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Kate Marsden
@katiemarsden.bsky.social
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Just the standard 'radio comedy to horticulture to writing weird stuff' career path over here. I veer from shy to giddy, on social media, and also in the human world.
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This is Junie. She is a blue tortie. Her crimes include but are not limited to: loud yelling in faces; regurgitating fish under the bed; being so round that I cannot concentrate on other things
Cat lying down. She has big, round, yellow eyes, like a demanding owl Same cat on her back, her paws up by her face and the rest of her body and limbs doing bewildering curls, she looks like an otter A perfect sphere of curled up cat, on a tartan blanket which matches her colours exactly. Same cat as before, so this colouring is of a blue tortie - soft grey and cream, with brown because of shadows, bits of eyelid, nose and stuff
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Ghost flower on a tiny plum tomato the other day. I'd just taken the green bit off, and it left me a gift
Very red, small tomato. Round the little stem scar there's a dusty line image. It looks like a flower or a five pointed star with rounded edges, it's really pale yellow, almost white
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I read this last night, and it made things go some better in my brain and life, you might like to do the same
Book, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, it says 'A Monk and Robot book' on it too, probably because it is
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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This is the baby one I met the other day, I LOVE IT
Hummingbird hawk moth caterpillar in leaves of hedge bedstraw plant. It's a big green caterpillar with a lovely bum spike, and two creamy white lines running down its sides
August 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Went to make a cup of tea

Made a small error, not sure if you'll be able to spot it
A mug. It contains three red cherries, three yellow cherries and no teabags
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Okay, Channing, I'm happy to discuss our work in creative fields. But, as a kindness, I need to state upfront you're not my type
A Bluesky notification to me saying 'Channing Tatum followed you' with a picture of the actor Channing Tatum
July 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Look at this treasure from the garden!

It was on my trousers. I may, at last, be turning into a bird
Tiny brown feather on my hand. It's maybe 1.5cm long, maybe a little smaller
July 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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You win this photo
My cat Junie lying in the bottom floor of a wooden dolls' house, she looks happy
July 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Yesssss damp sandpaper
My cat Junie licking my hand with a lovely massive lick. Very pink tongue, soft grey and cream fur. More of my cat. One finger of mine, and she is giving it an enormous cat lick
July 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I accidentally broke an outer cocoon of a moth pupa this this week, so put it in a little critter keeper box, with clean coir/pet sand and tall twigs for wing-stretches

Today we met a lovely Toadflax brocade moth

It warmed itself up on my hand & the wing-vibrations felt like purring, was so nice
Small moth pupa on my hand. It's about 15mm long and a coppery brown colour Toadflax brocade moth on air-vents of lid of the insect box. It is lovely, with pale, furry legs and brownish grey wing markings, with creamy white dots and curves The moth is now on some purple toadflax, and one big, dark eye is visible and lovely A caterpillar from the garden today, it's the same type as the moth. It's very pale grey green, with yellow lines and black splotches. Lots of the toadflax leaves have been eaten
June 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The poor cat is recovering from seeing this pencil, which I think she thought was a snake?

She did a kind of quadruple gasp-retreat pull back from it
My hand, holding a black Blackwing pencil with a gold end bit, and pink eraser. If you zoomed in you might see an incredibly light pattern of lines on the pencil. It's about 4 inches long. In other news, my fingers and thumbs bend backwards, so my hands often look weird in photos.
June 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The cat has disappeared, and been replaced with this mysterious, yet appealing sphere
Same cat but she's tucked herself into a ball. She's curled with her head upside down and facing right, so that her neck and shoulders are the left curve. Her back legs are the right curve. Her spine is the top curve and her tail the bottom curve. She is extremely round indeed
May 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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She lets me hold her paw while she snoozes
My cat Junie lying on her side, with eyes shut. My hand is holding her right front paw. There's a little bit of paw bean visible, and more bean on a back paw too. She's a blue cream tortie shorthair and she looks soft
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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In the crowded category of hot cartoon cats, The Baron is the biggest swoon for me. Pictured here in The Cat Returns.

(Other contenders include both Cheetara and Tygra of course. I feel like Tygra could handle difficult paperwork, mmm, reassuring)
The Baron, from Ghibli film The Cat Returns. He is an anthropomorphic ginger cat and he is wearing a very dapper suit. It's pale cream, with a red waistcoat, blue bow tie, cream and grey top hat. He looks extremely dashing, there's maybe a Mr Darcy vibe to the look.
May 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I loved this book so much

Feels like I've had a lifetime of clonking my head on tree branches, only to be told the branch was never there

The book is a forest tour given by a kindly wizard, as we chat about the trees, the pain of clonking, and the beauty of the wildlife

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The book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince. The cover features a cartoon of Robin looking excited and curious, he is drawn with glasses and beard. Inside the book, not in the picture, it says that the cartoon is by Joe Berger
May 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I crowned my cat as May Queen

It was quite difficult, because she kept writhing about, purring and rubbing her head on her floral crown

Beltane blessings from me and her
My cat Junie with a crochet flower and leaves on her head. The cat is a blue tortie shorthair and she looks soft, with good toe beans. The flower is mainly blue and looks like a stylised forget-me-not. She is doing a narrow-eyed cat smile so she looks cross
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Here is a picture of that time I made everyone praise my bum. Happy Birthday!
Orange trousers showing my clothed bum. It's a great bum, well done me, and well done to biscuits for helping create it
April 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Here are two Adonis ladybirds which are sooooo small, and they are doing an earlier stage in the business of making ladybird babies. While on my hand
Two incredibly tiny ladybirds have clambered off some grass I'm holding, and are having ladybird sex on my hand. I have pink nail varnish on which is quite noticeable. But even more interesting is the smallness of the ladybirds, they are about 5mm long
April 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Here is a ladybird doing the business of making ladybird babies
A ladybird on a dry grass stalk, with many yellow, translucent eggs just behind her. She has just laid them. I think it's a seven-spotted ladybird but it's a side view so not certain
April 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Here is baby me holding a massive snake
Me at about 11 or 12 years old holding a 13ft Indian Python. It's so big that a snake holder man has one half of it. I am wearing a Snoopy t-shirt, leg-warmers and a bum-bag as well as half a snake. I look placid and at ease in a quiet way
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Here is a harvest mouse which is an adult while also being baby
Wheat with a miniscule harvest mouse in. It looks very small and soft, with brown fur, a bright eye and little nose visible, and some curl of tail beneath it. It looks like the mouse must be as big as a huge bumblebee, all warm and tiny and a lot of cute to cope with. The wheat ears look big in comparison
April 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Here is a picture of Junie as a kitten, because my kitty cat is beloved and I like to hug her gentle being. She is nearly nine years old now
Teeny little cat, about fourteen weeks old. She is sitting, she has short, blue-cream tortoiseshell fur, and a sweet baby face, with big yellow eyes. She's looking slightly away from the camera so she looks a bit thoughtful and shy
April 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Please join me

Going tremendously well over here so far

Yes my screen is an odd colour, but so am I
My computer screen, a document says Dear name redacted by scribble I am writing to you because Then a big gap I previously wrote you to you on this subject, on date and was delighted to hear back from you with a message of support. I recall that you mentioned you were setting up a meeting with Gendered Intelligence, and words Both of the words 'date' and the final word 'words' are in capitals And that is all I've written. Also people might notice my screen is kind of pale peach coloured
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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She woke me this morning, with repeated screams, so that I would move the net curtain for her
My cat Junie looking sweet, innocent and soft, she is a blue tortoiseshell
April 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The spiders in my house are chatty, but polite
A rubbish yet pleasant doodle of a spider saying, 'I like your bathroom, thank you'
April 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM