Our outside cat, Rocky, died early Sunday morning; when I went out the back door about nine he was lying on the mat, and though he was cold he was not stiff. He’d been very thin for some time, but was still active and happy, and killed at least two rats in the past week that I know of; it’s possible such a fight may have contributed to his demise because there were signs of some kind of scuffle on both his body and in the area. He was native to Sunset; when we first started moving here in the summer of 2017 he was already here, though fairly young. And though he wanted more than anything else to be an inside cat (and viewed any open door as an invitation), unfortunately he had never learned to use a litterbox and steadfastly resisted all attempts to train him over the past several years. At first, that wasn’t really a problem because he simply did his business outside somewhere, but once the atrium roof and walls went up in ’22 he started spending most of his time in the atrium, and over the past two years he started leaving his poop in places I found inconvenient, which meant I had to get toilet paper and pick it up at least twice a day. And though I swore at him and kept trying (without success) to encourage him to use the litterbox, I wasn’t going to banish him from the atrium because I guess I’m a softie where animals are concerned. So he’s now buried in our little pet cemetery alongside Annie, Aeryn, and Jae’s cat Max, and I’m going to miss the little guy despite his bad habits.
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Diary #852
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on October 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Tricks, Treats, Etc
Posted in History, Links, Miscellaneous, Words, tagged animals, Antarctica, artificial stupidity, Bluesky, disease, holidays, imaginative fiction, internet, language, Pennsylvania, politicians, psychology, recipes, STEM, Thanatopsis, United Kingdom, Washington (state) on October 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun. So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween. If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, “Tricks for the Treat“, “Tricked Out Treats“, “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“, “Trick Treatment“, “Treats and Tricks“, and “Tricked Up a Treat“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included “Day of the Dead 2025“,”Hellhound“, “A Year Gone“, Diary #800, “Perspective Shift“, “Beware of the Shoggoths“, and Enshittification (#1649), and there are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #800, #803, #808, #809, #849, #850, and “Endless Sunday“. A collection of seasonal links and creepy tweets appears below.
- As one does.
- Merry Cthulhumas!
- Paging Dr. Frankenstein.
- It’s good to have a hobby.
- The Cat of the Baskervilles.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- The Onion has a gift for horror.
- Aboard the SS Queen of Ulthar.
- Simultaneously funny and horrifying.
- They used to blame underground rivers.
- Dust storms are back, now with added fungus!
- The Onion is at its best when doing horror or sci-fi.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
This weird 21st-century shit of Trick-or-Treating at random times on random days in October determined by mobs or politicians, instead of on Halloween night, was a sign of cultural decline. Too bad so few recognized that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-27T17:19:11.215Z
I'm afraid I'm committed to the ancient-forest-haunting gig for at least the next millennium, or until the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter exorcises me.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T08:25:21.562Z
I just can't get beyond the resemblance.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-16T19:29:02.571Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T19:50:01.065Z
The happy ending here is that despite all their ridiculous mumbo-jumbo and frantic posturing, Death will win as it always does.Ave Mortis, Imperator Mundi.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T18:51:08.690Z
If I were Canadian, right now I would feel like one of the guys in this scene:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T03:22:24.145Z
#3 is a very, very bad idea.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T17:50:01.254Z
This monster's face appears to have been designed by Jack Pierce. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm06823…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-30T17:38:45.538Z
I do not keep cursed objects in my home, and furthermore as a wise old crone who lives near a damp, creepy forest I advise y'all not to keep them in your homes, either.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T18:01:27.631Z
I reckon this must be a tataille, because it sure ain't a lougarou.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-17T17:54:41.692Z
"Mythos".They are taunting y'all, and few are literate enough to recognize it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T17:38:37.133Z
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He told me he had meddled in things that man must leave alone.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T08:13:53.616Z
Good thing they added the extra 40 years, just in case he manages to die and come back as a vampire twice.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-23T19:15:36.022Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-02T19:43:12.522Z
Blue Blood
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged advertising, animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, comics, contraception, cops, crypto-moralism, ethics, fantasy, Germany, Google, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, internet, Japan, language, Panama, politicians, psychology, robots, scams, The Pygmalion Fallacy, Washington DC, Who in Review, yin and yang on October 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder that on the 25th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the war it caused was already 21 years in the past, Japan and Germany had largely been rebuilt and become allies, and the economic costs of the war were largely behind the US (though not Europe or Asia).
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-11T17:44:58.998Z
I think scientists should lock RFK into a Skinner box to test this. Of course, several other Trump henchmen will need to be similarly-confined as a control group. A year or two of testing should prove or disprove the assertion.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-14T17:20:16.067Z
How much of a dangerous clown does a man have to be to get fired by ICE, which is practically the dangerous clown brigade?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-15T17:15:38.468Z
Looks like I made the right choice by stopping my book at the end of New Who. amazon.com/dp/B0FBLDZ2B…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-17T18:05:39.808Z
For those of you with very tenuous attachment to reality: Don't worry, the Panama Canal has not moved; it's in the same place it has always been since its completion in 1914.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-18T18:09:51.204Z
I really wish people understood verisimilitude, and that consistency of mundane elements is MORE important in a fantasy movie under the "change only one thing" principle.But alas, that ship sailed long ago; critics were already pointing it out in the '60s.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-19T17:12:25.407Z
This is possibly one of the stupidest diktats which have ever erupted from that festering pustule he uses to make sounds.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-22T16:44:49.712Z
I have said for decades that I'd much rather talk to someone who disagrees with me *and can articulate the reasons why* than someone who agrees with me and cannot.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-25T02:38:41.198Z
The group "Very Stupid People Who Are Nonetheless Convinced They Are Geniuses" have *always* been taken in by claims that one could live forever if one merely eats the "right" foods and performs the "correct" magical rites. The scam was already old when the Comte de Saint Germain was selling it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-25T17:42:44.300Z
There's a word for a woman who trusts a man to take care of birth control: "pregnant".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-27T01:58:03.448Z
Apparently, YouTube's search algorithm has been programmed so that when it can't find what you asked for, it just brings up a lot of commercials instead. It's like going to a restaurant, ordering something not on the menu, and being served ten dirty dishes and a bill.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-27T17:31:51.369Z
What a strange thing to say. Trump's belief that he is immune from any kind of legal limit is actually a rational one, because that's exactly how everyone in Washington behaves, including SCOTUS and Democratic members of Congress. If they want him to believe something else, they need to show him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-28T07:28:06.777Z
All of these people are so physically warped it's almost like the director is signaling that they have warped minds and personalities. It's kind of like a Dutch angle.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-29T07:58:23.998Z
He's not far enough "underwater" until his regime implodes like a submersible full of billionaires.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-30T17:17:07.213Z
When science won't give a powerful person the answer he wants, he invariably turns to mysticism. This syndrome goes back to the dawn of science 2500 years ago, and is largely responsible for the technological and social stagnation of the European middle ages. reason.com/2026/10/02/a…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-02T19:30:06.431Z
I love that the owl's facial expression says, "You've gotta be fucking kidding me."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-03T17:26:51.356Z
Basically, all the village idiots have been networked into a giant idiotnet (like a botnet, but with idiots) which functions like a computer to spew out more and bigger idiocy than could be produced by any one idiot or group of idiots. It's a massive breakthrough in the technology of idiocy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-04T18:16:09.793Z
The main problem with those stupid enough to believe even a single word of this Bronze-Age nonsense is that they're allowed to vote.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-06T17:50:29.076Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-07T07:42:20.746Z
Remember what "code" is: a set of instructions. If an LLM has feelings, so does every one of those printed sheets that come with Ikea furniture. So does the phrase "close cover before striking" on a matchbook.Yes, this is absurd. People need to start saying so. A picture of a human is not a human.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-10T07:43:11.040Z
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-10T18:00:31.330Z
Oh please, God, please, I don't ask for much…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-12T17:42:16.917Z
Yeah, we've noticed.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-13T17:48:41.989Z
Actual LOL.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-15T17:35:05.310Z
Quoted post: the fantasy.This post: the reality
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-16T17:56:17.598Z
That's the story of government from ancient times to the present. In all but very rare cases (so rare they are historically notable), the rulers of any political grouping are the most despicable creatures in the land.What makes Trump different is that he can't even PRETEND to be a civilized man.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-17T07:41:54.468Z
Requiem for Throwback Thursday
Posted in Fiction, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged animals, blogging, Bluesky, cops, ethics, language, politicians, psychology, racism, Twitter on October 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Diary #847
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on September 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If you compare this video to the one I took several weeks ago, you can see just how much happier and healthier the turkey is now that he can roam around outside of the coop, safe from literal henpecking. When I took this video on Saturday, I got a good look at the area on his back which was so bad before, and it seems largely healed now. He still spends a lot of his time near the fence, but that seems to be because he’s learned I throw feed corn over the fence when I come out around noon; after that, he wanders all over looking for bugs in the grass. A few days ago I even heard him in the north paddock, under the apple trees, when I opened up the living room window in the morning. I’ve been trying to catch him when he’s making his gobbling noises, but as so often happens with animals doing interesting things, he always stops when I grab the phone! So you’ll just have to be satisfied with watching him strut, unless I happen to catch a better video before this publishes on Monday. At least now I know how to handle larger fowl (I’ve always wanted peacocks) when they start getting too large for the henhouse!
Links #846
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, BDSM, Believe Them, Canada, cops, Enshittification, fascism, Florida, Georgia, Google, Hollywood, I Saw My Brain, illegal aliens, Indiana, New York, politicians, racism, Robocops, Texas, video, Washington DC on September 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
They’re letting police do just about anything. – Randall Kallinen
When Dolly Parton died a few weeks ago, I seemed to be the only one who remembered this 1976 guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo; the video was clearly taken from the edited reruns of old shows aired on PBS in the late ’80s. Of particular note: Dolly reading a children’s book aloud, almost 20 years before starting her Imagination Library charity. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Radley Balko; Lucy Steigerwald; Mistress Matisse & Dan Savage; C.J. Ciaramella; IncarcerNation; and Radley Balko again, in that order.
- Fascism enables idiocracy.
- Polk County, Florida, again.
- Another taste of the new dark age.
- R.I.P. Jay Wiseman and Bob Mackie.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Man murdered for being security guard while black.
- Trump worshipers claim his name is a magical charm against entropy.
From the Archives
- Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
- “Fentanyl” is now another porcine pretext for harassing & robbing people.
- Humans: a swarm of self-important flies panicking over a rotting cow pie.
- Australian cops bravely protect imaginary children from imaginary abuse.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- This “monkey see, monkey do” parade is now parading around the world.
- This phrasing strongly implies strangling a woman while on duty is A-OK.
- Missouri politicians govern by edict, sans tiresome democratic processes.
- If something like “trafficking” propaganda happens, it’s usually a church.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Asstoon’s surveillance company will keep outing sex workers to the pigs.
- Why does society allow its medical system to be used for state violence?
- The wholly-predictable results of bad laws, happening just as predicted.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on and harassed?
- The real culprit: invasive surveillance & onerous infantilization of teens.
- The Japanese are the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality.
- Never forget that “filter” used thus is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Government often attacks with civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Anyone who’s ever closely known a narcissist will see the truth of this.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- The state enriches itself via unconstitutional warrantless surveillance.
- Curated selections of tweets from September 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even if the woman is a cop herself.
- Don’t infantilize young victims of government brutality as “children”.
- As if rude assholes talking loudly on cell phones wasn’t bad enough.
- Politicians will never let go of prohibitionism until they’re forced to.
- All laws should sunset after 10 years unless intentionally renewed.
- Cops, immigrants, Tom Bombadil, Tito Jackson, and much more.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- Arresting men for fictitious “crimes” against imaginary people.
- Surprising absolutely no one who understands McNeill’s Law.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- It’s a good thing I don’t get emotionally attached to poultry.
- All those who facilitate cops’ evil are enemies of humanity.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Robert Redford, and much more.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- I’m honestly unsure why this doesn’t happen more often.
- The “cops bearing gifts” PR scam is not limited to adults.
- Authoritarians, like leopards, cannot change their spots.
- Can a sex worker win an election in the puritanical US?
- Wannabe preachers are often as bad as the real thing.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- Cops, “records”, Roger Whittaker, and much more.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- AHF has a history of financial shenanigans.
- My first and only guest column by a robot.
- Zuckerberg is completely out of his mind.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
- My recipe for fried green tomatoes.
- The Curse of Throwback Thursday.
- Modern Throwback Thursday.
- Thursday of Throwbacks.
- Goldilocks blackberries.
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Throwback Thursday Doll
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged animals, blogging, cops, domestic violence, infidelity, New York, politicians, psychology, United Kingdom on September 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The Dragonflies of Memory
Posted in Biography, History, tagged animals, Louisiana, New Orleans on September 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
In my south Louisiana childhood, dragonflies were so common they sometimes looked almost like a fog overhead, especially in the late afternoon; if you sat still for a few minutes they’d start landing on you. The most common colors were blue and green, but in the canefield behind my house there were yellowish-orange ones with stripes on the wings, and we’d occasionally see big purple ones or shiny bronze ones. At my granduncle’s farm in Ponchatoula, I once caught an absolutely enormous bright orange one. They weren’t all that hard to catch, and if one held them by the wings for a minute or two their wings would become too damp to fly, and they’d simply cling to one’s finger or hand like the one in this picture while their wings dried off, then they’d soon fly away again. I remember one day when I was probably about 11 or 12, I organized the neighborhood kids to catch as many as we could in about an hour and put them in an empty garbage can with an old sheet over it; I then theatrically whipped off the sheet and they flew out of the can like a cloud. On another occasion, a gigantic swarm of them passed overhead while we were playing tag; it took over a minute to pass, and there must have been tens of thousands of them at a minimum.
But by the Eighties I barely saw them any more, and I haven’t seen one in person in decades. I believe the reason they became rare in the New Orleans area was the spread of mosquito control; dragonflies are predators (we used to call them “mosquito hawks”), so fewer prey means fewer dragonflies. There was no mosquito control in my home town in the ’70s, but there was when I returned in 1988 from years of living in the city. And while mosquito control is a necessary evil, of all the things lost to progress, I think the loss of dragonflies is among the ones I feel most keenly. So much so, I’ve intentionally included them in my stories, in descriptions of New Orleans summers of the 1920s. Yes, all progress has a price. But I wish beauty didn’t always have to be part of that price.
Links #845
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, artificial stupidity, California, Catholicism, cops, domestic violence, ethics, Florida, internet, Kentucky, Louisiana, Never Call the Cops, politicians, teachers, vaccines, video on September 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »
That was fun. – Polymarket bettor
A few months ago I got a deluge of links all at once, but I have found only using seven a week usually makes these columns more manageable; that’s why you’re seeing slightly less-current links lately, but I think we’ll be back to normal by the end of October. The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas, Ryan Marino, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, IncarcerNation, C.J. Ciaramella, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- Instant karma.
- Bread and circuses.
- R.I.P. Cassandra Wilson.
- R.I.P. Leslie Parrish and Peter Cullen.
- What part of “never” is so hard to grasp?
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Uthmeier believes he’s literally holier than thou.
From the Archives
- 1984-esque rewriting of history by political regimes & their servant media.
- Beijing’s scheme to silence Chinese expatriates becomes more aggressive.
- Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
- The state owes substantial damages to those it wrongfully makes pariahs.
- Ambulance-chasers give themselves the power to rob internet companies.
- A reminder that these vulnerabilities were intentionally installed for cops.
- A high-powered rifle should be able to take this out from a safe distance.
- Bloodthirsty politicians are furious about having their crusades thwarted.
- Another toothless “judgment” vs Clearview which will help only lawyers.
- 7 years since we’ve had an example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- Power begets the lust for power, the most dangerous of all perversions.
- Will Texas now try to stop people from crossing the border into Mexico?
- This is exactly why chatbot “therapy” needs to be banned immediately.
- Will the mainstream media finally admit pigs in schools are a menace?
- It’s very difficult for an ethical person to respond to unethical attacks.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Bounty hunters are toxic filth made even more dangerous by fascism.
- This screw only started his rapist career by attacking caged women.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous both to women and their children.
- Texas seems uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- More unintended but wholly predictable consequences of bad laws.
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a six-year-old.
- I tried to edit out as much of the nauseating bootlicking as I could.
- It’s rare for cops to actually be indicted for murders they commit.
- Dare I hope fewer coroners are willing to cover up cops’ crimes?
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Oh what a surprise, how could anyone have predicted this, etc.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- What was once pure fraud can now be accomplished in reality.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- It’s good to see Asstoon in hot water over his poor judgment.
- Every Friday 13th, I ask non-sex workers to stand up for us.
- Too bad all authoritarian organizations aren’t so short-lived.
- “Program” is a helluva euphemism for “criminal conspiracy”.
- Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
- All those who facilitate State evil are enemies of humanity.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, natural stupidity, and much more.
- Cop shops love their obfuscatory, blame-shifting language.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until media stop parroting it.
- Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
- Artificial stupidity makes those who use it stupid as well.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Just another kind of screw, acting like any other screw.
- Had he not been caught, this would’ve soon escalated.
- Not even Australia is safe from Swedish rot-fanatics.
- Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
- Cops, scientists, James Earl Jones, and much more.
- Cops, kaiju, undead, Gary Wright, and much more.
- The rugs from my incall fit quite well in the atrium.
- The Backpage trial has become an evil self-parody.
- This was merely a way for politicians to save face.
- I now find comfort living in a past that never was.
- Piggies enjoying a cool sprinkler on a hot day.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- One thing I do not have is a green thumb.
- This just keeps getting more entertaining.
- Cop violence is never limited to adults.
- Thursday: Thrown Back and Loving It.
- When will this censorship fad end?
- House of Throwback Thursday.
- I, Throwback Thursday.
- Not a youth pastor.
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Diary #845
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on September 8, 2026| Leave a Comment »
This is the time of year when the pigs, guided by their amazingly acute sense of smell, start spending a lot of time under the apple trees, feasting on drops. Then in the late afternoon, when they know dinnertime is approaching, they head back to the east paddock, where they know I’ll be bringing their dinners. Last week I heard them through the open window, and managed to catch them heading toward dinner; the fuzziness is due to the window screen because I knew if I took the time to go outside, they’d already have passed. Bonus: y’all get to see and hear Louie being a drama queen when Cicero just looks at him too hard.
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