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Our pee terrorist Rosie must be sequestered in a room because she insists on peeing everywhere when she is near other cats.

But she's so needy that she screams bloody murder until we come up and snuggle with her.

And then she makes us feel guilty by looking adorable.
A brown mackerel tabby cat sleeping on me adorably, and trying to get me to forget she's a naughty pee terrorist.
September 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Also, this is a gem:

As a cat person, I approve.
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Dunno what happened to Taylor's research skills, but it's clear she isn't even doing the basics here.
Highlighted text from Wikipedia entry on TikTok ban. Text reads In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed a ban of the app as he viewed it as a national security threat. In August, he signed an executive order instructing that ByteDance divest from the app, though the order was blocked by a court injunction in September and was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021.
September 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Watching a presentation on TEEs and it was fine until this stupid slide.
Slide says 38% lift, 0 identification, and 100% GDPR compliance. No. Just no.
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hey @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team can you tell me what law you're obligated to follow in the Netherlands requiring age verification? I received this popup, but there's no law here, and the DSA doesn't mandate age assurance, much less uploading an ID!
September 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My most adorable baby knows I'm feeling unwell today and is playing nurse cat.

This is the only good thing about being sick.
A black and white cow-patterned domestic long-haired cat, just chilling and looking outside the window.
August 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I was eating, and got up to get more, and my cat was like 'no, this is my sits spot now'.

Reasoning was ineffective, so I had to violate cat law and move him.
My adorable and extremely clever baby, Bunsen. He is looking very fisheye lens here, but I assure you, his head:body ratio is normal.
August 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
RIP to Daisy, a Methuselah in cat-form, who was dumped on our doorstep 5 years ago, age 300, hated everything (including us until about a year ago), and genuinely scared all the other cats, despite being old and frail.

You put up a good fight, and had a mean purr.
A mostly black cat with white socks and chin stares annoyingly at you. She wants pets, but she also hates everything. Same cat, doing the tiny bit of cleaning she could. She tried, but we still had to bathe her anyway. A younger Daisy, forgetting that she hated the world, caught enjoying a sunny day in 2021. Daisy in a more fuller form, back when she would glare at anyone for daring to exist. Don't let that relaxed look fool you: She would demand pets and then completely lose her shit and maul anything in range.
August 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I think the @irishtimes.com editor went on holiday a little early...
Title reads: Ireland gets energy warning and should you buying a home if you aren’t married
July 31, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Just a cat, getting a drink at the bar, as you do.
An orange tabby cat in focus. He is drinking water out of a beer goblet at the bar. He is unconcerned by the noise, the people, or the fact that many are very drunk and trying to pet him. Including me.
July 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
And they think they'll catch #precrime !
ICE is seeking contractors that can conduct …data extractions to identify unusual trends, data anomalies, and control breakdowns, identifying possible trends, patterns, and links to automate methods for detecting, monitoring analyzing, summarizing and graphically representing patterns of relationships between entities, identifying potentially criminal and fraudulent behavior before crime and fraud can materialize, and detecting and reporting elements of crimes involving the exploitation or attempts to exploit the immigration and customs laws of the United States (emphasis added).
July 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
But also.
That wint image -- and another thing: Im not mad, please don't put in the newspaper that i got mad.
July 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Mood right now.
An image macro of a man, possibly a religious figure, dressed in all white. Text reads: 'How do you think we will stop AI? Through jihad'
June 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Not entirely sure this test was meaningful for me. I was pretty much down for eating everything listed, with the exception of defrosted pizza because why?

Still it says I'm upper middle class food-wise. I just think I'm an omnivore.
One of those radar charts, and while basically all 3/4 of it is almost entirely filled in, the text says 'Your food choices resemble those of the upper-middle class (96.43%) Fancy
June 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
After his loss, he brought two cats outside the Brooklyn home of Adams in January 2023, after the latter had been fined for rodent violations, and suggested that feral cats could address the rodent problem in the cit
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This guy's Wikipedia is a ride. Absolutely bonkers.
Text from Curtis Sliwa's Wikipedia Page. Relevant text reads: After his loss, he brought two cats outside the Brooklyn home of Adams in January 2023, after the latter had been fined for rodent violations, and suggested that feral cats could address the rodent problem in the city.
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
And somehow this place is less than 1M EUR?
Yet another split image -- two angles of a hallway that leads from the beautiful airy green tile room I mentioned above. The walls are a blood red, with red fernish flower patterns. Also, there's a red chair, and a painting of women who appear to be getting their hair dried at a beauty salon in one of those old style dome blowdry heaters. I mean, I think that's what it is, or maybe they're hats? IDK. Another one of the many bathrooms (there are 3 full bathrooms and two separate toilets). This bathroom matches the black subway tile and white floor motif of the Tweety room, but the shower is MURDER RED and it screams KILL ROOM. There are bath massage roller things that look like atoms, and way too many mirrors for comfort. One of the many banisters on the stairs of the house. Each one is accented with precise carvings, like this diamond/flower combo. It's beautiful, and clearly a reminder of what the old building once looked like. This room is, reasonably sedate. There are some color choices that would be easily fixed. The red rug is actually gorgeous. But inexplicably, the room is well appointed, save for two just .. bare matresses along the wall? Also there is a very strange stand which has the words 'The End' in stylized font. It's huge and reaches to one of the wall joists in the ceiling. CHOICE
June 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Periodically I like to view houses in different places, and today I came across this. I have no words. It is both beautiful and deeply, profoundly frightening. I can only describe this as McMansion Hell, Dutch Edition. Thoughts? @mcmansionhell.bsky.social

Link: www.funda.nl/en/detail/ko...
So, this place was built in 1909, restored from a former rectory that is apparently famous in the town. The description in Dutch mentions that during the restoration, they kept many of the original features, including the beautiful stained glass and railings. Overall, the room is beautiful and bright, with some bold, but reasonably tasteful turquoise and pink color added in, with black framing. So far, so good. So, there are at least 3 kitchens in this place. This is the first one, I think its on the ground floor. It's mostly fine, modernized with white doors and a black backsplash. But take a look at the paintings above. A random assortment of oil paintings of faces. There's one in the middle which has nightmare fuel people laughing in the most awkard way possible. A painting of a nude woman is staring at them confused, while a picture of a dour old white man stares off into the middle distance. I feel you, painting. I think this is the second floor. Again, I wouldn't go out of my way to lay out a room like this, but I can appreciate the aesthetic choices that were made. Actually, there are many pictures of the green floral tile work, and pictures of the sheer scale of this room, which is a long open floor plan kitchen+dining+living room. I actually adore this room now. And then there's this -- a split frame showing the ddaesque horror hall that leads to the toilet room (the Dutch love them some separate toilet-only rooms). The wall has ... various art? including paintings I cannot reasonably describe with words. There's a painting of wind up teeth, and a lipstick dispenser in a Chinese to-go box? And some deeply horrifying man on all fours. As for the bathroom. Imagine all black subway tiles, a black toilet lid, a pull out window and then... a large bust of Tweety Bird just ... hanging out over the toilet for no fucking reason.
June 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Great piece by @simonwillison.net on agentic misalignment, summarizing Anthropic's recent findings about how models can go rogue in certain conditions, and even 'kill' (in a simulated environment, at least).

simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...
This research also shows why developers and users of AI applications should be aware of the risks of giving models both large amounts of information and also the power to take important, unmonitored actions in the real world.
June 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Seconded. Rosie here is the smallest of our gang, and by far the most vicious when it comes to bug extermination. She can jump 4-5 feet vertically to catch whatever she sees. She also rides shoulders!
My vicious murder machine Rosie, chilling in an orange box which now is used as a cat bed. She's a brown mackerel tabby and very petite
June 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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June 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I say this in seriousness, the Irish courts quite literally shut down for nearly three whole months every year. Including the entire months of August and September. www.courts.ie/content/high...
A brief bit of text explaining why the Irish courts only sit for 9 months a year Christmas: 24th December to 6th January. Easter: Monday of the week preceding Easter week to Saturday of Easter week. Whitsun: Friday of the week preceding Whitsun to Saturday of Whitsun week. Long vacation: 1st August to 30th September.
May 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ooof. No wonder very little changes.
Since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, the DPC has imposed fines of more than €4 billion on big tech firms. Just €20 million of that has been paid, as most of the rulings are under appeal. In May 2023, the DPC imposed a record fine of €1.2bn on Meta for breaches relating to the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US. Earlier this month, the DPC fined video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million over the transfer of the personal data of European users to China.
May 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@thebeernut.bsky.social hey lookit, it's Beernut time!
A sign in The Growler BCN listing hours and the fact that it's Beernut time
May 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dear Ireland & the UK: I promise, you can absolutely have outlets in the bathroom and nobody is gonna die. Case in point: Barcelona
Photo demonstrating that a wall in the bathroom has a plug and a light switch inside the bathroom. Ireland is convinced you'll die if either is present Another Photo demonstrating that a wall in the bathroom has a plug and a light switch inside near the sink, no less!
May 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM