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Jo the Hat
@jothehat.bsky.social
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Some flavour of neurodivergent. Some flavour of queer. Not normal about LotR, Leverage, Doctor Who, SPN. Cat person. She/her.
[Banner is a pretty sunset over grassland. Avi is selfie of a white woman with short, salt and pepper hair, and Doctor Who shirt.
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full view of Christmas tree wrapped in warm white fairy lights and covered in gold and purple decorations.
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Tree is up (for now - cat is taking more interest this year than previously 😬). Son chose Rasputin as the theme...
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:
Leverage The Rundown Job, Parker, Eliot and Hardison standing back to back and looking intense and/or worried.
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I don't know if all Garys are as spicy as this one was, but my mouth is actually on fire. 🔥
Empty packet for Gary the penguin - a Children in Need gingerbread.
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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If you're looking for Hanukkah cards, these are tactile with a braille and large print greeting...

shop.rnib.org.uk/search?q=han...
Image showing the raised tactile detail on a lit blue menorah on a Happy Hanukkah card.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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He says hi. And where are the snaccs?
Tabby and white cat looking extra cute, lying on a duvet with his face upside down to the camera.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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TO DO • BUILD COMMUNITY • SHOP SMALL & LOCAL • SPEAK UP & SPEAK OUT • PRACTICE EMPATHY • PROTECT THE VULNERABLE • GIVE TO GOOD CAUSES • CARE FOR THE EARTH • BE BRAVE & LOVING • INVESTIGATE • READ & LISTEN • ABIDE NO FASCISM
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Four panel drawing by Sophie Labelle. 1. A dark and foreboding woodland in dark grey colours with pink text Trans day of vengeance. 2. Storm clouds with lightning forking out and dark purple text: Trans day of reckoning. 3. Waves crash into a cliff which is home to a lighthouse. Light, twirly black text: Trans day of justice. 4. On a table are a plate of finger foods and a pink drink with an umbrella. Bubble-shaped lilac text: Trans day of having a nice little snack.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Pinched from Tumblr...
Post with poster's details removed. Text reads 'My dad just sent me this ... crying laughing emoji' Photo of three pedals from a manual drive vehicle. Left pedal labelled 'van clutch'; middle pedal labelled 'van stop'; right pedal has a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh as its label.
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Post by cspenn: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Four panel comic featuring two young women (a skinny white woman with bobbed blue hair and a curvy light brown skinned woman with long blonde hair in an up-do. Blue hair has a short green skirt, sleeveless black top and small stud earrings in. Blonde in a little black dress has colourful drop earrings, chunky necklace and bracelets on both wrists). 1. Blonde woman looking in a full length mirror "I feel like I put on too many accessories for dinner..." 2. Blue hair comes over and puts an arm around blonde" "Well, you what Coco Chanel said... 'Jews should be legally barred from oning businesses.'" 3. Blonde says "What?" and Blue hair replies "Yeah, she was a Nazi collaborator." 4. Blue hair, walking off, "You look great! Let's go to dinner!"
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Florbing his porg for #Caturday!
Nicked from Tumblr - an orange tabby standing near a door with a big glass pane that has a blind unrolled all the way. Head and front paws are hidden by the blind, but his primordial pouch is sticking out like a beer belly.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Re: Sold his stock (+5, Informative) SteveWoz 3 days ago I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $1OM plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Screenshot of news story from AP. Headline: In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols. Image of coast guard boats. Text: The new order came after The post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as 'potentially divisive" under guidelines set for release next month.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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And, finally, yes. We make this joke every time we reach this point on our visit.

[The camera turns to show trees behind us and then the field ahead. All of it filled with crows (plus a couple of rooks)] /FIN
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Compact grey heron in wide, shallow stream with tree branches and foliage giving some cover. ZOINK! Same heron with neck now extended to check out the pesky humans on the bank.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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View from a hide window of a large pond of shallow water (still frozen in places) with long grasses breaking it up. Dark trees run along the horizon beneath blue sky with wispy white cloud and a pale sun. Point where two rivers join. Sun bathes the light-coloured trees on the far bank and a suspension foot bridge is visible over the larger river. In a shallow spot a heron and a great white egret are having a stand-off over this prime fishing spot. Leaf-bare branches dotted with small, dark red berries in front of a bright blue sky. Under big blue East Anglian skies painted with wisps of white cloud, houseboats are moored on the calm river, with wood smoke rising from one on this chilly afternoon.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A very blue and gold kinda day...
Almost bare oak tree photographed against a cloudless forget-me-not blue sky. Crows sit on branches or fly across the frame. View across small lake. Foliage that has turned golden in the foreground, brown and dark green trees along the horizon and reflecting in the slightly rippled water. Brilliant blue sky above marked with a few thin wispy trails of white cloud. A gull flies in from the left. Photo taken straight into the low winter sun, which is lighting up a trail of white cloud in the pale blue sky. On the grass beneath are many, many expectant crows. The river as seen from the bridge. Bright blue sky above tree-lined banks, dark on the right, golden on the left. All reflected in the calm surface of the water.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Lovely walk today - got a proper look at the Kingfisher (no photo though!) and many other good birbs...

As you can see in this video the crows started flying in as soon as we parked, and gathering in the oak tree. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Transgender day of remembrance graphic. Text (including 'November 20') in blue and pink on black background. Above the text five lit candles in blue, pink and white, arranged like the transgender flag.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Don't make me choose between the Thiefsome and Destiel. I can't abandon these ships...
Leverage: The Rundown Job. Parker, Eliot and Hardison standing back to back in a triangle looking perturbed by the out of frame cops advancing on them. Supernatural. Dean and Cas standing way too close together. Dean looking at Cas's lips as usual. Cas looking intently at Dean.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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One of the many reasons I fell in love with Chris Brookmyre's Quite Ugly One Morning was this perfect two-deck headline in his prose. (He's also a former sub!)
Section of a page from Quite Ugly One Morning: the wooden surroundings in a slow-fading glow. 'And as for this, fuck's sake!' He flipped over the Evening Capital from the sports section at the back so that his picture was staring up from the front page under the headline: MAN HELD AFTER RITUAL SLAYING, with the strap: GORY FIND: Police question half-naked suspect over Maybury Square bloodbath. '"'Half-naked suspect"? What are the sub-editors on at that bloody place?'
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Tiny part Bengal tabby coloured kitten sitting facing away from the camera on a lap Same small half Bengal Tabby coloured cat standing on an arm being held up. She's very focussed on the binmen outside and trying to decide if she can take them down.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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It is both fucken wimdy and fucken soggy out there...
Selfie of middle-aged white woman returned from a walk in soggy hoodie with wet hair hanging in rats' tails. Light grey tracksuit bottoms photographed by owner still wearing them. They are wet through from mid-thigh downwards.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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GP has prescribed HRT and used the phrase "I see our vampires haven't had their hands on you since 2017..."
Found a cute ceramic shark in charity shop.
Cornflower blue and off-white ceramic shark with a toothy but friendly smile
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM