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Rona Altrows
@ronaaltrows.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, bubby, animal lover, social democrat.
Human rights for all.
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This fine figure of a cat has just turned 3. Thank you for adopting us, Benny. You are the best, in both your MOs, regal & goofball.
#cats #catsofbluesky #Bennythecat #KingBenny
Benny, magnificent black shorthair domestic cat, once a stray kitten & now a homebody adult, lies on purple velveteen bedspread, head and tail up, giving a royal wave with his right front paw.
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Psychiatrist sits in a chair, pencil in left hand and patient chart in right. Facing him & reclining in a divan is a , blob-like amoeba-like dark entity, covered in stars and with a sad look on its face. That is Dark Matter. Caption reads, "They all ask, 'What is Dark Matter.?' But they never ask, HOW is Dark Matter?'"
June 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The only king I bow to is Benny.

#Caturday #blackcats #BennytheCat #NoKing #NoKingbutBenny
Magnificent black cat Benny, who lives in a 3rd-floor walkup apartment in an old building, perches on top of a propane barbecue on his catio and surveys the outdoor part of his vast domain.
June 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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June 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A little levity for my Bluesky friends.
A dog and a squirrel are sitting on a tree branch. Holding the squirrel's right paw in both of his paws, the dog says "I'll be honest, I never in a million years thought I'd actually catch one of you guys. But right now I need you to help me get down."
May 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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When he was crowned, King Benny opted for a scaled-down coronation ceremony. King Charles did the same.
Charles plans to visit Canada later this month to deliver the Speech from the Throne. Benny has not yet announced his plans.
#cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky #royalty
Benny, the unbelievably handsome black cat, reclines on his perchthrone with his crown, the outer rim of a preserves lid jar, sitting over his right ear, and his royal robes, a partially folded flag, over his shoulders and upper back.
May 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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April 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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From the comfort of his bunthouse, Benny oversees delivery of new catio furniture.

#Caturday #cats #blackcats #BennytheCat #CatsofBluesky
From the top shelf of a kitchen counter, beautiful black cat Benny is lying lies so that we see only his head, which is facing right, and his front right paw, pointing right.
April 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Heard Islanders convene to discuss what they guano do about those tariffs.

#Trumptariffs #tariffs #HeardIsland #penguins
4 toy penguins stand on a white tablecloth with bumps on it to represent a windblown snowy landscape. Back row, Percy, a large stuffed white penguin wearing glasses; Penny, red and white stuffed penguin with a watch around her neck; Perry, black and white stuffed penguin. Front row, Peggy, large-eyed penguin with tinsel back and head and white front; Paul, rubber penguin with "the Little Penguin" printed on his front and a blue Santa-style toque.
April 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Benny:
She'll NEVER find me now.

#BennytheCat #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky
Beautiful black cat Benny, with a mischievous look in his eye, scrunches up in a box way too small for him.
April 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Benny has always nurtured his green housemates.
Here's a memoryshot of him as a kitten administering heartfelt TLC to his spiderplant friend.

#BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #cats #Sundaycats
Beautiful black cat Benny, reclining on second level of his new offwhite climber, extends a friendly right front paw to the spiderplant that is on the floor next to the climber.
March 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Please Don't Interrupt
an anthology
coming this fall
30 diverse writers on the theme of interruption
co-edited by @uumez.bsky.social & me
Preorder now: griotslounge.ca/product/plea...
Book cover. Purple background.Top left, the title "Please Don't Interrupt" Bottom left, "Edited by Rona Altrows & Unchechukwu Peter Umezurike." Right side: an image of multicolourede straight threads, then entangled, then straight again.
March 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Benny:
You call this SERVICE?

#BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #cats
Beautiful black cat sits on table with disgusted look on his face.
March 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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March 22 Benny says this is no time for bullshit.
#caturday #cats #BennytheCat
Beautiful black cat Benny sits like a sphinx on his blue and white blanket. His eyes say, "High time for honesty."
March 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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As preoccupied as he is with critical matters of state, Benny nonetheless takes the time, sceptre by paw, to wish you, his followers a happy Saint Gertrude's Day.
#cats #cats #catsofbluesky #blackcats #BennytheCat
Incredibly handsome black cat Benny lies on a luxurious (though cheap, shh) royal purple bedspread, looking seriously devoted to his serious fanbase. Beside him is his sceptre, a long pink plastic playing stick attached to a short pink and white cord with a pink and white fabric ball at the end.
March 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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a little levity
#writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #blueskywriters
A man and a woman sit in a café booth over coffee. Possibly this is an internet date. They both wear glasses. Man has a goatee. Woman has an oldfashioned briefcase next to her. She says, "I thought I was a writer, but it turned out to be a chemical imbalance."
March 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Mel & I crush it in our early-spring berets.
#berets #hats #fashion #fashionismylife
One young woman and one older woman stand together in front of the well-lit french window of a café. The older woman wears a pink beret while the young woman wears a red beret. Both women are beaming.
March 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Happy to have my short fiction in Beyond Touch Sites, new anthology published by Laberinto Press. Narrator of my story, mere hours after her death, undergoes the tahara ritual while communicating, somehow, with her living sister. #writingcommunity #amwriting #shortstoryreaders
Picture of green book cover with this excerpt from "So We Shall Return" by Rona Altrows: "The first step of the tahara ritual has begun. I feel the gentle pressure of a woman's hand as she swabs a moist washcloth over my skin. I can make out, from her touch, the shape of her hand."
March 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"Do you wanna do it the easy way or the hard way?"
-Benny when he was a kitten.

#cats #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #blackcats
Feisty black kitten is in a hard stare.
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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And Benny also says that to be loved, you don't need to do anything specific. You can just be. #BennytheCat #cats #catsofbluesky #philosophercats
February 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Benny, unaccustomed to playing with catnip-filled toys, is now stoned out of his gourd. #BennytheCat #CatsofBluesky #cats
On top of a deep blue blanket lies the incomparable Benny, a very high-on-catnip black cat.
February 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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And on #Caturday, Benny chills in his benthouse, solo,
leaving the fanbase to take care of themselves. #cats #BennytheCat #CatsofBlueSky
Only the top right corner of black cat Benny's head, including the ear, can be seen protruding from the top of the kitchen cabinet, which he calls his benthouse.
February 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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the sky just now
chinook arch, chinook winds
The sky looks like stripes. Highest stripe, a continuous dark purple cloud above. Middle stripe, continuous clear sky. Lowest stripe, continuous shimmering white cloud. That is the chinook arch.
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Sensing that his person contemplates administration of a nail trim, Benny makes the following preemptive statement. #BennytheCat #cats #Caturday #CatsofBlueSky #blackcats
Benny the Cat lies majestically on a long table with his inner paws drawn in to his chest.
January 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Benny the Cat gives his commentary on political, economic, and social uncertainties facing us in Canada and you in the US. #CatsofBlueSky #cats #BennytheCat
Beautiful black cat Benny is sleeping peacefully, contentedly, on his purple velveteen blanket. His body is fully stretched out and he is on his left side with his head tilted down and on his chest.
January 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM