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Caitlin O'Connell
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Edits books and comics for kids at Penguin Workshop. Probably here to be a weird gremlin anymore. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Happy birthday, Mike!!! Here is a cat. :D
A grey tabby cat sits loafed in a lap.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
The promo image for ITV's show Frauds, showing Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones.
October 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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I made a labyrinth out of french knots and turned it into a pillow. Bonus cat!
A pillow made out of a navy blue silky fabric with subtle circle shapes pressed into it. At the center is a circular labyrinth embroidered out of small knots of thread in varying shades of green. A fluffy grey cat sits next to it, about the same size as the pillow.
July 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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It turns out hatmaking is quite fun, actually!
A white woman in a green felt hat with a short brim covering part of her face. There is a green ribbon around the band of the hat and two curves along the top. An antique hatpin (about 6 inches long) is held in front of a green felt hat. Behind the hat are some bookshelves with Margaret Owen books, Marvel books, and a This Is How You Lose the Time War print.
December 9, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Let's go postcards, let's go! My 200 postcards off to North Carolina. (Also yes I did take the rubber bands off before mailing fear not.) #didthistoday
A white woman's hand holds a pile of postcards that read North Carolina Votes Tuesday, Nov. 5 in front of a blue mailbox on a street corner.
October 24, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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Done!
The "is this a pigeon" meme where the character in glasses is labeled a book banner, gesturing at a yellow butterfly labeled "And Tango Makes Three" and is asking "Is this porn?"
September 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Well that explains a few things...
A graph of American girls named Caitlin by year; there's a huge spike between 1980 and 1995 or so, going up to 7,000, and the numbers drop off significantly after that.
August 20, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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What's the best episode of television you've ever watched?
A picture of the TARDIS from the Doctor Who episode Eve of the Daleks. It has red cracks running along the blue police box walls, and on the ceiling, two blue hearts are created from the TARDIS light on top. Mandip Gill and Jodie Whittaker, who play Yaz and the Doctor, are hugging in front of the TARDIS. They're perfect, lives were changed, etc etc.
July 9, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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I sew things! Mostly late Victorian and early Edwardian styles of things. And yes, I do this all entirely by hand, and yes, I know that that is slightly weird, but hey, it's fun. :)
A white woman in a straw hat wears a blue Edwardian bicycle suit - jacket with puffed sleeves and split skirt at calf length - with gold buttons. A white woman in a white 3M mask stands in front of a museum rotunda with pillars. She wears a white linen shirt and a blue waistcoat with silver buttons and a blue and black patterned collar. The teal green interior lining of a grey winter coat with velvet lined collar.
June 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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LOGGING ON
A screengrab of Jodie Whittaker in the Great British Bake Off tent. She is a white woman with short dyed blonde hair wearing a pink jumpsuit and a Stand Up to Cancer apron. The caption reads "I guess the thing is that... I don't really know what I'm doing."
June 13, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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My dad spontaneously made a pinhole camera for eclipse viewing because of course he did. :)
A white woman in a green and burgundy paisley dress, who looks inexplicably like a consumptive Victorian orphan, looks through the purple duct tape viewer of a pinhole camera made out of a large cardboard Chewy box. The Chewy logo is upside down.
April 8, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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He's a fine gentleman!! :)
A grey tabby cat looks directly at the camera. He is wearing a green velvet bow tie.
March 29, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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Saddest return to office prep… 😭
The back of a white door with four command strip hooks, each holding up a 3M N95 mask.
September 10, 2023 at 9:17 PM
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Why yes I am spending my Saturday night playing with the Bayeux tapestry generator, why do you ask? https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/
A meme in the artistic style of the Bayeux tapestry, in which a brown knight with a shield, spear, and chainmail suit looks up at a small brown and gold gryphon-like creature. The text reads BE THIS A PIGEON?
August 13, 2023 at 2:15 AM
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Hello new internet, these are my favorite space girlfriends, I love them so much, in this essay I will-- *is forcibly dragged off the soap box*
The Doctor and Yasmin Khan hug in front of a cracked TARDIS. The light makes a blue heart on the ceiling.
July 27, 2023 at 4:10 PM