We’re mostly moved in, the cottage is starting to warm up, and the local antique is enjoying her best fireside life. A fine #caturday after all, she reckons. She even got a little bit of kebab.

I have just discovered that our fireplace has a self-cleaning window. I’m absolutely amazed on the things that the previous owner decided to drop money on. Don’t get me wrong, I love my designer fridge and dishwasher and self-cleaning fireplace, I’m just baffled.

We have inherited an AI washer dryer with this house, and I have so many questions. Chiefly among them why one would combine to devices to make a worse version of each of them, but more saliently: why does my washing machine need an internet connection, let alone AI?!

It’s the big move day, and the old cat is royally miffed - her dominion, the bed, was dismantled; so naturally she’s now perched atop the desk right next to the ruins of her former empire, looking at me accusingly. She feels that 21 is too old for new territory expansions. Happy #Caturday, I guess!

Zero floor space, all the zoomies. Help.

In the packing chaos, a lot of stuff is obviously lying around and every time the big orange does his hunting yowl, I promptly get blessed with another very random object. So far he has hunted: an empty CD case, a fake flower, contact lens solution, a remote, a switch controller, and a heat foil pen

Some things here in Sweden are comically more expensive, some are comically cheaper than in Germany. One of the comically more expensive things is boxes: moving, plastic, storage, you name it. It pains me to admit that a) I have opinions on moving boxes & b) the Swedish ones are vastly superior.

Side note, I recently rediscovered her shelter photo from when I adopted her. They reused an old photo from when she previously was in the shelter, so if you ever wondered what Miss Mia looked like at eight years old, here you go!

The ancient cat has just discovered that she is not limited to shoving her paws into my nose or mouth if I don’t react fast enough to her arms taps. She has unlocked “shove paw in ear for attention”. Might have to cancel her 22nd birthday party. (She wonders if y’all have your outfits ready yet?)

Today’s cottage delights: the light, the light! Nordic daylight is something special, I can’t explain it, but the cottage gets drenched in what feels like liquid gold and it’s giving me more serotonin than I can adequately articulate.

ADHD people are not good with sequential tasks. This ADHD brain has to figure out in which order to pack up an entire apartment. A lobotomy, please? As a little treat?

Today’s cottage adventure: along with a variety of chicken coop illumination, sinks, antique skis and old window panes, we inherited a (checks notes) giant box of pine cones from the previous owners. Short of her having actually been three squirrels in a trench coat, I wonder what these are for.

Berika ditt tyska ordförråd (del 2529): jemanden abwimmeln = bli av med någon #dagsvde

Someone was either very displeased with my absence all day, or all the attention her brother has been getting. Either way, the local antique just shoved her paw up my nose when I took too long to react to a tap on the arm. I’m a terrible cat mother, apparently.

Scene of the crime

I cannot overstate just how cold it is, especially with the windchill, and @bearlawyer.bsky.social just spent his evening fixing my car until well past 10:00 PM. If that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.

CN sexuelle Gewalt gegen Kinder Das Ding ist halt auch: Epstein, Trump und Co. sind keine Ausnahmeerscheinung im Geschlechterverhältnis - sie nutzen lediglich ihre Macht um das zu tun, was Otto Normalverbraucher auch gerne mal machen würde. Ich habe da mal was drüber geschrieben:

Incidentally, my favourite thing about our new house is the pre-raphaelite bathroom door. I will not take any comments or criticism at this point.

Okay so, TL;DR for the new faces: we just bought a 1700 something cottage here in Scania and you’re going to hear a lot about it. Most importantly though, the kids just saw it for the first time and had I not already been in love with it, I would’ve fallen in love based on their enthusiasm.

Good start to this whole “getting our house” thing: it is very cold here in Malmö and subsequently my slightly aged Diesel decided not to start. We’re now running an hour late to key handover.

Tbf I can't be the only one with this issue since counsel opposite literally sent me cat photos not long ago. Disclaimer: The case is not about cats.

“Theo, no, that’s my chair. Theo! THEO! DON’T SEND THAT E-MAIL!!!” Being a lawyer with three cats ain’t easy. @bearlawyer.bsky.social is fighting for his life every single day.

Zero regrets on that cat’s face. Something tells me we will be living with this new look for an extended period of time.

Apologies in advance for being insufferable on main today, but we’re getting the keys to my dream house today and I’m positively vibrating off the floor tbh

I swear to god, I left this cat alone for two fucking minutes with a jar of red beets. Two. Minutes. #CatsofBluesky

Ohhh, new Technology Connections about a topic that has zero relevance to my own life, but which I will binge watch religiously on at least four separate occasions because who doesn’t want the power to have weirdly niche knowledge on hyperspecific topics? (Ask me about dishwasher detergent.)

The antiquity is once more busy being the image of poise and grace and elegance on this fine Sunday. #CatsOfBluesky

I’m honestly struggling to comprehend the lightning speed at which fascism is digging its filthy roots into American soil.

Still being Facebook friends with my former high school acquaintances from Tennessee has put me in the interesting position of being observer to the most recent discourses in their social circles. At the moment: Europe must grant refugee state to Americans wanting to leave the US.

I’ve had a terribly congested nose (that I’m starting to suspect is a sinusitis) and my word, I’ve never been this feral for a spicy soup in my life. I’d commit crime for a soup so spicy it blasts my sinuses clean. This is a first.

I searched for aurora borealis green.

The face of a very small cat who just stole some of my very spicy ramen while I wasn’t looking, and then hissed at it because the ramen was, in fact, very spicy. This catte, I swear.

One of the most beautiful things a man has ever said to me was “We need a new router for the house, can you look into this?” followed by a “I'll let you handle that, love” after pitching a mesh network. Girls just wanna have root access, and a tight mesh network.

@luxwinter.bsky.social:s screams of frustration over a game of Carcasonne were so blood curdling they made one cat and one cub come check to see everyone were sound of mind. They were, as it happens, not. The ancient cat now speaks softly to someone over the phone and the cub is texting her friends

Just signed away the apartment. It’s sold. T-17 days until we get the keys to our dream home. I feel like I can breathe again for the first time in weeks ohmygod

The Swedish prince and copycat designer Carl Philip has released a new range of luxury scarves. There's just something about them... I don't know. Something about the design's negative space? Not sure what it is.. oh.

In case you’re wondering why I rarely ever post her brothers - I love them just as much, it’s just that they haven’t nailed how to pose yet.

No thoughts, just ancient #cat.

Buyer backed out at the very last minute, no clue whether original buyer still wants the place. I’ll take a firing squad over another week of this, ngl.

Having to sell an apartment on a deadline because the sales agreement is conditional collateral to the mortgage of your dream home is hands-down the most stressful thing I’ve done last year. This says a lot given I moved abroad, bankrupted myself on my sick cat (and still am!), and got fired.

The very small man who is the head of the neuropsychiatric clinic that is responsible for me blanket-denied my ADHD medication without looking at my case, having my diagnosis, or speaking to me and now I’m cleaning my apartment like a confused first generation Roomba again.

I just got to witness an exchange between two of my old high school classmates from Tennessee on Facebook, and now I’m convinced this is all a bit. “Didn’t we leave NATO? Or am I confused?” “No, we left the EU.”

I miss that one day that Americans were banned from TikTok.

Woke up in the middle of the night, read the news, will stay up for the rest of the night because what the fuck is even happening I’m begging the USA to just be normal for a very brief millisecond. Just for once.

Aus linguistischer Sicht super spannend. Gerade die Giffey/Giffay-Chose indiziert im Kontext der restlichen Sprachstruktur m.M.n. schon rechtlich deutlich die Übersetzung einer homonomysierten Ursprungssсhreibweise (ie Гифай).

How every single activity feels today.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Have some cat content in these trying times, it is Caturday after all. May I present an antique fireside blep?

I do not mean to be snarky here at all and the original point very much stands, but I’m pretty sure the rest of the world has been fundamentally reimagining their relationships with the US over the last few years.