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Cat in the Shell

@catoperated.com
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Chronically online and disabled writer. Very queer—as in gay & trans but also weird. 40 or 50 years old More @ catoperated.carrd.co ⚧️ALL pronouns No GenAl, pay creators (like me) instead. I post and repost lots of cats.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/05/2024
in Japan you can take the Cat Train to the Cat Station to meet the Cat stationmaster, and I think that's beautiful
Tama Densha train running from Wakayama Station to Kishi Station

commuter train decorated with cat themed arttrain interior, also cat themeds6atin exterior, building has eyes and ears like a catthe current stationmaster, Nitima, asleep on a pillow
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Cat in the Shell @catoperated.com · 03/10/2026
I made a gfm for our septic tank problem. Toss in a few bucks if you can, share if you can’t. Thanks! #MutualAid
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Donate to Help Us Out of a Crappy Situation, organized by Bec McKenzie
Times have been tough for my family, and the septic tank pump breaking only made… Bec McKenzie needs your support for Help Us Out of a Crappy Situation
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🖖🏳️‍⚧️T'Lynn 🦇David🦇 Cooper🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And I would just like to say: Don't let the fuckers take Indiana Jones from you. He hated Nazis. Right-Wing Failures don't get to take the shit you love away, just because they can't cope with changing times and approach everything from a place of intolerance and hate. #Filmsky🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRights📽️
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Indiana Jones Gives Thumbs Up in Plane
Alt: Indiana Jones Gives Thumbs Up in Plane to his dad, James Bond.
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Cat in the Shell @catoperated.com · 02/10/2026
$375 copay for a procedure on top of ecerything, so any help is appreciated. Mutuals DM for my PayPal link
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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm going to keep resharing this.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Bri de Danann @bridanann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This year my goal is to post a Stock Art Pack every month! Because I was unable to post a pack for July or August, I'm posting 3 for September! The third pack is another Space-Scape Background Pack! Available now for all your Sci-fi needs! bridanann.itch.io/space-scape-...
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Space Scape Background Pack 3 by Bri de Danann
3 space background images
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.
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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I worked in a small town computer store circa 2003, we called this stuff "malware," and most of our customers paid us to get it off their machines. They just remade BonzaiBuddy while telling us it's good now.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
she gets possessive about pillows
a tux cat resting her paw on a beige pillow
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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pile of Skulls #illustration
A bright mixture of pink and cyan blending and moving, occasionally purple. A black flowing figure disintegrating into the background and it approaches the viewer.
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Em-vira, Mistress of the Dark @spacequeenemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's time for me to talk about Tenchi Muyo into a microphone again, and boy howdy are we taking the plunge! I get to play guest cohost and lead the charge into the greater Tenchi universe writ large, and what incredible timing with the new Tenchi Galaxy Kickstarter's runaway success!
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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how it feels
the wheel of samsara with a kitty powerless against the endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth
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Chérry the Créature🍒 @apuppyisanangel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
blessed are the gender freaks
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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🖖🏳️‍⚧️T'Lynn 🦇David🦇 Cooper🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Courage is my boy. Love my nervous cartoon pups.
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/09/2026
give a gift to your future self. lower the bar with your current project.
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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sugar recall 😒😒 www.newsweek.com/fda-class-ii...
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Map Shows States Hit by 1.7M-Pound Sugar Recall as FDA Sets Risk Level
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026
i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a) Trans people fighting against transphobia which is killing us, is not asking for 'perfection'. b) Saying a transphobic person will do X as long as he gets Y is how we got the transphobic UK Labour party. c) This tactic of throwing trans people under the bus doesn't work bsky.app/profile/char...
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#PSA
FOR THE LAST TIME…

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I’ll just add to Sheryl‘s important point a mantra that I learned from my lawyer spouse: the law is what the people in power say it is — and in the cases under debate “the people in power” are judges. You/Mamdani/et al can argue what you want; what matters is how judges will rule. See: SCOTUS
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 27/09/2026
Nighthawks has sold TEN THOUSAND copies in less than one week! For a tiny studio like ours, this is a huge milestone. To all the supporters, backers, wishlisters, and everyone who believed in this game and us, thank you so much.
Lux and Becca from Nighthawks, with the text "10,000 copies sold."
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026
the negative effects AI is having on software is gonna be something we have to deal with for a very long time, even if it stops today. you can already see the effects in well-known vibe coded sites like bluesky and github that run like shit nowadays, but its incredibly pervasive throughout tech
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026
when I see a bad take
detail of 'Myojakdo (Painting of Cats and Sparrows)' by Byeon Sang-byeok, who was famously nicknamed "Byeon Goyang" (Byeon Cat) for his lifelike depictions of felines

a cat crouched on the ground beneath a tree eyes fixed with maniacal intensity on a bird perched on the trunk singing
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one we see Sarah, the protagonist, lying in bed with the lights out. She says, "Is everyone ready for sleep?"
In panel two we see a brain, heart, and stomach. They say, "Yes!" "Yup!" and "Yep!" 
In panel three we see a bladder, squirming. A speech panel says "Bladder?"
In panel four the bladder looks up. It says, weakly, "I don't know".
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Cat in the Shell @catoperated.com · 18/09/2026
I appreciate the donations, y’all are keeping me fed.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm just an artist, standing in front of a game designer, asking them to check out my freebie library full to the brim with page decor that's ✨free✨ for personal and commercial use 😌 ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
what happened here
orange cat sprawled on his side
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Mrrr! Treats, please!”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 17/09/2026
Seattle makes polyamory, pansexuality and asexuality protected classes.
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Seattle makes polyamory, pansexuality and asexuality protected classes
The Seattle City Council voted on Tuesday to adopt civil rights protections for people who are polyamorous or in other nontraditional relationships.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You really can't use AI image searches to identify the people in my photos. These are unique, found photos of regular people - AI will only (confidently) give you a wrong answer based on whatever FAMOUS photo it finds that shares some of the same elements. It just doesn't work.
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Courtney/Lucy 🍉 from the river to the sea @magicalgurll.com · 17/09/2026
when you make a typo in the group chat
A photo from Stardom, a Japanese women's wrestling federation. Perfectly centered is a woman on her knees leaning forward against the ropes. Five women in fun, colorful, sparkly outfits are all mid-air launching towards her to deliver flying kicks to her back, lined up close to each other and about to land their attacks all at once.
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Cat in the Shell @catoperated.com · 18/09/2026
New cat
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Congrats to winners @catoperated.com and @ideofmarch.bsky.social! Reach out to me at cursedmorsels [at] gmail [dot] com to claim your free ebook. For anyone else still interested in strange surveillance horrors, the ebook is only $1.99 in our store: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/unde...
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Under a Malevolent Eye ebook | Cursed Morsels Press
Under a Malevolent Eye ebook
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mine. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a kitchen scene. A shorthaired tabby cat is sitting on a chair, peeking over the edge of a table and using one paw to steal some kind of food items off the table. It’s a pile of small, light colored objects. I think it might be cereal.
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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An image of Samus as she appears in Metroid: Ravenous. She is holding her left hand up in front of her, looking at it, and it is glowing bright purple with blue highlights.  The title has been replaced with the words "VORE SIMULATOR"
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
why did my white monster 1-pack come in such an oversized box?? smdh
A tiny white flamepoint kitty with a slightly unhinged mid-shenanigans stare sitting perched neatly in a white monster cardboard box filled mostly with shoes. She was a true menace immediately before and after this brief reprieve
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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this is the face of a woman who just licked like 16 of your french fries instead of paying any attention to the 1 french fry given to her freely
a small torby cat named goose, sitting on the bed looking at me menacingly
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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My cover illustration for PARAMOUR - An Orbital Blues Adventure, by Josh Domanski & Chris Airiau.
Color illustration, in blue and red tones. It shows a snow-covered city and a woman standing enormous behind the skyline, her flowing red hair the same color as the sunrise.
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@abc7chicago.bsky.social's framing of "e-bike crash" is disgusting. What we have here is a lawless pickup truck driver endangering people and critically injuring someone while clearly destroying multiple vehicles, and you choose to call it an "e-bike crash." Y'all have got to do better.
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More Character Sheets from my Antler Boys comic! :3
Character Sheet for Mask Maker Mahn.Character Sheet for Tigress Yang and Rabbit Min.Character Sheet for the Black Fox Monk.Character Sheet for the Mariner.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026
Make not opposing genocide hurt more than Israel works to make opposing genocide hurt. Make it hurt politicians' odds. Make it hurt artists' sales. Make it hurt medias' reputation. Make it hate platforms' revenues. Make it career-endingly devastating to stand there and "both sides" mass murder.
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I find this stuff fascinating; this is basically the animation world's equivalent of how pixel art games were designed to be played on glass tube TVs. The "imperfections" created in the process of publishing the work are part of the planned end product.
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