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birchiarch.bsky.social
Esile Pret
@birchiarch.bsky.social
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Lunar asset, Martian liability
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enough of l’homme ophone
Pre-aurora sunset, with clouds, behind a canal, and boats, with a lone tree-trunk; holy punctuation. I only participated in presenting it here, to you, in a format which cannot yet express how it spoke, nor with what power: “Pull over,” said the Spirit. “This is Us now, and never again.” Later, I’ll try to paint that face (with the coral canal water and treeline vanishing into the gold open mouth), and it will be a dim ripple of an echo of communion, of wonder that was for our eyes, only, just there, right then, on the dot we’re all made of
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A moment
Unaltered photo of a cat getting her ‘Z’s
June 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Happy Caturday from the bird wanter
A beautiful, ferocious cat, seated, wishing everyone except for birds a happy Caturday
May 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Happy 3rd birthday to this bundle of joy
A freshly 3-year-old cat looking at the photographer with a mixed expression of affection and amusement.
May 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The fourth is always with this one
A cat in the act of turning her head to catch a guy holding up two fingers behind her head to make her look silly in a portrait. She’s looking up at him, mouth slightly open in warning—as if to say, “You could’ve asked.” The cat and I are sharing a look, and a thought, while the guy’s two fingers stand in a V behind her head like antenna. She has a dark marking shaped like a V below her left eye, its pointed bottom oriented nosewards. Part of our thought is about multiple redundancies and echolocation; another is good luck to anyone trying to get behind her head undetected. There’s worlds in her eyes.
May 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Closeup of a beautiful cat
May 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Caturday has entered the chat
A sleepy kitty, eyelids well below half-mast, who wouldn’t be surprised if development of a theory that the human penis evolved from an anus was motivation for terminating a lot of scientists. “Penus” being the more accurate spelling seems like an almighty silly plot twist but this cat didn’t write the tale, as far as we know
April 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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No I do not actually know any thing about it Nope (Words on doodle of white bearded hominid, tilted leftward—not *your* left) Don’t ask Nöpê Just do Not ask Absolutely nuh-uh (some words on a doodle of a cartoonishly fem-presenting hominid with doodle-painted face and hands too messed up to attribute to AI. Doodle is called East, if it matters)
March 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Our kitty has forgiven me for this
Graceless/valiant first attempt to capture, in digital oil, the innate perfection that is our cat.
March 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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San Francisco Rincon Hill
March 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A friend’s face, painted, looking unamused by the mess I made of her portrait, especially the philtrum area. It’s just doodling with digital paint, though, so nobody’s mad at it yet A friend’s face, painted, showing the rough outline layer
March 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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She wasn’t there, until she was
Closeup of cat’s left eye and cheek Yosemite, 2022 waterfall, backdrop for a woman in a dress and sun hat
March 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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This one and me just wishing you the absolute best
Patched tabby cat photo portrait; cat’s right eye is halfway into a wink
February 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Some maniac’s waving a chainsaw around and what does this guy do with his hands
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Steve Bannon onstage at CPAC, risking decapitation with a nazi salute
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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What we do the the web, we do to ourselves so here’s the goth layer of a WIP
digital painting layer of “big-eyed ‘alien’ Meta chief,” no background, not great, I had two root canals and a flu back-to-back. So thankful, angry, disappointed, grateful
February 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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God on the line making static noises with His mouth as you plead for mercy
Results of internet search for “please don’t accidentally my” from Quora: I was doing prayer and I accidentally said “please don’t forgive me” but I said “Sorry, I mean please forgive me.” Is that okay if I’ve done… The top answer begins: Unfortunately, God doesn’t do take-backsies. Your first answer is locked in. And God, in His infinite mercy, has granted it! If only we were all so… The answer was upvoted twice.
January 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Doodling. Felt like it.
Line drawing from last year of a hominid head and neck in profile. The head is tilted back, serenely spitting a little fountain Rough sketch of a bearded adult person, balding, slightly jaundiced, with long sideburns and thin, sad lips, wearing eyeglasses. Described by local critic as “courtroom sketch/wanted poster” style. They weren’t wrong.
January 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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She is some consolation
a patched tabby cat lounging where she draped herself after play: upside-down on the “roof” of her wooly cat cave, feet in the air, one cheek and both front paws in the floor, smiling with her whole face
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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“The Scream” by Edvard Munch, showing the path of a kidney stone, as an ad for cranberries
January 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Happy Caturday
Top half of a majestic Patched Tabby cat, in partial profile—our furry little “laptop computer”
December 14, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Confirmation for friends of NOAA
A public safety alert texted to my phone, confirming cancellation of this morning’s tsunami warning
December 5, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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oh neat thanks obama
A tsunami warning texted to my phone, just now
December 5, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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At least blueberries had a great year
One jumbo blueberry, balanced atop two fingertips, resting on a light golden brown wood tabletop.
December 2, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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A run-down, gated storefront plastered with black and white graffiti on the papered windows; graffiti is partly covered by 3 Kamala Harris campaign posters—each with a multicolored pastel tinted portrait of the candidate made to look like that of George Washington on the US dollar bill
November 27, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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A beautiful, live house cat, in partial profile, mimics a TV actor named Common, in partial profile
November 22, 2024 at 7:12 PM