• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    11 hours ago

    Hot damn! Those paws are comically big. It’s like if a cartoon cat with big feet came to life but kept the disproportionate paws. Awesome!

    • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      10 hours ago

      Polydatctyly (extra toes) is not all that uncommon in cats. As far as I know it doesn’t lead to any notable negative outcomes. We had a poly cat (named Poly because that’s what the shelter called her) who lived a long and healthy life. Earnest Hemmingway famously kept and bred polydactyl cats at his home in Key West, and if you go visit the staff there still take care of their descendants.

      Here’s our Poly:

      • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I saw the Polys at Hemingway House, they all look very normal in comparison to Stomp’s big feet.

        Almost all of them were taking naps in plants and under benches

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with all of these comments talking about this as if it’s a real photo and not AI slop looks like complete shit. Are the comments AI generated spam too? Are they just stupid? Am I AI generated spam?

    • TwistyLex@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I looked into it a little using TinEye and the image predates generative AI images of this quality. I actually think it’s a photoshopped normal cat; possibly as part of that weird trend of making some small detail of a normal photo look freakish.

    • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca
      7·
      10 hours ago

      Worse than being AI, this is a newish designer breed called a highland lynx, and the polydactyl, curled ear tips, and manx tail are traits they are breeding for.

      Unfortunately, its not very ethical to breed for these traits, especially the manx tail, which can cause cats to be born incontinent.

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
      10·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t think this is AI generated spam. There is apparently a real breed of cat that looks like this. I think you need to be less paranoid, this is lemmy.

    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Polydactyly is not uncommon in feral cats, but I have no information about the provenience of the photo.

      I am not AI spam. I am sometimes stupid.

  • 5parky@lemmy.world
    201·
    23 hours ago

    Stomp: “I’ll have a rum . . . . And coke.”

    Bartender: “why the pause?”

    Stomp: “Dunno, I’ve always had them.”

    • Hathaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
      26·
      15 hours ago

      It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.

        • Hathaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
          9·
          13 hours ago

          What? It’s been a crossbreed since like 2004? Unless I’m getting whooshed?

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            15·
            11 hours ago

            “there can be only one” is a common saying from the Highlander series of movies and TV shows, which refers to an in-universe event where “immortals” (they can be killed by decapitation) feel compelled to “the gathering” and slay each other until the last one receives “the gift”.

            The series is named “Highlander” because the protagonist in the first movie, Connor MacLeod, is an immortal from the highlands of Scotland and often called “the highlander” by immortals, since he may be living under a different name (because even in fiction paperwork is a removed).

            Outside of the series, “highlander” variants of various games exist which impose a limit of a single instance of a card/token/spell/action where the standard rules have a higher limit or no limit.