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Management janitor parading up 🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇱
Cancer survivor thx public healthcare
Art, music, books, scifi by choice
Cats & dogs enthusiast
Nerdy & niche
Born 335ppm
she/her
#UBI
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Esa esquina de la librería
Esquina superior de una librería rebosante de material Famoso meme en el que un gato está relajado en lo alto de un cat tree… aunque dicho mueble está inclinado peligrosamente y al borde del colapso
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Free tip to the poorly-lighted brains behind this AI ad:

Get a native European-Spanish copywriter to review your work, so you don’t burn a marketing fortune on broadcasting to a TAM of 50 million people

“Make your tasks even more difficult to solve”

instead of

“Simplify your hardest tasks”

🙃
An advertisement in YouTube, selling Google Gemini AI. The ad is written in European Spanish, in such a bad way that it is open to the both possible interpretations that I explained. For a casual Spanish reader, the wrong interpretation is the default one with that phrasing.
December 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The book “Maskerade”! (Terry Pratchett) I have it on my lap right now, reading it once again over the weekend. It always brings me joy, and helped me cope in my troubled teen years back in the day. No matter how many times I read it, it makes me laugh and lose sense of time 🥰
The back of a book, a beautiful hardcover edition decorated with an embossed illustration of a theatre and a figure on stage. Printed on it, a text reads “The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night…”. This book also contains witches, superb comedy, a perspective on cookbok publishing, and a lot of food for thought.
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Little teeny tiny cute bird on a branch having a total meltdown, shouting AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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YouTube right now be like
A meme: a puppet monkey looking away, then looking introspectively onwards. Absolute awkward feelings there, while staying silent because better nobody notice what’s going on, right? Riiight? The images used are of a puppet from the Japanese children's show Ōkiku naru Ko.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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A character from a manhua fans themself while surprised and blushing intensely. If I had ever seen those two absolute units of lovely hunks in real life, I would have reacted exactly like this character, then fainted. The Reddit user blackdragon189 commented on the origin of this meme: “Pretty sure that’s Nie Huaisang from Mo Dao Zu Shi （魔道祖师）aka Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s great! It’s got a donghua, manhua, cdrama, and novel.”
September 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Me looking at the first images of Netflix’s #PrideandPrejudice like
A small opossum with big opinions voices its discontent at a microphone. Caption reads “I just want to say I hate this” I need a massive microphone. This is even worse than their Persuasion adaptation.
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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[voz de David Attenborough] Truck-kun se agazapa en una zona arbolada, a la caza de su próxima víctima, con la intensa concentración propia de un depredador prácticamente infalible. [voz de Constantino Romero] Las autoridades advierten que, si vives en una zona con elevado tráfico de camiones de pequeño a medio tonelaje, es especialmente relevante prestar atención a los detalles narrativos de toda juego o novela de género fantástico que tengas por casa. Por si las moscas.
September 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#prideandprejudice
Cartoon of a human-like blob. The shape is irrelevant, really. However, it is blushing and tapping its mouth with its little hands together in deep, religious-esque and fascinated concentration. A natural reaction to the manifestation of an absolute unit of a green-flag hottie. The fact that such a dude is fictional is irrelevant, too.
September 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Project Hail Mary: movie trailer.

I so agree with this dude.
A dude called ThatARCGuy commented on the trailer in YouTube: "This movie better be 8 hours long." And please 8 additional hours of behind-the-scenes content.
July 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Noted
A woman and a ginger cat pose for the camera wearing (digital, superimposed cartoon stickers) sunglasses and a massive necklace showing a big jewelled dollar symbol. The gaudy bling is strong with these two. Shame? Never met her.
May 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A Monday blessing
#catsofbluesky #cats
March 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Teeny-tiny home-library setup ☑️
A cubic wood shelf rests on a wood stool, placed between two windows facing a street. The wood cube contains a bunch of books on arts and crafts, gardening, history, sociology, science fiction, fantasy, fiction, comics and (not very enthusiastic about those) business. Some new acquisitions are on top of it. It ain’t much, but it’s an honest library.
February 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I swear I’m not a cat
Screenshot of the “smart filter” camera in an Android phone. I am pointing it at a bunch of my just-chopped-off hair in the bathroom sink. The filter insists that it is a cat. Best software bug ever.
January 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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That feeling when there’s bread and a jar of double-garlic Andalusian extra-virgin olive-oil mayo and nobody in the room to stop you
A glass jar containing my aunt’s signature mayo, jar mostly empty at this point. My aunt uses superb olive oil, the kind that very wealthy people wish they would get their posh hands on and keep exclusively for themselves, some of those olives harvested at my uncle’s farm. Assorted breadcrumbs around the jar are witness to the mayo’s glory. If garlic would show on radar, this mayo would mess up delicate astronomy sensors. In olden times, it would have been worshipped as the food of goods.
January 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals ♥️
A photo of my beloved Christmas sweatshirt. It has printed on the front the drawing of the goose from Untitled Goose Game (a game where you, as a horrible goose, must wreak havoc in a village). The goose is wearing a typical Christmas hat and a red ribbon as a bowtie and it is honking. By its side, there’s a checklist form with the options: Naughty, Nice, and A Horrible Goose. Of course, the last option is checked. May we all find our inner horrible goose in 2025 and deploy it against the evils of the world. With much joy.
December 24, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Teaser
#documentary
Photo of a tv standing on top of a tv cabinet. The screen shows the words “3. Lie more”. This documentary is excellent, absolutely a must to understand the current state of consumer mass markets.
December 3, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Cuypers Library, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Photo taken by me in late November 2024. It shows a neo-Gothic space of four levels around a central open space with desks at the ground floor. The walls are covered in books, the columns are tall and thin, supporting stained glass windows at the top of the North wall and a glass skylight above. Rijksmuseum visitors are allowed to peek inside this main hall of the library from a balcony, but cannot roam freely to avoid disturbing scholars and books, and are asked to not speak and been noiseless when in that space. This library is one of the largest and oldest public research libraries in the Netherlands.
December 1, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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My friends got me an art supplies calendar that I was lovingly eyeing while trying very hard to not buy. I cannot thank them enough because this year is being a handful and EOY weeks will bring peak stress levels.

Day 1 is a blue acrylic Sharpie that works beautifully even on black paper 🥰
Advent calendar from a popular art supplies shop in the city I live in. The box is smooth to the touch and quite big (approx the size of a coffee table) and standing on mu desk and against the wall. I pit it in a highly visible place to cheer me up, it is so pretty and reminds me of people I love.
December 1, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Friday at midnight:
#caturday
November 9, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Awfully intense week with jobseeking, interviews with dumpster fire companies, and event networking (and witnessing US elections) 🫠

… but on glorious things that money can’t buy, last two nights back on my way home cats approached me to demand pets 🥰

Happy #caturday everyone!

1/2 Thursday night:
November 9, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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Scene from Jessica Jones of David Tennent giving Krysten Ritter an angry glare. Ritter is labeled “Europe” and Tennant is labeled “Russia right now”. See quoted skeet for complementary version.
November 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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I made a thing
#MaggieSmith
#DowntownAbbey
🐉❤️
A series of images from two scenes of Downtown Abbey: 1. Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess, telling Lady Mary that "Women like us fall into two categories: dragons and fools. You must make sure they think of you as a dragon". 2. Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess, telling Lady Mary "I think we will have Lavinia for tea". Lady Mary replies "You sound like if you are going to gobble her up". Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess, smiles with malice, and I edited into the image dragon wings behind her. A colossal dragon like Violet Crawley deserved no lesser wings! Credit to the wings goes to the designer Nicky Spencer, whose icons (including the Bat one I used here for the wings) can be downloaded at Noun Project under Creative Commons License CC BY 3.0.
October 8, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Midnight and first hours of Friday is the top attendance time at my neighbourhood's gym and something tells me that such level of occupancy is not caused by the cleaning crew
Screenshot of Google Maps showing the attendance data for the gym. Popular times are on Thursday, 11pm to 2am, with the annotation "Usually as busy as it gets". Any gym-oriented person knows that it means "So many people at the venue that you may have to queue for using the equipment".
September 23, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Success
Image of a food container storing a quick tiramisu perpetration. First time I try to prepare it with gluten-free and vegan ingredients. Added some lingonberries for joy. It was… ok for survival needs, but my kingdom for a vegan mascarpone that doesn’t taste like dated cardboard. Test of some water-based paint in warm and cold tones on black paper. Definitely looks much better on photo than in real life. Anyhow, it was fun and interesting. I need thicker paper.
September 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM