The air is swampy today, phew...

Reading a physical copy of a book for the first time in years and there were some amusing realisations. 1. I can't read in bed if the lights are turned off. 2. You need both hands to turn the page. 3. I had to get out of bed and track down a bookmark. #booksky

The cat snores so loudly she can be heard across the room. While the TV is on. Must be nice to have zero responsibilities and sleep so deeply.

Paracetamol save me before my eye collapses under pressure and becomes the black hole it currently feels like #headache

I am not familiar with any of the original material, but I'm watching the Devil May Cry netflix show and I like it. Mostly. S1 was dumb but fun, while S2 is so far quite stupid AND dumb but fun. Feels like it dropped character work and plot-logic in favour of vibes and fights. Pretty though.

📖 Cemetery Boys 🖋️ Aiden Thomas A coming of age YA ghost story with a lot of heart and lovely characters. This was a really charming read and an accidentally perfect pick for Pride Month! Wonderfully written cultural, social, and family dynamics. Loved it. #booksky

Today's gardening: Me, satisfied: come look at how well it's all growing! Him: I have no idea what you've planted or where. Me: me neither! *throws a few more seeds out like confetti* 🎉

My rose shot up like a rocket this year and is absolutely laden with buds! Which it decided to hang over the fence for the neighbour to enjoy.... 😔🥀

Got around to finally starting Interview with the Vampire (2022), and boy did that escalate quickly! 😆🦇

Lovely rolling peals of thunder. What a rare treat in Ireland!

Trying to listen to my goth rock and keep being interrupted by ads for Irish trad and pub music. Wrong audience by a wide margin, stupid algo... Why bother harvesting my data if you're going to fork up so badly.

Sneezing like a gatling gun today, yikes. What the heck is in the air!

The weather is so fucking DIRE this week I'm holding on by my fingernails

Dunno what's going on at the school/in town, but I can hear "Do you believe in life after love" and "Don't stop believing" pumping out on repeat.

So I started watching Beastars and I don't think it's good. But I'm hooked. It's like Zootopia but somehow even less thought out. Went in hoping for a fleshed-out exploration of an anthropomorphic animal society, and instead got animals that eat eggs and drink milk. The chickens are people. So... 🥴

I just finished Detroit: Become Human and it was a fucking incredible game. I wish I could erase my memory and play again, except I'd probably make the same choices. I want to play again, but I got a good ending and I don't want to make the characters sad, y'know? Amazing, 10/10.

Looks like if you keep oats in the same cupboard as mint tea, you get minty oats.

On a decent sci-fi kick at the moment! This was a fun one. I didn't expect the language to be so contemporary so that was a bit jarring once or twice, but overall I really enjoyed this book. Velocity Weapon - Megan E O'Keefe

Seems like I left damp laundry in the dryer for, uh, a week. Adulting real good lately 👌

Ask me how I got coffee grounds in my hair and down my shirt. Pro tip: do not try to blow a fly away over the top of the coffee machine you're currently setting for tomorrow. Well, I needed a shower anyway...

I need a weekend to recover from my weekend.

I get anxiety sweats. It's like instead of fight or flight my body chooses the path of the lamprey - ooze and make yourself as slippery and unpalatable as possible.

I love my velvet sofa and I love my cat, but I do not recommend that combo unless you also love cleaning cat hair out of fabric that refuses to let it go. Pro tip: a damp hand is the best scraper.

Highly recommend the Talon Duology by Jen Williams. A really interesting world and a well told epic story that didn't need 10+ installments to get to the point. Although the characters were so good I wouldn't mind another few 😁📚 #booksky

My chest has been aching for a few days. Is it the weather? Am I turning into one of those older people who clutch their knee and proclaim "there's a storm coming", except I clutch my tit? (What's left of it.)

You know we're scratching the back of the fridge and the cupboards when it's soup for dinner. Because soup is the worst! But food is food.

I'm going to be in my job forever because finding a new one means updating my portfolio and I hatehatehate that and don't wanna.

Spring makes everyone feel a little crazy in Ireland. We all want to go outside and enjoy the longer evenings and the hint of warmth in the air and then the weather is like "No. ☔❄️🌬️"

Once again, the world should thank me for working from home. I'm pretty sure I just ate about half an onion and two garlic cloves raw 🧅🧄 The pho was good though.

Immediately suspicious of any recipe where the only seasoning listed is salt and pepper... Intense side eye given.

The Sims 2 is on sale on Steam... do I give EA money again?! So tempting.

Use of LLMs is not inevitable. I don't "have" to accept it and embrace and integrate gawdawful nonsense into my workflows, slowing me down, harming the environment, and creating more errors and losing my own critical thinking skills.

Apparently my favourite jeans got stained during last week's gardening session 🥲 And I only have two pairs of wearable jeans, so.... 👎 Those strawberries and veggies had better be fucking amazing.

It's only Wednesday?! I'm fucking knackered...

"Ew..." "Ugh!" Intermittent screaming ^ me doing gardening 🌱🐌🌷🌻🐝🌿🐛🫛

Rereading a series from my teenage years and seeing "manwitch" gives me a giggle every time 🧍‍♂️🥪 #booksky Quickening series by Fiona McIntosh

The power has been out for almost half an hour and my life is beginning to flash before my eyes.

My desire to spend money/treat myself is being THWARTED at every turn. The strawberry variety I want to plant is out of stock literally everywhere. Irises that aren't yellow - out of stock. Wasabi plant grown in Northern Ireland - doesn't ship to ROI?! Butterfly blue pea tea - out of stock. 💰🔒😤

Every screen of this game is stunning. Second playthrough and I still like to stop and just admire. #neva @nomada.studio

The sun was shining this morning (hallelujah) so I went out for a walk. I freaking love moss and miniature worlds. Then I came home and attacked some garden weeds. Is my mental health improved? I don't think so, but walkies and fresh air was probably good for me... Grump grump.

Nothing more quietly infuriating than the deep breathing of someone fast asleep while you are categorically and most unfortunately not in that state yourself. 🕐🫩🕑🫩🕒

Last radiotherapy treatment is this afternoon! 🎉

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

There should be an anti-speeding fine for the first person in the traffic queue who slams on their brakes and drops from 100kph to 60kph when they see the speed camera van... Just. Fucking. Drive. Like. Normal. Goddamn. 😤

Enjoy this video of a fat caterpillar.

Only 4 radiotherapy sessions left! 🎉 Half my chest looks like an anemic strawberry at the moment... ⚪🍓 Can't wait for that go away, but it'll probably get a bit worse over the next two weeks first.

I bought amaranth because it was on sale. I have NO idea what to do with amaranth. Looks like birdseed, so I could just pretend to be a bird... 🦜

The worst part of today's medical expedition was not having every cell in my breast lightly murdered, no. It was my phone refusing to connect to the car on the way home and having to endure an hour of Irish radio. "Which channel?" It does not matter. They're all torture.

What do you call anxiety about your anxiety? Meta-anxiety, anxiety², anx-anxiety-iety? 🤔

My ☢️ appointment schedule is really predictable and easy to work around. JUST KIDDING. I only get one week of appts at a time, falling any time between 12pm and 8pm, and have to be reconfirmed every day because they're liable to change. Today's appt is already 30m behind schedule. Free coffee tho ☕