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mittenbird.bsky.social
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@mittenbird.bsky.social
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MI→GA→VA. cat mama to Coal🖤, Steele🩶, and Lissy Lou💔🌈. auntie, historian, musician, genealogist. probably squinting. mad online (and offline too). lurking in the comment section. she/her or they/them. opinions mine. #FireUpChips
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 20h
those toes 😍
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 20h
y but the conversation is likely to be interesting - hopefully the drinks are too!
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 1d
these two. they started bapping each other seconds later, but look how sweet and organized they were in their respective cubicles. 🖤🩶
Coal, a black cat, sitting inside a grocery bag in a black cube shelf, while his brother Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, is perched inside the cube directly underneath Coal’s. Coal is looking at the camera and Steele is looking off into space.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
looks amazing! I can practically smell it from where I’m huddled under an electric blanket in northern Virginia with the same weather conditions.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
my mustachioed gentleman sends his regards to your mustachioed gentleman.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, looks at the camera that his mom has put in his face. he is sitting in a bathtub because he likes to hang out in there for some reason.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 2d
TAKE YOUR TIME…
I’M THE BOSS AROUND HERE
HONK HONK TAKE YOUR TIME… I’M THE BOSS AROUND HERE HONK HONK HONK HONK NANCY IS THE SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD, AND SHE HAS STOPPED TRAFFIC, TO ALLOW A TURTLE TO CROSS THE STREET
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3d
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
don’t know what I was expecting the cat behind the grumpy yelling to look like, but seeing his dainty little white socks as he trotted back out into the yard made me laugh! what a cute little old man. 🖤🤍
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
there’s a reason I call him “Fun Police Jr.” - as much as Lissy disliked other cats, she would’ve had a lot in common with Coal!
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
Coal thinks the noise from me brushing my teeth is UNDIGNIFIED. 😾

practically heard him clearing his throat behind me to let me know he was there and monitoring my activities.
Coal, a black cat, stands on his back feet on a light wood floor. he has his front paws, with claws out, on a white doorframe, and is looking around the doorframe at his mom in the bathroom with a slight look of reproach.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
there’s one in Alexandria too
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
you got the Nobel Prize in our hearts, Gonzo 🧡
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 5d
it’s impossible to look at Jinx’s smile and not start smiling yourself! 😍
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 5d
he and his brother are both such sweet, funny guys, but Steele started showing us his personality right away and Coal really made us work for it 😅

they’ve been here a hair over 6 months and I can’t imagine life without them. they saved me.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 5d
this morning, I got up at about 5:00 to use the bathroom and tried to go back to bed, and got some meows from Coal in his spot. “hey mom get back here!”

so he got his belly rubs, and will get them again when I actually get up for the day in an hour or when I give up on getting more sleep
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 5d
Coal and I have a morning routine I love: when I get up, he goes to a particular spot on the living room floor, flops down, and shows me his belly. I get on the floor and rub it while he rolls, purrs, and makes little air biscuits. then when he’s had enough, we go get breakfast.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 6d
ha, I used to think that if I had a blanket over my head! clearly he gets this from his mama
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
October 7, 1948: my great-great-grandfather, a longtime baseball and softball umpire, in the newspaper with his local baseball team after they were league champions. he’s the guy in dark coveralls in the front row.

I did not inherit any of his hand-eye coordination, for the record.
picture of a group of men with the title “Champions of Top of Michigan League”
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
my great-great-aunt won a spelling bee in 1947 and the newspaper spelled her name wrong 🙃 in their defense, her parents didn’t pick the most common spelling (she was Ilene, not Eileen as the paper had it). she was always “Aunt Leen” to me.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
also, my great-great-uncle said there were too many girls at dances when he was a high school freshman in 1939 lmao

(a lot of my family history comes from him via my brother. Uncle Bob did not like me as a teenager since I was shrill and opinionated even then, but he enjoyed my brother’s company)
article from northern Michigan newspaper in 1939 entries “Freshmen Name Faults of Dances”
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
I love doing family history research in old newspapers. turns out my great-grandmother was learning the violin in the late 1930s (which explains a lot about her telling my mom to chill out about me practicing my clarinet in the house in the early 2000s tbh)
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
it feels like she’s glaring into my soul. cool but a little scary 😅
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
Pyewacket’s tiny teeth 😍
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 7d
all I really felt comfortable saying was that I was told the company was restructuring and my position had been eliminated, that it was completely unexpected, that all of my performance reviews had been exceptional, and that one of my managers who’s also no longer there would vouch for all of this.
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