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Sometimes not petty enough beaurocrat. Current project posting pics from my great great grandmother's books to Bluesky every now and then.
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Bloomberg is reporting that federal workers tasked with approving medical devices for Medicare have reportedly received termination notices. As a wheelchair user who also uses some other assistive devices (canes, shower chairs, that sort of thing) I want to add some context to this.

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Time once again for a picture from Mrs Surr's 1882 book Stories About Cats. This one illustrates a story about a mother cat who fought and killed a hawk who was attacking her kitten, losing an eye in the process. Victorians were squeamish about a lot of things but they weren't afraid of blood.

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From Mrs. Surr's 1872 book, Stories About Cats, we meet this momma cat who nested with her kittens in the hollow of a tree and became friends with local farm children. She moved the kittens into their farm house moments ahead of a huge storm, proving that cats are smart about weather and stuff.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Victorians were suckers for a "devoted animal" story, and my great grandmother was quite happy to supply one. Here we see a cat mourning the death of a young friend, who passed away despite the numerous mice she brought to his bedside. From Stories About Cats, 1882

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From Stories About Cats, 1882. The story Vicissitudes Return follows a cat whoso family moved house over her strenuous objections. She escaped enroute to the new place, made her way back to the old place, figured that the family was gone, then refound them at the new place.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

a friend texted me this and I felt I should share it

submitted 40 days ago • 22 comments

Great thread.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

It has been a while since I posted a pic from my great grandmother's 1882 book Stories About Cats. This one illustrates a story about a cat named She.

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Another illustration from Mrs Surr's 1882 book, Stories About Cats. I feel like this artist knew what a cat looked like and knew what an urn looked like, but didn't quite nail the assignment of showing a cat on top of an urn.

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From my great great grandmother's book Stories About Cats published 1882. This is subtitles "To Help Dumb Creatures In Their Need" #catpics

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Sorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing “Highway to the manger zone.”

submitted 74 days ago • 437 comments

Is it cat picture time again? Perhaps it is. Another in my series of photos of pages from the 1882 masterpiece, Stories About Cats

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Another illustration from my great great grandmother's 1882 book, Stories About Cats

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

My great great grandmother, Elizabeth Surr, published a book in 1882 entitled Stories About Cats

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

ouch.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Booboo likes the view out the new front door.

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