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☃️Itsa Me MarniO☃️
@silentmachine.bsky.social
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I have opinions and know stuff. Minneapolis enby witch with a pain disorder and cat. Part of the local sky cult. In my previous life I was a forensic psychologist, re: child sexual abuse. Now I garden and spread love to counteract my inner angst.
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silentmachine.bsky.social
Okay, of all the things I read this year, I've recommended this the most. Husband saw her read by chance at the end of last year so I got to read it this year, and my goodness. The best.

The second book comes out in January. So excited.

Moniquill Blackgoose share.google/uAKYvv567hMa...
A book cover for Moniquil Blackgoose To Shape A Dragon's Breath. A red cover with a stylized black ND gold dragon face with white block lettering over it. It also says "Nebula Award winning author"
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
My friend needed a ride to dinner. He gives me the address, it's my neighborhood, cool. So we get in, and I start driving and hear the Google Maps lady say "take a left on Lyndale."

I've lived here 20 years, man, I don't need directions. 😂

And I lost my seat to this guy. Insult to injury.
A silver point siamese curled up on a blanket and pressed up against a pillow covered with a heating pad.
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
silentmachine.bsky.social
My chances of getting murdered by this cat are very much not zero.
A silver point siamese is lit from below and to the side with very bright UV light. He looks straight into the camera in a menacing way.
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
I've been following this because I can't help myself (old habits die hard).

This coach disappeared last Thursday - and an assistant coach at the same school was convicted in '23 of CSA with a minor.

www.wjhl.com/news/crime/t...
Timeline: The search for fugitive coach Travis Turner (2 days ago) A screencap of a news caster named Anslee Daniel standing in front of a head shot of Coach Turner on a screen behind her, the words SEARCH FOR MISSING COACH next to the picture. The description of the video says "Search for fugitive high school coach enters seventh day."
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
I put this chair here for guests but he immediately put himself there when the radiator kicked on and I can't make myself move him now that the guests are gone.
A cat bed sits in an old rocking chair in front of a window and radiator. A cat is curled contentedly in the bed.
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
silentmachine.bsky.social
You’ve just died.
6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

Either from illness or malice. He will be the death of me.
A cat is rolling around in the uncleanness of the bathroom floor right next to the toilet that I just started moving everything from so that I could clean it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
He wouldn't settle down until he knew he had me pinned.
Old man siamese curled up with his head on my hand. His tail curls over my arm.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
The car water is not yet frozen. #Mnwx
A photo of a much reused bottle of water in a car cup holder surrounded by random items (coffee shop punch card, dad's ashes rock, roll of tape, earring, salt packet, parking tag)
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
It's so funny because my brother has been trying to "luck" into a new car (in Minnesota, it's so possible with the weather) and he keeps planning poorly. My block is historically bad for accidents.
A text exchange Me: Tonight would have been a good night to park on Franklin 😆 Me: The accidents started about 30 minutes ago Brother: I thought about that earlier today, but wasn't able to act on it quick enough. Me: There's always the weekend
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
silentmachine.bsky.social
He's had dinner, now he wants his lamp. So demanding.
Old man siamese licks his lips while bathing in the glow of a very bright orb happy light right next to him.
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
He really loves this lamp. If he's not RIGHT next to it, he's napping peacefully. Like real sun to him.
Closeup of a sleepy kitty on a pile of blankets in the glow of a sun lamp
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
After work we pretend it's before work in front of the Happy Light now that the sun goes down so freaking early. Cuddles are extra appreciated.
Old man siamese is on his blankets pile, my arm over him. His face is in the happy light beam.
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
Ope. Went through my old camera bag and found a whole bunch of memories I didn't have access to because of the TBI in my mid-20s, but I did go through all three sets of photos I found and laughed and cried until the end. So cathartic. Baby me was so naive but still so broken.
Me in the Trinity Alps, finally running away from all that I've known. I had cut off my family, my funds, and social norms to live in the woods. I know, I know. I was going to work for the California Conservation Corp, maintaining trails. I'd hitchhiked and been pretty dependent on the kindness of others to get to this point.
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
I went and dug out my old camera filters for you. Here they are! I had fun with these. I bet the snow would look great with any of them. Certainly there are modern versions 😆
Three VERY old filters circa 1960-70: Rolex Magi-glas Johannes Weber UV Filter Cokin Chroma-filter
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
When all there's left to do is reflect on what's been done
This is where sadness breathes, the sadness of everyone
Just like when the guys built the dam at Otter Creek
And all the water backed up deep enough to dive
We took the dead man in sheets to the river flanked by love
An image of the Pope busting some fat lyrics
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
silentmachine.bsky.social
Reach and... Touch.
A silver point siamese in shrimp position on his blankets, reaching out for his human with all paws. Only his back leg is able to reach, and it is slung over his human's leg.
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
You know. Grief is so weird. I've been up and down lately, but right now I really miss my mom.

We had such a complicated relationship. We argued so much. But we really were such good friends. I wish we could be talking about a lot right now. Processing. We'd be cackling, too.

It's a fucking lot.
Back and white of my mom, sitting on a house front stoop. She is wearing a dress and tights, with a camera around her neck. She clasps her hands in front of her knees. She I about 14.
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
Something something, share a cat.

Piss terrorists sleep like babies.
Cat sleepy sleepy cat so sleepy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
He was mad I got up, but definitely forgave me when he realized there was still heat available.
A silver point siamese is sitting on a blanket on a couch next to a pillow that has a heating pad on it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
silentmachine.bsky.social
I'm in the wrong group.
The painting Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell. It is an average looking working man in a blue plaid shirt, unbuttoned at the collar, brown jacket, buttoned only at the waist, and brown pants. He leans on the chair in front of him with both hands. His mouth is open and everyone around him is looking at him, but he also blends into the background.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Missy Elliot hit the scene with her Supa Dupa Fly, and it couldn't have been a better debut!
The album cover of Missy Elliot's Supa Dupa Fly, 1997
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
silentmachine.bsky.social
This woman thought she was so right about there being two lines she hit the gray car to prove it.

There were not two lines. She purposely damaged another person's car for... Krispy Kreme.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
This was last July. 😭
Three cats sit in various places of a kitty corner at an open window. One tortie, one calico, one silver point siamese.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
Also, THIS GUY lived in my house in the 40s. HAH.
Newspaper ad for a radio personality: A Voice You Know Clellan Card The biggest noise since firecrackers. His morning show will blast you out of bed- and his afternoon show... whew! 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday Morning Show for Twin Cities Chevrolety Dealers Dial 1200 ABC Affiliate WTCN the welcome voice you know (Photo of Clellan Card)
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
silentmachine.bsky.social
People were very excited about this new Hill Crest Surgical Hospital! It was going to be a groundbreaking new training school, as well as have high tech, advanced surgical equipment for the best surgeons. But nooo, NIMBY has always existed.
Headline: Hospital to be Model: Hill Crest Institute Will Have Everything For Comfort Of Patients. To built the finest surgical hospital in the southwest is the purpose of the Drs Archa Wilcox, J. Warren Little and C. G. Weston, who have associated themselves as the Hill Crest Surgical Hospital Company, with $50,000 capital. Dr. Frank C. Todd, specialist, is associated with the company as a stockholder, and a special operating room will be provided for his department, which will include the treatment of the eye, ear, throat and nose. The building, which is to stand at the southwest corner of Harriet and Franklin avenues, on a plot of 130 feet square will be of fireproof construction and will cost $50,000. It will be two stories with high basement, which will be more than one-half above ground. The main kitchen in this basement will be in charge of a woman nurse educated in that special feature of medical and surgical work. The diet of patients will be a matter of particular study in the hospital. In the half-basement will be the mechanical plant, which will include a ventilating system, independent for each room, vacuum cleaning machine, laundries, sterilizing system and quarters for the interns and the trained surgical nurses. On the first floor will be several private rooms with baths and several small wards, the general offices, special diet kitchen, dressing and examination rooms. Each room will have an outside window. The beauty of the outlook will be accentuated by a twenty-two-foot lawn and a total distance from the street of thirty feet. On this floor will be a solarium on the south side, to which the patients may be wheeled in their beds from either floor. On the third floor will be two operating rooms, two sterilizing rooms, dressing and sterilizing rooms, and a modern pathological laboratory for immediate examination of cultures, especially during operations. A special obstetrical suite is to be at the west end of the north wing. Headline: OBJECT TO NEW HOSPITAL: E.P. Allen Asks Judgment Against Proposed Hill Crest Institution Edmund P. Allen, 2016 Harriet Avenue, has taken legal steps to prevent the erection of the proposed Hill Crest Surgical Hospital at Harriet and Franklin Avenues. On Saturday he filed with the district court a request for a permanent injunction against beginning the work. Mr. Allen was the chairman of the neighborhood committee which recently visited the promoters of the hospital, Drs. J. Warren Little, G. G. Weston, and Archa E. Wilcox, with the offer to take the property off the hands of the hospital corporation. He is the only one to sign the complain in the injunction suit. Mr. Allen lives next door to the hospital site and he makes special objection to the solarium which is to be on the side of the hospital next to his house. He says that constant sight of patients and the presence of the hospital will work harm to the neighborhood and the members of his family. Discussing the suit, Dr. Wilcox said: "The hospital is only for surgical cases and will not in any way be a menace to the health of the community. No contagious diseases will be admitted. I think we can win out the case. We shall make immediate answer." Harriet Avenue side of Hill Crest Surgical Hospital.
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM