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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*Taps Stephen J Gould quote beside the bus door*

A black and white picture of a white man sitting at a desk with a microscope beside it. Above it, is the quote “I am, somehow less interested in the weights and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” -Steven Jay Gould

Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This one and the 2x2ft table with wires in various loops with wooden beads strung on it were both causes to assume my day was not going well

A waiting room with two small chairs, and a toy consisting of a small table with colored wires embedded in either side forming loops over the top with colorful wooden beads strung on it.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Me: walking into my bedroom “Oh, maybe I do get why I related so hard to seeking out the animal comfort of resting, surrounded by greenery to be able to endure and try to change a scary and threatening world…”

A bedroom with light turquoise walls and dark woodwork. A bed with a brown blanket and a green pillow in front of a window with three hanging plants. A large monstera on one bedside table, and a set of shelves with several large houseplants on the other side of the bed.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I extremely need @friends-table.bsky.social to add this guy to Perpetua. Maybe as friends with the dessert guys who played beachminton against Brontë and Antistrophe?

A tumblr post from user storywonker “They call me Johnny Six-Bowls. No, I don't smoke weed, it's - yeah, I know. It's cause when I cook I need a buncha those little bowls to put my stuff in. You know, cut up veggies and stuff. What's the word. Mise en place. Yeah. So I gotta have a bunch of em with stuff all prepped before I start. Elsewise it's all chaos. Anyway. You here to duel? Or should I give you head”

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Zelda tends to only do a half-roumd, but her daughter, Zora is a true champion of the roumd. I’m half convinced her father was a popple.

A longhair tabby cat curled on her side in a white, round cat bed, asleep.

A longhair tabby cat curled in a very tight ball on a grey textured cloth background.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I finished my first quilt! I feel like it’s a pretty good first effort for a self-taught sewist on a second hand basic domestic machine. I probably could have gone a touch less magpie with the fabrics, but I didn’t. It’s exactly the cozy, cheerful touch my living room needs with winter incoming.

A multicolored handmade quilt on a pile of yellow fallen leaves.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Zelda from a few days ago trying to subtly tell me it’s time to turn on the heat for the fall.

A longhair tabby cat partially under an orange and grey blanket looking at the camera with an annoyed expression.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I got my cats a head bed a few years ago, and I have never in my life loved anything as much as my younger cat, Zora loves this bed. This is one of her less ridiculous sleeping positions in it.

A longhair tabby cat with an orange belly is lying on her back curled against the side of a beige cat bed with one leg sticking out over the edge.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I have never in my life been as relaxed as Zora napping in her heated bed.

A longhair tabby cat with orange fur on her belly sleeping on her back with her paws tucked in in a beige cat bed.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Not from today, but Zelda is a champion napper as well.

A longhair tabby/tortoiseshell mix asleep curled on a white, fluffy cat bed.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

TFW the human tries to get up after only an hour of morning cuddles.

A longhair tabby cat lying in a brown blanket looking very annoyed at the camera.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery #bloomscrolling My Hoya australis lisa is a beauty of a plant at all times, but the flowers she put out last fall were especially striking.

A close up on a group of white flowers with pink edges from a Hoya australis lisa in front of a white door

A green, yellow, and pink plant Hoya australis lisa in front of a white wall with a grouping of small white and pink flowers at the top of a circular trellis.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Zelda has fallen deeply in love with the new kitty condo, and it’s so much cozy floof, I’m about to die.

A longhair tabby cat curled in a white cat bed in front of a teal wall.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

From a couple weeks ago, Zora being a very contented windowsill kitty.

A longhair tabby cat lying in a wood windowsill, looking at the camera.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

The Zelda and Zora hope you get a chance to rest and care for yourself.

Two longhair tabby cats sleeping with their foreheads pressed together. They are sleeping on sheets patterned with rainbows over mountains.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

She’s very sweet and cuddly. Pretty much anyone who sits down in my house will have a lap full of Zelda instantly. It shows when she’s sleeping, but awake, she looks like she has tested you and found you extremely wanting.

A longhair tabby/tortie cat sleeping curled on a light grey bed with an aqua wall in the background.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

I love RBF cats! My older kitty, Zelda has truly epic resting judgy face, and it just makes me want to snuggle her all the more to gain her approval.

A long haired tabby/tortise shell cat sitting on a leaf patterned blanket, looking deeply unimpressed at the camera.

A longhair tabby cat looking very judgementally at the camera. A blurry bedroom in the background.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Welcome, new folks! Meet Zelda, perfecter of the morning cuddle, and Zora, who has a concern about the human willingly sitting in funny smelling hot water for hours on end.

A very fluffy longhair tabby cat sleeping curled on rainbow sheets pressed against a dark grey comforter

A longhair tabby cat leaning her head over the edge of a bathtub with a look of concern on her face.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Please have Zora being the most ridiculously relaxed creature on the planet. She loves that heated bed more than anyone has ever loved anything ever.

A longhair domestic tabby lying on her back in a beige, oval cat bed on a grey chair. She has her front feet tucked in and one back leg tucked in while the other back leg is extended out of the bed.

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