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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My mother interacting with the cats (Stuart, top left, was misbehaving)

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This post also comes with a free Stuart update

Stuart the teenager kitten sitting behind some boots on a hardwood floor

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another neighbor foster will be at @pawschicago.bsky.social in the next few days, this tiny kitten is extra small, looks like Halloween and her name is Cappuccino. If you're in Chicago and looking for a tiny pal please keep an eye on their website

All four pictures are of a tiny kitten with orange and black patchy coloring, she is very small and looks a bit like a cute alien

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

tfw the solar eclipse hits so hard that your ears collapse

A snap exec wearing a suit and the Snap glasses, looking up at the sky as if he is compelled to stare at the sun

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yea it's becoming Facebook Lite pretty quickly. Here's the municipal code that makes spreading anything like that in public areas illegal, just for peace of mind:

7-28-150 Spreading of vermin poison.
It shall be unlawful for any person to spread, or to cause or permit any agent or employee to spread, any poison for the purpose of killing rats, mice, insects, or other vermin, in any public way or public place in the city; and it shall be unlawful for any person to spread or to cause or permit any agent or employee to spread, any poison for such purpose in any yards, court, passageway, or other open place on private premises, or on the outside of any building or structure, or in any place within a building which is open to the general public, or where pet dogs, cats, or other domestic animals or fowls have access, without placing the same in a receptacle of such kind or character that it can be reached only by the kind of vermin which the poison is intended to kill, or without placing a wire or other guard about same in such way that no child, or domestic animal, domestic fowl, or other harmless creature can reach the same.
(Prior code § 99-11)

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm in LA for one day so I decided to visit Jack Benny's radio star on the walk of fame! Sadly it appears the 5¢ Per Minute coin slot is broken, so I had to move on

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't usually do this but right now Thomas Lennon is auctioning off one of his Reno 911 Dangle outfits for the Alzheimer's Association and I want someone to have the ultimate Halloween costume so badly e.givesmart.com/events/JiZ/i...

The shorts, shirt, sneakers and very ornate boots of Lt. Dangle

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Same vacant stare and everything, except Gadget would have finished the Theranos machine in 22 minutes with some gum

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm sorry to do this to everyone but this is Gadget from Rescue Rangers. And not in any kind of good way

Elizabeth "Theranos" Holmes smiling and looking like a cartoon mouse in a negative way

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

With this incredible advancement in mind, I'd like to announce that I've invented a phone, but one that does not use wires

Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They're putting undeclared milk in our eyeballs and you're laughing

Little Temptations Chocolatey Eyeballs for containing undeclared milk (August 31)

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our plan was to adopt this guy, but let's just say Feldon and Orange did not mix. And so Stu (enchant's brother) is now his best little buddy bsky.app/profile/mrco...

Stu and Feldon sitting next to each other at the window, backs to the camera

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Backstory: Stu here (pictured above) was in my neighbor's foster litter. All four kittens were immediately adopted; Stu stayed with us and Feldon. Here they are sleeping on my arm bsky.app/profile/mrco...

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still always astonished that this kind of picture can come from *my phone*

The Milky Way in high detail in a Bortle 3/4 sky

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Literally called "Kegel's Video," wood panel everything. I have a trauma memory of a promo prop with an animatronic hand in a jar on the counter; might have been for terminator. I have a used copy of Zelda I bought as a memento of their existence at the closing sale

The back of a gold copy of The Legend Of Zelda with a rental store sticker on the back that says Kegel's Video, Westminster 848-2300 and Hanover 632-8900

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wrote a series of these in 2019 and I'm just now remembering them, and feeling very lathe-of-heaven about Coyote vs. Acme, which I haven't yet seen

Tuesday afternoon at ACME. I am again fervently attempting to convince my boss that fulfilling another order for a coyote would be irresponsible. He is content to operate under the delusion that "WILE" is a man's name.

This, too, is recorded in my notes for the inevitable trial

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

C'mon buddy, we've got Frankie Pulitzer at home

A photograph of Pulitzer prize winning author Frank McCourt

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wife is going through some vintage magazines and this guy is just a dick

A cartoon man sits next to a photographed woman on a bench. He's wearing some kind of evil skin tight Hermes outfit with a loose jersey that reads MR COFFEE NERVES and is twirling his mustache.

The title on top: Rarin' to go -or ready to drop?

Mr. Coffee Nerves speech bubble: HEH, HEH! SHE'S DEAD ON HER FEET-AND SHE NEVER SUSPECTS ME OF STEALING HER SLEEP!

A cartoon man stands behind a photographed man who is distressed and sitting with an alarm clock. The cartoon man is wearing some kind of evil skin tight Hermes outfit with a loose jersey that reads MR COFFEE NERVES has a long evil mustache.

The title on top: Getting your rest-or restless all night?

Mr. Coffee Nerves speech bubble: HIS SLEEP'S ALL SHOT AND SO IS HE! HEH, HEH, AND HE NEVER SUSPECTS ME!

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just finding this out and I had to step outside

Model Gene Gallagher, son of Oasis front man Liam, leads limp grunge group Villanelle, and [highlighted by me] Stella Lefty, daughter of Groupon cofounder Eric Lefkofsky, is riding high on treacly country-pop hit "Boston."

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tattoo artist: ...right above the waistline? Me: You heard me

Milligan and French in silhouette, no dialogue

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Which, by the way, triggers a person *sitting in DC* to search for any nearby towns called "Silver Spring," a piece of information that someone living in DC would need to search for *only* if they had just experienced a major head injury

A map showing DC, which also shows Silver Spring, the two of which are literally touching at DCs northern apex

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At one point the passenger claims to have seen a "Silver Spring, 120 miles" sign on a route that could not possibly be any more than about 50 miles from Silver Spring at any point

A map of the route the characters would have taken from south of DC to Sykesville, which is in the northern part of the state

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It didn't take very long, but my cats being best friends is one of my favorite summer "goals I couldn't really control" that went very well

Feldon and Stuart the cats laying on their cat hammock, which is actually the top of my 3D printer enclosure. Photo from directly above

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sacred artifact in the small town antiques store

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Phone camera and terrible circumstances, but at least I got Andromeda and the Milky Way

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wow, a one sentence article. Nice. No need to read anymore

Top of the page/subheading reads "After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship begins and what readers deserve to know." A picture of the man follows. Underneath, the article starts with one sentence before being cut off: "I am a fraud."

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is so funny. Yeah man, the time the kids are in the school is the time they're in the vicinity of the school. Crazy how that works

"I'm all for protecting the kids coming and going from school," Acosta said.

But he says both of his tickets were issued during the middle of the day, when those kids were inside the school. "So they're basically giving you a citation for going over the regular speed limit," he said. "That's where you get popped."

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We're cat sitting for Stuart's mom upstairs and we had to do a whole thing. Feldon was so confused

Feldon on the back of the couch being weird while Stuart lays on his bed in front of another cat carrier, which is holding his mother the neighbor cat

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

when I start talking about jack benny

A screaming street preacher annoying a bunch of people waiting in line

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just realized that Strange New Worlds is actually Star Trek: Smallville, sitting with that

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They're mostly trading off these days

Feldon and Stuart the cats, sleeping head to head at a 90 degree angle on a ledge

Feldon and Stuart the cat sleeping side by side with Feldon's paws hanging over the side

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Looking more closely at the problem

A macro lens shot of a high powered magnifying glass sitting over a piece of paper with 'Uh oh' printed in teeny font

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I genuinely think my cat may be in love with the printer

Feldon the big white cat sleeping with his head on the printer tray and inside the printer

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hammock Stuart is not prepared for on-camera presentation

Stuart the kitten in his cat hammock, mouth open, mid scream

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

[Michelin executive in 1897] Why, I do believe we may need some kind of new mascot. [Man casually doing a combination of drugs that would paralyze a modern human in seconds] Make a fucked up tire mummy

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The city of Chicago knows how to take care of its people ❤️

A diamond shapes sign with the two establishments in the shopping center listed in such a way that it looks like one place, the "Lou Malnati's Pizzeria Midwest Express Clinic"

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sink junk (Iron filings, plastic mini container, vegetable oil, fridge magnets, paper towel)

An above view of makeshift ferrofluid in a plastic container, with a black mass in the middle, spikes on each end where the magnets are sitting, and black lines all around following the magnetic field

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