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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 29/08/2026

I've been experimenting with creating an interactive #TravelMap on @roamancing.com of stories from our travels, utilizing the #OpenUserMap #Wordpress plugin: roamancing.com/world-map-of... Pleased that they are not changing place names to appease a want-to-be dictator. #GulfOfMexico #LakeOntario

Open User Map of travel stories, showing the Gulf of Mexico.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 24/08/2026

Another good read (and with school returning, must read for every #Canadian) on Friday's Trade Deal That Never Was, this one from Dean Blundell, with the realities of what the Trump regime attempted to do to #Canada rather chilling in places. deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-t... #ElbowsUp

Summary of Key US Demands in 2026 Canada-US Trade Negotiations

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 27/07/2026

Today at the #Neurodiverse #Entrepreneur Summit, I enjoyed Selling Within Your Spoons with @anniepreneur.bsky.social, & kept thinking, "Wow! Someone who actually understands me, & sees my strengths & struggles, & has non-sleazy solutions to sales that I'd actually feel good about." #StoryToGo

You are not allergic to sales. You are allergic to being sold to by buttheads. Sales avoidance is that pukey, nasty, helpless, maybe even sweaty feeling we get when we are asked to name the price, handle an objection, or follow up. It is not a personal failing. It is a learned response. ~ Non- Sleazy Sales Academy

Annie P Ruggles, "that selling can feel fun, soothing, even pleasurable".

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 08/07/2026

I’ve been gathering videos for a crowdsourced series from disabled #CanadianMedia to share #DisabilityPride, #DisabilityInclusion & encourage a more #Accessible industry. In thinking about my own video, I realized it is #DisabilityPrideMonth, & what a lovely way to celebrate my Disability Pride.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 17/06/2026

#HikingGuides do more to get people thinking about the environment, than environmental publications, as hiking guides are read by the non-converted. We protect what we love. ❤️ 🏔️ 🍁❤️ ~ Nicola Ross at the #CanadianTrailSummit #OnTheTrail #hiking #StoryToGo

Nicola Ross talking about the impact of hiking guides at the Canadian Trail Summit

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 17/06/2026

Questions in the room at the #CanadianTrailSummit on aiding our Elders & people bedridden with getting their #NatureDosing. Dr Melissa Lem shares ideas of care farms (see the Netherlands), gardens, nature inside, smells of nature inside, places where you can see nature (ie bird feeders) … etc

Q&A with Dr Melissa Lem on Nature Dosing at the Canadian Trail Summit

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 17/06/2026

Learning about optimal health time in #nature for your #health, for a cortisol drop, the ultimate #NaturePrescription is a min of 2 hrs in nature each week, with a minimum of 20-min each time. ~ Dr Melissa Lem at the #CanadianTrailSummit #NatureDosing #TimeInNature #NaturePrescribing

Dr Melissa Lem speaking on Nature and Trails: Prescribing for Health at the Canadian Trail Summit

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 12/06/2026

The cat’s out of the bag (literally) that this part of #TransCanadaTrail is on BC’s old #KettleValleyRailway, but it’s not the KVR Trail. Next hint: This was the most difficult part of the rail to build & expensive mile of track built anywhere in the world at the time. Where is this? #NameThatTrail

Fast running water around a boulder in a canyon.

Tortoiseshell cat sticking her head out of a backpack to view historic interpretive signage.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 11/06/2026

My #Tortie & I are #EVroadtripping to the #CanadianTrailSummit, while discovering more of #Canada along the #TransCanadaTrail. Can you guess our 1st stop? The date & rock in photo 2 are hints, as is that this trail was originally designed to protect Canada’s sovereignty from Southern neighbours.

A woman and her tortoiseshell cat in a backpack, as they stop for a photo along a raging river lined with conifer trees, capped by fog.

A cement retaining wall inside a rock cavern with the date 1034 carved into and a plague with the number 214.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 30/01/2026

In my travels with #Uthando in 2024, I tagged along as a French Canadian crew filming Partir Autrement entre Amis. I loved the stories they were exploring on #EcoFriendly & #ResponsibleTourism. The episode just dropped & shows the work that Uthando's doing beautifully: www.tv5unis.ca/videos/parti...

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 23/01/2026

Utterly sickening. ICE under the US regime kidnapped a 5-year-old on their way home from school. I giant masked man accosting a small child. Think of the trauma of that. CBC article on: www.cbc.ca/news/world/i... #ElbowsUp #Minnesota #StopFascism #BootsOnTheICE

Another day on the job for ICE. Kidnapping a 5-year-old coming home from pre-school.

Large masked man, working for ICE, kidnaps a 5-year-old walking home from pre-school. A US regime sanctioned kidnapping. If this doesn't make you angry, then you are what is wrong with America.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 08/01/2026

Reminded the reason "our" newspapers seem to be playing down the US Invasion, is as 2/3 of Canadian Newspaper Conglomerate Postmedia is owned by a US Republican. 1 right wing Trumpist owns 66% of Postmedia with 37% of Canadian English newspapers. Read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmed... #ElbowsUp

66% of Canadian Newspaper conglomerate Postmedia, owned by a US Republican.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 07/01/2026

To add to the list of Trumpist org to #boycott, as its important to use my conscience in deciding how I spend my #travel dollars, I'll be boycotting Hilton, as they let a Minnesota hotel go for refusing to house ICE agents. Thanks to Toby Morton for this #ElbowsUp: www.hiltonice.com #StopFascism

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 06/01/2026

Love this! In my research, I discovered Made By Dyslexia's signatures: I’m #MadeByDyslexia – expect creative thinking & creative spelling. I’m #MadeByDyslexia – expect big thinking & small typos. I’m #MadeByDyslexia – expect curious ideas & curious spelling. Now which one do I choose.

I’m #MadeByDyslexia – expect creative thinking & creative spelling.

I’m #MadeByDyslexia – expect big thinking & small typos.

I’m #MadeByDyslexia – expect curious ideas & curious spelling.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 01/01/2026

Enjoying the best kind of #NewYearsEve. Quiet dinner with mom, moonlit walk thru freshly fallen snow with my best fellow, no other sole in sight, & now curled up with an audiobook & my tortie terror. Wishing everyone a wonderful New Year’s Eve, & a #HappyNewYear filled with peace, love & hope.

Golden retriever embarking on a snowy trail.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 24/12/2025

I am a bit of a #TraitorsCanada addict, but with my damaged nervous system, I am not sure applying would be the best idea. I'd love to see someone I know apply though, so I can cheer them on. www.thetraitorscanadacasting.ca

The Traitors Canada - A game of trust and treachery ... Do you have what it takes to play?

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 13/10/2025

#HappyThanksgiving, Everyone! After the difficult year we’ve had, I cannot express enough, just how thankful I am for these three loves. We make each other stronger and saner. #Thanksgiving #thankful

A woman holding her cat, with her mom with her dog.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 24/09/2025

Shanah Tovah! At the instructions of a most beloved friend tonight, I enjoyed apples and honey, while contemplating personal growth goals for the #NewYear. Was a bit of the transition that my soul has been craving. #ShanahTovah #RoshHashana #RoshHashanah

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 02/09/2025

My kind of #LabourDay! Out #paddling with a kid I love, on a water body that I spent my teens helping to restore. Rather grand to see #CootesParadise in its #NaturalBeauty today. Even if my arms are a little sore this evening from paddling free of the weeds. #HamOnt #DiscoverON #ExploreCanada

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 21/08/2025

This is what the White House’s official Instagram posted last night, and my response to it, as they’ve been deleting educated replies to it, as afterall this is Trump’s administration announcing war on education, history and the truth. #TrumpsAmerica

White House’s “Woke is Dead” Instagram post.

My reply to the White House post, pointing out how uneducated and fascist this makes them look to the rest of world.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 14/07/2025

An apt cover on New York Magazine, Canadians are furious at the current US administration and all those who support it. nymag.com/intelligence... It's a dumpster fire causing unimaginable destruction, that needs cleaning up.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 03/05/2025

Reading through my #BCIT #SocialMedia Storytelling students reflections on their #LifesSimpleJoys campaign, and getting teary eyed at this reflection on finding a community of shared undertanding This is when the magic with social media happens, when you find your #community. #StoryToGo

"I found camaraderie within the comment section with a variety of people. It made me tear up with the amount of people who relate. It made me realize that we truly are not alone and there are many shared human experiences. I’m glad to know there is hope and community that can be garnered online, no matter where we are and no matter the age. I think part of what #LifesSimpleJoys meant to me is taking life one step at a time and being grateful and hopeful in your everyday life."

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 29/04/2025

Such a relieve to wake up this morning knowing that #Canada has leadership that will protect our sovereignty & #DEI ... now back to our previously scheduled program of adding #Canadian businesses to MadeInCanada-eh.ca, nerdy #StoryToGo / #edtech musings, #Roamancing #culture & #travel, & cat mom.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 29/04/2025

My Mom’s riding called and safe! And in other news, well done Peterborough! #CanadaVotes

Liberal John-Paul Danko wins Hamilton West Ancaster - Dundas

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 28/04/2025

Disturbing. This is the US President trying to tamper with the #CanadianElection on Election Day by posting on alt-right Truth Social. Threats to annex - ZERO BENEFITS for Canadians, only oppression & lies. This is what foreign interference from an authoritarian state looks like. #VOTE, #Canada!

Donald Trump's threats to Canadian sovereignty on the alt right social media platform Truth Social on the 2025 Canadian Election Day.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 21/04/2025

I am kind of loving carbonizedstardust on Threads. Here's another history lesson from her on PP's "Canada First" slogan and its historic ties to white supremacy. #CanadaSky

carbonizedstardust shares the history of Canada First: https://www.threads.net/@carbonizedstardust/post/DG3AHnVvKDo

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 21/04/2025

To quote carbonizedstardust from Threads, its time to understand which government is responsible for what in #Canada & stop ignorantly blaming the wrong government. "Can’t afford a house? That’s your province. Can’t afford rent? That’s your province. ..." ... continued in the comments. #CanadaSky

Breakdown of which government manages what in Canada from sprucegrove.org/GovRoles

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 10/04/2025

Mom & I voted today. #ElectionsCanada has made it easy to do our civic duty & #vote. Allowing me to vote in my BC riding from ON, & mom to vote before her operation. Most important election of both our lifetimes to vote in. Hoping other #Canadians do the same. #VoteCanada #CanadaVotes #CanadaSky

Erica and Alix Hargreave holding up I Voted stickers, standing next to an Elections Canada sign. From the 2025 Canadian Federal Election.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 06/04/2025

For this Sunday's #podcast listening pleasure, I thought I'd share a bit of fun storytelling from Triton & Brighton, along #IcebergAlley on the coast of Central #Newfoundland, where I was invited into my own, real life version of The Grand Seduction! podcasts.roamancing.com/@RoamancingR... #travel

Triton & Brighton, Newfoundland & Labrador - Lobster, Vinegar Jam Pie, Icebergs

Mike Roberts in his fishing boat Badger Bay, showing off the lobster that he just pulled up in his lobster trap.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 13/03/2025

Thanks to a great call with my buddy Art, he reminded me of the importance of #recharging and #selfcare by taking time for your soul with the #LifesSimpleJoys. Today that’s an #onion in the kitchen welcoming the beginnings of #Spring. Thanks Art!

Nice growth springing from an onion in the kitchen window.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 13/03/2025

The upside to trade wars, when you go to get a Canada Dry ginger ale at the matinee of #Grease, and then remember Canada Dry is actually American, so you have to buy a darn delicious Oast House #porter instead. The hardships of #BuyCanadian. #CanadaStrong #CanadianSky #DrinkLocal #LifesSimpleJoys

Oast House Porter at a matinee of Grease

Two women and a porter at a matinee of Grease.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 07/03/2025

This is a much needed reminder in buying #Canadian that that should include our media. A number of 'Canadian' News Sources are American Owned by Postmedia. If you wish to avoid Trump tampered with media, avoid Canadian media sources that are American owned. #CanadaSky #BuyCanadian #CanadianMedia

Postmedia is American Owned. They own the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Toronto Sun, Edmonton Journal, The Vancouver Sun, The Gazette, and The Province.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 04/03/2025

I repeat … IT IS TIME TO ACT, #America. You are now living in a police state. #ItsTimeToAct #TimeToAct

Trump’s tweet declaring that protesting at Colleges, Universities and Schools is illegal, and you are no longer allowed to wear masks.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 04/03/2025

Elbows up, #Canada! Feel free to use the frame I created: www.canva.com/design/DAGgx... #CanadaSky #ElbowsUp #ElbowsUpCanada

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 01/03/2025

This is how you meet with an ally and support them, not belittling them and threatening a third world war. 💙💛🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine #StandWithZelenskyy

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 12/02/2025

Yesterday we had our 1st Trump loving racist attempt to create a listing on Made In Canada, eh! designed to send us a hateful message. I am taking that as a point of pride, that we the mighty beavers are unnerving the gnat and those that follow him in hate. #Number1Never51 #CanadaSky

Number 1, Never 51! Like the mighty beaver, Canadians are strong, determined, ingenuitive and free. We are independent, yet strongest working together ... and when met with a bully we fight back in our own scrappy, clever ways.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 09/02/2025

Happy to share that Made in Canada, eh! has its 1st 100 #MadeInCanada listings! madeincanada-eh.ca/location/ Thanks to all who've helped incl @ottawaroadtrips.bsky.social, @ckjnewberry.bsky.social, @wendynordvikcarr.bsky.social, @bessyn.bsky.social, @torenwx.bsky.social, @thesaxbygale.ca & more.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 08/02/2025

It's important to encourage our kids to #LearnFromHistory. #History can also be fun & engaging to learn about, especially at #museums & #culturalhistory sites like the #Canadian Museum of Flight in #LangleyBC. Here's Anne's experience there with an 8yr old: roamancing.com/2025/01/cana... #exploreBC

A kid zipping around the Canadian Museum of Flight in a mini model plane on wheels.

A kid in the cockpit of a model plane at the Canadian Museum of Flight.

Jacobs L-6MB float plane at the Canadian Museum of Flight.

An young aviation lover in front of a Canadian Armed Forces Jet.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 01/02/2025

Thanks to Lindsay Nieminen, @ottawaroadtrips.bsky.social, Christina Newberry, @bessyn.bsky.social, Jim Patterson, @torenwx.bsky.social, Darren & Leigh Simpson, @thesaxbygale.ca, Vanessa Chiasson & Nathalie Harris, we have 50+ #MadeInCanada businesses on the site! madeincanada-eh.ca/listings/can...

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 28/01/2025

In response to friends and colleagues wanting to better support #MadeInCanada, #Mexico, #Greenland and #Panama goods and services, I created a directory that people can both search and add to. Would love your help in growing it and spreading the love. madeincanada-eh.ca

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 03/01/2025

It made me smile to read the #LandAcknowledgement on #ZeroTheCat's Website. I've been so impressed by some of the websites that my #BCIT students built this past Term - creative, funny, thought provoking & forward thinking. For a smile in your day, go for a ramble with Zero: zerothecat.ca #CatSky

Zero the Adventure Cat lives and plays within the traditional territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 29/12/2024

Having a chuckle as it seems that Google's decided that I'm a public figure.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 04/12/2024

Happy to share that we've incorporated #StoryToGo as a #NotForProfit society designed to reflect #storytelling today with a focus on community, #education, #mentorship, media experimentation, #socialgood initiatives, #accessibility, and the creation of #media in its many forms. storytogo.ca

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 14/11/2024

Loved listening to, learning from & being inspired by Garry Oker's creative & experiential approach to Indigenous Education, thanks to his #IndigenomicsNow talk on 'Reimagining the Future'. I will be exploring his work further at www.garryoker.com #IndigenousKnowledge #Indigenomics

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 14/11/2024

Great question from Indigenomics Now, as Eli Enns delivers his Keynote Address, "In what way do you think Indigenous Knowledge and modern technology could create a more abundant and sustainable future for all?" Your thoughts? #Indigenomics

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 14/11/2024

Excited to tune in to #Indigenomics Now as we explore global Indigenous economic knowledge development & mobilization. events.indigenomicsinstitute.com/now Opened with a traditional welcome from Ne?emtenat. Thanks to Interledger for the invitation to this sharing of knowledge & wisdom.

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🇨🇦 Erica Hargreave 🇺🇦 @ericahargreave.com · 05/10/2024

#THIS comment about @mikebrowne.bsky.social on Season 2 of Traitors Canada, "He just misses his cats!" Looking at his boys, how could he not. My favourite player! Plus he's the first one in the game to nail it at the Roundtable (and on Night 1 of the Roundtable)!!! Happy #caturday!

A grey cat hanging upside down on his scratching post, and a black cat in the background.

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