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In my defense, Cat Mia™ existed more than a decade before Kid Mia. They should’ve picked a different name.

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Politely asking you to write it so I can read it 💅💅

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Autumn is slowly taking hold on the garden.

Close-up of a garden bed. In the foreground, a cream-colored mushroom with shaggy brown scales sits next to a small white button mushroom and a wooden raised bed. Dark mulch and yellow fallen leaves cover the ground, with a yellowing hosta plant on the left and a blurred garden background.

I had a good chortle about that one

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Say what you want about the new Taylor Swift tracks, but her dropping them the day after my ex partner’s new girl shoots me a “hey so why did you break up” message at 3:30AM is incredible timing.

Song lyrics to the new Taylor Swift song Patient Zero:

If you wanna party with somebody who might know
About the devil on his shoulder under his halo
When the toxins take their hold, you'd rather die than let it go
But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero

[Verse 1]
I've gotta be honest, I've been expecting your call
No, it’s not a bad time at all
I heard somebody saying there's trouble in paradise
And my lips are sealed tight now

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I relayed this, and she gave me a HARD side eye, because apparently I’m “toeing the line between elder and eldritch a little too hard”. I swear, this kid would not get away with half as much if she wasn’t so damn funny.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I stubbed my toe and groaned in pain. “Everything hurts when you were born in the 1000s, I guess.” Anyone need a 9-year old? I have one free to a home, good or bad.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Wait, you’re really old, right? Weren’t you born in the 1000s? How weiiiiiiiiiird.” Anyone need a 9-year old? I have one free to a good home.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my favourite byproduct of the Swedish election results is the wave of influencers declaring that they’re emigrating to Spain, as they find life under a left bloc government unbearable. Spain is currently ruled by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Sumar, a left-green coalition.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Or hear me out: seven thermoses full of lukewarm tea while claiming simultaneous hot and cold use!

Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Determined to find a way to boycott Ed Sheeran even harder than I have during the last 15 years. 💅

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Turns out that after combining three households (the kids had their own apartment we moved into every other week), we now have a whopping seven thermos bottles. If there’s ever a global shortage, we’re set.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In less hopeful news, I’ve made it my mission to tidy the barn today - when we moved in, we didn’t have super much furniture (still don’t 😬) so we put most boxes into the barn; a whole bunch of stuff is still packed up & might have to stay like that, but it would be nice to see the floor again.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve held my tongue on this because I was afraid of jinxing it, but the projected election results here in Sweden give me hope. It’s so good seeing a right wing party lose ground.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m having the kids alone for three days and the eldest has just told the youngest that she should stop the “bullshit performative throat clearing” over breakfast. It’s gonna be a long weekend, folks.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If I hear one more “but Hitler was actually a socialist” from some American with historian credentials not extending past AP US History, I might actually clinically lose it.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ultra-right party gain large majority in Germany. Speaking as a historian, this is NOT fine.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For political palliative care reasons, I would like to set a trash can on fire.

Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey, kurze Frage: warum haben gestern Abend eigentlich nicht die Straßen im ganzen Land gebrannt? Wo ist die zivilgesellschaftliche Antwort auf 40% für Faschismus? Aber hey, vielleicht wird es ja noch eine Kuschel-Demo in einer SPD-Hochburg mit lustigen Schildern und Seifenblasen richten.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

👀👀👀 I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU THINK THAT

Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watching the news from Germany makes me want to cry. I don’t have any smart words, but of all the countries in the world, Germany should not be the one where fascists get almost 45% of votes in a state election

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After almost two years and two moves, I have finally unpacked enough boxes, found enough space, and a real reason to set my plotting machine up again, which means inhabitants of this house should now prepare to find random cat stickers everywhere. I’m not sorry.

A small, stylised brown cat decal with a curled tail decorates the cream-painted wooden door of a dimly lit barn.

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On the bright side, at least now @bearlawyer.bsky.social and I know that a) our relationship is borderline indestructible and b) we’d make an excellent team during the end of the world.

All I want is a goddamn shower. I showered in the actual literal rain storm yesterday, standing under a rain gutter. A little bit of being able to run the washing machine and adhere to basic hygiene rules, as a treat?

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Someone hand me the laudanum. Ich kann das alles nicht mehr, as we say in German. Wheel out the trebuchet, I’m done. Open the emergency oubliette. Release me back into the primordial soup. I’ve had enough character development, kill the author.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Update hot off the press: It’s been literal months without proper running water now. We set out last night, giddily getting ready to install a new pump so we could use the secret third well, only to find out the drill canal is blocked, presumably because someone dropped a pump in there.

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The fosters are still very shy, but I simply MUST show you how pretty Daisy is.

A black-and-white tuxedo cat sits upright on a pale wooden floor, staring wide-eyed at the camera. The cat has bright yellow-green eyes, white paws and chest markings, and a small white patch under its mouth. Soft pink floral wallpaper blurs into the background.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Week 2 with The Guests™: We’re not quite brave enough to play yet, but Daisy is making some valiant efforts! Dahlia is still much more skittish, but also very curious.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ll rub this in when she eventually is disgustingly in love, heh.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The 13-year-old just casually told @bearlawyer.bsky.social and me that “you two are so in love that it’s disgusting”, so I’m gonna put that down as a win.

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Up until very recently: me 🥹🥹 I think my apology matatabi was accepted, though.

A black-and-white tuxedo cat sits on the floor beside a cardboard box, looking off to the side with its mouth slightly open and tongue visible. Its white chest, whiskers and sock-like paws stand out against its dark coat.

Thank you!! One step at a time. I just really feel that being mistaken for a piece of dirty laundry adds insult to injury 🥹🥹🥹

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That guest is now terrified because we’re not at all in the “touching” stage yet. We’re not even in the “being out in the open in the same room” stage. Poor, terrified guest.

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Lux Winter @luxwinter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m officially the worst cat foster mum on the planet. They’ve slowly started coming out when nobody is around, so I wanted to go sit with them to get them used to human presence. When I grabbed a cushion from the couch, I pushed a black shirt aside. Spoiler: not a black shirt. A guest.

1: A black-and-white tuxedo cat walks directly toward a floor-level camera, filling most of the frame with wide yellow-green eyes, while a second tuxedo cat sits farther back near the doorway of a bright attic room.

A black-and-white tuxedo cat sits upright beside a bed draped with a pale pink blanket, staring cautiously toward the camera in an attic room with sloped ceilings, floral wallpaper and bright windows.

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There are very few updates about the guests, because they’re still terrified and hiding. HOWEVER, last night I heard them play for the first time!

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Daisy and Dahlia have arrived, and they’re very suspicious of us. Entirely fair, I too would be skeptical if a random lady dropped me off at a stranger’s house. They’ll be staying with us until they found their forever home!

A shy black-and-white cat peers out from an open pet carrier, its white paws tucked at the entrance beside a red, star-patterned cushion or blanket. A second empty carrier sits alongside it in the warmly lit wooden room.

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If it’s eels we can turn it into a political spectacle, maybe even with our very own Aal Tombola

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My money is still on the protected colony of subnautic ducks having taken up residency in the well, hence making it unusable

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Apparently Arizona and Sweden are dealing with the same issues nowadays 🥹🥹🥹

If you think you want the cottage core life, you better have a highly specific interest in outdoor wells. It’ll come in handy.

There’s no hate like the hate you have for your house’s previous owners, and if it isn’t hate, I sure as fuck would like them to explain why we have two dug wells and one secret, third well that’s been drilled. A secret third thing, but it’s just another goddamn well.

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Update hot off the press: a third well has hit the cottage. We may or may not have found a third, drilled well in the garden. Stay tuned to find out whether it is unusable for some godforsaken reason or whether the previous owners were simply complete muppets.

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I appreciate your commiserations. 🥹🥹🥹

We were gone for three days and the water in the well has not replenished enough to wash a load of laundry. I’m genuinely this close to a menty b at this point because I simply don’t know how I’m meant to navigate basic life tasks without water. Dishes and laundry are piling up.

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We’re getting two foster cats tonight, because if you have a farm house and a bunch of social cats already, fostering sorta feels like a no-brainer. Very curious to see how our very social oranges will deal with two super skittish orca-kitties!

Two black-and-white cats walking toward the camera along a rough garden path. One has a white chest, paws, and muzzle and is slightly ahead; the other is mostly black with a small white chest patch. Bare shrubs line the right side, while a frosty lawn and autumn-coloured trees stretch into the background in soft morning light.