Cat Manning

A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

and likewise sorry! hopefully we can catch up elsewhere once things calm down a bit

lolll if they do have those ambitions good luck with that

✨The Daily Spell✨: a daily word puzzle Drop letters into place to unscramble today's magical headline. New puzzle and story daily!

Finally under 2 minutes again on the Daily Spell! (I play on my phone so it can sometimes be hard to move fast at the end)

I will always choose this person to chill with

it’s totally tricky! and there are definitely cases where people aren’t meaning to be rude (nerves, time, etc), which is why I think I so value the positive version where people go out of their way to connect. and your sincerity comes through! you are, as they say, “a good hang”

I’ve been going for 10 years and I’ve never seen hotels and restaurants so unbooked. well, maybe 2020 but that doesn’t count

extremely! and also this is amusing me because you are one of the people I am endeared to forever that I mention in the second comment, so it is no surprise that you’re very cognizant of this dynamic and reject it

My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make for a great holiday right now; and that Keir Starmer’s engagements diary for 2027 will be remarkably clear. Still, there is one headline I’ll bet you haven’t seen, even though it directly affects your life. It’s about your life, and mine, and those of our families and friends and neighbours. I didn’t spot it either, until a few days ago when the Guardian ran a reader’s letter. It came from Alan Walker, a retired professor at the University of Sheffield. Why, he asked, hadn’t this newspaper made more of the latest “shocking” figures on healthy life expectancy? I looked up the report from the Office for National Statistics, and he’s absolutely right: the findings are indeed “momentous”, and they should be on the front pages, because they expose a serious truth about the state we’re in

The intro is also damning about our media ecosystem and its complicity in the death of democracy (or anything vaguely resembling it)

My extramarital affair with the nintendo wii is over.

I love how citations (or lack thereof) are just getting milled into a fine untraceable paste. Sorry this is happening, both to you and to readers.

So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.

oh I was not following those cancellations but oh

that I think is more likely if anything is, I’m just joking (and mobile is likely to be hit before EA etc)

I see what you did there

a) it is absolutely wild how many people will do this to others right in front of my face;
b) there are people I won’t tag but who forever endeared themselves to me just by being kind to & curious about people I was hanging out with while other devs were fully ignoring my companions to get to me

apropos of GDC:

yeah this is the way to make sure systems are on the right track

EA sale failing due to this reason would be the funniest thing in the world

ah, ✨achievement based incentive structures ✨

CAVES OF QUD has quickly become one of my favorite games for lots of reasons

you are extremely correct

idk man I just don’t think it’s great to hang out inside the large context collider and I would like to have better options

two astronauts scheduled to go up on the same shuttle mission in 1992 got married 9 months beforehand but kept it a secret from everyone bc NASA wouldn't have let them go up if they had known. do i have to draw you a diagram

It’s only a world war if it comes from the World War region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling shitshow.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Asked earlier today whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump said:

“I guess.”

“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

He can’t even pretend to give a single fuck about human life. Truly a conscienceless sociopath.

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

Basil the cat with his mouth wide open and eyes closed it looks like he's yelling

COUNTRY ROADSSSS TAKE ME HOMEEEE TO THE PLACE I BELONGGGGG