting order is the most effective method of pushing change.

Child labor didn’t end in the US because factory owners thought, “hey, this is actually bad”. They were met with backlash from unions and labor movements. Same with food contamination and dangerous working conditions.

We credit the ruling class for positive change when they’ve been holding it back for self benefit all along.

You are not supporting freedom for defending their position, and of course reactionary movements are the first to say resistance should be stopped by government forces.

thegoodlannister:

saltmaven:

HEY FLORIDA.

The governor just stated if you can’t get out of any mandatory evacuation, whether for fuel or any reason at all, call 1-800-955-5504, right now! The’ll help if you don’t have money, if you have pets, etc. They want you to call NOW because there is time to help you.

(I guess signal boosting this is an upside to being subjected to the weather channel while living utterly landlocked.)

I’m in the midst of my own hurricane preparedness, so this is the only post I’ll be sharing. because yeah, evacuating on your own is nearly impossible at this point. if you can’t ride it out where you are, this is your best hope. godspeed, everybody 💕

babyanimalgifs:

I love this video