One moment she was struggling with a bad chest congestion and next moment her heart stopped and she stopped breathing.
I was there when it happened. As soon I realized she had stopped breathing I called 911. The EMTs were there soon after.
I am still in shock at the moment.
She was far from perfect but she was all I had. She struggled with alcoholism, fallout from a fall that hit her head, depression, deepening memory issues, psoriatic arthritis. She was basically bed bound for the most part.
All I can say is that I am in awe of her. Montana is a very hostile state to trans and for her get elected in the first place is already a huge accomplishment but I am sure she knew going in this is going to create tsunami level waves.
The fact that she has been 'cancel cultured' and her rights as well as the constituents she is representing are being taken away just shows what the opposition is made of.
For those who follow space related news, Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Roscosmos who now is in Donetsk, Ukraine, commanding invading Russian forces.
Anyway, according to this news posting https://www-dialog-ua.translate.goog/war/264774_1671761195?_... (translated using Google Translate apparently) the man is likely to lose his erm 'family jewels' due to being injured by a Ukrainian artillery attack at his birthday party in a hotel.
So, I use the Brave browser when I only want to check for what's new on BC in a quicker fashion (there is a lot higher lag when one is logged in unfortunately) which seems to do a pretty good job of blocking tracking by websites.
Now I am getting this whole recapcha thing which I dislike since I am providing a free service to google to train their AI in image recognition. It also defeats the purpose of my desire to check quickly.
Is BC being that inundated with bots that this is really necessary?
I stumbled across a website advertised on a youtube channel, so take it with a grain of salt, called World Anvil that may be a useful world building tool supposedly good for plotting rpg fantasy/sci-fi and in my opinion possibly other types of stories.
Disclaimer: I have not used this and I am not sure how the site monetizes the use of anything you create on the site, maybe there are non-web type software similar to this for story development but it seemed interesting that such tools are available.
In a nutshell it is the 'you have been talking to one of my girls' and 'I belong to a strong gang' and you will get killed if you don't contact me and pay for the girls time.
I know it is a scam and definitely will not respond in any shape or form as once you do any such thing you are done for.
Intellectually I know it is a scam but it still triggers that wave of flight and fight response which I am processing.
In Summary: Don't respond to these kinds of random threats!
I have never posted a blog entry in my life. Never. I have always thought of it as being a bit egoistical and self-serving to be honest.
But damn it, I am hurt, angry and mourning over the death of this cat, who granted was not mine, but my neighbor's outdoor cat who adopted me as his own.
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