Good goat times today. Rained overnight, but almost no rain while I was out. Almost. I miss heat. And if the heat comes back I’ll miss the cool. So it goes.
The goats are going well. Seems like we have survived the first week of our nightmarish ordeal. Jeanette’s vacation, I mean. They all seem to be doing fine. And they make my heart swell and my frown turn upside down. Love having Luna crawling around on me. Bella trying to knock her down. Sky looking up at me with giant saucer eyes like “y u no give me treat, I saw u give tem treat”. Yeah yea. It’s happened a couple of times recently that people have thought Sky was pregnant. I don’t think she’s missing any treats.
24/7 2023
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Poor Sky, bereft of treats. Skin and bones. The Hunger Games, Goat Edition. Etc.

23/7 2023
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Twitter has been rebranded to.. X. I could go on for ages about the stupidity. But I have to say, this is now my favourite tweet that I have ever tweeted, I almost wish I paid for premium twitter so I could use enough characters to copy the entire parrot sketch, but I ‘m still pretty dang proud of myself.
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Lasse Plume
@djaliplume·
10m
This social media platform is no more!
It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!
It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil and joined the bleedin choir invisible!
This is an EX TWITTER
#TwitterX
24/7 2023
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Here is Sky on the mountain. I was surprised she went up there. It rained last night and they don’t like going on the mountain when the ground is wet. But she went up there, and stood there and scouted for a long time. Like 10ish minutes. Looking out over the sports field beyond the pen. I almost got the thought that she could be looking for Milo… but I don’t think so. I think goats live in the moment and adapt, and Sky has been a lot happier since the kids arrived. But who knows. Who knows how their memory works. They definitely remember stuff. They remember which of my pockets is the one that has treat. They recognise different people and react to them. Who knows.
It was hard not to think about whether somewhere far-ish away was Milo standing somewhere, looking out of a landscape thinking of Sky? Sigh. I hope he’s doing okay. I feel so guilty about it all. But I can allow myself to think too much about it or I will just break apart.
I wonder if somewhere above, on a heavily weighted down cloud, are Mia and Mio and countless others looking down and watching us. Who knows. Who knows what we see when our eyes drift out of focus and see beyond what is there.
I sure do love Sky. From the tiny chubby chipmunk to the underdog running to safety under the goat house to merrily speeding up and own the mountain with her brother to now the big top goat, large (but not pregnant) and in charge.

24/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Almost no rain again today. Almost. I can see in the news that it’s been a super hot summer, diastrously so in some places right now. But it’s been the wettest July ever in Denmark apparently. Moist.
Anyway, the goats are good. They don’t like the rain, but they like the greens that grow. Green green grows the lawn. Well fertilized too.
We had nice visitors today. A little family, refugees I think. The husband and wife spoke slightly broken, but understandable English. Asked if this was private property or if it was okay for them to be there. Totally fine. They had a couple of highly energetic boys. And I think a younger kid in a stroller. The man asked about the goats, how old they were. And I think he asked if Sky was pregnant too haha. They were trying to get the goats to come over to the fence, but the goats were distracted by the prospects of treats from the guy in the pen. I picked up Luna and took her over to the fence so they could get some closeup time. The man asked if it was okay to use his phone and I said sure. So he got some nice pictures or video of his kids petting the goats, and I think they tried feeding them some grass. Lots of giggles, some from the boys too. The man said thank you so much afterwards. A little later the boys came into the pen and got some time real up close with the goats. Tried feeding them some orange peels, but they didn’t really want any. It was all lovely and good, until one of the boys picked up a stick and started chasing the hens. So we had to tell him that was not okay. And the parents were very sorry about it. Other than that the boys were sweet and good with the goats. And when the family left, the man again thanked me ‘a thousand times’. Hopefully they got some nice memories, and hopefully the kids learned a bit about appropriate behaviour with the animals.
Now someone teach Bella that it’s not appropriate to butt me in the leg when I walk by her. She’s doing it because she wants treats, I don’t think it’s general behaviour to worry about. She certainly didn’t do any of it when the boys were in the pen. But I think I may bring a water bottle and try to teach her not to do it. don’t want to take any risks of problems later on.
It’s not like she’s attacking or anything. I’ll just be walking away from her and then feel some little bumping against my lower leg and she’ll be there like “I wasn’t done getting treats, mister!”. Yeah, troublemaker alright.
25/7 2023
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Having soup now, as I like after a cold day with goats.
It was almost my last. I just inhaled a flourball and it got stuck in my throat. Now thankfully I gagged it up and was able to breathe. So it’s all good. Although, it would have been a good way to go. He died doing what he loved. Eating soup after spending time with goats. Put that on my headstone.
Anyway, back to the soup in progress.
25/7 2023
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Breakfast time for the goat crew. If there’s one upside to Jeanette being away it’s that I get to give them them their breakfast, which is always fun. And they dig in like I do into a pot of soup.

25/7 2023
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Hey, if you’re on the bluesky social media thing, add me. I’m djaliplume there too. I am not sure how much I am going to use it. Doesn’t seem great for accessibility. But hey, I’m in the cloud now. Maybe I should get an account for Sky.
Thank you for the invite, Jen!
25/7 2023
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Speaking of Sky, here she is hanging out with Big Red. Luna and Bella aren’t too fond of the feathers. I mean, they’re okay most of the time. But then now and then they’ll headbutt them away like ‘get outta here, this is goat territory’. The feathers just flap away and don’t seem too bothered.

25/7 2023
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Looks like Luna told Bella how nice it is to sit in the hay tub.

25/7 2023
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Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty human!

25/7 2023
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goatlog

26/7 2023
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Luna, knee-deep in breakfast.

26/7 2023
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I was planning to film a little with the goats. The goats had other plans.
26/7 2023
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By the way, in the video I just posted.. did you notice anything different?
I’ll give you a hint. New pants.
Yes. Rip pants. Rip ripped pants. I finally had to admit defeat and face the fact that these pants were bereft of life, shuffled their mortal coil, joined the choir invisible. These are ex pants.
It bums me out because I love them. That’s why I kept using them even as they fell apart. I’ve been walking around looking like a hobo. But I don’t care what people think. I hate change and I loved those pants. I really needed all the pockets. But they were literally falling apart, big tears at the feet and legs and butt. So I had to let them go.
Luckily I have another pair of the same kind. Just in black. I don’t like that so much, I always wear black shirts and it doesn’t looks as good with black pants I think, and all the goat hairs and mud spots show up more. But eh, as I said I don’t care what people think. They are great goating pants. That’s what counts to me.
But yes, RIP ripped pants. I have worn them for so long, they must have been on me while grandma was around. Maybe even back in Palle’s day. So many years. No wonder they were falling apart.
The only thing certain is everything changes.

26/7 2023
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Sleepyheads.

26/7 2023
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A video to go with the sleepy pic. I love the little dream twitches.
26/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Aaalmost no rain. Only a couple of drops. Some good sunshine, it was actually quite a lovely day.
And the littles were chatty. Bella and Luna bleating more than usual. Trying to talk me into giving them more food.
We had some nice visitors too. A group of kindergarterners or daycares. 4-5 adults and a bunch of kids. When they were approaching I heard one of the adults say to a kid “no, I don’t think that’s a policeman, I think it’s just a goatkeeper”. Haha. Officer Lasse on patrol. Investigating a Goat Theft rAisins. Well, the kids all had a good time I think. They found apples and picked grass and plants to feed the goats, and the goats were happily fed. I picked up Luna for some closeup time and I got the big tub over to the fence and Sky stood on it and got some attention. At one point she turned her back to the fence and the little girl who was trying to get her to eat some plant started brushing her tail with the plants. “I touched its butt” she gleefully announced. Haha. Good times.
27/7 2023
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Some of today’s visitors having fun with the goats.

27/7 2023
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Guess what I did today? Oh nothing, I just taught Bella to shake hoof.
Well, we’ll see if it sticks. She’s not quite as good as Luna, she’s more focused on the treat than on the hand. But she got decent at it after a bunch of repetitions. I hope she’ll remember how to do it. Would be fun to have all three of them doing it. Makes visitors happy too, like today when I shook with Sky in front of the kids.
Speaking of Sky, look at her there on the tub like “hey don’t forget about me”.

27/7 2023
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My facebox is being weird. Anyone else missing the menus on the left and right of their Facebook feeds? There’s usually stuff on both sides, like list of contacts on the right hand. Even on the goat page, it’s missing the page management stuff on the left. Not sure if it’s something with my setup. Things seem to be working okay, just missing stuff. Odd. Did my goats eat it?
27/7 2023
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goatlog

28/7 2023
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Tripod, meet Bella.
Tripod, meet ground.
At least my camera wasn’t on it this time.

28/7 2023
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The grass is always greener on the other side. And food always tastes better if you’re not supposed to have it.
Here’s Sky. Eating hay. From the tiny gap between the shelf and the wall. There’s hay in the hayfeeder. Fresh hay. in the hayfeeder that can be easily reached from ground level. BUT there’s a little gap between the shelf and the wall and through that you can reach some of the hay that’s being stored on the shelf.
There’s also some greenery on that shelf, being saved for later, but she couldn’t reach that. She was just eating hay. From the shelf. Instead of the hayfeeder. Oh goats.

28/7 2023
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Apparently the goats all got together and agreed that they should never ever eat from the hayfeeder from the ground. Here Luna is taking the harder route from above.

29/7 2023
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I feel like reading some Arthur C. Clarke. For a long time I have only really been ‘reading’ on my walks. I feel like I’m wasting my time a lot lately, when I’m not goating. Maybe I should… disappear into books. Maybe I just want to disappear.
I have had a lot more happier times lately, goat kids are such a joy. But even so there is still a lot of depression and sadness. And bad thoughts knocking on my skull, trying to get in. Sometimes with a sledgehammer. Sometimes it’s the personal things, like Milo and Mia and things I have never spoken about. And sometimes it’s the bigger picture, the whole world and everything that goes on. I know it’s kinda dumb to sit here in my own world and feel the entirery of suffering and pain and injustive, you can’t really take all that in and on yourself. It just feels so awful that humans have such capacity for greatness and yet we do so much bad. We all do. Some more than others. Anyway. You can’t fix everything. I can’t even fix myself.
So anyway, that was a ramble, but the originating thought remains. I think i’ll read some Arthur C. Clarke. I have my eye on The Songs From Distant Earth. There’s something fascinating about retro science fiction.
29/7 2023
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Another one from they hayfeeder files. Hey, Sky actually on the ground eating from it! Imagine that. And Bella is going from the top.

29/7 2023
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KAOS

29/7 2023
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I was testing out the zoom on my camera when a little buzzer buzzed in. Buzz in if you know the answer, if you don’t know the answer buzz in and be a chancer.

29/7 2023
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And for those of you who like goats, there’s Luna.

29/7 2023
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Sky is just resting her eyes!
Normally when she sits and relaxes she makes her little snoring/groaning sounds. Here she laid her head down on her hooves and stopped making those sounds. Must have dozed off. There’s a video of this live on the page any second. It’s very rare to see her like this.

29/7 2023
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goatlog

30/7 2023
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Well, it looks like I just made an executive decision to name our last redshirt Sonja. As in, Red Sonja. Who was played by Danish Brigitte Nielsen in the old movie of the same name. So, that’s Big Red Sonja and big white Henrietta Solo.
30/7 2023
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Luna is just resting her face.

30/7 2023
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A three goat salute to end the week.

30/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Another day with a little rain and a litlte sunshine. And some cool rolling thunder.
First day of Jeanette’s vacation. Sob. Well, there was a new guy and he seemed very nice. He was going around to the animals and talking on the phone, I think someone was instructing him in how to do things. And then he came up to the goats and said hi to me. It was his first day doing this. I didn’t get his name, but he seemed very nice. He stopped to pet the kids and asked if they weren’t just the sweetest. And when Sky decided to stand in his way in the doorway he seemed patient, and knew her name. So that’s good. I had given them breakfast and their hayholder was full so all he had to do was get some fresh water for them. It’s just good that there’s someone there, even if it’s not as involved as Jeanette. She always spends more time outside, with the animals and me. But hey, three weeks. We can get through that!
We also had some nice visitors at the fence. A couple of ladies with a couple of kids. They came over sort of timidly and asked if it was okay that they were there or if they were trespassing. Haha. I told them it was just fine. They were from a school that has just opened in the neighbourhood, so they were out checking things out I guess. I picked up Luna and carried her to the fence so they could see her upclose. The kids were a little unsure about it, but the two ladies were very friendly. Suitably impressed when I shook hoof with Sky. So maybe we’ll be seeing more people from that school at some point.
And other than that, I spent a lot of time with goats crawling around on me and just generally having fun. Not too bad.
17/7 2023
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Well would you look at this! Not a great photo, but Sky actually walked over and sat down right next to Bella! I was a little shocked haha. Normally she’s pretty adamant that Bella is bad news and should not be allowed. I guess they are getting along better and better, when there’s not competition for food. But I ws still surprised to see this. Progress!

17/7 2023
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Bella hamming it up for the camera.

17/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Stayed almost dry and we got some sunshine too. Still far from the hot summer weather we had last month. But the company is great. I love my three little ladies. Such sweethearts and goofballs. Nothing better than spending time with them.
One small mishap today. I accidentally locked Luna in the storage room! Oh no! I felt so bad afterwards. It was only for like 5-6-7 minutes.. but still, so guilty! I was looking for my tripod, which I had forgotten to pack down and put away when I left yesterday. I checked the storage room, but it wasn’t there. You know how goats are, if you open a door or gate they have investigate. And their food barrel is in there. I guess she slipped in and by me without me noticing, I only noticed Bella and got her out as I left. Then I closed the door. I don’t know why Luna didn’t complain when we left her all alone in there. Her bleats are so tiny, maybe I just couldn’t hear her through the door. And the rest of us immediately went down to the bench. And I was watching Bella go at the greens and then it occured to me, wait didn’t there used to be two kids?! Haha. I thought Luna had just stayed up in the goat house and was preocupied there. it’s not completely unheard of for one to stay behind. But after a couple of minutes I thought, why isn’t she coming down? So I went up to look and I couldn’t see her anyway. Funny how the mind immediately goes to the worst places. She isn’t here, she isn’t coming running, is she lying dead somewhere?! But then I opened the storage room door and there she was. Not saying a peep. Just walked out and seemed totally happy. But you better believe she got some treats to make up for that. Poor girl.
Later found my tripod outside, broken and with a piece missing. Oh well. It was an ancient and super cheap crummy tripod. That’s why I don’t mind leaving it at the playground, if it gets broken or stolen no biggie. I got a couple of spares.
Funny that Luna didn’t bleat when she got left behind. But they aren’t actually that vocal most of the time. Their bleats are tiny baby bleats of course, but they don’t talk that much in general. There was that second day after their arrival when they bleated a lot. But other than that they are mostly quiet. Sky is pretty quiet now too after she’s got her new company. She mostly bleats when she rubs on that branch or when I’m leaving. But she does talk more than the babies.
The babies usually bleat a little when they see Jeanette. And today they were bleating too when they saw New Guy, who had a friend walking around with him as he did the choes. And both Bella and Luna ran down to the fence when he came in, so that was sweet to see. They seem to like him. He probably doesn’t lock any of them in the dark storage room… Oof!
18/7 2023
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Digging in. I brought this plastic box from home so we could have 3 boxes/containers for the goats to eat from. I noticed the big tub wasnt so great for them, they always ended up jumping into it and the chickens jumped into it and the food always ended up left and dirty. With these smaller containers it works better. And with 3 of them each goat can have one for themself.. at least until Sky decides that what the others hare having might be better than what she’s having. Sooner or later a game of musical food ensues.

18/7 2023
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Ftumch
18/7 2023
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Oh! I guess Sky felt the need to show that she can keep up with the yungins. She can still get up the less steep platform.

18/7 2023
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Got several weird Facebook bugs going on right now. I can’t see number of likes on comments and replies. I can tell from googling that I’m not the only one with this issue. Hopefully it’s a temporary glitch. It’s pretty dumb not being able to see if anyone or how many or who has liked a comment.
And then there’s a weird glitch on some comment threads where it seems like the page is divided into columns and stuff is repeating and out of whack and I can’t even explain it but it makes it hard to see some replies.
And then recently every time I go look at my feed I have to scroll past 2-3 ‘suggested for you’ things that are completely unrelated to me and my friends and it makes me want to not even bother trying to keep up with the feed.
And then there’s all the annoyances of the new pages experience on Mia’s page, making several things more cumbersome.
It’s like a death race between twitter, reddit and facebook to see who can completely ruin their own platform first. Ugh.
But at least I can whine about it, so that’s good. Always nice to have a chance to B & M.
May goat berries fertilize your sleeping bags, fb engineers.
18/7 2023
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Out in the greenscape.

18/7 2023
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No further questions.

18/7 2023
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goatlog

19/7 2023
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Sky on the lookout. I have noticed since she has become top goat, she is doing that more often. She will hear or see something and she’ll run out on the goat hill and keep watch. Maybe I’m just imagining it, but I do think she’s taking her responsibility as leader of the flock quite seriously.

19/7 2023
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Good goat times today. The rain/shine/cool days continue. Nice when the sun is out, though. And nice when the goats are out. Everyone seems to be doing well, despite Jeanette not being there. The New Guy seems very nice, even though I only see him for about 10 minutes outside.
Nice visitors again today. Some ladies and some kids. They came over to the fence and a lady said “I don’t know which one it is.. but I know there is one called Luna”. Yes, word is getting around. Luna is a doll. I had a feeling when we were driving the kids to our place and she was sitting in my lap. And then I got to name her. I felt that she was something special. Of course Bella is wonderful too and you know Sky is my princess. But Luna is just that perfect kid age. Impossible not to love. I never get tired of her crawling around on me, pawing my pockets, thrusting her little horns against my side, desperately trying to get some treats. And I’ll lift her up and it’s like wrestling a bag of.. kittens. or something. So much fun.
I pointed out Luna to the visitors, and then picked her up and went over to the fence so they could meet her up close. They inquired about the other names too. It’s a sweet little goat crew, and popular with visitors.
And me. Popular with me.
20/7 2023
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Gotta love the Luna.

20/7 2023
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Well look at that. Again. Sky came over and sat down next to Bella. A little more distance this time. And it might just be because Sky generally likes to sit there on the ground against the edge of the floor of the goat house. But hey. Not chasing Bella away. Encouraging. The more I have thought about it, the more I think Sky probably won’t take an adoptive mother role, since at least Bella and Maybe Luna will be as big or bigger as her, but if Sky can be the flock leader and they can all get along, in between fighting over the food, that would be really good. I just like seeing them sit together.

20/7 2023
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Meanwhile, I think I’m being stalked by a Thai woman.
20/7 2023
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Gotta love Bella too.

20/7 2023
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High on life, and goat berries.

20/7 2023
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goatlog

21/7 2023
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Love times three.

21/7 2023
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It’s the croni WHAT cles of narnia

21/7 2023
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Breaking news: I had pizza today.
More at eleven. Leftovers, I mean.
21/7 2023
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Luna seems to like to roll over on her side sometimes when she’s sitting in the sun. Always amuses me and also makes me want to reach out and rub her belly.
21/7 2023
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Fun fact, Judgment Day in Danish is ‘Dommedag’ which kinda sounds dirty.

21/7 2023
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Watch out for these two goofballs. They’ll steal your heart if you let your guard down.

21/7 2023
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… blockers.
Speaking of blocking, I had to block the entire country of Thailand from Mia’s page because the amount of weird comments from lady Thai profiles was just getting out of hand. They were completely nonsensical too, although a lot of them seemed to be about love and wanting me and stuff I don’t even know. I don’t know if the auto translation doesn’t deal well with Thai language or if the comments just aren’t meant to make sense. I used to get those kind of comments from one particular person some months ago. Eventually she went away. Now it’s a ton of different profiles. I don’t know if it’s the same lady, using multiple profiles. Or a bunch of people. Or all bots. But no matter how many of them I block new ones keep coming. So now I’ve had to block all of Thailand. I don’t think we have too many followers from there, I hope I am not bothering real actual followers. I’ll try to keep it blocked fo a couple of days and then unblock and see if it helps. I just can’t manage comments when I get so many weird ones clogging up the feed constantly.
Anyway, if you have read all this.. would one or two of you try going to Mia’s page and see if it’s still working for you? That country blocking was a little confusing, I hope I haven’t messed anything up. If you could go and leave a comment on the newest post or something, i’d appreciate it.

22/7 2023
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Hey, I didn’t know Superorganism released a new album last year! Listening to it now. I dig them, they got a fun swagger. And Blur released a new recod too, whodathunk. Although it sounds more like a Damon Albarn record than a Blur record. But then it’s been so long since Blur released anything that maybe it’s just the natural progression. I absolutely love Damon anyway. Like I always say, Noel and Liam’s Oasis were super cool in their first years, but Damon and Blur evolved way more interestingly. With Gorillaz and his solo stuff.
The last couple of months I have been listening mostly to Frank Turner live shows. That’s my syltetøj. But now it’s time for some Superorganism and Blur.
And that’s today’s music report. Sponsored by Napster and mp3-sourced bootlegs. Use coupon code BlockRockingBleats to get fitty cent off.
22/7 2023
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And for those of you who like sports. There’s goatlog.

22/7 2023
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Was having some cuddle time with Bella but then Luna decided that it was inappropriate and ruined the filming.
Haha honestly I am not sure if it’s too weird like that, but she jumped up like that on my legs and hey I’m just a weirdo who likes to hug goats.
And for some reason I also am amused by my camera fail videos always ended with an exasperated sigh. Homer’s got a ‘annoyed grunt’. I got a ‘exasperated sigh’.
22/7 2023
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Luna, preparing to ascend Mount Human.

23/7 2023
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hoi

22/7 2023
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That’s all for now.