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One of my best friends, someone whom I knew for 35 years and really loved, died suddenly yesterday.
I’m wrecked.
I had a long conversation with him just last week; we talked about his amazement seeing his daughter grow up, about her creativity and the meaning she seemed to conjure from nowhere. We talked about his new project and optimism for next year, about car repair, hiking, marriage — shit, we covered everything.
He was a gentle, thoughtful dude, and one of my favorite people in the whole world. Every time it hits me that I will never get to talk to him again, I start crying.
54, and gone way too soon. This hole you left and the grief spilling out of it? I don’t know if I can ever mend it, and damn, damn, damn, goddamn I miss you.
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I’m so sorry for your loss.
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Thank you.
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It’s sometimes true in Poland too. If I rented my flat instead of owning it I would pay at least two times more that my current monthly mortgage payment.
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My psych is dead. Died a week ago but I found out today. Saw him on and off for more than 20 years and thought I’d be devastated but so far, an hour or two after finding out, I’m just angry. Fuck today, fuck this fucking pandemic and most of all fuck cancer. Vale, Doc.
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Youtube channel Second Thought just released their latest video- A quick tour through the history of the crimes of the CIA.
It was immediately demonetised, age-restricted and placed behind a content warning.
This leads to two thoughts:
- Of course I’m going to post this here and try to Streissand the shit out of it.
- Perhaps trusting mega-corporations as the gatekeepers of all online content, and hoping that they wouldn’t eliminate all leftist productions was a bad idea after all.
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Came home from walking the dog to find my cat’s dead body under a bush near the porch. No visible damage, he was healthy and happy when he went for his regular morning excursion. He was only four.
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Jesus! This is terrible! I’m so sorry.
Have you taken his body to the vet to see if they know what happened to him? Maybe ask a neighbor if they saw anything with you cat?
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Alas, I can’t afford a necropsy. I’m not sure the vet is even offering them at the moment.
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I’m so sorry 
Ours died quite suddenly at age 8, but we were here to see it. Turns out blood clots are relatively common, and that’s what we think ours had. (We thought there was still a chance to save him and did a mad dash to the vet’s office but he was already dead, when we described the occurrence they explained about the blood clots).
If that IS what happened to your kitty, the small consolation is that if they don’t pass away all at once, they tend to get paralyzed from the waist down, then have a repeat occurrence within 6 months and die from that. I don’t mean to minimize your shock or pain at all. I took comfort in knowing that Hairy didn’t suffer for too long, even though I still miss him.
Internet hugs, and RIP, kitty.
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That really sucks not knowing. I’m so sorry.
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So very sorry you’re going through this. As soon as I finish this post, I will go find my little gray bastard and give him yet another semiconsensual hug that he doesn’t quite understand but is usually okay with as long as the other cats don’t see.
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We had that happen to one of ours. Suddenly paralyzed at the hips, dragging himself around and yowling (we assumed in pain.) One of the harder things I have ever done, but a gunshot is very quick.
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The church was well over a century old…
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A depressed teenager I talked to on Discord is forced by his parents to undergo “gay conversion therapy”, and will be sent to a christian “military” camp for 2 years if they think results are unsatisfactory. I worried he will be permamently traumatized by this or someting even worse will happen.
It’s seriously fucked up that these things even exist, it’s child abuse.
Here’s an article on one of those camps:
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How old is he? Is he old enough to be independent? There are some groups that might be able to help.
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He is 15 or 16.
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