I Can Haz Trail Cam?

Efurry night somebody triggers the driveway spotlights. I jump up onto the window cat bed but I don't see anything.

So my daddy bought a trail cam. AND now I see photos of our visitors. I thought I would share some.

Handsome tabby

Dis handsome tabby has swirls.

Ragamuffin

Ragamuffin sneaking home while da humans were looking for her in da park.

Spots

Dis pretty cat takes a different route dan Handsome Tabby. Mostly da camera see her tail.

Skunk

Da skunky bumbled through da yard.

Rabbit

Da rabbit looks most nommy when he hopping around my yard.

New Tool: Am I Shadowbanned?

I'm not shadowbanned!

Lately some folks on twitter have been complaining that people can't see them and it got me wondering about this thing called "Shadowbanning". What is shadowbanning? Am I shadowbanned? Let's find out.

First, some definitions from https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/

Search Suggestion Ban
This type of ban causes an account to not populate search suggestions and people search results when it is searched for while being logged out. Twitter seems to take tie strength or a similar metric into account. While an account may be suggested to users you are strongly tied to, it may not be shown to others.

Search Ban
This type of ban causes your tweets to be hidden from the search results entirely, no matter whether the quality filter is turned on or off. This behavior includes hashtags as well. This type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts.

Thread Ban
This is what is referred to as conventional shadowban or ghost banning as well. It comprises a search ban while threads are completely ripped apart by hiding reply tweets of the affected user to others. Everything will look perfectly normal to the affected user but many others will not be able to see reply tweets of the affected user at all. Reasons for this ban include behavior like excessive tweeting or following. Again, this type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts.

Gwen Cooper - Email list and Free eBook.

Hey pals, get a free ebook from @homerblindcat's mom just for signing up for her mailing list. Keep up on all things Homer, upcoming books and on Gwen's fundraising activities. https://t.co/AzpUP3UQMm

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• gwencooper.com

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Words of Wisdom for Anipals

Words of Wisdom. #kittehboiwisdom

• Never say anything on the internet you wouldn't want to see spray-painted on the front of your house.
• There's no such thing as a new best friend.
• The worst kind of bully is the one who pretends to be the victim.
• A fish is not aware of the water.
• "Hallucination" means "Your dream doesn't match my dream."
• If you're poor you're crazy, if you're rich you're eccentric.
• When life gives you demons, make demonade.
• Live every week like it’s shark week.
• "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." Jim Rohn
• "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." Josephine Hart.
• Let your hair down if you must, but don’t expect everyone to brush it for you.
• "Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can’t lose if your heart is in your work, but you can’t win if your heart is not in it." — Carlos Casteneda
• To persuade a man that his experience is not real or is worthless is to be a propagandist for some vested interest.
• To insist that the world has one meaning rather than another is politics.
• Being can be likened to a projective test.
• Who listens to my thoughts?
• We are grownups here. Disagreeing doesn't make us enemies. Anger isn't hate. Your enemy doesn't have to be mine. "Not liking" doesn't equal "disliking."

Words of Wisdom will be updated as the universe teaches new lessons. Got an idea for this post? Tweet it at me!

Thanks to CYMI Technology for the excellent Tweet Intent Generator.

REPOST from 2010 - #Chilipawty for 13th Birfday

Dis a repost from da first #chilipawty in 2010. https://kittehboi.blogspot.com/2010/03/chilipawty-for-13th-birfday.html

Cinco De Mayo #Chilipawty on May 5, 2010.
New Time: 2-10PM EDT
RSVP at http://twtvite.com/chilipawty

DJs, Barktenders needed
Cinco De Mayo #Chilipawty Home Page

Dat grumpy old sisfurcat Chilipepper gonna be 13 years old on May 6, 2010. Dat her real birfday. Her mama was feral and da lady's friend put a box out for da mama to use. Cats are pragmatic, dat mama had Chilipepper and her brovver Mr. Spooky and 4 other little black kittens in a box on her porch. Da mama know da hoooman loved kittehs and could keep dem safe while she hunted.


@Sisfurcats Chilipepper and her brofurcat Mr. Spooky as tiny kittens in 1997. Wasn't she sweet? She was da runt of da litter.




Dis Mr. Spooky and Chilipepper hanging out on da sofa in 1998. He had a kangaroo tail! He did take care of his little sister. Mr. Spooky crossed RB in 1999. Chilipepper went on walkabout looking for him and was in bad shape when she found her way home 9 days later. She healed up ok, but didn't talk for several months. Poor Miss Chilipepper.



In 2002 Miss Chilipepper had a medical emergency. Her back end was paralyzed one morning when she woke up and she started having seizures. Da lady did reiki on her all da way to Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Neurology. Chili was in vhosp for several days. We don't know what happened, but da hoomans no longer use harsh cleaners or lawn chemicals and are very scared of spot-on flea treatments.




Chilipepper's back end iz weak since den and hurts sometimes. On bad days she can be very grumpy but we do love her anyway.




Da Chilipepper do have a nice life. She likes to hang out in da garden wif da lady and also likes to lie on da porch letting the sun warm her bones. I have been acting as her personal trainer since I got here in 2007. She is much more spry now.

Maybe da lady will make her a great big tuna cake wif salmon cream cheese icing and shrimp filling.
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