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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 5h

Hiya x

A mackerel tabby looks up from her snooze. Have you come to ruffle my fluff? she says.

Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 10h

Mostly consequences are for poor people. Which is how George and David are earning millions advising on I-don’t-know-what, Donald, a multiple bankrupt, is US President & selling knock-off watches, Alexander de Piffle is a big ticket on the corporate circuit (didn’t even use his own name). etc etc.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! Have a great day x

A mackerel tabby on a bedspread yawning and flexing her left back paw. Behind her, slightly blurred, a framed map of 1940s London that really needs hanging, dear giants!
Time for a snack, she thinks, perhaps.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 1d

Awww xxx

A mackerel tabby looks out from the safety of a cardboard box. Where’s my pesky sister she might be thinking…

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 1d

Night Callie, I have a little calico/tortie asymmetry in my tabbiness x Freya x

A close up of a mackerel tabby in the dark. Her pupils are wide open as she waits to see if she can jump out on her sister.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 3d

Hi there Whiskers x

A mackerel tabby fills the photo looking very serious as she closes in on you. If you don’t have treats you might be a done for. Great whiskers!

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UK Architects Declare @architectsdeclare.bsky.social · 3d

📣 14th Oct / A Circular Revolution🎤 Eve Choy, Sustainability Manager, Structure Tone “Our sponsorship is symbolic of our commitment to breaking down silos and rethinking how we design, procure, build, and above all do what’s right.”🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/ukarc...
#ClimateEvent #LondonEye

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 5d

Good night from the little cat who lives in the bottom of the laundry basket 😽

A mackerel tabby looks up from the bottom of a large wicker laundry basket. Big enough for a party she thinks!

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 6d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 10d

IYKYK x

A mackerel tabby all curled up her green eyes looking at you intently over her tail.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jan 17

Hi! I borrowed $300m from the worst people in the world to buy your favourite thing! Now your favourite thing owes me $300m and sadly it looks like it can’t pay me back so I’ve taken it out back and shot it. Anyways, just wanted to ask… what’s your *second* favourite thing?

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks!

Two mackerel tabby sisters curled up on a white bedspread, Molly is napping, Freya is looking up at the camera.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 13d

Hiya Molly 😻 lovely to meet you too

Molly, a mackerel tabby looking intently into the camera. She’d like it very much if you have treats. Or maybe you’ve come to rub her belly?

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 14d

And I’m Molly’s sister Freya, slightly miffed that you didn’t include me already, just because I don’t have the same pink nose! I was there too you know! #catsofBluesky

Molly’s sister Freya, also a mackerel tabby, on the white bedspread looking a little annoyed.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 14d

Hiya Jinx, I’m Molly, lovely to meet you here #catsofBluesky

A mackerel tabby sitting on a white bedspread behind her a blurred framed map. London from the 1940s but too blurred to make out.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 16d

So true x

Two post-breakfast mackerel tabby sisters taking a nap on a white bedspread. They are curled up into a single S with a head at each end. Freya facing towards the camera, Molly facing away.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 18d

Do we need sandwiches, or do you think there’s catering?

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 21d

Clearly he doesn’t mean his offspring, just like the single mothers the Tories so disliked were never the ones they made.

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UK Architects Declare @architectsdeclare.bsky.social · 22d

👁️‍🗨️ AD are taking over the London Eye!👁️‍🗨️
📍 On 14th Oct, join us for 'A Circular Revolution' - a landmark event highlighting how the built environment can lead the shift to a circular economy www.tickettailor.com/events/ukarc...

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 22d

The opposite for me was being in a lift backstage with the corps de ballet, I was the miss-shaped lumpen mal-coordinated ogre of a badly postured excuse for a functioning being in the corner (5’11 154bs).
So much condensed elegance.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 26d

Wow that sucks.
Hope you can properly recover soon.

Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 28d

Obvs.

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Richard Battye @richardbattye.bsky.social · 28d

Ha ha ha. Ha ha.. Ha. . .

On Whitehall with last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine
06/09/25

Appropriate headgear at last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine
06/09/25

Speeches at last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine
06/09/25

Free Palestine.
Last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine
06/09/25

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29d

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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