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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Tomorrow in downtown Palm Springs we're going to break the world record for most Marilyn Monroe lookalikes. It's going to be so much fun. Imagine over 1000 people dressed like this in one place.

Photo of 26 foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe in downtown Palm Springs Ca.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm watching a hummingbird start her nest on one of my string lights but she didn't choose a good one & I'm trying to talk her out of it but she won't listen to me.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Today was perfect but tonight we're going to fuck it to hell by changing the clocks. If we do it to add an extra hour to summer why do we do it before spring and endure getting up in the dark for months? #IHateDST

Photo of multi colored clouds at sunset with mountains in silhouette

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We're having a quake swarm where I am at the end of the San Andreas in the CA desert right now but the awakening New Madrid fault in the Midwest could be actually worse than the San Andreas rupturing.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We should all be more like Mel Brooks. Mock Nazis and live to be 100.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to you & yours from me & mine. Cincinnati Enquirer, 1940. Taken by my grandfather Dwight Smith. Photo of my 5 year old father Stuart and 9 year old uncle Dwight.

Black and white photo of two small boys looking at their Christmas tree on Christmas morning.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Had a bout of insomnia last night & made the mistake of checking the internet. 0 stars. Would not recommend. 💔💔

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I've had this on my hard drive waiting to post since 2012. I named it "POST WHEN DICK CHENEY DIES" so I could always find it. 😁

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Mackenzie Scott & Melinda French Gates could meet at noon, co-found "The Foundation to Save Public Broadcasting," fund NPR & PBS in perpetuity, and be done with all of it before dinner.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Tonight's insanely gorgeous sunset behind Mt. San Jacinto in Palm Springs.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It's funny to me that since the entire right wing ecosystem made hate a large part of their brand that they're surprised when the hate turns back on them. Maybe the manosphere should try being nicer, maybe smile a little bit more?

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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It is also very very wise sometimes to just say nothing at all. Not every thought & feeling needs to be shared & posted. Social media has taught us to abandon the fine art of just keeping one's mouth shut sometimes.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Age verification? I got to play around on my dad's IBM 029 keypunch card computer & made birthday cards.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Today is a really good day to rewatch Bob Roberts. If you've never seen it before you're in for a treat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iZb...

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Bob Roberts (1992) - Full Movie

YouTube video by LukaS Arts

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I think the "no neckties" thing today is due entirely to The Gavin Newsom Effect. Getting under his pale thin pink skin is so easy. 😄

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

That reminds me that when my 3rd place prize of a refrigerator from Jeopardy was delivered during a torrential El Nino storm in spring 1989. We couldn't get it into my tiny apartment, so I sold it to the guy driving the delivery truck. That was back when Jeopardy prizes were crap.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Still waiting for Elon to go on The Daily Show, regardless of who the host would be.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Saved Pat Morita from an unwelcome fan interaction while waiting for out Southwest flight from Vegas to Burbank. Some kids were clowning him & I got them to stop & he was grateful. He was a very heavy drinker, the kind that it comes out through their pores & it's unmistakable.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I've learned a lot of weird things about extreme heat and desert living but I didn't expect the seam glue in my pool raft to melt. My raft started sinking when I was on it and it didn't have any holes in it😲

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Lived in Camarillo for 20 years & in Ventura County for 40. Camarillo's a VERY conservative town filled with retirees & workers from adjacent Naval bases. They won't even open a dispensary there & now I find out there's a large grow op? Does it reek like weed on Las Posas Road between PCH & the 101?

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Ugh. Not a good week for what supposed to be a short backsplash tile job. After many delays & a lousy grout job he promises to redo but I doubt I'll get what I paid for. Last time I was screwed this hard by a contractor it ended up with him owing me child support.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"“He was playing SimCity with real lives,” said one Social Security Administration staffer. “We didn’t sign up to be lab rats for a teenager’s résumé experiment.”" This is a must read.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

As a Ventura County resident of over 40 years believe me when I say OXNARD STRAWBERRIES ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. OK, Camarillo might be tied. 😁 So lucky to be able to buy them picked that morning from a stand in front of the field where they grow. Fuck ICE.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

MOOD Minutemen Paranoid Chant "I try to work, and I keep thinking of World War III!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHZ...

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Paranoid Chant

YouTube video by Minutemen - Topic

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Chatting inanely & trying to be nonchalant with John Doe of X at the valet stand after a show at the House of Blues in Hollywood CA while we were both waiting for our cars & wishing I could have taken him home with me.

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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So those of us who have never & will never use Apple products aren't even in their thinking.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Gray Angelfish saw what you did and is judging you.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The age is too young but this is how my daughter is too. She's a dog trainer & has treated several boyfriends like pets. One time - ISTG - she whistled, "Justin, come!" to her boyfriend in a parking lot. And yes, he obeyed.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I think Trump is expecting revolts in the street so he can declare martial law & cancel elections but I bet he didn't think it was going to be MAGA supporters who will riot against him.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Counter counter argument: it's not a bill. It's a ballot proposition that will get on the ballot for voters if it meets criteria and thresholds. This is the kind of stuff that paid signature gatherers hand you on clipboards outside stores.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@banditelli.org I'm not proficient in bird photos but this Mute Swan from my patio on the 7th fairway sends greetings

Photo of a mute swan on a green grass golf course fairway

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Banana Runts will be the only affordable banana soon.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Oxnard strawberries are the best in the world. I said what I said. 😊 Thanks to all our farm workers for what they do to give us delicious strawberries every year.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Robot mechanics. Lutnick thinks the new good future jobs are for robot mechanics.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm listening to an NPR segment about "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," & I'm ashamed to say despite being a huge "old movie" fan I've never seen it due to the constant mocking of our mutual last name & its use as a cliche for generic wypipo in the culture.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm so over Schumer always trying to get on a microphone. ISTG he's in love with the sound of his own voice.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Every inside trader in the government is having a hard time figuring out which way this is going to go today but they'll all be trading after hours.

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I was hoping an account named that was a hard-cussing CPA. 😞

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm the latest casualty of the California insurance market. Even though I'm downsizing & moving literally less than a mile down the street the coverage I've had for almost 30 years will be dropped when I move & they're not writing any new policies in my area.

Text meme saying "Don't believe in climate change? Your insurance company does."

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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smithers @catzies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I think it's possible one of my ex stepmothers is my guardian angel.

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