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Confidently Paranoid
@niblick-iii.bsky.social
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She/Her. Migrating from the bad website. Software Engineer. Geek. Fangirl. Black Lives Matter. Trans rights are human rights. Enough of this nonsense. Profile pic by @lauriepink.
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The rain happened a lot, but I was able to get the weed membrane down before I lost the light, so now I can put the whole... sewage thing behind me until it's time for reseeding in spring
A shot of my garden, looking towards the garage. Most of the grass between the house and the garage (an area of about 5m x 3.5m, longer than it is wide) is covered in black weed membrane in horizontal strips. The edges are held down with an assortment of wood offcuts and spare floor tiles
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Today is the one year anniversary of Cassie and Janey ending up at the shelter I adopted them from. Photos taken today vs one year ago. What a difference a year makes
Today, the spare room. Janey is laying down on one of the pillows on the spare bed, head on one side, she looks into the camera with one paw paced next to her head.Her body disappears into the background shot, blurring as the focus is on her face. She is relaxed, and giving me only a hint of "what are you *doing* human?" It looks like the cat equivalent of a boudoir shot and its one of my favourite photos I've ever taken. Today, my study. Cassie on in her fleece lined radiator bed, asleep. She is laying on her side, her head twisted round so it's almost upside down. Her paws are crossed under her chin Cassie and Janey a year ago, sitting on a fluffy blanket in a white walled cat enclosure. Cassie sits up, very upright, staring off to the left of the photo. She looks alert and wary, but not scared. She is noticeably thinner than in the previous photo. Janey is in front, sat down with her tail curled round her paws. She looks at the same thing as Cassie, less alert, but not relaxed. She looks chubbier than she does now, but it is with the, heh, puppy fat of kitten-dom on her. She's not a tiny kitten, but clearly an adolescent
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When Cassie decides I've been ignoring her too long
My hand, on my desk, resting on my mouse. Cassie, Iaying on my desk, next to my hand, resting her chin on top of it
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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But my little Janey bear, who hid behind the spare room bed for several days, who ran away any time I came close, who watched my every move with suspicion, has decided today that she most wants to be asleep on my lap, relaxed and content. She's actually hung around me more than Cass today.
Cassie and Janey on my outstretched legs as I sit on my sofa. Cassie is further up my legs, closer to me. Moth of them are asleep, with open relaxed postures.
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Momentous day today. Janey finally got brave enough to join me and Cassie on the sofa. She's been watching us recently like she wanted to be closer, but wasn't quite sure how.
The sofa, my legs under the blanket. Cassie is curled up in my lap and my hand rests on her back. At the edge of the blanket, curled up against my bent leg (not really distinguishable in the picture, but that's where she is), Janie is curled up. I think she's actually grooming herself in this picture but as I type she's curled up asleep
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Cats are cold and aloof creatures, don't you know...
August 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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@c3podcast.bsky.social was listening to your episode whilst driving Cassie home from dental surgery and I was trying to remember if it's Egg or Spock who has had all his teeth removed? Cassie is likely to end up losing all of hers, and I wondered if it was the same thing
One very stoned kitty, tabby and white, sitting on my lap as she recovers from general anaesthetic and pain meds
August 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I need to go to bed, but I have been trapped
Cassie, asleep on my lap. Her head is turned to one side, with one front paw tucked up under her chin
August 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Happy 6 month gotcha-versiary for yesterday, Cassie and Janey! It's gone so quick but I can't imagine life without them. Thank you for picking me, my beautiful darlings.
A montage of pictures of Cassie and Janey. It's a 3 by 3 square grid with white borders between. Top left, Cassie is laying on a blanket on my lap, chin resting down, looking straight at the camera. Top middle, Janey asleep on the windowsill, smushed against the side of the window with her paws dangling off the ledge. Top right, the two of them curled in the cat bed in my office, both of them glaring at me with twin expressions of outrage. Middle left, Janey sitting, looking at the camera, head tilted, one eye squinting, one little fangsie hooked over her lip, the whole thing giving her an expression of confusion. Dead middle, the two of them on my bed, asleep, their heads snuggled together, front paws tangled. Right middle, Cassie asleep on a picnic blanket, her head to one side. Bottom left, the two of them asleep on the sofa. The are stretched out, paws dangling over the edge. Janey's head is resting against Cassie's side. Bottom middle, Cassie is asleep on a cardboard box on the dining table. Her paw rests on the side of the box, and her head is curled round so her nose is nudged against her left with her tail curled round. Bottom right, Janey stares odd camera left. Her ears are alert, her eyes are wise, something Has Her Attention
August 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This is a heat map that compares the entrance number to the elimination number (not counting the numbers above 30, as that only happened once, so is not particularly interesting.)
The X axis is elimination number and the Y axis is the entrance number. Each cell shows the number of times a particular entrance number has been eliminated at a particular number. The cell is blue if it has never happened, a very light pink if it is 1, shading through to dark red at the highest values. The trend shows a diagonal line of pink from top left to bottom right, with a concentration of darker red in the middle of the swathe
July 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Just finished reading @mithgifs.bsky.social book and it was *so freaking good*. I want to make everyone I have ever tried to explain why I love wrestling to read this book and say see. This. This is why. And the YouTube playlist was chefs kiss perfection, the perfect accompaniment
A picture of the book Fight Forever The Ballad of Kevin and Sami, by J J McGee.
July 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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@c3podcast.bsky.social Cristina is right, Anna absolutely would consume the other hosts of NSTAAF.

And since you read my email out last week, have a picture of Cassie and Janey where Cass doesn't look haunted 😂
Cassie and Janey (two tabby and white cats. Cassie is a lighter brown and Janey has darker, almost black markings) are asleep on my bed. Their heads are resting together, and Cassie is curled up so her back paws overlapped with Janey's front paws, and Janey has one front leg extended to rest on Cassie's body. Her head is resting on Cassie's front paws, with the top of her head tucked under Cassie's cheek
July 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The levels of cuteness I deal with on a daily basis are almost too much to bear
Cassie and Janey are sleep on my bed. Their heads are resting together, and Cassie is curled up so her back paws overlapped with Janey's front paws, and Janey has one front leg extended to rest on Cassie's body. Her head is resting on Cassie's front paws, with the top of her head tucked under Cassie's cheek
June 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The levels of cuteness I deal with on a daily basis are almost too much to bear
Cassie and Janey are sleep on my bed. Their heads are resting together, and Cassie is curled up so her back paws overlapped with Janey's front paws, and Janey has one front leg extended to rest on Cassie's body. Her head is resting on Cassie's front paws, with the top of her head tucked under Cassie's cheek
June 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Have this picture of my Discworld forearm tattoo that is oriented like that so I can see it, was going to be black and white until I saw watercolour style tattoos on Instagram, and was originally going to be on my back until the more I thought about it, the more I wanted it somewhere I could see
Picture of my right forearm. A watch is on my wrist, and underneath it is a stylised black outline of a turtle in a top down view. The shell of the turtle is a perfect circle and filled with a map of the Discworld. The Great A'Tuin is swimming through a nebula of swirled purple, pink and blue, with 5 pointed and starburst stars dotted around. The land mass and sea are roughly filled in. All of the colours looks like they were painted in watercolour paint, with droplet of paint splattered off the edge of the splat like outline of the nebula
June 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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And now I can have lunch, because I was just about to make myself a late lunch two hours ago when Janey came in from the garden.
But first, now she's going to be OK, I can show you her in all her bee stung glory (please note ironic duvet cover)
Janey (a small tabby and white cat) stares directly down the camera looking mildly pissed off. The left side of her face (right in the picture) is swollen around the cheek, bulging out as if she's keeping a boiled sweet in there. She is sitting on a grey duvet cover with a repeating pattern of bees on it.
May 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The fact that I solved the "the cats never use the cat bed in my office" problem, and the answer was "the bed was too far away" has me all 🥹🥹🥹🥹

As soon as I moved it from the other side of the room to the floor next to my chair, Cassie has spent large chunks of the day there when I'm wfh.
Cassie (a light brown tabby and white cat) is curled up asleep in a light brown and white cat bed (yes, the colourings are similar, no it was not intentional). The bed is on the floor, half on a green antique effect rug, half on a grey carpet. Just over the border of the rug, the left of my desk can be seen
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Not a photo, but I think it has to be this. Cassie hunting the cut grass in the garden.
May 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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May 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It is also both of their (shelter assigned) birthdays today, so wish them a happy birthday and enjoy them playing with their new mouse toys
May 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A cat is using the cat tree. Repeat a cat is using the cat tree
Janey, sitting on the highest platform of a multi level cat tree. It is the first time either of them have used the tree for anything, since the first couple of weeks when she hid out in the enclosed basket part.
May 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The kitties are enjoying the sun this morning
Janey is asleep on the windowsill. The her head is smooshed up against the wall, and she is stretched out with all 4 paws dangling over the side. Her back half is in the sun Cassie is asleep on the sofa. She's curled up so that her head is on her front paws, but her back end is stretched out and her tail unfurled. She is dappled with the sun as is shines through the venetian blinds, leaving horizontal stripes on everything. Behind her is a blanket with Captain America's shield on a repeating pattern, and a cushion with a pencil drawing of his face on, and by her head is a cushion with the words "Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist" because never let it be said I don't have a personal brand
April 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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You know, I still find myself amazed that Cassie is such a cuddle bug. The fact that this is a daily occurrence is everything to me.
Cassie is curled up on a blanket thrown over my outstretched legs as I relax on the sofa. Her tail is curled round her back legs, her front paws are tucked under her chin, and her chin and cheek rest on my leg. She is peacefully asleep.
March 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I dashed out to the pet shop, so now she must suffer the frisbee. Hopefully it is enough to prevent her licking, but I'm not entirely convinced. But she seems much happier with it, so that's a big plus
Cassie is now wearing a large flat navy blue disc, like an Elizabethan ruff, but made of fabric covered foam. She is sleeping comfortably on my bed
March 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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My little Houdini.
Cassie, a tabbie and white cat, is laying down on what is actually my old coat on the bed on the spare room. She has an inflatable collar round her neck, which looks like if a horse collar and travelling neck pillow had a baby. It is an arc shape, that is pulled together into a circle around her neck and held in place with velcro. She is sleeping, but you can also see she's not very happy with this state of affairs
March 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM