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.

Our new flat is east-west but thanks to protruding bay windows on each side Darwin can lay in the sun all day long 😊

We made £3500 of significant, permanent improvements to our rental and our landlord is now withholding deposit because we took down a cheap ikea curtain rod and didn’t paint over the screw holes we patched.

Takeaway.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

There are so many boxes to unpack but 30 hours after we started we are officially moved in \o/

Can we call them the Gestapo now?

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

I’ve been to exhausted to recount it all, but this is the first tradesperson in a long line of tradespeople who’s been to our new flat to improve it instead of just emergency fixing it 😭

A compilation of times I briefly got up from my sunny chair this morning 😒

The Golden Knights asked me to leave their practice facility and revoked my credential because I asked one of their players about the Hockey Canada 5. Their sensitivity underscores the dicey nature of the decision VGK and Carolina are facing. My story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

He’s ready.

High-balled a recruiter because I’m busy and he’s still interested lmao. I guess there’s a lesson here.

Everyone at my job can work remotely if they want although we do have a head office. A colleague just posted in Teams that she’s glad summer holidays are over so that she’ll see more faces in the office, which she goes to voluntarily. Could NOT be me!!!

Home ownership status: way too excited about shopping for radiators

Just met the owners of the other flat in our building for the first time and they already knew I was Canadian 🤣 Hashtag village life.

FLAT ACQUIRED!! It’s got aggressive walls and plastic floors but we’ve already begun the process to correct those. Gonna be a hectic month 😅

Just accepted a six-week contract on top of my full time job, because the middle of a house move and mini renovation is the perfect time to do that obvs 🫠

Scotland does things weird so we’ve just signed our house-buying papers even though we don’t actually take possession for another ten days. Sooooooon 👀😩

me: getting rid of things we don’t use is so cathartic, I think I’ll list all of our excess vacuums for sale next J: oh, that sucks me: what sucks? J: me: J: me: I hate you

We don't hate this guy enough. Like as a culture

A rare sunny Sunday yesterday, spent in St Andrews town + beach.

“Ahh, a nice relaxing evening in the par-“ *ominous heavy breathing*

This means Mastercard in particular is actively afraid of people bringing up Riot's connection to them negatively. I think people should raid Riot's official livestreams and start spamming things like: "#SaveSpeech from Mastercard!" "MASTERCARD HATES THIS --> (.)(.)" "#stopkillinggames" and more

“Hang on, you can just… open sealed containers?? 🙀” Ripley’s mind is blown.

#animaldeath incredibly upsetting moment just now- saw a bird on the road, standing but seeming dazed. J couldn’t stop immediately, and by the time we backtracked just a minute later the next car had completely hit it. I looked right into its eyes when we drove by and now I’m haunted by it

Stealth mode.

In the last 30 minutes I have learned: - the seller of the flat has decided to move into a rental and offered a closing date of July 30 - my job is eliminating one of the three people in my role (to be decided by Friday) 🫠

Accidentally missed a meeting I had accepted, at the same contract where I missed an email a few months ago 🫠 Luckily it’s over in a week but wow they are not happy. I don’t even blame them, sob.

1.5 years in, and J is finally one micron of a step closer* to realizing his dream of turning Darwin into a shoulder cat 😆 (*instead of immediately screaming his displeasure, Darwin now simply pauses briefly before jumping down)

Lugh helpfully illustrating why we refer to him as a sentient potato 😅

UK! This is a long shot but do I know anyone who’d be interested in staying at our (Glasgow) flat for two weeks in July to keep the menagerie company? We’d still pay for a pet service come in daily, this is just so they’re not alone, the clingy bastards 😂.

It’s important to show an interest in your pets’ hobbies.

We have a visitor and Darwin’s being very normal about it.

Time for a game of “Teams transcript or Dadaist horror film?”

We went to an animal park over the weekend and J was like “Wow I’ve never seen a raccoon in person before!” which makes complete sense for a guy who’s only lived in the UK and Australia but somehow I was still shocked. The Canadian mind cannot comprehend 😆

Somehow missed a “can you fix this” email LAST MONDAY even though I was actively at my desk when it was sent, and then again Thursday afternoon when the follow up was sent, and off Friday. So now it looks like I did nothing all last week even though my only crime is not paying attention to email 😭

Sunday vibes.

We’ve put an offer on a flat and it might be competitive (I mean, they say it is but also they could be lying… realtors) and I won’t be totally crushed if we don’t get it because there will be others but I HATE WAITING 😩

Uninstall Duolingo.

Glanced over at J while we were watching TV and… what.

We were moving things around while we install some shelves. Morrigan managed to find her litter box anyway. Precarious 😅