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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Daffodil, fancy and mid-stretch. He has zero street smarts but is a master at making humans do his bidding.

Daffodil, a boy cat with long, fluffy black hair, white front paws and long white whiskers, is doing that stretch cats do where his front legs are stretched out in front of him and his head and chest are lowered to the ground. An orange cat wearing Christmas pajamas can be seen partially in frame behind Daffodil, admiring Daffy's epic stretch.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Gave it my best but still fell short

Cropped screenshot from Fitbit app the says "Sleep duration 5 hours, 26 minutes" and shows today's Sleep Score as "68".

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A snail on my front porch, pondering his shadow.

A snail is climbing up a painted white post on my front porch. The light from the porch light casts his shadow on the post out in front of him. He appears to be looking at his shadow.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Elliot and Twig (unrelated, as far as we know)

Elliot, a middle-aged orange cat, is laying on a blue bedspread. He's got one paw tucked under his chin and the other stuck out in front of him, making him look like a lounging human somehow.

Twig, a young dilute orange boy cat has claimed a box that used to contain cans of Pringles. He'sitting in said box and appears to be pleading with his eyes to the human behind the camera to please not take his new box out to the recycling bin quite yet.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Elliot has loved those chairs since he was a tiny guy, too. Eventually we started just scooching him back a little and sitting in front of him. He usually protests a bit then settles in and shares.

Elliot, a medium-sized orange tabby cat, is napping on the seat of an office desk chair. His rear legs are tucked up close and his tail is wrapped around them. His head is resting on his front legs. This is one of Elliott's favorite napping spots, as evidenced by both the claw marks at the front that he makes when climbing up on it now that his old legs don't jump so good and by the later of orange and white hairs that has accumulated on the seat.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Like if you can find the baby praying mantis

A photo of the top of an outdoor storage cabinet that is covered with a jumble of fallen oleander flowers, some weeds that flew up from earlier weed eating, an old pole saw, some random yard doodads, a pair of scissors, some non-returnable recyclables that I pulled out of the returnable recycling bags, a couple of unused white trash bags, and a tiny baby praying mantis. He is green and about one and a half inches long.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It was 20 years ago but I kept a one as evidence that it happened so I wouldn't wonder later if I imagined it (and also, spider memorial)

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Daffodil has much long floof that's a chore to keep groomed, so his buddy Twig is helping him out with it. 🥹 #caturday

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This neighbor cat that usually runs away when he sees me didn't run away this afternoon and he let me take his picture

A floofy black cat is laying on a stone pathway that cuts across a garden. He has light yellowish eyes that you can see even though the picture is from several feet away.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Allison stole my hard-sided Trader Joe's bag.

Allison, a small gray and cream-colored tabby cat, is sitting in a hard-sided Trader Joe's bag with orange fabric handles. One of the long sides of the bag takes up most of the frame of the photo. It has a whimsical design with a robin's egg blue background that looks like a sky with an old style airplane and a big cloud in it, but there are big vegetables in the sky also, like a turnip and a beet. The vegetables are bigger than the airplane but smaller than the cloud. Only Allison's head is visible, sticking out above the side of the bag. She's looking at the camera, mildly annoyed that the human taking the photo keeps trying to get her to look at them for a photo op when what she really wants is to further explore this new bag she's found on the human's bed.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

When I asked, it said they're not sisters, then goes on to describe a situation that would have made them half-sisters (same mom, different dads), then states that this means they're step-sisters. 🙃

A screenshot of a Google search in which I asked Google, "were Mary Shelley and Jane Austen sisters". The "AI Overview" at the top of the search results reads, "No, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen were not sisters. They were both daughters of Mary Wollstonecraft, but Mary Shelley's father was William Godwin, and Jane Austen's father was Thomas Austen according to jasnasw.com.
Mary Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, while Jane Austen was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Austen, making them step-sisters. "

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is how I'm referring to my insomnia from now on

A cropped screenshot from a poster that shows "Creative Routines of Famous Individuals" from the section about Charles Darwin. At the top of the image it describes what he did just before going to sleep at night as "Lies awake in bed solving problems."

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My boys Elliot and Goose getting in on the bathroom cat action in their own weird ways

Elliot, a medium-sized orange tabby cat, is laying on the floor in the back corner of a stand-up shower (the kind that's not a bathtub, just a shower).

Goose, a dark-brown tabby cat, is standing up very tall on his hind legs on a bathroom sink with his front paws on a little glass shelf above the sink. He's stretching up as tall as he can to look at himself in the medicine cabinet mirror. The sink and the shelf are messy - there are toothbrushes in a cup that's tipping over, a toothpaste tube tucked behind the faucet, a Q-tip container open on the shelf with it's lid off and resting on a basket of hair doodads. The mess is our (Goose's humans') fault, not Goose's.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If anybody needs me I'll just be over here waiting for my takeout and crying about this dog adoption flyer made by a local elementary school student.

A laminated flyer hanging on a bulletin board at a restaurant that includes a photo of a dog available for adoption at the local animal shelter and a colorful depiction of the same dog drawn by a child, below which is a description of the dog written by the same child. The description reads, "Hi, my name is Emerald. I am a 2 year old shepherd mix. Good with kids, walks good on a leash, gentle, sweet, loves attention, loves people. Please adopt me!" Two hearts are drawn at the end of the description. At the bottom of the flyer, in small print, it says, "Artwork completed by [redacted] Elementary School Kindness Club. Dogs are available for adoption at the [redacted] County Animal Shelter" (I redacted the school and county names for my own privacy.)

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Twig has found an entire bundle of mini zip ties so his weekend plans are sorted if he can manage to successfully liberate them from my bedroom. So far the cat flap is not cooperating.

Twig, an light orange and white cat who is currently small because he's still kind of a kitten, is playing with a bundle of multi-colored mini zip ties held together with a rubber band. Zip ties are Twig's favorite thing in the whole world, so this is an amazing find for him.

A close-up of Twig, a small cat that hit the jackpot this morning when he happened upon a bundle of mini zip ties one of his humans had stashed on a shelf and forgotten about, carrying the zip tie bundle in his mouth as he attempts to push a transparent cat door open with his paw. He usually just pushes through the cat door headfirst, but he tried that already and it makes him drop the zip tie bundle. He's determined to liberate his prize from the bedroom, where the human owner of the zip tie bundle keeps taking his picture, which Twig suspects is a precursor to the human confiscating his prize zip tie bundle.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Tag yourself - I'm driving this 1970s station wagon with all my crap strapped to the top trying to find my way out of this snowy hellscape

A zoom-in on the lower right side of the photo from the original post that appears to show some sort of driving bridge with blurry car-like objects moving across it. I added a red arrow pointing towards one of the blurry objects that resembles a large 1970s style station wagon with a bunch of stuff strapped to the top of it.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Quote skeet with a bird on a sign #birds

A small pelican bird is sitting on top of a post sticking out of the water. There is a sign on the post that says "Slow Speed Minimal Wake". Some building in St. Augustine, Florida are in the background on the shore.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Quote skeet with a bird on a sign #birds

A blackish-brown bird with a white head and chest is standing on a post that has red triangle signs posted on either side of it. The post is sticking up out of the water in a bay off the ocean in Florida. Some land with trees is in the background.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This is apparently... a tradition now?

Ursa, a black and white Great Dane is sitting in front of a white Christmas tree that is still fully decorated and lighted, but is laying fallen on the floor.

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Ursa's favorite part of making cookies is licking the beaters

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Ifyousayso @ifyousayso.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is Twig, he is also obsessed with zip ties. His keep mysteriously disappearing, though. (It's the dogs. They steal them when he's not looking and chew them up. Good thing we have plenty of them.)