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A bear in a bat costume. I'm a writer of the purple sage. A gay, boisterous, fine-looking, dare-devil boy.
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Part Two of the surprise special bonus broadcast “What the Golden Mouse Did…” is up on the BCN Patreon!

You can find our Patreon here: patreon.com/breakingcatnews I’ve always asked folks to pay what they can, all of the content is unlocked at every tier!
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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tumblr post tsaescii Follow Oct 1 spreading my attention across several things at once to make no progress on any of them at maximum efficiency . . .
October 9, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Hearing a lot about Oz this week? 🧙🏼‍♀️ Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog!
📖 Learn more ⬇️
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#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
Map of Oz; John R. Neill – Tik-Tok of Oz, first published in the United States in 1914. At the top is the title from the book The Marvelous Land of Oz.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The Internet Archive’s microfiche digitization #livestream gives you real-time preservation work plus mellow lo-fi vibes — the chillest way to watch history get saved.

Our second shift is live now (4 PM–Midnight PT).
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#LiveNow #Preservation #LiveStream @Archive.org
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
fleetsparrow.bsky.social
I'm entering this competition and you can too! wn.nr/ErEFFj3
GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW giveaway
Win a copy of GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW Shipped anywhere in the world Brand new paperback edition from Arcadia ‘This is historical fantasy at its best’ S.A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass ​***...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
September 4, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
The average amount of SNAP received is about $173. Which means you could fund nearly a million families for a month if we just didn't buy her two private jets to fly around and do racist pressers. Which by the way, seems excessive.
roryflynn808.bsky.social Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · Oct 18
Do I understand this correctly? We're shelling out $172 million for two private jets for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal officials while no funds are available for SNAP (food stamp) recipients in November. Does that about cover it?
lyndagood.bsky.social LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · Oct 18
$172 million on private jets for Kristi Noem? Incredible.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is supposed to save lives and protect our coasts, but apparently it’s easier and far more important to fund her personal travel budget. Wasteful doesn’t even begin to cover it.
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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garius.bsky.social
It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com
Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Scar-Crossed Lovers: Sladick Zine
Scar-Crossed Lovers is a physical, for-charity zine focusing on the romantic relationship between Dick Grayson and Slade Wilson!
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October 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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nygroove.nyc
Yeah, everyone hates the AI subway ads as much as you do nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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jijidraws.art
✶ Poison Ivy ✶
Who doesn’t love a goth baddie? xx
#art #poisonivy
A pinup illustration of a fan reimagining of Poison Ivy from DC Comics. She is in a latex bottom and latex boots visible from the upper thigh upwards, in a push up top with a cropped fishnet coverup. She’s thick, stretch marks prominent on her green skin. Her hair is long and wavy, a bright orange at the top blending down to magenta tips.
September 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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ashleyeleigh.bsky.social
It's me. I'm bitches.
quietblkgrl.blacksky.app Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · Sep 29
The problem is we don’t put fine ass men in rom coms no more. They get sent straight to action, thriller and super hero movies. Bring back chick flicks. Bitches just wanna swoon 😩
September 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
fleetsparrow.bsky.social
Check out Echoes - A One Shot Horror Comic on @BackerKit!

Only 29 hours to go with less than $250 left to raise!

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Echoes - A One Shot Horror Comic
In the early morning hours after the witch is burned, a sole mourner comes to pay their respects to the smoldering stake, only to find that something is lurking in the nearby woods. Think The VVitch m...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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breakingcatnews.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking of this advice from my childhood often lately… It’s good advice. ❤️
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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basil-mage.bsky.social
Bruh
Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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danmeichael.bsky.social
mindreading is such a fun underutilized thing for erotic horror because sometimes your thoughts are truly not things you want or even consciously chose to think about and that has a lot of potential.
August 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Okay I just CANNOT think or focus this morning and I have an ANXIETY STOMACHACHE

One like, one piece of writing advice from Fiasco the cat
a fluffy grey tabby with yellow eyes pretending he has one working brain cell, curled up in a chair covered with a colourful blanket. he is looking at the viewer.
July 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
⚡️JUST NOW IN JONESBOROUGH: “Senator Marsha Blackburn” finally showed up at a town hall! 👀 🐔 🔥

(@MarshaBlackburn’s last town hall was in February of 2017)
July 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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jeannakadlec.bsky.social
this missive is a book announcement, but it's also:

- reflections on how cautious the nonfiction side of publishing is right now
- a detailed timeline of idea to sale
- PLUS anonymized editor rejections i received for this project

jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/astrology-...
astrology for writers IS A BOOK
PLUS: being on sub + editor rejections!
jeannakadlec.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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jeannakadlec.bsky.social
I'M WRITING ANOTHER BOOK

jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/astrology-...
astrology for writers IS A BOOK
PLUS: being on sub + editor rejections!
jeannakadlec.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The Wayback Machine link is ➡️ web.archive.org
Excuse the typo.
Wayback MachineHamburger iconInternet Archive logoWeb iconTexts iconVideo iconAudio iconSoftware iconImages iconDonate iconEllipses iconDonate iconUser iconUpload iconSearch iconSearch iconSearch icon...
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June 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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IRC started in 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen created a real-time chat protocol. 🌐 It soon grew into networks like EFnet (1990) and Undernet (1992), shaping online communities long before social media.

Here's a May 1993 memo about an experimental IRC protocol ➡️ archive.org/details/rfc1...
Top of page 1 of a memo. It reads: Network Working Group Request for Comments: 1459 J. Oikarinen D. Reed May 1993 Internet Relay Chat Protocol Status of This Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The IRC protocol was developed over the last 4 years since it was first implemented as a means for users on a BBS to chat amongst themselves. Now it supports a world-wide network of servers and clients, and is stringing to cope with growth. Over the past 2 years, the average number of users connected to the main IRC network has grown by a factor of 10. The IRC protocol is a text-based protocol, with the simplest client being any socket program capable of connecting to the server. Below this are the Contents. 1.1 Servers The server forms the backbone of IRC, providing a point to which clients may connect to to talk to each other, and a point for other servers to connect to, forming an IRC network. The only network configuration allowed for IRC servers is that of a spanning tree [see Fig. 1] where each server acts as a central node for the rest of the net it sees. Below this is the diagram for Fig. 1. Format of IRC server network
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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archive.org
As one of the most popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients, mIRC brought real-time online communities to life in the ’90s. Today, mIRC still serves a dedicated base of developers, hobbyists, & open-source communities.

Explore web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ xttps://web.archive.org/
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now." Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the mIRC website from December 21, 1996, alongside a capture from June 1, 2025
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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storyenginedeck.bsky.social
If writing feels futile right now, remember why people need stories. Remember you've got Tolkien and Le Guin in your corner. Remember that people still tell stories during the dark times. That's actually when they need them most.

Reconnect with your inner storyteller.
Story Engine is in the corner of a black bar with the words Shop, Blog and Info in white text evenly spaced. Beneath it is a quote; "...fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?...it ours plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can."
June 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM