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Library worker in Mni Sota Makoce. Here to lurk. All Cats Are Beautiful. 🐈‍⬛
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Kids so far unimpressed with the full but not movie size sour patch ... Maybe I'll do movie size next year because I'm trying to build my reputation
A tray of full size candy bars including sour patch kids, snickers, and Reese's peanut butter cups with small googly eyes and plastic witch fingers scattered around
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Happy Caturday.

Remember to do what you can to lessen suffering - your own and others
Close up of the face of a pale calico cat being scritched under her little chin. He eyes are closed in enjoyment
June 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Sorry were you looking for me? I was just in my basket
A black cat peering up from the inside of a pink and tan stripped basket
May 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Here's a poem for today

'It's this way' by Nazim Hikhmet
I stand in the advancing light, my hands hungry, the world beautiful. My eyes can't get enough of the trees--they're so hopeful, so green. A sunny road runs through the mulberries, I'm at the window of the prison infirmary. I can't smell the medicines--carnations must be blooming nearby. It's this way: being captured is beside the point, the point is not to surrender.
April 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Have a kitty
A dilute calico cat laying on her back amidst a crumpled blue comforter. She has her paws over her face and you can see her fuzzy belly
April 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Informational flyer with red and black text from the National Association of Letter Carriers. Top bar reads "hell no to dismantling the postal service. Stand with letter carriers. Rally to save USPS." Text reads "the 295,000 active and retired members of the National Association of Letter Carriers have a message to deliver: hands off the postal service. Any effort to privatize or restructure USPS is a direct threat to: - 640,000 postal employees, including 200,000 letter carriers represented by NALC - the universal service every American relies on - millions of households and businesses, especially in rural America. The consequences would be devastating: -jeopardizing the jobs of the 7.9 million people employed by the $1.9 trillion mailing industry -reducing services to 51.5 million households and businesses in rural America where private carriers do not deliver - raising shipping rates and driving inflation higher for businesses and consumers Such proposals are illegal and unconstitutional: - the postal service, older than our nation itself, is enshrined in the Constitution - the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the key role in setting postal policy - mandated by federal law, USPS has been an independent, self sufficient federal agency for 55 years Why we're fighting: - to protect the jobs of 640,000 USPS employees, including 73,000 veterans - to uphold our universal service obligation, delivering 376 million pieces of mail and packages to nearly 169 million service points nationwide - to safeguard USPS, one of the nation's most trusted public agencies - to oppose privatization efforts or reorganizational mandates that would threaten the postal service and our jobs" At the bottom is an image reading "fight like hell."
March 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Flyer says "All out for March 23 rally! Fight for a strong contract! No to privatization of USPS! Sunday March 23, 11am, Minnesota State Capitol, St Paul MN. Free parking in all State Capitol lots. Carpooling encouraged!" There is a logo for the National Association of Letter Carriers on the flyer
March 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My kitty is Neptune too! She's a bit lazier tho
A dilute calico cat laying on her back sleeping with her paw over her eyes
March 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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You've achieved the perfect follower count, so perfect timing
Screenshot of the bluesky page for mplscargobikelibrary.com, showing they have 666 followers
March 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Umm, why is tiktok basically campaigning for Trump???
Screen shot of TikTok pop up message that says "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now. A law banning TikTok has passed in the U.S. Unfortunately that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!"
January 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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We've got a snoozer!
November 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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A poem for today.
Poem titled "Gardening" by Rhina P. Espaillat. First stanza: "My hands are in the dirt, ten fingernails black with it, and half-worms come up to writhe in the hole I've dug with a rusty trowel. I nudge them out, drop them where shade is deeper and moister. "Nothing to be alarmed about," I tell them. "There's enough dirt for us all."
October 1, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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This one brings me solace sometimes
Full text of poem "Baked Goods" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
September 28, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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Big news, folks on general assistance are getting their first raise in my lifetime. Cash grant going up from $203 a month to $350 a month. These rates haven't increased since 1986
September 17, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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You can sorta see em on Google maps
August 25, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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My little goober Neptune.
A cat with a white belly and grey and orange marking, asleep with her belly up and her front paws aloft. She's lying on a striped chair next to a sage green dresser.
July 20, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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I wish the city would take some time to identify the weird bike route gaps and fix them. Looking at you, two block stretch of 4th downtown where I routinely bike the wrong way on a one way 🧐
June 27, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Don't mind if I do.
A close up of a black cat on a gray blanket, snoozing with a little smirk on her face. You can see dressers and a chair in the background.
May 17, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Have a kitten
A black cat with alert ears lounges on a white desk in front of a white wall. Also on the desk see is a mug filled with pens and other drawing supplies, some post-it tabs, a fern, and a book titled "old electrical wiring"
January 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Well good. I hope people live out some Strega Nona/Big Anthony dreamz
Image from the picture book Strega Nona, showing a young man unhappily trying to eat a pile of spaghetti so large it is spilling out the door of a cottage
January 17, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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I don't know why my blue sky hobby is sharing cat pics to strangers, but that seems to be it. These cats just met 6 weeks ago and this is their first snuggle
December 31, 2023 at 6:39 PM
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Oh my god
December 28, 2023 at 2:30 AM
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Quarterly payment.
A small black cat on a white and grey pile of blankets. She is asleep with her head eating on her front paws
December 22, 2023 at 6:02 PM
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Would like to submit these toe beans for consideration by the committee
Close up on the front toe beans of a snoozing kitten with white paws and grey and tan calico coloring. The toe beans are pink with a brown spot on the biggest pad.
November 15, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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💯
Line drawing by Will McPhail. A curly haired adult kneels in front of a curly haired child. The child has their fists balled up and a stubborn look on their face. The caption reads "Listen to me. Gender is a construct, society is a construct, money is a construct. But bedtime is very, very real."
October 9, 2023 at 2:14 PM