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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1m

What a gorgeous gentleman. And such a hard decision. It never gets any easier.

I’m so sorry for your loss, but glad he left only with memories of kindness and love.

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 6m

For those of you following her stroke recovery: my eldest (and dearest) cat Bliss is still with us and is doing a little better each day #CatBreak #CatSky

A little black cat sits on her favorite human‘s lap. The human is clad in black jeans and a black T-shirt with white lettering. Bookshelves line the wall in the background. Herbs hang from the ceiling.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 37m

You really want to read this entire thread, but this specific exchange is a five alarm fire:

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 46m

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 48m

The US is starting to feel very “Across Five Aprils”

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1h

Today’s cat is fast asleep and dreaming #CatBreak #CatSky #BlueSkyCats

A little white and black cat curls nose to tail on an expensive black comforter. The cap of her head is black as are both of her ears. She has a large black spot on her back that looks either like a huge apostrophe or a rough representation of the continent of Africa.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 17h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 18h

In all its glorious mess

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 20h

That dangerous middle finger. He could’ve hurt someone with that.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 20h

Almost as good as the town along my old route to State College, Pennsylvania: DuBois

I could hear my French ancestors groan every time

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 21h

I think he gets it, all right. And I think he firmly believes the Allies were on the wrong side of that fight.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 21h

I think my favorite mangled place-name is Mantua

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 21h

100% true

Just guess how we pronounce Medina

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 23h

It’s been a whole day and the imagery from this dream about a new David Bowie concept album is still stuck in my head #DreamJournal #Bowie #Starman

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Let me preface this with a reminder that I often have incredibly vivid, detailed dreams

The dream I woke up from today is no exception

David Bowie was recording a new concept album (yes, he knew he was dead & that wasn’t going to stop him from rising to this moment)

The album title:

LACRIM/OS/A

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

I post a lot of pictures of the cats who share our home, but my wife wants you to know that her big gray tabby Ozymandias has the best whiskers

Look at this dapper gray gentleman 💙🐈‍⬛ #CatBreak #CatSky

A large dilute gray tabby cat with a white muzzle and extravagantly long white whiskers looks lovingly at the person behind the camera as he reclines on a red and black comforter.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

I do like some good TOOL

And Maynard is a local boy

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s cat is not using that decoration the way it was intended #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky #Halloween

Two black cats play inside a flattened Halloween house toy. One cat is inside the collapse house. The only visible portion of this cat is a paw extending from inside the flattened cardboard. The other cat investigates what used to be a door into the toy, now flat. The cardboard house is decorated in purple and black with cheery pumpkins and eerie bats.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy this truly wild dream I had about a new David Bowie album:

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Let me preface this with a reminder that I often have incredibly vivid, detailed dreams

The dream I woke up from today is no exception

David Bowie was recording a new concept album (yes, he knew he was dead & that wasn’t going to stop him from rising to this moment)

The album title:

LACRIM/OS/A

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Champion snugglers

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Taylor Swift, best known for her role as teen Haley in CSI S9 episode 16, “Turn, Turn, Turn.”

Still from CSI season 9 episode 16. A young Taylor Swift sits outside of a cheap hotel on yellowish metal patio furniture. She has an open laptop. George Eads’ character Nick stands opposite her.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to believe they looked like this back in March:

Two kittens, one black and one gray, share space in a small gray cat bed attached to a cat tree.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Another obstacle to me getting any writing done in this moment (two obstacles, to be exact)

Watson and Lestrade:

Two cats, one black and one gray, snooze on the lap of their favorite human. The gray cat rests his head on the human’s outstretched hand. The cat rests his paw protectively against a closed journal set aside. The black cat is cuddled up in a midnight blue blanket that covers the lower half of the human. Photo is taken from the perspective of the human covered in cats.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Been struggling to write fiction because my preferred genre is horror, and it is incredibly difficult to surpass in any fictional vision the real world horror of this moment

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm from personal experience. Yes.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

They could try looking here?

Bones on remote Pacific island were likely Amelia Earhart's

Forensic analysis may have solved mystery of pilot’s disappearance

www.science.org

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