The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

The best part is that they were inspired by a diary entry from 1775, written by a 12 year old tailor’s apprentice who had been left unsupervised all day and decided to make a suit for a cat. Here’s a link to the blog post about it, but I’ll just paste the whole diary entry here:

“I had been at work about two months when Christmas came on – and here I must relate a little anecdote. The principal [the tailor] and his lady were invited to a party among their friends…while it devolved on me to stay at home and keep house. There was nothing left me in charge to do, only to take care of the house. There was a large cat that generally lay about the fire. In order to try my mechanical powers, I concluded to make a suit of clothing for puss, and for my purpose gathered some scraps of cloth that lay about the shop-board, and went to work as hard as I could. Late in the evening I got my suit of clothes finished; I caught the cat, put on the whole suit – coat, vest, and small-clothes [breeches] – buttoned all on tight, and set down my cat to inspect the fit. 

“Unfortunately for me there was a hole through the floor close to the fireplace, just large enough for the cat to pass down; after making some efforts to get rid of the clothes, and failing, pussy descended through the hole and disappeared; the floor was tight and the house underpinned with brick, so there was no chance of pursuit. I consoled myself with a hope that the cat would extricate itself from its incumbrance, but not so; night came and I had made on a good fire and seated myself for some two or three hours after dark, when who should make their appearance but my master and mistress and two young men, all in good humor, with two or three bottles of rum. After all were seated around the fire, who should appear amongst us but the cat in his uniform. I was struck speechless, the secret was out and had no chance of concealing; the cat was caught, the whole work inspected and the question asked, is this your day’s work? I was obliged to answer in the affirmative; I would then have been willing to take a good whipping, and let it stop there, but no, to complete my mortification the clothes were carefully taken off the cat and hung up in the shop for the inspection of all customers that came in.”

“I was hoping they’d beat me and forget about it but to my horror they stuck my work up on the fridge”

Not just any fridge-

The public fridge

@cat-cosplay

A suit from 1775… for a cat you say.

Their mock election was so realistic the school even played the role of the CIA

My name... is Bu-sama。

俺様の名前は... ブ様。

My size: Big.

身長: 大きい。

My intelligence: Also big (genius).

知能指数：それも大きい(天才)。

My hobby: Getting stuck in a room.

趣味: 部屋に閉じ込められること。

If you haven't heard about the enshittification of baseball uniforms

Okay so they're manufactured by Fanatics now, and it's not uncommon for fan replica jerseys to suck, but now the players themselves are wearing uniforms that are just as cheap. So cheap they look like bootlegs. They're flimsy and stuff that used to be actually stitched on is now just a patch or graphic

All that is bad. But there's. There's a bigger problem, with the new MLB uniforms. See if you can spot it!

how dare you hide this in the tags

So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

have you guys who arent into sports heard about the new baseball uniforms controversy. its bad

mlb changed uniform manufacturers this year to this company that has been making dogshit licensed fan merch for a while (fanatics, may the lord curse their name) and first of all the new jerseys are cheap and have awful stitching and the lettering on player names is abysmal. but second and most importantly the new pants are Extremely Transparent

also apparently they not doing custom tailoring for pants anymore. which is a problem because pitchers tend to have really thick thighs and standard issue pants across the board are not gonna cut it lmao (see exhibit a below)

an article i read in the athletic about this whole thing specifically mentioned the fat ass issue

happy spring training. whatever happens after this happens

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

DAY 1:

C: 34%, M: 28%, Y: 18%, B: 20%

hex: #8793A7

DAY 2:

C: 34%, M: 28%, Y: 20%, B: 18%

hex: #7D97A7

DAY 3:

C: 34%, M: 29%, Y: 21%, B: 17%

hex: #8C96A7

It's like posting a recipe, and mentioning that you can sub out the chicken for whatever meat you prefer, but then adding "BUT NOT HUMAN MEAT, I DO NOT CONDONE CANNIBALISM!" as if somehow that needed to be stated.

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

Re, point 1: Yes, I think this is exactly why.

I have this argument a lot about music. People will tell you that music was better in [INSERT DECADE] compared to what's on the radio now, but they're inevitably comparing the top 100 of said decade to the entirety of contemporary pop culture.

Like, there are a tonne of fucking shite songs from the sixties and seventies. It's not all Like A Rolling Stone or In A White Room.

The thing about toddlers (or at least mine I actually only really know the one and some of her little friends) is that she says things with SUCH conviction that it seems like she’s being combative/crabby but if you justify like explain she’s just like “oh dope good to know”

Example

*toddler gets a hold of very expensive choking hazard headphones*

* I see this and nicely remove them from her grasp*

her: HEY THATS MINE!

me: oh actually those are mine honey

her: oh okay! JIBBY BELKS JIBBY BELKS JIBBY ALL DA DAY!

Today my little brother asked me why thrift stores have so many crutches and walking boots. I told him that since volunteers don't get paid they have to pick off slow and injured customers to cannibalize for their survival. Not sure what this means for my immortal soul yet but I'll keep yall posted

Fewer wheelchairs, arm braces, and splints in stock cause their tough chiton is protective. If you see football and hockey padding, though, that's because helmets limit your peripheral vision. They aim for the legs and neck to take you down. Baseball players try to get by with just their bats but their struggles are mostly futile, what with only their thin jerseys. Lumberjacks though..... no protective plating to gnaw through, yet you will rarely find a chainsaw in a thrift store. Guess why

a long time ago i watched a tik tok from an older trans woman, in her 60’s or 70’s. someone had commented on another video of hers asking “why don’t we ever see trans men from your generation? why aren’t they involved in activism?” and her response was “because a lot of them died.” she told stories abt the trans men she knew who committed suicide rather than be married off and forced to live as a woman, or died from medical neglect or botched abortions. “they would be here if they could, but they can’t because the world failed them.”

Today my little brother asked me why thrift stores have so many crutches and walking boots. I told him that since volunteers don't get paid they have to pick off slow and injured customers to cannibalize for their survival. Not sure what this means for my immortal soul yet but I'll keep yall posted

get fucked this is amazing