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Aubrey Jones
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Genderqueer, anarchist, autistic author of pulp fantasy; a deserter from the trenches of tech; addicted to making. (they/any)

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Murry on the cat wall.

#Catuesday
A fluffy yellow cat sits on a carpet-lined cat shelf on a wall, his tail curled under him in free space. In the background, around a corner, is the light of an aquarium.
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This will be in stained glass (printed on aging inkjet) on the wall of the Erisian Cathedral (my potting shed).
A photo of a chessboard. A white pawn (labeled "easily attainable goals") is on the same row as a white rook (labeled "the goddess of chaos"). A black knight (labeled "you") is in position to take the white pawn.
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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This is why I don't really care about the supposed "blue wave". It won't *fix* things. Things won't become better. It will merely stall regression while every anticapitalist and progressive org demobilizes for 4 years as their more comfort-craving members peel away to beg the Dems for favors.
A screenshot of an X post by @GeauxGabrielle It reads: GeeuxGabrielle Democrats are not going to fire anyone in ICE. They are not going to rein them in. They are not going to arrest anyone. They are not going to punish Trump or any Republicans even if they do come back to power. They aren't even telling you they will.
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I wish this local small business owner a very [CONTENT CENSORED]
Screenshot of some asshole on facebook. He says: Union cry babies my guys work on their hands and knees are monitored on bathroom breaks and only get heat breaks when they finish the day and we acrually work in the heat. If you cant handle the conditions and were getting special treatment to make it easier on you then you didnt need a union then you try to make it more expsensive to keep the buisness going and want the costly extra breaks lol what a joke.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Shoplifting is a victimless crime and good for building up your lawbreaking spirit.
A screenshot of a headline saying USA: Shoplifting has increased 93% since 2019; 45% of shoplifters are stealing food. There is a bar graph of increasing sizes showing some data supporting the headline.
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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One of my favorite photos of Murry, from years ago. I love my kitties so much, but Murry is the sweetest cat I've ever had.

Unless you're a grasshopper, then he's a kaiju.
An overexposed photo of a fluffy yellow cat curled comfortably in a featureless white corner. He's peeking out from behind his tail, which hides his nose. He's adorable.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I miss OG Overwatch. Like circa 2017?

I was a Mercy main.

Instant multi-rez was such a rush when I could turn the tide of battle by reviving my whole team. Just fucking undid your stupid Reaper ult, edgelord.

Here's a stencil piece I did based on one of her sprays.
A photo of airbrush stencil art on a piece of cardboard. It's sitting on top of some scrap and stencils, on a formica counter top. The airbrush art depicts Mercy's angel-like wings on a grey gradient background. The wings are rendered in an extremely stylized manner, with brilliant white center parts and vivid flame-like feathers rendered in yellow and red gradient.
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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I'm subscribed to the newsletter for this used railstock company... I dream. I dream.
An auction listing and photo for a 1938 Budd Company lounge car, sitting on a train track in a railyard of some sort. There is grass and a brick building in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Ah, fair enough.

It's annoying that the fucking nazis keep claiming elemental letter-like line crossings.

These are the kinds of things I doodle for stimming, and I'm constantly finding fucking nazi symbols in it after the fact. I'm not even on some "reclaim!" shit, just sad about it. Fuck nazis.
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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They seem to have done everything in their power to make a 4 look like this.
A photo of an original SS runes armband.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Ukraine avoiding the nazi look challenge: failed.
A still shot from the video, where Zelenskyy stands in front of a black flag with a white symbol on it. The symbol is probably a stylized "4", but it looks very much like SS runes.
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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She's full of rat. She's smug about it too.
A very smug, far tortoise shell cat on a patchwork quilt.
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Our cat on hospice is finally permitted outside after a lifetime of longing. He's gotten quite used to the privilege. But the last couple days it has been definitively Fall, with wet and cold. Cricket has been sorely disappointed by the weather his staff have prepared for his excursions.
A low-rez, wide-angle photo of a driveway and over-exposed trees in the background. In the middle of the photo is a tuxedo cat.
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A socially awkward penguin meme. It shows a penguin on a blue background. The top text says "finds a threat talking about advice animals". The bottom text reads "actually posts one".
October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Murry *must* have cheese. It is his right! Cheese denial is a cat crime!

I'm no cat criminal tonight. Murry got plenty of cheese.
A photograph of a fluffy yellow cat standing on his hind legs to beg for cheese, pawing against the boxer shorts of a fat, under-dressed human whose head is just out of frame. The human is making nachos on a stainless steel industrial kitchen counter.
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Got me inspired to write a short about a trans catgirl in Colonel Cannibal's Horde of anti-fascist partisans. I think I'm gonna give this one away.

What? No of course I'm not trying to write a leftist Turner Diaries. That'd be irresponsible and bad, right? Yeah. This is the tolerant left over here.
A screenshot of text: High up in the mountains in what will go on to become the Shawnee-Cherokee Proctorate, nearly a thousand ragtag partisans gather under the banner of a military leader widely known—and justly feared—as Colonel Cannibal. They're camped out together in dense woods that had been, until fairly recently, owned by the United States federal government and open to the public for hiking, camping, hunting, and even cutting Christmas trees. The government sold the woods to a logging company, which was part of an even larger corporation that owned every kind of resource extraction operation necessary for the US imperial economy. The Cannibal Horde are mad about that, but it issn't why they were there. They're camped out because they're hiding. The camp is dispersed through acres of rough terrain, up and down ridges and ravines, in clusters of two or three tents. The tents huddle together under plastic camo tarps and anti-drone netting, basic precautions against high-altitude thermal imaging and surface-skimming FPV attacks. It's late summer, and the heavy green foliage above them is doing most of the work of keeping them safe from the autonomous search drones the government deploys to find them. The heat and the mosquitos are doing most of the work of making them miserable. Outside one of those tents, under the triple canopy of camo, steel net, and summer leaves, sits a catgirl named Nyan. Her assault rifle, one of the ubiquitous AR-15 variants, is beside her on the ground. The Horde gave it to her when she arrived, but she truly claimed it by carefully blocking off sections with tape and spray painting it to look cel shaded. Nyan had thought about going to art school before she told her parents she was trans and they threw her out, so she takes every opportunity to grow her talents. At the moment, she's writing in her journal. She's been here two weeks already and it's her first entry that isn't just a doodle.
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Guilt led me to look into the local No Kings, and the flyer has this.

No mention of the word "trans". No mention of "immigrant". No mention of ICE. It doesn't say Trump or Republicans.

This reads like the generic Democrat talking points from literally any time in my life.

This is a joke.
A section of a protest flyer, in mostly blue (and some red) text on a white background. It includes a logo of planet Earth encircled by "CleanEarth4Kids.org". The text reads: Stand Up for Hungry Kids, Students, Seniors, Veterans... Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security. Public Health, Cancer & Disease Research. Workers, Civil & Human Rights. Public Education, Title 1, Head Start, Special Ed. Clean Air & Water, Public Lands. Food & Product Safety, Consumer Protection. The Free Press, PBS, NPR. The Rule of Law and our Democracy! StopProject2025USA.org. Family-Friendly: Clean Signs, Speech, Flags Right-Side-Up.
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I met a very smol snek on my evening walk.

I gently encouraged it to move somewhere safer from being squished by farm vehicles, which naturally displeased it.

#snake #snakes #reptiles
A very small snake hanging out on a gravel surface. The snake's diameter is dwafed by some of the gravel stones. A very small snake trying to make itself look scary. The snake has puffed itself up and is slightly coiled as if to strike.
October 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Murry: Whatever an "Oreo" is, it isn't cheese, and that isn't okay.
A fluffy yelow cat looks up at the camera from next to a table leg. He is none too pleased, and I think he has a contemptuous look in his eye.
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Boimler: The worst part of promotion is the back zipper. You get the solo cabin, but then you're wandering the halls trying to get somebody to zip you up. I wish I could keep the front zip.

Mariner: You guys get front zips?

#StarTrek #DeepCut #LowerDecks
A screenshot from Star Trek The Next Generation. Geordi stands next to a male Vulcan ensign in Engineering. The ensign's uniform zips in the front. Geordi's does not. Another screenshot from the ST:TNG episode "Lower Decks". It shows a female Bajoran ensign in a gold uniform. There is no zipper in the front.
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I've thought about this a lot over the years. I moved a thousand miles from my folks the first chance I got, and still felt like I couldn't escape them. Even though we'd been LC for years beforehand, it got much worse when I finally got on fb after my divorce.
A screenshot of a social media post by user 'gallieosballs'. It reads: Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely. The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude. How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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A twitter post from denz (@diomuarr). It reads: i used to have this mental illness where i thought logical arguments would change someone's mind
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Intrusive thoughts do not come with any pull or allure of actually doing the thing. It's just a traumatic scene your brain plays out to check your reaction.

Like, imagine the Dead Space needle scene. How that makes you feel. Now imagine your brain makes you watch 50 scenarios like that a day.
A screenshot from Dead Space. We see a closeup of the protagonist's head restrained with a strap across his forehead. His eyelids are held upen with retractors. A laser beam shines into one pupil, and a very long needle descends along the blue shine of the laser beam. The protagonist does not look happy.
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Murry (yellow) desperately wants to be friends with Tasha, and so keeps gently invading her personal space. She would definitely like a friend, but doesn't know how to process those feelings.

She hissed and hissed at him while he slowly, slowly got himself into this position and went to sleep.
Two cats are lying about a foot apart on a matress. There's a computer tower and and junk in the background. One cat is a short-hair tortie, and is in loaf form. The other is a yellow long-hair, in crescent form.
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM