Avshalom posted:

i could totally see myself devoting my whole life to hand-raising goats. it takes about an hour per goat per day to raise a baby on the bottle and they are really good at following people around so i could end up with a perfectly trained nomadic flock of twenty within a few months, very useful when ww3 breaks out

Hollismason posted:

That's actually a very good idea. Personally I think that they should implement EMT- Basic Training in High Schools because it covers a wide range of topics and is just like really super useful for life.

boner confessor posted:

drug ed should be taught alongside sex ed

Gin and Juche posted:

in abstinence only schools it often is

Furnaceface posted:

Ah yes, the ever successful Catholic school approach.

Furnaceface posted:

Ah yes, the ever successful Catholic school approach.

Bueno Papi posted:

Is that a Jack-Russel Corgi?

Avshalom posted:

although i don't know much about his genetic history and some of his behaviour is pretty corgi-like (he herds quails!) so he might have some corgi in him

Chelb posted:

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coffee
COFFEE

Schizotek posted:

Have you read any of Darwish's work? I think you'd like it.

Chelb posted:

i haven't actually

where should i start

Schizotek posted:

I no longer wonder when the steely howling of the sea will stop. I live on the eighth floor of a building that might tempt any sniper, to say nothing of a fleet now transforming the sea into one of the fountainheads of hell. The north face of the building, made of glass, used to give tenants a pleasing view over the wrinkled roof of the sea. But now it offers no shield against stark slaughter. Why did I choose to live here? What a stupid question! I’ve lived here for the past ten years without complaining about the scandal of glass.

But how to reach the kitchen?

I want the aroma of coffee. I want nothing more than the aroma of coffee. And I want nothing more from the passing days than the aroma of coffee. The aroma of coffee so I can hold myself together, stand on my feet, and be transformed from something that crawls, into a human being. The aroma of coffee so I can stand my share of this dawn up on its feet. So that we can go together, this day and I, down into the street in search of another place.

How can I diffuse the aroma of coffee into my cells, while shells from the sea rain down on the sea-facing kitchen, spreading the stink of gunpowder and the taste of nothingness? I measure the period between two shells. One second. One second: shorter than the time between breathing in and breathing out, between two heartbeats. One second is not long enough for me to stand before the stove by the glass facade that overlooks the sea. One second is not long enough to open the water bottle or pour the water into the coffee pot. One second is not long enough to light a match. But one second is long enough for me to burn.

I switch off the radio, no longer wondering if the wall of this narrow hallway will actually protect me from the rain of rockets. What matters is that a wall be there to veil air fusing into metal, seeking human flesh, making a direct hit, choking it, or scattering shrapnel. In such cases a mere dark curtain is enough to provide an imaginary shield of safety. For death is to see death.

I want the aroma of coffee. I need five minutes. I want a five-minute truce for the sake of coffee. I have no personal wish other than to make a cup of coffee. With this madness I define my task and my aim. All my senses are on their mark, ready at the call to propel my thirst in the direction of the one and only goal: coffee.

Coffee, for an addict like me, is the key to the day.

And coffee, for one who knows it as I do, means making it with your own hands and not having it come to you on a tray, because the bringer of the tray is also the bearer of talk, and the first coffee, the virgin of the silent morning, is spoiled by the first words. Dawn, my dawn, is antithetical to chatter. The aroma of coffee can absorb sounds and will go rancid, even if these sounds are nothing more than a gentle “Good morning!”

Coffee is the morning silence, early and unhurried, the only silence in which you can be at peace with self and things, creative, standing alone with some water that you reach for in lazy solitude and pour into a small copper pot with a mysterious shine—yellow turning to brown—that you place over a low fire. Oh, that it were a wood fire!

Stand back from the fire a little and observe a street that has been rising to search for its bread ever since the ape disentangled himself from the trees and walked on two feet. A street borne along on carts loaded with fruits and vegetables, and vendors’ cries notable for faint praise that turns produce into a mere attribute of price. Stand back a little and breathe air sent by the cool night. Then return to your low fire—If only it were a wood fire!—and watch with love and patience the contact between the two elements, fire colored green and blue and water roiling and breathing out tiny white granules that turn into a fine film and grow. Slowly they expand, then quickly swell into bubbles that grow bigger and bigger, and break. Swelling and breaking, they’re thirsty and ready to swallow two spoonfuls of coarse sugar, which no sooner penetrates than the bubbles calm down to a quiet hiss, only to sizzle again in a cry for a substance that is none other than the coffee itself—a flashy rooster of aroma and Eastern masculinity.

Remove the pot from the low fire to carry on the dialogue of a hand, free of the smell of tobacco and ink, with its first creation, which as of this moment will determine the flavor of your day and the arc of your fortune: whether you’re to work or avoid contact with anyone for the day. What emerges from this first motion and its rhythm, from what shakes it out of a world of sleep rising from the previous day, and from whatever mystery it will uncover in you, will form the identity of your new day.

Because coffee, the first cup of coffee, is the mirror of the hand. And the hand that makes the coffee reveals the person that stirs it. Therefore, coffee is the public reading of the open book of the soul. And it is the enchantress that reveals whatever secrets the day will bring.

Schizotek posted:

Memory For Forgetfulness. Although to be honest alot of the English translations of his work aren't the best.

corn in the bible posted:

Tiler Kiwi posted:

the antifa furry juggalo progressive vanguard

e: the best thing on those altright furry twitter posts are all the antifa furries giving advice on how to beat up people in fursuits

boner confessor posted:

ugh daughter poured milk all over the chair cushions so i put them in the washer/dryer and now they're all lumpy and hosed up

Tiler Kiwi posted:

e: the best thing on those altright furry twitter posts are all the antifa furries giving advice on how to beat up people in fursuits

Paracaidas posted:

I feel like periscope was invented so that I don't have to miss the Furry Convention throwdowns, but also don't have to attend furry coventions.

Chelb posted:

hello

thanks for posting well in the trash fire that is the dnc thread

Avshalom posted:

i took these just for you, hope they help!



note the motion blur on the tail

Chelb posted:

hello

thanks for posting well in the trash fire that is the dnc thread

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/828031610591260672

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/828031610591260672

pangstrom posted:

I declare war on altfurry and also normal furry and animeright and also anime of the other directions.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

after two days of disrupted feeding schedule my puppy seems prepared for a violent putsch

i am sleeping with a hand vac under my pillow in case she makes a move in the middle of the night