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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 12h

Some classic wrestling between Trinket and Raziel in their late modern period: her, belly up on the floor, him looming over her, tails a-twitchin'... until they just unceremoniously stop 😸❤️🥰😻 #ThrowbackThursday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #FluffyFursday #TBT

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 6h

My friends are starting to close in on the goal for their hay drive. If just a fraction of you guys buy an $8 bale you can shut me up about this! LOTS of small donations add up! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 6h

The finish line for our hay drive is in sight now - can you help us get there? The weather is turning cold so fast and we'd love to know that everyone will be fed and cozy this winter. ❄️ donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

2025 Hay Drive | Merrymac Farm Sanctuary (Powered by Donorbox)

Hay, grain and supplements are the #1 expense at MMFS. It's part of the foundation of the farm's daily activities. As you may imagine, we go through a LOT of it, and it's not cheap - costing $8 per ba...

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 6h

I really need Democrats to announce, daily, that there will be consequences when they are back in charge. And then for them to actually follow through.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 12h

Some classic wrestling between Trinket and Raziel in their late modern period: her, belly up on the floor, him looming over her, tails a-twitchin'... until they just unceremoniously stop 😸❤️🥰😻 #ThrowbackThursday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #FluffyFursday #TBT

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 1d

A few more photos for good measure 🖤☀️😸🖤 #WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Three photos in which black shorthair Fiedra lies on the bed in the spare bedroom, looking around serenely as she enjoys a warm morning sunbeam. Her sleek coat and soft black whiskers shine in the bright light.

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 1d

Fiedra has excellent whiskers 🖤😻☀️🖤 #WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Three photos in which black shorthair Fiedra lies atop blankets on the bed in the spare bedroom. As she looks around, bright morning sunlight shines in the east-facing window, and her whiskers glow along with the illumination.

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 21h

The descent (2005)
The thing (1982)
Midsommar (2019)
The wicker man (1973)

found footage tofu & tesla! (& krisko) 🐈 📚 🎲 ♿ @krisko.bsky.social · 21h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

cabin in the woods
cobweb
tucker and dale vs evil
all the evil dead movies, OGs and modern revivals

Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 21h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Ghostwatch
It (the og)
Trick r Treat
Sleepy Hollow

Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 1d

A few more photos for good measure 🖤☀️😸🖤 #WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 1d

Fiedra has excellent whiskers 🖤😻☀️🖤 #WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 2d

Callisto loves Mieszko so much 😻🥹🥰💗 #TongueOutTuesday #TwosDay #TwoForTuesday #TakeANapTuesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 2d

151. Companion (2025). What a gem! Tremendously smart writing is at once fun & thrilling, lighthearted & blisteringly dark, weaving together classic thriller ideations & grander modern sci-fi. Hats off to Drew Hudson, this is a fantastic movie, & I'm remiss that I've not watched it until now.

Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 2d

Callisto loves Mieszko so much 😻🥹🥰💗 #TongueOutTuesday #TwosDay #TwoForTuesday #TakeANapTuesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 3d

#KittyLoafMonday? Make mine a double 🍞🖤🧡🤍🧡🖤🍞😸 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Tortie Lyra and dilute calico Aela lie on the floor in the hallway just outside the kitchen. They tuck their front paws perfectly underneath themselves as they look at me.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 3d

#KittyLoafMonday? Make mine a double 🍞🖤🧡🤍🧡🖤🍞😸 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my goodness! Thank you all for the love for Trinket (and Velora) today. I'll be sure to pass along your kindness in the form of extra scritches and treats before bedtime... when Trinket is likely to join me ❤️

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 4d

Of course, today isn't only Trinket's. He was abandoned with Velora, & she would've been (by our estimate) 17 today.

Tomorrow will be 1 month since I lost her. Part of me still keeps expecting her when I step into the living room.

I love you so much, sweetie 💗💔 #InMemoriam #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Brown and white Velora lies on the sofa against the back support, with a blue, white, and green blanket draped over her. She gently presses one front paw into an armrest, and she turns her head to look at me.

Brown and white Velora lies curled up on my chest and the blankets that cover me as I lie on the sofa.

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 4d

We interrupt your #CatBoxSunday with this important news bulletin: Today is Trinket's Gotcha Day (2018) and observed birthday - he's NINE! Maybe! 💗😸🎉

Just a total sweetheart, and I couldn't imagine the home without him. Here's to many years more 😽💕 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Fluffy brown Trinket lies beside me on the sofa, his front paws stretched out before him. He wears a tired expression while light from the nearby window catches in his long, curving whiskers.

Fluffy brown Trinket lies curled up on his side in the seat of a beige and red armchair. He looks at me coyly while his long, floofy tail wraps in front of him.

Fluffy brown Trinket sits beside me on the sofa, his long, curving whiskers shining in light from the front window. The photo is taken from a low angle looking up, perfect for seeing the tip of his tongue as it sticks out from his mouth.

Fluffy brown Trinket joins me on the sofa, bunched up between my outstretched legs and the back support as he gazes across the living room.

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 3d

150. Three days of the condor (1975). Outstanding thriller. Darkly cynical, with tremendous attention to detail in writing & execution, and great performances from all involved. This carries a very high reputation and it's absolutely deserved ❤️

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 4d

Of course, today isn't only Trinket's. He was abandoned with Velora, & she would've been (by our estimate) 17 today.

Tomorrow will be 1 month since I lost her. Part of me still keeps expecting her when I step into the living room.

I love you so much, sweetie 💗💔 #InMemoriam #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 4d

We interrupt your #CatBoxSunday with this important news bulletin: Today is Trinket's Gotcha Day (2018) and observed birthday - he's NINE! Maybe! 💗😸🎉

Just a total sweetheart, and I couldn't imagine the home without him. Here's to many years more 😽💕 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely too busy today for my regular #Caturday posting, so please enjoy once again this recent smash hit 😸💗😻 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · Sep 6

Happy #Caturday! 😸

This intense action scene unfolded for a few minutes and I was lucky enough to catch the "tail end" of it ;)

😻💗🥰 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely too busy today for my regular #Caturday posting, so please enjoy once again this recent smash hit 😸💗😻 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · Sep 6

Happy #Caturday! 😸

This intense action scene unfolded for a few minutes and I was lucky enough to catch the "tail end" of it ;)

😻💗🥰 #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

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Jax @jaxthecoocoocat.bsky.social · 8d

breakfast with jax?

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baxter 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtercat.bsky.social · 8d

OOUGH,

a white cat struggling to lick his long chest fur

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