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iamanathemadevice.bsky.social
Anathema Device (Brisbane)
@iamanathemadevice.bsky.social
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Married cat lady, extremely boring retired web developer, pro-choice ATHEIST and feminist. #Australian on unceded First Nations territory (Brisbane / Meanjin)

#ActuallyAutistic. She/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie)
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
Robot character, "Number 5" from the film "Short Circuit"
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Some more pictures from the historic whaling station at Albany (I refused to go into the station itself, but the botanic garden and wildlife collection were worth a visit) #AustralianWildlife #AustralianFlora #BloomScrolling #WestAustralia #WestAustralianFlora
A brush-tailed bettong, or woylie, looking off to the left of frame. A woylie is a small nocturnal, kangaroo-like marsupial with greyish-brown fur on the upperparts and flanks and pale grey fur on the underside. Their long, prehensile tail is darkly coloured with a distinctive black brush at the end and is often used to carry nesting material such as grass and bark. Adults can grow to 38 cm (head-body) and 1.6 kg, with females slightly smaller than males.  The one in the shot is about the size of a small cat. Woylies are critically endangered and only found in small populations in West Australia https://www.australianwildlife.org/animals/brush-tailed-bettong-woylie?srsltid=AfmBOoo1UIc-len_k_LCK0Sni3PFWSPXAq_FkjF6hRO1pQ7N7-6eEmNV A woylie, as described in the previous photos, facing straight to camera showing dark button eyes and pale brown nose, and dainty pale brown paws A large stand of scarlet and other banksias in the centre of a flower bed with red, golden, and white flowers visible, against a blue sky View of Frenchman's Bay from the front of the Whaling Station, Albany, showing a long white sand beach and dunes, green foreshore, and a deep green ocean. To the right, a rock barrier is visible, probably serving to shelter whaling boats in the past
September 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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From the botanic garden at the historic Whaling Station, Albany. Have some flowers #BloomScrolling #AustralianFlora #WestAustralianFlora #NativeFlowers
Amongst grey green leaves, a Pale yellow blossom composed of many filaments. I think it's some kind of bottlebrush, but the important thing is that this flower is about the size of my pudgy fist! A Scarlet Banksia bloom, with tough green leaves at the base. The bloom is composed of dozens of bright red florets with long read stamens, formed into a short, squat cylinder In front of a covered deck, a sunlit stand of yellow and crimson Kangaroo Paw flowers, so named for their shape, in a garden bed at a botanic garden, part of the Historic Whaling Station, Albany Two bright red blooms of an Albany bottlebrush, and its spiky green foliage. They're composed of many small florets with long stamens with a yellow pollen bearing tip, forming what looks like a brush for cleaning bottles with.
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Dramatic scenery at Two Peoples Bay Reserve, Western Australia this morning #Australia #WesternAustralia
Fluffy white clouds over a green headland and foreshore and vibrant clear glass green sea and white sand at Little Beach, Two Peoples Bay Reserve Close up of clear glass green sea, waves breaking on white sand and large boulders at Little Beach, Two Peoples Bay Reserve Approaching rain and dark clouds over a thin green strip of land and white sand on the horizon, with masses of dry brown seagrass on the beach in the foreground. Two Peoples Bay, Western Australia
September 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Screenshot of post by NickFrank40 with alt-text
My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
September 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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We nearly didn't go out yesterday because the weather forecast was horrible. Fortunately, it was fine for hours and hours while we went places
#Australia #WesternAustralia
Massive rocks form a bridge between even larger masses of stone on the shore under a cloudy sky at Natural Bridge, Western Australia Large rocky promontory at the edge of the sloping foreshore, blue ocean, at Cable Beach, Western Australia Sunlit white sand beach, green vegetation on foreshore and rocky hill, brilliant blue sky and ocean at Shelley Beach, Western Australia Pure white sand beach and a freshwater creek down to the ocean under spectacular sunlit clouds. Mountain and foreshore are thickly covered with native vegetation. At Shelley Beach, Western Australia
September 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Trying not to bore everyone with travel photos, but we had a couple of lovely days in the Albany WA vicinity. There have been flowers/flowering plants #BloomScrolling #AustralianFlora
The burnt out trunk of a living giant Tingle tree with a 6'2' common or garden spouse for scale, Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk attraction near Walpole, Western Australia Banksia flower with pink stamens and golden tips amongst spiky grey green foliage at Natural Bridge, Western Australia Golden banksia blooms amongst grey green foliage, at Natural Bridge, Western Australia Cluster of native white clematis (Clematis aristata) flowers amongst green leaves and stems at Valley of the Giants Treetop walk attraction, Western Australia
September 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Our house sitter sent me photos of our cats
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Jana, a dark tortoiseshell cat, lies on her side on scrap tissue paper on top of a rug. She loves to roll around on it and invite belly rubs (the belly is a trap!) Shula, a black cat, lies on her side on a cat tree shelf in front of a window, looking at the photographer. She is clearly ready for mischief
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Magenta Hakea? Blossoms hang down among spiky light green foliage at yellalonga regional park
September 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Furled magenta bud of a Australian native hibiscus, with its pale green foliage
August 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Oh. nothing, just a tortie on a towel, disappointed that we are so very dull

#cats #CatsOfBluesky
a dark tortoiseshell cat lies along a white towel on a high rack mounted on a white-tiled wall. She is full of ennui and has just stopped singing the song of her people about the injustice of humans who fail to entertain her as is her right. Great acoustics, bathrooms :)
August 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Native pigface (a succulent with dark green fleshy leaves) with gorgeous magenta blooms, in a garden bed planted with other Australia natives. The day is bight and sunny and the grass around the bed is very green.
August 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I have the opposite = my black cat insists that 5.30am is time to GET UP, and is very miffed if I don't. She has food, water, and another human she could pester. But no, I am the one who must GET UP.

Cats :)
The nuisance of a black cat in question sleeping in the sun on shelf under the window. Some of us don't get to sleep all day though
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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:(

Have you seen the pig face in flower in front of the house?
August 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Jana has lived with us for 6 years and this is the first time she has ever sat on either of our laps!
A dark tortoiseshell cat sits on the lap of a man in an armchair. She looks a bit uncertain about it all
August 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Um...
Display at Woolworths with banner reading “The biggest brands for your little ones”, over a shelf holding nothing but pushbutton firelighters. The shelves below this one hold items for babies, like nappies
July 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Ronni is of course incorrect because she picked the wrong Mr D'Arcy to illustrate her point :)
Matthew MacFayden as Mr D'Arcy in Pride and Prejudice. He is standing the rain, all wet, hair flopping down, eyes wounded and confused, and his mouth very kissable as he stares adoringly at his Elizabeth (out of shot)
July 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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you don't use this kind of thing where you're from?
white baby bath tub
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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My kittens, sharing a heated bedroom with me on this bitterly cold Brisbane day, and pretending the sun is warm :)
My tortoiseshell cat lies on a green throw on my bed. She’s curled up with her back to me, with feeble sunshine making the orange in her fur stand out My black cat sits in loaf position on a shelf under a bedroom window through which weak sunshine is coming through
July 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Orange Monkey complains of vile slander!
Head and shoulders of golden snub nosed monkey which has orange fur and blue skin and bared teeth. It has never scammed, deported, cheated on, or sexually assaulted anyone, or committed any felonies.
July 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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8 years ago, we adopted Shula (4.5 yo, ish) and she became the keeper of my heart ❤️

She's as still active as a kitten, very needy, naughty, affectionate, curious, and has a remarkable sense of humour.

She is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Happy Gotcha Day, darling girl #cats
A small short-haired black cat is lying on a grey mat on my bedside table with her four paws pointing at the camera. She isn't asleep and is watching me out of half-open eyes
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Tell me truthfully - Is this a rude message? I freely admit that I have terrible social instincts, but apparently my crime was calling them 'hon'.

I call everyone 'hon'. And this is someone I'd followed for sometime, liked all their posts, reposted many of them, and left comments on too
A screen of a comment I left on a post saying "hon, I love your photos, but if you used alt-text, I would feel a lot happier sharing their loveliness with my followers ❤️"
May 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Will have to block and mute you now because you are so very wrong :)

Firth was good. MacFayden was perfect!
Matthew MacFayden as Mr Darcy in dark coat and white high collared shirt, standing in the rain talking to Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightly, seen from behind) in the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice
April 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Here's Jana and Shula enjoying winter sun last year
a black cat on a black mat and a dark tortoiseshell cat on multicoloured rug are lying peacefully in winter sun coming through a glass door. They normally do not lie so close together but the sun is alluring
February 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Hilarious. Van Badham tells male authors to stop whining about their lack of success while excoriating male entitlement, and a male author has a sook about it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Screenshot of Male author, Rhys Parton, using deceptive cropped screenshot from Van Badham's piece, saying 'To tell anybody to "embrace overty" is cooked'
February 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM