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Marlena, quindi
@quindimarlena.bsky.social
Animal lover. Dancer. Reader. Language dilettante (IT/FR/FI). Gonzobongo and Flanatic. Chronically tired but doing my best.

Here mostly for animals and books. Not actually called Marlena.
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Happy third Jimmiversary!
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Seven portraits drawn today for viewing pleasure and emotional delight.

Usual reminder that my picture is always the one on the right….
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections -

we have:
a pair of blacknecked stilts
a stilted sandpiper
a song sparrow
a pied-billed grebe

#EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #PhotographersOfBlueSky
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The Daily Salem Dispatch is making Monday waaaaay better from this vantage point.
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Might I interest you in a bag o Doof?

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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My Thanksgiving Storewide 25% Off Sale is running now thru Sunday, December 7th!

Every item in my Etsy shop - originals & prints - is discounted.

Giving art for the holidays makes for a unique and lasting gift!

Find it all here:
Etsy.com/Shop/TheArtOfRobHusberg
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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And now for some of my very favourite Smol Paul moments in no particular order, starting with the first ever yeet
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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#plundercats #CatsOfBluesky One of our own could use some help. If you can afford to donate, that's great! If not, you can still share the post for more exposure.
Momb loss hur wurkjobb yessturdae an nowe eggstra wurreed bowt payne da billz. momb gott the me, da baybee, an a DOGG to feeed an looke afturr an she sae the usses are veri eggspennsif.
pleese hep iffen yuoze can 💗

gofund.me/8269091f1
Donate to Help Tortilla’s family for the Holidays, organized by desi funk
I am Tortilla’s momb, as well as single momb to a dog and a 9 year old. We have been… desi funk needs your support for Help Tortilla’s family for the Holidays
gofund.me
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Guys, my hubby and my brother have been plotting in secret for 3 months and I had no idea.

I haven't seen my brother for two years, and he has never been to visit me here, and he flew out as a surprise and arrived this evening.

Might be online a bit less while I spend some time with him. 🫶🏻
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Happy Caturday 😉✌️
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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"In nose work, they get to be a dog. They get to follow their nose. And I think it really does feel good and right to them"--Bonnie Hartney of Ocean Park Dog Training talking about why dogs love nose work so much.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
***BREAKING NEWS***

Phara catches a strawberry 🍓
I realized I've been posting mostly sleeping Phara lately, so today is a thrilling strawberry action moment.

Video description: A beautiful pharoah hound catches a tossed strawberry from the air and chomps it down.

#dogs #SkyHounds
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The winter months are always the most difficult. Between the strays & the cats in the shelter, we’re going through an enormous amount of supplies. Consider helping us help cats by sending the kitties a gift from their wishlist : www.amazon.com/registries/g...

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Here are some perennial favorites that have also returned!!

(Sorry I didn’t have them sooner: I’m somehow never organized enough to order them the same week as the calendars 😞)
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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THREAD.

The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.

1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Also, just to reiterate: my preference is that anyone purchasing supports an indie bookshop with that purchase or goes through @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social or - if you are outside the UK - takes advantage of the fabulous @blackwells.bsky.social free international delivery option.
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Feeling slightly called out here.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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New commission finished!!

This portrait was requested by the wonderfully lovely Shirin Hodgson-Watt back in July 2022.

I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Bob Le Head.
November 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Cheddor calendars owt now!
My callyder! It reddy now!
Yoo can has order, dis be how
Jus klik below, da shippy fwee
Den yoo has callyder of me!

fartycheddarcat.etsy.com

#CheddarPoetry #2026Calendar #Callyder #MamaSesIfISells500DenIGetsHoleHam
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Making their live debut… Toes and the Toe Tones!

“Ime convinced my cuzzin Bullitt to play bass wif us” - Charlie

@auggiethebeck.bsky.social
@bertie1.bsky.social
@toesknows.bsky.social

#plundercats
#hedgewatch
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Super rare Marlena pic.

(Function I was dragged along to, I came 2nd in the target shooting and beat all the guys 😁).

I'm the one in the red skirt.
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Can anyone help with who this papillon girl is?
Somewhere among the #blueskydogs I follow is a papillon girl who's name I can't recall but whom I haven't seen in awhile. If this describes you, sweet puppy girl, or if my #Blueskydogs know who she is, please help. (My new meds are killing my memory.)
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM