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Criminal Record season two review – Peter Capaldi is just devastating in this intense crime thriller

Peter Capaldi: ‘I wouldn’t mind some of my ashes being spread here one day’ bit.ly/4qW534f

Last 4 days spent clearing out my father's study. A necessary but miserable task.

My beloved

Peter Capaldi with Franz Ferdinand looking cool as fuck?! #glastontelly

@mollyknight.bsky.social Have you spotted the Diamondbacks nightmare 1st innings?

So I can celebrate Independent Bookstore Day (this Saturday) by calling attention to my lovely new local bookshop and being self-serving all at the same time, one of my favorite combinations.

So, B&N is having a preorder sale at the same time as Amazon is having a sale, and both are targeting Independent Bookstore Day, which is one of the biggest in-store shopping days of the year. It feels shitty as an indie bookstore to be targeted by billionaire and venture-backed corporations

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

I'm struggling to be productive outside of work - the world is such a mess and work is awash in uncertainty - so tonight I want to declare my weekend achievements. I completed my tax return, cleaned my kitchen and I set up my cats favourite portable chair in the living room and she is happy.

I don't know how to share tweets up here. But here is the picture. There is going to be a new interview in The Herald tomorrow

Sometimes I can get lost in my work and forget the chaos around me. Today unfortunately is a case of seeing the chaos and facing the complete uncertainty of my life which should spur on action, but instead seems to lead to paralysis.

Peter Capaldi: I've come back to music again after 40 years

Merry Christmas and happy Channukah to all who celebrate. I have no festive pictures but I do have a cat in a box.

Household discoveries: It turns out at my new apartment my dryer has a water tank that needs emptying occasionally. On the one hand happy I figured it out without needing to call maintenance, on the other hand I can see this getting annoying.

Got a long list of things to do but am currently sitting on the sofa while my cat gently snores and that seems the most important thing to do right now.

Tonight was the Blow Monkeys. They were great... and then they brought out one of the best Doctor Whos. Apparently people knew beforehand, I didn't.

Is American Football the only professional sport happy to continue playing through rain and snow?

Wishing all my US followers a happy Thanksgiving. Here is my American cat enjoying her Thanksgiving morning.

Today was clean out old apartment day. Naturally took twice as long as I expected but it is done. Tomorrow will be football on the telly and reorganising the cupboards at the new apartment. Never a dull moment.

Celebrating the small victories - this evening I managed to unpack all my books and get them onto the bookshelves. I'm sure I'll do plenty of rearranging but for now the books are on shelves.

The movers arrived just as i managed to retrieve my cat from her hiding spot under the bed. She's now shut away until everything is moved out and I know she's not happy but I think we're pretty much neck and neck on stress.

Just back from a brilliant gig by @aimeemann.bsky.social - just sublime. Happy to get to see Jonathan Coulton too.

Preparing to move next week and this evening have just cleared out all the bathroom cabinets and drawers - divided up what to take with me and ruthlessly threw everything else away. Very cathartic. However my cat is looking at me very suspiciously.

Had a big appraisal at work today. Messed up my talk timings so ended it abruptly and now feel depressed about the world and my work. Looking for some light.

A sleepy Gem wishing everyone a good morning

Wow things are indeed livening up here. For the people who started following me recently I am a sporadic poster at best but am trying to be a bit more present. I am a Brit living in Arizona with my cat. This weekend I am supposedly packing up as I'm moving soon, but mostly watching football. Oops.

Am trying to find my cats level of relaxedness but maybe sharing a picture helps.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #673,457! Surprised by this as it felt I came late, but I guess it was still in the era of invites so numbers have shot up since then. 1

I had day surgery yesterday and stayed with a friend overnight. As she headed out to work this morning she apologized for leaving me on my own, but honestly spending a morning with 2 Australian Shepherd dogs is pretty perfect for me.