@scalzi "WHAT THE HELL'S THAT?"

Don't worry, kitten, that's just Scalzi. You get used to it after a while.

@scalzi@mastodon.social Absolutely fluffy!

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Wait. People bring kittens TO YOUR HOUSE???

@scalzi Love seeing you here AND BlueSky, don't forget about us Masto folks!

@scalzi Glad your here!

@scalzi It’s like Mastodon was made for the likes of you: a fun, wacky place in which velvet paintings of Wil Wheaton would be celebrated.

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My parents had a couple of cats who *would* go out. They were longhaired, and Harry had a lot of undercoat.

@scalzi But he'd blame you if he got out and didn't like it! 😹

@scalzi He’s probably more used to the tropical volcanic island climate, so you’re doing him a favor.

@scalzi Thanks!

Mr. Pippinpaddleopsicopolis wishes you and yours an equally happy end of the week.

@scalzi Thanks.

@scalzi I was sent this from my mum yesterday. Dotty informing mum she could not move just yet.

@scalzi I still don't know how your cat got to central Chile.

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@scalzi 😻 must pet Kitty! 😹

@scalzi that’s the trap that led to the antibiotics I’m on. Again.

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roman emperors had someone following behind them, whisper in their ears that they were just humans/men.

these days, we have cats to judge and remind us. ;)

@scalzi "You may plead for mercy if you think it will help...mortal".

@scalzi can't tell if you laid on the floor to get this joke or if the cat really is somewhere high

@scalzi The phrase "value-added services" is enough to set off my BS detectors.

@scalzi one thing that I found interesting besides Zoom’s AI stuff is that the ToS states anything you upload becomes theirs to do with as they please, so that means if you want to keep your IP for a image you want as a background, don’t upload it.

@scalzi The paragraph in the article says that says Zoom added the statement: "“Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent.”

I don't see that in the Zoom ToS.
https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

Also fwiw I got a note from my Univ legal dept that the terms that the Univ has with Zoom are different and supersede the online 'regular' ToS

@scalzi Cutey 🥰

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Need more Scalzi.

@scalzi at brief glance, this was some kind of cubist skunk

@scalzi need fix?

@scalzi who broke the cat 😡

@scalzi It’s scritch time.

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Thank you

@scalzi I can always use a cat picture 💜

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That bad? Really: how did you know?
THANK YOU.

@scalzi Smudge might put on a nonchalant outward face, but you can see the machinations of destructions lighting up those casually half closed eyes... Also, awesome name for a cat. :)

@scalzi Go, Smudge!

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He’s actually plotting how he will slay you in your sleep. He is, after all, a cat.