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Dr. Paula R. Curtis
@paularcurtis.bsky.social
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Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/

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In a shocking display of courage, Fox did not run into the next room at top speed when confronted with a sneeze
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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A GOOD DOG APPEARS
A tiny brown dog with their tongue hanging out, standing inside some chalk art with vibrant colors that says GOOD DOG with an arrow pointed towards them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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21 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2025-2026. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 551 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
A screencap of the introductory text for the webpage "East Asia-related Job market Data in Progress (2025-2026)," which showcases job data information in East Asian Studies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Amazon Guy: Here you go. (hands packages)
Me: Thanks! Another day I can put googly eyes all over things in public.
Amazon Guy: omg that's YOU doin that?!!
Me: ...👀 😎
plastic packages of googly eyes of varying sizes. so. many. googly eyes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Describe your cat's personality with one photo
A tabby named Fox reaches one paw up while making an extremely derpy blep face with big alien eyes. Behind him a tortie named Rigatoni is lurking, peeking menacingly over his head.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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this is fine
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Welp. Anyone who sees me within the next ten years will notice my glamorous sparkle, thanks to Fox.
Closeup of a carpet with a broken plastic vial out of which an immense amount of ultra fine white glitter has spilled absolutely everywhere. In the background is a plastic container and some scattered rocks, along with the plastic bag Fox so desperately wanted to chew on that he has cursed me to glitter hell for the next decade.
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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MY MISTAKE 🫡
A dark green tree frog sitting on my hand, wearing a crown appropriate to his majestic nature.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Had to help a friend too anxious to touch frogs move these little cuties into a travel case. 😍 Kinda miss owning frogs!
A green tree frog resting calmly in my hand. A dark green tree frog resting calmly in my hand, looking slightly majestic.
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Rigatoni, an innocent girl who has never even *seen* a laundry basket in her life.
A mischievous tortie named Rigatoni sitting fully immersed in a laundry basket on top of all the clean laundry, murder mitten outstretched toward the camera with claws showing.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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do not want 😠
A tabby named Fox sniffs a persimmon with a distinctly angry and suspicious look on his face.
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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We have been gifted persimmons from a colleague’s garden and they are being regarded with GREAT suspicion. ಠ_ಠ
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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please enjoy these very cursed dog boxes I found
Two small boxes shaped like dogs with weird humanoid chubby faces and tails that curl back onto themselves. They are shades of off-white and brown with age and covered with patterned motifs. They appear both stoic and also judgmental, and their faces are made creepier by changing with each angle you look at them from. Or are they looking at you? Two small boxes shaped like dogs with weird humanoid chubby faces and tails that curl back onto themselves. They are shades of off-white and brown with age and covered with patterned motifs. They appear both stoic and also judgmental, and their faces are made creepier by changing with each angle you look at them from. Or are they looking at you? In this picture they are seen from behind with their butts facing you. Closeup of an extremely cursed dog face, giving you side eye with its mouth slightly open. Closeup of an extremely cursed dog face, looking slightly alarmed for an unknown reason.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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👀
Black and white Casper Cat giving side eye.
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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look we both have murder mittens #Caturday
Closeup of a tortie’s paw and toe beans gently touching fingernails painted white with red bloody handprints and splatter. Because Rigatoni and I are connected like that.
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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spent Halloween doing a community rock painting event at a local coffeeshop and getting covered in paint before going to bed by 8:45 highly recommend
A long table covered in assorted paints, rocks, paint containers, and messy paint-covered items. A sign of good art and rad community. Photo of fingernails painted white with red bloody Halloween designs on them of spatter, handprints, and skulls, with some colorful paint here and there as evidence of art.
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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happy anniversary to my lack of self control
Screenshot of a Facebook post labeled as 5 years ago that says "Oh no, I spotted a dreadfully adorable tortie kitten in the window of the cat rescue this morning. Tell me I don't need another!" followed by another post "I'd be breaking my 2 cat rule (you only get 3 if you have a house or a partner!) but Rigatoni! (with crying emoji)" and a photo of a tiny tortie kitten. Followed by yet another post of defeat stating "I'm not saying I submitted an adoption pre-screening form for the rescue center within 30 minutes, but I..."
November 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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not to worry, I only made him endure the bow tie indignity for a few photos, upon which Fox was appropriately compensated for damages with belly rubs and playtime
A cream color tabby named Fox with no neck, leaning back on the floor flopped against a canvas bag gazing up with giant alien eyeballs and his snaggle fang.
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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spooky bow ties, not a hit with my neckless son
A cream colored tabby named Fox looking terrified at his own necklessness exposed by being forced to wear a purple Halloween bow tie.
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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putting a spooky bow tie on my neckless son was NOT welcome
A neckless weenie of a cat hiding under a couch with big worried eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I'm this bud, celebrating Friday.
An illustration of a skeleton holding both arms up victoriously.
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Happy Halloween from Rigatoni, who is all tricks (and gets some treats). 🎃
A tortie cat named Rigatoni gazing innocently at the camera, wearing her Good Cat costume, as she is the naughtiest cat known to humankind. She is wearing an orange bowtie with pumpkins and bats on it.
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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cousin Fox is glad you’re still here
A cream colored tabby closeup. He has crawled under a blanket (which he now wears like a hood) in order to sit as close as possible to his human’s face for roughly thirty seconds before he scares himself and runs away.
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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morning trap
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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daily reminder to feed your cryptids
A cream colored tabby named Fox with giant alien eyeballs emerging from the darkness while gazing deeply into the distant void. A cream colored tabby named Fox with giant alien eyeballs emerging from the darkness while phasing in and out of this dimension, face blurred and eyes many.
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM