Mikayla

My cis male coworkers said it’s probably not intentional when I pointed it out, and I tried to explain that even if it’s not intentional it’s still sexism and still has impact

It has been zero days since the last time I saw he/him pronouns used as generic engineer pronouns

There’s an adult tabby cat sleeping at the top of the cat tree in a round bed, and a tabby and white kitten just below, inside a box with an open front. The kitten is peaking out the entrance at me taking the photo

Sharing the cat tree

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Someone asked me about my mask this week, and was clearly not at all prepared for me to explain that I’m chronically ill and vulnerable if I catch something

People I hadn’t talked to in ages messaged me after he lost his seat because they knew how gleeful I would be about it

For context, I walked out on him doing a talk for a student group at my high school in 2006

I was so angry when he became the leader because after I moved out of his riding I was never supposed to have to care about him again.

But if he goes from assumed next PM, to losing his seat, to a complete implosion of his party, it will have more than made up for that

If the Conservative Party implodes under Poilievre’s leadership I will be even more gleeful than I was when he lost his seat

I got a lot of feedback at the beginning of my career that I was “aggressive” for defending my ideas the same way the men were

A kitten sleeping on his side beside me on the couch, next to a yarn bowl with a ball of blue yarn inside it.

Kitten coexisting with knitting is going well!

Les Canadiens prêts à souffrir pour s’affranchir des États-Unis Un sondage Abacus indique que les Canadiens seraient prêts au sacrifice économique afin que le Canada se défasse de sa dépendance commerciale à l'égard des États-Unis.

🍁Les Canadiens prêts à souffrir pour s’affranchir des États-Unis

📊Un sondage Abacus Data indique que les Canadiens seraient prêts au sacrifice économique afin que le Canada se défasse de sa dépendance commerciale à l’égard des États-Unis.

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An adult tabby cat looking suspiciously at a lump in an area rug in the living room. The lump is hiding a kitten

Stitch is now ambushing Purl from under the rug

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Time change plus Costco trip (where it seemed like the entire province decided to go to Costco today) and I'm going to end up in bed by 8pm

Failed at knitting math, but thankfully I double checked before I had to rip a bunch out.

I thought I was done with increases but I actually have twelve rows left

I love how delighted kids of all ages are that I offer stickers along with chocolate

I bought a roll of Halloween stickers 3 years ago, and cut them up into strips of four. Kids love them

So far I've massively overbought for Halloween candy this year

The weather was awful earlier today, although it cleared up by 3:30. But I've had almost no kids compared to previous years

At some point in the future they might get locked up together, but I'm not going to subject Purl to a few hours of being jumped on and hunted by the kitten without being able to escape

The cats have been locked in their prisons for Halloween (office with the heated cat bed for Purl, bedroom with lots of toys for Stitch), and Stitch is loudly letting me know that he is not ok with this

A grey tabby kitten standing on the table next to a pumpkin that has the top half cut off. The pumpkin knife is still in the house pumpkin (with the blade fully inside) and the kitten is trying to bite the knife’s orange handle

I'm trying to carve a pumpkin here

A tabby kitten standing on top of a pile of firewood and with a paw extended towards the wood stove like he’s going to jump on it

Stitch is contemplating bad life choices. (Don't worry, the stove is cold.)

I can't find my DPNs in the right size, so I'm doing magic loop, and I forgot just how much I despise magic loop

(I'm glad if it works for you! But I hate it so much.)

A tabby kitten sleeping in a giant fleece blanket. He’s lying on the blanket, and it’s also covering him so that only one ear, his face, and one paw are visible

Photo of a glowing jack o’lantern sitting in a dark room. It is illuminated from within so you can see that a cat wearing a surgical recovery collar also known as Elizabethan collar has been carved on the surface.

Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

A grey tabby kitten curled up at the end of the couch, asleep

Although my supervisor is sleeping on the job

Attempt number four was (finally) successful, so clearly I needed the kitten supervision

I firmly believe that the Notwithstanding Clause should not exist, and any government that uses it should be ashamed of themselves

If you can't achieve your goal without violating fundamental rights, then you shouldn't be doing that in the first place

A metal double pointed needle with a handful of stitches cast ok to it. There is a kitten lying in my lap, who has trapped the yarn between his paws and is intently staring at the needle. (He tried to bite the needle after I took the photo.) You can tell from the yarn that this isn’t my first attempt at the cast on

I'm on my fourth attempt at what should be a fairly simple cast on. Stitch has decided to help