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Cake day: March 7th, 2025

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  • She doesn’t do the stompy stomps when she gets scratches, she does it in protest when we stop. Usually accompanied by vocal protest as well. She’s gotten very pushy about being the one who dictates the end of scritches. Her butt and back are her favorite spots. She immediately turns around after the petting starts, even when shes just been groomed.

    The name is just because being named after a warrior queen seemed badass.

    Oddly enough, I had another dog many years ago who also looked almost identical, Callie. One of her ears flopped down after adolescence but the other never did. I always lovingly made fun of her for being lopsided. The resemblance was a complete coincidence, no relation or anything.

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  • That’s my reading as well. I have no idea what is actually in Article IX but it sounds like UAE snuck in “except us” when it came to defining the ICJ’s jurisdiction. It’s giving SovCit vibes, only instead of a sovereign citizen unbeholden to their government and declaring their house a nation state, it’s a country unbeholden to the world and declaring themselves outside of its purview. And the ICJ is just shrugging their shoulders saying the same thing.

    Imagine someone shooting up heroin while driving, getting pulled over on a highway on-ramp, then telling the cop who is looking at the needle in their arm that technically this is a highway, so highway patrol are the only ones who could pull them over. In what world does the cop shrug and say “Aw shucks, you’re right” before getting back in their squad car and driving off? Because it seems like the international equivalent of that just happened but with genocide instead of addiction.