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northern
@northernishere.bsky.social
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I'm northern - gaming, knitting and everyday stuff with cats and being an IT librarian. I'm fannish, but haven't written anything in years. I read SFF books.
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Opal is complaining loudly that there is no bird entertainment outside. This is obviously my fault.
Opal, a platinum Burmese cat, is sitting hunched over on top of a piece of cat furniture, looking out through a window.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Time for work. Snooze on, friends.
Three Burmese cats snuggled together, sleeping in a bed.
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Yes Opal, I DID dump you there so I can knit. You are adorable, but I do need to do other things than be your bed at times.
Two Burmese cats in a cat bed. Opal, the platinum one, is lying mostly on her back, looking a little surprised, I think.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Morning through the dirty window.
A view through a window of some houses with a sky just before dawn. A stripe of bright yellow on the horizon heralds the coming sun.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Ok, a serviceable lined mitten. I am getting tired of Zevran ruining them, let me tell you. This time I only used yarn I have no relation to.
A light blue knitted mitten with a multicolored band around the wrist. There is a structured pattern on the back. The lining of the mitten pulled out beyond the cuff, showing it in white/yellow with little dots of different colors. Folding the mitten back, wearing it, toshow there’s lining inside.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I am aware, Zevran, that this yarn is not perfect, but you still can’t chomp it.
Three Burmese cats are keeping me company. Two are in my lap, and one, Zevran, is lying on a blanket a little distance away. He wants to bite the yarn cake next to my thigh, but cannot.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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My sweater is taking forever. ; ;
A ribbed knitted sweater in progress draped over my lap.
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I got the cats some tv. :)
A small bird is sitting outside on a ball of bird feed hanging from a fence. Another bird is sitting above on the fence. Snow is on the ground. A closeup of Zevran’s profile. He is a brown Burmese cat, staring intently forward.
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Time to watch Critical Role with Opal.
Opal, a platinum Burmese cat, is curled with her head against my foot and thigh, one paw over her nose.
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Sun’s rising. I switched to my winter coat today = much better.
Railway tracks in shadow by a station. The sun is coming in from the right outside the picture, making the electrical lines above the tracks glint. The sky is light blue with a few clouds.
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Found it - you were absolutely right. :)
Photo of a screen at reddit. It says [Spoilers C2E67] Useless fact: found the start of ”Making my way” gimmick in this episode.
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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You guys can stay here if you want but I'm off to bed. Sleepy already.
A worn cat bed on top of a cylindrical cat tree. The bed is filled to the brim (and more) with three Burmese cats sleeping in a pile.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Maybe Zevran will keep off of the part of the bread machine that has buttons this way? I’d rather it kept to the correct program and kept running this time.
Zevran, a brown Burmese cat, is sniffing curiously at a microwave plate protector placed on top of a bread machine. Zevran, a brown Burmese cat, is standing on top of the bread machine, the microwave plate protector next to him, covering the buttons part. Zevran is partly facing away, his butt and tail jauntily in the air. Zevran, a brown Burmese cat, is sitting on top of the bread machine, the microwave plate protector next to him, covering the buttons part.
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Mmm, we absolutely love bike riding in the rain. And yes, I have a rain poncho. And no, I didn’t bring it.
A wet, yellow coat hung by my neighboring train seat.
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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It is, however, pretty impossible to play with feather toys with Fiona. She takes it very very seriously.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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It’s Fiona’s type of toy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Today's knitting company.
A ribbed knitted sweater in progress on my lap. By my knee, a brown Burmese cat sleeps. (It's Zevran.)
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I was wondering where they’d gone!
Opal and Zevran, two Burmese cats, snuggled together on top of clean clothes inside a dryer.
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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These are the two lace weight freebies (mostly non-natural fibers). I’m holding them together for the inner mitten.
A knitting in progress with two cakes of lace weight yarn next to it. One is yellow, pink and green in soft hues and the other is white with speckles here and there in several colors. Both are a bit fluffy.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Knitting buddy.
Fiona, a brown Burmese cat, is curled on a blanket in my lap. In the foreground, blurred from lack of focus, a knitted mitten in progress.
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Ok, first outer mitten done! It’s in a freebie wool yarn I got a few months ago, with the stripe in some slightly heavier wool yarn I dyed. Now maybe I can use the non-natural yarn for the lining?
A knitted mitten in a very light blue with a multicolored stripe. I am wearing it on my left hand.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Morning, good sweet Zevran!
Zevran, a brown Burmese cat, is cozy, lying cradled in the crook of my arm. His trimmed nails are on display on one paw.
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Week 67 of #ShowMeYourKnits; I wanna see WIPs 🚧, to-be-finished 🪡, maybe even the Naughty Basket™️.
I started new lined mittens in a heavier weight. Because I want lined mittens, dammit! 🧶
A knitted mitten in progress, modeled on my hand. The yarn is light blue, with a stripe of multicolored, and I’ve just put the thumb stitches on some yarn.
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Did you maybe want something, cats?
(The answer is food. It’s always food.)
Opal and Fiona, two Burmese cats, are each on one of my thighs. Opal is sitting up and facing me. Fiona is loafing and looking away to the side.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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There - a little more comfortable. :)
The same three cats are now rearranged in the cat bed more comfortably. The smallest, Opal, is looking at the camera. They seem content.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM