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@completetripe

John & 🌈 Gotti, getting irritated and acerbic. We cook with chillies, tinker with electronics, listen to music and The Golden Age of Radio. ♏️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaaoqxlqqoqfy

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Jesus Christ! I changed it to set to 3 times before posting, and checked before hitting send, bloody thing must changed it again to β€œtoo” while up loading.

We are becoming irrelevant, the various AI spell & grammar checks are just going to start posting themselves.

Can’t we get them their own SM?

07.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enough chicken leftover for dinner tonight, but that leaves me nothing for after laundry tomorrow.

I’ve no emergency meal in the freezer as the Kyivs I ordered for this role, were o/s. So it will have to be a sandwich or open a few cans and make a bean salad. Oh well.

07.03.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fried chicken and sriracha with extra garlic for breakfast.

Okay-ish, would have been better without AM yelling at the thin black stranger cat (thinking of calling him Cash, after Johnny) and Max who got caught up in this set too. Everyone blown up like puffer fish.

07.03.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

😸😸

06.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My parents were big on β€œFruit salts” like Andrew’s or Enos for their gastric needs, us kids got Senocot granules, which I liked the crunchiness of. Think that was in a little square brown tin?
Proper packaging.

06.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember the blue bottle of Phillips Milk of Magnesia in the bathroom cabinet, growing up.

I don’t remember anyone ever having a dose, perhaps it came with the house?

Later, I learned that poisons were traditionally put in blue glass by chemists, so perhaps it was my parent’s final solution.

06.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Alan Ladd being irritating in Box13 on the radio. I don’t know why his voice gets my back up, I don’t think he worried me one way or another in Shane or anything else I’ve seen him in.

06.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My idiot-watch said I slept 1h38 last night, and the day went as well as you would expect with this level of fatigue.

Mood is down amongst the rotting leaves and muck at the bottom of the swamp.

Oh well, I’ve the weekend to pick myself up again, if the world allows.

06.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AM is eating the food I bought with long teeth. I can’t help that, it’s the best quality I can afford right now. (Felix as good as it looks) Which? rated it highly as not being packed with cereal.

Then it’s likely it was tested by scientists, not ungrateful cats.

06.03.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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Bastard thing! Broke my streak at 148. I’m not going to try for 150 again, too stressful, it’s not to be.

06.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I overcooked the onions I had made as an experiment in the air fryer. They look burnt, but taste fine. However the bungalow now smells like I have used fried onion air freshener.

06.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Vented my ire on Ben from Adult Social Care this afternoon.

He and Lorna (MH) seem to have unilaterally decided that my difficulties are some kind of lifestyle choice, resultant from the pandemic lockdown.

They can sod off. Sent him a message breaking our contact.

06.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
@OMGImAutisticAF

β€œWhy do you need a label?”
Bc there is comfort in knowing you are a normal zebra, not a strange horse. Bc you can’t find community w other zebras if you don’t know you belong. And bc it is impossible for a zebra to be happy or healthy spending its life feeling like a failed horse

@OMGImAutisticAF β€œWhy do you need a label?” Bc there is comfort in knowing you are a normal zebra, not a strange horse. Bc you can’t find community w other zebras if you don’t know you belong. And bc it is impossible for a zebra to be happy or healthy spending its life feeling like a failed horse

06.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Well that was a worthwhile bit of puzzling. Corrected the Milo-mix up from last week and did quite a bit more. Only one piece missing, the poor kingfisher is missing his breast. Perhaps it will still turn up.

Morning!

06.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay. Will do. Really hope it does something. I’m running out of stuff to cut out of my diet. The cats must wonder why I back away from them.

Even if it just reduces the background itching…. I worry about the quantity of antihistamines I’m taking too.

06.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The DAO stuff should come today. Fingers crossed it does make a difference to the allergic things even if it’s just to the β€œmay also contain…” items. I think tonight’s itching is because I put a sprinkle of Aromat on my supper… never had a problem in the past, but that means nothing.

06.03.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Doesn’t look like I’m going to sleep tonight; achy, itchy, too warm, thirsty.

Trying to work out if it’s okay to take the Rybelsus now, then I can take other meds and a cup of coffee in an hour or so. Perhaps I must just write off my blood sugar today.

Yeah, I’ll do that, then look at the puzzle.

06.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s always the men who reply or quote skeet without liking the original skeet. Never the ladies. Makes us guys look bad.

06.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine if worms in hats did drive apple-cars about though.

05.03.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

I don't need full service wealth management, I need full service debt management

05.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every damn bastard is trying to sell you something, it’s like being constantly stuck in some Middle Eastern market, having rugs and pipes and tourist tat pushed in your face. Just waiting for the digital equivalent of small boys begging and picking pockets, to be built into sites as standard.

05.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time to look for a new online pharmacy I think. The one I use changed their website about a year ago, making it far more difficult to find any relevant information.

Now, when you eventually manage to log in, it immediately dumps you into some sort of questionnaire trying to flog GLP1 injections.

05.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Tuxedo cat sitting on a green seat pad next to a red gingham covered table.

Tuxedo cat sitting on a green seat pad next to a red gingham covered table.

I hope AM isn’t going to caterwaul all night on the chair. He’s taken a position today… perhaps believing if he sticks around more chicken will be forthcoming. I would let him in, but then he’s in and out constantly and a variety of other cats come in during the night, while he’s roving around.

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hope I sleep tonight. Been so tired all day, for no real reason, I think. Didn’t keep checking my bloods, I don’t have the spare test strips, so maybe my glucose has been high.

Oh well, maybe a result of the spring cleaning, maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow. I may fry some chicken… I’ll see.

05.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the whole, they are all quite friendly with each other. 😸

05.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ginger and white tabby cat touching noses with a light coloured Siamese cat.

Ginger and white tabby cat touching noses with a light coloured Siamese cat.

Hi there! You coming to the TopCat? Order the veal cutlet, it’s to die for!

05.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sainsbury’s been. Driver pleasant but either shell shocked, hungover, or simple minded.

Seemed totally under equipped with no scanner, sack truck, or training.

My cheese was open to the elements, when I pointed this out, he just gave a vague smile. English speaking, just something unconnected.

05.03.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have Hitchcock’s β€œThe Birds”, and apocryphal stories of disappointed and hungry monkeys attacking their regular feeders… nothing about cats that I’m aware of… perhaps that’s too close to home.

05.03.2026 09:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Gotti wears spots and stripes… Meryl Streep could have picked up some tips.

05.03.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Come on Sainsbury’s!

I’ve got a queue of customers waiting for breakfast. Cats may be patient hunters, that doesn’t extend to their staff though. Gotti would carry on like a wall street tyrant.

05.03.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0