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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Must finish thesis and paper so I can stop dreaming about this guy, who isn’t even my main subject! John Dickinson, after the 1771 oil on canvas by Charles Willson Peale. Suit ordered 1/2/1770 from Joseph Graisbury, tailor, in Philadelphia.

A man in a brown suit with a shaggy white lining stands holding a brass-knobbed walking stick. Behind him is a deciduous tree and a view of Germantown outside Philadelphia.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think of this as the addiction store or the emporium of colonialism. Someday I’ll the essay about it.

A brick store front with glass windows advertising tobacco, vape, candy and chips, ice cream, cappuccino, coffee and tea. St Paul Street and 25th Street in Baltimore,Maryland.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Completely taken with this scene at work in which the tools create the symbol of the condition.

An orange ladder and two orange closed for maintenance straps block a classroom doorway.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The 33rd Street Giant had a lot of 150th sugar. Swedish Fish, Tootsie Rolls, Haribo gummy bears. It was … uninspiring and lacked coherent arrangement. Didn’t take a pic of the birthday cake Cheerios which were subtly branded to work past July. (lol)

A bag of tootsie roll candy with America 250th branding and the Tootsie Pop owl dressed as Uncle Sam.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Bricked the phone a couple weeks ago to reduce anxiety with mixed results. (Can’t control the news) but anyway, I’m still her copilot.

A fluffy black and white cat with wide whiskers, a pink nose, and green eyes stares to the right of the frame. Behind her, in big black headphones, a woman’s face is obscured. She’s pretending the cat is charge. The cat is, in fact, in charge.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

No crosswalk. One lane blocked. There are already frequent accidents at 33rd & Guilford. But I guess it’s better than the 10 foot piles downtown? As a pedestrian & bus rider, this is dangerous— and I’m pretty sturdy. A lot of bus riders/peds aren’t. Why is the priority cars and not people?

A tall pile of snow blocks a zebra crosswalk and one traffic lane in Baltimore. In the background, a pedestrian walks in front of a brick rowhouse.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Mannequin upgrade! The old casters lost their bearings and wobbled, but a little research showed that a 10mm 1.5 pitch bolt would fit. Voila! Back to rolling with less floor marking in safety orange!

The black cast iron base of a dressmaker’s dummy sits across two sisal rugs over a wooden floor.

The same dressmaker’s dummy is seen on a wooden floor, but now with larger orange casters.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

We’re watching a doc on Richard III and I’m pretty sure we’re drawing different conclusions.

A fuzzy black and white cat with a pink nose and green eyes stares to the left. Behind her, a blue-eyed woman with silver and bronze hair also peers to the left. They are watching a documentary on Richard the third for very different reasons.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

She is actively and purposefully blocking the paragraph I need to write about. 40 words from halfway done.

A fluffy black and white cat reclines next to a laptop, her back to the camera. She lies on papers, printouts of the document the human must write 1540 more words about by Monday.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Cars +1 under the Anxiety billboard in Baltimore. (North Ave & Howard.) But the art supply store is still open!

Plywood boarding up a shop window of an art supply store, with the spray painted information “It was a car We are still open 10 am-6pm” seen on a corner in Baltimore.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Montague J. Cat, Esq. one of the best bois ever. His only flaw was cheating at iPad cat games. We lost him October 6 after 14 (15?) wonderful, furry years.

A brown tabby cat with a creamy round tummy sits with one back foot up. He is watching a fly in an iPad game for cats. He cheats.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I had to work yesterday, but managed a hand-written paper draft. Herself was mad I had to work. And now she is lying on the draft.

A fluffy black and white cat with no shame lies on a handwritten paper draft on a desk. She is full of judgement and purrs.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Every time Acrobat offers up "That looks like a long document, would you like me to summarize it for you?" I think of this meme. I expect the results would be about the same.

A corgi wearing glasses is posed with a paw on an open book. The text of the meme reads This homework looks hard ... would you like me to eat it?

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Suddenly grateful Boo chooses to destroy the sofa cushion instead.

A classic grey tabby cat yawns widely while lounging on the top of a sofa cushion. The cushion is being crushed beneath his formerly svelte and now meaty expanse. His primordial cat flap— a fuzzy cream patch— peeps out from under his stripey flank.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I’m sure the flower decals offer the carbon and mitigate blocking the crosswalk. Fuck then pedestrians, amirite? My hated for cars knows no bounds. 🌸🌸🌸🚙🚙

A fucking green Toyota SUV with flower decals blocking a downtown crosswalk in Baltimore.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If she gets me up at 3, she can do my damn job and I can sleep instead. Good thing she’s so cute on her new scratchy toy.

A fluffy black and white cat with green eyes and a pink nose reclines on a wavy corrugated cardboard scratching toy. The toy has a black brushy arch inserted into one end, in front of a slot with a pink ball. The cat has found a very flattering surface as the toy’s pink sides complement her little nose.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Celebrating my birthday last June in the Congressional Cemetery by visiting the grave of Ann Reynolds Cutbush, member of a Philadelphia family I’m researching. The only crime was 100° heat and the blisters I got walking to & from the Metro.

A tall woman in a blue and white plaid linen 1920s style dress and hat stands next to the memorial to Ann Reynolds Cutbush in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC on a very hot June day in 2024

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Why do I have a cat? She sits on fabric. She sits on books. She sits on photocopies. She sits on the laptop. She will not sit in my lap.

A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf of bread on grey silk. The human is trying to pleat the back of a short sacque gown. The turned her head away and declared that would not happen.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Made a crazy thing today. That’s a doll-sized chair dressed in dimity the way Martha Washington did her chairs. I don’t condone the W’s, but it’s a tool to talk about enslaved workers, heat, upholstery, and fashion in the 18th century.

A small, doll-sized Windsor chair with a white dimity patterned stuffed cushion and draped apron-style front. The drape is trimmed with white cotton lace. The chair sits on a sisal rug in front of a wooden chest with drawers.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Good morning, Baltimore. Did you eat your breakfast?

A blue Baltimore Sun newspaper box, graffitied and with a broken window, sits on a downtown sidewalk. On the top rests a pile of dark orange powder-covered cheese food snacks. Even the pigeons eschew them.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Took an extra day (animal interference? For her lady ship of removed teeth?) but it’s here! Looking forward to reading this.

A book cover, The Painter’s Fire: a forgotten history of the Artists who championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin. The cover has text in white over a woodcut image of a ship rendered in teal and black. There are decorative flame-shaped elements in bright orange.

A fluffy black and white cat with enormous white whiskers appears to scream or yawn. She is missing some upper teeth and has extremely pink gums. Did she harass the mail carrier? It’s possible. She yells at the milk delivery.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

She’s back from surgery and doing better than I’d hoped! (She will likely be exhausted tomorrow.) She lost her big front teef but she’s still the chattiest bossiest bestest girl.

A fluffy black and white cat makes a small mew with her pink mouth. Her left front leg is shaved where an IV was inserted. She sits in front of her water fountain with a yellow flower. Her pupils are still widely dilated from painkillers. But she will be okay and is very happy to be home.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

At least the cat had a pleasant evening. I can’t believe (I can) we are doing this BS again.

A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf on a pile of blue and white cross barred linen. She doesn’t care what you thought you were doing, it’s hers now. But she would never bomb Iran, no matter how fur-ocious she is.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Who weighs 10 pounds and complained about the wet food flavor this morning? She made those boards cream as she settled into her summer retreat.

A fluffy black and white cat with green eyes and a pink nose reclines inside the wooden cubby of a Japanese chest. The wood is cool for summertime snoozing. Now go away unless you have some of the wet food she likes.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

That citation looks complicated, want me to delete it for you?

A small, fluffy black and white cat with big whiskers steps on an open book next to a laptop showing citations in Zotero. One second later she stepped on the keyboard and added a citation. It might be in the paper, who know?

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The purity of the Duchess’s blissful sleep is overwhelming.

A fluffy black and white cat sleeps on a beige armchair. Her head is doing back, chin in the air, and curves towards her fluffy tail.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Greetings from the fuzzy purring sewists’ block.

A fluffy black and white cat sits on blue Linsey-Woolsy fabric in front a woman trying to turn that fabric into a historic garment. The woman has frizzy grey hair and big glasses. To left is a mahogany framed federal mirror and a tin candle sconce. These people are weird, but they feed the cat well so she puts up with their silliness. Fabric is cozy to sleep on, after all.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That homework looks hard, want me to write it for you?

A fluffy black and white cat sits to the side of a MacBook with a document open in Word on the screen. She has a paw on the keyboard, ready to delete the whole thing if the human doesn’t provide adequate treats.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Enraged supervisor berates hooman subject for slightly late breakfast.

A fuzzy black and white cat stands on an office chair. She is screaming at a person off camera. The person feels the cat is unreasonable. In the background, a headless dress form named Cassandra wears a white 1820s petticoat, silent in her judgement of human and feline folly.

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Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask @kittycalash.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

People, this is serious. There is a hole in my coffee pot! It flamed like a cybertruck yesterday and gosh darn it, there it is. What is life without a triple espresso every morning at 5:30AM?

The discolored bottom of an apparently stainless steel coffee pot is show. At the top, just off center, is a patch of rust and a tiny hole. The author has a sad.

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