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Curiosity Cat
@curiositycat.bsky.social
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Always wanting to know what's around the corner & over the horizon, & determined to find out.

(Avatar & banner is painting of a kitten in an upturned umbrella, at sea with high waves on either side, floating toward the sunrise.)

Art by Petra Brandström
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curiositycat.bsky.social
@loneyjane.bsky.social I thought about you & your bike rides when I found this - I hope you enjoy! 😄

'Cycleangelo' - dude who sketches with his bike!

gpsdoodles.com
Image of a city map, overlaid with the angular outline in red of a dog wearing a cape with an 'S' on it. The original poster is a cyclist who maps his routes and tries to plan them to create images. This time he created a SuperDog super hero.
August 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
So something like this image? 'This is what it sounds like' - to me, at least. 😄

(This is the best I could capture of Rumi & the others leaping up while an ocean of people sing them along. Look at that: a modern pop culture reference! Me! I never do that! 😄

But still based on mythology, so 🤩)
A clipped segment of a scene from the final musical number in the animated movie KPop, Demon Hunters. As the momentum builds by Rumi, Mira, & Zoey, members of the singing group Huntrix, trying to sing against a monster, the audience breaks out of their stupor and starts to sing along, creating a feedback loop of support and power, propelling them to a great height and into the heart of the monster. This image is from the point of view of the audience - you are looking up, past the backs of the heads of the people directly in front of you, at the three girls hanging in the sky. The title of the song is 'This Is What It Sounds Like', hence the very wee joke in the tweet. Some of the lyrics: We broke into a million pieces and we can't go back But now I'm seeing all the beauty in the broken glass The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like Why did we cover up the colors stuck inside our head? Get up and let the jagged edges meet the light instead Show me what's underneath, I'll find your harmony Fearless and undefined, this is what it sounds like My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like Fearless and undefined, this is what it sounds like Truth after all this time, Our voices all combined When darkness meets the light, this is what it sounds like
July 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
Photo of a Sharpie marker against a black piece of paper with white text reading ‘Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from real degenerates.’
July 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I gotcha! How about this wall in Dartmoor?
Photo of a stone wall, maybe six feet high. Built into the framework of regular, long, horizontal stones, are two round stones for eyes, a large triangular stone for a nose, and a curved semicircle for a mouth. It looks like an otherwise normal, well built stone wall - it just has this added touch of whimsy. :-)
June 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
Yeeess ... I can see this - but I also thought the image below would be more your style - it even has a hammock! Flowers! CHAMPAGNE!!

I can't make out what's in the left hand, but I'm going to say cake with a celebratory streamer. 🚩

This must be the Shed in one of its ~other~ iterations! 😄
Illustration with a soft blue pastel palette of two very small old-fashioned hot-air-balloon-style balloons with net coverings, tethered together with a brass brace, and a hammock strung between them. A blond woman is reclining in the hammock with something not clear in her left hand, and a cocktail in her right. Attached to the brace is a tray with bottles of champagne or other alcoholic beverages on it. Above the woman's head is a large, broad, sun-screening umbrella, in the shape of a daisy-style flower, with its bloom facing down, so as to give maximum coverage. On the metal post at the woman's feet is a trumpet-shaped vase, holding a large bouquet of wildflowers. Attached to the brace underneath the hammock is a large bicycle wheel in the front, two tiny pram wheels at the back - like training wheels on a child's bike, and between them, a short rope ladder hanging down. The whole thing resembles a souvenir magazine cover, or perhaps trading card. The caption at the top reads 'The Grand Air Race 2019' and at the bottom, the name of the rig, 'The Blue Serenity'. The overall impression is charming and whimsical and relies on you not thinking too hard about the actual mechanics of how this could possibly fly. :-) The artist is Ian Bossons, @IanBossons.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I saw this & your tweet almost one right after the other. 😊

artist is @grantdraws.bsky.social
A 3x3 block of illustrated panels by Grant Snider, showing progressively older and closer images of a dandelion. The first two are an anomaly - a single, very young plant, to seeing it as part of a group , then back to a single plant, but older and taller, and then progressively older as the yellow crown of petals turns to the soft white seeds, then just the empty stem as the last of the seeds blow away. The text reads: Let your attention Take root Grow like a weed and blossom into fascination. Look closely - the ordinary scatters seeds of the extraordinary.
May 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
YES! But someone changed the words (they don't even look anywhere *near* right 🙄) & erased her credit. 😡

Besides the original joke is funnier. 😊

Original Twitter post (June 11, 2019) is here: x.com/twisteddoodl...

Original image is below:
A cartoon-y illustration of a bat, flying with his eyes closed, with the backdrop of a dark sky and a bright orange moon behind him, and the tops of trees below him - as well as a moth, which it can't see, because as said above, it's flying with its eyes closed. In the manner of the children's game, he calls out Marco! and the moth automatically responds Polo! before realising his mistake & saying 'Oops'. The headline reads: 'Bats locate their food using sound'
April 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
Gerald! Thank God you sent for me!
A man, sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, a bright table lamp beside him. It is Welsh actor Rogers Rees, playing the part of Lord Marbury, in the brilliant American series West Wing
March 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
Then Squeaky knows what a marvellous time I had! 😊

(Yes, I’m being deliberately obtuse of the reference & determinedly cheerful. 😄)

Oh, and Cousin says to say ‘Mrow’!
A close-up photo of a black & white cat with a blurry open field behind it. It looks very similar to Squeaky - black eyes, head, and back, white nose, mouth, throat, & belly - hence the familial ‘Cousin’ reference - like ‘Tell Squeaky I said ‘Hi’.
March 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
Happy Weird Pride Day, Lovelies! 😊

"This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, ... to publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind."

weirdpride.day

#Weird #Weirdness #Community
A small sketchbook with blank pages, but with one page filled in with text in a large hand-sketched font (with the marker to one side). It reads: If I am weird around you, it's because I'm comfortable.
March 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
That is *extraordinary* and so hard to do/maintain for so many reasons. Congratulations and I hope your health continues to improve! 🎉 🙏
February 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I wish I knew who did this - I found it on Twitter without accreditation, but saved it because it seemed to embody the gentleness & determination you speak of. 💛
An colour illustration suitable for a children's / YA's fantasy book. It shows a UK badger, who reads as female, in armour with ornate ornamentation engraved or painted on it. She is holding up a kind of sledgehammer in readiness, with a daisy painted on the securing brace. She is in a tiny clearing the woods, with a butterfly in front of her, a snail at her feet, and strawberries in bloom behind her. The scene reads as gentle and non-scary - but also determined if trouble came.
January 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I loved A Small Fiction by James Mark Miller when he was on Twitter, often writing about #kindness in a myriad of ways, and I reposted his tweets often. I don't believe he is here, but one of those wee stories has been illustrated by @theoatmeal.bsky.social

Alt-text provided
An multi-panel illustration of an outdoor landscape in muted shades of orange and brown. There is a young boy talking to what appears to be a robot in a hooded monk's habit - the face is flat, plain featureless gray, with only two glowing eyes. The boy is asking one of the eternal questions: "Oracle, how I can live forever?" "Be difficult to forget." "How? Should I create art? Should I be famous? Or powerful?" "You should be kind."
January 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
h/t to @Jessie@mastodon.social for this 🙏

Healthy, doable, flexible, & treats are A MUST. (She stresses this later in the thread. 😄 She even has a treats list she adds to, so they are def a reward & not just an impulse buy - double win!)

Plus, it's nice to see best bits of Twitter survive. 😊
Screenshot of a post: A gentle soul on Twitter ages ago got me to change from making new years resolutions to make a bingo card of different things I wanted to try & do in the new year. This massively improved my life. Instead of a big-stakes fail-bomb, I have a mi of big to small goals that let me incrementally work towards larger goals. It's also great to see your progress throughout the year! Also I give myself a little treat when I complete a new bingo, which rules. I have been doing this for 5 years now and tend to break my goals into 5 goals for 5 categories and colour code them out. This year these are: - physical mainteance (fitness and meatbody upkeep) - life admin - professional goals - learning goals - self care things. I also go through the card once in the summer and swap out any goals that no longer work for me, because I can make any rules I want to and so can you.
January 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
# HolidayGoals 👍

(by Tom Gauld)
Cartoon by Tom Gauld. A bare room with a large pile of crumpled coloured papers near a wall. Text reads: “By concealing herself within a cocoon of discarded wrapping paper, and surviving on a diet of surplus festive chocolates and liqueurs, Emily hopes to read undisturbed as far into January as possible”.
December 29, 2024 at 7:14 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
(Because for me, the linked photo for article above wasn't anything special.)

THIS is the Ethiopian wolf & the aptly named Ethiopian red hot poker!

Photo credit: Adrien Lesaffre
Photo of what looks similar to a fox to my Western eyes (red coat, white throat), head fully tilted back to be able to reach & lick the aptly-named 'red hot poker' flower. They are not 'flowers' in the sense of a center with petals all around, but a tapering collection of rows & rows of tiny tight buds, ranging from bright yellow at the bottom, to orange at the narrower tip - exactly as a fireplace poker might look after sitting in a fire for a bit. You can just make out the yellow pollen all around its snout.
November 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I have my copy!! Thank you, @joannechocolat.bsky.social ! 🙏
Book cover of ‘Doctor Who Time Trips: Stories by Cecilia Ahern, Stella Duffy, Jake Arnott, Nick Harkaway, Trudy Canavan, Joanne Harris, Jenny T. Colgan, A.L. Kennedy” Published by BBC Books
November 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
The word is getting out about that scarecrow!

This is by @csilverman.bsky.social, and he creates his art in IOS Notes! (All I can do in mine is write grocery lists!) It seems extraordinary what he can do, and he has a great, quirky way of looking at the world. 😊
Four crows cluster in front of a film screen on which is projected a scene from a black and white horror film featuring a scarecrow. On screen, the scarecrow is menacing a crow. Offscreen, it is night. A thin crescent moon sits in the sky.
October 26, 2024 at 10:04 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
(And because of your dog, I also saw the bone! 🦴 😄)
Photo of a cloudy sky, with a cartoon dog and bone interpreted and drawn in from the lines and shading of the clouds
October 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
😄 😄 I wouldn't have seen this without your help!

I'm pretty clumsy at this & I think this looks more like a cockatoo than the small, round birb I really see - but maybe you can also make out why I saw a porpoise?

(Thank you! This was fun! 😊)
A photo of a cloudy sky, with a blue outline following the shading of the clouds, and resembling a dolphin or porpoise - or possibly a cockatoo with a tuft of feathers instead of a fin.
October 25, 2024 at 12:33 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
🚨 Comm PSA 🚨

Your phone will prompt you to point at the sat, or if not available, will tell you how long to wait.

Sat texting is battery hungry. Be prepared beforehand by knowing exactly what to say. You won’t receive messages via sat unless you are connected. Use airplane mode when not in use.
Screenshot of a post by R I Burton on Mastodon. It reads: “Since I only have about forty followers, I would appreciate as many boosts as possible, as it is hurricane related. The iPhone 14 and above has the capability to send messages via satellite. You have to install IOS 18, then swipe down from top right to get the utilities screen. You can then do a demo by touching the satellite icon. Evidently it only works if you do not have cell data or wifi available. #hurricaneMilton There are also screenshots of the relevant iPhone screens to demonstrate. The satellite icon is at the bottom of a long list of options; airplane mode, airdrop, wifi access, cellular data, etc.
October 9, 2024 at 2:10 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I didn't get that at all! The face I saw was that of a bearded man, looking up. 😄

(Apologies for the clumsy edit; it makes him look more, umm, 'groovy', than the serious / reverent original. 😬)
A digital scribble over a photo of a section of clouded sky, outlining the face of a bearded man. This is evident in the original photo with highlights & shadows, the edit is just to help it be seen more easily.
October 7, 2024 at 11:15 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
It wasn't me!! I was outside the whole time! Tree leaves are much better than leaves of a book any day, but especially in Autumn - more intriguing scents, they dance better, and make prettier visual art. 🍂
Photo of a striped cat sitting in the middle of concentric circles of orange autumn leaves, as if the bulls-eye on a horizontal archery target. He is looking straight up, as if watching the bird (or other creature) that tossed down all the leaves.
October 7, 2024 at 6:27 PM
curiositycat.bsky.social
You can do this! 💪 you’ve been here before - some eighteen or twenty times. Your brain is bigger & wilier than small words written on flimsy paper!

And then there is this:
Photo of handwritten words written large on a sheet of paper torn from a notebook. They read “You look GREAT. Your teeth are SHARP. Your eyes are LUMINOUS. The townsfolk whisper your name in hushed tones.”
September 24, 2024 at 10:42 AM
curiositycat.bsky.social
I found this on another site. I'm not sure I'd be this chill at first, but I like to think I'd grow into it. 😄

(Plus the first scratch is the worst. I've known people to deliberately scratch or dent their new car, just to get it over with. I watched them do it. 😲)
Close-up photo of a white car door with a dent, obviously from some time ago, and a six-inch-plus wide rusty bit. Above it, in script, someone has painted the words ' 'Tis but a scratch'
September 11, 2024 at 10:56 PM