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Marg Thomson
@maggiedawitch.bsky.social
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Sweary,old,disabled,non binary,living with cancer.
Artist,author, poet, musician.
Alone.
Climate collapse is real.
Masks are not optional.
Gaza is a genocide.
Living on unceded Bunurong Country.
Done with hiding.
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Billy's death has torn open every wound I thought I'd healed, pierced my heart and soul with all the grief I've ever carried. He was my last cat. My last little furry love. And I will sit with this pain and bear witness to all the loss in my life, with love.
The sea washing against the golden sand The words: I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all my days. #PetLoss #Grief
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I wake in the night and my hand reaches out but there is no warm furry little body, no purr. No morning snuggles. No breakfast nibbles. Nothing else lives in my house. That day, we both died, but only my heart kept beating. I miss you. I'm sorry. Forgive me. I love you.
A beautiful fluffy grey cat sits on a green cover, cushions either side
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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My last rescues - TiggyWiggyWoo my soul cat, tabby MCx, PTS Oct 23, 2020 due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aged 10) and BillyBoyBumbleButt my dear sweet superfloof, my very last cat, who I had to PTS 11 days ago - stage 4 kidney failure, aged 15.

Am utterly broken.
Thank you for this thread 💕
Grey cat on left (Billy Boy), tabby cat on right (Mister Tigger)
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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My furbaby came home. His ashes are with my other wee baby. Together forever. And when I die, their ashes will be mixed with mine and together we'll rest in the heart of the world. #PetLoss #Grief
A large blue mandala is on the wall behind a white mantelpiece. A cushion with a grey cats image is on the left. Various buddhas keep a small timber urn company as candles flicker. On the right is the image of a tabby Maine Coon cat.
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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The weight of my grief is crushing me. Farewell my last cat, my Very Good Boy, my BillyBoyBumbleButt. Mummy loves Billy forever.

#CatLoss #Bereft #Grief
Fluffy grey cat asleep forever on a rainbow pastel blankie. My heart 💔
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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4 years ago the furry love of my life, my soulcat Tigger,died in my arms. On this 4th reminder of his death,his rose bloomed. I grew this from a cutting I took 2 years ago. Cecile Brunner. The frangrance, the beauty-he is still with me in my heart, even though I grieve his loss every day of my life.
A perfect pink Cecile Brunner rose blooms on a green trellis
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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#caturday with BillyBoyBumbleButt
Floofy old grey cat on red patterned rug
October 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#FreeFreePalestine
Image is of thumbnail pics of all the journalists murdered in Palestine to date DDTTIDF
October 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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It's our birthday today.My BillyBoyBumbleButt probs won't see his 16th,so I gave him some tuna-it's not on the kidney diet approved food list but he's dying-he can have a b/day treat.He's losing weight steadily & slowing down so much.Kidney disease is heartbreaking. Today I'm just going to love him.
A fluffy old grey cat lies half on his scratch bed and mostly on the red and cream rug underneath, enjoying the speing sunshine
October 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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#FreeFreePalestine #Humanity
October 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The truth is often very uncomfortable. I'm sharing this because the older I get, the more I have to unlearn about how white imperialism coloured every facet of my life. I have idolised people I later found out to be the anithesis of everything I believe in.

Post by Dr Mordecai Ogada from farcebook
So, Jane Goodall has left us. I watched the BBC article on her passing and the opening line said everything. "Jane arrived in Africa aged 26 with no scientific knowledge... As a black African conservation scholar, this is what l've learned over the years; 1. She retained Gombe stream national park as her private research site since 1975. This was easy because she was then married to Derek Bryceson the director of Tanzania national parks 2. She used her power to protect the reputation of chimps, suppressing news articles of predation on human babies, including one belonging to one of her staff. 3. She talked constantly of "overpopulation" in Africa, but created children's programs in India, knowing that Indians wouldn't stand for that shit. Her stand on African population resonated with the western oligarchs and she became a regular greenwashing prop at the world economic forum. 4. In her own words, she was inspired by the racist myth of "Tarzan" that showed communion between a white noble and African apes in Africa without any black people She talked so much about our carbon footprint, but I personally heard her say she travelled for over 300 days every year (mostly to give talks) and she even passed away while on one such trip. 5. I personally met her and understood why people said she was "humble", because talking to her felt like talking to your mum, or grandma. She would even offer you a chance to cuddle her litle toy stuffed chimp. However, she ran a global organisation centered on her name and persona, even the logo was her image. No decision was made independent of her opinion (hence the constant travel) She was one of the last symbols of the grand absurdity that Mbaria Wa Mbaria and I referred to as "The big conservation lie" I will always remember Jane Goodall, but I won't miss her. I am too old, too African, too educated and too honest for that. Kwaheri Jane
October 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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#SOLIDARITY
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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White writing on black background You know what doesn't cause Autism? Releasing the Epstein files
September 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Mood
September 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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A thread post from thefit.ishdad If Charlie Kirk were a first grader at school America would have moved on by now.
September 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Wednesday
August 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Tuesday
Sunrise Black below with the silhouettes of tree branches etched against a bluish orange band of sky. The hot disk of the sun peeks over the horizon. Towards the top of the image, a band of sun streaked cloud runs edge to edge in a straight line, while above, purple cloud mists over the sky. A bauble hangs a little to the left.
August 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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52 fucking years #Gaza #Shame #SanctionIsrael
August 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Never forget that it is possible to cry and sing at the top of your lungs at the same time ANDREA GIBSON
July 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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#ClimateCollapse #WereAllFucked
Map of world and graph showing Global Sea Surface Temperatures have been above pre-2023 records for 28 months now. With no end in sight: Daily Sea Surface Temperature, World (60'S-60"N, 0-360'E) Datanet NOAA OSSTV21
July 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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If you earned $7,000 an hour every day since the birth of Jesus Christ, you'd have a whopping $124 billion by the end of 2022 and would stll have made less money than 58-year-old Jeff Bezos -- whose estimated net worth is $138.2 billion. -Sarah Liez, The Pitt News
July 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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elle carnitine @elle_carnitine What's been happening since 2020 is the direct result and an exacerbation of what happened before (widespread death and disability in the service of capital) which is why neither COVID exceptionalism nor COVID denialism make any political sense elle carnitine @elle_carnitine We must recognise the pandemic as following directly from the state's commitment to protect capital at the expense of human life, and as intertwined with all the other always racialised ways in which the state has affirmed and enacted this commitment elle carnitine 0 @elle_carnitine At the same time we cannot minimise the specific harms of this state-produced pandemic, including the death of 30 million mostly ungrieved people, the disabling of more, but also a rip in whatever social fabric we had: whole new levels of disregard for health, for life elle carnitine ○ @elle_carnitine All forms of struggle against COVID must be explicitly antifascist and grounded in materialist analysis, and all leftist movements must struggle against COVID
July 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Following the 1918 pandemic playbook.
elle carnitine @elle_carnitine What's been happening since 2020 is the direct result and an exacerbation of what happened before (widespread death and disability in the service of capital) which is why neither COVID exceptionalism nor COVID denialism make any political sense elle carnitine @elle_carnitine We must recognise the pandemic as following directly from the state's commitment to protect capital at the expense of human life, and as intertwined with all the other always racialised ways in which the state has affirmed and enacted this commitment elle carnitine 0 @elle_carnitine At the same time we cannot minimise the specific harms of this state-produced pandemic, including the death of 30 million mostly ungrieved people, the disabling of more, but also a rip in whatever social fabric we had: whole new levels of disregard for health, for life elle carnitine ○ @elle_carnitine All forms of struggle against COVID must be explicitly antifascist and grounded in materialist analysis, and all leftist movements must struggle against COVID
July 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM