Darwin is really determined to share Ripley’s box. It’s going… okay.

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

ALSO NEW FROG DROPPED. NEW. FROG. DROPPED.

So in order to encourage creativity, I told my genetics students they needed to have more than a standard PowerPoint for their final project Which is how we ended up with a presentation on tardigrade genetics delivered entirely in rhyming couplets

I regret pointing out that one grommet had fallen off the curtain pole because now I must suffer the agony of watching this scene play out.

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

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walk walk fashion baby

Today we are on top of the world.

First themed Munich Christmas market of the evening: medieval!

Salzburg! We went on a bus tour, walked around the Old Town and visited three (3) Christmas markets.

Dispatch from the cat sitter: Darwin doing his best Haunted Victorian Child

✈️ -> 🍻🏔️🎄

I think this is about 2/3rds of them arrived now 😅 We’re definitely doing the cream and black traditional stack for the bathroom walls and the checkerboard for the small entryway floor. Just trying to select a bathroom floor; want something modernish to contrast.

In an amazing bout of timing, a really interesting job I applied for a year ago has reached out to me 👀 I didn’t fail the application process, even, I just never completed it because they hired someone who interviewed before me.

Y’all how do you deal with a leader who was promoted (I guess) for their leadership qualities but now believes that makes them an authority on your specialty when they have novice-level opinions? 😬

I love it when people post a picture of some regular guy to reddit and say “what breed is my cat?” Ma’am, your cat came out of some muddy shrubs in your friend’s sister’s back yard

I think I just ordered enough bathroom tile samples to tile the actual floor 😅

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

Mood.

Back at Balloch Castle Country Park today, where we walked through Fairy Glen and Whinny Hill Wood, which are actual place names because Scotland loves to lean into the “everything is magic” vibe.

Here's @npr.org's Obituary of Alice Wong: www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

For the first time since we went to view a flat six months ago… date night.

Step 1 of our DIY banquette is complete! Functional but not yet pretty. Still need to buy seat and back cushions, refinish the tabletop, add a picture rail, and clamp everything together; currently just dry fit.

My dad discovered a month ago that I never logged out of YouTube when we were visiting in July and he’s been enjoying my Premium daily ever since. I don’t mind sharing, in theory, but today I reached my limit and kicked him off because my ENTIRE fyp was AI-generated sci-fi movies 😭

The good news: the kitchen is finally painted! The bad news: so is the cat 🤦🏻‍♀️

Darwin…

I’m not claiming that this experience is universal in the least, but that year after I sold my flat and was living off the funds while waiting for Covid travel restrictions to lift so I could move countries was genuinely the most creatively engaged I’ve been since I was a teenager.

First brick kit assembled in the new flat! Starting a new Lumibricks series: “Road Trip” which is basically nostalgic Americana/Route 66 inspired. This is the one of the smallest kits of the series but the motel- which I’ve yet to buy- got rave reviews.

We have once again moved house.

Leading buyers over to the armchair they’re buying from us: “I just covered it with this sheet to keep the cats off of it.” *whip off sheet to reveal a cat underneath* 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

I can but dream of ever being this relaxed.

This starts out normal enough but kind of turns into Man Learns About The Concept Of Megacities. On a global scale, London is not that special.

Delaying an awkward work conversation I need to have, which of course is just making it worse 🤡

When I was a sophomore in college (so 2001-2002), I was sitting at a coffee shop working on computer science homework when this guy with a nasal bridge piercing at table next to me said “internet? I say ‘interNOT,’ man.” In retrospect he may have had a point.

The mystery of how all the baskets got flattened overnight was quickly solved…

Darwin discovered the cat toy box within about ten seconds of me unpacking it and then couldn’t settle on what to play with first 😆

We’re unpacking the remaining boxes and J is doing the bedroom 🤣

Did a whistle-stop tour of some local sights today- Balloch Castle (actually Victorian) Park on Loch Lomond and the governor’s house at Dumbarton Castle (actually mostly Georgian).

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

Before / during / now 😍😍😍 Still need to buy baseboards which kind of ruins the look right now but I’m still overjoyed! We can finally unpack, omg

Check out Princess and the Pea over here 🙄

We have no idea how long she’s been up here, and both of these jars had lids 🤦🏻‍♀️

Letting Ripley have a wander downstairs as enrichment… can you spot him? He’s so subtle 🙄😆 The painter-ready living room is an excellent cat jungle gym, though.

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

Our TV room has exactly the same layout and furniture as in our last flat, but suddenly Morrigan has decided that she lives on this chair. She’s never favoured being high up before.

Yesterday I successfully pitched a learning program that will have adults playing with Lego. This is it. I have peaked. I will never top this in my career.

We have a new boiler \o/ I realize that doesn’t sound exciting to anyone else but consider: we haven’t had hot water here in over a month.

Our local walks have certainly changed character! From Glasgow’s manicured parks to the wildness of the Trossachs National Park… picturesque even in the gloom of autumn.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.