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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I thought we weren't supposed to get anything until noon...

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Trying this again. I need new friends on PokémonGO, por favor!

Screencap from PokemonGO with trainer information for ZillaQ. 6402 4864 9133

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Maybe it's just me, but there's something deeply amusing about walking your perpetually on-top-of-everything, educator mother into the house post-dental surgery & having her immediately tell the dog, "Mommy's high as shit!" Requisite pic of said dog (Loki).

Photo of a back-lit Catahoula Leopard Dog with full heterochromatia taken at a downward angle. He is facing the camera, sitting on a small, red, fringed oriental-style rug in front of a porch door. He looks less than amused.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I am clinging desperately to the bright points I can find right now (like most of us, I suspect). I am not, by nature, a positive person, so this is especially hard for me. Today's bright point: the yearly Frango Mint gift for the shop (with bonus awesome tin!)

Small rectangular tin with concave corners depicting a painted version of the outside of Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street in Chicago.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The Seasonal Affective is already kicking me in the teeth, and it's been overcast for days, so here's a pic I got at the lake house 2 weeks ago. The sun bouncing off the leaves was so bright it lit the inside of the house like actual lighting.

Photo of a backyard taken from a deck. The leaves of trees are starting to turn from a lighter green to yellow, except for the largest and most forward tree in the shot, which has turned completely bright yellow. A patch of sun is hitting the yellow leaves, creating even brighter highlights. A patch of clear cerulean blue sky is visible in a small-ish patch at the upper left of the photo.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

Still from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy of the robot Marvin standing at the bend in an off-white hallway. Marvin is an opalescent off-white color with wide-set green triangle eyes in a very large, round head. Its arms reach nearly to the floor, with stubby legs attached to a bisected torso. All jointed areas appear to be encased in a rubbery black material. Don't talk to it about life.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

*cackles with delight* just the sight of it would make my wine-snob mother cringe in shame and disgust, but I love it on a sweltering summer day.

Bottle of a relatively pale yellow wine in a clear bottle. The white label, from left to right and top to bottom, reads : Pineapple Mango
ESTD. 1970
Sweet wine
St. James winery
Sweet mango wine and sweet pineapple wine
A seasonal selection.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Good morning, sinners 🖤 The sun was rising as I drove into work, but seems to have fucked back off in the 20 minutes I've been at work.

Photo of clouds tinged peach and yellow by the rising sun.

Photo taken out of a dirty window of a dark grey sky above an industrial park.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Good morning, sinners 🖤 This has been my week: a single order. So close to being done with it. So. Close. Next I get to start on the same tool in a different grit size! *eyes glaze over*

Photo of an open top, white cardboard box with 9 rows and 9 columns of tubular carbon molds with metal shanks sticking up from their centers. 8 columns and 4 rows are double stacked.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Working in a machine shop with several kilns and ovens in this weather without a/c to avoid decadence? Suck my entire ass.

Screencap of current weather conditions in the poster's current locale (which is not listed). It is 92°F and sunny with a heat index of 102°F. This is listed on white text on a light blue background to the left of the image.
On the right side is a simple animation of a person wearing headphones, backwards baseball cap, white shirt with a blue long sleeve over it, seemingly in the act of shrugging it off. They are also wearing grey pants and holding a water bottle.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

On a lighter note, my foreman found a random animal tooth in his garden and immediately thought of me and my collection of dead things!

A worn and cracked herbivore tooth with dark stained root still attached on a light grey background.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Here's a Miss Monster von Frankenstein (pronounced Fronkenshteen)

An Olde English Bulldogge sitting on a black pleather couch giving some vaguely dubious side eye. She is tan with a white blaze on the face and running down her neck and belly.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Fuck it. Let's see how this goes. (Clearly, I'm punishing myself for.... something.)

A yellow Peep marshmallow is floating, for the moment, a top a black insulated travel mug of coffee.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Here's Miss Monster being a ham at daycare recently.

Photo at a downward angle of a tan and white Olde English Bulldogge wearing large black sunglasses. Photo was taken mid-lick, with the tongue reaching up towards the left side of the glasses. Someone is holding Mo's head still for the photo.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I can't help it-- this is one of my all-time favorite otter pics. It just looks so revolted by the flavor! 🤣

Giant otter eating a watermelon and looking absolutely disgusted by it.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Good morning, sinners 🖤 It's going to be colder than fuck for the next few days, so remember to layer up if you have to go out and limit your time outside as much as possible.

Screencap of a weather app cropped to show current conditions: 9°F, high of 11°, low of -5°. Current windchill temperature -9°.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Good morning, sinners 🖤 This is going to be the rest of my day, which, while repetitive, will keep me from doomscrolling. I'll take it.

Landscape-oriented photo of a manufacturing workstation. There are mandrels and packing implements on a duty pink rag in the right foreground, a series of small metallic cylinders grouped in tens to the left of this. Further to the left is a larger carbide cylinder with a mandrel sticking out of the center of it, and several carbide molds to the far left if the photo.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Good morning, sinners 🖤 Day 2 of OT. Definitely had a hell of a time getting out of bed at 4:30. So it goes. Chicagoans, bundle up if you have to leave the house! Make sure you've got blankets in the car and a charged phone in case of a breakdown. This is literal killer cold.

Screencap of current weather conditions.
Tuesday, January 21. Mostly sunny. -5°F.
High of 1°F, low of -5°F. Feels like aka windchill: -20°F.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Momo sends hopes of restorative rest for us all.

Landscape-oriented photo of a mostly tan Olde English Bulldogge curled up asleep with her face partially smashed into the back of a black couch.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Good morning, sinners 🖤 One thing I love about my intermittent days out in the shop is the chance to actually see the sunlight.

Photo of a workstation. A square sheet of metal sits in the right foreground holding a carbon mold with a small hole in the top center. There is a round, translucent container of material just behind and to the left of it. A shaft of sunlight is hitting the mold from the upper left, illuminating the top left quadrant and flat plane of the top. Other molds are in the back left of the photo, along with boxes and other containers, all slightly out of focus.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Because I've been talking cats with someone this morning here's Titania aka Fairy Queen aka Bitch Cakes aka Thumbalina and her magnificent thumbs.

Photo of a polydactyl tabby American shorthair laying on the back of a black pleather couch. An opposable-looking thumb on her right paw is in the foreground, and the same paw has a single claw sunk into the couch as a reminder that she can end you at any time.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The Pissy Princess aka Bed Pisser

Photo of a small, black American shorthair polydactyl cat in a meerkat-like pose, sitting upright on her haunches. She has large green eyes that are looking just to the right of the camera.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We met this slob goblin almost exactly 6 years ago. We then played with her for 2 hours and then chucked her in the car and immediately drove back to Chicago. #RescueDog #GotchaDay #OldeEnglishBulldogge

Olde English Bulldogge looking attentively just past the camera. She is fawn colored with a white blaze/mask on her face, chest, and stomach. Her eyes are ringed in black, as is her nose and mouth. Her underbite is causing her lower teeth to stick out from her closed mouth.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Holy crap--it actually started sticking! *more happy butt wiggles*

Portrait-oriented photo taken out a door showing a snow-covered ground (driveway and street). Evergreen trees in the center-right of the frame have a significant dusting of snow on their branches.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Seeing lots of skeets regarding cats, so I'mma jump in here with a pic of my tabby imp, Puck, from just now.

Brown tabby with white around his mouth and chin sitting in front of an open window, his green eyes looking at the camera.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Look who I get to spend the day with!

3/4 head shot of a heterochromatic (one eye light blue, the other dark brown) Catahoula Leopard Dog (named Loki) in the backseat of a clean, newer model SUV with dark grey seats and pale beige interior. He is looking forward, past the camera, ears perked up and alert.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Good morning, sinners 🖤 Wound up calling in sick yesterday as the month of steroids finally caught up with my digestive system. At least it was dreary and rainy and a good day to feel like crap. At least I got a nice pic of a rainbow (if you ignore the screen).

Photo taken through a window screen of a middle-grey, flat, cloudy sky with a rainbow stretching from the bottom right side of the frame fading out as it arcs towards the upper left.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

If I can be a cheeseball for a sec: I'm glad I'm here, too.

Graphic similar to a white placard with a small blue butterfly silhouette in the top left corner. Center of the graphic says, "Celebrating 10M users with a celebratory horn/confetti emjoi. #708, 052 overlaid on the bottom of the 5 with a stamp-like graphic stating: Bluesy elder certified first 10%. Joined Aug 24, 2023 in bottom right corner.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Hank has come by the shop for a visit! (All coyotes are named Hank in our household.)

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

For those of you that made it through this with me, here's an actual groggy (Olde English) Bulldogge for your tenacity. Or masochism. Or both.

A fawn Olde English Bulldogge with a white blaze roughly down the middle of her face is slouch-sitting on a black couch, ears down, half-open eyes looking slightly up at the camera as if to say, "Can we go to bed NOW??"

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I added a splash of milk so I'm not totally tanked.

A large mug with witch cats on it filled with bailey's and a splash of milk

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Holy fuck. I need to find booze immediately, but then I'd disturb the Puck on my lap.

Brown tabby lounging on a bent leg, vaguely looking towards the camera.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

My partner just made this for me to share with y'all.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

I FOUND GHOST PIPE IN THE BACKYARD AT THE LAKE HOUSE!!! *happy butt wiggles*

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Here's a Miss Monster von Frankenstein (pronounced Fronkenshteen).

A sleepy Olde English Bulldogge (fawn colored with white asymmetrical blaze, black nose and front of muzzle) with her head propped on a fuzzy pillow. She is displaying an adorable little blep of pink tongue.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Good morning, sinners 🖤 Had a lovely weekend at the Lake with Mama Zilla, Spoopy, Momo, and Loki. Disconnected from my phone except for music and the occasional pic. I hope y'all were able to recharge/recuperate, too.

Photo looking out onto Lake Michigan with view of an old post and rail fence on the right side, a small trail in the sand leading off a sidewalk, and beach grass in the foreground. The water is calm and moves in color from an imperial blue at the horizon to turquoise to a sandy turquoise closer to shore.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Good morning, sinners 🖤 I've been away since about 3:45. Loki clearly has not had the same problem.

Catahoula Leopard Dog laying on his side on a bed amid blankets and pillows.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

That optimist is a fucking idiot because it's fucking February in Chicago and it's over 60° outside. This is not normal.

Screencap of WTForecast. Simple color graphic with brown hills on the bottom third with a clear blue sky on the top two thirds overlaid with white text reading:
An optimist would say it's partly sunny outside. That optimist is a fucking idiot.
Mon, February 26
Mostly Sunny
62°F
66° High 55° Low
Feels Like: 62°"

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I've also considered this, but I already need to get my palm re-done and, due to said pain, I've been putting that off so fingers are becoming less and less likely >.< Fading comparison: Palm freshly done July '17 Healed Sept. '17 (but covered in carbon) Oct. '18 Today, Jan. '24

Picture of left palm with fresh white ink spiral tattoo, a few areas have leaked plasma/blood combo, covered in plastic wrap.

Left palm with healed white ink spiral tattoo, slightly obscured with grey carbon dust on the hand. Outline of spiral is mostly visible, but most of the internal coloring did not take.

Left palm of hand with white ink spiral tattoo, now missing significant sections and outline. There is also a black fortune cookie being held in the upper palm.

Left palm with remaining white ink spiral tattoo. Center outline remains, but fades in and out as the spiral moves towards outer palm.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

It's once again time for me to plead for Pokémon GO friends

Screencap of Pokémon GO trainer code: 640248649133

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Having a few of these. Tonight's even better than when Liz II kicked the bucket!

Hand holding a bottle of Magners in front of a sassy-looking brown tabby.

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Zilla @murderousredcap.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Good morning, sinners 🖤 We had our slowest order day in my almost 12 years at the shop on Thursday, so we were closed Friday & are on a 32-hour week this week. I'm either going to be posting like mad or not at all. Enjoy a contented Tome making polydactyl kitten fists as an apology.

A black cat with yellow eyes and enlarged pupils is on his back, belly up, on a lap. One paw is toward the camera, the other is back by his face. Both are curled into kitten fists.

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