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AmyS
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Continuing my efforts to follow every cat on Bluesky. And some of the dogs, too.

"If you're quiet now, you would have been quiet in 1940." - US citizen, City Council meeting, Elgin, IL, Nov. 2025
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The dogs know who the boss is. And it's not them.
Two medium-size dogs perch somewhat precariously on the back of a futon couch while the cat has the whole seat to herself.
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Not a great photo of Delilah (lap cam photos are tricky), but I like the way the light is highlighting her whiskers. #whiskerswednesday
A striped brown cat looking contemplative as the light plays on her whiskers.
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Look what just came in the mail! #plundercats
Bad photo of a dark red t-shirt with a cast head, a fish skeleton, and "Plundercat Air" printed on it. The shirt is a reference to a Bluesky cat meme.
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I bought a self-warming mat for Pip because he's getting older and seems to be cold at times. It's making Finn eepy.
Two cats, a flamepoint and a lynxpoint, pose together on a mat that's on a bed. The flamepoint is yawning.
October 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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What's it like inside your head?
Coyotes howling in a snowy landscape.
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Saw this gorgeous little guy on the lunchtime dog walk.
A Northern cardinal sits on a cement stair step. Zoomed out view of a Northern Cardinal.
May 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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All attempts at work immediately cease when this fellow needs attention.
A striped cat looks intently at his human in her office chair.
April 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Finn loves to spend time in my hair.
A flamepoint Siamese cat resets hoods paw in his human's hair. He is in mid-yawn.
March 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The face of a dog who has just discovered she was accidentally snuggling with the cat.
A tan dog looks at the camera suspiciously. A gray-brown striped cat sleeps next to her.
February 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Last one!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #19
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, a young adult novel by Chris Crutcher.
February 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Gosh, I might actually finish this thing...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #19
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of Tam Lin, a superb novel by Pamela Dean.
February 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #18
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
February 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #17
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Cover of Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean. The cover is a photo of smokejumpers circa 1949, the subject of the book, overlaid with a reddish color suggesting flames.
February 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Being unemployed has its advantages, like being able to fulfill my destiny as cat furniture.
A brownish cat sits on a reclining human.
January 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #16
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of Lost Girls, a nonfiction book by Robert Kolker about the murders of several young women near Gilgo Beach on Long Island, New York.
January 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I have a bunch of them. These are my dogs, Zoey and Phoebe.
A medium-sized tan and white dog in a backyard, looking happily at the camera. Her name is Zoey. A close up of a dog's face. She's am medium-sized tan and white dog named Phoebe.
January 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #15
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the nonfiction book The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, about how the US government colluded in enforcing segregation.
January 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Honorable mention.
Tino Martinez, retired NY Yankees player, in uniform during his playing days.
January 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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This may be the easiest question ever asked.
Photo of Giancarlo Stanton of the New York Yankees, on the baseball field wearing a black jersey and white pinstripe pants.
January 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #14
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Cover of the memoir Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward.
January 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #13
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of a paperback edition of The Riders by Tim Winton.
January 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #12
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of a recent edition of the novel Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy.
January 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #11
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of a mass-market edition of the novel A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. The cover shows a large farm field with a single bale of hay.
January 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #10
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of the novel Family Resemblances, by Lowry Pei. The cover shows a house reflected in the windows of a vintage car. Both feature prominently in the book.
January 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Book #9
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
The cover of I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a collection of children's poems and drawings from the Terezin (Therezienstadt) concentration camp. The cover features one of the dramas, a small building surrounded by a tall fence.
December 31, 2024 at 8:13 PM