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That Otter Sarah
@simsarah.bsky.social
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Freelance NPC.
Recovering stagehand.
Museum enthusiast.
WoW guild leader.
Wonky brained.
Handcrafted word things.

Always here for your cat pictures!
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New flag day?

New flag day.
A (badly creased) flag with the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia on a rainbow field instead of the standard navy hanging on the side of an extremely 1950s brick house.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I would get up and go play a game or something, but I am trapped under this cat:
Head shot of a very serious looking small calico cat. She has long white whiskers and a white ruff around her neck, and a dark face with splotches of orange.
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This is not the pollock I expected when I clicked…
Screenshot from Chewy of a catnip cat toy roughly shaped like a fish (neither Roughy nor Pollock, really) but with the pattern of a drip/splatter painting as in the work of Jackson Pollock. Other options for this toy displayed beneath included this “Pollock Fish”, “Rainbow” and “Yellow Banana.” (For what it’s worth, cat friends, we’ve had yellow banana and it was very popular, though I don’t think I ever saw a cat playing with it, it shows up all over absolutely covered in claw punctures.)
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Scottie is familiar…
Fluffy black and white cat seated in a window gazing out. Her front two paws are on the sill, but her back right paw doesn’t quite fit and is sliding off the rounded wood. A considerable amount of floof overhanging the sill somewhat obscures her rear paw.
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Nope
Screenshot of Klovar’s above post showing a YouTube error message “Video Unavailable Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner” with a direct link to YouTube.
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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When they disabled almost all the outdoor lights because @tande.tv went and made a fire yard, but you still want to sit by the fire and watch the ocean... Draenic Forge and a bunch of downsized boulders will have to do!
A wow character sitting on a bench in front of a house with a kite hanging from the roof, staring out at a sunny ocean landscape. In front of her is a firepit, made of a Draenic Forge tipped sideways and sunk into the ground, then surrounded by paving stones and boulders that have been shrunk down to cover the... er... forgeness of it. In the background you can see one of the boulders at actual size for comparison. Draenic Forge, a housing decor item from world of warcraft. It looks like of like the end of an open toe shoe with coals and fire reflection where a foot should be.
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Also I made a pizza oven... I can't wait for this feature to go live, it's clearly still being worked on, but it's just great even in PTR testing.
A small kitchen in the world of warcraft art style with a human warlock in the center. On the right is a pizza oven (made of a number of definitely not pizza oven peices of furniture) and a counter with an open cookbook, on the left an ingenious peice of plumbing, if I do say so myself... (It's a fountain, clipped into the wall, with a shrunk down version of a giant brew vat as cistern/spigot.)
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A picture of a poorly engineered “submarine” originally titled TITAN SUBMERSIBLE that has been poorly edited to read TIME MACHINE.
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Torn between not complying with chain letter threats and desire to random post!

(Also what Sarah said.)
Caution sign reading “DANGER OPEN GRIZZLY” at the Nee Mexico Mining Museum
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Good news on the bird front, here’s hoping the freedom does better going forward too.
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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My wife usually wears a black work branded hoodie when she leaves for work if it’s chilly out. I almost didn’t notice that today’s black hoodie was a different one…
Album cover from Doomtree’s No Kings, the image is a large hand drawn three pronged crown circled and struck through. Incidentally, the logo on my wife’s hoodie today.
October 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I’ll always love that Tad Williams named Sellars’ ship in Otherland the Sally Ride.
A young otter Sarah (white pre-teen girl in a blue shirt and shorts with a cubs hat) on a trip to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, standing next to an exhibit depicting her hero Sally Ride. Young otter Sarah was the only kid in her class who *still* wanted to be an astronaut in February of 1986…
October 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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When you’re cozy but you’ve still gotta stick that one foot out from under the covers…
Fluffy black and white cat asleep in a grey cat condo, one back paw stuck out in the corner of the entrance.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Forgot to go to the bathroom before getting in bed. Massive strategic error.
Dimly lit photo of the very sleepy Bedtime Cat on my chest. Her brighter orange and white coat on her face and back leg are clearly visible, as are her long white whiskers but the rest of her dark body blends in with the background. She is very soundly asleep and it’s probably pretty easy to extrapolate the little contented grunt-snore noises she’s making.
October 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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In case the actual serious reasons to be disgusted with the NYT aren't enough for you, Wirecutter posted this article and did not reference Sam Vimes ONCE:
Screenshot from NYT Wirecutter headlined "These Boots Have Lasted Me 12 Years. Unfortunately, They're $600" with a graphic of a pair of (presumably quite nice) boots.
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Colorized portrait of a stern looking US Army Air Force lieutenant in uniform with “ANTIFA” added in white block lettering across the bottom of the photo.
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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We for sure had done exactly that with our Prius and a power inverter before we went EV, and you know what? It was great, and we used a ton less gas than my parents did running the same stuff off a generator! (Still had to park it outside though, so not AS cool.)
The back end of a blue Toyota Prius parked next to a beige garage door with a yellow extension cord running out of the back window.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Bedtime cat says good night.
Blurry extreme close up of the left side of a small calico cat’s head. It was in focus on a somewhat further away Bedtime Cat when I tried to take it.
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Working on a touchscreen interactive about symbolic communication for an upcoming exhibit, and I’m far too amused with myself for this test question:
A smallish touchscreen in my weird work closet/office displays a rough draft of an “interpret these emoji” quiz. The left side displays “👀❤️🐑” over the title “Can you guess what this text means??” The right holds three possible answers: Look at that ewe! I love you. Would you still love me if I were a sheep?
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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No, autocorrect, “dominionist” IS a word.

I wish it weren’t.
Screenshot of a bluesky draft. My phone is objecting to the word “dominionist”… me too, phone, me too. (Text of convo: Post-rock ergo prompter-rock: I honestly don’t know how these craven ghouls sleep at night. That Otter Sarah: I can only assume it’s the dominionist eschatology at this point.)
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
Image of a unicorn body with a fist where the head should be, middle finger raised in place of a horn. A rainbow arcs from the tip of the middle finder to the rump of the horse shaped part. Caption reads “Look! It’s a Fuck You-nicorn! Isn’t it magical?”
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Ah yes, this is how Scottie (short for Biscotti) got her name - she dunked her kitten self in my coffee one day, had to go wash her off in the sink. She wasn’t at all pleased, but it didn’t stop her trying for the coffee.
A black and white kitten attempting to chew on a white china cup that has recently been emptied of coffee.
September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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“She saved everything we gave her
Every little scrap of paper
And our lives are in these boxes
While the woman who held us is gone”

In the Heights continuing to be the soundtrack of loss for me, apparently.
A yellowed package of notes and letters. The top one is addressed in a very childish hand, to “GOGO” - all notes and letters I sent to my recently deceased grandmother, saved for going on half a century, and collected by my mom while they were cleaning out her house.
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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When complaining about a tedious afternoon at work turns into a Tazavesh (Gambit) reference:
Screenshot of iMessage conversation: Blue sent bubble: I want to go home, play game! Kill dargons, be dungon raider! Grey reply bubble: What if your boss was a dragon? Blue sent bubble: My boss is a dragon? Blue sent bubble: My boss is a dragon!
September 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Sunlight

or: Why I’m Late To Work
Cori, a small mostly black calico cat with a white chest and orangey face, reclining in bed (on top of me, late for work) with her face turned toward the sunlight from the window. Her eyes are closed and her long white whiskers are practically incandescent.
September 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM