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Robin Con Queso

@robinconqueso.bsky.social
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Robin, Texan, friend of New Orleans, general pot-stirrer, editor, journalist, once and future poet, bass player, lover of cheese. Formerly known as arobingoestweet.

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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A poem: My kitchen window is dirty But these morning glories are purty.
A cluster of morning glories growing on a chain link fence in front of a yellow house
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Frankie has a new eatin' mat from @mouthandtrousers.bsky.social
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
'Tis
A weather radar image showing a band of rain & storms stretching from Central Texas to New Orleans
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it"
My tabby cat Francesca, with green eyes, on the floor next to my foot and a couple of "her toys"
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A very cute dark tabby cat looking up from a wooden floor
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There was a big ol' green heron in my backyard this morning!
A fat green heron perched on a dead tree branch under a very blue skyA fat green heron perched on a dead tree branch under a very blue sky
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Since they're calling for wind & hail tonight, I want to share evidence that things are blooming in my yard: a big lantana, my pomegranate tree, a couple of coneflowers (though they look sad), and my chili pequin plant (which is actually in a pot on my porch.) Not pictured: potted jalapeño plants
A lantana with big green leaves and some pink and yellow flowers on itEight bright orange flowers on a pomegranate treeTwo puny-looking pink coneflowersA blurry picture of a white star-shaped flower on a chili pequin plant
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
One storm in the whole state of Texas, and I'm under it.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Things have been grim today. Here's my cat Francesca as a palate cleanser.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Today was the Just For Fun Parade. It was, as advertised, fun!! Live band, bubbles, great costumes. Spectators were throwing beads at us, I met a woman named Carondelet -- after the street in New Orleans -- and we confused quite a few ppl. Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable!
A woman wearing glasses and black fabric horns with day-glow fuzzy pom-poms on the endsThree people dressed colorfully, standing around a cute dog in butterfly wings in a wagonSomeone in an inflatable pink salamander costume waving a blue flag and wearing a keffiyeh
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The whole staff of a local sandwich shop quit because of continued abusive treatment from one of the owners. I stand in solidarity, even though I will never have my favorite sandwich again.
A photo of about 7 young people posing together at an outdoor bar and looking happy, with a post saying that this is the Alvin Ords graduating class of 2026 and explaining that they quit because of the owners' utter lack of respect for their employees. The post concludes with a thanks to the community for all the love and support.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Uh ... here's a taxidermied porcupine named Peter Quill.
A ragged looking taxidermied porcupine on a shelf above a clock
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I was born and raised here, but today I became just a little more Texan.
A woman in a blue St. Edward's University t-shirt and yellow shorts stands in a Buc-ees with the Buc-ees mascot -- someone in a costume of a beaver in a red football jersey and red cap.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In non-social justice news, I have a bag of locally-milled buckwheat flour and a mini waffle maker I got at a Goodwill in New Orleans. I'm unstoppable!
A plate with five small buckwheat waffles on it, bathed in golden light
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The San Marcos River, from the Springs to the Gulf.
A large stand of Texas Wild Rice and other green aquatic plants on the surface of a narrow river, with green trees on the opposite riverbank from the photographer
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I'm Very Sophisticated Indeed
A woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and a black t-shirt with a rainbow-furred headband with black horns coming off it with bright fuzzy pompoms on the ends.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Went to a gorgeous church in New Orleans, St. Anna's Episcopal, this past Sunday. There was a brown baby Jesus. The service was great.
Interior of a church with blue walls and paintings of a chalice and a candle, with stained glass windows and ornate decorations behind the altarA painting of the Holy Family and shepherds, all with light brown skin
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Home from NOLA. It was great. Didn't get to do everything, but got to do plenty of the unexpected. Hats off to this sexy taco on Carrollton and the sign forbidding ICE access beside it.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I don't know what this is supposed to mean but it looks like "Open bottle, take drugs, eat macarons."
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Having a li'l Dustbowl Sampler in Central Texas today with wind damage & grass fires & this ... #txwx
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
More West Texas:
A cute little jackrabbit in profile, in the desertThe sun over the Mcdonald Observatory One of the domes at the McDonald Observatory on top of a mountain with what's probably a radio telescope in the foreground. Two javelinas walking through desert grass
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The boyfriend and I have had a great time in West Texas. The stargazing was unbelievable. Here's Venus.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Chihuahuan Desert
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
When you're at the riverside and there's a black dog 6 hours before you go see a Led Zeppelin documentary
A scene beside a shallow river, with people sitting on limestone steps that lead down to the water. The sky is blue, it's sunny and warm, and there's a black dog walking up from the water to its owner, a blonde woman.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I got this:
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
More Frankie pics. We all need more kitten.
An adorable tabby kitten sleeping on her back with her front paws stretched above her headAn adorable tabby kitten sleeping on her back with her paws folded over in the airAn adorable tabby kitten sitting on a shelf inside a refrigerator, next to some milk and fruit juices, looking puzzled
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Gawd, are the Dems good for anything other than sending fundraising emails? Has anybody read the fucking Constitution lately? Anyway here's my adorable kitten looking like she, too, is fucking fed up ...
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Deploying the stockpile of kitten pics as timeline cleanses for y'all
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There was a flock of robins in my yard earlier, taking advantage of the water and bird seed I left out to help some little critters before the sleet/graupel/snow starts
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My first attempt at a quick pickle of some radishes. If nothing else, they look pretty!
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I got one of my favorites!
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
But we got to see armadillos! Fun fact: German settlers in Central Texas did not know what to call armadillos so they invented a word in the new German-Texan dialect: Panzerschwein!
An armadillo in a fieldAn armadillo in a fieldAn armadillo in a fieldAn armadillo in a field
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Went for a short hike at the South Llano River State Park today. Everything has thorns.
ThornsThornsLeaves of a yucca plant with thorns
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I present my kitten Frankie for further mirth
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Can't sleep. But look at Frankie! She blep! I think she's happy here.
Tabby kittenTabby kitten Tabby kitten
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hell yeah
The lid of a half gallon of Blue Bell Tin Roof ice cream, the most perfect ice cream in the world unless you have a peanut allergy.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Went to an open house "timepass" out in the country and got to meet some fascinating people and commune with goats!
About half a dozen goats standing in a caged enclosure
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Rewatching Season 1 of "Gotham." I'd forgotten just how entertaining this show is. I love Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin but Sean Pertwee is fantastic as my favorite version of Alfred. Yowza.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Eventually I will post something of great sociopolitical and/or philosophical import here. But today, here's Frankie, who is of immeasurable value.
The cutest tabby kitten you can imagine, perched on a flowered sofaThe cutest tabby kitten you can imagine, clutching her orange toy fish with both paws as if to say, "No, you can't have my fishie."
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The ERCOT emergency hamster getting warmed up for the Arctic front
Hamster in a green wheel moving in horizontal circles
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year from myself and this little critter
Tabby kitten kneading so quickly that one of its paws is blurry
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
***BREAKING NEWS*** Francesco the kitten has blepped! #Caturday
Painfully cute tabby kitten with its tongue stuck out just a little bit
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My reading earlier today. I'm going to make pizza dough. There will be an uprising.
The book "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder perches on top of "The All New Good Housekeeping Cook Book"
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
So the kitten, who I think we'll be calling Frankie, decided that Christmas morning was the perfect time to stop hiding and start being all affectionate.
Tabby kitten getting pettedTabby kitten sitting on colorful loveseat Adorable tabby kitten staring at camera
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
So I unexpectedly got a kitten yesterday. I think he wants to be called Francesco but I don't really know because he's mostly hiding under a loveseat, emerging to eat, drink, pee, poop, and very cautiously explore.
A kitten peeking out from his hiding place, which happens to be on top of a cat calendar A small light-colored tabby kitten stares at the camera, with food and water saucers and a white plastic spoon near the kitten. A small kitten looks up in profile
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Y'all, this was in an AP article. What the sentence is meant to say is terrible. The way in which it fails to say it is also terrible. Come on. #editing
Arrested on suspicion of buying drugs, officers searched the women's car, found nothing, and hauled then into a police station in handcuffs.
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Got to see goats at my town's cute holiday celebration by the river!
A black and white goat and a black goat in a penFive goats in a pen
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
But today I found out one of my friends is into Indian classical music, as I am, and I introduced her to qawwali. And tonight I treated myself to a candle-lit bath and a warming tisane. And I have a cute new humidifier.
Candles lit on a bathroom counterA fox humidifier
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Robin Con Queso @robinconqueso.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Then came the collapse. I stayed home Sunday morning because I was starting to fall apart. One of my old friends was playing Santa at my favorite coffeehouse and I managed to hold it together long enough to see him.
Santa making the rock 'n' roll sign with one hand while a woman in shades, a black turtleneck, and jeans leans against him
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