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@decornery.bsky.social
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Vintage-slinger (20thC), cool hunter, design curator, cat lady. Not a fan of confirmation bias, echo chambers, alternative facts, the Partisan Misinformation Outrage Machine. Here for the cats. Cambridge, MA insta: @decornery @gwouldlikeaword

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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 3h
I'm sure this is fine
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
that sound you hear is me repeatedly banging my head against the wall
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...
Two ceramic cats in a vitrine
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not just an arch, it’s a murder arch.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"doesn't understand the appeal of patina" feels like neat summation of American aesthetics
A BBC story headline reads: "Worth $5M? Visitors react to renovated Washington horse statues." There are two photos. One from 2013 that shows the horse statues in their older, patina state. And one from 2026 that shows them covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
in which G gives an honest review of the racket made by the roofers, asks for consolation kibble, settles for cuddles (note: STUPID HAT is her favorite cuss word, followed by MEDICINE and NOISE) #talkingcat #fluentpet #catsky #augmentativeinterspeciescommunication
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Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Very worrying. DRC just reported 125 new confirmed Ebola cases in a single 24 hour period, right after passing 100 daily cases for the first time yesterday. The outbreak is accelerating, not just driven by more testing: 50% of all tests in Ituri were positive.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
tl;dr no raw milk, no cheese made with raw milk www.propublica.org/article/5-qu...
propublica.org
5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner
I toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he told me about recalls, outbreaks and his relationship with the federal gover...
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This happens once or twice a year in Union Square despite all the sewer work done in the last 6 or 7 years. That said, if they hadn't done the sewer work, there'd be like a foot of water in this intersection. (If you look just to the left of the that car, you'll see Gracie's.)
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm sure this is fine
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WBUR @wbur.org · 11/07/2026
The town has hosted New England’s largest outdoor antiques market for more than 60 years. Here's how to navigate the expansive offerings and make the most of your time.
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Insider tips for navigating the Brimfield Antique Flea Market
The upcoming July 14-19 run marks the second of the Brimfield Antique Flea Market's three yearly runs. The event boasts “thousands” of vendors and attracts more shoppers than organizers can even count, according to Lori Faxon, owner of the Brimfield Antiques Center. Faxon shared tips on how to make the most of your time there.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
in which G again corrects my understanding of the 'PETS' button and is generally adorable #catsky #talkingcat #catsofbluesky #augmentativeinterspeciescommunication #fluentpet #caturday
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ayfkm
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
And here I was thinking that given Collins's record, anyone not in the GOP would say "I will vote for a ham sandwich as long as it didn't rape anyone and doesn't have a Swastika on it," but that's just me
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yup. This has been incredibly gaslighting and frustrating to (leftist!) Jews who’ve been trying to say: hey, the online left sure is adopting a lot of Nazi memes and rhetoric about Jews and get told “you’re lying/Zionists because bigotry is incompatible with leftism.” It’s giving “real Christians”
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
in which G acts peevishly and the delicious button tastes good #catsofbluesky #catsky #talkingcat
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
unendorsement is good, but the lack of accountability is, as Charles points out, hard to take.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/07/2026
Live your life so that your Nazi tattoo is not the least problematic thing about you Also don't get a fucking Nazi tattoo
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
alas, a classic
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@petridishes.bsky.social is a treasure.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ugh
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Marcel learned a new trick - up! ⬆️
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ffs
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
in which I do not fetch the requested catnip fast enough, get distracted, and am called a STUPID HAT for my trouble note: STUPID HAT is an e-collar, not as in "dunce cap," as in: "where's that stupid hat??" said with appropriate exasperation. it's now her fave cuss word #AIC #talkingcat
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11/06/2026
Troy Iwata takes a look at France's latest road hazard: drunken deer
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
of few words. #talkingtuesday #catsofbluesky #catsky
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
loaf of bread or scabby shark? #meatloafmonday #catsky #catsofbluesky
cream tabby cat wearing a comically-large e-collar that looks like her head is protruding from the mouth of a blue/white shark. srsly, tho: she's tolerating the e-collar but it's way way too oversized and we're not using it much (she has others that seem way more comfortable)
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The current vibes around the future of oil prices is starting to give “Covid in early March 2020” energy.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
what in the everloving fuckity fuck
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
in which g uses the FRUSTRATED button appropriately after initiating a conversation telling me she wants something while also refusing to be explicit about what she wants #talkingtuesday #catsofbluesky #catsky #fluentpet #talkingcat
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This could end very badly. Incompetence and malevolence combined here could be deadly. What happens to Americans exposed? Those who fall sick? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert...
landmansplained.com
NEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseas
Dozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
snapshot of the withering look of a cat who'd just gnawed on the stereo, banged the shades, clawed my pants when I responded by musing aloud that she looked v mad, she sauntered to the soundboard, pressed FRUSTRATED, then theatrically flopped by her empty food dish. #caturday #talkingcat #catsky
pic of a cream tabby cat, sitting on a chair at the kitchen table, staring menacingly at the photographer, the perfect snapshot of the withering look she gave me after she gnawed on the stereo, banged the shades, clawed at my pants

here's the full conversation we had after photo was taken (we use the principles of AIC, #fluentpet buttons to communicate)

g: CUDDLE
me: come here, I’ll give you a cuddle

g: doesn't move, resumes glaring

me: what is going on? what can I do for you?
g: flops down by her empty food dish, tail whipping furiously.

me: um… that does *not* look like you want cuddles. In fact, Gilda, you look v v *mad*

G lifts her head, stares briefly, marches over to the board: FRUSTRATED

me: ...!  (gobsmacked into silence, I'd given her the button for FRUSTRATED ~18 hours before this interacton)

me (trying again): um...thank you for being specific
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
insidehighered.com
Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
transcript: HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY [GILDA] (not activated) LOVE YOU LOVE YOU
 GILDA might have been a little more heartwarming had she not, 5 min earlier, sat whipping her tail around and then commented: GILDA MAD MUM (alas no video) #ficklefriday #catsofbluesky #catsky #talkingcat #theycantalk
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
throwback to august 2025, after a solid month of me trying to figure out how to get G to figure out that pressing a button would get her something (narrator: while any button interaction is worthwhile, this did not produce intended result) #tbt #throwbackthursday #theycantalk #catsky #catsofbluesky
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I'm sure this is fine www.npr.org/2026/05/20/g...
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WHO chief concerned over 'scale and speed' of Ebola outbreak
The World Health Organization top official has expressed concern over the rapid spread of a rare type of Ebola in Congo. Authorities have reported at least 134 suspected deaths and over 500 cases.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
attempting to get comfortable on a 96 degree day #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #weirdowednesday
cream tabby cat lies awkwardly on her side on an oval cardboard bed,  her back leg and tail hanging off the side
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
not quite the Socratic dialog I was dreaming about when I first ordered buttons, but I have zero regrets & more buttons arriving today #theycantalk #talkingcat #talkingtuesday #catsky #catsofbluesky #cats transcript: KIBBLE HMM? WET FOOD WET FOOD WET FOOD MUM WET FOOD WET FOOD MUM WET FOOD WET FOOD
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
currently at twenty words, and when she heard me musing aloud about ordering additional buttons to give her a larger vocabulary she pressed MORE MORE MORE and I can't even #friyay #catsofbluesky #catsky #fluentpet #theycantalk #cats
cream tabby cat crouches on foam hextiles containing buttons that play a recorded word when pressed
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
talking tuesday #theycantalk #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #fluentpet
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
this seems fine apnews.com/article/hant...
apnews.com
2 passengers test positive for hantavirus as a third shows symptoms after cruise ship evacuation
A French woman and an American have tested positive for the hantavirus as nations around the world scramble to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by an outbreak and quarantine or isolate the...
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
the smug cat who jettisoned a nearly-full quart glass jar of water from bedside table, neatly knocking a dime-sized piece of glass out of corner of said jar, water flooding power strip with no fewer than 5 plugs, and survived. both the risks of electrocution and murder. what? #caturday #catsky #cats
a cream tabby cat stands on a black-tiled floor, an open doorway, looking smugly out at her mum. 

photo depicts the cat who successfully jettisoned a nearly-full quart glass jar of sparkling water off the bedside table, neatly knocking a dime-sized piece of glass out of the corner of said jar, water flooding a power strip housing no fewer than 5 plugs, narrowly missing the laptop that was also on the floor.

many little miracles happened here: the glass jar didn't shatter into hundreds of pieces, no one was electrocuted, the plugs and electronics managed to survive. as did the cat who was threatened with murder.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky
science.org
What to do with the passengers on the cruise ship hit by hantavirus?
Past studies of Andes virus offer scant evidence on transmission risks, and have sparked debate
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decornery.bsky.social @decornery.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
itchy face, stupid pollen #friyay #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats
cream tabby cat sitting on an antique rug, slightly hunched up, her left eye half open (a little swollen)-- you can barely make out the red scratches above that eye (and fortunately cannot see the big scabby patch in her right ear)-- two different allergy meds cannot quell the itch of springtime pollen
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woodyball.bsky.social @woodyball.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Odysseus and his men get trapped during a doubleheader with the green monster. The only way out is to cling to the underbelly of Tampa Bay Rays penned up there for slaughter. While wheeling away on Mass Ave, our title character shouts “Roman is my DAD, cocksuckah - THEY CALL ME NOMAHHH”
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