My team are learning I like interesting hotels, I rescheduled something and am now in Cologne, and I turn up to my hotel and they've booked me a water tower hotel!

The view from the 9th floor is great, and there's a rooftop bar. The nice gay guy on the front desk emphasised how good the sauna is with a knowing wink, I'm not sure what to make of that.

Thanked my assistant for the cool hotel, these are the kind of details I can appreciate.

I will now go on a walk around the hotel to discover the architecture and history of the building.

Morning you fabulous fine fettled Feegles I love you all.

Tuesday again, today is the worst day of the week, hope your Tuesday isn’t filled with annoying meetings and someone brings you your favourite cake.

Had a weird dream last night that I was interviewing for a job but I had to bring a massive 3u rack mount server with me to the interview 🧐, then some senior manager went rogue and the interview was paused while they dealt with it and I was watching the chaos. Odd to say the least.

Plan for the day obsess over the dream too much, maybe play some stuff on the Xbox or my phone, bored of the 3d printer right now.

Been scrolling and I have questions.

Why are you surprised American cops shoot randoms?

Why are you surprised Israel attacked the freedom flotilla?

Why are you surprised Western govts are fascist adjacent?

Why are you surprised the news doesn't tell the truth?

Politics is about control and it's time you decide if you will be controlled or not. This is not a drill.

#politics

In the context of confusing paradox, I was unsure whether to share news of a recent visitor bearing hope, but I trust y'all know how to make lemonade from lemons 🌈😉

A lil' Pride Fairy from the future tried to lift my spirits by telling me there is hope, and then painted an inspiring picture of Pride 2030, a wonderful celebration of diversity, where community spirit is a must in overflowing, Coke sponsored, carceral centres and Ben and Jerry's branded, rainbow coloured kiosks in exercise yards sell joyous tat lovingly made by diverse labourers in sweaty little McDonalds shops in the work wings. Celebrities visit with an entourage of photographers and reporters to share joyous scenes of rehabilitation/conversion with the outside world, while every LGBTQ resident left is eligible for one free letter from a security cleared family member, each with a special edition rainbow stamp. For the whole month, solitary confinement takes place in JKR donated unisex portaloos, often where special privileges encourage diverse marriages to care staff in tactical gear, regardless of sex or gender

"Oh, Pride Fairy 2030, thank you," I said, "But what of those not lucky enough to be #LGBTQ? Their lives matter, too." "Don't worry about them," they told me. "They are Christian. All of them. No soul gets left behind"

The moral of the tale? There are several. But how about 'corporate sponsored tolerance months will be all that's left if we aren't fucking careful'

It started with a riot and may end without another

Love ya 💕😘
#pride2025

Cass faces legal action.

https://ashleeee.substack.com/p/hilary-cass-hit-with-lawsuit-for

Video of the same

(Didn’t realise that you can’t upload video in the same post as photos 🤷‍♀️)

Workshop day

Clean and tidy (move stuff to another room 🤪)

Hang flower paper

Paint one wall white

Fit led light strip

Arrange rug and chair (both from kleinanzeigen. Don’t worry the ‘grass’ is going out by the front door)

Still needs pictures and flag hanging, and a bike/frame display shelf making. Oh and the coffee/tea station needs a nicer table

Official opening of the new workshop space on Friday, and open workshops on Saturday

#bikegirls
#BikeTooting
#bikeworkshop
#handbuiltsteelbicycle

@greenseer animals are far superior to humans when it comes to mutual aid…we can’t even help our own species much of the time. What a special encounter. You do have them 💕.

Also, hello lovely one and probably goodnight 🥰

@helenclayton There was a little more to the story. A woman with a child was passing on the path above the commotion. Looking down, she only saw the herring gull swoop at the duck, and the expression on her face showed that she had reached a hasty judgement about who was guilty and who was innocent. The herring gull, of course, dgaf (being a superior being 😉), but I caught its eye and gave them my recognition as a true witness, and I think they understood 💕

Yes, it's almost goodnight. I'm just waiting for my nails to dry completely (turquoise now), then I'll be snuggling under the bedclothes

Nite nite, sweetie 😘

@MostlyTato Never a truer word etc 💕

@timberwraith 🥰😘💕

Evening all 💕

Hope your day has been kind to you 🥰

My engagement here has been in a little lull for a few days. Not an intentional one, just part of the natural ebb and flow, and probably not quite over, but some things demand momentary recognition

I present to you a hero. A true ally. I was sitting by the river this evening watching the birds when a male mallard created a commotion when it dunked a duckling by the scruff of its neck. Nearby birds screamed and hollered, while another herring gull looked on passively. But this one juvenile herring gull and exceptional being flew halfway across the river to swoop within a wing tip of the aggressor, putting him totally off balance and in a panic. The duckling escaped, and this heroic herring gull stood on a rock just a couple of feet from the scene, as if daring the mallard to try it again

Birds and many other animals are far more compassionate and caring than we give them credit for (while others are assholes). And when we humans fail in our humanity, we do not just fall below human standards. We sink lower than all life forms on this planet 😘💕

#Nature

So Milton Keynes has no adhd adult services….. and there is no funding for nhs adult assessments or meds in Mk either so there’s nowhere for me to go it’s private or nothing so that’s another things like private dentistry that’s not available on the NHS.
Soooo I’m coming off the adhd meds then 🥺
I’m beginning to take things a little personal…..

@Hyperiontrails If it comes to it and you've no alternative, Marie, look into L-Tyrosine. I understand the caution I should and do exercise in making such recommendations and I have a fairly high degree of scepticism about such things, but because I found all the prescribed ADHD meds intolerable due to cardiac side effects, when I read about L-Tyrosine I gave it a go and do you know what? It works far better for me than any of the prescribed meds did. *No* negative side effects and clarity that didn't feel driven, obsessive, or compulsive the way the amphetamine based options would. Of course, this is just my experience, anecdotal, but I'm not alone, and you may decide it's worth a try

Grumpy boo-boo

#caturday

It's about time @keir_starmer stood up for what is right, not for The Far Right.

If he won't, he must go.

We don't need four more years of Tory government.

@RussCheshire @keir_starmer There are two broad explanations for #Starmer. Either he and those around him are a secret Tory cabal inserted into the Labour Party by vested interests to continue the Tory legacy while the Tory Party itself implodes, or they are weak embarrassments to the Socialist cause, yielding to vested Tory interests

Either way, they aren't going to change, and neither will Tory Britain. Not until a Socialist anti-establishment movement that knows what it is up against appears on the scene

Meanwhile, the Tories are still in power, and we need to behave accordingly

Morning lovelies I think your all super special and I love you loads 🫂🫂❤️

I’m ouchy and soo tired today’s plan is wait til painkillers kick in then naps and books.

Hope Thursday produces fun happy surprises for you that delight you.

Does the world move under the tortoise or does the tortoise move over the world 🤔

@Hyperiontrails Morning lovely. I suspect they both move counter to each other, like one of those glass handheld juice squeezers and a lemon

Hope your discomfort eases and you enjoy a relaxing day, sweetie 😘 💕

Finally found a witch taller than me