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Christopher Paulsen

@chrispco.bsky.social

Creator of the webcomic Precocious. Currently force-hiatused and disabled thanks to good ol' malpractice. Still trying to get back to creating. 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻 Many, MANY cat photos shall be shared, including foster kittens!

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Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 1h ago

Final step on my “way more than my body could handle” day was PT. Smart to wreck myself right before, so my body’s stiffness increased and we couldn’t cover it in an hour! (Especially since morning meds expired by then!) Anyway, have a kitten sampler. Stories behind pics in alt text, as always.

Emanata, the light gray tabby four-week-old kitten, and Stipple, her golden tabby brother, had different trajectories today. Emmy was everywhere, running and jumping to follow me as I walked around the catio, the climbing me when I was in there with her. Stipple just hopped atop the heated cubby and fell asleep. But when I sat down and had Emmy climb me while next to Stipple’s perch??? WAR WERE DECLARED! These two hilariously brawled, and I loved it. In this picture, Stipple’s paw is blocking a pouncing Emmy’s face, as her tongue is sticking out. He’s also preparing to kick her off him. (But she always comes back, Stipple!)As the kittens wore themselves out, they wandered back to the double decker cubby, as their momma, Moiré, was in the lowest cubby. But they still had some energy, so our weary mother cat, the golden tabby, had to be climbed on as kittens found their spot. And maybe that was the nicer move…Emanata, fresh off her fighting Stipple, went to visit her momma in the cubby and, of course, attacked her mother’s head and face! You can also see two of her siblings under her and momma Moiré, trying to nap through Emmy’s onslaught (I believe that’s actually Stipple being stepped over)! Emanata looks so precious, so I forgive her!The one kitten who held out the longest before going to nap on momma is our brown tabby prodigy, Dot Matrix. She’s also the one who plays with ball toys, so I held up a blue ball toy as she climbed on me, causing her to reach out for the toy!
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 5h ago

Stop 2 is foster kitten central, including the comic printing kittens! They are growing up! They eat food on their own! They use the litter on their own! They run and climb! They play with toys! (Momma gets to rest!) Look at Dotty bat that ball up and down the catio, as Emmy watches!

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 5h ago

Stop 1 is a vet for Crescent and Gibbous. Crescent couldn’t be adopted Saturday cuz she started sneezing, so we gotta get her right! These two are so playful, and the vet’s slippy floor are the Best Thing Ever! They don’t mind there’s a delay. (Tho they moved on to wrecking the desk area instead!)

Black kittens jumping and spinning as they enjoy a slippy vet office floorThe black kittens are now fighting on the vet office’s scaleThe two black kittens are in time out from being too chaotic, and are in their carrier.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 9h ago

Folks… if they nap all day it means they play all night. I am a sleep-deprived zombie, and I have to drive three different times today! Wheee!

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 2d ago

Having a major "Calvin's Dad" reaction to network TV shows where they don't even try with casting. It's all 20-35yo generic hotties with great hair in every job, screwing each other constantly. Just cynical producers taking cardboard cutouts and bumping 'em against each other, saying "kiss! kiss!"

Calvin's dad of Calvin and Hobbes reacting to network TV's extreme and shallow cliche stuff. In this case, a habit of extreme closeups when drama happens. It ends with him standing against the far wall to give the actors the personal space humans deserve.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 2d ago

I crashed out due to severe pain and ended up with them at the foot of the bed, right back to crazies with Calliope interpreting Ayla’s sleepy stretching as an invitation to spar! (Sleepy cuddles only won in the end cuz I sacrificed my hand to absorb Callie’s blows, for Ayla was flat-out ASLEEP!)

Two foster kittens flopped on a bed together, with fluffy calico Calliope leaning back as the sleeping gray and cream tabby Ayla stretched out unwittingly and made contact. (I prevented the disaster that usually would’ve happened.)Calliope the fluffy calico foster kitten looks at me with eyes saying she still kinda wants to slap the asleep light gray tabby Ayla, for Ayla is cuddling a desirable mouse toy.And now Callie’s got ahold of the mouse toy after Ayla woke up! But only cuz I instigated a trade and Ayla got the fluffy dingle ball Callie had, so it’s a fair trade! No kitten war tonight! (Until I leave the room, at least.)
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 2d ago

Calliope jumped on the bed to swat at Ayla! (In a friendly way.) When the fluffball settled down, Ayla bit Callie’s butt and Callie fled! Victory for the little girl! (But Callie returned and beat up Ayla again as I typed, then Ayla cheap shotted Callie again. Bad habits are being learned!!!)

Ayla the gray and cream tabby lays in the bed in a defensive posture while Calliope the fluffy calico is beside her, oblivious and thinking they’re having fun.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 2d ago

A month of constant triggering of my movement disorder has me so deep in pain brain and executive dysfunction that I just don't know how meals work anymore. I can look at bacon and eggs in my fridge, and there's no way for my brain to successfully lead me to turn them into a meal on a plate.

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 2d ago

Calliope learning to be a kitten a little late means she’s playing little kitten-style wildly while also being a larger-framed girl - and her big paws say more massive floof is coming! Little Ayla is sometimes throttled by our big bruiser, and she runs to hide behind me when Callie gets too wild.

A calico fluffball kitten happily watches her “sister” (may be real sisters, may just be from parallel litters) who is much smaller and had enough with the tackling. Sister Ayla, a gray and cream tabby, is about to jump on the bed and hide behind me while fluffball terror Calliope attacks every toy on the floor.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Instant update: The girls played as I typed the post, ending with BOTH going flying off the bed, before some major play fighting on the floor. (Note: Callie is MUCH stronger than Ayla!) PS: Callie doesn’t know of the gap in the blockers to under the bed, behind the cat carrier, but Ayla does.

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 2d ago

NFL thread, so mute accordingly… Penix is a “rhythm QB” - meaning when he’s locked in he’s a dynamo, but it’s easy to make him lose concentration and fall apart. Is there any wonder why *I* can’t help but root for him? (I’m sure Atlanta fans feel differently.) Win one for the scatterbrains!

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Instant update: The girls played as I typed the post, ending with BOTH going flying off the bed, before some major play fighting on the floor. (Note: Callie is MUCH stronger than Ayla!) PS: Callie doesn’t know of the gap in the blockers to under the bed, behind the cat carrier, but Ayla does.

Calliope the fluffy calico kitten is confused over where her sister Ayla went. Ayla is a smaller light gray shorthair tabby, who needed a break from losing every play fight and ran under the bed. Calliope doesn’t know about the secret path under the bed yet, so she’s investigating the cat carrier that’s in front of the entrance. “Why isn’t she in there???”
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Bedtime! I had Ayla squished into the covers next to me, when Calliope had to get involved and took the foot of the bed. I pet Callie, she rolled over… and fell off! Eventually, I’m startled at a THUMP. Callie smashed into the door cuz a cat was on the other side. Dragged her back to bed.

The “after” pic, once a riled up Callie (fluffy calico kitten) was caught and taken back to Ayla (shorthair gray and cream tabby kitten) for comfort. They ended up playing together and… it ended with Callie falling off the bed AGAIN.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨Ayla grooming Calliope!!!🚨 Taking Ayla along, when I initially was to only take Callie, succeeded in building a bond and helping the socializing! Weekends to get them shown at Petsmart will be very limited, so we’d best get them perfect FAST! Ayla’s already good to go, but Callie still needs her!

A medium gray tabby shorthair kitten lays behind a larger fluffier calico kitten and grooms her head. The calico looks at the camera with a smug expression.The gray tabby kitten continues grooming the calico kitten, and this photo catches her tongue vividly facing off with the calico’s floof!
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Part 3: Calliope’s now warmed up enough to me she’ll stay at her rest spot even if I’m in the bed, and will also let me reach down and cuddle her or lift her up with me! And so I barely left my bed all day. (Ayla broke through the barrier I set up and crawled under the bed. Bye forever???)

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

The only moisturizer I've ever used is the 20-year-old tub of Cera-Ve that arrived in a box of my dead grandfather's things. But this year my knuckles are so dry they're cracking, so I guess I gotta contemplate the goo. Is the old tub good enough? Is there another type you skin-having humans use?

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Part 3: Calliope’s now warmed up enough to me she’ll stay at her rest spot even if I’m in the bed, and will also let me reach down and cuddle her or lift her up with me! And so I barely left my bed all day. (Ayla broke through the barrier I set up and crawled under the bed. Bye forever???)

A view from my bed, looking down as Calliope the fluffy calico kitten looks up from her current fav spot: resting against the wedge pillow I used to keep her from hiding under my bed all day.Ayla the medium gray tabby found she could get under my bed by knocking cloth that was buffering the corners aside, so this is one of the last shots of her before she proudly went to nap in her personal Ayla Zone.An earlier shot of the two kittens by my bed. If you had asked me who’d stick around and who’d end up hiding, I’d have guessed wrong! Callie is breaking through the shyness and becoming adoptable!
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Part two! I woke to them playing, took my meds to start my day, and happily watched them go… and go… and go… and then I woke up two hours later, cuz they kept me “trapped” in bed for so long! You babies filibustered your breakfast!

Nash@radiodeadair.com · 3d ago

Do not fear these people. Oppose them, watch them, mock them, fight them, but for god's sake do not *fear* these dipshits. They're not secret geniuses. They're not invincible.

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 3d ago

Isn't today the anniversary of the "Four Seasons" press conference? Someone needs to get him talking about asylum seekers today to hit an unholy Emperor No-Clothes trinity. (I hope someone's keeping a list of all times Trump's done this, and I pray for that listkeeper's sanity.)

Dave Lack@davelack.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oh my god. That is EXACTLY what happened. Someone suggested a Heritage Foundation and Fox contributor and he mixed them up. 😂😂😂

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

I had to turn a typed-out number into just the number cuz character limit, and only now do I see I hit the WRONG number. I selected the word “three” and fat fingered so it got replaced with a “2” - dammit. In my defense, I was in the catio at the time, and the moon duo were slapping at my phone!

Two black cat siblings touching noses on a tipped over scratching post tower, which had to dry out after they toppled their water dish. They are the moon phase duo. The larger one is Gibbous, and his smaller sister is Crescent.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

At four weeks, babies are climbers! Each enjoys shifts atop the cubby (2 were up there together once!) and it’s by far a more preferable act than them trying to climb the wire mesh walls! (Yes, Dotty is biting Benny’s butt as a sneak attack in pic 2. I missed the pic of his reaction yelp, alas.)

4-week-old dark brown tabby kitten Ben Day looks out from atop the cubby in the catio jr., as Emanata the light gray tabby lurks behind him. There is a third kitten, dark brown tabby Dot Matrix, barely visible behind Benny. Benny has tilted his head to hide that he got eye medicine!
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think the only scene I haven’t shared some part of today is Emanata staring down from on high. As seen from both catios! (I have more Dotty/Benny brawl pics, but the butt biting photo might be enough on its own.)

A light gray tabby kitten looks down from the top of her heated cubby. All the kittens are now climbing up there. They’re about to graduate to the larger catio!A view from the larger catio, when a flash went off and illuminated all the wire screen walls - but also got little light gray kitten Emanata in focus, showing her watching me from the top of the cubby in the catio jr.
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

More danger sweeties. (5 pics.) They spent a lot of time climbing on my lap, once they lost the chance to run out the door, before settling down with their mother… and finally allowing me to go home without guilt!

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 4d ago

For the record, I do actually think that public art commemorating the evil that happened during the Trump administration is necessary and good. That is part of how we build a national conversation and prevent this from ever happening again.

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

At four weeks, babies are climbers! Each enjoys shifts atop the cubby (2 were up there together once!) and it’s by far a more preferable act than them trying to climb the wire mesh walls! (Yes, Dotty is biting Benny’s butt as a sneak attack in pic 2. I missed the pic of his reaction yelp, alas.)

4-week-old dark brown tabby kitten Ben Day looks out from atop the cubby in the catio jr., as Emanata the light gray tabby lurks behind him. There is a third kitten, dark brown tabby Dot Matrix, barely visible behind Benny. Benny has tilted his head to hide that he got eye medicine!When Ben Day tried to climb down from the cubby, his dark brown tabby kitten twin, Dot Matrix, launched a sneak attack! By which I mean she bit his butt. Emanata the light gray tabby kitten walks along the top of the cubby alone, looking elegant. Two kittens - I think golden tabby Stipple and dark brown tabby Ben Day - test out climbing the wire mesh of the catio jr.’s walls on the ground floor. (Sister Dot Matrix, however, went for it while on the second level. Not a move that went well! She landed in the litter box.)
Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

Conspiracy theory time: Someone hacked the stoplight system in Winchester, changing what was already a pretty rough timer system into a bonus mess, creating new traffic clumps. (Or Winchestidiots are so slow to react, the first one at the light lingers before moving and inaction resets the cycle!)

Christopher Paulsen@chrispco.bsky.social · 4d ago

BlueSky discourse is “fun” cuz everyone is pretty correct in the *aspect* of a topic they’re actually discussing. If a topic is a person, some are discussing the head, others discuss the arms, too many discuss the butt, and then the rest come in and yell, thinking all were talking about the whole!

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d ago

“You don’t understand what a Speaker of the House does” no I think YOU don’t understand that coming out 12 hours after a historic win and trying to slow the momentum of the movement on behalf of the opposition is automatically disqualifying for any would-be leader of that movement.