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Kat Farrington, Esq.

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Law, literature, hiking, horses (and every other animal!). Queer, disabled, autistic, writer. NYC attorney for children & union officer. she/sí/ella/вона. Ukrainian. 🇺🇦

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · Apr 7

At one point, my therapist said this about my mom: "she was so accepting, and just took such joy in the person right in front of her, that she didn't need a label to explain you. She just *liked* you so much."

She really did. The loss of it will never stop hurting. 💔

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 5h

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Marc McCaskey @mccaskeym.bsky.social · 6h

…gotten. So yeah, here it is www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Anything would be greatly appreciated and it’s just for them. If I could get one thing to ease my mind just a little it’ll be knowing they’ll be taken care of. In the meantime here’s Zeus mid chin scratch. #catsky #catsofbluesky

Zeus stuck his tongue out mid chin scratch.

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Marc McCaskey @mccaskeym.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t do this lightly and it’s already taken 3 hours to type this much. With my surgery a week ago. I messed up. Long story short I need help & I have no one to help. So here goes nothing. My cats are my life. I have no idea how I’m going to feed them in about 2 weeks. I’m struggling staying out

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 4h

Didn't realise that Evie brought me one of her kibbles, so put that in my mouth instead of a goldfish cracker. Do not recommend!

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 11h

Take this outside

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 6h

Please help my friends with their hay drive or I will cancel Halloween (I have the authority to do this).

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 6h

It’s WISHLIST WEDNESDAY and if you have $8 to spare we need HAY please! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

Pastel orange graphic with orange, brown, and yellow flowers. There is a hay bale at the bottom against a white starburst shape for emphasis. Text reads “Its Wishlist wednesday and the only thing on our wishlist this week is HAY! We need to raise $25,000 to feed our residents through the winter, so please consider a donation if you can.”

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6h

With alt text. Last photo repeated to complete alt.

In July 1945, when I was four and a half years old, Utsunomiya, the city I lived in got bombed. So, well, it's no use going into details. Since this is the memory of a four year old, I think I created a large part of the story while I was recalling it over and over.
When I woke up in my futon, I mean, I was awakened because of the air raid, it was midnight, but the sky was dyed in red, no, pink, like an evening glow. Even the inside of the house was pink. So, since it was a big house, we went into the shelter made in the corner of the garden, but we were told that it was dangerous even there. I have three brothers, but my youngest brother hadn't been born yet at that time, my younger brother was a baby, I was four, and my older brother was six years old. My mother carried my younger brother on her back and my father held my hand.
And my other uncle, I think he was also working for the munitions plant, he held my older brother's hand, and we evacuated to under the railroad bridge of Tobu Railway. It was under the bridge, outskirts of the town, and there were lots of greens, so we thought bombs wouldn't be dropped there. Actually, it was cloudy, and the firebombs, called oil and fat incendiary bombs which contained oil in them, were raining from the sky and the town was already on fire.

Then, we thought being there might still be dangerous.
That day, my uncle brought the company truck to the house. It was a very small Datsun truck, smaller than today's light car. It was a troublesome truck since the engine was hard to start, but my uncle went back home through the town in the fire to get that truck. He went back and found that the fire was coming right up next to the truck, but the truck wasn't burned yet, and when he tried to start the engine, it immediately started since it was warmed well by the fire. Well, (it was a kind of truck) you have to crank (the engine) up by hand. And he came back through the fire, and we decided to evacuate to outside of the town riding on this car. My mother holding my brother sat in the passenger's seat, my uncle was in the driver's seat, and it was full since it was such a small car. And my father, my older brother, and I sat on the loading platform, covered by a futon, since we had to run through the fire, and anyway, we started going.
Then, there were several people taking shelter under the railroad bridge, and I don't remember clearly, but I surely heard a woman's voice saying, "please give us a ride." i don't know whether I saw her myself, or I thought I saw her, since I heard my parents talking about her later, but anyway, a woman holding a girl, who was one of our neighbors, came running towards us, saying, "please give us a ride." But the truck just took off. And her voice saying
"please give us a ride" gradually died away in the distance... Well, that was made up in my head like a drama.

If there had been a kid who could say "please let her ride," I think maybe a mother and a father would have stopped the car at that moment. I mean, if I'm a parent and my kid says so, I think I would do so. There were many reasons that you couldn't do that. If you had stopped (the car), more people might have come and created more confusion. I understand that well, but I still wish I could've said so then.
Or I wish my older brother could've said so. Of course, it would have been better if my parents had stopped (the car).
Actually, this story about the truck has very little to do with the essence of the war. Even if I satisfy my conscience by doing so, how about the issue of the munitions industry?
Or, comparing the issue of some being burnt by the air raid and some not and the issue of, for example, Japan as a nation doing many horrible things such as massacres in China, the Philippines, or other countries in South East Asia, I have to conclude that Japanese as a whole were perpetrators, so the problem isn't that simple. But after all those years, | realized that I wanted to make an animation with a kid who can say "please stop the car" in such a situation, not (giving up since) humans can't say so after all.

So, offering a girl a tissue flower and saying "please accept my love" might sound unrealistic. A four year old kid asking his parents, "please stop the car" might be unrealistic. But if there is a kid who can say so, and if we can feel "oh, it's OK to say so in such a situation," I think that would be better. At least, I see myself as a person who can't make a movie in any other way. I saw many movies which depicted the dark side or stupidity of humans and made the audience feel that they were the ones who were accused and then go home depressed, and I think there is a significance to such movies, and we have to watch such movies from time to time, but I want to make something like, "I wish things are like this." It was so in Panda Kopanda. It was so in Totoro. Well, most (of my movies) were like that. I think I have no choice but to keep making such movies.

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 5h

I took a 3 hour nap already, but what if I take another nap?

Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 5h

This study was funded by Big Old-Fashioned, don't be fooled

The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

Frantic, Last-Second Study Finds Old-Fashioned Donut Better For You Than Bavarian Cream https://theonion.com/frantic-last-second-study-finds-old-fashioned-donut-be-1819811037/

Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 5h

Houston Street

(Ours is named after William Houstoun, the Texas Houston is named after a general, that's why they're different~)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 6h

They really do! But omg it was so much cake

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 6h

Some of my faves, though: Dracula, The Haunting of Hill House, Fever Dream, House of Leaves, Carmilla

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 6h

Hmm I'll have to think of good recs for light reads, but if you liked Disney's Hocus Pocus movie, there's a novelisation plus sequel that came out a few years ago that was pretty cute

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 6h

What flavour of spooky are you into?

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, illustr. Donald Chaffin, 1970.

An illustration from Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, of the Fox family. It shows a family of foxes, including the father, Mr. Fox, seen from the back with a walking stick; the mother, Mrs. Fox, wearing a dress and apron; and their four children. They are gathered in a room with a door, framed pictures on the wall, and a hanging lantern in their burrow.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 13h

Bob Ross showing off an owl chick, still all in its baby feathers:

"This is my friend Hoot. As you can see, Hoot and I go to the same hairdresser."

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card
BEWARE! THE TIME IS HERE IN WHICH THE WITCHES DO APPEAR.
A woman with blonde hair in a blue dress peers around a grandfather clock with ALL HALLOWEEN as the numbers on the clock and a pumpkin as the pendulum. Also a black cat leans around the other side of the clock with the shadow of a witch.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 6h

Goodnight.
🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Black cat with bat wings and stripy tail sat in tree under a full moon and night sky, painting.

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 9h

lemon sharks

(Swim On 6, 2020) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈

Illustration of a trio of lemon sharks swimming in a shallow turquoise ocean over white sand. The topmost shark seems to be looking toward the viewer, a pair of remora attached to their side.

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 10h

As much as he (and his fan base) drive me nuts, I have to say Hozier.

But also Weird Al, tbh

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.