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Richard Battye
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Reach out, I’ll be there.
A mackerel tabby curled up on her blanket on the shelf over the radiator, one paw reaching out towards the camera. She’s looking directly into the camera, perhaps the photographer has some biscuits…
January 25, 2026 at 10:34 PM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Happy #caturday out there, use it wisely
A mackerel tabby curled up sleeping on an office chair. Dreaming about having opposable thumbs and being able to order and open, whenever she wants, her own cat food.
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 AM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Share a photo of mountains that you’ve taken.
A distant volcano, February in Iceland.
January 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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ianmartin.bsky.social
Yeah, without the meds he'd be speaking English.
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Well yes, that was breakfast, but have you not thought about second breakfast? It’s not just for hobbits.
A mackerel tabby sitting on an office chair looking, most intently, straight into the camera. You could definitely win her affections with some treats, perhaps you have some chicken or prawns in one of your pocketses? Even cat biscuits would do, at a pinch.
January 18, 2026 at 9:51 AM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Do these people ever listen to the shit they are themselves shovelling?
As the privately educated Cambridge graduate and former corporate lawyer MP jumps ship to the latest party of the (more expensively) privately educated millionaire former city commodities trader.
Extract from a Guardian article about the defection of Robert Jenick to reform who wants to think Reform are a workers’ party rather than Farage’s next Farage party. And that Farage is somehow less posh than the Tories who are only becoming posh, despite the fact that they always have been. Link https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/18/leaked-jenrick-defection-plan-calls-him-the-new-sheriff-in-town?
January 18, 2026 at 9:39 AM
richardbattye.bsky.social
The world is all a bit mad, still at least it has cats.
A mackerel tabby sitting on an office chair, paws folded under, looking up to her left as if butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. Which it certainly does.
January 17, 2026 at 6:15 PM
richardbattye.bsky.social
A nose for #caturday Molly says hiya 😻
A close up of Molly’s nose. She’s a mackerel tabby with a pinkish nose, white chin, green eyes and an m on her forehead, which you can’t see because this is mostly nose.
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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carlmaxim.bsky.social
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Yes Molly, it is Feline Friday, you are completely entitled to lie on the radiator shelf all day x
#catsofBluesky #FelineFriday
A mackerel tabby stretched out on her blanket on the shelf over the radiator with her paws reaching out to one of the platforms on the castle. She’s looking at the camera, perhaps wondering if the giant will bring treats as a reward for being such an excellent model.
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
The extent of Renfrew Christie’s heroism, and what it accomplished, is astonishing!
stinapag.bsky.social ‘stina is a shiny special one🧀 @stinapag.bsky.social · 10d
Holy hell. The description of death row in apartheid South Africa was one of the most harrowing things I've ever read.

Also.

This guy wasn't fucking around.
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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robinwigglesworth.ft.com
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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drjoehanson.bsky.social
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765
Paddington in Godzilla Minus One (2023)
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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katiefullerart.bsky.social
✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️
Green woodpecker collage, made from a Yorkshire Tea cardboard box. Collage assembly in progress - scissors used to dismantle box and cut pieces to form woodpecker shapes, and Pritt-stick used to fix pieces to paper
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
richardbattye.bsky.social
The big cat says hiya, that’s Monday done, tomorrow will make no more sense, but if you pay me some attention I will purr and that will be as good for you as it is for me.
#catsofBluesky
A mackerel tabby sits to attention next to the radiator. Close enough to feel the warmth, but not to get too toasty. She’s smart like that.
January 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
wrote about The Other Place www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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jessethorn.bsky.social
I was reading an article about the cancellation of food aid to Minnesota, and it reminded me of a story about my dad. He was a vet, an organizer and very deeply involved in his church. And one day he stood up and asked a question: “what the f*ck’s the point of having a church?”
January 11, 2026 at 6:07 AM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Morning #catsofBluesky geometry and triangles today.
There are 180° in a triangle, but I’ve never seen 180 biscuits in my bowl. Just saying, should there be any giants reading.
A mackerel tabby tests out the corner of a cardboard triangle. Interesting, but not very tasty. A mackerel tabby takes another test chomp out the corner of a cardboard triangle. Still not tasty. A mackerel tabby at the top of her cardboard castle holding up a cardboard triangle. Looking intently at one corner. A mackerel tabby holding on to a cardboard triangle with two paws. Very interesting, for an inedible object.
January 11, 2026 at 9:44 AM
richardbattye.bsky.social
Another successful #caturday out there #catsofBluesky?
A mackerel tabby, Freya, surveys the day from her perch on a comfy knitting bag.
January 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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philippeauclair.bsky.social
Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.
daniel-barker.bsky.social ~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 19d
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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ianvisits.co.uk
Probably one of the best road safety adverts from TfL.

If you've never seen it before - I can guarantee you will watch it twice.
January 8, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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normative.bsky.social
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20d
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
richardbattye.bsky.social
I can stay on the radiator all day, yes?

Further proof of the - I fits, I sits - theorem. It’s not all Schrödinger this cat theory.
#catsofBluesky
A mackerel tabby lying on the top of a radiator looking quizzically into the camera, as long as she doesn’t wriggle the balance is ok.
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM