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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:36:30 JST Charlie Stross

   • Menhit the Menace

   It gets dark around 3:30-4:00pm at this time of year and I swear the ONLY way to get @Menhit to leave me alone so I can work at my desk is to turn the heating on so she goes to her radiator basket.

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     acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:53:48 JST acb

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     @cstross I bought a heating pad (one for pets, clawproof and without a timer) for Doris, and placed it under her favourite rug. I turn it on during the winter, and it becomes a very effective cat magnet.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:53:48 JST Charlie Stross

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     • acb

     @acb She normally sits on the office audio amplifier (a late 1980s NAD, so cat-rump-sized and warm), but cats are crepuscular ambush hunters so she wakes up and invariably chooses violence at this time of day. (Also at dawn and, typically, 2-4am Because Cat.0

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 01:13:05 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Lauren Weinstein
     • Menhit the Menace

     @lauren @Menhit My (relatively small) office has a single overhead lightbulb—a 100W daylight spectrum corncob LED marketed at a certain class of indoor gardener. (Yes, I'm a vegetable in winter.) There's also a big-ass SAD lamp. And whenever I go outside I carry a flashlight somewhat brighter than the old 6 D-cell maglites of yore.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 01:13:08 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • Menhit the Menace

     @cstross @Menhit I was in Stockholm once in the very late Fall, and it seemed like it was getting dark at 10am. I don't know how Northerners handle it.