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@doctorscience.bsky.social
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scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.
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This squirrel comes and carefully nibbles on the screen wires, I have no idea why, paying no attention at all to #Purrcy inside the house. If you turn the volume up high you may be able to hear him purring.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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#Aurora in Hopewell #NJ! Samsung phone camera, no mods. Not very visible to naked eye, but I wasn't outside in the cold long enough to really get my eyes fully dark-adapted.
Night sky in the gap between leafy and bare tree branches, filled with a pinkish-purple aurora. Some stars are visible through the aurora. Night sky in the gap between leafy and bare tree branches, filled with a bright pink aurora. Some stars are visible through the aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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#Purrcy looks very *intent* but not necessarily *intelligent* because ... there was a MOTH! Flying much too high for him to even try grabbing, but a riveting prey item nonetheless
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stares upward very intently, not toward the camera or human but away as if toward the ceiling. His eyes are wide and green.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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#Purrcy loves the Cat TV video "Ultimate Mouse Maze Mania" (which is really gerbils) but he's not fooled, they don't *smell* and he can't *touch* them. I don't know what he thinks they are, in his little brain ...
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is looking at a video of gerbils on a laptop. He's tapping lightly at the mousehole on the screen, wondering where the rodent has gone.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Such an elegant, painterly pose, as #Purrcy looks over his shoulder at the window, where the wind whooshes outside.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
A head and shoulders shot of Purrcy the tuxedo tabby, sitting in his box but looking back over his shoulder like an elegant lady in a painting
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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My #preorders upcoming for Tuesday Nov 5:
- The Nameless Land, @kateelliottsff.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Cover for The Nameless Land, by Kate Elliott: Two people stand on a road with their backs to us, a woman in possibly DnD Ranger-type clothes with a hood, and a man with reddish hair wearing a blue long coat with silver embroidery. They're looking across a misty landscape towards a misty purplish castle-city, rearing up behind tall white walls.
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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There was a Costco delivery, so that means: the best kind of #Purrcy box shenanigans! They're in the kitchen! They have holes! They're sturdy enough for a rumpus! Made for cat, clearly
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby, on his back inside a large cardboard produce box, is waving his paws, his eyes wide and fangs showing slightly. He is rambunctious!
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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More #preorders coming this week!
* Pub Date Thurs Oct 30:
- Of the Emperor's Kindness by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
* Pub Date Fri Oct 31:
- Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Cover for Of the Emperor's Kindness by Chaz Brenchley. A woman of ambiguous race wearing a light green renfaire gown stands in a partly-open elaborate wrought iron gateway. Letters over the door spell VERANTHA. The stonework around the gate is vaguely Asian but really of no known culture. White birds are flying about. A tall mansion of no distinct earthly style is seen in the mist behind the gate. Cover for Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround by Jennifer R. Donohue. Letters are simple white with dark outline, background is mostly blue, with staticky black, white, and other interruptions.
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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It's #preorders day! Dropping this evening Eastern time, pub date Tuesday:
* Blood for the Undying Throne by @sung-il-kim.com, transl. @antonhur.com.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
* Dead Hand Rule by @maxgladstone.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Cover of Blood for the Undying Throne by Sung-Il Kim, translated by Anton Hur: A woman in dark, waving or torn garments, with long red hair blowing up and behind her, floats with arms outstretched: one hand with a spiky crown, one with an open book. Behind her is a gold disk. Behind that an ominous dark figure rises with glowing eyes, and further back 3 dark, chained coffins. Cover for Dead Hand Rule by Max Gladstone, book 3 of the Craft Wars Series: a young white woman with shoulder-length blond hair hair & blue eyes, wearing a black T-shirt and salmon shorts, stands in front of clouds. Her left hand is uplifted, wound with a white snake/cloud, which stretches up to what might be an inverted image of a steampunk city's towers, emerging from clouds, surrounded by targeting circles.
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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It was a really chilly night a couple days ago, so there was a VERY cuddly #Purrcy next to my legs & feet all night. Very choice.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies on his side looking at the camera, with his front paws curled up against his chest and his back paw extended toward the viewer. He is endlessly adorable.
October 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#Purrcy was inside, enjoying the sun and breeze, when suddenly there was a human outside! Taking pictures! And it's Mommy! Hi Mommy!
Hi fuzzy baby! What a loving face you have
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby looks eagerly through the screen toward the camera taking his picture from outside the house. It's a sunny day, he's sitting a white window ledge, his pupils are just slits. One front paw extends towards the camera, he looks intent and happy.
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#Purrcy was loving being petted while being as close to outside in the lovely fall sunshine and smells as he could get. Even though we're in NJ, we have *coyotes* as well as foxes, Great Horned Owls, & motor vehicles--it's much safer to be indoor-only, also better for the birds.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies on his back in the sunlight on a window ledge in front of a screen, looking up lovingly at his human. His pupil is only a slit in his light green eye, his nose is very pink, his whiskers long, his paws are folded like a bunny's, his belly looks VERY soft. You can tell the window is low to the ground, blurry leaves, stones, and a few plants are visible outside it.
September 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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#Purrcy was very concerned, walking hunched and close to the floor, because there had been the distant sounds of a *very* large growling something out there in the sky earlier ... he REALLY hates the Thunder Growler, this is his Sad Face about it
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is standing on a wood floor, looking up with his head cocked. His whiskers are rather droopy, his pupils wide, his expression deeply worried. He is very concerned that the Thunder Growler may show up again.
September 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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An empty jacuzzi is an ideal spot for wild! shenanigans! And it's also great for slowly sneaking toward mom, like the mighty predator you are.
#purrcy #cats #CatsOfBluesky
A slightly blurry action shot of Purrcy the tuxedo tabby in the empty jacuzzi bathtub, twisting around after his tail Purrcy the tuxedo tabby has crept to the inside rim of the tub and is staring up with his big, light green eyes, very much like a stalking tiger. Beware!
September 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I have a set of baskets made to hold paper bags to collect paper for recycling. They're also a VERY useful for collecting cats!
#purrcy #cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby looks up at the camera from inside a paper bag inside a basket. His eyes are wide, his whiskers spread.
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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In college I got in the habit of taking my shower at night to avoid the rush & I never stopped. Nowadays #Purrcy often comes in after I'm done to Stalk the Wild Drips, and he'll mew at me if there aren't enough.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is gazing intently up a wet shower wall, waiting for a Wild Drip to appear
September 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Sometimes #Purrcy is just such a funny little gremlin, wiggling around lovingly, showing the trap that is the soft soft underbelly.
#Caturday #cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby wiggles upside down, showing his belly, looking very silly and touchable and not at all like someone who will grab any hand that infringes his airspace.
September 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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There were bugs up on the rafter above #Purrcy 's head. I don't think he thought they were prey but they sure were *fascinating*.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is lying on top of a cardboard box, gazing upward with blown pupils and fascinated whiskers. He looks both eager and wary, like he can't quite believe what he's seeing.
September 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I hear we're cute posting

The last week or so the weather has gotten cool at night, which means open windows and a cuddly #Purrcy at my feet every time I lie down or wake up. It's a good life.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is at the foot of the bed and has wiggled onto his back, exposing the soft, fluffy underbelly and dangling his white paws. He looks perfectly cute and loving and not at all like someone who would attack any hand that tried to pet the tummy (IT'S A TRAP)
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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When #Purrcy is very happy to be next to a human he sits upright on his butt like a little guy, spreads his legs, & prepares to lick his belly & otherwise have a good time. He is extremely vulgar & the envy of all human males, I'm informed.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is sitting up like a human with a kind of dopey expressing on his face. Trust me, I've chosen the camera angle carefully.
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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"What are *you* doing in the kitchen at 2am, Mom?" said #Purrcy, who'd been napping on a comfy freezer bag left on the floor. (I'd stayed up too late re-^nth-reading Mansfield Park, is what).
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby sits on a red and black freezer bag from Trader Joes on a kitchen floor. His neck is twisted so his face is looking straight upward, quizzicly.
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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At one point #Purrcy was looking very regal as he stre-e-e-e-etched his arms out in front of him & crossed his paws, but by the time I got over to take his picture his expression was kind of vacant. That probably just makes it more authentically royal.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby sits on the back of a brown sofa, stretching his arms out in front of him almost as long as his entire body and crossing his paws delicately at the end.
September 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Love my face! said #Purrcy, so I did.
There had to be so many scritches & pets & purrs & paws treading in the air before there could even be cat food or a first cup of coffee, because: priorities! And really, how could I disagree?
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby looks at the camera adoringly while receiving scritches at the side of his chin. His whiskers are spread wide. He's lying on his side on a red blanket spread on a chair, his white paws are clenched as they tread with affection
September 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It's been a long time since I did #Purrcy posts regularly, I'll try to get back into the habit, starting with #Caturday
When I got back from #Worldcon, Purrcy wasn't *terribly* clingy ... but he did try some new things, like just parking on the keyboard. No computer, only cat.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky
Purrcy the tuxedo tabby sits on a desktop computer keyboard, staring off into space. Bits of the screen (bluesky, Surprised Eel Historian) and a messy desktop can be seen around him, but the basic message of No Computer For You is easy to grasp
September 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I think it's play, & as I think about it, I'm thinking it's that I wear my hair pulled back into a braid & scrunchied, but over time it gets loose & wispy near my face. And if I push the wisps back without thinking, they'll sure fly around enticingly. & he grabs with a paw each side of head
Mature white woman with red & gray hair pulled back tightly from her face, wearing eyeglasses, apparently incapable of smiling naturally while taking a selfie even though she's quite cheerfuly, really Mature white woman with gray hair she tells herself still retains hints of red escaping from her bun and wisping around her face and eyeglasses. Heading toward a Mad Madam Mim look, I fear.
September 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM