Signs

There’s been this thing on Threads the past few days, maybe longer, about white stag sightings in Scotland. A group of mostly Americans are being all IT'S A SIGN about it or something. They’ve been going off about the return of the fae, the faeries, the “wee folk,” and whatever. All very Brigadoon and whatnot.

I follow a few Scots on the site and they’ve been finding this annoying as hell. They’re decidedly NOT thrilled about a bunch of USians reducing their country, their culture to nothing more than a bunch of fairy stories, Harry Potter tales, and myths.

I get it. How would Americans feel if the world saw the US and all its residents as nothing but extras in violent or silly flicks like Pulp Fiction or Some Like It Hot? Okay, not the same. A lot of Americans would totally benefit from the comparisons.

The point? Scotland is a real life, modern country, NOT some childish, fictional, fairy tale dream land. I also completely understand that a great many of us in this pedophilian hellscape want/NEED an escape hatch, a safe harbor, and a herald of the end of all the chaos and misery we're currently living through.

On that note – a group of sexual predators is called a Trump. So, like a murder of crows, we have a Trump of pedophiles.
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You may have heard of the Universal Cat Distribution System or UCDS as it’s often termed? This, roughly defined, is how cats find their new servants/homes. You don’t adopt a cat, the cat finds and adopts you. 

Why does this come up today? //shrugs// It’s getting cold and I worry about Cake’s cousins. We don’t see nearly as many stray babes around here as we used to. In fact, it’s a rare occurrence. I hope this is because most cat servants are keeping their feline overlords indoors – safe from the coyotes, dogs, and careless drivers.

Have you been chosen by the UCDS? Whether you can become the cat’s new minion or not, please consult these info sites for tips on what to do next: 

Found A Cat? – Massachusetts Animal Fund 

So You Found a Stray Cat, Now What? – Cat Care Society  

What To Do When a Stray Cat Adopts You – ASPCA 
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There is a cyborg hierarchy. They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us Deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the Hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture, and consider ourselves cured. They like exoskeletons, which none of us use. They don’t count as cyborgs those of us who wear pacemakers or go to dialysis. Nor do they count those of us kept alive by machines, those of us made ambulatory by wheelchairs, those of us on biologics or antidepressants. They want us shiny and metallic and in their image. 
~ Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century 

Disability rights activist, author, MacArthur Fellow, and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, Alice Wong died yesterday. She was 51 years old.

I want to get the Disability Visibility collection. I could use some goddamned inspiration. Yesterday I had my Y Partners Program session and today I am sore and depleted. Came home and texted Jen that I felt sure my “training partners” (personal trainers lite, sort of) were trying to kill me. Not really but I def felt challenged. This is fine but I’m Tylenoled up and taking today OFF.

This would be a good day to be a cyborg.