southsamurai

Well, fuck. It always sucks to lose a companion for any reason, but cancer sure as hell sucks a little extra. Winston was a sweet looking dog. Nothing ever makes it better, but you aren't alone in the grief. Plenty of us have lost our canine buddies, so we know the pain of it too.

Hail Winston!

C'mon, y'all all were singing it too

Yo, IDGAF what you're doing, if you don't stop to pet a dog that wants petting, you aren't worthy of the term human.

If it swims, it's a fish

My damn kid left the refrigerator open

Sure. There's a rather vibrant writers' community, plenty of visual artists (including photography that isn't just cats and hiking), and the endless political shit.

You don't get as much of the random people running their mouths though.

The key to Mastodon is the # curation over time. Search your interests, use the hashtags to set up your feed, and only use the full federated feed to find terms you didn't think to search for, or that aren't obviously connected to your interests.

As an example, if you're a writer, you'll obviously follow something lunge #writing, but you might not find #pennedpossibilities, or #writerscoffeeclub by searching, despite them being active prompt based groups that end up having a lot of good interactions between writers (casual, amateurs, and pros).

Tbh, the least represented segment is the typically nerdy stuff. Much more prevalent on lemmy. There's plenty there, it just isn't as common as other segments.

Yup, best keyboard I've ever used. They made slightly different versions over the years that fit my hands as well, but none that lasted the way those do; mine is still fully functional.

Some of us write books too :)

Fwiw, and I don't know if it was intentional or not, it's embarrassed and wielder, not imbarrest or wilder.

¿Porque no los dos?

Dude, I am happy as hell for you that it took this long to experience one.

Considering how rare it is for anyone to pay enough attention to the complex and difficult processing needed to feed an obligate carnivore a vegan diet without fucking it up, I'm going to call bullshit on a vegan being allowed to have a cat. If you believe that strongly in whatever it is, just don't have a cat instead of screwing them up.

Even a dog is dubious, because again, most people can't be trusted to make their own dog food with meat and not screw the animal up. The extra steps to make it a vegetarian diet is beyond most people, and a vegan diet is harder to manage. So, you know, pick a companion animal that doesn't eat meat at all, you'll all be happier.

It isn't the diet itself that's the problem. It's humans being fucking morons and thinking they can handle the job when they can barely handle picking their nose. It's like the idiots that feed their dog grapes, raisins, and chocolate because "it hasn't hurt him any". Yet is the word they forget to add.

And, as shitty as it will seem, vegans aren't smarter or more reliable than anyone else. If anything, the kind of zealot that's going to try and feed a cat vegan instead of just picking good foods that are sourced well are less capable of using their brain properly because blind faith is a sign of stupidity.