Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 20hIt's possible you have fungus gnats (additionally or instead of fruit flies), and you may need to use a different method of getting rid of them. If they ignore vinegar traps, worth investigating. (I am dealing with them in my potted plants.) 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I do recommend, unfortunately from experience, a bucket or lidless garbage can in arm's reach of the toilet. 020
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I leveled it on a second character to farm for a mount pattern for a single mount; I would definitely farm for decor. 000
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Kinda want decor items for all the old WoW archeology stuff I found. I'd do archeology again for decor. 100
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(This thought brought to you by the cat sliding off my shoulder) 000
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Realization: a creature that has spent so much time evolving bonkers skill at landing without harm doesn't actually care about balance 100
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Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It was introduced day one of my reference class, and it's been part of my core professional philosophy since. 031
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Having seen the suggestions thus far, I'm not sure I could pick just one. I could definitely come up with a "10 movies that define 1999 for me" list from them, though. 130
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You just need a layover in ORD. ;_; I did ridiculous step numbers there on a day with wind delays and my gate changed ~5+ times in different wings. 070
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sharing the earworm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhFA...youtube.comTom Bombadil's Song, Hey Dol! Merry Dol!YouTube video by Tolkien Ensemble - Topic 030
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Okay I don't remember how/why Imzadi came up (or if it was over at Tumblr), but they had it in hard cover at the library book sale, so now I have it. (There were probably 30 Star Trek paper backs that I was not motivated enough to compare with the already-owned list.) 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We probably have that many in the house because my husband bought a box of like 30 of those small cheap ones years ago, and most of them are lost around the house now. I know where 9 are off the top of my head, though. 120
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My parents' laundry is set up like this, but it could be because my dad built their house and is not good with left/right. (One of the sinks has the water temps flipped, too.) 020
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I had to learn my street address and phone number to graduate from kindergarten, so I guess he's saying a 1st grader would be more capable than him. 120
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have mostly used them dried in tea or to make a jelly - I'm curious to see what you do with them! 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yeah, the downside of an everything bagel is that the everything gets everywhere. 110
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jack seems to be popular, or at least was 15 years ago when we got ours with that name from the shelter. 1120
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Always fascinating what money people are willing to leave on the table. 110
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I would guess some kind of orb weaver like we had on our deck last year, if she's maintaining it nicely 111
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Unpopped popcorn - not the kernels at the bottom of a bowl of popcorn, but straight out of the container of kernels. Usually just one, like it was hard candy. 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I suspect since it doesn't look like they expect, they want to know how. I would guess either which loop you crochet through, or not turning the work and just working back across. (I have done the latter and gotten similar reactions.) 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We are diving headlong into my preferred weather season (high 60s daytime/above freezing overnight), which also means we have entered "when do we take out the window a/c?" guessing season. 021
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think that may be where we are with our 15 yr old cat, but he is at least using the senior cat urinal (puppy pad + short plastic box) now instead of random corners. 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You might appreciate the 1976 article "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity;" it questions whether natural language querying (not available then) was the even the means of information retrieval they should be searching for, or if they should just figure out how to code in librarians. :) 122
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Definitely not if we still had the physical card catalog, which used to take up about 1/3 of our first floor. 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm not sure we have space in the building enough to hold the equivalent amount of indexing in print anymore. Maybe in microform, but no one wants to do that. 110
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The cards are just the books and maybe the title level for the print periodicals; I work in an academic library, where the vast majority of the records in our online search are online articles in journals, which used to exist in printed volumes rather than cards. 210
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Our online catalogs get scraped by llm bots now and have had to implement measures to avoid serious server slowdowns, too. Card catalog wouldn't fix it - it's print journal/periodical indexes that are the bulk of the online catalog content now in the era of unified "discovery layers." 160
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026lol that reminds me of when there was a fly on my backup camera 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You used to have to purposefully meet your chosen journalist in a shadowy parking garage to leak stuff, and now you can do it by accidentally including them in the group chat. 0100
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think the reason it feels more stupid now is because the internet and 24/7 news cycle make it easier and faster to hear about stupidity that would otherwise have been unearthed 80 years later by someone doing their dissertation. 170
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Got a bag of gingergold apples at the grocery and it's a good thing they were only 99 cents/lb. because they are sad. 000
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ugh we're up to 98% humidity and my shirt feels damp. I'm not even outside. 000
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We have a camera that points at our garage that is right by the shelf our younger cat sits on to look out, and when my husband goes out to do anything in the back yard, you can hear the cat crying via the camera because his dad has gone out without him and it's terrible. 040
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Encarta 100% had music because the version we had in the 90s had a variety of special sections, including one on communism (I think just after the fall of the Soviet Union) that used Beethoven's 7th for the background music, and I would open the article just to listen to it. 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026(Okay, I'm realizing I had one first cousin in the same county as me, but she's like, 15 years younger than I am, so there was no school overlap.) 000
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026But my dad's family had been in the county at least 5 generations before me; there were a lot of connections if you start mapping it out. 100
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Not *close* relations - all the geographically close 2nd cousins went to the other high school in the county, and all my first cousins were 6+ hours away, but I had a 3rd cousin in my grade that neither of us knew about till 11th grade. 100
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026lol my mom keeps finding new ways I was probably related to half my high school class 110
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The cat does not understand that I cannot stay in bed all day (so he can sleep on me) because it will wreck my back. 000
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026At this point I'm committed to deleting and rerolling the same toon just for remixes. 101
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Oh no, I have finally tried an everything bagel, and it is both amazing and horrifyingly messy 020
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I finally found out how to turn this off in Adobe! (From @librarian.bsky.social's www.librarian.net/NoToAI/) It always offered summaries of TTRPG ebook manuals to me, which is just ridiculous (how are you going to summarize a bestiary), but I wasn't going to try it just to laugh at its failure. 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Mostly just trying to reflect on what I want to do with the second half of my life, and kind of pencilling in how to do that. (It would be a lot easier if I won the lottery first.) 010
Reposted by KatePremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 08/09/2026ANYWAY WICKHILLS IS COMING OUT TOMORROW it is an BOOKE (it is not a novella, you can read page counts, I know you can) And the LAUNCH PARTY IS ON THE 15TH so you better BE THERE OR BE A RECTANGULAR THING (also I am trying to make arrangements to livestream it, stay tuned) 🫡 1821147
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Apparently the one thing all alignments of deities agree on in d20-based TTRPGs is good sleep habits for their followers: 8 hours of rest or no spells. 010
Kate @kate7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I should probably put a clock on the piano so I'm not up too late with new sheet music, lol. (Was gifted a book of Philip Glass piano solos.) 000
