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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It was 38F/3.3ºC at 1:30 this morning, and I just arose (at 7) and it's 31ºF/ -0.6ºC and there is frost on the hayfield and cats nomming the papyrus.

Toward to top of the cat tree, Angie (brown tabby) sits in the cat hammock watching her brother (blacker tabby) try to get a mouth full of papyrus flowers.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dammit. .Alt: a very busy picture of a very tall bunch of rushes* with tops like a crowned stork, against the window overlooking the lawn, next to the cat tower. Perfect height to nom. * A sedge. 'Sedges have edges and rushes are round and grasses have joints if the cops aren't around.'

Grazing, a gray stork with a white wing, a brown tail, and a bunch of stiff plumes on its head like a bottle brush or maybe a dandelion-clock.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So we have a Frost Warning and I have successfully wintered over a dwarf papyrus so I thought why not try? and now there's a 7-foot plant in the living room and the cats are excited I got them REAL cat grass and I don't think they care that it's a sedge.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

in COMPLETELY OTHER news, it's two years since @the-wanlorn.bsky.social brought me my kitttens!

Two adorable tabby kittens sprawl on my lap. Augie in foreground, Angie behind.

Two adult tabby cats washing themselves as they lounge in a cat hammock, not entirely cool with the picture-taking

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love the way just the flower is lit up. I was going for something like that here (with an impatient, ill-trained dog tugging its leash)

In the late afternoon, the sun hits most of a mound of pinkish Sedum 'Autumn Joy,' which is a cliché of a plant that I like anyway. Just beyond the sedum, a straggly rosebush holds one brilliant darkish-pink flower up to the light, dramatic against a line of dark green trees a ways off.
There's a transformer or something on the leftbehind the sedum, but you can ignore it if you try.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

""WHY DOES WANTING CLEAN DRINKING WATER MAKE YOU AN ACTIVIST, WHILE POISONING IT DOESN'T MAKE A CORPORATION A TERRORIST?" - WINONA LADUKE

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@concretebotany.bsky.social The notebooks from Redbubble are very fountain-pen friendly! Smooth and no ghosting! And they have a pocket-flap page in back. And I like having your brave flowers on the front!

Three writing samples, in vivid green, brown, and blue, in a Chinese EF nib, a Japanese F nib (these are much the same thickness), and a Chinese B nib, on a ruled notebook page.

Another sentence on the flip side of the first page, showing that the fairly heavy wet ink in the Broad nib doesn't show through.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ann Telnaes did it earlier (January 2025 or so)

A cartoon, mostly monochrome, of Bezos, Zuckerberg, Altman, and the owner of the LA Times bowing down and offering bags of cash to a huge statue of Trump. In color, next to them, Mickey Mouse prostrates himself.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Writing or drawing? The fude gives you tremendous variation of the line width and seems to make sketching interesting, and the stub gives you less but makes your writing look cool. Not quite as cool as Tolkien's unless you practice, but nice with italics.

The first page of an early draft of The Fellowship of the Ring, incomprehensible to machine-reading; kinda uncial, but with swoopy descenders.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Here's an affirmative omen for you from my tl!

Shot of two posts:
From Matthew R Francis: "despite someone trying to kill me, I have done most of the laundry and cleaned several rooms. YOU CANNOT KILL ME IN ANY WAY THAT MATTERS"
From lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social • 3h, "Here are some nice mushrooms" .Alt: "A family of scaly pholiota shows us just how scaly a pholiota can be. Their golden spikes stud round caps in a late summer forest. All photos by me."

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random in hopes of a brilliant September:

A flight of four non-IPA beers from the Fort Orange Brewery, ranging from cloudy yellow to clear medium brown, in an orange tray with chakboard paint on the emphasized corners for writing the id of each beer. The glass holding indentations go all the way through, so when you pick it up the conical glasses are held near the top and you spill less, getting to your table.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not quite, but I can see a lot of people settling for it. Not everyone is a botanical pedant like me. I think the berries tend to be in clumps.

A picture of the leathery long oval murky green leaves of mistletoe, with the translucent white berries in small groups, except for a few single ones whose clump-mates have fallen off.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I hope my house is enjoying this. It's shaking like mad, and we're, I dunno, 50 yards away? Angle of photo is due to Angie, helping me as we both look out the very small bathroom window.

A tilted shot through a window screen of a rutted yard (there was a truck involved, and the euonymus bushes under/in front of the bedroom windows will trouble me no further), a pouff of ornamental grass, across a hayfield about 8"/20 cm high: the street beyond is entirely dirt. The large steamroller (give me a break. 'Power roller' just doesn't do it for me) is almost as wide at the roller as the street itself. For the record, it's going backwards. It looks bigger and more menacing in real life, though neither Bugs nor Coyote are involved.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There were -- I _counted_ -- at least ten Silver-Spotted Skippers working over this buddleia. One of them was a bit faded and ragged along the edges & the rest appeared younger. It was cool to see so many of something identifiable! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epargyr... (& a hummingbird moth. Good time!)

A smallish butterfly, its wings up over its back(so underwings showing), mostly browns with a fine white dotted line along the margin and bold white block in the smaller wing--A Silver-Spotted Skipper-- on a long purple buddleia blossom

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Maybe it took place two days ago, but today I'm observing Disco Ball Garland reflections on the ceiling for the first time since sometime last winter! (putting it in my personal seasonal calendar) #EppurSiMuove

Above a cluttered bookcase, on an ashes-of-violets wall (not my choice of color but I'm too indolent) a bright flattened oval reflection of the sun.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In "Passeriform's New Horizons for Becoming Unbearable," we have my inability to be interested in any would-be meaningful aphorisms brush-lettered into ... well, anything.

A really tidy 'journal' spread, where ⅔ of the page is sepia and says, in lovingly looped cursive, "Some days you feel strong. Some days you feel tired. But every day you keep trying. You are UNSTOPPABLE."
Da fuq?
and some rubber-stamped bouquets, washi tape, and tidy human cursive. There is no reason for me to hate this person, but may I flee?

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One thing I have discovered while poking around the edges of the coffeetable is that I can tape particularly fine Christmas cards into last year's journal in a fold-out manner and then they are conserved, located in their time, and OFF THE COFFEE TABLE.

Scotch-taped along the fold to the outer edge of a page of a notebook covered in green handwriting, an eye-level pic of the faces of three dogs respectively wearing a ribbon bow, felt antlers, and a Santa hat. Above these sweet faces, it reads: "Define naughty..." The card is from my friend the virtue-ethicist who formerly taught theology and is now back to her original doctorate being a veterinarian. This is, like, her PERFECT card. The way it's taped I can still open and read it, and also turn it outwards and still read the journal page.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also I have _all_ of my ink swatches out, waiting for a cat to leap on them. It seemed like a good idea at the time... Lunch now, or breakfast actually; would explain the vagueness and feelings of doom.

A lot of Colo-Ring ink swatches more or less untidily done, lying on the cardboard lap desk on the accurséd/cluttered coffee table in stacks, as it were, or heaps

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Old lap-desk finally bent in the middle. New lap-desk!

Two rectangular pieces of stronger-than-usual cardboard box washi- taped together, with ink stains and doodles and cat-cronches and a crease down the middle.

Two pieces from the same box washi-taped together, the surface unblemished, corners un-crunched upon. Yet.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I may need 'chirography' for the Fountain Pen Feed.

Screenshot from something: o-craven-canto [original poster]

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:
catastrophe -> contraverse
cephalopod -> capitoped
chlorophyll -> viridofolia
democracy →> populimpery
homicide -> anthropoctony
homosexual -> equigamic
kilometer -> millimensure
interregnum -> mesarchy
magnanimous →> megapsychic
manuscript -> chirography
motorcycle -> ergatorote
microscope -> parvovisor
oxygen -> acidofex
polyamory -> multierasty
television - remotoscope
universe - monostrophe

#ruh roh

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Amazing squall! And now the sun is practically out.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He wants to go out there and beat something up.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

(crested macaque selfie from the session in the article above)

A black ape with a brow-ridge that looks like a unibrow and big warm brown eyes, a retroussé nose, and teeth that look superficially human (two big upper incisors) bared in what we might call a hesitant grin. This portrait taken at a 'Dutch angle' shows a very good-looking being, who unfortunately has no rights to intellectual property.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sitting under an awning outside a café watching the weather go by

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There was also a very small spider considering catching one of two adult-sized winged aphids (there were 6 very very tiny babies, aphid reproduction is _wild_). The aphid it approached basically waved two or three legs at it and said the spider could fuck off. Spider retreated to the end

close-up of a goldenrod stem, with an aphid and six tiny tiny baby aphids; the other adult can only be seen by faith, on the stem underneath , as two hairlike black legs and part of an abdomen. This is the aphid who saw the spider off.

Close-up of a deceptively pacific goldenrod stem. It is greeen, with branchlets and some leves coming out of the stem. The spider is in this one, honest.

Closer-up crop of second photo: at nine o'clock, on the underside of the leaf, two annoyed spider-legs. The aphid family browses on, untroubled, center. You had to be there, really.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Finally getting my car inspected at the mechanic with the tiny wetland. There's a family of goldfinches eating thistle seeds. My heart is full.

A picture taken from much too far away of a mostly dry wetland. Phragmites and goldenrod and reeds and tall thistles fill the frame. A bright yellow male American Goldfinch sits eating thistle seed from the plant, unaware that it's a cliché. Bird is around 3 o'clock.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I got $15 for the pen I wanted someone else to have, and gained a circa 1931-39 Sheaffer Junior. And we need the rain.

A small green striped celluloid fountain pen with lever-filling.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm home. It was _probably_ not quite worth the drive, but it didn't start to rain until I got back in the car, so that was nice. A very small brewpub with nice beer ((I had a blonde named Capable of Anything, would drink again) and disappointing food, and a small number of vendors

On a shiny black bar, a slice of French Bread Pizza and a 10oz. glass of beer

About a 20' aisle with a seller of wax sealing supplies and another seller of notebooks, on the other side, a seller of cute junk journal kits and stickers and a table for the big pen convention in Boston in the fall. There's possibly one person among the crowd who would really like the stickers, and she has no economic power.

A couple of table of trays of pens. A wide selection from antique Parkers to sparkly Benus

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