Tuesday. Facilitator wonders if cats have hysteresis. Cat was very reluctant to go out this morning. But then relented - per habit. Later, cat was reluctant to come in. But then demanded - per habit. Facilitator notes the desire for tuna is unchanged.

Monday. Cat was very gentle with facilitator this morning. She wanted him to wake but he needed care. Rubbing. Gentle sitting on top. Gentle tail in face - not too much. Success. He was very appreciative. Food and outdoors were provided. A good start to the week.

Sunday. Cat is considering a 'rate my faciitator' day. She decides there are more important things. Sleep. Tuna. Joy! Hmm. Scritches? He's not completely useless. zzz

Saturday. Facilitator is up very early today. Cat is oblivious. She is fast asleep. This is her preference. Fast asleep and in her dreams. Facilitator also prefers sleep and dreams. So he dreams his dreams. When reality conspires. To need him awake. Sigh.

Friday. It's tricky to explain to cat that someone called #davidattenborough is 100 today. Cat appreciates the natural world. Provided it is devoid of local cats. And she appreciates sustainable tuna. Well, any tuna. I think she's decided to sleep on it. Happy Birthday David. From cat […]

Thursday. Cat considers. The long periods when nothing happens. Why would it no be so? Cat's philosophy abounds with certainty. Sometimes other cats. Where do they come from. When they're not next door's cat? He's entertaining. And a nuisance sometimes. The others must be chased. Yes!

Not long until #dogsoutsidepollingstations day.

Wednesday. Facilitator is eating hula hoops on toast for breakfast. Cat has absolutely no interest in the disgusting mess. Each to their own thinks facilitator. Cat sleeps. Facilitator considers the day's chores. As usual.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116526741757223169 Great thread!

The ‘60s were wild. #batman

Tuesday. Cat enjoys grooming herself. She spends much time on this activity. Perhaps she needs to be well groomed to sleep? Do cats understand coincidence? Or causation? Facilitator shrugs. And eats more cereal.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@mcmartin/116520863303816350 If you are a student or a young developer this is an excellent way to learn more about computers, and that knowledge will help you grow as a programmer. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that working on a retro system isn't […]

5th May 2022 Rose Cottage in Houghton celebrates the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in classic fashion. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

Jeff Bezos ‘selling $500m superyacht because it attracts too much attention’. If he had Prime he could have just returned it within 30 days.

Thread of the night

Monday. New week. New naps. Cat has plans. Facilitator has washing up.

I felt a great disturbance in the force #may4th

"It's a treasure. I feel like it should be in a museum or something." "it has the date 1981... I think it's incredible" Cleaner finds 45-year-old naval identity card https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv2yypjn57o

Sunday. Is cutemaxxing a thing? Cat says it is. Facilitator ponders whether cat has been mixing with the wrong cats.

"Bonnie Howard, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, impressed judges with her enthusiasm, distance of splash and creativity"... Girl, 5, crowned #worldpuddlejumping champion https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2lg8dwrgo

For fans of entirely spurious numbers, the UNIX timestamp is about to hit 17777777. Hold on to your butts!

Saturday. Cat and facilitator wish you a happy, restful weekend. Cat is an accredited rest SME. Facilitator is a cat rest accreditor, Specialising in single cat accreditation. Cat says his other specialism is being slow to let her in.

I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

Friday. Cat rolls about. She stretches. Her furry tummy taunts facilitator. He knows not to scritch the tummy. Scritch the tummy at your peril. Cat cannot control the claws. The shredders of the back legs. A lesson awaits careless humans.

Hey guys, don’t laugh, this isn’t cute! Union flags only do this when in distress

Thursday. Cat has a whole day of enjoyment lined up. Enjoy sleeping. Enjoy watching. Enjoy leaping. Enjoy eating. Enjoy grooming. Enjoy life. She's imagines Facilitator does the same.

Wednesday. Cat mulls her routine. So much good. Not routine? Is a mix. Bad things. Vet. Good? Anything not vet. Best is rest. Facilitator? He tries.

Tuesday. Cat is unaware of her journal. Facilitator wonders. Would she have an opinion? Would she seek... Corrections? Omissions? Or just more tuna? Probably tuna. Yes cat. I've mentioned it twice. Tuna.

Some notes on talkie, a new "vintage language model" from a team including Alec Radford (yes, that Alec Radford) "trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/talkie/

#picathecat loves #tweed she is a very urban kitty.

Monday. A sunny day for cat. It is approved. There will be sun related behaviour throughout the day. ( sleeping appears to be sun related - Facilitator)

What should we call our company? Let’s just bang the keyboard and see what comes out.

First time i’ve seen that on a copyright page

The problem with gen alpha is that nobody is mastering Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, German, logic, mathematics, and the viola by the tender age of nine

Just popped out for a few moments, and there it is in the sky. The Moon. Very recently some humans were flying around it. Courtesy of a lot of fast moving mass. And the weakest of the fundamental forces. Pondering is a great pastime again.

We were in Poundstretcher earlier and I don't know why but for some reason this caught my eye. It's a colourful foam cut-out board for children, to help them learn numbers and tell left from right. But hang on a minute ....

Live your life in such a way that people don't automatically assume an attempt to kill you is 100% staged

Travelling is so weird. So much confident and trusting handing over of bags and belongings/leaving things out of sight on luggage racks etc, but when you actually *have* all your stuff on your person you still eg feel like you have to take 2 suitcases into a toilet cubicle because wHat WiLL hAPpen

Sunday. Cat is nowhere to be seen. Facilitator wonders what she is up to. Enjoying her space? Chasing? Sitting still and watching the world? What tuna's place in her philosophy?

Saturday. Cat is enjoying the sun. She likes this weather. Perhaps there will be more? Facilitator also enjoys sun. But he does not enjoy colds. Achoo!

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive […]

Friday. Cat and facilitator are both up early today. Bring on the weekend. Coming soon. Until then? Run outside! Tuna! zzz.

I remember the days when we ran out of new internet to read.

X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/x-is-shutting-down-communities-because-of-low-usage-and-lots-of-spam/

Honestly working to banish the word, content, from my vocabulary. It does feel excessively strange now to read "my content" in a statement or something. Now I'd love to know what/who started this trend because it makes statements almost incomprehensible. I had someone say, "my content," offline […]

Thursday. Facilitator was barely awake. He felt cat walk onto his chest. Gently turn. And wave her tail across his face. Oh dear. Hope you don't want to go out cat. It's 6:00am Cat only wants contact. And a gentle scritch. They part and return to slumber.