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"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child. 

I have spent many hours with those cats, and still I am amazed at how perfectly they reject everything it means to be in prison. They are playful and unselfconscious, curious and silly, soft and cuddly.

Sometimes it is even more interesting to watch my fellow prisoners interact with our cats. All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees, and when they make toys to entice the cats to play with them. 

I don’t think about the past when a cat hops in my lap. I don’t think of what I should or could have done. I don’t think about courts or life sentences or parole boards. What comes to mind is peace, and a sense that everything is going to be OK. What’s in the past needs to stay there if I want to have a future, if I want to be grateful for today and for the fact that I am no longer the person I once was.

The cats, of course, already know this. They are gracious enough to spend their time with us so that we might learn, and so that we can enjoy a few quiet moments of warmth, softness, non judgment, and freedom."

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Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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and are death and the maiden perhaps looking for a third

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Domestic incompetence is going to kill men

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I decided to get back to this run cycle animation, add some inberweens and improve some drawings.

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bride of the bear

bear worship was something practiced before the spread of christianity in finland (and other places as well!) and once a bear was hunted it was important to honor it with a memorial feast and help appease the bear’s soul lest it stay angry at you….some of these feasts included either a bride or a groom to be married to the bear and the skull to be mounted on a tree from where the bear’s soul could climb up back to the stars, where bears were believed to originate from ✨

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the onion shouldn’t even bother anymore

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this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

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Sooooo few people are actually willing to defend the basic human rights of people who have committed crimes. Like I know it's not fun but if you genuinely believe in human rights as a concept you can't be okay with the state violating them in prisons I'm sorrrrry. Having moral principles is not always a fun time.

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this is immensely funny to me

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Scandinavians when outdoor string lights were invented

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