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I want to know the story of this door.
A very old, battered, iron-banded wooden door, only about five feet high, is set into the brick wall of a building, surrounded by modern windows (and doors, though they're out of frame.) It looks like it leads to the dragon pens or something.
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Math nerd Halloween!
Four small pumpkins on a porch, with "3", a dot, "1", and "4" carved into them; above and behind them, a fifth pumpkin carved as a jack-o'-lantern holds up a sign reading "pumpkin pie!" and the Greek letter pi
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"What weighs seventy kilos?"

[Original skeet graphic from @wwxwashere.bsky.social but apparently you can't add alt text when reskeeting]
Text reading "Write one sentence only your fandom know the context"
July 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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loaner cat sees no reason she should ever go home

(cat loaner probably does, tho 😸)
a short-haired tabby cat lies on its back on the floor, hind legs splayed wide but front paws demurely curled, looking at the camera with an expression of absolute (and absolutely ridiculous) dignity
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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loaner cat is settling in nicely
A short-haired tabby cat rolls ecstatically on its back as a hand scritches under her chin
May 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I told the brake pedal that the climate crisis isn't being addressed, and the power switch that I thought it could do better if only it tried harder, but the car still didn't move?
startup screen of a Prius Prime, reading "Depress Brake Pedal and Push Power Switch to Start"
May 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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We have a loaner cat! (We're catsitting for a friend who's traveling for the next week.) She's very sweet so far, and not nearly as shy or wary as the photo makes her seem
A short-haired tabby cat peers out from the open front of a soft-sided cloth carrier set on a couch
April 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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went for a long walk in a conservation area with a camera-wielding friend yesterday: little prickly talons of innumerable chickadees, some nuthatches, and even a woodpecker!

(Yes, feeding wildlife is bad, but in this area that ship has definitively sailed. The birds and squirrels mob you.)
a close-up of my open hand, with a chickadee coming in for a landing a chickadee perched on my open hand, which is slightly cupped, hiding the palmful of seeds that are the only reason it loves me
February 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Transcription of second post, in alt text.

"Find something tangible to do for yourself and others, however small, and do it as hard as you can."

#uspol
So... I heard from a friend of 20+ years who works for the State Department who confirmed to me in so many words that they can assure me, without specifics, that "all of the suppositions you have made here are true.” So. yep. Passport folx at the State Department really did work incredibly long hours this week just... shoveling every passport out the door (and prioritizing the ones that might be A Problem come Monday) and yes, they did On Purpose make sure that all of them weren't just DONE but MAILED and out the door and in the hands of the USPS so that they can't be told to pull those passports back and deny/destroy them. This also means they got the OK for the *mountains of overtime* from the Biden administration to get that done. This is what I mean when I say that the Good Work is often not glamorous and that we have to prioritize things which actively and immediately better the lives of our siblings. The State Department worker who was still in the office last night at midnight Pacific time stuffing my passport into an Express Mail envelope and making sure that it was in the hands of USPS has done more liberatory work for the trans movement than 100 people endlessly auditing the language others use to describe their lives ever will. These next years are gonna be real hard. Find something tangible to do for yourself and others, however small, and do it as hard as you can.
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This was re-re-reskeeted onto my timeline without alt text, so I'm reskeeting the original image with it, because it was a ray of sunshine in these dark times. It's too long to transcribe in one skeet, so there will be two.

#uspol
Screenshot of two social media posts from a platform I don't recognize, from the username "vaspider". This is the text of the first post (second transcription in next skeet; they're too long to combine): 1: So... I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned be my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today. I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded? They're *my fucking hero*.
January 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
Promotional photo for the short-lived CBS crime drama EZ STREETS (1996-97)
January 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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You know how footprints and tire tracks compress snow into ice, and then when it warms up the snow can melt before the ice? We went for a walk and I saw icy negative-fossil cat paw prints!
Closeup photo of a cement sidewalk where icy footprints and cat paw prints are visible although the snow around them has melted
January 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A productive morning: 8 containers of tomato sauce to go into the freezer (and 4 of stock coming out to thaw for soup tonight), plus I finished reading Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory while cooking. It's excellent! (and the tomato sauce isn't bad either - pizza in our future!)
Eight reused plastic tubs from feta, Chinese delivery, etc. sit on a kitchen counter, full of tomato sauce, cooling before being put into the freezer; next to them four similar tubs of frozen vegetable broth are thawing
December 27, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone (ok, this one's on my desktop computer) that has your energy but isn't a selfie.
A sign (obtained as a souvenir) from the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park reading "PLEASE DO NOT annoy, torment, pester, plague, molest, worry, badger, harry, harass, heckle, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize, or ruffle the animals."
December 6, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Drop the lock screen

Jeremy Renner's butt.
A still from one of the Mission Impossible movies (if I remember correctly) showing Jeremy Renner from behind, from the nape of his neck to mid-thigh, arms spread as he opens a double doorway to walk through it, or something. I dunno, I'm just paying attention to the taut material of his trousers across his but.
November 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Our tiny guest bathroom in the basement has no counter/shelf/storage space for someone to put their things, but I got clever!
A tiny guest bathroom has a small sink with no counter space next to a shower stall. A fabric over-the-door shoe organizer has been hung on the outer wall of the shower stall, hanging down into the narrow space between the sink and the stall wall, so that its top three rows of pockets are available to hold toiletries.
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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A woman in a white coat and red skirt, holding a briefcase, stands before a while wall on which is spraypainted, in black, "ANARKY FOR EVER." She is holding a red can of spray paint, which she has used to insert proofreading marks correcting the spelling of "ANARKY" (with a K) to "ANARCHY" and indicating that "FOREVER" ought to be closed up into the single word "FOREVER"
November 15, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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If you see this, I invite you to post an image from your device with no explanation.
A white ceramic dish shaped like a napkin folded into a small bowl holds a snail shell nestled in springs of fresh rosemary. Visible in the shell is a tiny pool of broth in which are suspended snail eggs and tapioca beads.
November 9, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Here is our beloved Katrine, on top of Geoff.
A man in gray sweatpants and a red t-shirt is asleep on his stomach, face buried in his pillow. A tabby cat is lying possessively in the dip of his lower back, front paws folded on his shoulderblades and her tail trailing down his butt, and gazing calmly at the camera.
November 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Happy Halloween! Unfortunately it's raining and the umbrella makes it hard to get a good picture, but this year we have three bat-pumpkins and Batpumpkin!
Three small pumpkins with black paper bats pinned to them, and s big jack o' lantern with a Batman cowl and Batman emblem; the eyeholes and emblem are cut out to let the candle light shine through
October 31, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Confirmed: the white-X-in-red-circle displays correctly but the X to close the alt text window does not. I saw this when I used the app two days ago, and again today.
screenshot of a test of the Blue Thread utility, showing a visual glitch in the button to close the "add alt text" window on a Mac
October 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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So I've asked, via their website, if they'd like to add these papers to the archives, and made sure to mention that they include handwritten board correspondence so they don't assume they have it all already. Their auto-acknowledgment says I should hear back within a week or so. Yay! (6/6)
A small flyer for the Gaylaxians, late 1980s or early 1990s. At the top right it has a design of a stylized galaxy superimposed on a star-spangled downward-pointing triangle. The (monospaced) text reads: "OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTO THE UNIVERSE The Gaylaxians is a social group for gay people and their friends who are interested in science fiction and fantasy literature and media which meets monthly in Massachusetts. The Gaylactic Network is a nation-wide organization whose purpose is to help gay science fiction and fantasy fans to contact and meet each other and to help them start gay fandom groups in their areas of the country. For more information, please write:" followed by a PO box address in Boston that has certainly been defunct for decades.
October 19, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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I too am always angry these days...but I cling to hope.
An X/Twitter post by Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) that says, "To beat Trump & elect Kamala, we need to fund local organizations and their organizers on the ground. They can make all the difference in turning out hard-to-reach voters. Please help #FundTheGroundGame by donating through Movement Voter PAC: https://movement.vote/mark" He links to a YouTube video of him; the video and a transcript of it are at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P9vF9bEPXU&t=1s and also at https://movement.vote/blog/mark-ruffalo-urges-fans-fund-the-ground-game-through-mvp/
October 18, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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A mechanical "Magic-Brain Calculator" with a red plastic back and a silver-colored metal cover plate. Six bracket-shaped columns, manipulated with the metal stylus docked on the device's side, allow the user to perform simple arithmetic. A row of seven holes above the columns shows the result.
October 2, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Giving blood was fine but something went horribly wrong with my post-donation snack
Photo of three pretzels from a mini snack pack that were baked in extremely warped shapes
September 13, 2024 at 8:49 PM