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Cathy W
@cathyw.bsky.social
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Lover of cheese, knitting, books, tea. The adultiest adult in my house. Possibly actually Gromit. She/Her.
(aka crwilley & afannishknitter over at the dead bird site.)
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Written in cursive: "This requires forethought." "Zombie attack incoming!" "I can't believe it's not butter!" ... Demonstrating the capital I and Z referenced above, also the poster's previous assertion that her i, r, u, and let's be real n, are hard to distinguish from each other.
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Another Kavanaugh stop, executed to perfection.
An image of text, quoting US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: "Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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movie poster for "MEL GIBSON" in "THE PATRIOT" - Mel Gibson is wearing a Revolutionary period outfit, a white shirt with blousy sleeves and a brown waistcoat with trousers and knee-high boots. He is leaning forward towards the camera, holding a flagpole with a 13-star American flag like a pike. A battle between soldiers in blue coats and soldiers in red coats is raging in the background.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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the trendline is that Don = 20.911 + 0.2152 (Wife); wife will therefore be 38ish.
Screenshot of a spreadsheet showing two columns of numbers, one labeled "Don" with values 31, 47, 58, 82, and one labeled "Wife" with values 28, 30, 34, 38.5574. A scatter plot shows the first three pairs in blue with a trendline and equation "y = 0.2152x + 20.911" and the fourth pair (82, 38.5574) in orange, extrapolated from the line.
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Still Team #Perovskite even if it was my second choice last year. Look at this pretty. It contains *titanium*. It will not dissolve if you spill your Diet Coke onto it. It doesn't transmit light, but it makes excellent solar power cells!
(photo by Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0)
A small specimen but with SUPERB 6-7mm crystals of perovskite on matrix. They are sharp as you could wish for the locality. Ex. American Museum of Natural History, Clarence Bement collection, donated in 1910.
September 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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This birb is like the one doodle I can do on demand. I think I picked it up from one of those "learn to draw" books they have for children. #DrawABird
Photo of a ballpoint pen sketch of a cartoony bird with a pointy head, pointy tail, floofy belly, and kind of expressionless face perched on... a fencepost maybe?
August 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The @aadl.org Summer Game is national news and why would it not be with prizes like this good flamingo friend available?
Photo: A small plushie of a flamingo with a long black beak and no legs. It's wearing a black T-shirt bearing the AADL "Byte" logo, a square with a sun-rayed quarter-circle taken out of the lower left corner. In the background is a bit of clutter including a skein of yarn and a computer monitor.
August 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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in my defense, look at him
Photo: a screen capture from the Chinese drama "Guardian", with Shen Wei (actor Zhu Yilong) looking radiant and beautiful and utterly distracting, standing in front of a chalkboard with Chinese characters written on it. He's wearing a white button-up shirt with a blue-grey vest and sleeve garters.
July 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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and the first edition cover went more for the 'island' part - but, notably, a bird, still not a sheep. hrm. are there actually sheep in the book?
first edition cover of John Buchan's "The Island of Sheep", mostly line drawings. Mostly it's a map of an island, with notable points marked on it. The upper left corner has a decorative frame around the title and author of the book. The upper right corner has a pink bird with wings spread. The lower left corner has a compass rose. The lower right corner has calligraphic script spelling out OCEANUS and a scale of distance.
July 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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And cow vibes.
Three Belted Galloway cows, identifiable by black heads and butts and white middles, graze on a grassy hillside.
July 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I hear it's #CowAppreciationDay. I was a day early when I appreciated these cows yesterday. It was nice to just see them vibing in their pasture.
Photo: by the side of the road, three cows are placidly grazing. I think they are Belted Galloway? The two larger ones are black but with a wide white band around the middle. The smaller one (maybe a "teenager" cow? Not as big as the other two, bigger than a baby) has similar coloration but brown instead of black. Their pasture is a nice fenced hillside with trees in the background.
July 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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...this might be a little *too* minimalist for my follower level? but I think it will cut notifications down to 'people are having a conversation with me'.
(also there is no world where I want push notifications from Bluesky.)
Settings for notifications: Likes: off New followers: In-app, Everyone Replies: In-app, Everyone Quotes: In-app, Everyone Reposts: Off Activity from others: Off Likes of your reposts: Off Reposts of your reposts: Off Everything else: In-app
July 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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for serious: this is the current PurpleAir map. If you're in a zone where the numbers are over 100 (red-to-purple dots), or if you have lung problems and it's over 50 (yellow and orange dots), wear an N95 outdoors, your lungs will thank you.

map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
A map of the continental United States and most of Canada showing air quality readings from home sensors. The highest (worst quality) readings are in eastern British Columbia and western Alberta; they proceed in a curve, gradually getting lower, down through northern Idaho, most of Montana, North and South Dakota, most of Minnesota, all of Wisconsin down into northeast Iowa and all of Illinois, the lower peninsula of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and the Appalachians up into Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
June 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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this is Mu Nihuang. She is among the excellent female characters in excellent and visually gorgeous cdrama Nirvana In Fire. She rode up on a horse and beat the boys in a swordfight. On viki.com there is both a subtitled version and a dubbed version (if you really must).
Mu Nihuang (actor Liu Tao) : a Chinese woman in her late 20s with her hair up in a ponytail. She is wearing highly decorated armor in shades of blue, with the white collar of a cloth garment visible at the neck.
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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possibly armor rather than place settings?
Hinged greave plates from a knight's armor, reproduction of a 14th-15th century set.
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Take the fiction characters quiz and post the first four you know.

I feel... somewhat called out but can't say they're wrong.

openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Ray Stantz (actor Dan Aykroyd) from Ghostbusters (1984) Samwell Tarly (actor John Bradley) from Game of Thrones Bruce Banner (actor Mark Ruffalo) from assorted MCU films Ben Wyatt (actor Adam Scott) from Parks and Recreation
May 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I got this...
screenshot from a tweet by Robert Prevost (@drprevost): "JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others", linking to ncronline.org/node/292716
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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a better view of the embossing on the leather because MY GOD were there some hours put into this.
a close-up of Jodie Turner-Smith at the Met Gala, so that one can clearly admire the floral pattern embossed into her red leather coat. also she's got some very good rings on.
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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have you heard the good news about jodie turner-smith's leather coat?
Photo: Jodie Turner-Smith at the Met Gala in an outfit made entirely out of embossed red leather, including an overcoat with a train. (okay, the unusually tall top hat is not red leather, it's regular felt, but kind of purple.)
May 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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The average American has three friends
Photo: Leverage characters Hardison (actor Aldis Hodge), Parker (actor Beth Riesgraf), and Eliot (actor Christian Kane) dressed casually, in front of a plain beige background.
May 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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This is literal Nazi shit, by which I mean it is shit the Nazis literally did.
Screenshot from the linked article: "Ms. Collins, along with her husband, Malcolm Collins, sent the White House several draft executive orders, including one that would bestow a "National Medal of Motherhood" to mothers with six or more children."
April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I have new baby cucumber and basil plants!
Photo: two six-cell seedling trays full of dirt. In the top one, two teeny basil seedlings are barely visible poking above the dirt. In the bottom one, six somewhat larger cucumber seedlings are in various stages of emerging.
April 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A photo of text on a page: A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION (apparently originating from a 1979 presentation to/at/from? IBM.)
April 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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She got *so close* to me... at least on the scale of deer-human interaction.
In a woods with no leaves on the trees and plenty of leaves, dried and brown and dusted with snow, on the ground, an antlerless deer, mostly in the shadows of a tree trunk, looks at the camera.
March 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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A greyish rock, not too large but not really small either, with a coating of green moss on the top surface. It sits among leaf litter, with a little bit of snow visible in the shadows
March 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM