Eldritch Mlems

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I finished doing dishes and turned to see my lil void staring plaintively up at me.

I just wanna say thank you for all these kind words. It feels soooooo good knowing that your struggles are "normal" and that other people go through the same, but it dies get better. It also feels good reading all the fantastic comments under all these posts here. This community helped ne a lot in my harder times and I Am so glad this community exists and is filled with such wonderful people.

Tail wag like whoosh. Now mama just has to wrap up this meeting. Hope your day is filled with treats!

... in a way I don't like, a thing I don't really care about ...

(Bonus kitty info: Gli)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35472904

So It's been probably 5 years since I've had anything resembling a friend group, or really anything like a friend; and recently I've been wanting to get out there again but I've stumbled across a couple roadblocks.

I can't do IRL because my town has 1000 people in it and most of them are hardcore conservatives and I don't own a car (fuck american infrastructure)

I am struggling to find an online group because I am extremely uncomfortable around men due to a lot of childhood stuff, and a majority of the public spaces are either mixed Adult / Teen or Adult only with absolutely zero tolerance for NSFW (I'm a hentai artist, unfortunately, I love my hobby too much lol).

I feel like a lot of it are personal hurdles I need to overcome too - like I'm very embarrased at how deep my voice is, I haven't had very many positive social encounters when I'm being myself and not putting up a façade etc.

But I have been working on myself recently and I think I'm getting there, but by trying to be too safe I can't really find the community I need. But I know for a fact that if I venture out too far I'll just end up getting hurt again, and my sensitive ass is pretty sensitive so y'know that's a shit deal.

What I want to know is: how did you find your group, and is it really worth it to put myself out there right now?

Forgive me if this is not appropriate discussion here, but the description says discussion is allowed so here goes:

After some research and online discussion we decided to upgrade our cat's bathroom equipment from a regular litter box to a fancy expensive FurryTail automatic litter box. I am happy to report that generally we are very happy with it, the cats seem to love it, and overall it works great.

The only problem we're trying to figure out, is that it stinks worse than the regular cat box we used to have. I'm talking about right after use, not really "ambient" odor, but when the one cat uses it, the entire first floor of our home is eye-wateringly stinky. We never noticed this happen before. With the old analog cat box we almost never had odor problems. I suspect it has something to do with the cats burrying it before and now the machine "unburies" it while it's "fresh" and puts it in a bag that does not contain the evil... that's the only thing I can think of. The situation also puzzles us. This is a tiny monster, pooing in a nearly completely enclosed barrel, that is closed INSIDE an unused shower, in a tiny side bathroom. There are multiple layers of containment and it still manages to permeate the whole house. On top of that, while it seems like it's really just right after they use it, we're assuming we're getting nose blind and probably the whole house stinks more than we think, all the time.

I've been using activated charcoal in the receptacle and shower area. We also use the Arm and Hammer deodorizing powder in the litter itself. I'm wondering what else I can do? (besides go back to the old cat box.)

here's a cat tax photo of the poo poo monster just because:

Unfortunately it’s now his.

In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

The talks, described as preliminary in nature, appear to build on an idea that has gained some currency in conservative media since the Minneapolis shooting that killed two children and injured 21, most of them children, at Annunciation Catholic Church, an attack that police say was carried out by a 23-year-old transgender woman.

And if you don't, feel free to borrow Gus Gus. He's very friendly! Have a great day!