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Katie and the Pigs

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · Jan 7

Obligatory introduction to the spoiled goblins behind my username. Mabel, Minnie and Margo. They’re the best. #GuineaPigs

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 2h

When y’all post about having to say a final goodbye to your beloved furry friends, just know that it makes me cry every time. 😭

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 12h

Loch Lubnaig #Scotland #Trossachs #Stirling www.damianshields.com

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10h

I like that that we’re all collectively delighted by the Louvre Jewel Heist.

Just some old-fashioned daring criminal shenanigans where nobody was hurt, instead of the wave of horror/death/douchebaggery that usually makes up the news…

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 12h

Two baby deer were just frolicking outside my office window. 🦌

Feeling a bit Disney Princessy.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to hear that Gary Larson is drawing again. Digitally this time but you wouldn’t know it to look at them. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

A Gary Larson cartoon called Trouble Brewing. It shows Ed’s Dingo Farm next to a nursery

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James Allison @gingerjames.bsky.social · 2d

@katieandthepigs.bsky.social found your next project - a guinea pig highway!

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 3d

Got slightly blasé with the measurements while making lentil curry. And will now be eating lentil curry for about four days.

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 5d

Hats off the doctor who managed to fit my Mirena coil today in less than three minutes, with minimal pain involved (just a hideous few final seconds with the clamp). She was a cervical wizard. 10/10.

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 6d

My mother has tamed a local squirrel to eat nuts out of her hands. And he is now boldly walking into her kitchen, and even her living room, in his ongoing quest for more nuts… 🥜 🐿️

🤦‍♀️ I’m going to show up for Christmas dinner and the squirrel will be seated at the table…

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 6d

Off work until Monday and feeling very happy about it.

Then I remember I have a big garden to “put to bed” before the cold weather arrives, and a house to deep clean, and a load of errands to run, and TWO different gyno appointments to attend.

And I’m ever so slightly less happy about it.

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 7d

Someone posted this Carver poem earlier. I had never seen it before and it has stuck with me all day. ❤️

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 7d

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 7d

Dyed my hair a few shades redder than usual, because autumn 🍂

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 8d

I bought the exact same thing today to take to my mum’s house! She was also delighted by a bit of early festive grub!

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 8d

The honk that I honked on reading that part of the article this morning…

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 8d

The pain of reading the Guardian’s blind date column, and getting all happy that the couple seem really into each other, only for the second person to deploy “Sure, as friends” to the last question about whether they’d see each other again.

a cartoon of hades with flames coming out of his head and the words " we were so close "

ALT: a cartoon of hades with flames coming out of his head and the words " we were so close "

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 9d

Diane Keaton, a legend. x

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 9d

Ah well, never mind.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lost Prophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison

Ian Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence imposed in 2013 after admitting 13 child sex offences.

www.bbc.com

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10d

Love when this happens. I have no idea who the blocked person is, but I had clearly already clocked him as a huge knobhead.

Well done, past-Katie…

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10d

The guinea pigs are currently attempting to pull the “you forgot to give us dinner” stunt. Grifting little ratbags…

a man in a suit and tie says " nice try " in a supermarket

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " nice try " in a supermarket

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10d

This is the vibe I aspire to.

Unfortunately I’m more “dishevelled redhead quietly swears at her phone while picking random bits of hay off her coat”

Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10d

A woman on the tube, her beautiful silver hair cascading in waves over her vivid red cape, nods to herself as she reads a book about tigers.

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10d

Argh. Someone from work just matched with me on Bumble.

There isn’t a HELL NO big enough.

One Big Rule: No boinking people from work.

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10d

An excellent mission for someone with such a good grasp of the fundamental issues. 🤦‍♀️

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sorry… WHAT the proof? 🤬

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 11d

I think if you are caught using your phone when driving your phone should be seized and crushed into a cube

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