The TikToker knew what they were doing.

Edit: this could read like I support the idea of trying some random shit on the internet to solve a problem. On the contrary, I think the TikToker knew that turmeric stains and wanted to cause some chaos.

I think your number 2 is in the wrong order.

As a Californian, this is how I react to earthquakes.

The things we put up with, amirite? She’s stupid adorable though

For us it’s not just saving time; it’s preventing prissy cats from going somewhere we don’t want them to go because one of the others used the box and now it’s “too icky.” When the somewhere we don’t want is often the bed or even my pillow, it’s worth it.

I am not a financial guru so hopefully someone will correct me if I’m wrong about this, but your credit score is affected positively the more available credit you have. So by voluntarily lowering your available credit, you’re actually hurting yourself way more than the card companies. At least I think that’s how it works, or rather one of many factors.

Aww yay Emmie and yay Betsaida!

OMG Grandpa Cat 🥹😍

My dad watched a lot of Bond when I was a kid and I never liked the Moore ones because I thought they were too silly. But this puts a different spin on them and I appreciate Moore’s thoughtfulness. Good man.

Seconding. Reading the other less-effusive comments has been interesting because I feel quite strongly about it. It was I think $600 when we got it and it was so difficult to stomach spending that kind of dough on a fucking litter box but now I’d drop it again in a heartbeat if anything ever happened to this one. That said, I also have three cats and now one of them has hyperthyroidism so we have to dump it every day and a half or so. It’s so often but I cannot imagine doing it with a regular litter box.

I’m good at it. But, at the same time, I live in a pretty diverse area and I’ve met plenty of people who are clearly not super comfortable with it. So it’s an interesting balancing act to do it enough to be showing respect but not so much that I creep them out. Mostly I take my cues from their own eye contact levels.

Though we got her from a shelter, one of ours definitely picked us. We were cuddling a different kitten who looked extremely similar, and she was making a huge racket from her kennel. There was a post-it note on it that said “HOLD” so we assumed someone was coming back for her, but since she was yowling so much, we asked what it meant. The staff didn’t know; one of them went to find out, came back and tore the post-it note off the kennel. So of course we asked if we could hold her. She snuggled up to me and licked my chest immediately. So of course we adopted both of them. Funny enough, she is now 99% my husband’s cat.

I’ve read a few from T. Kingfisher this year and they’ve all been awesome.

Also really enjoyed the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, and the Emily Wilde books remind me in a good way of the Lady Trent books which I loved.

I’ve also read a few romantasy books but they’re unfortunately forgettable. I think I’m kind of over the genre. I want my fantasy with a bit of romance, not the other way around.

BookWyrm is great, seconding!

I was 100% in agreement with all of them until the last one.

Five stairs at time down would break my ankles

I’m jealous of your seal points. Always wanted one, but I exclusively adopt so I take what I can get. I do try and get floofs though. Here’s Sansa’s dating profile pic:

What we do in the shadows

I looked into this for my son, who gets really bad hiccups. We have lots of regular straws, so before I bought a special one, I had him try a regular straw that was pointing straight down at the bottom of the cup so that it was letting in as little water as possible. Totally works (most of the time).

Could be something intangible, like people associate this uplifting news with Tesco and thus are more likely to patronize Tesco.