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Rebecca
@arbitrarygenius.bsky.social
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Love cats, comics, theatre, politics/news, films, TV. Trained librarian, but now analysing media. Not arbitrary nor a genius. Same tag on twitter. Do Moon Knight, Iron Fist and DCAU podcast. She/Her.
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Wake Up Dead Man was great. Frankenstein exhibit was way more impressive than I expected.
It's a signed copy of Frankenstein made out to Lord Byron
October 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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RIP Brian Patten. He wrote one of my fave poems.
A Blade of Grass You ask for a poem. I offer you a blade of grass. You say it is not good enough. You ask for a poem. I say this blade of grass will do. It has dressed itself in frost, It is more immediate Than any image of my making. You say it is not a poem, It is a blade of grass and grass Is not quite good enough. I offer you a blade of grass. You are indignant. You say it is too easy to offer grass. It is absurd. Anyone can offer a blade of grass. You ask for a poem. And so I write you a tragedy about How a blade of grass Becomes more and more difficult to offer, And about how as you grow older A blade of grass Becomes more difficult to accept.
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Haha, someone asked for a pic of the cat I'm catsitting and I clearly failed to make this a reply! Cat, for evidence
Fluffy tabby and white cat curled up at top of stairs, giving camera a side eye
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Fluffy tabby and white cat curled up at top of stairs and looking at camera cautiously Fluffy tabby and white cat mostly curled up but with head up and looking straight at camera as if... He has just been woken up for a photo
September 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Size difference. And messy garden
Messy garden paving stones (there's a lot of weeds between them. At top of pic is a small tortoiseshell cat,sitting in loaf formation to look even smaller. At the bottom of the pic is a bigger black cat, stretched out (but not at full stretch, tail curled around back legs).
September 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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@robertramsay.org
August 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Was worth the trip
Cuddly toy Cerberus from the computer game Hades. 3-headed cutesy dog w In red with green eyes, orange tongues and white fangs.
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Presented without comment
Two consecutive Bluesky posts - the first reminisces about a time August was "Silly Season" and papers had to fill space with trivia, the second is The Guardian posting an article about Ghana's most stylish coffins.
August 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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@squirrelninja.bsky.social what I mentioned
Small pic of the Thunderbolts from the movie in silhouette with an asterisk behind them and sentry floating in air.
July 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Yes! That happened with Diesel a LOT at first, esp cos it was a front leg, and he never really managed to cover his stuff as well, but our other cat used to come up and cover it for him! Btw, this was the "please treats, pose"
June 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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here is one of Diesel getting REAL flat because of missing leg:
June 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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My fave pic of ours (Diesel) when he spotted our friends' degus. I believe was used by animal cancer trust in a banner.
June 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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This will be (some) mainstream reporting... for a while. And it fucking sucks.
Sky News headline reads "Rachel Reeves is about to make huge spending decisions - we asked AI to do the job for her"
June 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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This is not our cat (but Ruby yelled at Ozzy out of confusion) - it's hiding under a bed atm
Pretty black cat looking up
May 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I finally get to say this, but this is not one of our cats
Ginger and white cat lying down but paying attention under a desk.
April 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I know you've all missed the BROMANCE of the decade. Ozzy is reunited with his BFF, the ginger from two doors down. Ruby sits on the high ground to hang out in the sun.
two quite brown-grassed gardens connected by a wall and a lower fence. On the fence a black cat in loaf position, facing a ginger a white cat in same position. On the higher wall, a tortoiseshell cat in loaf position.
April 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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History of science museum, Oxford. Original penicillin strain, Einstein's blackboard. Also went to Omens exhibit and saw Magna Carta at the Bodleian but I'm shit at alt text.
A display case with text explaining some of the history of penicillin. On one side there's a glass with what looks like solid foam in it and the text explains this contains some of the original penicillin strain. Part of a blackboard with a complicated equation on. A museum display board underneath explains this is the blackboard Einstein used when giving a speech at Oxford. Which they kept, with his equation on.
April 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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What we did today. This is me and Emi.
Fattish woman in beige leggings and a black t-shirt and red socks, glasses and short black hair, smiling obviously delighted while holding a 7 month other female Shiba Inu baby style. Dog looks pretty damn happy.
April 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Mt Fuji from plane, ropeway, ground level and from outside our ryokan. Very lucky with weather.
Mt Fuji from plane, iconic mountain, covered in snow on top and down right side through a slightly white haze. Mt Fuji from ropeway in Hakone. 5x zoom. Snow topped iconic mountain in distance, with green/brown countryside in foreground. Very clear blue sky, slight reflection from gondola window. Mt Fuji from a ground level observation spot. In the foreground is a dark hill. Fuji is in the distance, near-white and barely visible as sky also quite white. Later afternoon. Mt Fuji as a clear dark shape in the background against a white mostly clear sky, some clouds. Foreground has hedge across the shot. Between foreground and Fuji is another rolling hill, covered in trees so quite dark.
March 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I suck at descriptions. But this is tallest waterfall in Japan. Quite the train ride to get there. Very worth it. Many shrines and temples around on a pilgrimage path in area. I only fell twice.
Nachi falls, tallest waterfall in Japan. People milling around on a viewing platform with a torii gate in front of the falls.
March 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Birthday breakfast!
Half a pastry which is honey topped, half a pastry with cream and strawberries on
March 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Another random Nara pic because we went off on a big tangent and ended up in this spot
A few deer among cherry blossom trees just starting to flower so pretty sparse.
March 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Zoe got to the summit, I got to the stage just before that. Fushimi Inari, Kyoto
Line of torii gates at Fushimi Inari, Kyoto.
March 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Going into Todai-ji at Nara
A lone deer stands in front of the gate into Todai-ji at Nara. There's some massive wooden pillars on the left hand side and some detailing under roof in wood.
March 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM