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Reimi
@klugunmid.bsky.social
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Horticulture, books & baking. Dreams of a kinder, fairer, safer world; trying to build it. Says ‘I blame Thatcher’ & ‘This too is Torah’. Queer autistic disabled Whovian. יידיש Profile shows white person smiling, big glasses, head wrapped in pink scarf.
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Here’s the envelope. I see love and reptiles.
A white envelope has the fat letters תמוז (TMUZ) outlined in fuschia, stripes in blue with hearts here and there.
June 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Tikkun olam IS free Palestine.
Handmade sign reads Tikkun Olam (in English and hebrew green pen) is (black outline, red, green white stripes) Free Palestine (red pen).
June 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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We watched Spaceballs for Star Wars Day. Alt-text on our images is also a good way to show up to support good things and oppose bad things in the spirit of Luke and Leia.
Black background peppered with stars, reminiscent of the opening of a Star Wars film, has yellow text reading May the alt text be with you.
May 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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After passover last year, my horseradish root got slightly sprouty at the sprout end. Eventually I put it in the bit of my garden I call The Grave. It grew loads in the summer then appeared to die. Then this. I’ve felt loads of root when I poke fingers into the soil. Do I have DIY horseradish? Oooh.
Soft, shiny, leaf green spikes fan out like flowers near raspberry plants. The soil is covered with mulchy bark bits. The bright sun and gentle shade is gorgeous.
April 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The ManCat is headbutting me so slowly it is barely perceptible. I’m rubbing his belly. Everyone is winning here. Mostly me.
A white person’s foot is minding its own business as a black cat smushes its head into the sole. It is cute!
April 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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ABA is an abusive practice that traumatises autistic people into being less inconvenient to those around them. Traumatises. At great cost to the autistic’s health, wellbeing, sanity and ability to be. In case you weren’t sure why we call Autism Speaks a hate group.
Screenshot of an Ecosia results page for the search term ABA. Autism Speaks is promoting this abuse as treatment. “Speak with your pediatrician … about whether ABA is right for your child.” Clue: it’s not right for anyone’s child.
April 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Here’s this week’s bread. Five strands, underworked, artistic half plait because I gave up, with a different seed in each. Can you identify all five seeds? A fun puzzle for us.
I guess I made a bread based ood head. Or is it a Dalek-human hybrid. Five strands of golden bread, braided at top and spread our like five fingers at the bottom.
March 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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I tried to dress as a bear for Purim. There’s a lot of cream eyeshadow on parts of my face that aren’t eyes. I could feel my skin a LOT.

I added a drawn on moustache and glasses later. Because everything’s better with a fake ‘tache and vision.

#Purim
Well. It’s a white middle aged person’s face up close. There’s brown eyeliner on their lips, their nose is coloured in black at the tip. There’s a paler section on their lips bottom half and the evocation of fur scribbled at its border. The top half was meant to be much browner but didn’t quite succeed. Their very dark irises are framed with reddish brown. They wear furry bear ears on a head band. It’s not a very convincing look and I don’t think it was particularly clear over the zoom.
March 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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When the man cat woke sufficiently to realise he was being cuddled, he jumped up like a 1990s Lad yelling ‘get off me you bummer.’ My grandbébé just wanted to be close and sniff his feet a lot. She was purring so loud.
An all black cat is sleeping in a dramatic pose. A smaller tortoiseshell cat has cuddled up close. She is looking at the camera. They are on a dark blue duvet.
March 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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If there’s a better feeling than cuddling with your cat, I don’t want to know about it. I don’t think I could take more delight than this.
Black cat is curled up under a blue duvet, head resting on a white person’s tummy.
March 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I’ve been planting today in bright spring sunshine. Lots of lovely seeds in lovely compost. Enormous gratitude that I have the means to grow food. Thinking of those without the stability, space, soil or safety to do so. My daughter gave me these Palestinian seeds. Solidarity 🇵🇸
Beige envelope on a blue checked trouser leg. There is Arabic text at the top and I’ve definitely forgotten all the Arabic I ever learned. Bold black text reads Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. A nice beige luggage tag sits in the lower left corner saying squash/courgette in nice blue script.
March 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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KT tape is wonderful stuff. It’s interesting that a bit of sticky fabric can do what my collagen can’t: hold my joints together a bit.

Its #EDS baybeeee.
A white person’s left hand. Bright blue KT tape has just been removed. The edges that got super-grubby are still super grubby but the rest of where the tape was is now marked with beautiful blue curved lines. Reminiscent of gradient markings on a map. (Goodness that was a grim geography lesson in 1988.)
March 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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איך האָב דאָס שפיל. כיהאב עס ליב. עס איז מיט מיר יעדען טאג. מיין טאכטערס שוועסטער האט עס מיר געגעבן.

אויפן יידישער ווערסיע…
בולבעס
ברויט
ציבעלע
הינדל
קניידלעך?
A white middle aged person kisses the box of the card game Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza. They got thoroughly overexcited to see it being discussed.
March 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Don’t worry queer family, the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle has a secret message of support for us. LGBT[QIA+] [for] EVAAAAA.

Or this is what happens when I try to do puzzles with my very silly lovely partner.
The letters LGBT and EVAAAAA have been selected in a puzzle. There are seven letters in hexagon shapes evoking honeycomb. From top clockwise V A T G L E on grey and B on yellow in the centre. The game is to use the letters as many times as you like including the central letter. LGBTEVAAAAA was not accepted as a real world. Alas.
March 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Pages 152-3 particularly touched me.

Transience. Acceptance. The beauty of the ephemeral. Living.

#KidLit

Details in alt text.
A white person’s hand presses the pages of a paperback open. A poem on the left and a picture on the opposite page. The picture shows a ten-year-old kid wrapped up in scarf, gloves and coat, holding a snowball in a snowy landscape with a bare tree in the background on either side of him. The text, first line in bold, reads: In the mornin, I hold a handful of snow and watch it start to melt and it feels kinda like it’s talkin to me. Teachin me. What’s that word Mr Joshua’s always on about? Transience. That’s it. Sometimes things are so beautiful all ya can do is celebrate those fleetin moments and accept they’ll be gone.
February 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A pleasant evening was had by all, watching old Bake Off: the Professionals, a little Nathan Barley and the Doctor Who Planet of Fire.

Daughter, partner and I had many chuckles over what APPEARS to be the official butt plug of Turlough’s people. Lovely flared base
Picture of a TV screen. It’s all rather pale lilac. A pale white man with orange hair is rolling up a sleeve to compare the branded mark on his arm to the raised insignia on an object that could reasonably be mistaken for a butt plug. It’s Turlough, played by Mark Strickson, in the TARDIS in BBC TV’s Doctor Who.
February 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The end of May brings BiCamp in the UK. www.outsavvy.com/event/24947/...
BiCamp 2025 logo. Birds in pinks and purple perch on the text. A tent in bisexual pride flag colours (vibrant pink, purple and blue) with a calm grey interior, sits welcomingly in the centre. It looks very appealing.
February 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I’ve heard good things.

It’s in verse!

#KidLit
A book on a purple bed. Title: the Final Year. Author: Matt Goodfellow. Illustrator: Joe Todd-Stanton. Oh cool, I love Joe’s books. The cover has a drawing of a boy aged about ten, in a dark school uniform, holding a grubby football. He stands apart from the other children in the playground, a multiracial bunch, looking serious. Huge wings emanate from his back.
February 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Willow is fond of Doctor Who but paws at the screen if there are lesbians present.
I’m not good at photo taking or photo editing. Hence the shocking state of this. A small silky mainly black tortoiseshell cat sits on the playstation watching the Daleks from the seventies on the TV screen. Goodness she is lovely. The cat, not the fascistic killing machine from Skaro.
February 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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He heard me thinking about him and came to sit on my chest. NOW I’m trapped. 😻
A middle-aged white person reclines in bed past noon with a silky and chunky black cat on their throat and chest. The cat’s face is squished inti the human’s face. His purrs are powerful but you cant see that in pixels.
February 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Abraham and Sarah’s Tent invite you to join us on Zoom on Sunday 16th March at 7pm UK time to celebrate Purim. We will explore the megilla and consider how this tale of persecution, bravery and survival resonates with us in 5785/2025 with laughter, sorrow and community. DM or alt-text for details.
Image: On a red & white background, decorated with colourful masks: Abraham and Sarah's Tent presents: Purim Event - Megillah reading, discussion and art! Online, Inclusive, Accessible, Free Fancy dress welcome (but not compulsory) When: Sunday 16th March At: 7pm-8:30pm (stay as long or as short as you like) GMT Where: Online https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1D9DLwksGG/?mibextid=wwXIfr Abraham and Sarah’s Tent is an online inclusive jewish community set up by Rabbi Judith Levitt in the UK.
February 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We are 18 days into the month of Shevat but only now am I opening my #RoshChodesh (new moon) letter to myself. Past me loves current me and would like all me to exercise moderation. “Over-indulgence does not nourish your long term joy.”

Fair. I’ll keep up the good work. And plant seeds.
A small white envelope bears the hand-drawn letters שבט (Shevat) in Hebrew. They are big and fat, filled with green stripes and outlined in bright orange. The back of the envelope says ‘peas peppers carrots’ as it is time to sow these seeds soon. Just taken from the envelope are packets of sweet pepper, brussels sprouts, carrot and purple broccoli seeds.
February 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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We arranged the jigsaw boxes so she couldn’t do this.

Mischief mischief and more mischief.
A tortoiseshell cat sits atop a tall set of shelves, high up by the ceiling. How? No one really knows. She knows it’s naughty and she cares not a jot.
February 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Another day, more mischief.

Heard a rustling from somewhere behind me.

My grandbébé loves to climb.
The tortoiseshell cat has climbed up a tall grey bookcase and is staring down from just under the ceiling. Her peach and ginger markings aren’t evident from this shadowy angle. Just a feline void on high. She’s sitting on a Doctor Who game this time. And other interesting boardgames are on the shelf below. I’ve been meaning to sort my boardgames out a bit better. Maybe that’s why she’s climbed up, to inspire me to action.
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I heard mischief and went to investigate. I hope @davidtennant1971.bsky.social doesn’t mind my grandbébé sitting on his portrait to lick her bum.

David Tennant is not a toilet.
A tiny tortoiseshell cat (mostly black with a peach chest and eyebrows) has interrupted cleaning her secret special region to peer up at the camera. Her ears are out of shot and one green eye is visible. Reptilianly. She is sitting on a large pencil drawing reproduction of the face of Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, but you can’t really see any distinguishing features. I shouldn’t have left it on the crafting table. I should have realised this would happen. What an insult to the great man! David Tennant is not a toilet!
February 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM