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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aw, I have to contribute to this one. 🦋 (My cat wears a wig, too.)

The glorious Dolly Parton in the 1970s, smiling warmly to the camera and holding a sandy-colored kitten

Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy #InternationalCatDay! Nigel T. Cat enjoys critical race theory, Lord Tennyson, and novelty gift books about Julia Child.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today I look like Sol, Mr. Hooper's nephew who got a little lit with Susan and Gordon after the store closed and woke up in a canoe behind 123 Sesame Street. #comedy #GenX

Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street wearing life jackets in a rowboat

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I don’t have a Tony, but I do have a Cathy.

A three-inch figurine of Cathy the comic strip character.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Funky Jan and the Animal Kingdom have pulled out of the Freedom 250 concert.

Funky Jan the Mouse from the cartoon THE DEVIL AND DANIEL MOUSE

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Let this former professor of Persian help you out: the last syllable rhymes with “doze.” As if you’re saying, “whore, ‘mos!” #straitofhormuz 🇮🇷🏳️‍🌈

Ann Miller dancing fabulously…on a rooftop in Culver City?

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Chatting with my friend about PRACTICAL MAGIC 2, I was inspired to take this picture.

The eighth edition of E.M. Forster’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW, opened to the signed title page, and the possibly AI-designed cover of the romance novel THE PUMPKIN SPICE CAFE, with a 20% off sticker from Target on it.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I’m tired of being frantic, funny, and coping.

A TV Guide ad from 1987 for the first animated special of Cathy Guisewite’s CATHY comic strip.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Nigel T. Cat loves satin sheets and Ferrero Rocher chocolat, my darlings.

A black tomcat looking longingly into the camera from a bed with champagne-colored satin sheets and a white coverlet.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here’s a photo of rhubarb. It’s forced (grown in the dark) rhubarb season right now. 💓

A close up of the deep pink stalks of forced rhubarb from Yorkshire, England.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“That man to man, the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that.” Happy #BurnsNight, friends. It’s a dark, cold world. Give light and love. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕯️

A tabby cat wearing a tam o’shanter and tartan shawl.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Ashbel the Squirrel here to brighten your weekend. 🐿️🌸

A cottontail squirrel in San Francisco on its hind legs, peering with curiosity at the camera.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy 2026, friends. Wishing you all things bright and beautiful. 🥂💗💫

Grover Monster from Sesame Street singing in gold top hat and tails: “Oh, and it’s going to be a great year, too.”

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’ve been on first dates with so many Foghorn Leghorns that I will testify in a court of law that he’s gay. 🐓🏳️‍🌈

Foghorn Leghorn, a cocky, well, cock, crosses his legs and sips a cup of tea.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

One cool cat. 🕶️🥃🚬🐈‍⬛

My listening age, according to Spotify, is 82, “since I was into music from the late ‘50s.”

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween, friends! 🎃🧡🖤💚💜🍂

An engraved stone Jack O’Lantern on a decorative column near Bethesda Fountain in NYC’s Central Park.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’m irritable today, so here’s a baby okapi for anyone else who needs it! 🦒🦓🧡💚

A baby okapi looking behind its right shoulder. Such an adorable giraffe/zebra hybrid.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I guess 1987 was a good year for film!

WHERE IS MY FRIEND’S HOUSE (1987), Abbas Kiarostami

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Sweet, wise Patricia crossed the rainbow bridge in October, 2022.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Nigel T. Cat hates kings. This pussy grabs back! #nokings #cats 👑🥊🐈‍⬛

The eminent black warrior cat Nigel attacks my right hand on floral bedclothes.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The world is so awful. Here’s my cat:

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

When I complete my descent into madness—which should be any day now—I shall wear bows. 🎀

A photograph of woman from the early twentieth century with an enormous bow on her head

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I dunno, I just relate to her today.

Morris Hirshfield’s painting “Girl with Pigeons,” 1943. A textural painting of a woman lying supine on a striped sofa, communicating with a pigeon. Lauded by surrealists, Hirshfield was a self-taught painter who began his career in textiles.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

See the world from a different angle. #cat #pride

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Today we need Lassie. She doesn’t know about nations, tariffs, war, or wealth. #dogs

The illustrated cover of a 1971 Little Golden Book showing Lassie, a squirrel, and a blonde boy near a lake.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I relate to this sigil. My childhood nickname was Mouse, and an aboriginal elder told me that my totem is a fat-tailed dunnart, a marsupial which, while not related to the mouse, is adorably murine. ♋️🌙🐭

A symbol of a mouse asleep in crescent moon, its tail twisting downwards

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Everything’s bonkers! Here’s more of Mr. Nigel T. Cat, jazz lover and prophet of peace #cats:

An adorable black cat sitting on a white cupboard, twinkling his green eyes.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

David Edward Byrd, who died yesterday, helped bring art nouveau to the psychedelic era. This photo of the original FOLLIES window card, taken by me at the Ransom Center in Austin, shows his exquisite work.

Edward David Byrd’s poster for the 1971 musical FOLLIES, depicting an Art Nouveau-like bust of Marlene Dietrich cracking in psychedelic colors against a background of stars.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, ‘An honest man's the noblest work of God’” A happy Burns Night to all! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕯️

A cat wrapped wearing a Tam O’Shanter cap and a tartan shawl.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The look I always get when someone wakes up next to me. #CatsofBluesky

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I worry about Jennie. I worry about her sweatshop work, I worry about her relationship with her father. #happyholidays 🍻🎅🏻🎄

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Nigel T. Cat has settled his brains for a long winter’s nap. 🐈‍⬛💚❤️🎄❄️☃️

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