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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no, I forgot the cat tax for the Kraken game last night! (It was the first game, I'm still getting back in the swing of things!)

Lucky kittens Leia AND Luke came and hung out with me during the game! Leia purred like a wee motorboat for Marchment's goal. Luke was VERY INTRIGUED by fish-yeeting.

A fluffy long-haired orange cat with white paws and green eyes

A short-haired orange cat lying behind his human's legs, with his little paws tucked over the front of her legs so he can peek out

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · 4d

Who else noticed Buoy's special bling last night? I recognized it right away! Glad we didn't have to cry our eyes violet after that game. ( @alisonl.bsky.social - did you spot it??)

A keychain in the form of a bejeweled violet eye, with a lock-style fob and the initials TS attached.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · 21d

Since I'm on Bluesky for the @seattlekraken.com preseason game, here is the cat tax, paid in full. Olaf says hi!

Large orange cat lounging on a teal blanket which is folded up on the corner of a bed, creating a recursive cat bed.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · 21d

Oh man, that Ryker Evans piece at first intermission was incredible! I sense @pipershaw.bsky.social 's talent for storytelling here - I had forgotten how great our media team is and how lucky we are to have John, JT, Alison, Piper, and the rest! @seattlekraken.com #KrakenHockey #KrakenPreseason

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Sep 5

School is back in session, the Kraken released a third jersey (which I LOVE), Taylor Swift's new album comes out in less than a month, and I'm having a birthday in three weeks. If I look hard enough, I can find good things in the world. Like this orange girl who made me pet her belly for an hour.

An orange long-haired cat on a white couch next to a human, with only the hip and arm of the human visible.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Sep 5

That felt good two years ago. And then the Head Quack floated the idea of making an autism registry and now I'm a giant ball of OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT THEY BETTER NOT TOUCH MY KID.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just so we're clear, what I mean by "it happening" is Taylor Swift releasing her recipe for cinnamon swirl sourdough bread

spookyduds @spuffyduds.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just so we're clear, what I mean by "it happening" is "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League" hitting theaters workdwide

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Aug 20

That scene from Amistad (1997) was one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. Over two MILLION dead like that. No one can even begin to grasp how much worse it was than we're all thinking.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Aug 6

I am so sorry. Ugh. 😔

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Aug 2

How we go to bed in this house: covered in cats. Luke is on my lap, Leia is tucked against Grant's feet, and Olaf is sitting up beside Grant, meowing insistently for his bedtime treats.

A large bed with two human shapes under the covers. Atop the left human is a small short-haired orange tabby, while at the foot of the bed is a small long-haired orange tabby, and to the right of the humans is a large short-haired orange tabby looking toward the human taking the picture with a very feline attitude of "Where are my treats?"

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Aug 2

I would have a lifetime membership!

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jul 31

reporting, if it can be built back at all.

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I also mentioned the many Substacks I subscribe to, including The Contrarian. I absolutely will pay for journalism. Just not the kind T---- can own.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jul 31

T---- or his administration, and no interference with editorial or journalists who want to cover reality instead of T---- and B----'s preferred spin. The reputation that took The Washington Post decades to build is gone. It will need to be built back over months to years of consistent faithful

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jul 31

The only circumstances I would consider resubscribing to the Washington Post is after several months to years of legitimate, real coverage of politics: speaking truth to power, allowing your journalists to give actual coverage of T----'s unhinged behavior and policy proposals, with no sanewashing of

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Washington Post sent me a survey today asking if they could get my opinion on what it would take to get me to resubscribe. After many pages where I answered things that essentially said, "the price of a subscription was not the issue," I was able to add my own comment. Which was:

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 26

I thought of @joycewhitevance.bsky.social immediately when I saw these cute yarn chicken stitch markers from @katrinkles.bsky.social - katrinkles.com/products/yar... I still need to make my Emotional Support Chicken, too!

Yarn Chickens Stitch Marker Set

Each beautiful bird in our Yarn Chickens Stitch Marker Set wears a pretty knit pattern. Made of etched wood and Rhody Red acrylic, they'll supply you with clucks and pluck, whether you're racing to fi...

katrinkles.com

Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 16

Things I'm learning in perimenopause/early menopause: That my cheeks going vividly red and burning hot might not be an allergy to my skincare but my hormones saying YEAH HI YOU'RE OLD AND YOUR REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM IS BONKERS

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 16

In 2nd grade I struggled for a good five minutes when filling out a worksheet on long a vs. short a sounds because one of them was "flag".

flăg? Definitely not! flāg? Not quite... Flaa-eeg... Flaa-eeg... I guess flāg?

Nope, apparently it's flăg. Seven-year-old me DISAGREED.

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 16

For YEARS I've been trying to figure out a good sentence for Midwestern accents, and I came up with one that definitely exposes ME, at least:

"I begged for an egg in a bag on Flag Day."

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Jun 15

The original video is x.com/dooleyfunny/... but I'll link to one of the YouTube reposts instead because fuck X, lol m.youtube.com/watch?v=MdHK...

Aaron earned an iron urn

YouTube video by Sipos Eugen

m.youtube.com

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 16

And this one:

youtube.com/shorts/Sc1RW...

Anyone else struggle with “R’s” # SHORTS

YouTube video by Sully

youtube.com

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 16

I love this one so much, and all its cousins from different linguistic areas like:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Gn...

NY accent "coffee costs a quarter on the corner"

YouTube video by Jackie B

www.youtube.com

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 16

Um... that All Cats Are Beautiful?

Spooky Bunsz 👻 @copaceticbunsz.com · Jun 15

What’s something valuable your dad taught you ?

Mine showed me how to thrive as an entrepreneur

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations! ❤️

Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 13

Julian can go to movies at sensory friendly showings! (Otherwise they're too loud for his darling neurodivergent ears.) That meant we got to see Minecraft in the theater. 🥰

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Anjela Bugher (🦑❤️🐈) @anjelabug.bsky.social · Jun 13

I said something consolatory to Ron Francis on an airplane after the Firebirds lost 2 out of 3 games in Coachella Valley ("Tough couple games," I think.)

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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