Good spot to be when you’re the youngest chick and a big old Brisbane storm’s coming your way. #TawnyFrogmouth #ausbirds #birds #Brisbanestorm

What’s the wildest lie you told your parents in high school that they believed

Is the Foundation tv series good? (intelligent writing; engaging characters; varied plot threads, plot not overall terribly challenging to follow; good pacing, emotionally varied) If it helps, I found the books insufferable and boring.

Cait the Proud Trans Woman: "Russian invasion of Ukraine: w…" - Mastodon Wargamers wargamers.social/@oldladyplay...

Xibai spent most of #Caturday at the vet having her injured eye inspected. She's happy to be home. (And the vet ringbarked her, which may foil her plan to evolve into a mountain lion?)

A DVD in the superdrive wouldn't mount or eject. I needed a USB port to connect a mouse for the more annoying solutions, so ejected the external hard drive ... and the DVD ejected as well. What is happening with the ports??

An assessment of AI as a financial investment: lt3000.blogspot.com/2025/10/arti...

A famous person has died and there's an outpouring of love and grief for them, but I couldn't stand a moment of their professional career and have serious questions about some of their personal choices. Also they had a good innings. Am feeling a great disconnect with the zeitgeist right now.

The universal #Caturday experience: needing to make the bed.

What is wrong with this picture?

Dealing with Vitamin B12 situation rendered quite complex by me constantly calling it Vitamin K12. I can SEE the medical people thinking "ruh roh, cognitive decline incoming!" B12 B12 B12.

The chemo and meds side effects fatigue has been joined by vitamin B12 deficiency fatigue. I'm not sure if I want supplements/injections, or to use it as an excuse to just stay in bed forever.

I spilled my water, and it made a little water guardian!

me to my electrician: also could you install the anti-static device like we discussed? him: ... me: I get electrocuted on everything I touch! him: ... me: you told me there's a device? him: ... me: oh god, there is no device, it was a dream everyone: ahahahaha

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

Am reading Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker', attempt #5 in 10 years, on page 1,380, 2,000 pages remain. The rule is I can't read anything else until I've finished! This has sustained me 1,000 pages longer than previous attempts, but I'm flagging. Murderbot awaits, I need to finish! Suggestions?

Very busy #Caturday holding down the furniture.

Gorgeous --- Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version

Sleep problems now so bad, my Catholic builder recommends asking for divine intervention. Choose your fighter: St Peter Damian - insomnia is ok if it's penance St Blaise - insomnia from physical ailments St Dymphna - insomnia from mental ailments St Michael the Archangel - warrior for peace

Dammit, I lived through the 80s once already. Just because they rebooted Top Gun and Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop doesn’t mean *everything* needs to come back.

The lunar eclipse is impressively blood red, but quite small even by eye as it is now low in the west. My phone camera would render it as a tiny red splodge.

The moon is being eaten! (Perfect conditions - cold, clear, still.)

The softest kittens on their softest blanket. Happy #Caturday

I'm moving a bookcase and don't want to get splinters, so go to fetch my gardening gloves. But when I come back to the bookcase, I am wearing ... oven mitts. Brain? Brain?? *pokepoke*

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Experienced archivist available to organise your kitten collection. #Caturday

I was going to food shop this morning, but really don't want to. Am checking for vegetable-adjacent supplies. Baked beans, pouch veg soups, peas and corn, frozen roast orange veg, and corn fritters. That'll get me to Tuesday, yes? *waves away the lack of actual green*

If you want to know where the whole insane "seed oils will KILL you" came from, how to gently gently a friend away from the nonsense or how the scare is directly connected to the far right, or reassure yourself about some aspects of oil production, you need to listen to this podcast ep

Garden project supervisors on the job! #chickens #BackyardChickens #ChickensWithJobs

I hated the new car displaying my real name on its screen, so I set up a local account in the car's name. And I bricked it! \o/ 5 hours later I could get in to factory reset, new account works, but dear god imagine telling the dealer "so this car I've had for a week, I broke it ....".

My new car will only let me set some things via the app, but the app just opens a browser window so I have to do this on a phone rather than the comfort, convenience, and security of my desktop computer. Enshittification level 7.

I've had an elderly Irish Eurovision song stuck in my head for two whole weeks, which has evolved into a big band/swing remix, and a rap battle, and a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. Can we be DONE now??

The Correct way to eat on camera

Looked up an ex today. He has divorced the woman he dumped me for, and married the woman he dumped for me. Big "time machine gone wrong" vibes!

Have spent two hours on the phone with <foreign bank> trying to fix a problem dated October 2023. Problem persists. It's 02.30. But I have saved 'KPop Demon Hunters' for this emergency. *opens a bottle of wine* *cancels Friday*

New dishwasher! It only came in black, I don't like it either, whatevs it can be leopard print if it wants. It wants an internet connection, lol. It projects the remaining cycle time on the floor!

I admired @kelskels06.bsky.social 's Oxford comma shirt, so she sent me one! Plus many fun Nebraska things, including a tiny buffalo whose bunt was immediately patted. Kelsey is an absolute rock star at loot boxes. Look!

This terrific small embroidery business is encountering some fuckery. If you sign up for their newsletter (only once per week!), you'll get a story of rapacious capitalism and a code for a great sale. sublimestitching.com

Normally I am max fussy about eating seated at a table, proper plates, cutlery, napkin, pizza with a knife and fork on the good china. Now, without a dishwasher, I'm eating cheese with my fingers, standing up at the fridge. How easily civilisation crumbles!

This evening I am having a huge wave of missing a friend who is gone. *puts a cookie under the sofa*

at the dishwasher showroom Salesman Mark: it has ABC!! me: are ABC removable? SM: it can do DEF!! me: can DEF be disabled? SM: and just connect the app to do GHIJK!! me: can I do GHIJK without the app? SM: sure, but why ... ok. Extended warranty? me: paper manual and specs SM: deal

00.30: get to sleep 03.45: kitten shenanigans 04.00: evict kittens, close the bedroom door 04.01 - 07.30: chorus of piteous mewing and scrabbling 07.31: drag self up, feed cats, drink 3L coffee 08.00 - now: all cats blissfully sleeping me: massive grumps and a caffeine headache

The ipad died too. I was going to be hugely cross about this, then realised I bought it in 2013. Ave atque vale, little ipad.

The dishwasher died. *cries inconsolably*

To: cats Subject: health and safety compliance From: senior cupboard operator A reminder that no cupboards will be opened, for food or games or finding those squares of knitting you appropriated and dragged all over the house, unless the cupboard staff is allowed to sleep past 04.00.

The mid-winter kookaburras have moved in!

Lunch today was carb (gnocchi) on carb (crepes suzettes with a glass of sauternes), so now at 16.00 I'm falling asleep at my desk wondering how brains even work. Does it plug directly into the computer? Is there an on switch? I REGRET NOTHING

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

There isn't a single song by Tom Lehrer that isn't still as biting and funny today as when he wrote it. Most people are setting on "Werner von Braun" as a memorial, but perhaps "National Brotherhood Week" is also weirdly relevant as well Vale, sir www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAS...