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Adrienne
@tricrocheteuse.bsky.social
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Linguaphile, cat enthusiast, knitter/crocheter/cross-stitcher, inveterate left-winger, Midwesterner, night owl
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No, honey, you’re really not

And at a 4.6⭐️ rating, neither are the reviewers
An Etsy listing for a “Funny Sewing Sweatshirt, I'm OK Buried in Fabric, Sewing Lover Gift, Quilting Sweatshirt, Needle Work...” and image of a green sweatshirt with the text “I’m Ok” above a hand sticking out of a pile of colorful fabrics, suggesting the owner of the hand is a fabric hoarder. Even worse for them, their hand has five fingers and a thumb. That such an existential threat is so dumb is insulting, but perhaps fitting. A zoomed-in section of the shirt showing the malformed hand
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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For a belated Caturday I present to you this beautiful stray cat that started coming around at night. Very friendly and good-natured, with a stunning tail

I think we might be in the process of mutually romancing each other, and things are moving fast. Thinking of names…
A long-haired tabby and white cat lies on her side on a porch step. She looks somewhat skeptical, but that’s just her face A long-haired tabby and white cat stands on a brick pillar, with her face turned upward and behind her, in a pose they might have used at Glamour Shots, which amazingly is still in business apparently A long-haired tabby and white cat lies on a porch step facing away from the camera, with her glorious, feather duster-esque tail in full display A long-haired tabby and white cat sits on a porch step looking up at the camera, very much at attention, and just plain adorable
August 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Our 1990s family wheels (a 1988, I believe)
A white station wagon with wood paneling
July 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I still remember learning about it reading this book as a kid in the 80s.

Read to your kids, people—it pays dividends to them and to society
The cover of a book titled “The Value in Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur” with a cartoon of a scientist in a goofy outfit performing an experiment with chemistry glassware below
July 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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A long overdue observance of Caturday

Here Magda snoozes on her back, revealing her smoke-colored underside. She was entirely black when I got her six years ago, but later went lighter underneath 🤷🏻‍♀️🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾
A black cat lays on her back on a brown couch, her head out of frame. Her smoky-colored belly is exposed, and her hind feet are gently folded bunny-style. Her tail is draped over the edge of the couch.
July 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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This centipede has been hanging out on my ceiling for the past four hours. If I try to kill it, I know it will come raining down on me. I only let them live because killing them is so gross
A blurry picture of a centipede hanging out on the white molding on a yellow wall
July 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Food for thought…

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An article from the Toronto Star: Revenge of the 'childless cat lady': New research shows single women are happier than single men Raised on romance novels, single women are made to feel like odd socks miserably biding time till they re paired up. But as their numbers grow, they're pushing back.
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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My gift to my mom this past Mother’s Day. I had to improvise the alien face a bit and I feel meh about it, but we always enjoyed when he exclaimed this in S1. I don’t think she’s figured out where to hang it yet…
A cross-stitched image of the phrase “This is some BULLSHIT” with a rough representation of the blue, green, and purple face of the alien in the show Resident Alien. It is in a brown, wooden frame.
July 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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I leave for five minutes and Magda decides my spot is the perfect place to take a bath. Passive-aggressive jerk (complimentary) 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾🛁
A black cat on a beige couch taking a bath. She is mid-lick on her back leg with her pink tongue visible, looking towards the camera with her green eyes, seemingly perturbed at being interrupted.
July 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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None of this is surprising, but in the interest of providing hard data, work requirements don’t even increase employment among the 8% of Medicaid recipients who aren’t working for readily clear reasons. It’s all pretext

www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
From an article on the Kaiser Family Foundation website: Among adults under age 65 with Medicaid who do not receive benefits from the Social Security disability. programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and who are not also covered by Medicare, 92% were working full or part-time (64%), or not working due to caregiving responsibilities (12%), illness or disability (10%), or school attendance (7%) (Figure 1). The remaining 8% of Medicaid adults reported that they are retired, unable to find work, or were not working for another reason. Those
July 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Magda envisioning where the tenor of The Discourse will now go
A black cat lays on a blue couch with her face smushed down into the cushion as if to block out the world. Her white undercoat is slightly visible on her cheek.
June 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Sooooooo, this is either well- or poorly-timed, but I give you Magda this Caturday.

She is content with her borders and believes in sharing (my) resources. The most unpredictable she gets is during post-poop zoomies.

Take care, everybody 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾
A black cat stretched out laying on top of a brown couch with a foreleg outstretched. Her green eyes look at the camera alertly
June 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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✊
A black cat laying on her side with her yellow-green eyes half open in a contemptuous expression
June 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Observing Caturday because Sweet Jesus do we need it

Behold the blissful oblivion of Magda 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾

Wishing all peace of mind and even joy. I know it’s a big ask, but we still need and deserve it 🤟
A black cat sleeps peacefully on her side on a brown couch by a brown and blue blanket. Her front feet are folded in bunny position A black cat sleeps in the corner of a brown couch, almost sitting up. She is facing away from the camera, and has a foreleg fully extended gripping the arm of the couch for an unknown reason
June 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Happy Caturday! 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾
Magda decided to be helpful and crumple up my pattern. That’s on me, though—any paper on the floor is fair game.
A black cat lays on some crumpled pattern paper on a blue, gray, and off-white rug. She is looking back at the camera as if to say she belongs there.
May 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Yeah you don’t fuck with my cat (though she would probably do enough damage on her own)
A black cat lays on a blue, gray, and off-white patterned rug. Her front paws are folded together very politely. Her face has a placid but perhaps resigned look to it, probably from the repeated indignities of forced dosing of antibiotic ear goo for an ear infection over the past four days. Only six days to go 🤦🏻‍♀️
May 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Treatment fail. I managed to wrangle her but applied the goo blind into a flattened ear. She has emerged an hour later, having helpfully bathed it out of her ear. This cat is gonna be the death of me. 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾
A black cat glaring at the camera after having been assaulted with goo for an ear infection, most of which has been bathed out of the ear and onto the surrounding fur, making it greasy, and probably ineffective. Cat 2, human 0
May 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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I’m on the second day of putting goo in my cat’s ear for an ear infection. I’m just hoping to get the majority of the remaining 16 doses in there somehow. But she’s clever—she knows when I’m coming to grab her, as cool as I try to be about it
A black cat lays on her side on a brown couch. She has her tail curled around her and she looks peaceful. There is a patterned pillow behind her.
May 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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My feelings about this are reflected in my gift to my mom on Sunday
A framed piece of cross-stitch depicting an alien in the middle and the text “This is some BULLSHIT”
May 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I rudely interrupted Magda mid-bath to take this pic in observance of Caturday 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾🛁

Wishing all peace of mind, and if possible, even some joy
A black cat laying on her side on a blue couch and brown and blue blanket. She has her tongue stuck out, having been interrupted while bathing. She looks at the camera with annoyance
May 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Had to google. I think mine has post-poop euphoria, which sounds kinda fun
Meanwhile, gastroenterologist and author Dr Anish Sheth (who coined the term poophoria) has suggested that passing a big stool can stimulate the vagus nerve, which links the brain with key organs in the abdomen. According to the theory, this leads to a drop in heart rate and blood pressure, which reduces blood flow to the brain and can trigger a feeling of light-headedness. This results in the moment of frantic feline folly that is the zoomies. It's an interesting theory, but rather than making an animal more active, vagal activity is classically thought to make animals more, rather than less, relaxed. So, for the time being, the jury is out.
May 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Ok timeline cleanser now, and since I’ve been negligent of Caturdays—

Magda was pretty sure the heat was purely for her benefit 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾🐾
A black cat lays on a hardwood floor with her head pushed under the plastic air director over the heating vent
April 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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I saw this post and my geriatric millennial ass must not know what a simp is because no comprendo
Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic... • 20h This merits close watching. No doubt the Trump simps will pile on with more calls for impeachment. Trump's DOJ has a whole lot of balls in the air right now. But he is too big a narcissist, living in a bubble of lickspittles, to see the perils of his overreach.
April 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The silhouette of a black cat attempts to catch the soccer ball on a match on a TV A black cat has inserted herself through the Venetian blinds to look out the window. She is partly obscured by a table lamp
April 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Chris Christie standing behind Donald Trump at a speech, clearly rethinking his life choices. There are American flags behind them, which thankfully Trump is not humping patriotically
April 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM