Day Off

In which Rat doesn't get one

Good time of day, humans!

Transcript:

Cousin: — I’m tired of gnawing, when do we get a day off?
Rat: — Not today, Cousin.
Rat: — If we were to go silent now… you don’t want humans to think we were financed by USAID, do you?

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A lot has already come to light:

[Yahoo] Politico pays employees late; staffers believe Elon Musk’s crackdown on government spending played a role

…and a lot more is likely to come:

Source: Columbia Journalism Review, USAID and the Media in a ‘Time of Monsters’, February 4, 2025

To our knowledge, Rat, Cousin and their humans have never received any USAID funding, although I’m not quite sure about Polly:

Anyone who suddenly goes off the radar now will fairly certainly be suspected of links to the beast, so to stay on the safe side, we’ll have to keep gnawing.

Rat has now been gnawing for 319 days straight, and we hope to make it at least to one full year. We have a potential blackout event coming this weekend, so we’ll have to gnaw something in advance.