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aminifer.bsky.social
Amina
@aminifer.bsky.social
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🇦🇺 in London. Follower of good takes on (non-US) politics, tech, history, sustainability and urbanism. Cat herder and foodie. Big fan of artistic use of alt-text. Wish I had enough to say to post more often but I'll lurk instead
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Someone has just discovered the heated throw and won't be moving off it until late February
Photo of a tuxedo cat blissfully asleep on a fluffy heated throw. He is in love
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I'm not sure I wanted to read between these lines. Also, imagine video calling someone while you're flossing 🤢
She writes that the first few times Kennedy said he loved her, she did not say it back. Yet she knew she felt the same. “I love him, I thought. Oh no. I love him so much.” They spoke often and were intimate enough for her to see him flossing his teeth, his dopp kit overflowing with prescriptions. She writes that despite being “sober” for decades, Kennedy told her that he still uses psychedelics, and even smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful drug on which people are known to have what feel like near-death experiences. She told him she “liked uppers. I told him that I took Adderall.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
aminifer.bsky.social
This made me cackle
Still from the video, with mamdani smiling to camera and the subtitle " I might look like your brother-in-law from Damascus"
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Delighted to announce that medlar bletting season has begun
Photo of a white platter with about 30 medlarss sitting on it as the bletting process begins
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Time for another sequel to this classic
This is the picture of a cover of a spectacular children's book by Mo Willems called "don't let the pigeon drive the bus"
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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🍿🤞
Screenshot from BBC news app showing that the result is imminent for an upcoming by-election
October 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
aminifer.bsky.social
Here is an alpaca I met recently who was very grumpy and pissed off. Just like how I feel when I think about what you are going through because of that crappy country next door
Headshot photo of a white alpaca with a snarky expression
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Very similar to this pair of illustrations I bought in Berlin a few years ago

Behold body types (with corrective corsetry) and bandaging
Late 19th century illustration showing different body shapes compared with the classical ideal, and the appropriate undergarments to achieve a better figure Late 19th century illustrations showing important information about how to clean your nasal septum and how to wrap yourself in bandages
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Spy vs spy
September 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Spy Vs Spy comic strip. White spy carries dynamite behind his back. Black spy carries bomb behind his
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Looks like it belongs to her
Modigliani portrait of a woman sitting on a chair
September 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Twinsies!
Quiz results. I'm the same type!
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I think we bought our Cat Sets at the same shop
Photo of a black cat and a tuxedo cat on a sofa. They look exactly like the OP's cats but in a different pose. Spooky!
September 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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This is quite the profile of the founder
Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard, and he seems to have more real-life personal connections than when he first created the idea for Friend. In our meeting, he asked us not to unbox the devices in front of him because he is in love with someone and wants the first time he witnesses a Friend unboxing to be with her
September 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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This is...quite the story
A celebrated surgeon has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after falsely claiming to insurers that his legs were amputated due to illness, in a highly disturbing court case in Cornwall. In fact, Neil Hopper’s legs had been injured by dry ice as he sought sexual gratification through self-mutilation. The surgeon was charged after investigators traced the online contacts of another man who had made hundreds of thousands of pounds from mutilation videos.
September 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Mat I present my cat who looks like he has the DTs
Photo of a black and white cat lying on his back and stretching out his rear legs in a very uncomfortable fashion
August 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Day 2 of our London heatwave and the water temperature at the West Reservoir has gone up to a delicious 22 Deg. Not yet the Med, but you take what you can get 😄
Photo of a sunny day at West Reservoir, with inviting looking water Photo of the water temperature here - 22.4 degrees Celsius, which is perfect
August 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I have so many questions about the practicalities of this
Screenshot of a news article. Content reads: A "devastated" boyfriend who found his ex-partner dead on his sofa covered up her body with a blanket and left her undiscovered for years, a court heard. Jamie Stevens, who carried on living in the flat in Torquay, Devon, as the body of Anouska Sites remained in the lounge, has admitted she "deserved better", his lawyer said.
August 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Omg and thank you for your service
Screenshot of some text from the article linked to an original post. It reads: cave turns to me."so what's your skill then, spinning stuff into a story?" "No," I reply. "My skill is keeping a straight face when someone tells me something, and inside I'm thinking: fucking hell."
August 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Apparently it's #internationalcatday so here is my cat pretending to be a kangaroo
Photo of a disgruntled black and white cat posing like a kangaroo
August 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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"well behaved copper ingot merchants rarely make history"
Photo of a cheery museum curator, on-site on digs in Iraq, wearing a t-shirt which says "well behaved copper ingot merchants rarely make history"
July 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Today is the day I thank my past self who stored multiple ice packs in the freezer and set it to minus 20 Deg by accident
Screenshot of a weather app showing that at 7:00 p.m. it's still 31° c which is lovely on holidays but not so great in London
July 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Get ready to be judged by Oscar
Photo of a black and white tuxedo cat looking very judgemental
July 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is what peak performance looks like
Photo of a fat tuxedo cat lying prone on his back with his legs sticking out like chicken drumsticks.
July 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Quite the headline here. Let's see what it's about

Oh
Screenshot of the headline from a BBC article. The headline reads: 'any excuse to go to the pub' culture at crisis hit cathedral Extract from the article: priests and choristers at a cathedral mired in controversy did a seven last shots of Christ drinking game on good Friday after services at the archbishop of wales's cathedral. People who sang with the choir at Bangor cathedral have told the BBC there seem to be any excuse to bring out the wine and go to the pub because of a binge drinking culture. The claims come days after Andrew John retired as archbishop of Wales with immediate effect after two critical reports highlighted safeguarded concerns and misbehaviour at his dip Bangor diocese.
July 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM