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Two very good kitties and their adventure human
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Tess would like to tap the sign again
a small tortoiseshell cat crouches on a stack of homemade protest again. She is looking at another sign, with a portrait of her sitting a looking bite-y. In large letters it says “TRANS RIGHTS or I bites!”
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The morning sit in
A portrait of a black cat with yellow eyes. He is laying on his side on a quilt-covered lap, with his head turned toward the person he is sitting on. His eyes are a little squinted, so he looks both mischievous and affectionate. He is clearly making a very persuasive argument for the human to not go to work today.
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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ma’am you are very cute
a small tortoiseshell cat stands partially on a red mushroom scratching post and partially on a chair arm to better get into your face. Her pupils are very wide, and she looks to the side, ready for mischief. she is very soft. (she is now playing with a pompom, in fact).
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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A lot of things are terrible and I can’t do a lot about them. Anyway, maybe you too need something small and playful to boop you with her soft little snoot.

(she is currently trying to pummel her brother)
A small blue-eyed tortoiseshell cat stands on the back of a chair and stretches her face so far toward you that half if it is out of the frame. She has an alert, curious, and friendly expression and she holds her tail up in a confident manner. She wants to know how you feel about mischief, because she is in need of a partner in crime.
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Hello, yes, I would like to request one scream into the void, please?
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Not me rewinding the silly mystery tv show 5 times just to see if that plant they called a Penstemon actually was.

(Shockingly, yes! Good work silly mystery!)
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Yuri has two pounds on his sister but she just pinned him to the floor real good. He’s complaining about it now. (Unfortunately for him, the only manager of Tess is Tess).
October 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Yuri is yodeling in the closet
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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the sunshine is happening on weekdays only, and this is frankly disrespectful because that’s when I’m stuck in the office
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Larch madness is upon us.

Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

#ProtectPublicLands
A tall yellow larch is illuminated in sunlight on a beautiful bluebird fall day. It stands on the shore of a turquoise lake. The sun makes the clear water glow. On the far shore of the lake larch, firs and other conifers stand in light and shadow and reflect yellow and green on the lake. Granite peaks tower behind the forest. In the foreground, more trees frame the view.
October 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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i think they are jousting at the brunch place
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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awww kitty having little dreamies
October 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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hiking is good

(Mt. Rainier National Park.

As always #ProtectPublicLands )
a person hikes across a golden meadow, towards a line of dark trees, in Mt Rainier National Park. Behind the trees is Mount Rainier dressed in glaciers and clouds, and there is a small patch of blue in the mostly gray sky.
September 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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the problem with having lived lots of places is that you are homesick for lots of places a lot of the time
September 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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i accidentally dyed my middle finger blue who can i flip off?
September 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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That time I learned there are Penstemon in Florida.

I fucking love Penstemon. Telling the void about it is how I will deal with my anxiety today.
A white-flowered Penstemon (Penstemon multiflorus) blooms in an open woodland, in front of a sandy road. The flowers are tube shaped, with petals that flare out like a bell. The anthers are black, and if you look closely you can see the staminode (a stamen without an anther, basically), which is the beardtongue that Penstemon's common name is from. I was so far from home in Florida, seeing native Penstemon there felt like an anchor, and a welcome, and like it was gonna all work.
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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you might say this sunrise is ... lit

(gulf coast of Florida, approximately 3 million years ago)
Sunrise turns clouds and virga all sorts of pastel colors (lavender, pink, orange, yellow) over rolling waves, and a sandy beach. It looks like they are catching fire or otherwise lit from within and it is heckin' magical. Some blue sky shows through the clouds. St. Joseph Peninsula maybe? Florida, 2017.
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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snuggle time for soft boys
a black cat with white stars in his fur lays upside down on a brightly colored quilt. he has his paws braced on the back of a couch and he is purring very loudly.
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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it’s a real shame you can’t take a picture of a purr
September 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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helping
two kitties on a trail map. the black cat is sitting, looking at his tortoiseshell sister who is laying on her side and batting at him, because maps are clearly for starting shit with your brother.
September 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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If rivers can be legal persons, then surely they are queer and disabled.
Flow like the San Juan - High Country News
If western rivers have been recognized as legal persons, they must be queer and disabled persons.
buff.ly
August 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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hello yes do you enjoy an mountain?

(Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Rainier/Tahoma as seen from the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in July).
a snowcapped Mt. Adams towers over a line of forested ridges. In the foreground alpine vegetation appears, with a little bit of snow. The sky is cloudy, streaked with blue and if you zoom in you might just see Mt. Hood peaking over Mt. Adams’ shoulder. a jagged and rocky ridge of volcanic rock extends toward a distant Mt. St. Helens, with dark, forested lines of mountains between. Tahoma (Mt. Rainier), covered in glaciers, juts into a cloud streaked sky. the ridge in the foreground has one peak just taller than the skyline behind it and is covered in green alpine meadows, copses of trees, and a few snowdrifts.
August 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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no you’ve done so much writing that you’ve forgotten how ArcPro works
August 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Western Washington is still not beating the allegations of being entirely made up. How else am I in the most amazing place I’ve ever been every time I go for a hike?

(Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
#ProtectPublicLands)
A vivid green mountainside, topped with a jagged gray ridge line. the sky is mostly blue, but a cloud shades the peak. A series if waterfalls cuts down the green slope, which is mostly meadow, but dotted with copses of evergreens. A few tall trees are in the foreground, likely mountain hemlock, but there is not enough detail to be certain.
August 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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how many times can one ecologist read Brinson 1993 in two weeks and still not get it?
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM