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JijiMilou
@jijimilou.bsky.social
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An ace vegan everyperson who likes cats and cars.
Profile: one of my cats, a brown tabby, loafing on a '60s Olivetti soft case atop a '20s Remie Scout portable. Banner: a red '61 VW Beetle with penguins https://www.clubvw.org.au/vwreference/antarctic-vws/
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Behold Zooey & Wednesday, two of the concurrent title holders >^..^<
For some reason only 2 of my 7 cats are female; all 7 came to my house by way of the Cat Distribution System where none actually came from shelters, hence my donating to shelters whenever possible to compensate & just to help out.
A sweet little shorthaired black cat with yellowish eyes and a small white patch on her chest is nestled in a red beanbag (covered in cat hair on account of the beanbag's popularity with cats, plural) just chilling in a little bit of sunlight that's kind of highlighting the sheen of her black fur. A picture of contentment. A sweet little shorthaired white, silver, grey, and brown tabby/calico/tortie mix cat with greenish eyes is sitting on an offwhite carpeted floor in front of a couch covered in a colorful striped beach towel and an even more colorful abstract patterned throw pillow; she has an expression of patient expectation of an upcoming treat.
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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This is how Wednesday often sits in the sunlight. When she first started doing that I thought she was sitting like that so she could groom herself but this is actually how she just likes to sit in the sunlight, very much a classic case of suns out tums out >^..^<
A slightly chonk white, silver, grey, and brown tabby/calico/tortie mix cat blissfully basking in the sun shining through the glass storm door while sitting in a seriously chill position leaning against an open wooden door. Her position is such that one would think she was in the midst of grooming her belly and rear legs but that's just how she sits in the sunlight in that particular spot.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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This is Bean, youngest at 4 in a household of 7 cats. Some are on special diets, so there are 5 different kinds of cat food at mealtime. Bean is odd; he can be left alone w/ all 5 different foods & will eat only *his* own food. He does not like any treats (!!) but loves organic peanut butter >^..^<
A squinty-eyed black cat enjoying some sunbeams while lounging in an old and extremely ragged cardboard box on the floor next to an old couch/scratching post covered in a brightly multi-colored striped beach towel.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Ha, yeah, not to mention how the square sweets in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory look round:
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A scratchy black and white pen and ink drawing of a mischievously grinning person wearing a tall top hat proudly gesturing towards a stack of cubes with smiley faces on the front side.
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Actually, that might be one for the Enfield poltergeist X-file
Grainy B/W photo of a teenager in a nightgown in an archetypical 1970s English teenager's bedroom; the teenager is mid-air in the middle of the room as if either levitating or jumping off a bed. The overall effect is a bit eerie regardless of the more likely scenario of simply jumping off the bed.
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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In the 10s & very early 20s some actors would sometimes wear heavy eye makeup to compensate for the way their blue eyes showed up as white. Those images of Stan Laurel are from around the same time but using different kinds of film. The contrast is indeed pretty striking. 2/2
A nice b/w studio portrait of a smiling Stan Laurel, a white man, with eyes that are actually pale blue but show up as very dark, virtually black, on account of the type of b/w film used, who is wearing a typically circa 1920 plaid suit and bow tie while holding his derby hat in his hands. A b/w film still, from the circa 1920 film THE LUCKY DOG, of a straw-boater-hatted Stan Laurel who is wearing very heavy eye makeup to compensate for his eyes looking eeriely white on account of the film stock used.
September 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Reminds me a little of one of my cats, Gus, who often has such an expression though it seems like his expression tends to be more one of curiosity. Utterly adorable!! >^..^<
He also has poor eyesight so that might be a factor in his curiosity.
He's a real sweetie who turned 7 years old yesterday.
A sweet-looking grey tuxedo tabby ex-tomcat in a bread-loaf position with white feetsies close together politely sitting atop a pale green bookcase beside a tall brown bookcase; behind the cat on the wall is an embossed metal photographic image of a white Trabant 601 two-door car. The cat has an adorable expression of curiosity a bit similar to the cat's expression in the OP's picture.
September 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Funny, regardless of inspiration, the name does seem to suit her so it's all good!
One of my cats, Bean, came from my kid's co-worker who had adopted him, already so named, from an animal shelter so no idea either about inspiration. The name somehow fit so he's still Bean >^..^<
A black cat is chilling inside an old white and blue cardboard banker's box which is so worn from years of cats using it for napping and playing hide 'n' seek with other cats that there's a hole in a corner; the cat has one of its forelimbs stretched out through said hole. The cat looks utterly content despite lack of features being visible due to the cat being all black and thusly a void.
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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What a great label! Also digging that ceramic bottle in a lovely shade of pale green.
Did a little looking online & found a picture of this charming sculpture that the winery has outside in front >^..^<
A lovely color photo of an old typically German multi-story masonry building surrounded by a lot of greenery such as trees and bushes and nestled amongst some green hills/mountains visible in the background with a large sculpture out front, well done in a cartoon-like style, of a black cat on its hind legs and holding a wineglass aloft in one of its forepaws while standing on a wine barrel laying on its side.
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Yes, one doesn't move until the cat moves, them's the rules >^..^<
Sometimes even just being *adjacent* to a napping cat is enough to render one immobile, Medusa-like, lol.
Case in point, right now, with Gus on the couch next to me so I ain't going anywhere right now:
A color photo of a chonky grey tuxedo tabby utterly adorably sound asleep curled up on his back atop a blue-green Squishmallow with a paw draped over his face. Veritably the picture of bliss.
August 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Fred Catt's Blep
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Some still frames from a sepia-colored kinetoscope film from 1894 known as FRED OTT'S SNEEZE showing a stereotypically 1890s white man in a tie, a vest, and a jacket sneezing. Overall, it's slightly reminiscent of the filmstrip of Gonzo's blep.
August 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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In case anyone was wondering, here's a pic of the aforementioned boxed-in TV (sitting on top of the aforementioned first Zenith which has been repurposed as a TV stand with shelving for the VHS/DVD VCR & the Blu-ray player & some discs) with one of my cats blissfully asleep on top >^..^<
A color photo of a modern thin flatscreen TV (with a scene from THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, playing on an OTA broadcast channel, with Jeff Goldblum as one of the actors, not sure who the others are) in front of some large living room windows with lovely verdant scenery, mainly large old deciduous trees, outside, where the flatscreen TV is sitting inside a box constructed so as to be wide enough for cats to nap on top; indeed, a large and chonkesque grey tuxedo cat is blissfully sound asleep on top. The flatscreen TV is sitting on top of an ancient brown wood-carcased Zenith TV that has had its cathode ray tube screen removed so shelving could be installed for a VCR and a Blu-ray player as well as assorted discs, including a Studio Ghibli set, and some library books. A smallish black cat is sniffing at something in the lower left corner of the picture. There are two scratching pads (one with a circular track with a ball inside for cats to play with) on the floor with a lot of shredded cardboard all over the carpet, lol.
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Oh, poor baby! Yeah, hopefully sitting there for just a spell. A great picture, though.
And that's what's so sorely lacking in Durer's work Melencolia I, it needs a cat >^..^<
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A monochromatic fine-line engraving by Durer showing a melancholy person with angel-type wings sitting outside while surrounded by enigmatic objects including a carpenter's plane, a sphere, a "magic square" tile, a hourglass, a polygonal boulder, etc, and beings including a cherub, a bat, and a dog but no cat.
July 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Yeah, good question. Like with the iconic photo "Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper" where one wonders where the photographer actually was 😬 Only fairly recently was he identified as Charles C. Ebbets, this mighty dapper fellow:
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A black and white photograph: an impressively dapper person, in two-tone shoes, tailored high-rise pants with a white belt and dark suspenders, and a slightly voluminous but tailored button-down shirt with a tie, is perched astride an I-beam extremely high above a city street with some skyscrapers in the background but at eye level which gives you an idea of the altitude; the person is in the act of taking a picture with a large bellowed camera which he is holding delicately in his hands, one of which has a pinky outstretched.
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Emulating Totoro:
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A Japanese poster for the film My Neighbor Totoro which shows Totoro, a large and cute cryptid creature, wearing a green petal on his head.
July 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Relatable!! Zero has a similar demeanor when I hold him like a baby; he's actually quite taciturn but he makes the cutest little chirp (according to my kids, as I am deaf) to signal he wants down which of course I accommodate; fortunately he's an affable sort so he doesn't hold it against me >^..^<
A mostly white and dusky light brown sort of Siamese/tabby mix cat with blue eyes is curled up on top of a stack of boxes and looking at the camera with a slightly disgruntled expression that belies his sweet nature which manages to shine through. He'd been sound asleep until a noise woke him up, hence the slight disgruntlement.
July 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Hey, no need to sully chinchillas' good name!! Maybe it was a Russian bot? Sometimes reading some of what those people post is like trying to read Russian cursive handwriting:
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In black ink is the Russian word for 'chinchilla' in Russian cursive handwriting; it's difficult to read because it looks like just a string of confoundingly identical letters with only the last letter being markedly different. In red ink below the cursive writing is the same word written in Russian Cyrillic block print which is much, *much* easier to read.
June 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Despite all the browns & the vintage vehicles barely visible in the windows this is actually from today #Caturday & not the 1970s.
Pascal is enjoying some bird-watching while Jules is just chilling on top of the box I made for the new flat-screen TV when the old CRT TV finally died a few years ago.
A chonky ol' grey tuxedo tabby is sitting on a TV stand made from an old cathode-ray tube TV set between a window and a box made for a flat-screen TV, with his white paws on the windowsill, and looking out the window while a *slightly* smaller brown tabby is stretched out and relaxing upside down on his back on top of the box made for the flat-screen TV. The box and the TV stand have various tones of brown. If not for the modern double-paned windows this picture could plausibly just about pass for something from the 1970s.
June 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Ha, yeah. Gus (what a good chonker!) is also comfortable sleeping on this despite the center portion of cardboard being missing so the four spikelets that hold the cardboard in place are exposed. He absolutely loves it. Go figure >^..^<
A big ol' grey tuxedo tabby with a generous belly is sound asleep while draped halfway on top of a circular scratcher/ball-track that's missing most of its cardboard with only the outer ring of cardboard still intact. Somehow he looks extremely comfortable despite the circumstances.
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Alas, no luck here with my own searches so far; I'd actually been keeping an eye out for such an item ever since I first saw Escher's Drawing Hands a good several decades ago where it looked like the dual-ended extenders could accommodate larger sizes at least on one end mcescher.com/wp-content/u...
A sepia-colored lithograph by M.C. Escher showing two disembodied hands drawing each other with stubby pencils held in dual-ended pencil extenders on a piece of paper tacked to a drawing board where the hands have taken on a 3-D aspect and are expanding beyond the borders of said piece of paper.
June 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Any time anyone mentions chinchillas (how often do chinchillas come up in conversation despite their ineffable cuteness?!?) it's hard to resist bringing up what the Russian word for 'chinchilla' looks like in Russian cursive handwriting. Cursed cursive, indeed.
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The Russian word for "chinchilla" written in cursive in black; almost all the letters are virtually identical and virtually impossible to distinguish. Below in red is the same word printed in Cyrillic block letters which are distinctly different from each other and thus much easier to read.
June 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Indubitably!! >^..^< Yeah, an excuse to share another video of sweet if still feral FIV+ Pascal. The night before his anniversary of being taken in he sat in my lap for the first time; 2 months before his 2nd anniversary he started making biscuits for the first time which I actually got on video:
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Yes, not a problem!! Thanks to your old Twitter account I was well prepared to take in my formerly outdoor & extremely feral cat, Pascal, when he was badly injured in a fight & I took him to the vet where he tested positive for FIV. Since then he has integrated well with the rest of my cats >^..^<
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Good luck to you all! Every cat is different but who knows. The first 2 years Zooey would not come out of the bedroom because she didn't like the other cats but 4 years ago she started coming out & now she has free run of the house despite still not liking the other cats so there's hope yet >^..^<
A smallish black cat laying on a human's outstretched legs which are clad in black pants which are faded and highlights just how deeply black the cat is. The cat had just woken up on account of some noise, probably from some of the other cats, so it has a slightly annoyed and sleepy expression though its demeanor is sweet.
June 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Requisite picture of Zero; he looks annoyed because a sound woke him from a sound slumber. Despite appearances he's an extremely sweet and mild-mannered sort and, yes, prone to hilarious mishaps.
A light-colored tabby/colorpoint cat curled up on top of some old cardboard boxes but awake on account of hearing a noise. The cat has an annoyed but sleepy expression. In the background is a modern TV sitting on top of an ancient TV set repurposed as a TV stand and on the wall is a framed album cover of Won't You Be My Neighbor by Mister Rogers.
May 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM