I need everyoneto know that the cat just came into the room, farted, (audible regular human fart volume) then took off running at top speed away from the sound like a rocket.

There's been enough repeated success now I think I can say it: I have figured out how to cut my own hair VERY well and will now be doing it for the rest of my existence. 🌟

Our polite little rescue cat must finally be getting over his past traumas because in pure cat form the little butthead play-bit/scratched my hand at the end of a tummy rub this morning.

In sprained ankle news, I can walk up to 4 miles it seems as long as I rest with foot up for 10 minutes after every mile. Beyond happy at this tiny win! Thank god I'm sure there will be enough stress around every corner to ruin it lol.

I just saw a guy I used to think was really cool with a soul patch and now I (correctly) think less of him.

I am, at my core, a person who always owns a pair of red corduroys.

The dog I lived with in Alaska before has died. :( RIP Pippin. You were a wonderful boi. I remember him freaking out about the sound of humpback whales on camping trips, puking up seaweed and watching the sun rise. Our windows were smeared in snot from his sneezes. I freaking adored him. ♡

I am hereby exiled from Vinted until such a time as something targeted and specific is needed. For, in my heart, I know I am too weak.

A LOT of joy at change in flavours of wet food this morning. Baby likes lamb.

How am I a human person supposed to budget responsibly for the month in which I am changing from 2 longish term part-time positions to a brand new full-time secure position?

How am I a human person supposed to budget responsibly for the month in which I am changing from 2 longish term part-time positions to a brand new full-time secure position?

Last full day at a job I've had for 2.5 yrs. Weird.

The sweater I'm wearing today is one my best friend convinced me to buy in yonkers 23 years ago. I was 15. ♡

I have a start date at new job. The security is real 🧡

The dentist is often definitely a shakedown back home in America, but this is the first time I've felt like it was in the UK too. Sneakily trying to schedule a private cleaning for cost one month before the free nhs one. God.

Fionn the cat says "get em while they're hot!" ♡♡♡

Not to Glasgow all over your weekend, but I just saw two guys drinking Buckfest at a bus stop outside the Hovis factory in their work clothes and it was so iconic that I love them.

Man, being a member of various online mountaining groups so I can see what people post could not be a better deterrent to keep me from ever posting on them.

The only time I care about Starbucks is pumpkin spice season because I live in the UK where that flavour is hard to find and the targeted advertising right know is WORKING. Not cool.

In ankle news I overdid it and knocked recovery back 5 weeks so now we're looking at late September. Boo. I will survive.

I would love to see the stats on lateral ankle sprains once smartphones hit vs before. I bet it skyrockets.

Good morning to everyone but especially the mating pair of comorants that live under the bridge by my work ♡

It is amazing how many world problems I seem to think that I can solve by repair-darning holes in wool jumpers. But HEY, look at this one thing I CAN fix!

Saw my first cormorant today. THEY ARE HUGE.

I would be okay with things getting better, in general, like if the universe is listening, like there's a lot of room for growth there, but idk maybe also an iguana needs another horn or something.

Super excited for the new New Writing Scotland from @asls.org.uk and New story from @scottmcnee.bsky.social within ♡♡♡ asls.org.uk/publications...

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

Having a slow brain day. 🐌

I am about 1/5th from the end of the weird fiction novel I am writing. As in, I expect to be done with it this month. And then I will have a whole new set of problems.

Is it possible to want a potato scone any more than I do right now?

After watching Andor, I tried to watch Rogue 1 but I forgot that every Star Wars movie, not even 10 seconds in, must have (as a warning) a musical score that announces: I AM A SILLY SILLY BOY.

Having now purchased shoes, evening bags, and outfits planned for the fancy 2 day wedding in a castle I am attending... I am not sure if, for my own safety, I am to ever be allowed on Vinted again.

So I sprained my ankle but now it's back to where I can walk home from work and I'm extatic about that and sometimes good news of any kind of nice to hear so that is my good news in a depressing world.

If anyone is wondering what it is like to live with reduced mobility, even temporarily... I spent £13 trying to get to work yesterday because of public transport cancellations/construction. It would have been genuinely cheaper to uber, but of course, I didn't know there would be cancellations.

PSB was everything to me when I was a kid. Sesame Street kept me company and taught me music, math & more. Mr Rogers taught me compassion for my neighbours Reading Rainbow taught me to love books. It helped shape me into a writer. Save PBS

One of my former students in the Arctic, who I mentored for our programme, and was quite close with for a time, died on Friday. I don't know how, as she was still very young. I met her when she was 12. I am... devastated? Heartbroken doesn’t begin to cover it.

There’s a story prompt here…

First half of the day was bad but there's still plenty of time for a turn around. Also, there is still the evening ♡

Sprained my ankle in hills (big bruise, swollen) and am once again humbled by how difficult it is to live (even temporarily) with reduced mobility. Trains were all cancelled yesterday. Walked a mile in boot because cabs aren't a £ option and construction had taken out closer bus stops. Sigh.

There is nothing in the world as loud and wet as any cat/dog licking their crotch.

Big news for the “you don’t deserve a living wage a robot could do your job” crowd.

At this point in my hillwalking life, my feet are a pretty, let's say 'rugged.' I have a fancy wedding to go to this year. The kind where u need a pedicure. I think, a pedicure may be amongst my greatest social fears???

My wife begins chemo tomorrow and though this is all new to us it is immediately obvious that a person in this situation with an hourly, no-benefits job would have to choose between quitting and going bankrupt to get the treatments or to keep working and die. Assuming they had Medicaid, and, well.

With all this talk of avocado toast I'm surprised no thought has been given to its TRUE menace... The cost of laundry when u inevitably smear every piece of clothing u own in avocado.

A friend sent this to me and jfc it hits.

I think, in a matriarchal society, there would loads of little low set squatting corners built into things so you could secretly pee in public the way drunk guys just turn to the side of a wall in a corner now.

Great story and castle!

Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Not to be that guy, but I'm watching Andor, and I just correctly identified everywhere in the Scottish mountains they filmed this first season, on first guess, by sight. So... Cookie? 🥺

That said, the absolute joy this morning, at a new flavour.