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Aerin Finehair
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Spinster & Lunatic.
Antisocialite. Bibliophile.
Classics nerd. Cat mum.
Floofus Enthusiast.
Divine hag o’ the ashes.
Weighs the same as a duck.
Damalur-sol. she/her 🇳🇴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#UglyDogs #AuDHD

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if any of you guys see these treats for sale anywhere, please tell me… they are literally the only treat Ragnar will eat

always afraid he’s too thin and it would be nice to fatten him up a little

#Caturday
stock photo of Bocce brand “Lumps of Catnip” treats, package is green with a white and red candy cane striped border blue point Siamese kitty Ragnar lying belly-up on my lap on a bronze and faded gold blanket
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Sven can be summoned by the pop of a Pringles can… my Fig would come running at the crinkle of a DingDong wrapper specifically

we lost Fig 2 years ago on Christmas Eve… he and Sven came from the same rescue
Blue point Siamese Sven lying chest-to-chest on top of tuxedo kitty Fig on the seat of a blue floral armchair.
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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he does!!

Sven used to look like her too, but his body darkened as he got older… Sven was 3 when I adopted him:
Blue point Siamese Sven’s shelter picture of him on a white floral blanket with a salmon colored wall behind him. He is 3 years old and his body is still a pale fawn color with darker ash brown points.
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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open a packet of powdered sugar donuts in front of Sven and Ragnar at your peril
two nearly identical blue point Siamese cats sitting shoulder to shoulder, looking down with identical head tilts, summoned by the packet of powdered sugar donuts I’ve just opened. Sven, chonkier with a darker body color, is on the left. His coat has darkened as he got older. Ragnar, slender and with a pale cream body color, is on the right.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I named my fav mannequin during nursing school… please say hello to Mrs Penelope Badcrumble:
nursing lab mannequin with Caucasian complexion and a tangled wig of curly gray hair that sort of makes it look like Henry Rollins in drag
December 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
a very confused and hungover looking blue point Siamese kitty named Ragnar, lit from the side by harsh morning light streaming through the window Ragnar is a blue point Siamese with intense electric blue eyes and the softest fur imaginable
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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reminds me of the day Ragnar looked hungover AF
a very confused and hungover looking blue point Siamese kitty named Ragnar, lit from the side by harsh morning light streaming through the window Ragnar is a blue point Siamese with intense electric blue eyes and the softest fur imaginable
December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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yup, that was my year
a word jumble from a site that gives you year end data on your account… the more a word is used, the larger it appears in the jumble my most used words were Ragnar, Sven migraine, caturday, night, shift, cats, fuck, fucking, omfg, sleep, film and favorite
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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reposting with ALT text

letter about Tom Stoppard by Dr Michael Baum, University College London

you can just copy the text from the photo, so I genuinely don’t understand why people can’t be bothered to put in that tiny bit of effort

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“Saved by Stoppard” Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. by Michael Baum, Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL (University College London).
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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my favorite holiday album of all time is a compilation album Avon gave out in the 80s

Dolly Parton, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Elvis… and more!!

this album is the basis of my holiday playlist… plus other random songs I’ve added over the years
LP cover of A Christmas Treasury of Classics from Avon, the title is a circle overlaying a photo of holly leaves and berries
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Ragnar’s keeping a morning #hedgewatch to make sure you’re safe on your commute

every day is #caturday
photo taken from behind of blue point Siamese kitty Ragnar siting on a windowsill as he keeps and eye on out snow-covered neighborhood the branches of the oak tree just outside the window have 4 to 5 inches of snow on them, there is at least 10 inches of snow in the ground photo taken from behind of blue point Siamese kitty Ragnar siting on a windowsill as he keeps and eye on out snow-covered neighborhood, identical to previous photo except Ragnar has turned around to look at me the branches of the oak tree just outside the window have 4 to 5 inches of snow on them, there is at least 10 inches of snow in the ground
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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sending this to my mum and my sister
Meme of Patrick Stewart in an orchard with a basket on his arm. He is reaching for a piece of fruit. Meme labels indicate he is adding a meme to his collection: “Memes” on the piece of fruit in his hand. “Me” on Patrick himself. “My meme collection” on the basket on his arm.
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Ragnar has joined the winning team

#caturday
selfie of me lying in bed with my two blue point Siamese cats. Sven is draped over my left shoulder and Ragnar is roosting on my stomach.
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Sven was not helping me put laundry away, but he got sleepy too

#caturday
selfie of me lying in bed with my chonky blue point Siamese kitty Sven draped over my left shoulder, dead asleep
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Ragnar was helping me put laundry away, but then he got sleepy

#caturday
photo of my blue point Siamese kitty Ragnar curled up asleep on a closet shelf beneath a rack of hanging shirts
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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for those of you who have never met the floofuses, allow me to introduce Sven and Ragnar

#caturday
two nearly identical blue point Siamese cats sitting shoulder to shoulder, looking down with identical head tilts, summoned by the packet of powdered sugar donuts I’ve just opened. Sven, chonkier with a darker body color, is on the left. His coat has darkened as he got older. Ragnar, slender and with a pale cream body color, is on the right.
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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lying in bed with Ragnar curled up on my stomach and Sven having a snoozle at my feet (the foot warmer is on)… so it looks like I’m the one keeping a #Caturday #Hedgewatch over our snow-covered neighborhood
my view of our snow-covered neighborhood through my bedroom window
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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arrived home from work this morning to discover that my neighbor had not only shoveled my half of our shared driveway, but a path from where I park to my front steps

and I mean HAND shoveled !!

he was still working on the sidewalk in front of his house so I got to thank him in person

🩵
picture of a red brick house covered in snow and a shared driveway where my tiny Mazda minivan is parked in a shared driveway. our driveway has been shoveled as well as a path from where I exit my vehicle to my front steps. my neighbor is standing near his garage, out of focus like stereotypical pictures of Bigfoot. he is circled in purple.
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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all tarted up for work… if I have to work a holiday, at least I look cute
bathroom selfie in my fuzzy pink housecoat. I have short blonde hair, a heart-shaped face, and big green eyes looking off to my left rather than at the camera.
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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omfg how am I just now trying this dressing? it’s the most delicious thing in the history of Ever
stock photo of “Ken’s Country French dressing with Orange Blossom Honey” the dressing is red and the label is white and gold
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#WhiskersWednesday
close up of blue point Siamese kitty Ragnar as he cuddles in my lap close up of blue point Siamese kitty Sven as he cuddles in my lap, his severe RBF is in full force
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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black wool pageboy cap my college roommate brought me back from Russia

another friend always mocks my “Tiny Tim hat” but I love it

usually I’m all pastel pink and silver, all the way down to my snow boots and luggage
Selfie crop of my eyes and brows as I look out from under the brim of a black wool pageboy cap. My eyes are olive green with a thin ring of brown around the pupil, but my left eye also has a vertical stripe of brown running through it like a cat’s eye.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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comes in the normal 750 mL but also the 1500 mL
stock photo of a bottle of Barefoot brand lemonade wine
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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you’ve been kidnapped and the characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you

who’s coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
poster for the 1997 romcom The Matchmaker starring Janeane Garofalo and David O’Hara an elderly man in a suit and striped sweater vest is standing in front of a white brick building with his arms out, palms up. an image of Janeane Garofalo is projected onto the building above him. movie tagline “the most successful matchmaker in Ireland is about to hit a brick wall”.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM