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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Staying at my sister’s place is simultaneously great and devastatingly difficult. This time, it came with a bonus bout of a stomach bug. I love them so much, and I absolutely have to figure out an easier way to visit. I swear it takes years off my life each time.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BOTH of my cats are on the bed. The little one is so comfortable, she’s falling asleep snuggled up against me. In nine weeks, this feels like the first time she’s actually been at rest. Not needing cuddles like she’s drowning, just…happy. My heart may explode.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday, after a full eight weeks of cowering, Princess Jellybean decided that cuddles were worth the risk, and jumped onto the couch to snuggle up to me for the first time. In all my years of cat ownership, I’ve never had one who took so long to relax. But the reward is exquisite.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Get up early, drive to the office, do a studio interview, start to drive home, pull over to spend ten minutes vomiting, drive the rest of the way home, publish article and another video interview, contact all the parties involved. Soon: take a gravol, pass out in bed.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Caturday! Here’s a video of my grey girl playing with her new claw-filing puzzle box. Watching her, I’m fascinated to realize she is very definitely left-pawed. #cat

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At 3:30 am today, I was awakened by a brief cat fight. IN MY BEDROOM. This means that, after 31 days in my home JB finally got the courage to leave the bathroom and explore. Only to be immediately pounced upon by the mean other cat. Also, I really need a nap. 😴

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sometimes, you just need to treat yourself to a big hearty bag of eyeballs.

A bag of synthetic eyeballs spills out of a small envelope onto kraft paper.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Neurodivergence vs social norms: if you give me a form to fill out, and I do the thing but tell you I need an alternate way to report because I KNOW I won’t fill out the form, take a picture of the form, send it to myself save it and submit it on your site, don’t tell me to fill the form out again

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today, I will be puttering, relaxing, and figuring out how to cut eyeballs in half. Wish me luck!

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A consignment store a few km away from me had section that I found… intriguing.

Sign above a clothing rack that reads, “Athletic bottoms”

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My wonderful adopted sister is a brown woman. She told me yesterday that her friends are acting weird because my sis has stated she won’t go to parties where the racist “friend” we’ll be. They resent that she’s forcing them to be a bit uncomfortable, and either speak up or be racist by association.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I chopped and washed the rhubarb. I put out the garbage, compost and recycling. I loaded and ran the dishwasher. I stop nao, k?

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spotted in an ob/gyn office this morning. Had me wondering about what kind of incident had occurred in the past to make them swear never to circumsize on credit.

Sign hanging on an office wall that reads, “Effective August 1, 2021 CIRCUMCISIONS WILL BE $300 CASH ONLY”

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s two in the morning. Half an hour ago, Princess Jellybean McStuffins, after hiding under my upstairs bathroom sink for eleven days, decided I was OK and demanded ALL THE CUDDLES. Until that moment, she had never given me more than a tentative sniff. It felt magical. #cats

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I may have bought a thing at yesterday’s Night Market…

A yellow rubber ducky wearing a black chest harness sits on a tabletop

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My grey girl at three in the morning, high as beans on gaba: “This guy, this guy right here! I love this guy! So great! So nice! What a guy!” *flops over and falls asleep drooling, using my face as her pillow* #cats

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bringing the grey girl to the vet this morning. She hates vets, so she got gaba for the first time last night. I don’t like sedating cats, but she seems to be REALLY happy about it. I hope it makes a difference to her vet experience.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My grey girl used my hand as a pillow today for the first time, just like her mum used to. I burst into tears, being the stoic beast that I am.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My poofy grey kitty hasn’t slept on the bed since her mum died. But I’ve been away for a week, and she is glued to my side since my return. She’s asleep on the pillow next to me tonight.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

July has been a spectacularly shitty month in a spectacularly shitty year in a spectacularly shitty decade. I genuinely don’t know how much more I can take.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

On the last day my tabby was with me, I held her for hours, wrapped in a guest towel. When we left for the vet, I left the towel on the floor. Now my little grey girl, who had never been without her mother up to that day, sleeps on it every night. So many tears.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just watched a TikTok from a Brit visiting Canada who spotted some odd wildlife and was asking what it was. I am suffused with national pride that at least half of the 350 answers from helpful Canadians was “House hippo,” with no further explanation.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’ve made it through the first week of grief. Felt both awful and really healing to be held by so many people I love on Saturday.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

All the various kitty stairs I had placed in strategic spots around the house are gone. The make-shift bed she slept in beside me as I worked is dismantled. Her food bowls are stashed away and her meds are gone. I look around my home and feel like my smile is missing teeth. Fuck this is hard.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The hardest part of grief is that the world doesn’t stop. You still need to feed yourself, care for those still here and pay bills with this massive fucking crater burnt into your chest.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I said goodbye to the very bestest of girls last night, and my heart is shattered. This cat saved my life more times than I can count. She was my soul kitty.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#TFW you send a truly unhinged short video to your closest, most unhinged friends and…crickets. Oh gawds. I’ve actually crossed that line I’ve been dancing on for years. Now everybody hates me.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Last week while visiting, My father tried to guilt my sister into letting him use the bathroom first by looking pathetic and talking about how he’s “an old guy,” and my sister accused him of urinary warfare. I scoffed and said, “That’s not urinary warfare. That’s weaponized incontinence.” BADUM-TSS

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My niece may have the coolest first job ever. She works at a puppy yoga studio, as a puppy wrangler. Can you imagine?

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There is a bee here, he’s always in my raspberries. Like, every time I am on the deck, he’s there, frolicking. He is SO ENORMOUS that he defies aerodynamics. I don’t understand how he flies. He is my bee bestie and I have named him my beehemoth. I would kill for him.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The state of the world and the apparent disregard for even the most basic of human kindnesses is fucking With my mental health. On every level except friends and family, people seem to have utterly forgotten how to be kind and take care of each other. The world is *appalling*

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I just bought my brother in law the GREATEST XMAS GIFT I WILL EVER GIVE ANYONE and now I have to wait till Xmas to give it to him. I’m dying over here.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Super unpopular opinion especially this time of year. How are Canadians still justifying going to the States for pleasure? I miss my community like an ache and am frustratingly lonely but I WILL NOT GO THERE. I’m baffled. Some people only are social justice warriors until cock-blocked.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Nuthin’ like dropping $700 at the vet first thing Monday morning.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

One of my tiny seedlings has decided he is going to wear a water droplet as a jaunty hat. He is feeling his dapper self and I would kill for him.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Is the non-binary past tense they/then?

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Décor fads that are currently being hailed as “classy” and “high end” that will date a home so precisely to mid-2020s in less than a decade: Colour drenching. Pebble floors in showers. Painting (drenching!) tiny rooms in ridiculously dark colours Striped walls.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Sometimes you have a brush with death. Well, last weekend did me one better. I got a full colour, trim, brush and blowout from death. Glad to still be here, but a little shaken.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

One of the bestest life hacks I’ve learned recently is to list “too sexual” as the reason I am not interested in ads on social media. Weight loss? Too sexual. Old folks home? Too sexual. Sofas? Too sexual. I am deeply amused every danged time. It never gets old.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Nothing like a SPONTANEOUS, UNPROVOKED EXPLOSION to liven up a Monday night.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The world is a terrible, terrible place. But I’m finding tiny explosions of joy in watching videos of dogs discovering deep snow for the first time. They’re giving me life.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I cannot express how pleased I was that my car started without issue this morning.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I just instructed AI to write a brief explanation of why it is not okay to feed someone’s work into AI without permission. I feel like I’m messing with the fabric of the Universe itself.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My bosses thought a write-up I did needed to be punchier. Instead of asking me to make adjustments, they sent it through chatGPT and then told me to use the AI version. I want to rage quit.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

So a few months ago, Environment Canada decided to start using the stoplight system to indicate how severe a weather system was: threats to life and limb were red, dangerous conditions are yellow etc. Seems like a good idea, right?

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I’ve been off work since the 19th. I go back Wednesday. I have become absolutely feral in the last two weeks. Feral. Going back is gonna be HARD.

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It has been more than three and a half years, and I am only just beginning to be able to listen to the music we shared 😞

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Proof I am the cool aunt: gave my youngest nibling a bag filled with all the sourest of candies (he loves sour) and a few magic berries. He is LOVING the experience!

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That pinchy little fucker @themoderatrix.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I’m on a train and am seated near the emergency exits. I am not only the youngest person in range of the emergency exits, I am also the most able-bodied. Or, least disabled, let’s say. If there’s an emergency, WE ARE IN TROUBLE

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