Too Many Cats
@toomanycats.bsky.social
Devoted dilettante, also collector of fine examples of felis catus. Probably the only person on the internet who doesn't like coffee (coffea arabica).
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Who controls the past controls the future -- Orwell
February 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Who controls the past controls the future -- Orwell
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act -- Orwell
January 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act -- Orwell
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day # whatever, I have no idea, again.
Count Zero by William Gibson.
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#BookChallenge
Count Zero by William Gibson.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
December 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day # whatever, I have no idea, again.
Count Zero by William Gibson.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Count Zero by William Gibson.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
December 26, 2024 at 9:59 AM
'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.'
December 24, 2024 at 6:56 PM
'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.'
I've often observed how Dickens is stuck in the debtors' prison, as it keeps coming up in novel after novel, but listening to A Christmas Carol I'm also struck how many pawnbrokers there are, too.
December 24, 2024 at 6:49 PM
I've often observed how Dickens is stuck in the debtors' prison, as it keeps coming up in novel after novel, but listening to A Christmas Carol I'm also struck how many pawnbrokers there are, too.
December 23, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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December 22, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I read the whole of Custer and the Goats of West Point and entirely failed to assimilate the fact that "goats" was not used in a derogatory fashion.
December 22, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I read the whole of Custer and the Goats of West Point and entirely failed to assimilate the fact that "goats" was not used in a derogatory fashion.
December 22, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day # whatever, I have no idea, plus 1.
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
December 22, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day # whatever, I have no idea, plus 1.
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day # whatever, I have no idea.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
December 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day # whatever, I have no idea.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
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You can’t go wrong picking up anything & everything by Aliette De Bodard. Everyone can find something they’ll love in her stories including:
✅ Sapphic romance
✅ Damaged stabby characters
✅ Dragons
✅ Complicated relationships
✅ Tea
✅ Aztec gods
✅ Sentient starships
✅ Murderous space jellyfish
💙📚👀
✅ Sapphic romance
✅ Damaged stabby characters
✅ Dragons
✅ Complicated relationships
✅ Tea
✅ Aztec gods
✅ Sentient starships
✅ Murderous space jellyfish
💙📚👀
I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income.
If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Navigational Entanglements
A "Best of" Pick by Lit Hub | Amazon | New Scientist!Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compellin...
us.macmillan.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:03 PM
You can’t go wrong picking up anything & everything by Aliette De Bodard. Everyone can find something they’ll love in her stories including:
✅ Sapphic romance
✅ Damaged stabby characters
✅ Dragons
✅ Complicated relationships
✅ Tea
✅ Aztec gods
✅ Sentient starships
✅ Murderous space jellyfish
💙📚👀
✅ Sapphic romance
✅ Damaged stabby characters
✅ Dragons
✅ Complicated relationships
✅ Tea
✅ Aztec gods
✅ Sentient starships
✅ Murderous space jellyfish
💙📚👀
December 21, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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December 20, 2024 at 11:09 PM
If America were a movie right now we'd all be slamming it for being OTT.
December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
If America were a movie right now we'd all be slamming it for being OTT.
December 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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📚 #booksky #BookDrop #Big-Tech has caused a mountain of problems #globally and many want to control it, as it's been controlling us. This tells the history of when people started #fighting back against the #machine that wants to eat us. Fresh, and #Hot-off-the-Press
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December 18, 2024 at 10:21 PM
📚 #booksky #BookDrop #Big-Tech has caused a mountain of problems #globally and many want to control it, as it's been controlling us. This tells the history of when people started #fighting back against the #machine that wants to eat us. Fresh, and #Hot-off-the-Press
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The brutal fact is that Big Pharma makes more money out of treating sick children than it does from vaccinating healthy ones.
December 18, 2024 at 3:58 PM
The brutal fact is that Big Pharma makes more money out of treating sick children than it does from vaccinating healthy ones.
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Me: dear lord, please destroy corporations like Amazon and Agencies like ICE
God: don’t worry fam, I gotchu
*starts burning the rainforest and melting the ice caps*
Me: wait god no that’s not what I mea-
God: don’t worry fam, I gotchu
*starts burning the rainforest and melting the ice caps*
Me: wait god no that’s not what I mea-
December 15, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Me: dear lord, please destroy corporations like Amazon and Agencies like ICE
God: don’t worry fam, I gotchu
*starts burning the rainforest and melting the ice caps*
Me: wait god no that’s not what I mea-
God: don’t worry fam, I gotchu
*starts burning the rainforest and melting the ice caps*
Me: wait god no that’s not what I mea-
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Shall we all take a guess?
Bird flu is a real pandemic threat. Are we prepared for the worst?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bird flu is a real pandemic threat. Are we prepared for the worst? | Devi Sridhar
A strain now circulating in dairy cows appears to carry little risk for humans at present, but we need to develop an effective strategy before it mutates, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Shall we all take a guess?