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Ashlee
@cluesandcontext.bsky.social
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Archivist. Writer. I also do research in history (interested in everything but esp. GA/PE, labor, religion, gender). Someday I may call myself a historian. Midwesterner on the East Coast. The cat is named Merry. Opinions, my own.
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Here is some autumnal color for your Friday evening.
Red maple leaves adorn tree branches, with a clear blue sky behind the branches.
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Here are some autumn leaves and sunlight for a place to rest on your feed.
Sunlight filters through green, yellow, and orange leaves. Tree branches stretch from the right to the left of the photo.
October 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Here’s a sky and clouds photo I took this week so we can have a resting spot in the ongoing doomscroll
A photo of light and dark clouds rippling from one corner of the photo to the other; there is contrast and drama. In the left corner the uppermost branches of a tree are in silhouette.
September 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is
Display explaining the stones used in the Capitol building, at the National Museum of Natural History. Taken last summer.
August 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I wish I knew the research behind this because I don’t eat ham or seafood, and so I don’t know which ones dinged me higher socially (I assume the ham?). But it’s still fascinating to have taken.
A graph labeled “Your food choices resemble those of the middle class (85.71%)”. Three wedges of a circle have color levels in them: green for middle class is the highest, followed by yellow for lower class and then purple for lower middle class. Upper class and upper middle class barely register on the graph. (I also took the test once earlier and I got the same result but in the 70s.)
June 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Anyway here’s my cat, in the middle of playing with a toy.
A small black cat is lying on her side, gaze focused on a mouse-shaped toy. She is relaxed and calm and happy and she knows absolutely nothing about anything bad. The worst thing in the world for her is being told to get off the table and her having eaten to the bottom of the bowl and thinking it empty when it’s actually not. She’s very cute.
June 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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This baby, always.
Small black cat is sleeping on an unmade bed (she got settled before I could make it), her back tucked against pillows, one paw stretched out, claws lightly gripping the sheet. She is fully relaxed and at peace. She knows nothing except food, water, friend, sleep, play, and love. If only we could all sleep like little cats. 🐈‍⬛
May 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Happy birthday, Tortellini! Merry and I hope you have a purrrr-fect day!
Merry, a small black cat who is very cute, lounges on a striped blanket as she guards her bedroom against all intruders.
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A dramatic sunset from a few days ago. Just putting some beauty out into the world.
Purple-gray clouds swirl in the foreground, with light blue, pink, and purple behind as the sun sets off-image. Along the bottom and the bottom-left and bottom-right sides, tree branches are silhouetted and look as if they are reaching for the clouds. It’s really pretty.
March 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The Internet right now
The boyfriend checking out another woman meme template. The man in a blue shirt is labeled "Everything's" and he is looking at the woman in red. The woman on the right, in a blue tank, is labeled "Fine" and the woman in red on the left is labeled "Computer". Look, we all have to find SOME humor these days. Making this made me giggle.
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Sunset was pretty last night.
Dark clouds spread across the sky at sunset, with a medium blue at top reaching down into a bright pink and orange. A tree’s bare limbs stretches upward. Other trees are in silhouette.
February 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Merry, having no idea of anything other than her realm, wishes everyone can rest as well as she can. [Her human hopes her photo gives you a break in the doomscrolling.]
A small black cat (named Merry) sleeps in almost a perfect circle, with her head under her paws and and her tail tucked in around her. She’s on top of a dark blue sheet. She is cute.
January 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Merry says, “Happy New Year!” (even though her concept of time is most often only attuned to mealtimes and when I get home).
A small black cat (Merry) sits atop a two-volume “The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary”, which sits atop a shelf. This is where Merry sits when she wants to feel tall. Her head is tilted slightly as she looks at the photographer. Merry is very cute.
January 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Wow, I wonder why, Spotify. I wonder why.
“Your biggest listening day was November 7 with 309 minutes” “November was your Breakup Hollywood Pop season”
December 4, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Ooh Spotify Wrapped dropped!
My Spotify Wrapped stats image. Top artist is Taylor Swift. Top artists list are Swift, Adele, Florence + The Machine, Olivia Rodrigo, and Miley Cyrus. Top songs were Easy on Me, When We Were Young, Make You Feel My Love (all Adele), and then I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, and Florida!!! (both Swift). I listened to music on Spotify for 3,473 minutes this year.
December 4, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Here is Merry!
A small black cat stares intensely at the photographer (her human). She wants her human to play Chase-the-Toy, with the wand toy at her feet. She is very cute.
December 3, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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She wasn’t helping watch tonight, but she did request pets and treats several times.
Merry, a small black cat, stares intently at her human. She wants to play with a wand toy, which is on the floor in front of her.
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #388,687!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #388,687, Ashlee ‪@cluesandcontext.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 26, 2023"
September 21, 2024 at 2:01 AM