I once went into a music festival and they checked my (very sensibly) packed handbag. The guy skipped over my painkillers, my anti-histamines and my breath spray and pulled out a cylindrical wrapper. He demanded I opened it, convinced it was nefarious. Bluesky, it was a tampon. 🤦‍♀️

Front cover for William Boyd’s 2007 book, Any Human Heart

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
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Day 1

A white cat with a black eyepatch lounges on the back of a sofa, a lit lamp behind him. He’s judging you with his eyes. And if you don’t move right now, the sentence *will* be severe.

This is your FSA (Feline Service Announcement), to say that you need to stop scrolling and do that thing you were supposed to do.

You’re welcome.

#cats #catsofbluesky #procrastination

I’m just making the case to get the FT on our subs list at work as I’m personally paying at the moment. Press teams across the country used to get every major national paper delivered to their office door every morning before the pandemic because, shockingly, we need to know what’s in the news. 🙄

Ooohhh…now *this* is cool!

Just lost an hour on #bsky and just realised…I’m not feeling down, I’m not feeling angry and I’m not…I’m not…doomscrolling.

We need a new word for pleasantly whiling away our time on a social network.

Amen.

Truth.

A white cat with a black eye patch in a power pose, mid-lick of an ice-cream. The photographer was just trying to get a shot of him looking forlorn as she ate said Magnum but he saw his chance and took it. Hustle Culture Kitty says ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’ 🤨

The sneak attack cat equivalent of your little brother licking your ice lolly so you’re too grossed out to eat it anymore.

This is the moment that I realise that I just pulled out a bunch of clematis from my garden this morning, not just bindweed…

🤣

Yay!

Welp. I’d better start bulk buying those adult nappies now, then.

Agree 💯

A small tabby cat with white paws and belly lies stretched out, half fallen out of her bed under the radiator on a striped carpet, a look of bleak resignation on her furry little face. Me too, Jinna. Me too.

Sunday afternoon’s pre-Monday vibe.

On the nose.

How you know you’re in your 40s…

…you put your back out picking a scrap of chicken off the kitchen floor.

To note: I have done no heavy lifting in the last few days.

I guess the next 40 years are going to be fun 🙃

I use them inside the house, on the windows. Outside has enough actual cobwebs to scare the kids 😂

It’s like if Livejournal, MySpace and early Tumblr had a baby that looked like Twitter.

I’m enjoying reliving my twenties again 😁

A small tabby cat sits on a stone step, back to the camera, staring contemplatively out onto a damp garden. She is confused as to how her owner can switch off the shower but not the rain. Maybe they aren’t as omnipotent as she once thought.

Tuesday mood:

“Won’t someone please turn off the tap in the sky?”

#cats

This. 100%.

Ooohhh…good tip! Thank you!

Best. Moment. Ever!

Do you get ridiculously invested in your OPs’ big moments too, then? 😂

You can work out what your values are by what you react negatively to.

Basically, every time you feel angry, sad or even uncomfortable, that’s basically a boundary being crossed.

So if, say, injustice has you raging, then you value fairness.

Work out your values, then live by them.

Bookmarking this!

I followed people and *then* remembered about pesky things like profiles. It’s been too long since I last went all in on a new social network 😂

Two cats lay asleep on a sofa. The white cat on the left is curled in a U shape, with his nose tucked into his straight back legs in a way that his owner will never achieve with a lifetime of yoga. The tabby on the right is stretched out, with her chin on the sofa. They are exhausted by a tough day of sleeping.

#Caturday snoozles!

Show me your cats 🐱

I feel like I can’t leave the house without a brolly and sunglasses at the moment. It’s like we’re having our own weird weather system in the north west, that bears no relation to any other part of the country!

Oh shit, I’m number one.

At least the weather’s nice for once!

Happy haircut!