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Ellie and five cats

@brynstar7.xyz

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Tired, gay, and covered in cat hair. Neurodivergent AF. She/they. Twin Cities (the boring one), MN. Nerdy about: music (cello/bass/keys), bikes, snakes, Macs, and whatever the special interest du jour is.

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Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

Talking with a friend about country living, but not sure if I ever shared this one here. Several years ago, heard a hoarse weird sound in the yard and got to it before the feral cats could make a meal.

A teeny sweet baby possum that is slightly bigger than a mouse that ran up to me and wanted to be held before I found his mama and her pouch before the feral cats found it.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 8h

Oh em gee, that ending.

Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 8h

It’s time for Pokey Ponies.

Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 8h

It’s time for Pokey Ponies.

Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 9h

Holy fuckaroni, Batman!

a man in a robin costume is wearing a black mask

Alt: Burt Ward as Robin is standing in the bat cave. He points and says something.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 14h

I just checked. There were no screws under Opal.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 14h

I always check under whichever cat is helping me (usually, but not always Opal).

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 15h

Ah yes, the three genders.

heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 15h

now that's what i call variety

letterboard sign for Waterworks Variety with just 3 words on it:

Slushie

Pokemon

Worms

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 20h

A fun thing about me is that I do use alarms, but aside from the one that wakes me up, they are almost entirely superfluous because either my internal clock is already keeping track of important things or I'm going to ignore the alarm anyway.

Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 20h

Okay, but what if you set an alarm to remind you to pay attention to the drink water alarm? And then—get this!—you wrote in your notebook that the alarms are important?

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 20h

For real! I was surprised at how small that budget was when I just looked it up.

For the record, I would give my hypothetical directors more than a $1M budget, even adjusted for inflation.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 20h

Bubba Ho-Tep came out in 2002, the same year as Spider-Man, The Two Towers and Attack of the Clones, which had budgets an order of magnitude ($139M, $94M, $115M) more than Bubba Ho-Tep ($1M).

I'm not a snob and I like a lot of blockbusters. I just like weird passion projects too.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 20h

I have this fantasy of being in charge of a blockbuster movie budget and instead of making a blockbuster, just splitting it between multiple directors and telling them, "Go make the movie that *you* want to make."

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 22h

Now that’s a movie that I enjoyed quite a bit, but it’s also a movie that if you bounce off it, I’m not gonna judge you for it.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 1d

Wife took a good pic of my noodle son. 🐍

A grey cornsnake curled up and peeking adorably from his hide.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 1d

I love auto-transcription for voicemail, but it did just inform me that I got a message from our school district’s office of collagen career readiness.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 1d

It's arrived! The first LRV has made it to the Southwest Station area.

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 1d

Every time I go to buy beer and get something decent, God breathes a sigh of relief.

Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 1d

As you know, Bob, God is omnipotent except when...[checks notes]...Black football players don't show respect for the American flag in the approved manner and trans women drink shitty beer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

we all need this right now

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 22

that time i let a baby opossum have a single grape

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 1d

It’s a lovely day in Minneapolis for a train to go over the Lake of the Isles-Cedar Lake channel

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Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 2d

Ha, thanks! It’s a nice match for my bass uke, which is also zebra wood, but an open pore finish. Probably came from the same factory in China.

Ellie and five cats @brynstar7.xyz · 2d

A baritone ukulele resting in a chair. The neck is over an orange tabby, who is looking at the ukulele suspiciously.

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 2d

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 2d

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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