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Roslynn Pryor
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English teacher, poet/writer, bona fide cat lady (she/her)

California, USA
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My #Caturday tribute from *last* Caturday, which my indolent self forgot to post.
Calico kitten looks straight at camera with sunlight glowing through her ear Calico kitten looks straight at camera with sunlight glowing through her ear, this time with tongue mid-whisker-lick; a lower fang is visible A brown tabby, sunlit from the left side (her right), regards the camera wielder with budding judgment; a swath of white whiskers glows in the foreground A side-sunlit brown tabby is now deeper into her direct glare, judgment more fully formed
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's a Richard Scarry car.
Image shows 15 illustrations by Richard Scarry of animals driving various cars, such an applemobile or a carrotcar or a picklemobile or a hotdog.
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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A resting Caturday around here.
A small calico cat with a precious light-brown chin spot sleeps atop a wrinkly blanket, her rear paws and pink toe beans stretched toward the camera.
September 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I’ve donated to the Pet Placement Center in honor of this sweet boy, Greyson, my fondest internet crush, he of the under-porch holes & airplane ears & gentle French fry chomps & deepest brown eyes & the sweetest smile and soul. He shall be missed every day. Love to Cherie, Lucy, Monty & fam.
http://petplacementcenter.charityproud.org/ Image of sweetest black doggy on the interwebs with the kindest smile and face alight. Below is the alt text on Cherie’s original photo.
April 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This week’s flowers
Yellow tulips and dark pink almost maroon gerbera daisies in the kitchen window
April 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I have a mega Indigo Girls full-album playlist that I listen to on regular rotation when I need sanity and/or focus.
Collage of 4 Indigo Girls album covers, including “Despite our Differences,” “Look Long,” “All That We Let In,” and “Poseidon and the Bitter Bug.” Collage of 4 Indigo Girls album covers, including “Rites of Pasage,” “Come On Now, Social,” “Become You,” and “Swamp Ophelia.” Couldn’t fit “Shaming of the Sun” cover.
April 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Here it is again, with ALT-text.
Even some prominent Democrats are stumbling over themselves to prove they are not part of the "resistance." Gavin Newsom seemed to be running for Resistance President during parts of the first Trump administration; now, bafflingly, he is hosting clubby little tête-a-têtes on his new podcast with open fascists like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. Ruben Gallego has made clear he's not totally opposed to the administration's policy of renditioning immigrants off to Salvadoran prisons. John Fetterman is, well, doing god knows what. The confusion produced by these wild swerves would feel familiar to Hannah Arendt. A Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, Arendt would later spend much of her career reflecting on the profound transformation in German society that forced her to flee. What unsettled her most about this transformation, "was the behavior not of our enemies but of our friends, who had done nothing to bring this situation about," she would later say. "They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazis success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it." That line is taken from "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship," a lecture that Arendt delivered in 1964. She was one of our great theorists of personal responsibility and the human faculty for judgment, and I have found myself repeatedly coming back to this lecture in particular in the months since Trump's second inauguration. Along with Dorothy Thompson's immortal "Who Goes Nazi?', I believe "Personal Responsibility" is one of the great prophetic essays that everyone should read to understand this moment.
March 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Last week’s flowers (ranunculus and gerbera daisies)
Yellow-orange, yellow, and red-orange flowers with green stems in front of a blurred jalousie window
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We deign to receive pettings on #Caturday
A thicc brown tabby cat wearing a red collar deigns to receive pettings atop her head by a red-sleeved white-lady hand. A thicc brown tabby cat stares directly through the camera and into your soul as she deigns to receive pettings around her ear by a red-sleeved white-lady hand. A thicc brown tabby cat wearing a red collar glowers past the camera as she deigns to receive pettings on her cheek by a red-sleeved white-lady hand.
March 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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This.
Image posted by •spooky girl-cassiopeia• TM (full @ handle not visible) “i do” I LITERALLY WANT MY $TAX DOLLARS$ TO SUPPORT NATIONAL PARKS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HELPING MARGINALIZED PEOPLE. IN CASE THAT WASN'T CLEAR. Text is typed in all caps and multiple colors. Scattered images include a tall pine or redwood tree, raised hands of many skin tones, a mountainous sunset, and a chemistry beaker.
March 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Here it is with ALT text
(C’mon, Maddow—ALT text isn’t that hard!) Automotive revenues at Tesla in the fourth quarter declined 8 percent from a year earlier, profit in 2024 dropped sharply from the prior year and, 22 years after the company's founding, it remains unclear if it can ever generate significant free cash flow for shareholders. Tesla appears to be relying more and more on price cuts - a practice that can increase sales in the short term but likely damages how much buyers value a Tesla in the future. The political backlash against Mr. Musk is also now hurting Tesla sales abroad and at home. Perhaps sensing the shifting tides, he has been suggesting that Tesla is an A.I. company to further nourish the investor cult. The rest of the Musk empire also illustrates the gap between his business acumen and financial success. Solar City, Mr. Musk's solar venture led by his cousin, needed to be salvaged by a controversial Tesla acquisition and has atrophied since. The Boring Company, which promises to revolutionize transportation by building high-speed hyperloops between and within cities, has raised nearly a billion dollars, yet it is unclear if it has any revenues or the prospects of profits. The possibility of revenues or profits for Neuralink, Mr. Musk's brain implant company, seems even more remote. And, of course, X, formerly Twitter, is a shell of itself economically and culturally. SpaceX is more than 20 years old, has raised an estimated $12 billion and only now is rumored to have possibly $12 billion in annual revenue, mostly from Starlink, the satellite service, though profitability may be far off.
March 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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My #Caturday queen, Georgie
A thicc brown tabby perches atop a blanket mountain, which is her absolute Caturday right. This is one of her least judgy facial expressions.
March 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The ranunculus and gerbera daisies in my window this week.
Pink ranunculus and orange gerbera daisies and pink bunched stock flowers with many green stems, lit by bright window sun
March 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My timeline
On top is Aaron Rupar’s post about Mike Johnson saying “we’re transitioning from Bidenomics and the terrible economy that was delivered by the last administration,” and directly below is a New York Times post that says, “President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders.”
March 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Pretty excited to read this pre-order that just arrived yesterday!
Oathbound, by Tracy Deon (Book Three in the Legendborn Cycle)
March 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Commentary: Somebody Should Do Skmething About All The Problems, by Edith Heare; image of a permed woman wearing large 70s-style glasses. (It’s a headline from The Onion.
March 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Precisely this. #usetherightmeasuringstick
"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
March 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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This sudsy SoCal sky
A skyful of sudsy, puffy, individual clouds that look like a cross between cotton balls and white cheese curds, litter a Southern California sky of varying depths of blue; with some leafy and some barren trees, a palm tree, and a flagpole near the bottom of the frame.
March 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I stand with Ukraine. That trash session in the Oval Office today was two incredibly insecure bullies showing their red baboon asses. The disrespect! #shame

Zelenskyy comported himself respectfully and professionally. #NotPlayingCards #SlavaUkraini
“I stand with Ukraine” is written on the blue and yellow background of the Ukraine flag. #slavaukraini
March 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The 24 hour Economic Blackout As our first initial act, we turn it off. For one day we show them who really holds the power WHEN: Thursday February 27th from Midnight till Friday The 28th Midnight (A full 24 hours of the 28th) 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM WHAT NOT TO DO: Do not make any purchases Do not shop online, or in-store No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy Nowhere! Do not spend money on: Fast Food Gas Major Retailers Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending WHAT YOU CAN DO: Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary (Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies) If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses.
February 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Yes to this! And you guys…I just joined Costco and discovered *this* embarrassment of riches!
Bic ultimate 4-color ballpoint pen pack!
February 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 20/20
Three book covers from the ValueTales series, by Spencer Johnson. One is The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur, with a cartoon rendering of the scientist in a red coat and black top hat sitting on a lab stool and tinkering with different colored liquids in beakers. One is The Value of Determination: The Story of Helen Keller, with a cartoon image of a woman with red hair in a bun sitting on a park bench surrounded flowers, one of which she is sniffing as she smiles. One is The Value of Kindness: The Story of Elizabeth Fry, with a cartoon image of a woman With a full head covering, her face showing; she wears a blue dress and carries a bouquet of magenta flowers, which she is handing to a smiling man in a white hospital bed.
February 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 19/20
Book cover of “Ruffian,” by Joan Campbell. Image of the bridled head of a brown racehorse, a green-sleeved human hand holding a lead clipped to her bridle. In the background are racetrack spectators. [It was either this book, published in 1977, or the book by Claflin, published in 1975, that scarred me for life. I read it somewhere between ages 8-11, and I have never sobbed so hard at the tragic ending of a book omg.]
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 18/20
Book cover of Richard Scarry’s Storybook Dictionary (A Golden Book). Image shows various Richard Scarry characters — hippo, cat, dog, pig, rabbit, wolf, mouse, and others — standing around looking up at the title (and at other animals at various levels above them).
February 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Bonus shot
Brown tabby cat bathed in afternoon sun light
February 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM