As if this has to be said in actual 2025.

An Infusiast

“What, me?” said Appeasement, “You want me? After all these years quietly gathering dust in the history books, you want me again?” “Yes, of course! It’s your time to shine once more! Come on buddy, look sharp, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you”

Proper jealous of my cat right now. Oh to be that deeply relaxed. (We think the scratch is from the rose bush.)

Why did the palindrome cross the road? To get a map a mate got. #palindrome

A personal thread about perceived threat vs actual threat, fear and flags, because recent events around asylum seekers in the UK and the flag based responses, and the way they are discussed in the media is really bothering me 1/

Watched Encanto with the kids and no I still can't get through the Abuelo Pedro scene without absolutely sobbing.

The sense of dread, familiar to cat owners, of hearing the click of the cat flap followed by a muffled miaow.

Well you guys were no help frankly 😂 I was brought up being taught that the full phrase is 'curiosity killed the cat but never harmed the kitten'. When I said this to my husband and 13yo they were baffled. I've searched for it online and found nothing. I've now got no idea how I picked that up!

Guys, settle an argument and complete this phrase for me: Curiosity killed the cat ...

Guys, settle an argument and complete this phrase for me: Curiosity killed the cat ...

While away we encountered this fine tuxedo cat just outside Zandvoort station. Emerged from the long grass mewing for fusses then followed us all the way up the footpath. +10 for welcoming travellers, -5 for getting a bit stalky, still an overall score of 25/10. @thecatreviewer.bsky.social

Back from a week away, having taken the overnight ferry to the Netherlands and back again. We had a lovely time, although we originally planned this holiday for 2020 and I think it would have worked better (and been cheaper) if we had managed to go when the kids were younger.

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

I decided to work my way through the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Except ... I'm about a quarter of the way through the second book and I'm not feeling it. Is it worth persisting?

Been quiet on here recently but it's very important I share with you that my cat is cuddling her own tail.

The weather is very pleasant and I am doing my best to conceal the sadness that is inside me.

Dense urban street canopies are not a 'nice to have'. In the climate we're creating, they are a survival strategy. Local and national governments are in dereliction of their duties of care.

I'm a school lunchtime supervisor, I don't even have to try to get this result.

And now for today’s climate forecast …

Oh dear.... How mortifying for everyone involved observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

It's ARFID Awareness Day and given that there's not much about it on B'sky, and given it's threatening my eldest's life, I feel duty bound to share some info. Images from arfidawarenessuk.org on FB. #Arfid #ArfidAwarenessDay 🧵

How much does the UK spend on welfare? 🇪🇺 Relatively little compared to Europe: just 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including sickness & disability benefits, pensions, etc.). Meanwhile, 🇫🇮Finland spends 25.7% of GDP & 🇫🇷France 23.8%. #ChartOfTheDay #Welfare

Ways to keep cool in the record-breaking heat: 1. Put ice in front of your fan 2. Put a damp towel around your neck 3. Close your curtains 4. Dismantle the rapacious, extractive fossil-fuel dependent capitalist system via any means necessary 5. Sip, don't gulp water

Ooh yay, back to insomnia. Well I had a single night of decent sleep, why would I need more?

Post the same actor in two roles that show their range.

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

We had Chinese takeaway yesterday to celebrate our anniversary and it was lovely but today I feel properly yuck. Apparently being in your forties means you get a hangover from takeaway food.

I thoroughly recommend going to a cat cafe if you need distraction from *waves hands vaguely* all of that.

Would be fascinated to meet the person who thinks Iran is in Norfolk.

Today is not a good day to be a school lunchtime supervisor 🥵

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

What I also don't get is how David Walliams is still writing books for *children*. Kids are often asked to research favourite authors. How many kids have looked him up on Wikipedia and have read things no 9 year old should be reading? Why has @harpercollins.bsky.social not dropped him?

This government is willing to do unpopular things to save a few hundred million Yet restoring fuel duty to pre-2022 levels would save billions. Ministers have not been thanked for keeping petrol prices low — they may as well be brave and raise them again www.thetimes.com/article/18cd...

13yo needed a new duvet cover and chose this, which ironically is exactly what I would have chosen at age 13. When did we go back to the 90s??

This is one of the most bizarre articles I've ever read.

Anyone else got a weird headache? I'm wondering if it's an air pressure thing.

Yes we absolutely do need to reintroduce these gorgeous big floofs to UK and yes I would risk my arm trying to pet one.

A few years ago, I published a pre-teen online magazine. If you’d have told me that Teen Vogue was going to be giving advice on dealing with being cause in an ICE raid …

9yo was out playing in the garden. Came in saying, "I just saved a mouse!" I turned round to see him holding a very disgruntled cat in a bundle 😂

That sequence of music snippets! 🤯🎶 Very impressive video editing and science storytelling from the YouTube channel 'How do they know', created by Adam Cole and Joss Fong. Thank you for covering my research, and high fives to the editor! 🤩👏

Genuinely, who asked for this?

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

I'd really like to be able to get a half decent night's sleep. Unfortunately that's looking unlikely for the next month or so.

When I searched to see if Mary Shelley and Jane Austen could have met in Bath, Google AI informed me that they were, in fact, sisters...

This isn't actually funny at all; it's a window into Trump's worldview, because he absolutely expected any German official to be upset over the Nazis losing. Because if Trump were German, he would be. Because things like "they were fucking Nazis" are way less important to him than "on my team"

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

And this is why in some older texts you'll see et cetera written as &c. Knowing this fact didn't stop my inner monologue reading it as 'and see'.