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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This week, Astrophe has knocked my laptop onto a hard tile floor, knocked over a full bin of rubbish - several times - jumping in and out of it, necessitating us buying a bin with a lid, tripped Mr Penn, and climbed son’s leg with claws. She’s so cute when she’s sleeping, though. #Cats #Photography

White kitten curled up asleep. It’s a close up so only her face and front leg and paw and tail are really in view. She is snuggled down on her side with her head resting against her tail. The backdrop is a multicoloured duvet cover, mostly green with yellow patterns.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A picture of a boat coming into Penzance harbour, with a purely accidental capture of the sun in partial eclipse on the bar between the promenade and the sea…

Most of the photo is sea or sky, with the land in the background in the middle being Penzance reaching out into Newlyn. There is a large boat (the ferry?) coming in towards the harbour. Across the bottom of the picture is a metal bar, and a short way from the right end, there is a crescent shaped bright yellow sun spot, which is where the sun, shining in eclipse, is hitting the barrier.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Congratulations! You've stumbled across the lucky Spoonbill! 👀 This is very rare. Lucky Spoonbill says: "May all your endeavours succeed". 📷 @deaneades333.bsky.social

A close-up of a Eurasian Spoonbill with bright white plumage and its distinctive spoon-shaped bill slightly open, making it look as though it's offering a friendly greeting. Calm blue water fills the background.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

These eyes? Ares wanted to know what I was doing with my iPad!

Close up of cat face staring into the camera. His eyes are looking right at you, and his nose seems to be almost touching the camera.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The stare off… No, Asty and Ares are actually just chilling in the catio, this photo just caught them when they were looking at each other rather than anywhere else. #CatPhotos #cats #photography

White kitten sitting up stares at Toyger lying down on separate parts of a purpose built catio. Behind the wire, green plants (non specific) are growing.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#Lamorna in #Cornwall - featuring a random pirate ship*, because why not? #CornwallPhotos #Photography #seascapes *if it’s not, it looks like it

Flat blue sea, with old fashioned looking two masted ship to the right of the picture, tugging a tiny boat behind it. To the left of the picture are rocky outcroppings of land, and if you squint you can see another stretch of land behind them. There’s also someone swimming in the very very foreground. Not me, though I did swim earlier.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale. A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production

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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.

A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Someone is very sleeeepy and had a long morning in the sun in the catio. #cats #CatPhotos

White kitten stretched out towards camera so that there is a good view of her front paws and long front legs, with her sleeping head resting on them, while the rest of her body disappears into a duvet cover with flowers and plants on it. She has grey paws and ears, and you can just see her grey tail in the background. The duvet cover is mainly green.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Um, Asty? I don’t think that’s how running machines are supposed to be used… #Caturday #kitten #CatPhotos #cats

White kitten sitting on the handles/informationy electric bit of a running machine, looking like she is Queen of the Machine. Catio visible through French window in the background.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Astrophe has taken rather firmly to my son, who will willingly take allergy tablets every day in order to cuddle with the #kitten. #CatPhotos #cats

White kitten flomped out fast asleep on top of a human, between their body and arm, she is lying sideways at her head end but twisted so she is almost in her back at her back legs end, in an incredibly inelegant fashion. At the same time, her front paw is stretched out just a little bit in front of her looking ridiculously cute.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It’s tough waking up in the morning if you’re a small kitten (or a considerably larger adult, but the photos aren’t so cute then). #cats #CatPhotos

White kitten sitting up on the arm of a sofa, yawning widely. Her little grey tail is curled around her legs.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Astrophe claiming me as her own with her tail :)

Photo of white kitten taken from above, with torso and arm of human. The kitten’s tail is curled around the human’s wrist, in a “claiming” fashion, and the human’s hand is resting on the kitten. They are in bed.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The adorable adventures of one person and their pet bumblebee…

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My older cat Ares has got to the “grooming the new kitten before curling up and falling asleep with her” stage so I think all is well with the world. #cats #CatPhotos

White kitten lying down having her head licked by a Toyger cat lying behind her. They are both on a turquoise duvet cover with a similar coloured curtain behind them.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Interesting photo of a burrowing owlet I snapped the other day. The light was going through his eyeball and makes almost a perfect five-point star on the right. So cool!🪶

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If you could hear Astrophe, you’d usually hear her purring if she’s anywhere near a person. The idea that she might get petted is enough to have her purring, and actually petting is very pleasing. You may get your fingers licked in return.

White kitten with her eyes mostly closed in the “I am purring contentedly” way, curled up on a black duvet cover. She has a black nose and grey ears, paws, and tail.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Asty was very cuddly this morning, though she wasn’t at all sure about the camera.

White kitten with very black nose looking suspiciously at the camera. She is sitting atop a white nonbinary person, parts of whose face you can see behind her own. They have their hand on her back, scritching her.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My kitten Asty and my cat Ares have made friends :)

White kitten is standing on a pillow, leaning down to press her nose against a sitting Toyger cat. They have pricked forward, “friendly” ears.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I mentioned this is now a home for pictures of Asty, the new kitten, right? She showed that fish who was boss.

A white kitten is lying on her side, grappling with a cloth fish that is almost as long as she is. She is looking over her shoulder.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is now a place for pictures of my new kitten. For Reasons.

A white cat with grey ears, paws, tail, and nose about to leap off the side of a bed. Her head is down and her tail is pointing up in the air. You can see the shoulder of a white person wearing a white top (but the pillow behind them is brown and so is the back of the bed so there are some different colours in there).

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

When you want a positive story to read, this thread will do it.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I can haz new kitten. This is Asty (sorry, Astrophe Épée), and yesterday she was not at all pleased to be here and hid in a corner. Today, however, she wanted to purr and play.

White kitten with springy white mouse (from the middle of a cat play toy) caught up in her mouth and claw. It is clear this is Very Serious Bizniss.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We are getting a kitten soon :) This is Asty, short for Astrophe.

Tiny beautiful white kitten with grey tail and ears and paws, standing in great contrast next to a dustpan! Which I suppose gives a useful size comparison. She comes up to the top of the pan, not including the handle.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Just a reminder and a request that alt text is there for a reason and it would be lovely if you used it. If I haven’t followed you back, that’s probably why: as a disabled person, I have disabled solidarity to others who need alt text for images.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

You can’t get a much more typically #CornishPhoto than of a tin mine with the sea in the background. #photography #Cornwall #NorthCoast

Distinctive round chimney of a tin mine in the left foreground, with some bushes (including gorse in bloom - kissing is in season) alongside it. To the right edge of the photo is the sea, just showing behind some rolling fields; and between the mine and the bushes, in the distance you can see houses. The sky is blue-grey and has white clouds drifting across it.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thanks to @angelygogledd.bsky.social for this gorgeous picture of #StIves taken today. You can see from the light why artists love it; and it looks like a picture in itself. #CornwallPhotos #photography #Cornwall

A sandy beach with a lone human walking across it. Behind him and to the top left of the photo are rocks and cliffs, rounding into the shore and sticking into the sea; to the top right, the sea comes in with little white waves. The sand is a pale gold, and there is a grey wall at the front of the picture, with a glimpse of “something” (could be a boat, could be bins…okay, it’s bins, but imagine it’s a boat, it’s more romantic) just over it on the left.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

#StandingStoneSunday? Have a picture of my favourite, #LanyonQuoit - or as my kid called it when he was tiny, “turtle rock” because he thought it looked like a turtle with one leg fallen off (This isn’t a great angle to show that). I’ve only ever seen cows there once in my life.

Picture of moorland in front and fields in the background. In the moorland is a standing stone, comprised of three upright stones with a slab across the top. It is tall enough that a short person can stand underneath upright but a larger one would have to bend their head. For some reason, it is surrounded by cows. I’m sure they’re a particular type but all I can tell you is that they’re a gingery brown colour.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Now, I realise everyone else who has posted #WorstBirdPic s have actually posted pretty decent photos. However…this is a mass of gulls mobbing fishing boats and I’m posting it because it was amazing irl, but my iPad camera just wasn’t good enough to show it, so it’s hilariously terrible as a photo!

Railings in front of the sea. In the distance, just before the horizon, there are a couple of blobs surrounded by white fuzziness. The blobs are fishing boats. The fuzziness is a whole mass of birds. But you’ll have to take my word for this. The sky is grey. The picture is a washout in more ways than one.
We call these “rabbit pictures” in my household after some pictures my dad took, waiting for ages to take pictures apparently of empty scrubland, but which he insisted had rabbits all over it.

This is the same picture zoomed in on the boats and birds. There is a white wave breaking in the foreground. Further back, the boats look slightly more like boats and not just like blobs, but the birds still just look like white fuzziness. A bit like as if sea foam had accidentally come off the sea and was drifting slightly above it.
As my grandmother used to say when she’d told most of a joke and forgotten the punchline, “Well, you should have been there. You’d have roared.”

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

That bird only has one leg*. Of course I, a disabled writer, am going to repost. *no, I am aware it has another one, I just enjoy being silly.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My uni playwriting lecturer used to encourage us to write drunk, because he said it helped stop writers block. And he said it was easier then to edit something than it was to start from nothing, staring at a blank page. When I got my first novel published, I let him know. He was fab.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Rainbow in the sky above #StMichael’sMount, taken from #Penzance. It is landing on the island, which needs the sign of hope after over 80 of the trees there were blown down in last month’s storm.

A rainbow with its end touching the castle on St Michael’s Mount. To the left of the picture is a large lamppost and across the bottom is a metal railing in front of the sea and rocky shore around Penzance lido. But most of the photo is taken up with the sky and the rainbow that arcs through it.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Beautiful! (Also almost looks as if it hasn’t got wings, I love the angle!)

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’m always here for the positive news. 🤞🏻

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 27/01/2026

Time to post this rather incredible photo again. The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, with one of the Solar System's smallest moons, Phobos, crossing it. Photographed from Mars orbit. Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social CC BY

The surface of Mars occupies most of the scene, the limb of the planet to the right (with space beyond). In the upper centre is the massive Olympus Mons. The small dark body is the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos.

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Penelope Friday (they/them) @penthewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s #Caturday and I have every reason to spam people with pictures of my gorgeous Zula, so I will take advantage of that. She was my soulmate cat, and I need people to agree that she is beautiful. #CatPhotos #cat #Photography

Cat curled up on bed; her back legs are in the foreground, and
her head is a little way further back, with enormous ears and big green eyes. She has her front paws crossed across her chest.

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