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wmblathers.bsky.social
@wmblathers.bsky.social
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Language inventor guy in Wisconsin.

Just trying to survive the consensus death cult.

https://lingweenie.org/conlang/

Accounts posting genAI slop are generally an instant block from me.
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wmblathers.bsky.social
Shadow was really into the head scratches.

#Caturday #BlackCats
A black cat is on his back legs with his front legs resting on the cameraman’s knee. He has pushed back fully from the knee with his head turned completely up and into the cameraman’s hand, so you can only see his chin.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Shadow trying to convince me it could be time for tuna.

#Caturday #BlackCats
A black cat is sitting on the floor. His body is partially facing away from the camera, but he is looking back and up, trying to move me with his mind to where the wet cat food is.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
This is Badger, who left us early last year, at a ripe old age.

Everyone agreed he had a distinct expression, but no one could agree what that expression was: concern, sadness, disappointment. He was missing one canine, so he sometimes had an Elvis-style lip curl, and drooled when happy (often).
A grey-tuxedo tabby is sitting on a round scratching pad next to a bookcase. The background is very orange, which makes him stand out. He's staring off to the right a bit.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
No, I do mean sniffing the wind. The Flehmen response can happen when they're facing the ground. And there's no lip-curl for this.
A cat is sitting in a garden, eyes squinted a bit, with its nos lifted into the wind. Image credit: Tatiana Stepanishcheva | iStock
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
I'm surprised I've not stepped on him at night more often.

#BlackCats
A low-light shot of my partner's office. There are eyes peering from the office chair, and a glint off the collar token that opens a timed feeder.
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Out of all the notebooks I went through in college, I have only kept the one for the Middle Egyptian class I took a UT Austin (1990? 91?). It was taught out of the Art History department by Dr. Elizabeth Meyers, about whom I can find little these days. 1/3

#MiddleEgyptian #Hieroglyphs
Facing pages of a notebook. The top of the right page say "Battle of Kadesh" and is full of badly written Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Oscar is sulking because we won’t let him eat part of one of the holiday decorations.

#caturday #SiameseCats
A Siamese cat is lying on his side with a slightly disgruntled expression.
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Someone has apparently decided it is National Black Cat Day. So here's Shadow.

#BlackCats
A black cat is sitting on a light blue blanket on the Comfy Chair. He would be in the loaf position, but his left leg is stretched out in front of him. His face is hard to see details of, except the light shining on the top of his nose, his eyes, and some white in his whiskers.
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
wmblathers.bsky.social
@quothalinguist.bsky.social It finally arrived!

#conlang
The cover of the book “How to Create a Language,” by Jessie Peterson.
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Oscar keeps an eye on the interloper (i.e., Shadow).

(Even though Shadow's been here more than a year, Oscar remains vexed about this new threat to his control of the house.)

#caturday #SiameseCats #BlackCats
Two cats are sitting on a recliner. Shadow, the black cat, is sitting up on the head of the chair, staring out the window. Oscar is in the seat, lying on his side, while he has his head craned up and resting on the back to keep an eye on Shadow.
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Vullës vë nítelama nen në milur rëtu no.
vullës vë nítelama nen në mil-ur rët-u n-o
farmer ATTR market LOC TOP pepper-PL much-PL be-PFV
"There were many peppers at the farmers' market."

#conlang
A close shot of a colorful display of a lot of sweet peppers (and a few jalapenos in the upper left).
October 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
The ladies are back. The woman walking the stroller, on the other hand, just turned around rather than waiting for them.
Seven female turkeys grazing in my front yard, with the street just beyond them.
October 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Shadow exactly.
A black cat is standing on top of a cat tree with windows behind him. He is leaning out eagerly.
September 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Why not.

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Rotten Tomatoes page for Jupiter Ascending. 27% tonatometer, 38% popcornmeter.
September 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
We went to the official reopening of the Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens today.

#madisonwi
Three yellow waterlilies in a diagonal line, surrounded by lily pads and dark water reflecting a bit of other foliage.
September 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Oscar having an ennui.

#caturday #SiameseCats
A Siamese cat is lying down in the Comfy Chair. He has his head up, resting on the armrest. He is looking wistfully at something off to the right.
September 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Playing with my #CommonLisp #fractal toolkit a bit this morning.

This color scheme is amusing.
A rather intense looking wreath-like fractal shape with quite intense purples and reds, with a touch of cyans, against a nearly black background. A wreath-like fractal in purples and cyans, against a dark background. The Common Lisp call that generated these images: (with-canvas-to-file (canvas "m.png" :width 4000 :height 4000) (mottle-canvas (color 50 50 20)) (paint-wreath -0.2375d0 0.74d0 -1.2d0 -0.283452d0 -0.4d0 0.39999d0 (concatenate 'vector +80s-cyans+ +80s-purples+) :scale 1.1d0 :alpha 0.95 :color-times 6500000))
September 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Well now I’m trapped.

#cats #siamesecats
Closeup of a Siamese cat resting with his head on the inside of my knee. It does not look like a comfortable angle for the neck, but his eyes are closed, napping.
August 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Making quick pickles out of the beatin' kohlrabi and carrots I got at the farmers' market yesterday.

There's some garlic hiding in the bottom of the jar.

#cooking #pickles
A large kohlrabi and three carrots sit on a cutting board. Sliced and brined kohlrabi and carrots, cooling off before I put on the lids. You can see mustard seeds and peppercorns in the brine.
August 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Bird!

#Caturday #BlackCats
A large black cat is sitting on the head of a recliner, staring almost straight up out of the window behind the chair.
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Shadow has a mild suspicion of the camera.

#caturday
A black cat is lying on his side on the top of a short cat tree, surrounded on two sides by windows. His eyes are slightly open, looking at the cameraman, perhaps in exasperation, perhaps in the hope that a treat might be forthcoming.
August 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Shadow in one of his favorite observation stations.

#BlackCats
A moody BW photo of a black cat sitting up on the head of the Comfy Chair, staring out the window. His tail hangs down the chair. His head and ears are pointed slightly to the right.
August 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Oscar is interested in what's going on.

#caturday #SiameseCats
A Siamese cat is resting his front half on the armrest of the Comfy Chair, looking alert.
August 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Oscar snoozin' and snorin'.

#caturday #siamesecats
July 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
wmblathers.bsky.social
Shadow keeps an eye on things.

#BlackCats
A black cat is sitting in an open window. His lower half is hidden by the back of the Comfy Chair. We only see half of his upper body and face, with the other half hidden by an opaque curtain. Since he’s a black cat, we see his shape and a single eye.
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM