Local Woman Discovers Parenting Order Has No Refresh Button, Continues Monitoring Ex’s Substack Instead

By Martin O’Meowey | The Canton Cat


MARYLAND — A local woman reportedly completed another exhaustive review of her ex-husband’s Medium and Substack accounts this week, successfully locating several sentences she disliked while somehow remaining unable to locate the part of the custody order involving communication, information sharing, and parenting time.

Sources say the breakthrough came after months of silence.

Not about the child.

Not about school.

Not about activities.

Not about parenting time.

About a paragraph on Medium.

“Finally,” said one exhausted house cat observing the situation from a windowsill. “We have identified the emergency.”

According to documents recovered from the sacred archives of Internet Grievance Enforcement, the woman possesses an extraordinary ability to detect references to herself across multiple publishing platforms, even while suffering from a mysterious inability to detect messages concerning her own child.

Experts have named the condition Selective Co-Parenting Wi-Fi.

Symptoms include:

  • Substack loads instantly.
  • Medium loads instantly.
  • Search results load instantly.
  • Parenting messages remain trapped in a buffering circle for approximately 14 months.

Scientists remain baffled.

The controversy intensified after the writer explained that he had previously changed material on Medium because the platform has rules and he would like, in a shocking capitalist plot twist, to remain on the platform and possibly make money.

This was immediately interpreted as a sweeping moral confession, surrender, apology, and presumably application for sainthood.

“It’s incredible,” said Canton Cat, eating tuna directly from the can. “A website says, ‘Follow our rules if you want to monetize,’ and somehow this becomes the Nuremberg Trials of blogging.”

The writer has also rejected the emerging legal doctrine known as If I Don’t Like the Story, History Must Be Deleted.

Under that theory, any person mentioned in an unpleasant sequence of events may demand removal from the narrative regardless of whether their conduct is relevant.

Historians are reportedly panicking.

Watergate will now be called “A Building Had Feelings.”

The Titanic will become “An Iceberg Experienced Unwanted Publicity.”

And every political scandal in Washington will simply read:

“Nothing happened. Please respect our privacy.”

Canton Cat Legal Correspondent Mittens McGraw explained the problem.

“If your actions are part of the story, you may wind up in the story,” McGraw said. “This is generally how stories work. Otherwise newspapers would just be 38 pages of weather.”

Meanwhile, the writer has repeatedly expressed interest in the far more controversial proposition that a father should receive information about his child and actually get to see him.

Negotiations remain stalled.

The other side has reportedly countered with:

“Have you considered deleting paragraph six?”

At press time, the cat had proposed a revolutionary new co-parenting system in which adults spend slightly less time auditing each other’s blogs and slightly more time following the paperwork already signed by a judge.

The proposal was immediately rejected as dangerously practical.

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