Current status: listening to Men Without Hats at work (with headphones on, of course, I'm not a monster)

This is probably a much better place than Twitter was during Black Lives Matter. But just in case, do NOT post people being murdered on the timeline.

Update: it is so cold in Montreal that the heat pump gave up, as it only functions to -25/Mise à jour: il fait tellement froid à Montréal que notre pompe à chaleur ne fonctionne plus, car elle ne fonctionne qu'à -25

EVIL WIZARD: your going in the time loop ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're* ME, CHUCKLING: you're*

someone I had mildly adversarial contact with at my last job copied me on an email about their absence from work due to a death in the family and I'm like do I respond with "I'm so sorry, also please take me off this list"? or just ignore

Part of the problem is that a lot of meat-eaters can only imagine vegetarian meals as either something like pasta with tomato sauce/a vegetable stir fry OR a standard meat-based meal, only with a Beyond Meat product

The 14-year-old just asked me for bonus time on his phone because somehow or other, he used 44/60 of his phone time minutes on the Clock app

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

I was today years old when I found out that the Defiant CD player is a thing that exists

ever follow someone based on a single funny post, then find out they're a single-issue weirdo and end up blocking them like hours later

The concierge at my apartment, so apologetic, told me about the woman who demanded to know who lives in my unit and why they were ordering vulgar blankets. She took a package not addressed to her, opened it, and was offended to find a huge woven blanket that says BITCH DO I LOOK LIKE I GIVE A FUCK

UPDATE: I had very weird dreams and basically have a hangover today, taking another star off the review for Versed

I found this book at work and it's a banger so far, the true story of gang of upper-class twits who try to pull off a jewel robbery and immediately get caught

I found this book at work and it's a banger so far, the true story of gang of upper-class twits who try to pull off a jewel robbery and immediately get caught

I brought the wrong knitting needle for the next stage of my project and was horrified to think I would have to sit in this hospital waiting room for hours without a thing to do, but it seems like for once the Quebec health care system is working at pace

I have to fast today for a medical procedure tomorrow and have told Ben on pain of death that he has to be home in time to cook dinner for the kids, because I imagine by 6 PM I will be murderously hangry

Watched Seven Dials on Netflix yesterday and a) when did Martin Freeman get so old and b) how does Helena Bonham Carter somehow continue to get more attractive with age

Today's cocktail: L'aube boréale (Woodland dawn), taken from the email newsletter of SEPAQ, Quebec's provincial park authority. I had to make a cocktail syrup with apples and honey and for all that, it pretty much tastes like sparkling wine and lemon juice

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

another wonderful day living under the Harkonnen Administration

Thinking of going to Halifax for my yearly Mom's Me Time trip, but I don't want to fly and the train takes literally 24 hours

I want to embroider these, then turn them into a quilt

Dogbert weighing Scott Adams’ heart against a feather

This is an act of self-harm to Canada. Especially coming at a time when the United States is destroying its own statistical capacity and reliable data has never been more needed. It's another signal that this Liberal government sees no value in the work of government. Utter, utter foolishness.

I took the kids to the planetarium today and I'm pleased to report that Passport To the Universe, a journey through the cosmos narrated by Tom Hanks, is still a banger

AVATAR. Boring and low-key racist

Cat

Imagine if this went the other way around, if they expected anglophone readers to put up with machine-translated idioms and phrasings

Finally finished this thing - 4000 stitches, 60 colours. Working on it on and off since March. Ready for small, practical projects for the near future #crossstitch #embroidery

Playing Exploding Kittens

My 10-year-old daughter asked for roller skates for Christmas and so far she has: - cut her hand open - ripped a shelf off the wall - broken her glasses (she had an extra pair, all good), and - given herself a cut across the eyebrow for which I was close to taking her to the hospital for stitches

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

Call me infected branchyal cleft cyst

Just watched After the Thin Man, which is set on New Year's Eve BTW, and had forgotten that it has a subplot where Asta (the dog) is cucked by a neighbourhood Scottie dog

It's like -11 and the air is SO DRY that I literally just put lip balm under my eyes and it wasn't enough

Took the 13 year old to buy new skates today and seriously considered wearing them home, as Montreal sidewalks are skating rinks right now

indulging in my holiday tradition of eating and drinking incautiously for a few days, then having a GERD attack

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

We are home from Christmas and I have gone out alone to decompress and reflect after spending 5 solid days with my parents, AMA

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

It is surprising to me that none of the major platforms have actual _parental control_ features so that we can limit the amount of time that our parents can spend online, and which apps they’re allowed to use. I don’t worry about my teenager’s use of the internet at all, just my octogenarian dad’s.

Read some of the Raffles stories and was like, maybe I've read too much @kjcharleswriter.com because this seems very homoerotic to me, then I read the writer's Wikipedia page and found out he based the characters partially on his good friends, Oscar Wilde and Lord Arthur Douglas

That time of year again!

Attempts to make Christmas ornament cake pops have not entirely gone to plan...I am calling these "cake lumps" and forsee them being a tradition going forward

I have probably told this story before, but when I was about 9 years old, my aunt Joan did my hair and gave me an amazing late 80s/early 90s Delta Burke bouffant. My mom took one look, said "Oh my god, Joan, you made her look like a whore!"

I have managed to clean the house and do the last-minute christmas errands and get everyone packed and ready to get on an early train tomorrow and I am TIRED