Monthly Archives: April 2025

Surprise Inside

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A photo of our cat, Raven. He is a tuxedo cat with a little black nose, and brown eyes. He is laying on the top shelf of a light brown cat tree, looking like an absolute goober.

I surprised myself today — I messaged my Member of Parliament. I consider him by and large useless since the *first* time he was our MP, so yeah. Someone had asked in one of my Discords how tariffs were going to affect a band on tour, and my brain was like… actually, our MP used to be a Treasury Secretary,… Read more »

De Minimis

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A photo of our fluffy girl cat, October. She is white with tabby markings, and very green eyes. She is standing on a light brown cat tree, and giving stink eye to the camera.

So, the current law in regards to selling to the US means that anything under $800 doesn’t require paying tariffs on; this is called the ‘de minimis’. While the White House hasn’t out and out said that this, the de minimis, will be going away with all the new global tariffs, but the small print seems to suggest that it… Read more »

Mate’s Rates

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A photograph of two of our cats, Vivi and Halo. Vivi is a tuxedo cat, while Halo is white with tabby markings. They're standing on a desk against the window at the back of the room.

Stars, so. We made a point to watch the ‘Liberation Day’ broadcast last night. I’d referred the tariffs on the UK as ‘mate’s rates’, so that’s apparently never leaving my head now. Z kept commenting on just how made up the numbers being used were, and yeah, news reporting overnight/this morning backs that right the eff up. I’m not quite… Read more »

J’Existe

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A photograph of two tuxedo cats on a light brown cat tree. They are both giving dubious looks to the photographer.

Uh yeah, so, um… hi, yeah. *laughs* I’m kind of impressed at how long I fell off the wagon here. I’m still managing daily elsewhere, but I don’t know. I guess I didn’t know what to say here about anything. I can report that if I did find my missing friend (now better known as ‘idiot fren’), he didn’t want… Read more »