Kate, Queen of the Squirrels
@pavlovcat.bsky.social
She/her. Michigander, AuDHD - Living with POTS, MCAS, celiac, & perimenopausal rage. Fuck fascists. Free Palestine.
Your 1 stop shop for TMI, soap box diatribes, native plant nerdery, cats, and cross-stitch.
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Your 1 stop shop for TMI, soap box diatribes, native plant nerdery, cats, and cross-stitch.
I only repost images with alt-text.
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🌱🌿 Five Things You Can Do To Save the Butterflies:
1. Stop using pesticides and herbicides (unless you're trying to manage aggressive invasive species). Everything else I list will be designed to attract life to your yard and that's pretty pointless if you kill them after they arrive.
1. Stop using pesticides and herbicides (unless you're trying to manage aggressive invasive species). Everything else I list will be designed to attract life to your yard and that's pretty pointless if you kill them after they arrive.
Will be interesting what my iron levels are on my lab results seeing as I've had two periods in one month and the current one decided it wasn't done yet and started up again today.
January 22, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Will be interesting what my iron levels are on my lab results seeing as I've had two periods in one month and the current one decided it wasn't done yet and started up again today.
Weather forecast has been updated. The high tomorrow will be 1⁰ F. The low will be -10⁰ F. Wind gusts of up to 40 mph.
Sounds like a great day for a roaring fire and a pot of white chicken chili (which I cannot eat but is still cozy to make.)
Sounds like a great day for a roaring fire and a pot of white chicken chili (which I cannot eat but is still cozy to make.)
January 22, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Weather forecast has been updated. The high tomorrow will be 1⁰ F. The low will be -10⁰ F. Wind gusts of up to 40 mph.
Sounds like a great day for a roaring fire and a pot of white chicken chili (which I cannot eat but is still cozy to make.)
Sounds like a great day for a roaring fire and a pot of white chicken chili (which I cannot eat but is still cozy to make.)
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Also considering selling a black and silver waterman Carène fountain pen for $180 shipped CONUS. Also a fine nib but writes like a medium.
I’m basically down to offering fountain pen sales in return for money for food. I don’t have that many left, but they are some nice ones. I have the Leonardo Nuvolo Lavender in a fine nib, still. Still willing to let it go for $80 shipped.
January 22, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Also considering selling a black and silver waterman Carène fountain pen for $180 shipped CONUS. Also a fine nib but writes like a medium.
Did a card pull, past/present/future regarding my career and this was what I got. The past and future make total sense but I'm not sure how to interpret the three of cups in this scenario since I do not have irl friends at this point in my life.
I'm thinking maybe it means my present should be
I'm thinking maybe it means my present should be
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Did a card pull, past/present/future regarding my career and this was what I got. The past and future make total sense but I'm not sure how to interpret the three of cups in this scenario since I do not have irl friends at this point in my life.
I'm thinking maybe it means my present should be
I'm thinking maybe it means my present should be
Turned off the mini split in the shed because it can't keep up in cold like this and went in there yesterday to get something only to see the floor absolutely littered with the bodies of dead box elder and stink bugs that were hibernating in it. Unexpected pest control.
January 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Turned off the mini split in the shed because it can't keep up in cold like this and went in there yesterday to get something only to see the floor absolutely littered with the bodies of dead box elder and stink bugs that were hibernating in it. Unexpected pest control.
Having one of those days when my eye squirts any time I blow my nose.
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Having one of those days when my eye squirts any time I blow my nose.
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Bsky/insta/fb: cross stitch raffle! Every 5$ donated to a fund on StandWithMinnesota.com is an entry (dm me a receipt).
Bsky only: giftcard raffle! For one winner, every $100 raised will equal a $10 giftcard to a place of your choice striking Friday! (Ex: $500 raised = $50 card).
Ends 1/27 EOD!
Bsky only: giftcard raffle! For one winner, every $100 raised will equal a $10 giftcard to a place of your choice striking Friday! (Ex: $500 raised = $50 card).
Ends 1/27 EOD!
January 22, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Bsky/insta/fb: cross stitch raffle! Every 5$ donated to a fund on StandWithMinnesota.com is an entry (dm me a receipt).
Bsky only: giftcard raffle! For one winner, every $100 raised will equal a $10 giftcard to a place of your choice striking Friday! (Ex: $500 raised = $50 card).
Ends 1/27 EOD!
Bsky only: giftcard raffle! For one winner, every $100 raised will equal a $10 giftcard to a place of your choice striking Friday! (Ex: $500 raised = $50 card).
Ends 1/27 EOD!
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These new patterns were created at the request of my friend @kirstylunn.bsky.social (founder of @molkeofficial.bsky.social) who is disabled and a disability advocate. They came from conversations around about bodies that don’t behave predictably and language that people still treat as uncomfortable.
January 22, 2026 at 4:55 PM
These new patterns were created at the request of my friend @kirstylunn.bsky.social (founder of @molkeofficial.bsky.social) who is disabled and a disability advocate. They came from conversations around about bodies that don’t behave predictably and language that people still treat as uncomfortable.
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#Poetryhelps. If you are wanting some soul nourishment to support your travels during this rough and perilous time, may I offer my poetry. It helps! A signed copy of *Becoming Altar* for just the cover price, I pay shipping. Send DM if interested. And, stay groovy. 📚 🎶 💞
January 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM
#Poetryhelps. If you are wanting some soul nourishment to support your travels during this rough and perilous time, may I offer my poetry. It helps! A signed copy of *Becoming Altar* for just the cover price, I pay shipping. Send DM if interested. And, stay groovy. 📚 🎶 💞
The world's best phlebotomist works at the lab I go to. She comes out to my car to do my blood draws because it prevents a POTS episode and she was even willing to do it today with a -4 wind chill. So grateful for her.
Big Girl task done for the day.
Big Girl task done for the day.
January 22, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The world's best phlebotomist works at the lab I go to. She comes out to my car to do my blood draws because it prevents a POTS episode and she was even willing to do it today with a -4 wind chill. So grateful for her.
Big Girl task done for the day.
Big Girl task done for the day.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Not a very exciting update but moving the qsnap on my Long Dog. #WIP #CrossStitch
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Not a very exciting update but moving the qsnap on my Long Dog. #WIP #CrossStitch
Direct sowed some of my native seeds in the meadow and the part shade bit behind it. Tall thistle, spotted bee balm, giant purple hyssop, meadow blazing star, New England aster, late figwort. I know it will likely be a few years before I see them, but that's one of the fun things about native seeds.
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Direct sowed some of my native seeds in the meadow and the part shade bit behind it. Tall thistle, spotted bee balm, giant purple hyssop, meadow blazing star, New England aster, late figwort. I know it will likely be a few years before I see them, but that's one of the fun things about native seeds.
Husband keeps insisting we can make it on only his salary, which is 50k less than we were making per year previously. His budget does not include out of pocket medical costs, clothing, hobbies, gifts, costs to repair/replace/maintain anything and it cuts our grocery budget in half.
Okay, buddy.
Okay, buddy.
January 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Husband keeps insisting we can make it on only his salary, which is 50k less than we were making per year previously. His budget does not include out of pocket medical costs, clothing, hobbies, gifts, costs to repair/replace/maintain anything and it cuts our grocery budget in half.
Okay, buddy.
Okay, buddy.
All this "the whole world hates you" talk means nothing to me. I not only voted Republican until 2016, I volunteered for those fuckers since I was about 6. I worked for Right to Life, ffs. I am partially directly responsible for Trump! I fucking hate myself!
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
All this "the whole world hates you" talk means nothing to me. I not only voted Republican until 2016, I volunteered for those fuckers since I was about 6. I worked for Right to Life, ffs. I am partially directly responsible for Trump! I fucking hate myself!
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Let's talk about keeping your reptiles safe in the cold, with no power.
Step one: don't panic. Weather in wherever they're from also fluctuates. They might be annoyed and might sleep a lot but one day of no lights won't harm them. 🦎
Step one: don't panic. Weather in wherever they're from also fluctuates. They might be annoyed and might sleep a lot but one day of no lights won't harm them. 🦎
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Let's talk about keeping your reptiles safe in the cold, with no power.
Step one: don't panic. Weather in wherever they're from also fluctuates. They might be annoyed and might sleep a lot but one day of no lights won't harm them. 🦎
Step one: don't panic. Weather in wherever they're from also fluctuates. They might be annoyed and might sleep a lot but one day of no lights won't harm them. 🦎
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Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
Too many big changes in a short period of time for my nervous system to manage. Plus the bonus conflict with husband and perimenopause kicking things up a notch.
I'm not sleeping well, I'm forgetting to eat and drink, and I'm headed for a full flare if I can't get things under control soon.
I'm not sleeping well, I'm forgetting to eat and drink, and I'm headed for a full flare if I can't get things under control soon.
a cartoon character sits on a bus with an emergency exit sign behind him
Alt: Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons, sitting on a bus with a vacant expression on his face, saying "Haha, I'm in danger."
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January 21, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Too many big changes in a short period of time for my nervous system to manage. Plus the bonus conflict with husband and perimenopause kicking things up a notch.
I'm not sleeping well, I'm forgetting to eat and drink, and I'm headed for a full flare if I can't get things under control soon.
I'm not sleeping well, I'm forgetting to eat and drink, and I'm headed for a full flare if I can't get things under control soon.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Using part of my meager severance check to pay off the last little chunk of change on my credit card.
Yay for reaching my goal of paying it off, I guess.
Yay for reaching my goal of paying it off, I guess.
January 21, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Using part of my meager severance check to pay off the last little chunk of change on my credit card.
Yay for reaching my goal of paying it off, I guess.
Yay for reaching my goal of paying it off, I guess.
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completely unironically, this is how we'll know
Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
completely unironically, this is how we'll know
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Just turn on the widget that won’t let you post a photo without alt text. Stop making excuses for forgetting.
January 20, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Just turn on the widget that won’t let you post a photo without alt text. Stop making excuses for forgetting.
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If you would like to be in the slightest bit an ally, at the very least, when you see someone else masking, in a store, at the doctors, put one on yourself. Let that person know by your action that you have not abandoned them and they are not alone. Because they could be living on rice and yeast.
January 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM
If you would like to be in the slightest bit an ally, at the very least, when you see someone else masking, in a store, at the doctors, put one on yourself. Let that person know by your action that you have not abandoned them and they are not alone. Because they could be living on rice and yeast.
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So due to medical shenanigans (some kitten randomly peeing blood, and a skin infection), I have Potats on the extended stay plan. They’re eating me out of house and home.
If you’re game to help keep the monsters fed- we appreciate it. They’re eating a case of food in 3-4 days 😳
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If you’re game to help keep the monsters fed- we appreciate it. They’re eating a case of food in 3-4 days 😳
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January 20, 2026 at 9:46 PM
So due to medical shenanigans (some kitten randomly peeing blood, and a skin infection), I have Potats on the extended stay plan. They’re eating me out of house and home.
If you’re game to help keep the monsters fed- we appreciate it. They’re eating a case of food in 3-4 days 😳
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If you’re game to help keep the monsters fed- we appreciate it. They’re eating a case of food in 3-4 days 😳
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January 19, 2026 at 5:48 PM