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Smooshie🐾
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ATLien. Writer. Editor. Nerd. World champion strength athlete. Cat lover. Left shark. They/them.
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francazilla.bsky.social
DragonCon tests negative! Also love the Pride-themed tests from Mask Bloc ATL!
Negative C19 test results on top of a package with flowing rainbiw leaf pattern in a spiral shape and a cartoon image of a covid spike protein named "Spike"
September 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
francazilla.bsky.social
We expanded kitty village this weekend and added a farmhouse - it seems to be a very popular spot for Sunday morning naps
Tuxedo kitty with a very sleepy face is lounging on the top level of a cardboard cat house with a farmhouse design
June 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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rebear.bsky.social
Happy Thursday! This is my Not My Cat.
rebearadmin.bsky.social Admin Adjudicator @rebearadmin.bsky.social · Mar 20
Happy Thursday! Have some pics of Not My Cat, Ollie Smoochieface, sporter of go-go boots. I have never gotten close enough to determine sex, but they have a tipped ear, indicating having been spayed or neutered. They meow for food then hiss at me. I can’t generally get closer than 6 feet.
Tuxedo cat with go-go boot length white socks tip toes through ivy. Tuxedo cat with go-go boot length white socks sits daintily on a fence post, looking up at a window (mostly out of frame), where undoubtedly my tortie cat is staring back at him with a death glare on her face. The tuxedo cat is unbothered. Tuxedo cat with go-go boot length white socks and a very scratched up nose. This was taken when they first started coming around and I don’t know how the scratches happened. This is how the tuxedo cat looks at me through back door window when they have shown up for food.
March 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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southernequality.bsky.social
Ahoy 🏴‍☠️ We’re absolutely blown away by the swashbuckling “Our Flag Means Death” fans who are bidding to snag fan-made merch, props + giveaways from cast members, & more in support of our Trans Youth Emergency Project.

Learn more & place your bids before March 1st: www.themarysue.com/never-undere...
Never underestimate the power of fans: This fandom has raised over 50k to help trans youth | The Mary Sue
Though the HBO pirate romance-comedy Our Flag Means Death only ran for two seasons, its fandom is anything but finished. Rather, they have rallied harder
www.themarysue.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
francazilla.bsky.social
truth!
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Feb 14
Coffee belong to the queer

That’s how God intended
February 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
DEBI THOMAS
Debi, the best African American figure skater in the history of the sport, World Champion in 1986, became the first African-American to win an Olympic medal at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. #BlackHistoryMonth #Day10 #WinterOlympics
A drawing of Debi Thomas figure skating
February 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
ALICE COACHMAN
The first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in 1948 (she was also the only American woman to bring home an Olympic gold medal in athletics) & the first African-American woman to endorse an international product, CocaCola. #BlackHistoryMonth #Day3
A drawing of Alice Coachman in the middle of a jump
February 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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sambooklove.bsky.social
If you care about abortion access, please throw some money to Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund. There is no Planned Parenthood in the state of Mississippi. There are no abortion services in the state. Laurie has been a lifeline for so many people - including myself.
February 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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menendez.house.gov
Our office has heard from so many of you who are concerned about the actions taken by Trump, DOGE, and Elon Musk over the past few weeks. We get it and this is not normal. Here’s how we are fighting back 👇
February 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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southernequality.bsky.social
We’ll never stop fighting until every trans youth & adult can access the care they need affordably, and close to home. Until then, we’re here to support trans youth facing political barriers to care with the Trans Youth Emergency Project. Get support: transyouthemergencyproject.org
Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth
Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.
transyouthemergencyproject.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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homophonous.bsky.social
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
The NEA has released their updated literature grant guidelines. They are appalling. Tupelo Press will not be altering our 25-year mission to promote contemporary poetry and literary prose by emerging and established writers of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including, especially, women and writers of color, as well as the LGBTQ+, immigrant, and Native American communities. We aim to develop wider audiences for, and deeper understanding of, innovative, multi-cultural writing by essential participants in this conversation. At the same time, we undertake to enhance the reading experience itself by publishing and distributing gorgeously designed and produced books. If adherence to our principles means that we will be ineligible for NEA grants going forward, so be it. Compliance with the new regulations would be immoral.
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
These will just be paper filings that SCOTUS flick away.

3.5%. That’s the percent of our country we need sustained in a movement. Diverse tactics. Diverse.
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
Celebrating Black Excellence in Sport this #BHM with a #SportFirstsEdition series of legendary, trailblazing athletes!
Let's start with JACK JOHNSON.
The first African-American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. He held onto the belt until 1915. #BlackHistoryMonth #Day1
February 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
WALLACE "WALLY" TRIPLETT
The first African-American to be drafted and play for an National Football League team (1940's). Because of this, his portrait hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. #BlackHistoryMonth #Day2 #BHM
A drawing of Wally Triplett running with the football. Number 12 on his jersey
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New — @indivisible.org is holding a protest at the Treasury Building 5pm this Tuesday to take action against Elon Musk's hostile takeover
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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jeffparker.bsky.social
If you didn't read our comics explainers about the Project 2025 agenda that's in full swing right now, they're sadly still relevant!
Stop Project 2025 Comic
Trump's Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. Don’t let it do either. Read on, then vote.
stopproject2025comic.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
francazilla.bsky.social
Since @darthbluesky.bsky.social is hibernating right now, who can defend this boy from the accusation of covering up the leftovers with a holiday stuffie?
A sweet tuxedo kitty sits behind a plate of leftover pate on the floor and is staring into the distance. He can’t even look at me. There’s a yellow stuffed bird toy with a Santa hat that’s been placed on top of the plate. This sweet boy says he is innocent and does not know who did this.
January 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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rebear.bsky.social
Ginger Guide To Getting the Chair in Four Easy Steps
A big ginger cat sits astride a tortie cat like she’s a pony. They are in a barstool style chair covered with a white towel. This is the first step to acquiring the chair for oneself. Overhead POV of a Ginger cat astride a tortie, but now he has gone full-press and is kind of laying on top of her. Only her butt and head are visible. Step two. Getting closer to chair acquisition. Near success. In step three the tortie has squirmed out from under the 17-pound ginger cat and they sit side by side on the barstool. Step 4: Victory. A ginger cat looks a little smug sitting by himself on a barstool covered with a white towel. The tortie (not pictured) said, Fuck this, and left.
December 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM
francazilla.bsky.social
It’s Caturday! Momma cat loves jumping on top of furniture where nobody else can reach her! #caturday
Beautiful black short hair cat with piercing sea-green eyes and a demure, regal look on her face. She’s sitting on some clothes that need to be folded and put away but she’s so cute that nobody wants to disturb her.
December 14, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Now a short thread for ART LOVERS.

You're going to see a lot (and I mean a -lot-) of art over the next 25 days.

In short, #artAdventCalendar is an online event where visual artists post their work daily until the 24th.

As someone posted a few years ago.
a quote: Art is a light for me. The darkening days are hard on my mind & body. The seemingly darkening political times even more so. Seeing these works so generously shared helps so much to illuminate and warm those things that are still good. Art is hope.
November 30, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
To follow along with #ArtAdventCalendar, subscribe to the feed or just search for the hashtag.
November 30, 2024 at 7:13 PM
francazilla.bsky.social
Caturday Night Special - kitty sibs snuggled together in a giant pouf.
Two tuxedo kitties (one black & white the other gray & white) are sleeping together in a large gray pouf. They’re facing each other and their precious little paws are touching.
December 1, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Winter! ❄️ “Trade card for The Bufford’s Sons Lith. Co., Boston, Mass., 1887” www.historicnewengland.org/explore/coll...
Color illustration of four cats, three brown and white tabbies and one black cat, sliding down a snowy hill in a toboggan. In the distance behind them you can see other cats sliding down and trudging up the hill with their toboggans.
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 PM
francazilla.bsky.social
If you’re in the ATL area, I highly recommend www.charisbooksandmore.com, the South’s oldest indie feminist bookstore. They ship or will wrap your purchases for porch pickup.
November 30, 2024 at 5:47 PM