Amy

@amiable-sloth

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Amy@amiable-sloth· Jul 4

A perfect fluffy beige cat named Elijah, every bit as intelligent as his face suggest (so, not at all)

Amy@amiable-sloth· Jun 29

Excited about the Maple Leafs' new maknae

A glamour shot of Gavin McKenna in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey

Amy@amiable-sloth· Dec 13

'Tis the season to glaze pfeffernusse at 10:00 pm because I just realized they need to be ready on Saturday morning for the choir bake sale.

The pfeffernusse glazing process: in the foreground, a glass bowl with several light brown nut-shaped cookies in a puddle of white glaze flecked with anise seeds, and a pair of shiny salad tongs that I use to toss the cookies in the glaze. In the background, glazed cookies set on a parchment-lined baking tray.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Dec 4

Is bluesky too cool for Spotify Unwrapped? Anyway I continue to valiantly battle BTS withdrawal #fighting

Screenshot of Spotify unwrapped results, on a pink and blue background with an image of k-pop boy group P-1-Harmony. Results shown on the image are:

Top Artists:
1 P 1 Harmony
2 Tomorrow X Together
3 Seventeen
4 BoyNextDoor
5 BTS.

Top Songs:
1 One and Only
2 But I Like You
3 Serenade
4 Doom Du Doom
5 Gotta Get Back (feat. Pink Sweats).

Minutes Listened: 23,333

Amy@amiable-sloth· Nov 22

Reskeet the spectacles, nerds

Me, a middle-aged white lady, wearing glasses with translucent green frames

Amy@amiable-sloth· Nov 13

Toronto public bathroom review: The west bathroom at The Well gets a B

Photo of a public washroom. Visible are four black stall doors, grey floor and wall tile, a white trough sink with faucets and a full-length mirror. It's clean.

View of the exterior glass door leading to the washroom. Next to the door are a power door button and a sign showing a wheelchair icon and all-gender icon.

Photo of the hallway leading to the bathroom. Around the corner you can see the legs of the seated security guard, who is on their phone.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Nov 11

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Amy@amiable-sloth· Nov 9

Share a floof if you've got one? Perfect pigeon #birds 🌿

A pigeon huddled next to a green door, his head tucked in and feathers fluffed up so much that he's practically spherical

Amy@amiable-sloth· Nov 7

In Toronto today

A picture of two small gingko trees with yellow leaves by a street, with apartment buildings in the background

Amy@amiable-sloth· Nov 4

Evidence

An amateurish picture of a white cake with white frosting, decorated with strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, and sliced to show that it's filled with pale yellow custard. The custard is oozing lasciviously onto the plate.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 30

Huh - this is so obvious, but I never thought of it so clearly: the importance of clear writing to keep your reader *off the internet*. From Revise by Pamela Haag

photo of a book page, with text: "... as I stopped my reading to look it up. And "looking it up" today doesn't mean consulting an inert dictionary in the office. It means the distraction and enchantment of Google. So the trouble with anachronisms cuts deeper in the digital age. They don't do good work for you in the first place, but now they also risk luring your reader out of the book for too long. You don't want him wandering through cat videos, political outrages, and Twitter posts instead of reading your book."

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 29

We love Elijah so so much but he's not very good at being a cat (Sorry for bad videography)

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 28

Accordingly, Spotify thought I would want to listen to this

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 23

Wait, this spam sounds like something thrilling is afoot. The paper trail has been approved? I'm to scrutinize the file and make for the signing process?? I don't mind if I do, good sir!!

Screenshot of email reads: "Documents Requiring Update. The deal paper trail for the next undertaking has been approved by our administrators. Scrutinize the file attached and make for the signing process."

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 14

Aren't the sheets gonna flop all around? What about something with larger fins, like this (but narrower spaces)? Although if the spaces are too narrow you wouldn't be able to reach in.

Wooden desktop file holder thing with dividers

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 13

This can't be the answer. Companies (corporations) are so stupid now that they need the government to tell them how many people to hire? Why is capitalism such a flop system? www.vera.org/news/the-tru...

Screenshot copied from the linked article, showing the text "Legislators should require stores to implement minimum staffing levels and provide workers with adequate training"

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 9

My old glasses just broke. I guess it doesn't matter if I like the new ones now, I'm wearing them anyway.

A pair of bluish grey eyeglasses, broken in two at the nose, on a wood desk

Amy@amiable-sloth· Oct 4

Someone installed these friends last night, for the Nuit Blanche art show tomorrow. I love them and I wish they could stay forever

Three sculptures of fish/dinosaur creatures float on wooden decks in Toronto harbour. They look like they're made of grey fabric stretched over metal frames, and they have tassels hanging from them

Amy@amiable-sloth· Sep 24

Actually I don't know if I like them.

A selfie of me in my new glasses. The frames are large and squarish, a transparent grass green colour that kind of disappears from a distance. The green washes out my eye color and makes the redness of my nose pop.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Sep 20

Fast asleep. He often sleeps with his eyes open a sliver.

A fluffy blonde cat nestled in a fluffy grey blanket. He's sleeping with his eyes slightly open and one arm thrown across his body. He has a little pink nose and mouth.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Sep 18

My spider plants keep having babies and I want to keep them all but at this rate I'll need to buy them their own furniture

Close up of baby spider plants on their stem in front of a bookshelf

Amy@amiable-sloth· Sep 3

Oh no Lowly

A photo of a fluffy blonde cat curled up comfortably on a stuffed toy version of the Lowly Worm apple from the Richard Scarry book. Lowly Worm (the toy version) is still in the stuffed apple. His head rests on the floor and he stares under a bookcase with a stitched smile while his home is comfortably crushed by the cat.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Aug 29

Your cat and my cat need a group chat. He was so annoyed when I did the jigsaw puzzle this morning instead of paying attention to only him

photo of a fluffy blonde cat, taken from above. The cat is sleeping curled up on chintz fabric. He rests his head on his paw and one of his little teeth is showing

Amy@amiable-sloth· Aug 24

Yesterday I made the Praisesong Biscuits out of Crystal Wilkinson's (@crystalwilki.bsky.social) Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts and they were glorious. My son called them perfect. My go-to recipe from now on. (I got impatient and pulled them out of the oven before they were golden - next time!)

Three biscuits on a blue and white china plate. One is split and spread with red jam which glistens in the light. They are not quite as golden-brown as they might be, and a bit lumpy, which is my fault, not the fault of the recipe.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Aug 23

Repost with your first crush

Photo of a-ha's Morten Harket as a young man - chiselled cheekbones, sharp jawline, soft, thoughtful eyes

Amy@amiable-sloth· Aug 15

I've done it before

Photo of a 500 mL mason jar on a kitchen counter. The jar contains gummy candy sorted into colours and layered, coincidentally in the colours of the Pride flag. The countertop is Formica in a powder blue boomerang pattern.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Aug 3

His favourite spot lately, but right now it's disappointing because he's not drenched in revitalizing sunlight.

A blonde medium-hair cat sits on a high-rise windowsill (on the inside!). It's bright out but not sunny. The cat appears to be frowning slightly

Amy@amiable-sloth· Aug 1

For my birthday my brother told me that all the Travelling Wilburys except Roy Orbison were younger than me when they debuted. Excuse me I'm going to shrivel up and blow away now

A photo of the Travelling Wilburys labelled with their respective ages: Bob Dylan was 47, the next one was 41, Tom Petty was 37, Roy Orbison was 52 and George Harrison was 45. Okay I looked up the missing guy, that's Jeff Lynne.

Amy@amiable-sloth· Jul 31

Thinking about the choices he's made

A photo of a blonde medium-hair cat lying in the life of a jigsaw puzzle box. He's testing his head on the edge of the box and staring pensively into the middle distance

Amy@amiable-sloth· Jul 28

I finally put up the better curtain rail and extra curtain in my room and with the ensuing victorious energy I moved the router and gave it it's own little shelf, and put up my pencil sharpener and a towel rail. Please clap.