Kitty Howlett
@misskitty79.bsky.social
140 followers 180 following 380 posts
Proud (& loud) budget-conscious intersectional feminist wordnerd seeks to balance livelihood w/ life & love. Nocturnal 3rd shifter. Montréalaise bilingue. Expect: Kittehs & kyootness. Politics & jigsaw puzzles. Coupons & crosstitch. Rage & indignation.
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
@googlephotos.bsky.social recently updated their UI, removing the manual editing options (like my fave, the perspective feature, that let you de-skew an image by choosing individual, specific corners to crop w/in).
(1/2🧵)
W/ that reprieve, I was able to slowly begin distancing myself from his misdirected rage, & by the time I was fifteen, my father's barbed words no longer caused me to flinch, because the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
(2/2🧵)
When I was eleven or so, I told my father that, if he ever hit me again, I'd claim he'd touched me. I was too steeped in the abuse to see the physical violence as unacceptable, but the threat of sexual assault accusations? That might just stay his hands...
(1/2🧵)
Them: "Do we have to wear these seatbelts?"
Me: "Am I wearing a Megabus
uniform?!"

FYI: I am *not* wearing a Megabus uniform, but I *am* wearing my seatbelt; double decker busses are wobbly.
Them: "Do any of these seats have chargers?"
Me: "They're under every set of seats."
Them: "Mine doesn't seem to?!"
Me: ::sighs::
Me: "Did you look *under* your seat?"
Then: "Oh."
Them: "Is this where to wait for the bus?"
Me: "Depends what bus, but your best bet is to check any of the MANY screens throughout the station, all of which will tell you which gate your specific bus will be at."
I wish I understood why, but no fewer than five people have interrupted me to ask a variety of questions since I arrived at the station an hour ago (the bus left 15min late, about 15min ago).
Bus people are fucking weird...
We haven't even left the station, & some rando just asked me if I could hotspot him?! 😑🖕
Bus people are fucking weird...
We haven't even left the station, & some rando just asked me if I could hotspot him?! 😑🖕
Collected myself a Thai peanut sauce burrito thingy, before making my way to the bus terminal. Fingers crossed I'll be able to have a seat set to myself for at least part of the way... 🤞
(2/2)
This is my last morning in Toronto...
I skipped taking the GO train, walked up to Trinity Bell Woods, & lazed in the park for an hour before grabbing the 503 over to Union station.
(1/2)
I, of course, took it as a compliment. Both that they thought I was young enough to have been out partying last night, & that they assumed it was makeup rather than permanent bags under my eyes.
TFW your lunch date mistakenly assumes that the bags under your eyes are last night's makeup.
Having war criminals give speeches at the UN is fucking wild.
During his address to #UNGA80, which many diplomats boycotted, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the war on Gaza is ‘not done yet’. Israel’s genocide has killed at least 65,500 Palestinians.
Having war criminals give speeches at the UN is fucking wild.
You know you're québécoise when you submit a French-only document for homework, w/out it ever occurring to you that the assignments would be language specific... 🤦😂
At one point, earlier, there were two people watching videos w/ the sound on & someone having a speakerphone convo!? 🤬
I asked the people to use their headphones though, & they did!
So it's blessedly quiet now.
I think I'mma nap for a bit...
How did I not realise that my phone doesn't have an audio jack?
(The earbuds I brought w/ me? USELESS 😭)
There is a woman on this bus, seated a full five rows ahead of me, who smells like an entire Lush store.
#megabus
Microsoft 365 can get fucked.
Most of my vacationing usually happens in the second half of each year, but have any of you got anything planned during that time that I should be thinking about/accounting for?
#vacationrequests
It's coming up on time for me to put in vacation requests for Jan-June of next year (I've got until Halloween to submit my requests)...
I somehow not only submitted the assignments, w/ time to spare, but I made it through the entire day w/out once crying on camera.
Please applaud.
(2/2🧵)
A dear friend, whom I have not seen for much too long, died last night.
Today was my first day of the autumn semester of college, w/ a mandatory orientation session, technical difficulties, & two assignments due, & homework too.
(1/2🧵)
They've been replaced by AI garbage that randomly recrops however it pleases, w/ no way to redirect, or correct its delusions.
It's pm entirely ruined all editing in the app, & I'm in desperate need of a free alternative that has a perspective feature.
Anyone have any advice/suggestions?
(2/2🧵)
@googlephotos.bsky.social recently updated their UI, removing the manual editing options (like my fave, the perspective feature, that let you de-skew an image by choosing individual, specific corners to crop w/in).
(1/2🧵)