Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Matchka, not quite sure she wants to take this nap … 1110
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's 16 years today since Lauren went to the farmer's market to get milk and eggs, and came home with milk, eggs, and a kitten. Happy Gotcha Day to the inimitable Matchka! May she be with us for years! #cats #catsofbluesky 0183
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Here she is a couple of days ago, napping in the box bay window! 120
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Just last night we spent five minutes calling Pangur only to find him three feet away in a box under the table. 000
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Matchka wishes everyone a Happy 4th! #catsofbluesky #cats 010
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026#3 reminds me of Buster, a kitten we rescued. We had to keep him shut in my office (because our cat, Lucy, hated all other cats). The first morning after we got him, I opened the door, tiny Buster led me down the stairs into the kitchen, where he parked in front of the refrigerator and MEOWED! 0272
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 02/06/2026It's gloomy here, so Matchka is also snoozling in her cave! 170
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Fierce jungle cat Matchka wishes Toes a happy birthday! 130
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 30/05/2026My mother, who taught dog obedience, cherished this book from her library: 030
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 24/05/2026You can get the paper edition of the Denver Post (@denverpost.com) delivered to your door for less than $10 a day! 000
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts 120
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Hamlet's soliloquy, as rewritten by gmail's "Tab to Improve" feature 010
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 04/05/2026It's prudent to dial the "9" and the first "1" before even considering touching Matchka's belly! 070
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 14/04/2026If someone were EVER to touch Matchka like that, they had better have already dialed the "9" and the first "1"! 010
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Tiny Quora win: Rather than let people read my comment, the poster deleted it and turned comments off. 011
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Matchka does this all the time – we call it the Tail Clamp. I've written a song about it but have not finished the video. 030
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 24/01/2026In a bizarre coincidence, in 1948 my father Bernard Arnest made a painting of the spot where Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE today. The location looks very different today than it did then. Bernard Arnest, "26th and Nicollet," 1948 2227
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 06/01/2026You and Matchka have the same opinion regarding treats! 010
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Happy New Year from Matchka, who has finally realized that the couch we got a year ago has the best sunbeams! 010
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Okay, before you get to the reveal, who does this sound like? 123
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Lucy used to go on strike for turkey every Thanksgiving. She would eat nothing else until 24 hours after the last bit of turkey was gone, when hunger would cause her to relent. 030
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 21/09/2025I wish I could have taken this photo a few seconds earlier, when Pangur and the buck were seated, staring eye-to-eye about four feet apart. (Note second buck in the flower bed behind them.) 140
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 14/09/2025In life, Lucy hated all other cats, but Lauren and I have no doubt that she had a paw in our improbable finding of Merlin starving in a ditch six weeks after her death. 040
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Fifteen years ago today, Lauren went to the farmer's market to get milk and eggs, and came home with milk, eggs, and a kitten. Happy Gotcha Day to Matchka! Pictured: Then and now 130
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 19/08/2025For 14 years, Batko, the neighbor's cat, has tried to be friendly to Matchka. She will have nothing of it, and hisses at him. Usually he's stoic about it, but every now and then he will bat her bunt as she walks past him! (Matchka on the left, Batko on the right) 0150
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I was raised as a dog person. Lucy was my spirit guide into the world of cats. Gone since 2007; I think of her every day. 020
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 06/08/2025When I looked just now, the sections are there but are not accessible from the menu on the right. I had to scroll down on the left side to find them. 000
Mark Arnest @marnest.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I just looked at the link you provide, and those sections are currently there, but are not accessible from the menu on the right side of the screen. I had to scroll down the text on the left side to find them. On my laptop, the menu began to scroll again at Article 9, Section 10. 000
![A quote from Bryan Magee's "Confessions of a Philosopher":
It is true that in temples, mosques, synagogues and churches they [people] offer lip-service to true values, and feel better for having done so; and those values may even sometimes be taught in schools; but, again, no sooner do people leave such places of instruction than they behave in their old ways. Worse than that: if any of them does not do so – if one of them sacrifices his interests to someone else’s, tells the truth to his own disadvantage, declines to be sycophantic to people with a lot of power or money – the others remonstrate with him and tell him not to be a fool. If he persists, they lose respect for him: they come to look on him as stupid, someone who does not know how to manage his own affairs, someone making a botch of his life. The truth is, then, that the values people publicly acknowledge and pay lip-service to are in reality values that they not only repudiate but actively despise. It took me a long time to realize this, but when I did I came to understand in a new light the evident frustration and even despair of so many prophets and teachers, their isolation, and their characteristic tone of railing at people who they know are not going to take much notice of what they say.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvtddjgapbch2o2astnsuxbc/bafkreigmwfeozwokcooorppffyq57ium2hubypydo23hzlsvzagun26eyu)
