Okay, so. Yesterday, my spouse’s cat (my beloved, furry stepdaughter) was suddenly very sick. Spouse had the car on the opposite end of the state for work, so I walked down the road to the local vet. Unfortunately, she needed to be rushed to the emergency vet in the next town over, so I had to order an Uber and cross my fingers.
Enter Donald, a gay Puerto Rican man who rolls up in an electric Kia with a rainbow Zelda shirt. I know he is Puerto Rican because that is the theme of his car’s decor. He’s probably in his late forties. He’s gushing over the cat but his demeanor changes when I tell him how sick she is and how I need to get her to the ER. He solemnly informs me, “I’ll take care of it,” and RIPS out of the parking lot of my building.
Dude is flooring it. The entire time he is sending his husband text-to-speech messages about, “Going to the vet, do you want me to go in and talk to them?” He informs me that he actually needed to go speak to the vet at this clinic anyway–his dog who he just had to put down yesterday went there for renal failure treatments–and that “fate brought us together.” He tells the cat to hang in there, that, “Girl, I will take care of you.”
He turns on his emergency blinkers. He’s weaving through traffic like he used to professionally race. Any gap he sees, he takes it. It is terrifying but I am in awe.
We get to blocked traffic because it is rush hour. He asks me if I trust him. I tell him, “I guess I have to in this situation,” and he nods and swings into the shoulder, guns it, whips around the traffic, and takes off on a side road. The GPS means nothing to him. He knows exactly where he’s going and he is beating the traffic jams for the sake of the cat. She can’t wait.
When we pull into the vet clinic, he goes in with me. As my cat is taken in, he asks me if I want to see pictures of his late dog. He shows me a picture of a chihuahua in a bow tie and it is the cutest fucking dog I’ve ever seen. He tells me how his husband is a dog trainer and the dog had been around the world, and that this vet is a good one and my cat will be fine.
I compliment his shirt and he nods like Arnold at the end of Terminator 2. Then he just marches out the door.
Anyway. The cat is staying overnight at the emergency vet but seems to be doing fine aside from not wanting to eat. Apparently, this is a $2.5k case of “your cat has a cold and is constipated, and what you thought was respiratory distress was her gagging on snot while nauseous.” We pick her up sometime today.
Wherever you are, thank you, Donald. My spouse left you a tip higher than the cost of the trip because you are awesome and your dedication to our cat was inspiring. 10/10, I would endanger myself on the road with you again.
People talk about the funniest pop culture moments of all time but “pre-fame David Bowie opens for T.Rex by doing a mime routine in support of a free Tibet, gets booed off stage by white maoists” will always make me laugh
Republicans want to remind you that events like this are why is essential to dissolve NOAA immediately, since if you know a tornado is coming you can’t prepare or take shelter, which is a thing they want for some reason.
I would imagine, it’s more with something they can bill you for. the weather network, has the US as a very major part. and it’s run, like government. meaning, for the most part, free to the end user, and incredibly efficient. they don’t see a profit margin there.
plus climate change? if we set all of the records on fire, how can you say the weather’s worse?
Plus, of course, they embarrassed Trump that time when he drew on the weather map with a sharpie showing a storm not headed to Alabama was going there when it wasn’t and they kept repeating facts.
It’s so evil and petty and he ran on it and people voted for him knowing he was going to do this.
So many people are going to die.
From climate crisis fueled storms and tornadoes, from volcanoes.
It is bad enough now with monitoring. I am sad so many were killed, but I am freaked the fuck out about where we will be when NOAA is gone. There is no private company with the resources, monitoring equipment and experts that can come even close to replacing NOAA.
The death toll will be horrendous and likely censored.
I live in earthquake country, and the volcanoes can’t reach me, though they can reach neighboring areas. A quirk of geography protects us from a lot of other things.
It doesn’t stop me from worrying about all the people I know and the millions I don’t who are in danger and not just in this country, but all the others depending to any extent on our data.
tik tok is wild bc why did i just see a comment that said it’s abusive for a guy to break up with a girl.
apparently it is manipulative for a guy to date someone he isn’t immediately 100% sure he’ll marry. apparently u are supposed to know right away if ur gonna spend the rest of ur life with a person and if u don’t then ur “leading them on” and that’s abusive. are u guys ok.
“she loved him so much and he chose to break up with her anyway!!!!! what an asshole!!!!” not to be that person but would you say this if the situation were reversed? would you tell a girl to stay in a relationship with a man she didn’t love simply because he was still happy in the relationship? how is telling someone to stay in a relationship they’re unhappy in fair to either person in the relationship?
rebuilding fundamentalist “courtship” culture brick by stupid brick
Here’s remade masterpost of free and full shakespeare adaptations! Thanks @william-shakespeare-official for this excellent post. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in it are broken, so I thought I’d make an updated version (also I just wanted to organize things a bit more)
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