M. Belanger

A black cat with a white splash at her throat sits on the shoulders of a human ducking just out of frame. Behind the cat is a row of dark wooden cabinets with a small section for wine bottles in the bottom center. The cabinets are topped with a decorative wreath of Gothic roses, twining branches covered with silver and black leaves. A green man wall medallion overlooks her small gargoyle on the glossy black granite counter below.

Today’s cat is part parrot #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

They’ve effectively been making a Paint-by-Numbers Apocalypse for a couple decades now

They’re desperate for their god to come back & decided Judgement Day was not coming soon enough

They stole the entire contents of at least 16 of my books (and who knows how many articles) to feed this murder machine

Operation Desert Storm launched in the month of my 18th birthday over 30 years ago

And although the people inciting the violence rarely declare their actions official wars, we have been embroiled in warfare in that region nonstop ever since

I am morally exhausted and disgusted

A valid question

Certainly, no one ostensibly in charge knows

It’s a popular position among the far right to decry trans people as mentally ill

But the real illness is any society targeting a portion of their population and insisting: “You must dress this way, and only this way, in order to be accepted as human and valid.”

Being raise Catholic, I quickly came to the conclusion that guilt and shame are useless emotions mainly used to enforce a rigid conformity

But after seeing the rampant evil on display in the US government, I grudgingly admit that guilt and shame, so obviously lacking in that bunch, are needed

Very similar face.

Ozzie is like someone answered the question, “What if Andre the Giant were a tabby cat?”

They were all out there guarding me as I was gaming late into the night

Also, I realize this is probably the most middle-of-suburbia part of my house because it’s really hard to dress up a hallway landing

Except for the rug. We inherited the rug (and so much other stuff!) from my wife’s mom, so it’s pretty fancy.

Not pictured: Ria (she’s the white and black cat with the resting grumpy face occasionally seen in my photos - companion of @palorrin.bsky.social )

I appreciate the effort, but I’m not sure how a block list will help when the troll in question is capable of making 20 to 30 new accounts every couple of hours and automates them to spam the people he’s been harassing for years

This platform is just the current playground for his obsessions

This is the closest comparison photo I’ve been able to take, but you still can’t quite appreciate the scale

The gray tabby in the middle is Ozymandias and he is an ENORMOUS cat for a guy who is not specifically a Maine Coon

The other three cats are normal cat-sized. He towers over them.

If governments did not also believe this, they would not have as many science fiction & fantasy writers on watchlists as they consistently do

A hallway full of cats taken from the threshold of a bedroom door. A long patterned runner in red, beige, and light blue covers the hardwood floor next to a stairway railing. Four cats are arranged along the runner at various points. The closest is a black cat, her sleek fur catching the hallway light. The middle cat is a large dilute gray tabby who is half again as large as everyone around him. At the end of the long hallway rug are two brothers, one black and one gray. The gray cat, like the tabby, turns and looks at the camera.

Today’s cat is a clowder 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #CatBreak #BlueskyCats #CatSky

A black cat lounges on a large rectangular cardboard cat scratcher. A rainbow shaped catnip toy sits on the carpet in front of her. The cat looks toward the camera, one paw extended so you can see her chocolate colored toe beans.

Today’s cat is posing with her rainbow #CatBreak #BlueskyCat #CatSky

Unfortunately, I think the signs of them being nervous is how assiduously they are working to suppress voting rights by every means possible

I remember rollerskating to that as a kid at the roller rink

I’m sure it’s time for some kind of check up for me 👴🏻

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MPD assisted a group of heavily armed bounty hunters who abducted a neighbor today into their fake plumbers van. Bounty hunters pointed weapons at observers both at the abduction site and at Hennepin County Jail downtown. MPD told observers to let the bounty hunters do their job.

Anyway, all of this is to say you are 100% justified in all of the ick you feel at the commodification of women’s bodies in media spaces & how toxic that is in both public and private

The family took me to visit her once when I was really tiny – maybe four? And the studio immediately wanted to recruit me.

Apparently promised my grandmother a ton of money for me

Cathy made a big stink and drove them off

And I feel like she saved my life in that moment

She suffered so much

Super Models I know a Super Model when I see one. A young Christie Brinkley came bouncing into my studio for her shoot for Frances Denney products. I had...

One of the last places online you can see a picture of my aunt, formerly the Tabu Girl:

leoraphotographic.blogspot.com/2009/08/supe...

There was also an issue with tapeworms

More than once

Her managers claimed she picked them up from contaminated water at some of their on-location shoots

She eventually realized it was the managers contaminating the water 🤮

She also developed tapeworms at an alarming rate

Her managers swore it was from contaminated water at shoots

She eventually figured out her managers were the ones contaminating the water

Kelly’s brother Jack has dropped a considerable amount of weight as well, and I’ve been afraid to ask him if it was connected to his father‘s death or something more pernicious (we used to work together)

Dreamt last night I was investigating a locked room mystery in a near future sci-fi setting where the dagger was delivered into the back of the victim by something called a “quantum tag” - which, in the context of the dream, was a small disc of microdots that transposed objects through space/time

Thank you!

Makes me think about my Aunt Cathy who was a fashion model in New York in the 70s & 80s

She told me stories of how they made them eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice to fill their stomachs so they wouldn’t eat anything else

She passed fairly young of what I’m sure were connected complications

(she’s not really grumpy. she just has a face like that. Ria always looks a little woebegone)