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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels

@pavlovcat.bsky.social

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She/her. Michigander, AuDHD - Living with POTS, MCAS, celiac, & perimenopausal rage. Fuck fascists. Free Palestine. Your 1 stop shop for TMI, soap box diatribes, native plant nerdery, cats, and cross-stitch. I only repost images with alt-text.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · Mar 8

🌱🌿 Five Things You Can Do To Save the Butterflies:

1. Stop using pesticides and herbicides (unless you're trying to manage aggressive invasive species). Everything else I list will be designed to attract life to your yard and that's pretty pointless if you kill them after they arrive.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 6h

Lies. Get thee a bag of Albanese stat.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 7h

Ha! I was like...well of course you say the L, but then I said it out loud and no L was detected.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 9h

Wait, how do the tourists say it?

For us in Michigan it's definitely Mackinac (pronounced mack-i-naw.)

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 12h

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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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 11h

I bet her MAGA fans have convinced themselves that means she secretly supports him.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 11h

Oh damn. Thanks for digging.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 12h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sorry. That leaves you to be in double caregiver mode, which is so hard.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

It looks mildly obscene. I love it.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

Completely understandable. I was firmly in the "why the fuck is this overrated woman winning awards?" category up until a couple years ago when I decided to listen to Midnights and then started listening to some of her other albums. I still think award shows suck though.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

Damn. Okay. With no context in your post and with everything going on in recent days, including several personal lists being removed, I feel like it was a fairly reasonable assumption that you'd been told to shut it down. Feel free to clarify if you'd like.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

Awww, Jay didn't like everyone knowing she followed transphobes. So much for bluesky's mission to allow us to moderate ourselves. I guess Jay's ego is more important.

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 15h

This labeler will be shutting down. We will first be unlabeling everyone who is labeled and then will cease to operate. As the unlabeling operation will take an unknown amount of time, we are not setting a specific timeline other than as soon as possible.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

I do not like her early albums. That kind of country is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I tried to listen to her debut album recently and it made me physically agitated after 2 songs.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, lol. I was like "is this a dog whistle I'm unaware of?!"

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 13h

Important update from the coo world.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

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.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 14h

It looks so comfy. I love it. I love colorful furniture in general. My dream couch is green velvet with a close second of pale pink. Unfortunately neither is practical for my family.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 14h

invite them to her house for listening parties. But so many of the later adopters have the same devotion. I've never seen that number of people who are that parasocial about the same person. The irony is that she's written several songs about her toxic fans and it goes right over their heads.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 14h

past traumas. And something in her production and melodies scratches a brain itch for me. But the devotion the fan base has to her as a person and to the identity of "Swiftie" is like watching a very glittery train wreck. I get the early fans - she used to interact with them online, send them gifts,

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 14h

I've found her recent albums to be extremely impactful to me as a late diagnosed neurodivergent woman - she writes about emotional experiences and as someone who intellectualizes and has delayed processing, they've actually been extremely helpful in getting me to recognize and deal with some

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

this is indeed a direct response to that person who said we should abandon trans folk because “ppl won’t die on that hill, it’s not a winning political strategy”

Me. I will die on that hill. We leave nobody on the tracks.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Bookshop has free shipping today, in case you’re looking to pick up the hottest (and also only?) student loan industry heist novel of the year.

The Payback: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 15h

I went to upload photos from my Canon camera to the app on my phone and the camera would not allow me to access my own fucking photographs until I created an account. MY OWN PHOTOS OFF THE CAMERA THAT I OWN.

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Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 15h

Apologies to my non-Swifty mutuals for blowing up their mentions today. It's not super fun talking about Taylor Swift with other Swifties because the thing that's most fun to me is figuring out why the fuck she's so controversial when she's so awkward-white-girl coded.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 15h

I know that is more than you wanted to read! I'm sorry for infodumping!

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 15h

things are very strange! And I don't know if she's doing it on purpose and that her one truly once in a generation talent is in the way she's created her brand or if it's all some weird coincidence.

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