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Cake day: December 15th, 2023

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  • CoJack (now deceased): CoJack Kitty, Bitch, Bitch-ass Cat, CoJack Bitch-ass Kitty, and Meowsellus Wallace ('cause he looked like a bitch)

    Gouda: GobbleGouda (because for a while he took to making a garbled meow that sounded a bit like a turkey gobble), Fatass (he’s 21 pounds), Gouder, Puddle (because he melts into a fluffy blob when he loafs)

    Romano: 'Mano, hesagoodboy

    George: Geeeooorge (in a shrill voice because it weirds him out), Potato (because he’s a bit on the roly-poly side and also seems to have the mental capacity of a potato)

    Meeka: mostly just Meeka, but sometimes Precious Kitty. She didn’t really used to be vocal until we found her root ailment was stomatitis and we had all her teeth removed. Now she’s a lot happier and yells at us when we sing-song her name at her.












  • As a result of the explosion, windows were broken in some houses but nobody was injured, PAP reported.

    Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz later said the object was most likely a drone, adding that an analysis was underway to determine whether it was a military or smuggling one, PAP reported.

    While I’m not an explosions expert, I would wager that a non-military drone likely wouldn’t be carrying anything that explodes energetically enough to break windows. I suspect only an explosives-armed drone would do that.


  • As the article states, the distance between Italy and Sicily is around 2 miles (3 km), which makes this bridge unimpressive in terms of overall length, as there are hundreds of bridges longer than that. The article claims this would be the world’s longest bridge, comparing it to Çanakkale 1915 Bridge, which isn’t the world’s longest bridge, but rather the bridge with the longest unsupported span at 2 km. There’s no artist rendering of the proposed bridge, and no mention of whether Italy was planning to build this bridge in such a way that the main span would be over 2 km. This distinction means the difference between unremarkable, or modern engineering marvel.