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@snukes.bsky.social
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Aspiring professional daydreamer. Explorer. Lover of cats and cookies.
Black Hills of South Dakota. she/her
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Happy Black Cat Day from Her Majesty.
A long-haired black cat gives the camera some serious side-eye from her perch on the photographer’s lap. She is regal and unimpressed.
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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An image created by Earth Herbs @canna.pothecary showing an anthropomorphic frog wearing overalls and a straw hat standing in front of a fence in a field. In a speech bubble, the frog says, “COMPOST THE OLIGARCHY”
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We don’t get a lot of monarchs in western South Dakota. Every one I spot feels like a gift. (Also I always hope they’re not too lost.)
Side view of a monarch butterfly perched on a stalk of small purple flowers, backlit by the sun.
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I stuffed a batch of spaghetti full of jalapeños, habaneros, and ghost peppers in preparation for the Harvest Moon Festival in Custer this weekend. Do you enjoy a little suffering with your meal? Come see me!
Two nests of dried spaghetti with suspicious looking specks nestle together with a pair of scary-looking, long red peppers. Just putting this photo together left me with tingly fingers and the sniffles.
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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That feeling when the persistent and eternal thought of “time to get up and do something productive” can finally be answered with, “nah, not right now.”
A foot wearing a cat sock attached to a leg wearing noodle-themed pajamas hangs over the edge of a green hammock with views of potted flowers and an aspen tree in the background.
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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If you make your own spaghetti and dry it too fast, you will not have this problem.
A nest of dry homemade rainbow spaghetti, and by “nest” I mean something that looks like it was constructed by a pigeon. Most of the noodles are broken and scattered. The results of cooking the pasta nest from the previous photo: a pot full of gorgeously colored but very short pieces of spaghetti.
July 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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So busy making Rainbow Noods in June, I didn’t post any of them. I make rainbows all year round, but Fabulous Fettuccine is a #Pride month specialty. They’re SO pretty, the extra work feels worth it. Not “make them all year” worth it, but close! 😅
#pasta #noodles #noods #rainbows
Close-up of two sheets of pasta dough, the top sheet showing wide rainbow stripes, the bottom showing narrow rainbow stripes. The colors are bright but don’t look like crayon colors because they are all plant-based. Long sheets of pasta dough lay in front of a large pasta-rolling machine. The sheets of dough are rainbow stripes. Rainbow-striped fettuccine noodles hanging on a neon-green, 8-armed pasta rack. Rainbow fettuccine in bunches, laid out on white plastic drying racks. Some of the noodles are solid colors, laid out together in groups or many colors, some of the noodles are striped rainbows so that each noodle is every color.
July 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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My new yard is growing cartoon columbines. 💜🤍
A columbine flower with purple outer petals, white inner petals, and fluffy yellow middle bits (stamens?) blooms against a background of other greenery.
June 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Luna is momentarily distracted from her ongoing relocation-fury by the allure of a cat-height window.
A fluffy black cat is seen from behind, standing on a green and gray rug, looking out a glass door, her tail and ears at attention.
June 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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A little late for Bee Day, but please enjoy this glorious bumble spotted living its best life at the greenhouse today.
A fat, fuzzy, orange-and-yellow bumble bee peruses a many-petaled purple flower.
May 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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My very favorite part of a spring evening fire.
The final remains of several logs in a fire pit sit black atop embers so hot they appear almost neon, while a purple flame halos the edges.
May 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Our lilacs are absolutely out of control this year.
Apparently endless dimensions of wildly blooming lilac bushes, the roof of my back porch just visible at the top.
May 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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“The Cat and The Chaos”
A black cat sits in the foreground of the photo (incidentally on a lap which cannot be seen). The cat is looking away from the camera, out over a room crammed full of stacks of stuff covering two chairs and every inch of the floor, including a shop vac and a whole patio worth of plants on a coffee table that also cannot be seen. Aaaah, home remodel projects.
April 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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April 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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#spring
Bright red tulips with yellow at the center smile up on this smashing pagan Sunday.
April 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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My fav.
April 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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My cat isn’t a big snuggler and she hates my singing. If I sing loudly, she meows at me until I quiet down. Tonight I was singing while seated. She meowed, ran a circle around my chair, then hopped up into my lap as I sang.

Y’all. My cat thinks she’s comforting me while I gasp out my swan song. 😭
A view of a long-haired black sitting in the lap of the photographer. Does she look grimly determined or is that me projecting?
April 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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That feeling when you realize the confidence with which you said “I can have my kitchen reassembled in 2 days!” was severely misplaced, and your middle-aged ass is saved by your mommy who offers to feed you dinner for the next 2 weeks while you recalculate.
Corner view of a small kitchen with stained and chipped countertops, half-sanded doorless cabinets, damaged tile floor, plastic hanging in the door, and tools scattered around. This is the progress one expected to have by Hour 3 of Day 1. It is now the end of Day 4. Removing 6 layers paint from cabinets is hard, y’all.
March 31, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Please enjoy this picture of a very small tortoise. She’s not a topic, exactly, but she’s also not very stressful. :)
A tiny African tortoise barely covers the palm of a man’s upturned hand.
March 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Pi Day Pro Tip: maybe don’t put the gallon-sized jug of wine next to the pie in the car when you drive to your mommy’s house for Pi Day Pie Dinner.

Fortunately, squished pie is still delicious pie.
A formerly beautiful strawberry rhubarb pie sit on a counter next to a glass jug of wine. The wine bottle is covered with pie filling and the pie sports a suspiciously jug-shaped dent.
March 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The excitement I feel at seeing an S in this morning’s puzzle is completely disproportionate to the actual impact it has on my life. Happy 2,500th puzzle, #nytSpellingBee!
March 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I have just discovered today that #fungifriday is a thing! Please enjoy these cutest tinies from Kilimanjaro’s Heather Zone
Two tiny orange mushrooms with domed caps grow together inside a carpet of fuzzy green moss.
March 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Good morning from the cutest banana I’ve ever eaten. (Coming from the world of banana monoculture, I am easily delighted by anything that isn’t a cavendish.)
February 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Found my first cool Tanzanian mushroom! Bright yellow oyster??
A bright yellow cluster of mushrooms grows out of the base of a stump. They strongly resemble a many-layered dress.
February 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Got lucky with my seat reassignment on the first (90-minute) leg. Wanna bet I’m in the middle between a talker and a snorer on the long flights?
Legs stretched out long in an airplane seat.
February 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM