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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Starting a Tears for Fears cover band.

A small turquoise bird of the order Psittaciformes, eating an orange root vegetable

Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And from her windswept eyrie casts an eye 'Cross all the scattered kingdoms of the Earth; And should her gaze fall now on you or I- What raw accounting shall we offer of our worth?

The upper corner of a wall-mounted medicine cabinet, viewed from below, next to a large bathroom mirror. Everything in view - the cabinet, the wall, the ceiling - is bare white, except for a small grey and turquoise parrot who sits atop the cabinet staring down towards the camera, alongside her reflection.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And both of them are weaker than this guy getting beaten up by some random villagers.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Went to see that there Odyssey they have now and as soon as it started this tweet sprang into my mind for the first time in years.

Screenshot of a tweet by @vandroidhelsing / Jared Pechacek. Reads: "dreamed I went to see a movie based on the Iliad and when the ocean appeared in the first shot, the audience went absolutely wild shouting THE WINE DARK SEA! THE WINE DARK SEA!"

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Reader, I caved to temptation and preened her feather free while she was distracted kissing my phone. Getting feathers out of their little sheaths is *so satisfying*.

The same parrot as the previous picture, sitting on my hand. Her tail feathers are now free of their sheath, though a tiny bit ruffled

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Milly is tormenting me by refusing to finish preening this new tail feather that's almost shed all of its covering (or letting me preen it for her, anything below the neck is strictly forbidden).

A small turquoise parrot sitting on my hand and facing away from the camera so her tail is prominently visible. One of the long tail feathers has a small section of whitish keratin sheath still around it, about a third of the way down its length

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Yeah my laptop has a USB-C cable: Usable by Small Bird (Conure)

A laptop with a USB-C cable plugged into it. Perching on the plug of the cable is a small turquoise parrot - a Green-Cheeked Conure

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Woke up to sounds of beeping this morning. Came through to the living room to discover I hadn't fully covered Milly's cage with her blackout blanket, and she was sitting in this one little corner waiting for me to come say hello.

The bottom corner of a plastic cage, visible under a large grey blanket which covers the cage except for a small corner. In that corner, the face of a parrot is visible.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Here it is if anyone fancies trying it, I'd love to hear what you think!

A sudoku grid with various arrows and other clues on it. The title reads 'Red Letter Day's and below the grid reads:

21 / 04 / 19 51
to
21 / 04 / 20 26

75 years!

Text:

Normal sudoku rules apply.

Missing clues: the clues for the three killer cages and six little killer arrows are missing from the grid! Each can be filled in using one of the two-digit numbers to the left of the puzzle (the digit 2 by one of the question marks indicates ‘squared’). Each should be used once.

Red letters: colour nine cells in the grid red. No two red cells can appear in the same column, row, or three-by-three box; nor can they contain the same digit.

A digit in a red cell is about to celebrate its birthday; therefore, its value is one higher than the digit. (The value of a non-red cell is equal to its digit.)

All the following clues apply to values, not digits (so be careful of your assumptions!):

Killer cages: the sum of values in the cage equals the cage’s clue.

Little killer arrows: the sum of values along the indicated diagonal equals the arrow’s clue.

Arrows: the value of the circled cell equals the sum of the values along its arrow.

Circles: A circled cell has a value of at least seven (this does not apply to the circle of an arrow clue).

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think about this passage every so often. Partly for the usual reasons seeing past predictions of the present is interesting, but partly for the phrasing. The sentiment is "what if: video games?" but for someone who's never conceived of the concept before.

Photo of printed text: "Gary Gygax, the inventor of Dungeons & Dragons, imagines a computer dungeon in which the rooms and corridors appear on your home TV screen. As you move down the passages, you see them loom up before you and as you open the door you see it swing open and the monster jump out onto your screen. All this, of course, is still in somebody's imagination. Computer games have plenty of new worlds to conquer."

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Look at this lovely portrait someone painted of me as my LARP character!

A watercolour picture of me sitting in a chair. I'm wearing a dark blue tunic with feathers on my shoulders, and my hair is in long plaited pigtails with various beads and gems woven into them.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Getting lots of upside down kisses from Milly today

A small turquoise parrot perched in my hand, her head pointing down and tail up, pressing her beak against my palm to give it kisses

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I love this photo of me so much. Seeing it gave me the feeling, far stronger than ever before, that I could see 'her' in there. And this is after a very short time and relatively few steps taken to change my appearance. I still have lots more I can do!

Me, a trans woman, in a black and white stripy dress, a green necklace, and purple-framed glasses. My hair is flowing forwards over my shoulders. I'm looking down at a small turquoise parrot sitting on my left shoulder. She matches my necklace.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It's a picture of someone breaking a window with a hammer. The uncropped version makes this slightly clearer. They're advocating property damage, not personal violence.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, I guess. Definitely not feeling 100% positive about the 'visible' part but I am happy to be here and to be trans.

It's me, a trans woman. Not gonna describe myself in detail because dysphoria.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Another great one by her on the topic of 'write what you know'.

As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them. I got my knowledge of them, as I got whatever knowledge I have of the hearts and minds of human beings, through imagination working on observation. Like any other novelist. All this rule needs is a good definition of “know.”

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Some of my neighbours have their Easter wreath up already

View of the side of a building across a low hedge. On a fence next to the building is a wicker wreath in the shape of a simple outline of a bunny, with carrots around it

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Ok, St. Boltoph's in Boston, so you've got a Lego model of yourself, that's kind of cool. But does the model have- YES IT DOES, OF COURSE IT DOES, IT HAS AN EVEN TINIER MODEL INSIDE IT

A view of the inside of a medieval church. In the foreground is a lego model of the same church on a table.

A view inside the model from the previous picture, looking down through the roof to see rows of pews. In the far corner a tiny model of the model itself, comprising perhaps three bricks, is visible.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"Hey, nice map of the Straight of Hormuz" "Thanks, it's got pockets!"

A map of the Straight of Hormuz and surrounding area. Circled in red and labelled 'Omani enclave' is a small pocket of Oman surrounded by the UAE.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My phone does that thing where it occasionally goes "hey look at this photo you took X years ago". Recently it changed the text of the notifications though so I got this, which makes it look like Gnocchi is excitedly asking me to look at his bowl of seeds.

A photo of two dappled white and tan degus, one of them munching on something and the other resting one front paw on the edge of a bowl of seeds and looking up towards the camera. The caption says "Wait, look"

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I can't find the far-away one, I assume it got wiped off (unless I left it at yours Mark?) But here's the close-up one

A small playing-card sized whiteboard token, with "GOBLIN" written in red ink and a huge eye filling the rest of the card.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A box of COVID tests just fell directly onto my head. I'm interviewing the locals to try and find the culprit but so far, nobody's squawked.

A small turquoise parrot sits on the partly-open door of a medicine cabinet, looking down at the camera

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Basically I want to look like all three of these characters from Deadwood and right now I only look like, maybe, 0.8 of them.

Silas Adams, a man in a waistcoat with a full beard and curly shoulder-length hair

Jane Canary, a butch woman in an outdoorsman-ish jacket and a hat with a feather in the band

Joanie Stubbs, a femme woman with long curly blonde hair in a fancy red jacket and an awesome top hat with a waist-length silk ribbon round it

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Milly disagrees with my plans to use the computer

My hand holding up a wired mouse. A small turquoise parrot hangs from the mouse cord by both feet.

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Please imagine I've edited the final panel of this to read "It's only 18 months since Labour took over from the Tories and inherited the mess they'd left of the table, you can't expect them to fix everything all at once."

A Calvin and Hobbes strip.
Panel 1: Calvin, a 6-year old boy, is hammering nails into a table
Panel 2: His mother runs in screaming "Calvin! What are you DOING to the coffee table?!?"
Panel 3: Calvin stares in blank confusion at the table
Panel 4: His mother facepalms as Calvin replies "Is this some sort of trick question or what?"

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Milly is always very interested in my playing on the tin whistle. Sometimes she beeps along wherever she is, and sometimes she flies over to perch on my hand or on the whistle itself and give it kisses / pecks.

My POV of a small turquoise parrot sitting on my hand and looking up into the camera as I hold a tin whistle up toy mouth

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'm learning Port na bPúcaí, The Fairy Lament

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

That's hardly unusual. In fact the reverse would be far more notable.

A post by Ed Morrish, saying "Liz truss has now been a podcaster for longer than she was prime minister"

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Here's 'Star of the County Down'

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Kara Chameleon @sasooli.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

How would you cut this shape out of wood with only a drill and handsaws? It looks like I probably drilled holes at the inner corners but I'm not sure how I cut the line between them.

My hand holding a single piece of plywood that's shaped sort of like a letter C made out of three straight lines at ~135 degrees angles, so that cutting it would require cutting two concave corners

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