Our six-year-old handed us a note. His teacher had called my wife and I in for an emergency meeting. We asked our son if he had any idea why
and he said, "She didn't like a drawing I did."
We went in the next day.
His teacher pulled the drawing below out and said, "I asked him to draw his familv and he drew this. Would vou mind explaining?"
"Not at all." my wife said. "Family vacation. Snorkelling off the Bahamas. ๐
@SarahjevsEvans I think it's a different type of judging.... breakfast late? Not enough treats? Not enough cuddles? ... who knows, because with cats you are damned if you do and damned if you don't... ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ
Lemsip update.
Lemsip has been at Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Sanctuary and has finally made it out of intensive care.
Lemsip will continue her treatment for FIP in foster care until mid August.
Lemsip has just just raided the toybox.
Dan Hodges canโt quit Lucy Connollyโs deleted tweet, crude, angry, posted in the raw aftermath of Southport, and he treats it like the Second Coming of Mosley.
A mom with no record, quite understandably upset, was jailed for 31 months, appeals rejected, treated like shit, basically, from the top of government, we have learned. To Hodges this is peak justice, a righteous takedown of โdangerous speechโ.
Itโs a joke but not funny, straight out of the gross didactic playbook of the governing stratum which seeks neither to amuse nor inform but simply to instruct and browbeat. Itโs stupid, low and dishonest, grossly obvious.
The problem for these hacks is that the actual terrorism apparatus grinds on in plain view while they plainly deliberately look away.
MI5 and Counter Terrorism Policing track thousands of active subjects of interest right now, with tens of thousands more in the closed pile. Older snapshots put the total on the real terror watchlist at near 43,000, the overwhelming majority Islamist extremists.
Over 800 live investigations. Roughly 250 arrests a year on terrorism suspicions. Yet the entire prison population for these offences hovers around 250. Most names on the list are neither jailed, nor intensively watched, nor even consistently bothered. Resources are finite; priorities shift; files get closed. Serious indicators of intent to commit violence, and still the system mostly shrugs.
Connolly, a tweet: jail, no question, hardly punishment enough if Iโm following Hodgesian logic correctly. Melia, stickers: jailโฆfor stickers. Dankula jailed on account of his girlfriendโs nazi dog? Well, that just makes sense to an actual deranged mentality.
The comically apparent hypocrisy isnโt incompetence. We all know (or should know) the numbers because itโs not hidden, per se; itโs just studiedly not observed by the exact same people paid to observe things.
Hodges and his cohort simply arenโt in the threat-assessment business. Theyโre in the narrative-maintenance business. Stoke outrage over a housewifeโs intemperate tweet, memory-hole the scale of the real, ideologically lopsided threat, and keep the approved script humming.
This is not journalism because they are not journalists in the conventionally understood sense of journalism. Not even. honest observers. Theyโre performers in a propaganda chorus.
When one woman gets the full weight of the state for a deleted post that no serious person considers an actually significant call for violence while 40,000 people a year on average for 20 years get a revolving door and polite euphemisms?
Thatโs not balance. Thatโs a racket. And the public at last is clocking it despite the best efforts of the media-government complex to confound and confuse them. Screw that.
Newspaper circulation is in freefall. Legacy media bleeds readers by the tens of thousands while X has become the public sphere. I might add the words for better or worse but for the moment Iโm impressed by the better.
These narrative vampires are being exposed, forced onto the platform they despise chasing relevance, only to find theyโre dragged into the sunlight theyโve long avoided. The exposure is glorious, and long overdue.
@godblesstoto And on his X account, he has posted a photo of you, and he is txting the same message "I have to put up with this bullshit every day" ๐