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The Cambrian Mammal

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Please use #AltText.

Spoilery! (Wheel of Time, Star Wars, Cosmere etc) Nerd by nature, biologist by training, corporate cog by necessity. Martial art student, weekend Viking, tinkerer with worlds. She/her. Pfp by
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Smooth moves and all the groves! Rissoโ€™s dolphins bear scars on their bodies from toothy social interactions with their own kind, and from the beaks and tentacles of their preferred prey, squid.

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I mean... you *could* (I for one love the sketchy aesthetic. Not that my opinion should be factored into your artistic decisions ๐Ÿ˜…)

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This is right up there with your profile pic on the cuteness scale ๐Ÿฅฐ

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Are they investigating if sandal/toes are edible? ๐Ÿ˜†

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Daily dose of cute

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I sometimes have people asking me "Gud #AltText how do write?" Well, this post right here is the best example on how to do it. Provides an image, provides the Alt Text, and provides a visual guide for sighted users! Absolute best way to learn! I strongly urge all of my followers, PLEASE use alt!

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Did you know BlueSky has an #AltText reminder feature? It's #DisabilityPride month! Now's the time to turn that switch on, and start using Alt to keep us visually impaired users in the conversation! Give us a hand, lovelies, it takes a few seconds to flip, and it takes less than a minute to alt!

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I think your cat is melting ๐Ÿ˜‚

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I dunno about arrested, men get away with a lot ๐Ÿ˜ But yeah. And bitch brags about it in public.

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Geez, if someone unleashed that unhinged rant in my face, I'd be speechless, too...

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*hugs* to you both

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That's so cute!

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Someone needs to create an image of Snoke preparing to throw a pokeball all while wearing ash Ketchumโ€™s hat backwards. Call it: โ€œSnokemonโ€

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#PudgyHorse dons a pair of wings. 'Pegapudge', if you will.

Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 122 ร— 132 mm, 2019.

This original artwork is available at auction this week, ending Friday 5th July. Link below and in profile. ๐Ÿ™

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Enjoy your blissfully offline, full of kittens, weekend! ๐Ÿฅฐ

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I hope you get used to it one day!

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I've had a good day for urban wildlife. (I only had my phone camera, and digital zoom is fucking useless, so you'll have to imagine most of the cute fluffiness)

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I hear them often from the lime tree outside my window. I don't know if they nest there, but they sure hang out a lot.

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She is gorgeous! Miss Goldeneyes ๐Ÿฅฐ

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I was gonna say look on the bright side, his butthole is probably squeaky clean because he's a cat, but then I remembered where else his tongue has been ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฎ

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He what? ๐Ÿคฃ Weirdo!

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I love that cheeky little paw under his cheeky little cheek (Cheeky cheeky cheek! This word no longer means anything ๐Ÿ˜‚)

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Oh no. My biggest hugs to you.

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I wanna use it as a fidget toy ๐Ÿฅฐ

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Hey, I provided the idea, you can work out the details of your own brain hacks ๐Ÿ˜œ

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(The extra trips to the loo will probably take care of your daily exercise, too ๐Ÿ˜‚)

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Maybe you need to invent a kitten-themed drinking game, but for water. Rory jumps in the walker? Take a drink! Praline asks for belly rubs? Take a drink!

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Do I feel bad that my cats are so hot? Yes. Am I taking advantage of their lethargy to get macro photos of them? Also yes.

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If this is about Stonehenge... Apparently Stonehenge is a valuable habitat for lichen, so it's also ecological vandalism, a.k.a. the exact opposite of what they ostensibly stand for ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ (I apologise in advance for linking to That Site)

x.com/EH_Stoneheng...

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Are there any wild cats? Anything can be cat-related if you squint hard enough ๐Ÿ˜œ

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My dad flew with me to Edinburgh. He panicked slightly when, upon being greeted by a helpful volunteer from the university, my only response was "Huh?" ๐Ÿ˜‚ (I could write beautiful essays in flawless English. Took me a year or two to be comfortable speaking it, or to understand Scottish accents...)

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*watching the updates like a hawk*

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Budapest, Hungary (Go visit some day. It's a beautiful city.) But as of last autumn(?), St Andrews, Scotland is the place I've lived the longest. Which blows my mind. OK, my family took a break from Budapest when I was little... but I was an adult when I left Hometown for Scotland ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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HAPPY DANCE! 2/2 it's worth bugging them, it seems!

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LOOK! Bluesky listened!!! I'm so speechless.

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When I was still at uni and living in halls, someone had the bright idea to bring a piper to dinner on St Andrew's Day. A piper. Indoors. Where you can't escape if you want to eat. Surely that violates some law against torture...

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RIGHT!!! I live in a historic Scottish town centre, so this kind of thing just happens here.

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Soft ๐Ÿฅบ (It's OK, baby. I hate kisses, too.)

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Maybe! Whisky is a special kind of gross to me because in addition to the horrible alcohol taste, it's also generously seasoned with burning rubber. And beer is just... beer. ๐Ÿคฎ

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I WANNA PET THAT BELLY!!!

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All beer. All whisky. Actually, the vast majority of alcoholic beverages. Yuckity yuck.

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Well, right at this moment, my red-hot hatred of bagpipes is being STOKED. (Bagpiper going at it right across the street from my single-glazed window as I type ๐Ÿคฌ)

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๐Ÿ’ฏ Also: slow people who walk two/three abreast or meander in the middle of the pavement so I can't overtake. I HATE folk who can go through their lives being so unaware of strangers. (How can you exist in a crowd and NOT be entirely focused on getting the hell out of it? ๐Ÿ˜ญ)

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I imagine that pouring cold water on her whenever she does this would not go down well ๐Ÿ˜‚

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