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erinsopran.bsky.social
Erin (Demogorgon Era)
@erinsopran.bsky.social
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Silly, strident, queer, neurosomething, opera, etc. Settler in Mi'kma'ki. You know me from that thing.
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My wife has been away and I had a busy work week of late evenings so everyone is velcro now.

Belated #caturday
Tuxedo cat lying on the back of a red couch. He's a big boy but his ears are bigger. He has big yellow eyes and white whiskers and a little black nose. Not pictured: his tail slapping me in the throat. A beige/cream/grey tabby cat with blue eyes and a pink nose and little dipped paws. She is glaring with love. The instructions are clear: do not move except to pet me.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Stream or buy some music by @essentialopera !

Eerie Snow White retelling:
leaf-music.lnk.to/LM2009

1920s women telling their truths:
leaf-music.lnk.to/lm2040
Cover art for Mirror Mirror by Essential Opera: painting of a pair of hands offering an apple Cover art for Etiquette by Essential Opera: a vintage typewriter in the foreground, 1920s illustrated partygoers in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Just for fun: quoteinvestigator.com/2025/05/28/g...

TL;DR: She said this but was herself paraphrasing; it's been said in various ways for hundreds of years.

Image above is Jennifer Jason Leigh from a movie about Parker.
A photo of Dorothy Parker in the 1930s. She's a white woman with dark hair in an updo with fringe. She's wearing a dark jacket and dark (probably red) nail polish and has her arms wrapped around herself as she gazes off-camera.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It's also cute in its little gas mask!
The eldritch blue sculpture, now being primed for repainting with coverings around where the eyes and some other damage were, but the eyes part looks like a welding hood or gas mask because my eyes are bad
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"Why are you UP"

The man does not understand about baseball (neither do I but I'm being companionable [as is the man])

Later this morning, he will not understand about time changes
Tuxedo cat staring at the camera, baffled. He's lying on a red white and grey swirly carpet, behind the legs of a rickety wooden side table. He's very cute.
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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It's him
Stock photo of a wheaten terrier, apparently, with dark eyes and nose, curled up on its side. The photo has been flipped horizontally, so the watermark text is all backwards.
October 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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🧐 "snowbirding" from LADYSMITH, in an area people from across the country try to retire to for its clement weather
Historical weather data for Ladysmith, BC, which is on Vancouver Island and extremely temperate, showing plenty of rain but only tiny amounts of snow in Dec, Jan, and Feb, with lows barely nudging freezing. You can go out with a jacket and an umbrella.
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Me logging off for the day and trying to give an executive summary of what I'm seeing with my thousand-yard stare
A black bat cuddling a pink plush bunny on a green sheet. The bat is in one of its least cute modes with bony wings and knees and elbows and fingers all wrapped around the bunny. Still very cute though.
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Drove around in this for a while - pic obviously photoshopped as the real car does not fit into a parking spot lengthwise or widthwise
momentcar.com/images/ponti...
It's a Pontiac Grand Prix and it doesn't need to be this big
October 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Things shouldn't be called podcasts if they can't be automatically cast to my pod. Just posting videos on youtube or tiktok is not podcasting! Even if you do it weekly! Even if you do it on Mondays!

A podcast has to at least have an RSS feed I can subscribe to in a podcatcher.

I am not a crackpot!
Still from The Simpsons. Grandpa typing "Dear Mr President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot."
September 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Slander, libel, you'll be hearing from my lawyers etc
Tuxedo cat gargoyling on the arm of an upholstered chair
September 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Banana for scale
Still from video of sperm whale eating a giant squid, banana clumsily added for scale Closeup on clumsily drawn banana next to whale's unimaginable mandible
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I gotchu
Still from video of sperm whale eating a giant squid, banana added for scale
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I had to fix the Kant car.
cc @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
The Kant Car, which is a Photoshop of the Squid Car. I've corrected most of the orthographic crimes and suggested they keep the name of squids out of their mouth.
August 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Ahaha the cause of death labeller sometimes really nails it.
The quoted user's profile, showing their cause of death as "Alien Abduction (Rejected)"
August 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Oh it's #Caturday!
Form of: baby seal
Form of: gargoyle
Frankie, a cream, beige, and grey tabby with blue eyes and a pink nose, shaped like a seal pup Jérôme, a black (smoke) and white tuxedo cat with a white ankle sock, drapes over the arm of a red chair
August 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"You get that that's worse, right?" dot gif

We cut forests down every day! And breeding bird populations just go away and never return to the same site so it's fine!
“And from that, we’re going to put in mitigation that will hopefully, if the project gets approved, be put in place to reduce any impacts to those types of animals that are in the area that we found,” he added. “What does mitigation mean?” Marlee Hicks asked. “So mitigation is basically a term we use for, I guess, best management practices that are put in place to help reduce the effects of something,” Conroy answered. “So, for instance, if we wanted to cut down a tree or a forest… “Why would we cut down a forest?” Hicks asked as the audience broke into laughter and applause. “We cut down forests every day,” Conroy replied. “But typically, on a project like this, we would put in mitigation that says you can’t cut down a forest when it’s breeding bird season because you don’t want to harm the breeding birds or the eggs that are in the nest. So you wait until they’re done breeding before you cut down the tree.”
August 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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May I suggest en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_...

Tbh many other paragraphs are worse but this is, well, pithy.

CW: thousands of gruesome deaths by chemical exposure with emphaais on those of children
The initial effects of exposure were coughing, severe eye irritation, a feeling of suffocation, burning in the respiratory tract, blepharospasm, breathlessness, stomach pains, and vomiting. People alerted by these symptoms fled from the plant. Those who ran inhaled more than those in vehicles. Owing to their height, children and other residents of shorter stature inhaled higher concentrations, as methyl isocyanate gas is approximately twice as dense as air and in an open environment has a tendency to fall toward the ground. Thousands of people had died by the following morning. Primary causes of deaths were choking, reflexogenic circulatory collapse, and pulmonary oedema. Findings during autopsies revealed changes not only in the lungs but also cerebral oedema, tubular necrosis of the kidneys, fatty degeneration of the liver, and necrotising enteritis.[33][6] The individuals who did not die suffered from cancer, blindness, loss of livelihood, and financial strain.
August 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Ok but whomst
There looks to be a cute lil guy in the suitcase
August 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I suspect some of you need to see beans
Multi flavour toe beans, pink and black, on a cat's cream colour back feet. She's splayed out on a fleece blanket and you can kind of see her capacious tabby tummy and a tabby ear in the distance.
August 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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#Caturday
Long tuxedo man being half-long on a blue chair. Front paws stretched out toward the camera. Tail laid out flat behind him. He has a little black nose. His eyes are squeezed shut. Fluffy round cream-and-tabby goblin in the top nest of a cat tree. She's displaying multi-flavoured toe beans. She has a strawberry nose and is sleepily glaring with her blue eyes.
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Jérôme also on deck for #InternationalCatDay doing the Tuxedo Arm Hang
Tuxedo cat with yellow eyes and a long long arm hanging down a blue chair
August 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Frankie is reporting for duty for #InternationalCatDay
Looking a bit scruffy, a cream and beige and grey cat is lying on a bed holding her human's hand. Moving the hand is Not Recommended.
August 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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While I look for that you may enjoy this (I love the face these guys do on the out of tune notes)
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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True! Limited range might be why they didn't make it, but they're super fun to see.
Piece of California quail range map from allaboutbirds.com showing a few patches in interior BC and about the lower third of Vancouver Island
July 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM