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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up
@izabelakaramia.bsky.social
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Left Twitter in November 2022. I'm mostly using Mastodon for social media, but have made an account here to follow good sources of news for trans people and hopefully find a few of my mutuals from my Twitter days. Probably won't post much here.
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I recently retired an old cardigan sweater and used it to make Ginza's cat bed cozier. She seems to like it.
Ginza, a tabby cat, is sleeping all curled up in her cardigan lined cat bed.
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Ginza advises Jasper that he should stick his tail up and through the Venetian blind slots.
A cat's tail is sticking up and through a gap in the Venetian blinds. The cat's silhouette can be seen as well.
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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So later on I was browsing through the scanned archive of 1958 Chess Review issues and found a letter written to them, that identifies the cat as belonging to a lady had been playing correspondence chess with the letter writer. The two met one another and got married!
A letter written to Chess Review magazine, published in August 1958, 10 months after the cover with a photo of a black cat at a chessboard. The letter is written by the man who met and married the lady who had the cat. It reads: I am currently competing in three Postal Chess sections fo which one is prize section, 57-P 55. One of the other contestants is Miss Mary De Revere whose cat was pictured on the cover of CHESS REVIEW (October, 1957). Frankly, I was a trifle curious as to what a lady Post Chess player would look like. So, when Miss De Revere took her vacation last September in the White Mountains, I invited myself to dinner. I found out what she looks like. Miss De Revere and I plan to be married next week-end. My fiancee claims that she is no mood to clobber me in the chess game and wishes to resign. I feel that it would be decidedly unfair to the other five players in the section, whom I regard from our correspondence as being fine gentlemen, each and every one. Also, I have no desire whatsoever to go down in the annals of Postal Chess as the conniver who extricated himself from an inferior position against a girl by marrying the girl. So, in accordance with Rule 19, will you kindly inform us what is proper in the present situation, and we will cheerfully abide by any decision you may hand down. If you wish to adjudicate the game as of now, I will gladly pay the expense of adjudication. Both of us intend to finish our other five games to the best of our ability and feel that any action you take should be motivated foremost by protecting our opponents' rights. W.L. Sickman Portland, Maine As final note, the letter while published in August 1958, was received in December 1957.
October 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I also zoomed in to take closer look at the inky void who graced the cover of a chess magazine.
A closer look at the void cat playing chess. It seems to be looking intently at the white king. It also seems that its paw might be getting ready to give the king a nudge.
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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@catsofyore.bsky.social While browsing through scanned archives of the magazine Chess Review, which was published from 1933 to 1969, I found a cat! People who have watched Netflix's The Queen's Gambit will recognize that Chess Review was the magazine shoplifted by Beth Harmon.
On the October 1957 cover of Chess Review, a black cat is seemingly playing chess. It is looking intently at the white king on the board. The cover is captioned, "A CT CAN NIP AT A KING." The photo is a black and white photo.
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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My trans agenda this afternoon was to free a goat whose head got stuck in the fence.
A mini black goat has stuck its head through a small opening in the fence gate. It now doesn't know how to pull its head and horns back through.
May 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It took time and patience and lots of cat treats, but I gained her trust and convinced her to retire from the outdoor life she had known for 10 years! Now she enjoys 2 meals a day, treats, playtime, and sleeping beside me at nights.
Ginza sleep curled up with her head resting on a front leg and paw. Her tongue sticks out in a tiny blep.
April 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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It was about 2 years ago that I was first getting to know the cat in this photo. You can see her tipped left ear. She had been TNRed and had lived at the apartment complex I had moved into. An elderly gentlemen fed her lunch everyday but couldn't bring her inside, she was that skittish.
Ginza, a brown, black, and gold tabby cat stands at the top of steps. She is looking away from the camera. Her left ear is tipped, marking her as stray cat who got TNRed in the past.
April 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Ginza says it's a great gig moving inside, isn't it?
Ginza, a tabby cat with a tipped left ear, is enjoying a good nap atop her heating pad.
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I have a motto: All cats are good cats.

That's how I ended up with this tipped ear baby who sleeps next to me every night.
Ginza is posed like a sphinx underneath a rocking chair. She is basking in the afternoon sunshine coming in through the window. She has white mittens and a white bib. The rest of her is stripes of black, gold, and brown. Her left ear is tipped because she had been TNRed after her first litter of kittens.
April 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Very first visual of the movie:
The very first visual from the movie, The Matrix. Green computer text on a black screen, the text reads "Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98 13:24:18 REC:Log" A smoking variation of Chekov's gun to tell the viewer this movie is going to be about the experiences of trans people in the world.
March 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Ginza has put up the do not disturb sign. She lost important sleep last night because of thunderstorms.
Ginza, a tabby cat with black, brown, gold, and white fur, is fast asleep on the bed. She has draped her right front leg over her face because she doesn't want to be disturbed. She has important sleeping to do after last night's thunderstorms.
March 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Doesn't everyone do that?
A penguin stands on a rocky coastline of South Georgia Island. There is a very large rusted chain in the midground of the photo. Behind the penguin and the rusted cabin are old warehouse buildings and storage tanks. It is far far far from being a tropical paradise.
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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As always, the news is a firehose of awful bs.

Probably why I try to spend a good chunk of time taking care of Ginza and thinking about her. She's a good kitty cat and she makes me smile about something every day.
Ginza is sleeping on her side on the bed. She looks totally zonked out. Atop her there are two blue and white wool gloves, I placed them there because it helps to warm them up for when I go outside in the miserable damp chilly weather of the PNW. Ginza is asleep and her head is twisted into where the top of her head is against the blanket. She is making a tiny blep, the very tip of her tongue sticking out ever so slightly, the bleppiest of tiny bleps. Also visible is her top right fang as befitting a fierce kitty cat like Ginza.
March 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The news everyday is a firehose of awful bs, but here's one of my favorite photos of Ginza, taken last March, she was underneath a rocking chair and the sun was shining in through the south facing windows.
Ginza, a brown, black, gold, and white tabby cat is sitting under a rocking chair. She is half in sunlight and half in shadow. The cream filling of her neck and chest are brightly white because of the sun. Her face is mostly shadow, but sunlight illuminates her eyes enough to make them out. She has a tipped left ear because she's a former feral who got TNRed.
March 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Ginza has sized up some and is perhaps slightly chubby nowadays.
Ginza, a slightly chubby tabby cat, is asleep atop a rumpled blanket on the bed. She had been sleeping in the sunpatch but it has begun to move away from her. She's using her front left leg for a pillow.
March 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Another pic of Ginza from March last year. This one shows off her tipped left ear, which she got after she had her first litter of kittens and got TNRed. The rescue shelter was unable to tame her, so she was returned to the apartment complex she knew as home.
Ginza, a black, brown and gold tabby cat is sitting atop an empty bookshelf. She has her front legs crossed in front of her and you can see her white mitten paws. Her left ear is tipped, a sign that she is neutered.
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This is a photo of Ginza the Amazing from a year ago back in our old apartment. She had no idea that in about 4 weeks time, she was going to take a flight across the country in one of those jets that had frequently flown over the apartment complex where she had lived as a feral for 8 or 9 years.
Ginza, a black, brown, and gold tabby cat with white mittens and a cream filled belly sits on the windowsill of the apartment where she and I had lived together. Together that is since January of 2024 when she had fully accepted my invitation for her to retire from life as a feral cat. The courtyard seen through the window is where she had spent a lot of time in life. You can also see, in front of her face, the apartment where resided an elderly gentlemen who had fed Ginza once a day and that probably enabled to survive all those years outside. Now a year later, she and I are on the other side of the country. She's gotten chubbier thanks to 2 meals every day and not needing to burn so many calories at night to stay warm.
March 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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it did begin to heal, the cat distribution system blessed me with the challenge of taming a feral cat. It took almost a year, but I gained her trust and Ginza is now my best friend in this world. Here's picture of her.
Ginza, a black, brown, gold, and white tabby cat is looking up out the window from which sun is coming into the room where she is.
February 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM