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M. Hannah Langhoff
@mhlanghoff.bsky.social
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Chicago transplant. Writer, editor, language nerd. Bookish. I post a lot about climate activism, opera, and cats. Jeopardy! contestant 3/10/22. She/her, English/español/Deutsch
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Free webinar from 350 Chicago tonight!
Join 350 Chicago for our November webinar! Should, will, and can India pursue a sustainable energy transition? November 17, 2025. Register: https://bit.ly/India350. Dr. Ranjit Deshmukh.
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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"Well, it's probably good you aren't spending the night. My bathtub isn't draining."
Text says "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent." Image shows a room whose walls are heavily splattered and smeared with blood. There is a table lamp and a TV showing what appears to be someone's butt.
October 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Bath, interrupted
An orange cat sitting on a crumpled bed, looking at the camera. His legs are splayed, as he has just paused while grooming himself.
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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My sign:
A sign that says melt ice in large block letters. There are orange rays coming from the word melt, and the word ice is sitting in a puddle of water. A sign with a painting of the Portland frog, complete with blue bandana, and the word solidarity.
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Helping with laundry. #caturday
An orange cat squeezed onto a shelf in a linen closet on top of jumbled towels and dishcloths and a box of paper cups. He is staring unapologetically at the cameraperson, who is trying to coax him out so that she can put laundry away.
October 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Check out 350 Chicago's webinar on Oct. 15! (Reposted w/ alt text)
Join 350 Chicago for our October webinar! Climate action planning - looking beyond carbon neutrality and resilience. Dr. Adrienne Greve, Climate Planner and Professor at Cal-Poly. October 15th, 2025, at 6:00 PM CST. Register at https://bit.ly/whatisaCAP
October 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I think my inbox just warped reality.
An email icon with (-1 unread) next to it.
September 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
Monty Python's Gumby Brain Surgery sketch.
September 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Happy International Cat Day!
An orange cat sitting on a shelf and looking coyly at the camera. On the wall next to him is a framed print of a gloomy orange cat sitting in a bar while two other cats drunkenly celebrate, with the text, "He wished he was at home reading."
August 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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350 Chicago has a free webinar coming up on August 21! Anyone is welcome to attend - RSVP at bit.ly/china350chi.
You're invited to our August webinar! China's clean, green and smart energy revolution. With the US siding with Big Oil, can China step up to lead the energy transition? Free online panel with experts in China at 6pm CST on August 21st. RSVP: bit.ly/china350chi. The flyer shows rooftop solar panels in a city and a solar farm near some snow-capped mountains.
August 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.
An orange cat dozing with his cheek resting on a windowsill. His ears are angled backward.
July 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The victim
An orange cat sitting next to an open window.
July 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Sleeping through the explosions. (I know he's not deaf because he comes running when I get down the treat bag or open the back door.)
A drowsy orange cat lying on a desk.
July 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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I have chicken nuggets in the freezer and there are no children in my household, so this result maybe isn't all that surprising.
A circular graph of my food preferences and what social class they correspond to. I scored lowest for upper class, then middle class, then lower middle class, then upper middle class. My highest score, by a large margin, was lower class.
June 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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A sign from the Blue Line of the L that says "to O'Hare." Someone has put a sticker of a madly grinning Nicolas Cage over the O in O'Hare.
June 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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A sign from the Blue Line of the L that says "to O'Hare." Someone has put a sticker of a madly grinning Nicolas Cage over the O in O'Hare.
June 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Bachelor's button.
Closeup of a blue flower with a purple center. Greenery, a wooden flower bed border, and a chain link fence are visible but blurry in the background.
June 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Post a random photo otherwise everything goes wrong in June
The Father Superior (Soloman Howard) and Fra Melitone (Patrick Carfizzi) in La Forza del Destino. Meltione is singing/yelling "All this procreation is really quite appalling!"
June 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman in the Monty Python Submarine sketch, dressed as dowdy middle-aged women. Chapman is holding the earpiece of a speaking tube to his ear. Palin appears to be knitting.
May 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Happy Caturday to all who observe. #proofofcat
A pensive orange cat lying on the back of a cream-colored, diamond-patterned armchair.
May 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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16. I once knitted a squid as a gift for a friend's birthday.
An orange and white knitted squid lying on a desk. It doubles as a drawstring bag, with the feeder tentacles as the drawstrings. The end of a bar of Toblerone is sticking out of it.
May 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I grew radishes for the first time. They're smaller than I expected, but we did get hit with a late freeze. They taste radishy.
Ten pink lady slipper radishes lying on a gray table in the sunlight. They have pink flesh and abundant, bright green leaves. Bits of black dirt cling to the roots.
April 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Repost with a favorite book from childhood.
The cover of the 1970 edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis. A dragon-shaped ship is sailing on the sea, flanked by some small islands and a sea serpent. This is not my personal copy, but it looks similarly ratty.
April 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Taken on my way to see La Bohème.
A skyscraper, 110 N Wacker, covered in glass windows that reflect the surrounding blue sky. The sun is wreathed in feathery white clouds and peeks around the top of the tower. Other towers loom on either side.
April 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Rainy evening.
An orange cat sitting on a fuzzy mat in front of a rain-streaked window and gazes curiously at the viewer. It's twilight, and a glowing lamp is reflected in the window beside him.
March 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM