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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yay! I think I just buy them bc they're the brand my mom uses 😂 They're also less pricey here, what with them being a German brand. Do they use these incredible shop displays for them in the UK?

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

(If I've piqued your interest, I can point you in the direction of a fic, the research of which caused me to commit a premeditated trespassing offense onto property of Argyll & Bute where I took the attached pictures.)

Photo shows the inside of a concrete alcove, just high enough for a person to stand in and about 2-3 m wide. Along the back wall there is a raised platform, like an altar. The ceiling is open above this platform, sunlight falling in and creating an eery contrast against the dark cave of the alcove. The walls are covered in graffiti; the space is derelict and dirty. On the back wall, just above the altar and illuminated from above, someone has sprayed the words "MEMORY BOX".

This is a close-up of a space identical to the one in the first picture. The photo shows yellow letters on the front edge of the altar platform, just where it joins the right side wall. Amidst grey smudges and faded spray lines, they spell out the words "Long live the art fags".

Another concrete alcove. This is not the "memory box", nor the alcove praising the art fags. The front of the altar in this third alcove is painted black with smudged red lettering, increasing the contrast to the patch of light falling in through the open ceiling. On the back wall, centered above the altar, sits an inverted cross. It's probably just white paint, but with the sunlight falling in and other graffiti lines shining through, it looks like it's being projected onto the wall. The photographer has taken a step back so that the arc leading into the alcove is visible. Just above the entrance and off to the left, a set of letters proclaims "Human Zoo".

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Flowers" and "Good luck along" make no sense but I can kind of see how they happened. "integrated once milk", though? What are you talking about, AI soup container??

We've moved along the side of the container to the next bit of decorative text. It starts with "Good luck" and has a third word that's barely legible as it's overlapping a patch of flowers of the same color. Close study revealed it's saying "Good luck along".

Third bit of text on the side of the container. This is all lower case, while the first two started with a capitalized letter. It's the most standard teal color you can imagine. It says "integrated once milk". Nobody knows why.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've had to go back to work, which is terrible, but I have a work buddy. The blanket he's sitting on is the blanket I used to have to put out for Rass when he wanted to hang out with me while I worked 🥺

Rumble, a brown/black and white cat with Burmese markings and only one eye, sitting on a folded-up blanket on a desk. He's assumed the traditional cat loaf position with his paws all hidden underneath his body and his tail curled along his side.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spiting BeReal by sharing my cat pic on a different social media site

Rumble the cat (Burmese markings with white spots, a round face, and stocky build) snoozing on a couch with his chin resting on his front paw and his tail curled up around him. He's the picture perfect example of "cute cat sleeping". In the background, there's some floor-length windows looking out over some lush green garden shrubs.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I made a playlist for the baby, gonna raise that kid right! 😆 (He genuinely seems to enjoy this kind of music, as much as a two-week-old can show enjoyment. His eyes get very big!)

Screenshot of a playlist that includes Ghost Riders by Johnny Cash, Mackie Messer, Barrett's Privateers and Northwest Passage, some Flogging Molly and Mark Knopfler, Rawhide by the Blues Brothers, Rocky Road to Dublin, and a song by DLÙ that has a Gaelic title.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I finally opened the old Singer treadle sewing machine I got from my mom, who got it from her mom. My mom was still using it in the late 80s! Eventually it broke & went into the basement. I opened it expecting to find a machine in shambles but seems like it just needs a new leather cord on the wheel

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In the morning, our garden first gets direct sun in the southeast, right by the door with the cat flap and a piece of wood used as a stepping board. So every morning, as soon as the sun spot appears, Rumble sits in it and patiently waits for it to cover the board so he can flop down & fry his brains

Rumble the cat (white/grey with Burmese tip markings) sitting in the corner of a garden next to a weathered stepping board. He's catching a small patch of morning sun. The sun spot is already covering much of the board. Soon it'll be enough to stretch out and snooze.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Tell me you're using AI badly and without a human in the loop without telling me etc

Photo of a many-languages user manual flyer. Languages on the two visible paragraphs are labelled English (EN) and German (DE). EN headline is "Tips", text is in English. DE headline is "Warme Tipps" (literal German translation of hot tips, doesn't make sense in German), and the text is still in English.

Not visible in the image but provided so you can accurately target judgment and derision: device is by UGREEN

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It was too warm to sit on humans but now it's rained and cooled down so humans can be sat on again as ceiling cat intended

Photo of a cat (Rumble, brown-grey and white with a dark mask over ears and eyes like a Siamese cat) sitting serenely in a lap and getting scritches

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/ #ai

Showing a grid with horizontal axis "overhyped to transformative" and vertical "bad to good". Marker sits in the "bad/transformative" square middle left (close to the border to overhyped). Description reads: "The Disillusioned: You watched this movie already with crypto and you know how it ends. Its oversold, the value is thinner than advertised, and the concrete harms are piling up while everyone argues about the rapture. You document the gap between the promise and the receipts, meticulously."

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Visited family today & learned that in their town (where I grew up), a couple of storks tried to build a nest on the very tall statue of Mary that sits atop a column in the central market place. This went a little too far for this deeply Catholic town, so they coaxed the storks onto a rooftop nearby

Red roof on top of a big, old-looking European building with an ornamented facade. On top of the roof's ridge (no idea if that's the right term - the long top edge of the roof) sits a metal bar carrying a stork's nest. You can sort of see that a stork is sitting in it, but the zoom on my phone is, well, a phone zoom, so you'll have to trust me that the black and white splotch in the nest really is a stork.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So we skipped the parade today bc of heat which means I got to try out my new saw! It is very nice it saws wood so well 🎉🪚 I cut the parts for a shelf I've been wanting to build for about 2 years and it was not a four week effort of laboriously trying to saw straight with a handsaw! Very pleased ☺️

The parts of a small simple bookcase with two shelves laid out on some terrace tiling. The wood is cheap construction pine wood. The bookcase's top left corner has an angle as if the shelf is meant to go sideways underneath a slanted roof wall (which it is)

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just noticed that despite being out of beta, the AO3 is still on an 0. version. Ngl I'm having a bit of a hard time with that 🧐

Screenshot of the part of the AO3 footer that links to the otwarchive github with the version number in the link. The version number is v0.9.482.3

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Took the nephew to visit a circus animals retirement home today (animals too old to perform, not mistreated ones) & learned abt how to train tigers (if they're scared of you they will eat you so make sure they're not). Met Kashmir the 17-yo tiger who only came to work today for the reward treats 😂

Kashmir the senior tiger long-sufferingly climbing onto the pedestal his trainer has been coaxing him into sitting on for the past five minutes.

Kashmir the senior tiger licking his lips after receiving a reward treat and looking the bag of treats hooked to his trainer's belt.

Senior tiger Bella and senior lion Masai with their trainer. Bella is posing serenely on her pedestal while Masai looks like he's trying to remember where he left his keys.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

#petDeath Rassilon passed away today. He stopped eating and had a sharp decline, as cats do. He spent today dozing in the garden until it was time. He'll always be the best cat I've ever met, I will miss him so fucking much, and I'm very grateful that he made it very clear when it was time to go.

Rassilon (orange Maine Coon) sitting on the stone edge of a raised garden bed with pink and green flowers and rocky soil. He's squinting and making a friendly face.

Rassilon on a wooden garden table, on his back, sunning his white belly

Rassilon in the entranceway of a house. The floor and walls are white. He's sitting on a blue rug under a bright red umbrella set out for drying.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I found reds and greens the most challenging. Some of these were near-invisible, wildly mixed up with others where I could see a pretty clear difference. Probably should've played on a better screen tho 😂 What's My JND? 0.0052 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Screenshot of my score (0.0052) and the creator's comment: "Very nice. Comfortably below the 0.02 JND that the color science people say is the limit. You'd make an excellent paint-chip inspector. Is that a job? It should be."

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

When I'm on the couch with a blanket, Rumble will sleep in the blanket hammock between my ankles. Right on the edge of the couch. More than once, I've had to do some quick leg maneuvering to keep him from sliding off and falling. That's definitely not what happened right before this pic was taken.

Very sleepy and discombobulated cat sitting lop-sided in a dip in a crumpled blanket heap. He looks like he's not quite sure why he's awake but definitely resentful about it.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

Cat that looks like a mix of a rag doll/siamese and a barn cat sitting on a large stuffed pig (tastefully brown-white rather than pink, but still a pig). The cat's name is Rumble. He is doing the loaf sit with all his legs tucked neatly underneath his body. Behind him and the pig, there's a book shelf with some cat toys underneath.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

To balance out the griping, here's a photo I took of a radio station ad that amused me

A row of 4 gas nozzles, if that's what they're called. They have "Rock Antenne" branded ads on the back. One says "Hier lebt Rock!" (Rock lives here/Rock is alive here), which is the station's slogan. The next one says "Enter Tankman" ("tanken" means to get gas), then "Pour Some Super in Me" (on the Super nozzle, obv.) and "We Will Fuel You" on the last one.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

More snow! It's been such a snowy winter 🌨️

Snow covered hedge with a coniferous tree and a yellow house behind it.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm a terrible plant parent, so always pleased to discover plants that reward terrible plant parenting. Like amaryllis, apparently! Behold the amaryllis that was watered once over xmas 2024 but flowered twice, then got entirely ignored over the summer, then watered twice over the last couple weeks.

Amaryllis in a red pot with some old moss and three huge bright green leaf stalks. It's not flowering -- yet!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

To all who celebrate: Merry Christmas! At sister-in-law's today after celebrating Christmas Eve at home with family & parents-in-law (and cats, of course). We got a tiny bit of Christmas snow!

Close-up of a bush with red berry-like flowers, covered in a light dusting of snow.

Two cats (Rumble, left, Rassilon, right) on a living room floor. In the background there's a large lit-up and decorated Christmas tree and a black dining table. If you look closely, there's a third cat sitting under the table next to the tree. They all three have the air of cats reclaiming their space after visitors of questionable origin and belonging have finally left. (Photo by findmeinthealps)

Close-up of Louis, the third cat from the background of the previous picture. He's sitting on a crumpled sheet of wrapping paper, and seems somewhat alarmed at having his picture taken. (Photo by findmeinthealps)

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Just finished Chain of Command, Seymour M Hersh's 2004 book abt the Iraq War. This is the last page. Did send a chill down my spine, ngl #uspol

But lying would indicate an understanding of what is desired, what is possible, and how best to get there. A more plausible explanation is that words have no meaning for this President beyond the immediate moment, and so he believes that his mere utterance of the phrases makes them real. It is a terrifying possibility.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Bought this ages ago, finally managed to frame it. It's from a 1957 edition of The Motion Picture Herald. They just don't make movie ads like they used to 🥺

Old-timey newspaper ad, black and white with red, for a movie called "The Incredible Shrinking Man".

Most of the ad is taken up by negative space. Across the bottom, there's a burning match, its red flame (topped with a dangerous cloud of black smoke) filling the right half and reaching to the top. The movie title and credits are shown underneath. Where your fingers would be if you were holding the match, there he is: the incredible shrinking man, the matchstick the size of a log to him, running towards the reader with a startled expression. He's wearing a sleeveless shirt and no shoes, for some reason.

Across the top of the ad, there's diagonal script breaking up the red match flame declaring that "Every hour he gets smaller... smaller... smaller! Every moment the suspense mounts!" And finally, in the top left of the ad, there's a label informing the reader that this is "one of a series of ads for an unusual and very different motion picture".

On the off-chance anyone sees this who has any of the other ads from this series, maybe in a stack of ancient magazines in a dusty attic, DM me. Please really do. There are few things that please me more than weird-ass old timey movie ads.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Every year, we try to make it to the open air old-timey mountain village museum that puts on a Christmas Market on first advent. So that's what we did today! It was very picturesque, with just enough snow on the ground to cover the grass, and local artists selling their stuff. Also alphorns!

Nightly outdoors scene. Three alphorn players are playing their instruments in front of what seems to be a historical farmhouse: a white wall with three lit windows, a low roof skirted with dark wooden panels, which are decorated with a Christmas lights garland. There's a wooden door standing open, allowing light to shine out to illuminate the muddy, gravelly ground. Left and right to the players people are sitting on a low stack of firewood piled up against the house. To the right of the picture, the shoulder of someone watching the players from the same angle as the camera is visible. The mouths of the three alphorns are lined up neatly, the underside of the bend sitting on the ground, and the horns leading up in a straight incline to the players' mouths. The players are holding their instruments at the very top. The leftmost player has sheet music clipped to the top of his horn, which is obscuring his face.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Aww what a good kitty! There should be a website where you can list hotels and restaurants with cats. We were at a family event on Sunday and this girl spent the entire afternoon snoozing on the bench in the corner; it was delightful 🥺

Black and white cat curled up in a neat circle, her nose tucked under her tail. She's lying on upholstery that's patterned in traditional middle-European country stripes and leaves, with a partial wooden backrest visible that looks like pine wood. She's clearly a very good girl.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Every night I have to leave my clothes lying on the bathroom floor bc he may be geriatric but he's still faster than me when it comes to making a nest in my pants

Rassilon the 20 year old geriatric pants thief curled up in a pair of heavy-cotton cargo pants lying crumpled on a tiled bathroom floor. He's a floofy orange cat and in this pic looks a bit tense despite his curled-up sleeping position, most likely because I was snapping pictures and he suspected I might take his pants-nest away. Avid followers may remember that the bathroom floor is heated, so he'll relax before long.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This fall has been a picture-book fall over here: great fall colors, crisp, sunny fall days, and lately there's been lots of creepy fog. Tried to capture some as I was taking the bin out and accidentally snapped a picture of what appears to be a ghostly tree horror stalking me from the bushes 😨

Very dark picture, pitch-black on bottom left and right, getting minutely lighter towards the top middle, where there's a dark midnight blue sky. Black shapes towards the right suggest trees overhanging a dark path that runs down the middle towards the only bright spot in the picture, probably a street light casting a sharp yellow triangle of light downwards, reflecting light illuminating the houses that run down the left of the path. The light is blurred, suggesting light fog. In the black mass that is the trees on the right, two beady bright spots shine through the branches: eyes (or what looks like eyes) staring down the path at the person taking the picture.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Bathroom floor heating season is upon us

Three cats snoozing on a tiled bathroom floor.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I wanted to share my cat so here's my cat. He's a good boy.

Floofy orange cat with long whiskers snoozing in my lap

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The tree outside my window is doing an absolutely fantastic job with its fall colors.

View of a residential street in Europe from a second (American third) floor window. The tree in question is in the center of the shot. Its leaves form a neat, symmetrical, oblong shape, narrow at top and bottom and wider in the middle. The tree colors run from a dark, rich summer green at the bottom to a bright golden yellow at the top in a neat ombre. The tree is getting help with its color spectacle by the house behind it, which provides a pale blue, mostly uniform background on the left side.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We made it! I've already seen a cat and our hotel for the first night has a little balcony that faces the Atlantic, so this is already a pretty good vacation 🌴

Nightly view of lights along the seaside, with a low brick wall in the foreground, a big round tree that's illuminated from below, some tropical/palm tree-looking bushes next to it, and a bright moon shining out from behind a bunch of clouds to illuminate a stretch of ocean.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Every time we play this game I look at my profile and realise I have to update something. This time it's that I'm still pointing ppl to my website (which has been retired) and Twitter (which, well 😬) Anyway I was there Gandalf, though not quite as early as thefourthvine

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

My cat is the best cat (everybody's cat is the best cat)

Light orange long-haired cat (not a tabby, more Maine Coon looking but smaller than you'd expect from a Maine Coon) with a white bib, white paws, and green eyes sitting on its butt and looking into the camera. It's Rassilon! His whiskers are pointed forward and he's wearing an expression communicating habitual fondness of the person taking the picture. This photo is unarguable evidence of Rassilon being the best cat.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Took a couple close-up pictures of the stands at the local fair; this phone may never be clean again 😩

Painting of a sexy witch in a very highly slit, purple dress. Her entire left leg and some of her right is showing between the fluttering skirt. She's got a tiny waist, accentuated with a red belt, is wearing a red ribbon-like collar, and has very round, large breasts. She's smirking mischievously from under a pink witch's hat, and is jutting out her hip. Her left hand (clad in elbow-high gloves) is holding a broom. In her right, she's holding what is probably meant to be a glazed fruit stick. It's pink with swirls, improbably huge, and looks very much like an enormous dildo, not in the least because she's holding it with the lower end essentially jutting out from her crotch.

Close-up of a painting above the horizontal sign across the top of a stand. The sign says "Gerda's Imbiss Gerda". The painting depicts an anthropomorphic hot dog. It's got a long nose, a manic grin, huge eyes, and something on its head that is probably meant to be a chef's hat. It's lying down, its head propped up on its proportionally very thin and tiny, yet incredibly swole arm. It's lying on the lower part of a hot dog bun, the top flung over its lower half like a carefully arranged modesty sheet in a 60s playboy photo. A very thin, tiny, muscular leg is sticking out from under it, bent at the knee with the foot nestled in a slipper. The hot dog has bright white teeth and is lasciviously biting a toothpick that it's holding with the tips of his index finger and thumb, pinky sticking out. The painting looks like what would happen if a hot dog asked to be drawn like one of their French girls of a very drunk painter with little talent and balls bluer than Doctor Manhattan's.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

With working out, I rarely get past the good intentions stage, but I'm not convinced it's *entirely* my fault.

Work-out mat laid out on the floor. It's covered in cats who clearly think that mats are for lounging and working out is for fools.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Unrepentant wannabe repeat offender

Rumble sitting by the terrace door and staring wistfully into the dark night

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

He'd circled around and left us breaking repeatedly into a fenced-off yard that he'd only crossed through to get back to our garden. Rass was also home safe; the doors were shut after all. The criminal polished off his dinner and is now snoozing. I have to be up in 5 hours. Cats are great! 😅 (4/4)

Grey and white cat with siamese ombre coloring and a round face curled up on a red sofa. He looks a little stressed but mostly fine, with his front paws tucked under his chest.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'm dying, this is the funniest fucking result 🤣🤣🤣 Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Alexander Hamilton from the musical Hamilton

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Explained what I do to my new team today (data modeling for web content). Afterwards, one of them said that all she could think about was the Swiss artist-comedian Ursus Wehrli, who made a name for himself with his "Tidying Up Art" books (www.kunstaufraeumen.ch/de/) Like, she's not *wrong* 😂😂😂

Two pieces of art next to each other: left is a painting by Keith Haring, a chaotic arrangement of brightly colored, abstract shapes suggesting a creature's face. Right is the same shapes on a white background, neatly stacked and sorted by color. The art pieces are labelled with the artist's name respectively: Keith Haring on the left, Ursus Wehrli on the right.

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