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Michael @unprovoked.net · 12/09/2026

Burping the house on a pleasant #Caturday, decided to have a nap about it.

A tabby cat with orange stripes and white chest, belly, and paws slumps against a bed pillow near an open window. His front legs are arranged comfortably, one curled and resting atop the other, lying straight on the bed. A back leg juts out, rabbit style, exposing perfectly nibble-worthy toe beans. This is the Way.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 20/08/2026

"Do you feel worthy of desiring...?" stopped me dead in my tracks, thanks.

Penélope Cruz as Piña in the 2026 comedy-drama film The Invite. She's a Spanish woman with shoulder-length hair dyed blond, wearing a long-sleeve black button-down shirt over a small camisole. The shirt is unbuttoned to Piña's cleavage and a pair of sunglasses hangs from her undershirt. She's sitting on a couch in an artfully decorated living room, resting her right elbow on her right knee and propping her head on her right hand, fingers loosely curled. Her left elbow rests on her left knee, arm across her legs, with her left hand cupping her right elbow. She looks both utterly at ease and completely engaged in the conversation happening around her. Piña is looking up and to the side at someone out of frame, her lips parted in a playful, inquisitive smile. This is the confident feeling she has before she – or any of the other characters, honestly – fully understand the situation.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 19/08/2026

The Priceline Negotiator will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

Actor Randall Park, a southeast Asian man with a dyed black pompadour hairstyle, appears in an ad for Priceline. Standing against a dark blue background, he is wearing a basic business suit (gray jacket, black tie, white button-down shirt) and holding a mobile phone with its screen facing the camera. It shows an in-app promotion from Priceline for "up to 60% off hotels." Park offers the camera a friendly and charismatic smirk. The words "Priceline Negotiator" appear at bottom. One hopes this is not the final fate of his character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 12/08/2026

A little cat tax for barging into your DMs earlier – our grand dame and chaos boi.

Close-ip picture of and orange and white tabby cat with a pronounced stripe running along the side of his head to the corner of his eye. His eyes are mostly closed, but don't put in the newspaper that he was sleepy. In the background, a black cat lounges on a pillow, also drifting toward slumber. A lamp and a humidifier reservoir are visible on a nightstand at the very back. Everyone, including the photographer, was sound asleep not 30 seconds after the picture was taken.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 07/08/2026

However, IUPAT Glaziers Local 1778 went on strike earlier this year and ratified a new contract last month. #1U

A social media post from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades that reads, "After 40 days on an Unfair Labor Practice strike, members of Glaziers Local 1778 have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with Spring Glass & Mirror, saving their pension and winning better hours and pay! Thank you to our glazier members who spent 6 weeks on the picket line, and to District Council 10 and the rest of the labor movement for their support. Your bravery has raised standards for workers in our trades all across North America. When we fight, we win!"

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 03/08/2026

Need a vibe, take a vibe. ❤️‍🩹🧡🐈

An orange and white tabby cat lying on a fuzzy tan blanket. His back legs are stretched out mostly perpendicular to his body, with his tail laid between them. His front legs are folded casually against his midsection. Sleep has completely overtaken him in the calm, natural light. Beside him is a red and black plaid blanket and a blue-gray knee pillow. In the background sits a large dresser, its wood stained dark. Despite his constant low-level anxiety, in this moment he is the picture of contentment and comfort.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 24/07/2026

Some years ago: we didn't actually meet Craig Ferguson, but attended a taping of The Late Late Show and like, goddamn. But just last month, this little devil.

Scottish actor Alan Cumming, a white man with parted salt-and-pepper gray hair, sits on a theater stage in front of a projector screen during a power outage. The stage is lit by emergency lights. He sits with legs crossed and arms folded across his lap. In one hand he holds a flashlight. He's wearing black shoes, pink denim pants, and a black and red Club Cumming t-shirt (a nightclub he co-owns). He is looking off camera, listening to an audience question with an impish and attentive smile.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 30/06/2026

For @gailsimone.bsky.social, @chanda.blacksky.app, and other boosters: I commissioned this sketch from Bob Hall over the weekend. #Supergirl #ComicSky

A monochrome sketch of Supergirl drawn by veteran illustrator Bob Hall (who has done work for Marvel, DC, and Valiant comics). Supergirl seems ready for action here, looking directly toward the viewer with a lively expression. Her hair flows down past her shoulders and she appears to be running or preparing to take flight, leading with her left arm and fist extended. She's wearing her traditional superhero costume emblazoned with the classic "S" family crest, and her skirt is accented with a metallic belt. The artwork was commissioned on June 27, 2026 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Supergirl is the Woman of Tomorrow whom we desperately need today.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 11/06/2026

Circuit diagram engraved on a Particle Thrower used by the Ghostbusters. Taken on tour at Sony Pictures Studios in September 2014. #ThingThursday

Close-up of a black piece of metal shielding with an engraved circuit diagram painted red. (I'm not an electrician so I don't know if the circuit makes real-world sense. This is part of a movie prop Neutrona Wand and Proton Pack from the Ghostbusters film series in the 1980s.)

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 29/05/2026

Amoeba (2025, Siyou Tan); Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang); The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026, Jon Favreau); Kajillionaire (2020, Miranda July). #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot from the Letterboxd mobile app showing images of four movie posters arranged in a horizontal line. Starting from the left, the movies are: Amoeba (poster image is four teenage girls in Singapore wearing white school uniforms); Rebels of the Neon God (poster is decorated with semi-transparent bands of rainbow colors, through which can be two young Taiwanese men on mopeds cruising the busy streets of Taipei); The Mandalorian and Grogu (poster image depicts a steel-helmeted space-operatic warrior and his protege, a small green alien with long, pointed, horizontal ears, wide dark eyes, wearing a vaguely monastic brown robe); and Kajillionaire (poster image shows a woman in her late 20s with long dirty-blond hair, almost down to her waist, wearing unremarkable clothing and standing against a plain white wall with two blue accent stripes).

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 21/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap.

Bill the Cat (from the 1980s comic strip Bloom County), a scraggly anthropomorphized orange cat in a flamboyant hair metal-style lime green wig, stands onstage wearing stars-and-stripes American flag stretch pants, a studded leather collar, a studded leather wristband on one arm and a white glove on the opposite hand. He has a little studded leather band around the tip of his tail and sports a pair of ankle boots decorated with eighth notes. In one hand he holds a mic stand upside down. With his other hand, he's holding out his tongue as though it were the pull-string on a talking doll. A single drop of slobber falls from the tip of his tongue. Footlights illuminate the scene and a monitor speaker is visible at bottom in silhouette. The drawing is a book cover with the title BILLY AND THE BOINGERS (in white lettering) BOOTLEG (in red). In the bottom right corner is a bright yellow sticker that reads: "Includes the Hits 'I'm a Boinger' and 'U Stink But I Love U' Plus Many Interesting Bloom County Cartoons." (The book actually came with a flimsy vinyl single containing both songs!)

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 13/05/2026

Made a new friend at my polling place today. #LNK

Sidewalk chalk art, drawn all in pink, of a tall, boxy robot working with an abstract widget. The robot has a square head with googly-style eyes, a long rectangular body, two short arms (also rectangles), two skinny rectangular legs, and bulky feet. Its mouth is open in an O shape and the torso is adorned with dots. Next to the robot stands a contraption composed of stacked squares and vaguely parallelograms, topped with two rectangles arranged in a T shape. The device appears to crackle with electricity; sparks are drawn in the air around it. Above the robot's head is a comic book-style speech balloon exclaiming, "Ooo!" Let's all do a science!

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 12/05/2026

Need a vibe, take a vibe. 🧡

An orange tabby cat with white belly, neck, and snout reclines on a tan blanket at the edge of a bed, facing the camera. Behind him is a dark-stained wood dresser. He is on his side, with his head and shoulders tucked in somewhat; his front legs are stretched along his midsection such that front and back paws are touching. His striped orange tail rests against his back legs. Half-opened eyes let us know that he's drifting off to sleep, if only Dad would put away the camera and lie down.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 06/05/2026

The Demon Bear and it's not even close.

The cover of issue #19 of the first volume of the comic series The New Mutants, with artwork depicting a titanic, savage brown bear standing upright and baring claws as long as a human is tall. The New Mutants, a teenage superhero team, are engaged in mortal combat with the bear, who clutches the mutant Sunspot in one paw while other members try to coordinate a counterattack. They are defending a teammate who suffered life-threatening injuries during a previous fight in which she confronted the bear alone. The situation is grim and getting worse.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 02/05/2026

Black gold today: Those flavor notes don't lie – just perfect for a 60-degree Great Plains spring day. (The estate name correctly spelled is Zalmari.)

A handwritten coffee shop label for today's special, named Zalmari Marigold. The flavor notes are "caramel, lemon, graham cracker" and the brew tastes just so. Zalmari Estate is located in the Orosí Valley region of central Costa Rica.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 24/04/2026

Sometimes he fights to stay awake. I try to tell him it's ok, we're all safe in bed and he can clock out for the night. Eventually he does.

An orange and white tabby cat draped across a brown and tan blanket on a dark blue bedsheet. The cat is on his side but sort of propped up on the blanket, which has been rolled into a more or less donut shape. He looks absolutely exhausted and also as though he is fighting to stay awake, but at what cost? His front legs are stretched straight out, over the edge of the blanket, and the toes of one foot are slightly splayed out, claws visible. He's like this most nights. In the background is a dark wooden dresser.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 18/04/2026

And also with you. 🧡 🐈

An orange and white tabby cat sleeps on his side atop a tan colored fuzzy blanket that's been rolled up into a sort of donut shape. He has one back leg stuck out with his tail curled around it, and one front leg reaching over the edge of the blanket. His head is all the way down, resting on one cheek, white whiskers fanned out. A little birthmark can be seen on the tip of his pink nose. Beside him are two bunched-up blankets and in the background are a dark wood dresser and writing desk.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 18/04/2026

Sandhill crane looks sort of like something you'd draw anyway.

A solitary Sandhill crane stands fully upright on a patch of prairie land. It is a lean gray bird with long dark legs, smoke-gray feathers, a pale neck and head with a red crown, and a black needle-like beak. A partly cloudy light blue background sky completes the scene.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 16/02/2026

Someday this war's gonna end.

Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979, directed by Francis Ford Coppola). Kilgore is a clean-shaven white man wearing an olive drab U.S. Army button-up shirt with a golden dress ascot signifying his membership in an air cavalry unit during the Vietnam War. He sports a
pair of gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses and wears a black Stetson hat bearing silver emblems of rank (an oak-leaf cluster) and assignment (a pair of crossed sabres with the number 9 (representing the 9th Cavalry Regiment, within which he commands the 1st Squadron). His lips are parted in a slightly quirked smile as he watches operations while soldiers secure a beachhead (out of frame).

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 06/02/2026

October 14, 2025 – Dinosaur (2024) by Colombian artist Iván Argote. #TBT #ThingThursday

Dinosaur (2024), a colossal, hyperrealistic aluminum sculpture of a feral pigeon by Colombian artist Ivan Argote, installed on New York City's High Line, an elevated linear park and greenway in on the West Side of Manhattan. The bird is meticulously colored with orange legs and feet, reddish eyes, dark gray wing highlights, and black talons. The sculpture is 16 feet tall and stands on a five-foot-high concrete pedestal, erected in a paved plaza set among tall buildings. A cloudy sky completes the scene.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 27/01/2026

It's me, I'm The Fool. Never mind, you already knew that. Anyway, look at this beautiful work!

A deck of tarot cards spread on a wooden desk with only the vibrant card borders visible, except for the first of the Major Arcana, The Fool (0). This card depicts a boldly colored rooster in shades of orange, blue and gray, with a stark red comb. The rooster projects self-assurance as it stands on a small point of rock at the edge of a cliff. In the background is nothing but air and sky of a uniform purple color. A teal border surrounds the image and at the bottom is the card name in a serif font. THE FOOL.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 17/01/2026

Starfleet Age of Aquarius lookin' ass cast photo. (I love it I love it I love it.)

A promotional photo for the 2026 Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. An extraordinarily beautiful group of six actors, in character, are lying on green grass, some with radiant smiles, one with a milder smirk, and one with a pensive gaze – all of them are looking up toward the camera. The characters are arrayed in pairs, denoted by linked arms, clasped hands, or touching fingers. They are all wearing futuristic yet somehow retro-nostalgic fleet uniforms, as they walked out of the late 1960s directly into the 32nd Century without missing a beat. Plus ça change...

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 14/01/2026

Not my house, but I know my way around.

A map of "time holes" from the 1981 film Time Bandits, directed by Terry Gilliam. The faded document is mostly deep sea blue with an abstracted continent rendered in green and brown earth tones. Sketched across the map are grid lines, angles, arcs, circles, and brightly colored points indicating holes in the fabric of spacetime.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 12/01/2026

Goldar / Ambassador Magma, obvs.

A towering golden humanoid robot with a mane of golden hair and jaunty antennae stands against a deep blue sky. His right arm is drawn back, fist balled, ready to throw a punch, while his left arm is extended, ready to fight. When he's not brawling, he transforms into a massive golden jet and rains fire down on villainous kaiju and more.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 30/12/2025

You know I had to do it to 'em.

A pudgy white man (yours truly) with graying hair, mustache, and goatee, stands in a bland corridor and holds up his mobile phone to take a mirror selfie. I'm wearing a holiday sweater that features Derpy, a cartoonish giant blue tiger (drawn from Southeast Asian lore) with orange and yellow eyes, as seen in the 2025 animated film KPop Demon Hunters. Derpy takes up most of the front of the sweater; he is playing with a waste basket (his favorite toy), wrapped in a bow and tipped on its side. There are also four-pointed stars and the word "Derpy" printed in horizontal rows. The sweater is colored with contrasting sky and midnight blue colors. This is the height of my personal fashion.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 22/12/2025

"There's just something about the sound of a train horn, you know?"

Carol, a white woman with chin-length blond hair, and Zosia, a white woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair, stand on the rim of a desert canyon and watch a freight train roll along in the distance. The sky above is mostly clear blue with a few clouds. There is a mountain in the distance and the landscape around the women is dotted with scrub brush. Carol's faint smile has a wistful air about it, and Zosia's gaze is placid and, in context, all-knowing. (From the 2025 Apple TV+ series Pluribus, season one, episode eight, "Charm Offensive.")

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 23/11/2025

Found a good holiday feast read at my public library. #BookSky @richardkadrey.bsky.social

A hardcover copy of the 2025 novel The Flesh King, by Richard Kadrey, sitting flat on a wooden desk. The cover art features a spectral or undead humanoid figure with glowing red eyes. The creature's head is split open vertically from the crown of its skull down to the first rib. In the gap between the halves of the head are glowing silhouettes of three humans who appear to be falling. Body horror for Thanksgiving, just right for 2025.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 21/11/2025

Not sure what to make of the tea leaves here. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

A single image of four movie posters lined up horizontally. From left to right, the movies are Color Out of Space (2019, cosmic horror), Nobody 2 (2025, action/thriller), Shirley (2024, a dramatized biography of politician Shirley Chisholm), and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024, supernatural comedy/horror).

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 28/10/2025

What a cute thing to rediscover on the day of my job promotion interview. "We hope to have a decision from HR in a couple weeks." I know this music.

Screenshot of a Facebook post from the Welcome to Night Vale podcast on September 12, 2025, that reads, "This meeting could have been an email. This email could have been a passing fancy. This job could have been a lifetime of wonder."

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 26/10/2025

Upstate side quest from two weeks ago – I brought flowers, agate, and a soapstone cat. Nothing in particular, just thinking about it today while drifting through this seasonal pivot. Winter I can handle. The last weeks of fall... well, they pass, and that's usually enough. It's fine. It'll be fine.

A rounded stone grave marker, surrounded by grass, that reads, "Maggie Estep, writer and friend, March 20, 1963 – February 12, 2014." The marker is adorned with small totems left by friends and fans: a tiny soapstone cat, a multicolored piece of agate, carved and polished stone hearts, and a small green statue of the Buddhist goddess Tara (a seated female figure with left hand raised). At one corner of the base of the headstone there is a hand-tied flower bouquet with a spray of orange, golden, and small purple blossoms.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 24/10/2025

Charlie at A Novel Idea. #LNK

A smoke-gray cat with white feet sleeps in the top level of a carpeted cat tree. There are window reflections in the image. The picture was taken from the sidewalk outside a bookshop where the cat lives. Bookshelves are visible behind him, displaying puzzles and collections of poetry and critical essays.

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 08/10/2025

Doing some homework for this weekend. #NowReading

A paperback copy of Samuel Beckett's 1952 play Waiting for Godot, with the subtitle A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. The cover image is a black-and-white photograph of a man alone on stage, wearing loose and vaguely shabby clothes (shoes, slacks, jacket, bowler hat), with arms outstretched to either side. He is facing away from the viewer, entreating... an audience? God? Creation itself? There is also a cover blurb from critic Clive Barnes that reads, "One of the true masterpieces of the century."

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 02/10/2025

Spooky season: go. (Mike Hampton drew @sindeetones.bsky.social and me as zombies at WonderCon 2010.) #NewProfilePic

A black-and-white head-and-shoulders illustration of a woman and man in zombified form: disheveled hair, dirty and torn clothes, open mouths with rent flesh, bent and broken eyeglasses, bulging eyes, jagged teeth, smell lines, and flies swirling around. And we're obviously in love!

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