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carapace shell

@carapaceshell.bsky.social
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failed librarian, archivist, celticist, medievalist, and linguist; long covid and m.e. enjoyer somewhere near tacoma fix your hearts or die pfp: skeleton cradling flower (hugo simberg's garden of death) banner: siamese cat tucked into bed watching tv

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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 7h
oh! this is on my list
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 28/09/2026
No one does aeroplane ears *quite* like Smol Paul
A ridiculous tuxedo cat pulling a face I can only describe as "sleepy opinionated derp"
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's such a great painting. The cropped pfp doesn't do it justice.
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(slapping hood) this bad boy don't look like much but damn it can fit so much enclosure
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cursed sense memory of cleaning my apartment to this record with the windows open in the fall of 2003
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My dog has a doghouse and her doghouse is haunted by a ghost @pupperpats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm thinkin about thos beans
Black and white cat laying in a silly way and showing off her toe beans  on my pasty ass legs
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comfort foods @primpker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Care to comment on this photo I took of you?
Pig writing the words "my name is pig"
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look at my pfp dawg, I don't need a spooky handle
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love her
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1000 Island Stare
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The other problem I have is trying to listen for when the pops slow down to hit stop but my husband is talking to me and I can't do both at the same time and I feel like a little microwave troll
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you for articulating what I couldn't find the words for. I definitely felt this way at 40, but now at 48 and with 6.5 years of long covid sedimentation the situation is dire
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1400 years ahead of schedule
thomas violence @thomas_violence
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the year is 3403 AD, crime is legal and cop's are illegal, only one man is willing to break the law to make the law legal again: Crimecop
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I did an exercise in an observational drawing class where we made a collage and we were allowed to trace the collage as part of this exercise, and I get into squabbles about tracing constantly with artists. One can actually learn something via tracing. I know this is touchy for us. But come on
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Mark Reel @markreel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She fucking hates it
Suzie the cat wearing a body suit Suzie the cat wearing a body suit
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this actually tracks with my experience, at least in practice
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm a Doctor. Let's Give Harm a Second Look.
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skoals @muscleskoals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
can i at least get on the lefty spam text list. can you get zohran and abdul sending me 8 paragraph texts instead of talarico and mayor pete
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Waiting for the adrenaline and cortisol to clear my system so I can enjoy the fact that my husband apparently overrode my notifications blackout to tell me (over the phone) ☎️🚨🔔‼️ about some really good leftovers in the fridge
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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That thing that everyone famously loves and never worries about being slapped with incomprehensible taxes and overcharges on: choosing a cell phone plan
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an evan @elsplice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
here's a bug playing right field
cartoon drawing of a little bug (like a beetle) wearing a baseball hat and glove, standing among the grass, looking on attentively. Not sure what his stats are this season
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super Fries
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
felt a lil baby earthquake here in pierce county
Screengrab of USGS site showing a 4.0 magnitude earthquake at 2:05 pm PT outside Burley, Washington
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Move over Face Down River Dad; it's Face Down Ice Child
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reposted with screen contents cropped lol
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was OCR-searching for photo proof of a mug I'd found on a stoop in Brooklyn many years ago, and came across this forgotten pic of Roger and Terry recumbent-fighting
On a desk under a monitor are two orange and white cats slap-fighting while lying on their sides facing each other. Nearby is a mug that says "Have a nice day asshole!"
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also is that a stray paw flailing in the background? He is a wonder
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[turns to stone because a baby looked at me through the computer]
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 24/09/2026
Cat people will really be like "this is my cat, Hieronymus Josh" and then start the next sentence with "she"
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i wonder if r. budd and christine are up there goofing and chopping it up
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
please, sir, i want to eat the paints
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Closeup of tuxedo cat receiving jowl rubs, mouth agape, eyes half open, stupefied
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 27/09/2026
Oh lawd he comin
View from my bed. A ridiculous tuxedo cat is flolloping up the cat steps. OH LAWD HE HERE
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charnel booty @laughingrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Get in here with a notebook, I’m having Revelations
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy birthday Hex 🧡
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is my tinnitus in the room with us right now?
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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Has the G ever run? Science and archeology have yet to reveal to us mere mortals whether the G train is an actual route via which denizens are transported or if is merely a vast subterranean sculpture
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm probably using the wrong terminology but it's this rhetorical device I never saw in my 40+ years of reading and now I'm seeing everywhere: using "to name" as a quirky stand-in for "to acknowledge." E.g. "There are limitations worth naming here" or "Let's name it: You hate bugs."
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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
he just got his tongue caught on the crocheted blanket i’ve wrapped him in (he insisted). well guy try not evolving a horrible barbed monstrosity
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ooooooo / i'm pacin' my life away
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It took your glasses. Sorry I don't make the rules
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spotted in the staff break room of Drottningholms Slottsteater, an 18th-century opera house in Stockholm in 2016
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A printout stuck to a wall or door with a magnet. It says, in silly florid font, Ladies please, you can't Handel me! Now Bach off! With an 18th century engraving under it of a man with two women.

There is also a crudely cut meme printed out below this which shows quote unquote acceptable behaviors on one side next to clip art (e.g., reading, listening to music, etc.) and on the other side under quote unquote not acceptable: an 18th century portrait of a man with the caption: Literally eating yourself to death by consuming 14 helpings of dessert
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Naming it helps: When you see a mf talking about "naming" something, you just know a mf used AI to write it
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yup. They have confirmed and added that they're delicious
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carapace shell @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Texting my folks about this. My family's from Maine and before that New Brunswick. This feels like something my grandmother would have had on a table of cold cuts when I was little
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CryptΩ-Z∞l໐gᴉcal Disaster 𓆑🏴 @eatyrselffitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
welcome back the internet's number one show about pry bars, crowbars, shims, utility knives and hammers, if it lets you breach a crate that's great,we're talking about it here! on Eyes on the Prys
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goof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh no, was it weird to bring iced coffee to this 3,000th vibes-based discrimination gauntlet I've run this month? That we've put hallucinating AI in charge of screening for? Does a columnist who hasn't interviewed for a job since 1995 think it's WEIRD? Oh fuck, oh no
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Stoo @stoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wonderful catte
A tabby cat staring wide-eyed into the top corner of a room, slightly alarmed but also quizzical
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