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tantramar

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Let’s be honest; this account is mostly cat photos at this point. From Sackville/Tantramar, New Brunswick, Canada.

Can opener for #RipleyAndJonesy.

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Mastodon needs an auto-block feature for when accounts with 0 followers and no posts follow you.

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@stephanie @stephaniepixie The Discourse community software (https://www.discourse.org by @codinghorror ) has a brilliant system whereby a new user acquires privileges by participating in discussions — liking/following/posting/getting liked & followed, etc. It really keeps spam at bay and seems like a model worth following. This has been figured out, largely, and doesn’t offload the effort to individuals.

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thick, juicy brush strokes!
with thick, buttery paint!
hitting thick, precise likeness!

that is how I want to paint portraits. I LOVE faces, and I LOVE the people on here, so I'm going to keep asking if I can paintcha.

got a few still in the queue, absolute stunners the lot of you. I'll show you individually as I complete them. 🌻

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@falcennial The single most important/useful thing I learnt in 1st year fine arts — in sculpture class — was that a line dropped from the clavicle will land inside the ankle of the weight-bearing foot. Knowing that one thing made it easier to understand poses and convey weight, so figures no longer floated mysteriously on the page.

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Jonesy has now joined Ripley in the sunbeam. ☺️

Tabby siblings, sitting in a sunbeam on a kitchen table
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Please check this button if you are an entity

Check [box] if entity
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@mcc are we sure this isn’t a Mission: Impossible marketing scheme?

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Who’s a handsome boy (and fully aware of it)?!?

Brown & white tabby sphinxing on my desk
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New box!!!

Brown & white tabbies. She’s sitting in a short Italian Pasta box with raised flaps; he’s behind her on the floor. They’re both looking to the camera.
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No fits. Still sits.

Tabby squeezed into tiny box
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wrap-up with

Tabby siblings on the couch. Jonesy on the back, Ripley on the cushion.
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this is some bullshit

“⚠️ Frost Advisory: expires at 2:21 AM, Sunday, September 21 (13 hours, 48 minutes)” [screenshot from Carrot Weather app on macOS 26]
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The cat-in-box photos will continue until morale improves. 🤣

Brown & white tabby sitting in an empty QualiCat cat-litter box.
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Jonesy “helping” with the dishes yesterday.

Brown & white tabby sitting on the counter with one paw hanging over the edge of the kitchen sink, which is full of soapy water. The drying rack full of clean dishes is beside him. He’s giving me a look that says “what?” He’d also just been licking at the bubbles. He’s sweet but not too bright. 🤣
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The government has given me a new sin

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@mcc Not, alas, one of the deadly (fun) ones.

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Always watching; my life in a panopticon.

Cat in a stairwell window and a cat on the stairs, both looking at the photographer
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Shelfie.

Brown & white tabby cat sitting on a shelf she barely fits into
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It turns out Google has a helper box if you search for "[thing] pronunciation". For example, I wanted to know how to pronounce "Djibouti", and it showed me this. However, there is a serious problem with this box. Do you see it?

Dijbouti Country in East Africa Sounds like juh boo tee A menu shows two options: American pronunciation, or British pronunciation
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@mcc No; clearly there are only two countries where people speak English. 🙄

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Cat comparison (bar-chart edition). Jonesy on the left, as if that needs to be made explicit.

Brown & white tabby siblings — who were the same size as kittens. He’s now nearly twice her size.
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Hey so guess who has blue hair, pronouns, and as of exactly 39 minutes ago Canadian citizenship

A picture of me in front of the building where they turn you into a Canadian
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@mcc @briankrebs \0/

(Blundstones make it official-official.)

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today’s crime (and the criminal — caught red-pawed). I don’t even know how he managed this — that leg screws into the top! 🤦‍♂️

Brown & white tabby sitting on a tile floor with his paws reaching out to a table leg that’s laying on the floor in front of him. A table, conspicuously missing a leg, sits in the corner of the phone.
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Curious, Ripley-shaped countertop loaf.

Brown & white tabby sitting, loaf-style, on the kitchen counter, leaning over to her left to see something (off-camera) on the floor.
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@GroupNebula563 I think it’s only a matter of months since I realized Slashdot was still a thing.

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Hands-on coffee meeting with Jonesy in the kitchen.

Brown & white tabby resting his paw on my thumb as he sits beside my coffee flask
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If you want to get good at something you have to practice.

Brown & white tabby cat sleeping on a couch with her face tucked under her arm
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“Work from home”, they said. “So few distractions”, they said. 🤦‍♂️🤪

A crazed Brown & white tabby cat wedged — on his side — behind me on my office chair.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that an empty box must be in want of a cat.

Brown & white tabby squatting in an open box which is on its side on a hardwood floor
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When you’re smol but clearly need the ENTIRE COUCH

Brown & white tabby stretched out across all three cushions of a full-sized couch, seemingly confused that this is something worth documenting
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Ripley looking down from above; Jonesy looking as confused as ever.

Brown & white tabby siblings. She’s in the window up the stairs, looking judgmental; he’s laying on a step halfway up, looking confused
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Ripley can’t find the bowl she’s looking for.

Brown & white tabby standing up on her hind legs on the kitchen counter, her front paws on the shelf of the open cupboard.
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Can’t find Jonesy anywhere… 🧐🤪

Drawn-back curtains on French doors with a pair of white, front paws showing underneath them.
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Oskar Kalbag,
December 9, 2011 - June 28, 2025.

You will live on in our hearts forever, my dearest couch buddy, incorrigible treat fiend, fluffy cuddle bundle, and best boy ever.

Thank you for all the joy you brought to our lives every single day and night.

Sleep tight, my sweet prince.

❤️

Oskar (Osky), a brown and white huskamute wearing a harness, sitting in a field of flowers, looking off camera. Photo by Laura Kalbag.
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@aral 🥺

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@aral I shared this photo of my Keesha with Laura on Twitter years ago because your Oskar reminded me so much of her. Lost Keesha in 2014 and I still miss her. 💔

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Ripley powering up for .

Brown & white tabby sitting in front of a lamp in a stairwell. She’s all aglow, looking at the camera with her head at a jaunty angle.
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For three full years now I've been semi-daily posting a music recommendation in a big long thread, but it turns out 300-post threads kinda break Mastodon, so I have to restart the thread every so often.

This post is a placeholder. I normally make a YouTube playlist for the previous year to put at the top of the thread, but I've had an awful month and haven't finished that yet.

But if you want to see year three's posts, they're here: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112356066616688565

And here's year four:

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@mcc Easily my favourite CB track — and yes, listening to it on a loop for hours is a thing I have done. 😬

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That was a wild night. That was history happening in real time.

Apologies for everyone outside of Australia for the torrent of toots.

We just kicked into oblivion the most fasci party leadership in Australian political history. It felt good to watch a decent number of voters push back against what they saw being imported from America. Gotta celebrate the wins. They happen far too infrequently.

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@ewen 😎👍

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This is why we don’t need in

It’s a tank compared to the other vehicles and blocks everything Yikes
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@stux We don’t need this shit in North America, either.

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In case it wasn't clear from the robots.txt

@OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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@stux Robots.txt is an honour system trying to control those without honour. We something with teeth.

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Fucking nightmare material.

Marco Rubio with a huge ash cross on his forehead, looking like some cultist from a dystopian post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
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@aral Wait — this isn’t Photoshopped? This can’t be real!?!

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@aral Did The Onion buy them, too? 🤣

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    @NanoRaptor Sure, sure: 8-bit greyscale. It’s the Mac OS 9-era control stip printout on the corner of the desk that got my attention. 🤓

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    Ripley the intern continues to be starving and my reading glasses are the tastiest thing on earth.

    Tabby kitten holding onto — and chewing — my glasses (which she pulled off my face)

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    Under her watchful eyes.

    Tabby kitten on my shoulder watching me have my morning coffee
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    @kenSwinson Don’t worry: it’ll probably come off with turpentine. 🤣

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    @kenSwinson Oh no!

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    @kenSwinson This is why I prefer a) watercolour and b) never painting en plein air — this way the cats can knock water onto my Arches block in the comfort of my studio. 🤦‍♂️🤣

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    Bank: please create a strong password to secure your account.

    Also bank: now, create three more laughably insecure and easily guessable passwords that can also be used to access your account (because irony is dead, let’s call these “security questions”).

    smdh

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    @aral Canadian banks — as far as I can tell — LIVE FOR THIS MORONIC BS

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    There is a picture of James Bond from the film, and the text on the right reads, “007 is really dumb permission to have for a spy.”
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