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kittycalash.bsky.social
Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask
@kittycalash.bsky.social
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Literally one woman talking about cataloging discrepancies in museums. Also history, dress, material culture, and my cat. she/her/hers

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kittycalash.bsky.social
Cars +1 under the Anxiety billboard in Baltimore. (North Ave & Howard.) But the art supply store is still open!
Plywood boarding up a shop window of an art supply store, with the spray painted information “It was a car We are still open 10 am-6pm” seen on a corner in Baltimore.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Montague J. Cat, Esq. one of the best bois ever. His only flaw was cheating at iPad cat games. We lost him October 6 after 14 (15?) wonderful, furry years.
A brown tabby cat with a creamy round tummy sits with one back foot up. He is watching a fly in an iPad game for cats. He cheats.
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
She watches the history lady with me. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is how we start our day.
A fluffy black and white cat sits with her back to the camera; in front of her sits an iPad playing Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel. A cat’s gotta get her history lesson somewhere.
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
I had to work yesterday, but managed a hand-written paper draft. Herself was mad I had to work. And now she is lying on the draft.
A fluffy black and white cat with no shame lies on a handwritten paper draft on a desk. She is full of judgement and purrs.
September 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Every time Acrobat offers up "That looks like a long document, would you like me to summarize it for you?" I think of this meme.

I expect the results would be about the same.
A corgi wearing glasses is posed with a paw on an open book. The text of the meme reads This homework looks hard ... would you like me to eat it?
September 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Suddenly grateful Boo chooses to destroy the sofa cushion instead.
A classic grey tabby cat yawns widely while lounging on the top of a sofa cushion. The cushion is being crushed beneath his formerly svelte and now meaty expanse. His primordial cat flap— a fuzzy cream patch— peeps out from under his stripey flank.
August 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Got yer infrastructure week right here.
A fluffy black and white cat sits with her head inside a rip-stop collapsible cat play tunnel. She is inspecting it for some reason, possibly to verify structural soundness, before she dashes through it to attach a toy.
August 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
I’m sure the flower decals offer the carbon and mitigate blocking the crosswalk. Fuck then pedestrians, amirite? My hated for cars knows no bounds. 🌸🌸🌸🚙🚙
A fucking green Toyota SUV with flower decals blocking a downtown crosswalk in Baltimore.
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
If she gets me up at 3, she can do my damn job and I can sleep instead. Good thing she’s so cute on her new scratchy toy.
A fluffy black and white cat with green eyes and a pink nose reclines on a wavy corrugated cardboard scratching toy. The toy has a black brushy arch inserted into one end, in front of a slot with a pink ball. The cat has found a very flattering surface as the toy’s pink sides complement her little nose.
August 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Celebrating my birthday last June in the Congressional Cemetery by visiting the grave of Ann Reynolds Cutbush, member of a Philadelphia family I’m researching. The only crime was 100° heat and the blisters I got walking to & from the Metro.
A tall woman in a blue and white plaid linen 1920s style dress and hat stands next to the memorial to Ann Reynolds Cutbush in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC on a very hot June day in 2024
August 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Why do I have a cat? She sits on fabric. She sits on books. She sits on photocopies. She sits on the laptop.

She will not sit in my lap.
A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf of bread on grey silk. The human is trying to pleat the back of a short sacque gown. The turned her head away and declared that would not happen.
August 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
H E L P I N G
A fluffy black and white cat lies on her left side obscuring graph paper on which her human is trying to map a dress pattern. The cat claims she is helping. She is not.
August 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Made a crazy thing today. That’s a doll-sized chair dressed in dimity the way Martha Washington did her chairs. I don’t condone the W’s, but it’s a tool to talk about enslaved workers, heat, upholstery, and fashion in the 18th century.
A small, doll-sized Windsor chair with a white dimity patterned stuffed cushion and draped apron-style front. The drape is trimmed with white cotton lace. The chair sits on a sisal rug in front of a wooden chest with drawers.
July 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Good morning, Baltimore. Did you eat your breakfast?
A blue Baltimore Sun newspaper box, graffitied and with a broken window, sits on a downtown sidewalk. On the top rests a pile of dark orange powder-covered cheese food snacks. Even the pigeons eschew them.
July 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Took an extra day (animal interference? For her lady ship of removed teeth?) but it’s here! Looking forward to reading this.
A book cover, The Painter’s Fire: a forgotten history of the Artists who championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin. The cover has text in white over a woodcut image of a ship rendered in teal and black. There are decorative flame-shaped elements in bright orange. A fluffy black and white cat with enormous white whiskers appears to scream or yawn. She is missing some upper teeth and has extremely pink gums. Did she harass the mail carrier? It’s possible. She yells at the milk delivery.
July 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
I found this somewhat useful.
The cover of a book titled Sailors: English Merchant Seamen, 1650-1775 by Peter Earle. The cover shows several tall ships in an early port.
July 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
She’s back from surgery and doing better than I’d hoped! (She will likely be exhausted tomorrow.) She lost her big front teef but she’s still the chattiest bossiest bestest girl.
A fluffy black and white cat makes a small mew with her pink mouth. Her left front leg is shaved where an IV was inserted. She sits in front of her water fountain with a yellow flower. Her pupils are still widely dilated from painkillers. But she will be okay and is very happy to be home.
June 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
At least the cat had a pleasant evening.

I can’t believe (I can) we are doing this BS again.
A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf on a pile of blue and white cross barred linen. She doesn’t care what you thought you were doing, it’s hers now. But she would never bomb Iran, no matter how fur-ocious she is.
June 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Who weighs 10 pounds and complained about the wet food flavor this morning? She made those boards cream as she settled into her summer retreat.
A fluffy black and white cat with green eyes and a pink nose reclines inside the wooden cubby of a Japanese chest. The wood is cool for summertime snoozing. Now go away unless you have some of the wet food she likes.
June 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Birb patrol.
A small fluffy black and white cat sits at a window sill, looking out the open window at birds flying by.
May 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
That citation looks complicated, want me to delete it for you?
A small, fluffy black and white cat with big whiskers steps on an open book next to a laptop showing citations in Zotero. One second later she stepped on the keyboard and added a citation. It might be in the paper, who know?
May 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Cat v. Air Conditioner take one.
A small but fluffy black and white cat sits on an ironing board facing an air conditioner. Birds are around the air conditioner, but it’s running, so she’s mad.
May 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Never mind the homework
Here’s the Cat
A fuzzy black and white cat reclines on an open notebook and a photocopy of an article. She tilts her head back to show her pink nose and flourishing whiskers, insouciant in her disregard for human endeavors.
April 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
kittycalash.bsky.social
The purity of the Duchess’s blissful sleep is overwhelming.
A fluffy black and white cat sleeps on a beige armchair. Her head is doing back, chin in the air, and curves towards her fluffy tail.
April 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
kittycalash.bsky.social
Greetings from the fuzzy purring sewists’ block.
A fluffy black and white cat sits on blue Linsey-Woolsy fabric in front a woman trying to turn that fabric into a historic garment. The woman has frizzy grey hair and big glasses. To left is a mahogany framed federal mirror and a tin candle sconce. These people are weird, but they feed the cat well so she puts up with their silliness. Fabric is cozy to sleep on, after all.
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM