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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

heartbroken to hear the vet say my little buddy’s kidney disease has progressed to the “let’s keep him comfortable” stage. Tip was my companion all through my own illness & always at my side when I work at home. So we’ll continue to love & coddle him until it’s time to let him go. #cats #sweetheart

A gray & white cat sleeps soundly on a beige pillow next to a sunny window. You can see his gray tail with just a tiny white tip on the end—hence his name!

The same white & gray cat is inside crouched on the back of the red sofa looking out the window at me. I’ve taken the photo through the screen so there’s a slight texture to the shot. His front paws are daintily together. His head is mostly white but he has gray fur on his ears & rakishly over his right eye. He knows how incredibly handsome he is.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had to take a screen shot of the quickly moving text on the last screen. It says it is not affiliated with the US Mint.

The text on the last screen of the video reads: Not affiliated, licensed or endorsed by the US Gov’t or the US Mint, Donald J Trump or any organization that is owned and or operated by Donald J Trump or any of his affiliations. Offer not valid in MN.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From “Regarding Henry” 1981

Harrison Ford wearing a blue shirt standing in a doorway holding a beagle puppy in his arms.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We have one like that too. His name is Noodle because he’s long & skinny and has only noodles in his head

Snoozy orange cat with one paw curled over his face

Orange tabby curled up on Stripey Pillow with tummy exposed.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Oh. I didn’t. I uploaded this one. In guess I didn’t get the memo either.

My favorite painting of a woman on horseback—sort of. The perspective and body parts are completely fantastic in the original meaning of the word. The horse especially looks as though someone stuck a triceratops head on a bench. It makes me happy.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Was just in Seattle & visited the Burke Museum and learned that current day humans are closer to when the triceratops lived than the triceratops was to the stegosaurus. 🤯I love both of those.

A graphic from a museum exhibit that reads: “Check this out. Less time separates us from triceratops than separated triceratops from stegosaurus.” A timeline is shown where stegosaurus lived 150 MYA so it’s 84 million years apart from triceratops. Triceratops lived 66 MYA so current humans are only 66 million years apart. I stupidly tend to lump “dinosaur time” altogether but that’s my ignorance. There were a lot of dinosaurs in a time span of millions of years.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s a great little neighborhood place. Warm doughnut filling changes every day. And I wasn’t kidding about the pancake.

An adorable man with grey hair wearing a red shirt sits at a restaurant table eating scrambled eggs. In the foreground is an enormous pancake taking up most of the table. It’s sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar & there’s a small cup of butter on it. My mouth is watering as I describe this pancake.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Seems harmless but . . .

A gray & white cat curled up on a blue blanket that’s on a table by a window. One back leg is resting on a piece of paper from a yellow legal pad. Could it be a top secret message? Cat is playing it cool.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Two stripey cats on the Stripey Pillow. A few months ago they were arch enemies but now they snooze together

An orange striped cat curled up sleeping next to a brown striped tabby. They are lying on a red & white striped pillow on a window seat. That window seat is over a radiator and next to a sunny window = perfect cat sleeping area.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I can’t be expected to work under these circumstances.

An orange tabby is curled up asleep atop a yellow legal pad next to a laptop computer on my desk. A useless ballpoint pen is next to the pad of paper since I certainly won’t move him to write anymore. His little paws are curled up under his chin & he is distractingly adorable.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Very well, and extremely interested in what I’m doing in the bathroom.

Three cats in a doorway. A gray & white cat is lying on a small red rug next to the open door. A tabby cat is standing in the doorway looking back at the orange striped cat coming in —and with good reason, since orange cat cannot be trusted not to cause trouble.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Washington Post reports that people who cover or mar Dear Thin-skinned Leader’s face on the new national park pass may be accused of “fraud” and have to buy another pass. I guess they know that people will want to, um, get creative. Posting just a screen shot of the full story.

Photo of the new national park pass with George Washington & President Mugshot on it. Text says “Visitors to national parks who plan on covering President Donald Trump’s face on their 2026 entrance passes may face additional fees.”

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The year we got this goofball Noodle we decided not to get a tree & instead put Christmas lights on our drying rack. Good thing. We had put skeleton lights on it, and Noodle enjoyed biting the legs off. We found little plastic legs around the house for months.

An orange striped cat climbing up on a decorated wooden clothes drying rack. He does not look in the least bit guilty.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Today at our faculty meeting I received the highest, most prestigious honor one can get. Yes, the 2025 Faculty Ugly Christmas Sweater award.

A close up of the winning fashion design! Sweater is a patterned aqua & white design but appliquéd on the front is Rudolph the reindeer barfing up a big green blob that spreads across the front of the sweater. In the green textured blob are stitched on green plastic jewels to provide an extra soupçon of holiday cheer. It is a masterpiece if I do say so myself.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Noodle is my name because that is what my head is stuffed with

Orange cat sitting on a stripy pillow but one back leg is pointing towards the camera looking impossibly long.

The same orange cat lying on his back with front paws curled adorably while one back leg is stretched out

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

So many! But one I still listen to? This one.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Last year on my birthday we rescued this skinny but sweet tabby cat. It took some patience for the other two to embrace their new brother but a year later, Toby is a comfortable happy boy & all three sleep with us every night. Deep rumbly purrs, Toby, & happy adoption day 😻

Sleepy tabby sprawled across a notebook on my desk, in front of my computer monitor. He looks blissfully at home & certainly does not care that he is preventing me from working

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Here are our Purr Queens, Lilliput & Esmeralda. Lilli, my constant companion, had a slow growing cancer that stopped responding to treatment; the day after she died Esmé suddenly took sick and died a few days later, Nov 20. Worst thanksgiving we ever had, missing these two friends. Still miss them.

Two adorable cats on a dark red couch. Lilli is a tabby with a white front who liked to sit with her paws crossed. Esme was a big pile of white & black fluff who talked to us all the time. We loved them very much.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I was at a conference in the Netherlands last summer that was using AI to add text on big screens as the speaker presented. I don’t recall what the speaker was saying but I’m positive it wasn’t “Yao am I van Yao pom?”

A photo of text on a screen that says “Yao am I can Yao pom?” which I s what the AI came up with from this conference speaker.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“No one will play with me? I’ll just collapse in the doorway dramatically.”

Overhead photo shot of Orange tabby in the doorway on his back, all four paws in the air, looking sadly askance because no one will play with him.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Here’s how Noodle likes to sleep

An orange tabby curled up in a cat tree. His front legs are sticking out in front of him in a way that looks like it can’t possibly be comfortable, yet he’s asleep

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

How’s this? Made me smile—hope it does for you too

Here’s Noodle, our orange tabby, lying on his back, paws in the air but his head at a quizzical angle, as if to say, “you don’t find me adorable, do you?” (Reader, I do.)

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Here’s my squeezy guy, Tip.

A gray and white cat lies on his back in the middle of the tile floor with his big white belly showing.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We’re having thunderstorms that startle cats into weird shapes.

An orange cat on a bed with a dark green bedspread. The cat is twisted into an impossible shape with his top half facing just off the camera’s view & his back leg & tail hovering above the bed. His other three limbs aren’t visible. He’s sort of in the shape of a trussed croissant if you can imagine that.

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Pittsburgh came out in the thousands. No kings, no jagoffs!

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

And thousands further west in Pittsburgh!

Woman in a crowd holding up a sign that says “Trump is a jagoff!”

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

From Pittsburgh—-no kings, no jagoffs!

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

In downtown Pittsburgh, thousands have gathered in protest —No Kings!

Woman in crowd holding up a sign that says “Trump is a jagoff!”

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FMD17 @fmd17.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

My mom was a big fan of Longfellow so maybe that’s where she got it. I have her copy of collected works where she’s written inside, “This book was presented to me by my dear Uncle Cornelius in 1933 as a gift.”