Sundown Kitty

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Gay. 30s. They/he. Often Shiba. Part-time Hrothgar. Board gamer. Trans rights. BLM. Blueberry 🐱🐕. Will like NSFW content. Please be 18+ to follow.

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

My mouth is dry so I... Drink water -> need to piss, but my mouth is still dry so I... Drink water -> need to piss, but my mouth is still dry so I... Drink water -> need to piss, but my mouth is still dry so I... Why is the body so inefficient, I have a complaint.

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I did a panel earlier this year on character development, and the idea of "earned subversion," where there an "earned" payoff to keeping a characters traits very consistent for a long time, for the purpose of getting to make jokes way later on in their arc. This is my favorite example of this 😭😭

Cheetahs are widely considered the weakest of the big predators due to their extreme physical specialization for speed rather than combat. Once they caught prey there's a big risk of lions, hyenas or a leopard showing up and taking it away from them. Cheetah life ain't easy.

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