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Ninni
@katfat2.bsky.social
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Sweetness n’Lightenment, anti-invisibility potions, and fog horns to find lost spoons.
Got mostly A's: Activist Anti-fascist Ace Agender Animist Arab-American AuDHD & Aged ACLUer; 2 C's: Caregiver & ChronicME; 1 D: Disabled.
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#TDOR #Finch Remember, take care of yourselves and of one another. Normalize care on TDOR and every day so more good folks can stay alive. Thank you bluesky! Here’s my birb observing the day.
A screenshot from the Finch self care app shows a bird dressed up in a raccoon suit, with a tiny raccoon micropet friend, enjoying snow camping on a starry night, and waving a transgender pride flag.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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#Finch #SelfCare #100Days Feeling like the Bluebird of Happiness, celebrating 100 days of self care.
A screenshot from the Finch Self-care app shows a graphic of a blue bird hiking in the Alps and celebrating 100 Adventures Completed
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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To know them is to love them. Who are your favorite little-known bands or artists? I look forward to seeing what gets shared all through November in the #NotKnownEnough #MusicChallenge from @lagrume.bsky.social 💙🎵🦋
Image of generic person with bob haircut and a big question mark over the face area
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Got to love a judge who cites Humpty Dumpty to slap down a Trumpty Numpty.
A judge wearing a crown on his powdered wig gives a look askance with a wry smile, in John Tenniel's classic illustration from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
August 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Share the last TV show you watched
The costars of Patience, a mystery on PBS
August 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
In a supermarket, in a magazine rack, on the cover of Time Magazine, it's Hello Kitty! A caption reads, "The Power of Cuteness."
August 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Oh yeah, harvest time is here. And a veggie garden we normally rely on to help health and budget? Almost non-existent.

Blame politics, blame health, blame the snails. It's not that my heart wasn't in it. My compost & ladybugs too!

Hard times holidays are extra blue. How's harvest treating you?
A bright red ladybug climbs a lavender lavender blossom
August 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Fun summer read, with a backbone. 💙📚 🏖️🌞

When Vera talks to the principal it's pure feminist gold.

Topical funny cozy. Jesse Q Sutanto wrote something pretty special with Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man).
#booksky #feminist #CozyMystery #Epstein #intersectional #BayArea #California
A well-groomed, smiling, white-haired Asian woman peaks around a door. She holds a composition notebook labeled, A Novel. Text on the door surface provides the title, author's name, and the words, "USA Today Bestselling Author of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers." This book, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), is the second in the Vera Wong series of cozy mysteries by Jesse Q. Sutanto so if you don't want spoilers, read "Unsolicited," first. But this is the one where Sutanto really hits her stride. And good news if you're reading alt text because you can't see the image--the audiobook edition is excellent. Enjoy!
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Happy #Caturday! I hope you find your sunny windowsill. 🌞🐈
A cat sits in a sunny windowsill. The sun and shadows add new swirls of light and dark to her coat of white swirled with black fur.
July 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I see the episode title was "Opey Finds a Baby." Guess who's the daddy? Jack Nicholson appears as a family man again in 1980's, "The Shining."
In a screenshot from The Shining, the child played by Danny Lloyd stands in a doorway, framed on either side by Jack Nicholson, and Jack Nicholson's reflection in the mirror. The framing and lighting leave the child looking very vulnerable, and Nicholson very powerful and menacing though he's just sitting there, on the bed, looking toward the door.
July 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Later...
A berry pie with a lattice crust. Or, rather, three quarters of a berry pie with a lattice crust! One quarter of the pie has been cut away, leaving the shiny, succulent, berry filling exposed on two sides bordering the empty triangle.
July 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The bee I bathed in a basin of berries, and the berries I baked.

(the bee is seen here drying off on the rim of a plant pot, safely back outdoors, having survived the unplanned bath and received many apologies)

#BugsofBluesky #BerriesOfBluesky #BeesKnees #BackyardWildlife #HoneyPie
A honeybee, a little warm but not at all astonished, clings to the rim of a terracotta pot. A lattice-top berry pie sits amid the detritus of scattered flower and utensils that testifies to its being homemade.
July 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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#3rdMMC 19 #MusicChallenge

2019

Habib Koité, Djiguiya

youtu.be/jlQTZPuOu6s?...
Album cover from Kharifa shows Habib Koité sitting cross-legged on a sand dune, playing a guitar, framed so that he's backed by a cloudy blue sky.
July 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Did you get Helen McDonald on the list? Enby Day was yesterday, now, but just today I was getting an audiobook of "H is for Hawk," and I noticed their pronouns. So I looked them up and yes, sure enough, Helen McDonald is non-binary and uses they-them pronouns.
Helen McDonald, author of H is for Hawk, in this black-and-white photo, wears a button-down under a jumper-that's a sweater to us Yankees-, with a cute overcoat on top that has super-wide lapels and big big buttons, and looks like it might be made of denim. They author's long, dark hair is worn down loose over their shoulders, and as they look directly into the camera lens, they wear an intelligent look and smile that might just be about to burst into laughter or mischief.
July 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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@meactnet.bsky.social @openmedf.bsky.social @tomkindlon.bsky.social @cfsresearch.bsky.social @rivkabluesky.bsky.social @patientled.bsky.social

Also no surprise: no treatment works for all or most.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Patient-reported treatment outcomes in ME/CFS and long COVID 08July25
From the study linked, a graphic showing the data on various treatments. You'll find it in the study as Fig. 2, and I hope you have a way of reading and understanding it because honestly there is way too much data crammed in there for my foggy brain to comprehend, let alone translate.
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Need video with sound please, for my cat to study. Tired of her trying to fly up to them.
Cat looking up, contemplates leaping at moth.
July 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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TYSM for that PSA and BTW:
Definition of the word “Semite,” from Merriam-Webster: 1 a: a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b: a descendant of these peoples 2: a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language So Palestinians are Semites, and Israel is committing antisemitic genocide.
July 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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What four fictional characters are you a combination of?
Ivy, the titular Changeling in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's juvenile novel, dances wildly on the broad limb of an oak tree. Sometimes she seems like she could actually be a changeling, she's so otherwordly, but her real world has many woes. Tiffany Aching is the hero of five of Terry Pratchett's series of Discworld books, forming a series-within-the series. She's a very down-to-earth witch, drawing her strength from the land. An invisible child has visible clothes so we can tell she's there from her dress and the big bow on her head. That's Ninni. She wears a bell around her neck so you can hear her presence, too. She's one of the characters in Tove Jansson's marvelous Moomintroll books and comics. Sophie Hatter, of Howl's Moving Castle, has been cursed with sudden old age. She takes a look in the mirror and is aghast to see herself many decades older, grey-haired and wrinkled.
July 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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What's your sign?
In a sunny woodland of mixed oak, bay, and evergreen, on a wooden sign post, a bright yellow sign warns, "newt crossing when road is wet," and displays a picture of a newt in basic black like the images one sees on international caution signs of people crossing, or cars swerving on wet roads, or what have you.
July 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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drop some FIRE
Carrie Fisher holds a flame thrower at the ready, in her big scene from Blues Brothers.
July 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Changing of the Guard
At a sliding glass door, a dog is on the outside, a cat is on the inside, looking right at you, like they need you to slide that door open so they can switch places. The dog is an apricot-colored Ridgeback-Shepherd mix, and the cat's short-hair coat is a swirl of black and white.
July 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Oh heck. I just learned of his COVID death. Died 30 June 2025.

Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett in Star Wars movies, is gone because some people like to pretend "COVID is over."
Actor Kenneth Colley, in the Imperial army uniform from his Star Wars role as Admiral Piett.
July 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Toody and Gunther, comic cops of the 1950s tv show Car 54 Where Are You, sit in the front seat of their classic cop cruiser car with a cherry on top, brass buttons on their coats, and a checkerboard set up as they play a game of checkers on the dashboard.
July 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Dinnertime!
A happy dog gives that expectant look, ears perked. She’s a Ridgeback mix, a warm apricot color.
July 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Need a palate cleanser? Here's a snack of poison oak. In the shade of bay laurels, this Black-tail 4-point buck is snacking down calmly on the roadside. Country roads, take us home.
#Nature #Photography #Wildlife #BlackTailDeer #BackyardWildlife #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
July 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM