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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾)
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Cat herder. Old lady. Nerd. Be who you are and let others do the same. Everything isn't about what you want, and louder doesn't equal right-er. The best good deeds are the ones performed with no reward but the knowledge that you helped.
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I'm the Asane Oreo Gremlin!
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is inside a pink cubicle bin, photographed from the top view. Her head is tilted so far back that only the underside is visible. Having hopped into her box, rolled around, discovered and attacked her own tail, popped up out of the box to attempt an ambush upon an unsuspecting Beans, she did this. Whatever this is.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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The time I save by having robots vacuum the floors is largely lost in picking up the cat toys, boxes, tubes, and paper bags. I live in a cats' house that allows human pets.
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Today I'm bein me. --sTuffin🐾
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is sitting inside a pink cubicle bin that has her name, hearts, and pawprints stenciled on it in purple paint (Princess Purple, to be precise). Only her head and neck are visible, and she's looking directly at the camera. Her eyes are dilated, and if you knew Stephanie, you'd know why I call this Crazy Eyes.
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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For the first time in her life, Beans slept on me! She was evicted from the pound because nobody wanted to stick their hand in her cage to feed her. I wore her down with patience, and today, I had to take a two-hour nap because no *way* was I going to disturb her. Brave little Beans. 🥰
On the world's second ugliest couch that just won't die, two cats are asleep on a fuzzy blue blanket that covers the legs of their human. In the foreground is Stephanie the tuxedo cat, but since the weather turned cool, she's more or less been a permanent fixture on me. In the background, however, is Beans the tabby, and that's a big deal. Beans went from Animal Control in a nearby town to a cat's-only shelter because the pound couldn't handle her. She hissed, growled, and swatted, and they suspected it was the constant barking of the dogs stressing her out. Once in the shelter, she calmed down a lot, but still hissed and swatted sometimes. That's exactly why I wanted her; Stephanie needed a friend so she'd stop trashing my house, and I wanted the least-adoptable cat; the one who needed extra love. I don't care if a cat hisses at me--they're just scared--but Beans never has. Once in the quiet of my house, she was much better. Still skittish, but that can be fixed with love and patience...and it has. Brave little Beans saw Stephanie getting pets and scritchies, and overcame her fear to get some for herself. I still won't push her, but it worked well for her this time, so she'll do it again when she's ready. Maybe she'll be a cuddly lap cat after all. Maybe not, but thats okay, too; she's my Beanie Baby either way. ♥️
November 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Mum can sleep later. I got Play With Me Eyes! --sTuffin🐾
In the dim light of a bedside lamp, Stephanie the tuxedo cat peers out from beneath the white bed covers with the pupils of her eyes dilated. She usually goes up by my head, pushes her face against the blankets until I lift them and let her under to tunnel around like some kind of crazed ferret, then eventually, she stops by my lower legs and licks me, which is not at all conducive to sleep. This time, she tunneled the entire length of my body, then her little face popped out right in mine, and with big, black Crazy Eyes, so I knew sleep would have to wait. Once she's in nuclear fission mode, the only thing to do is let her burn herself out. If I evict her from the bedroom, she'll meow piteously, scratch the door, and reach her little white cat arms under it. That keeps me awake anyway, so I might as well let her play. Stephanie is Stephanie and she does what she does; I knew that a week after she got here.
October 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Helpin Mum putta new thing in her caputer. Me an Beans hadda sniff it real good to make sure it was workin OK. An it is. Mum said it oney took two times as long with us helpin an I oney took one screw. That's pretty good, ain't it? --sTuffin🐾
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is carefully sniffing the insides of a laptop that's laying on a rug with its back panel off. Why am I doing this on the floor, you may ask? I began on the table, but she kept jumping up on the back of my chair, climbing my back, and trying to get on my lap to see what I was doing, and Beans was on the floor, meowing non-stop, so I gave up and let them check everything out thoroughly. Beans would have eventually left me alone, but once Stephanie is curious about something, you'd have to take it to another county to keep her away from it, so the path of least resistance is to just let her help. She ran off somewhere with one of the screws, but I had laptop screws that fit, so it worked out okay.
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Mum says she wants her landry bins back cause now we got our own. I said maybe, but look--I'm bein Beans! --sTuffin🐾
Two bubblegum pink cubicle bins are sitting on a wood floor. The bin on the left is painted with purple hearts and pawprints, and the name "Stephanie" in a script font with a heart curlicue. The bin on the right is painted with turquoise hearts and pawprints, and the name "Beans" in the same script font. Peeping out from the top of the bin labeled "Beans" is the black and white head of a cat whose name is, in fact, not Beans, but rather Stephanie. She did get into her own after a few minutes, but of course, she had to be the first to try them both because Stephanie. I'm hoping this means that the bins I have in the bathroom for laundry will henceforth contain laundry, and not cats. We'll see how that goes.
October 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Somebody please tell Mum she can put her laundrys somewheres else. This is a box an I am a cat. Boxes is for cats an that's it. I ain't gettin out. --sTuffin🐾
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is once again in one of the pink fabric cubes I use for laundry, and she's not leaving. I think I'll have to get some for her and Beans. Maybe she'll give mine back?
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Mum broght me a new smell today. It's punkin pie, but I got kinda stuck in the bag when I was smellin. It's a good one, though; sweet an spice. The smell. Not the bag. But the bag is OK, too. Very crinkle-y. --sTuffin🐾
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is standing on a beige rug, on a wood floor. Photographed from above, she has her head stuck through the handle of a tan plastic grocery bag. Stephanie collects smells; no matter what it is, edible or not, she wants to smell it, and she seems pleased when she gets a smell she's never had before. I obviously don't let her smell dangerous things like spray paint, or mineral spirits, or epoxy, but anything safe for her is fair game. She never touches any of it; she just wants to collect the smell, and then off she goes to do...whatever it is that little Oreo gremlins do when Mum isn't watching too closely. She's an odd little thing, but very cute. ♥️
October 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Miki got stuck on the garage roof (again) and I came outside to have coffee on the patio, only to hear literally the entire Herd meowing their faces off at me to help her get down. Once she was safely down, they all looked at me as if to say, "Meh," and left. Good to know I'm appreciated?
October 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Hairy chicken, incubating his mason bee brood.
A bicolour brown tabby boy named Andy is asleep in a blue plastic container (actually a purpose-bought litter box) full of bundled mason bee tubes on my patio. Two small bee houses are in front of the container. Behind him is a lattice privacy screen with fake ivy wound through the lattice. With literally dozens of far more comfortable places to sleep, he has instead chosen to push the bundles of bee tubes into a makeshift bed. Because cat. The bees are outside so they'll know it's getting cooler, and around November, I'll soak the tubes and remove the cocoons for winter cold storage so they don't get eaten by hungry mice. In very early spring, I'll lay the cocoons out somewhere safe, and provide new tubes for the year's brood, and off my little bees will go to pollinate the earliest spring flowers.
October 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Am I just *that* thick, or does Bluesky have no context for replies? Posts are okay--I don't make many--but if someone replies to a comment I made, and I don't know to which comment they were replying, how the hell am I supposed to find out? I've poked every button I've seen...? 🤷
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Oh, Cookie. Andy went in the garage, and when he was most of the way through, Cookie stuck his head in the opening because he wanted out, but he forgot what he was supposed to do next, so he just sat there with his head in the door while George and Backpack looked on with concern.
Kind of dark picture of a tuxedo cat named Stevie Cookie with his head holding a white cat door open while Backpack the bicolour tabby and an orange cat named George sit outside the door, wondering what the hell he's trying to do. George is looking at the camera as if to say, "Are you seeing this?" Poor Cookie has room in his head for only three things--currently, food, love other cats, and go into the garage through the cat door--so when he learned to go in, he had to forget he used to know how to go out. He'd have stayed there for an hour had I not gone over and opened the big door for him. 😄
October 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I'm bein laundry.
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is inside one of the little pinkish fabric bins that I have in the bathroom for dirty laundry. Her pupils are dilated because it's her usual morning crazy time. The bin is otherwise empty because I just did laundry, and why she's in there, I don't know, but I probably shouldn't wash her.
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Big, black Crazy Eyes. They're up to something...
Stephanie the tuxedo cat and Beans the tabby cat are lying in a scratcher box and on the beige rug, respectively. Both are looking at the camera, and both have the dilated pupils that I call Crazy Eyes. I have no idea why; I came into the room and this is what I saw. Stephanie isn't a pretty cat in the general sense--her proportions are off--but she's smart, and cute, and funny. Beans is pretty in a Standard Issue Cat way, and very sweet. However they look, though, they're my little girls. ♥️
October 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Cookie, why?
On the concrete floor in a dirty, cobwebbed corner of the garage sits a small, dark blue bucket of aquarium gravel that I "might use someday" (suuuure you will). There are ten cat beds--I counted--in their garage, and two floor mats. Outside, big piles of leaves and plenty of grass. Yet here is Stevie Cookie, looking all forlorn, as of he hasn't anywhere else in the whole world to lie down except in this too-small blue bucket of gravel. There's nothing whatsoever going on in Cookie's cute little head, ever, so I long ago gave up trying to figure out why Cookie does what he does. The answer is always "because Cookie".
October 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Mum's tired from work so I'm puttin this pitcher here. It is Andy an Backpack sleepin. They look funny. --sTuffin🐾
This is a pitcher of Andy an Backpack. They are 2 boys in Mum's Herd. They are stripe plus white, oney I forget what that's called. They are layin onna patio an there's dead leafs around cause we ain't got no rain for a real long time. Me an Beans don't live inna gradge with The Herd, but we talk to them when we go in our catio. They are nice to us. I don't know if I did this right cause I don't know what is alt text, but I tried my best. --sTuffin🐾
October 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Stephanie just brought the biggest grasshopper I have ever seen--and I've seen a lot of grasshoppers--into the house. She'd been much too quiet, so I went looking to see what she was up to. Both Stephanie and the unfortunate grasshopper are currently sproinging around my bedroom. Sleep tight!
September 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Stevie Cookie went on an epic journey to the south side of the house for a couple of hours, so he and Big Steve had to re-establish their relationship upon his return. (Yes, Backpack looks more like Overstuffed Duffle Bag.)
September 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Me: winding aluminum wire around a heavy steel wire to make a mini gooseneck.

Them: that's what *you* think! You're playing with kitties!
September 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Beans wants to know why I can't reply to anything; it says the reply is sent, but doesn't appear in the thread. Trying a post.
Beans the tabby is lying, mermaid-style, on a beige rug beside a scratcher box. Her left cat arm is crossed over her right, and her pupils are dilated into Crazy Eyes.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Wait...wait...Beans gonna walk by any minnit now. Quiet an waitin... --sTuffin🐾
Stephanie the tuxedo cat, complete with level 10 Crazy Eyes, is in a paper bag on a beige rug. She's waiting for poor, unsuspecting Beans to walk by so she can ambush her. Beans is no slouch, though; she doesn't get surprised too often. I think Stephanie gets more fun out of random shipping boxes and paper grocery bags I buy at ALDI for 12 cents than any cat toy or furniture that I've ever purchased. Typical cat--$150 cat tree ignored, plays for hours with the box it came in.
September 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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No, I don't remember how I got up here. Now get me down!
Miki the dilute tortoiseshell cat is up on the garage roof, looking straight at the camera. Behind her is a backdrop of leaves on the giant osage-orange tree she climbed to get up there. She does this often; climbs the tree, jumps over onto the roof, then forgets how she got there and meows at me to get her down. All I have to do is walk over by the tree and talk to her. Personally, I think she knows full well how to get down, and just wants to make me work for it. Also, someone really should pressure wash those gutters. Not me, but someone!
September 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Havin cool tube time! Thanks, Ant Ka'ra! Beans is scareda our tube but that don't mean nothin. She's always scareda new stuff til she sees I ain't. --sTuffin🐾
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is lying inside their new grey cat tunnel. She's already experimented with biting the fuzzy stuff on the ends, and she likes the crinkly material inside the tunnel. Stephanie's rear legs are comically sticking out from one of the portals as she rolls around inside a grey cat tunnel. I haven't yet decided where the tunnel will live in the house. Not that I think it matters because it's light enough for Stephanie to drag around, and it's got fuzzy fabric around the ends (she likes to bite fuzzy things) so she probably will.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Stevie Cookie went into the garage some time during the night, and this morning, with much encouragement from Big Steve...he exited on his own! Go, Cookie, go!
September 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM