The CatWirks

Foxx is a young cat/older kitten about 9 months old. Solid black with tiny patches of white hair not visible in this image. Beseeching golden eyes say be my hooman.

feral boi wants to be my boi. Tonight Foxx walked away from his food to come love on me. Plans to TNR him but he soooo wants inside. He would be someone's wonderful pet. But I want someone to love him as I do and be kind to this sweet, gentle, loving void. #SnowPlaceFerals #CatsOfBluesky #aww

You don't know what you've got till it's gone. And you don't know it's gone till you can't find it. And then you can't remember why you wanted it in the first place. And now you’ve forgotten what you came in here for.

Tabouli has stolen my heart (don't tell Snow). She was so happy to see me, she purred and did a little dance, making biscuits on the concrete porch. She and Denzel are tolerating my picking them up, if squirmily. Here is Denzel, master of all he surveys. #CatsOfBluesky #SnowPlaceFerals #Cats

Sleepy Schmo.

cover art for The Cars' second album, Candy-O, by famous pinup illustrator, Alberto Vargas

if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Chain game.

young black cat taking time out from lunch to blep for the camera. Look at those wide paws. She is too dark to count toes from this angle. Maybe one of these days she will flip over and show her belly. And her beans.

Spike is a girl.

She finally trusts me to check her for identifying traits. She has a white star on her throat and a white merkin. Google it. She has a most attractive blep. She also has no boy parts.

Now I cannot stop calling her Stella even tho Spike is a perfectly good name for a molly.

😂 😂 😂 😍

Had to share this best of all name puns in 2025. Giving the orange man a run for his money. Well, actually, it's mostly other people's money. But I digress.

Looking up past a downspout to the bright full moon, moving slowly behind a screen of clouds. Flamingo Road, Memphis, TN, USA, 2022.

everything about this photo is perfect. Def frameworthy. Something about downspouts. Here's one I did a few years back:

young gray tabby girl and deep silky black boi eating from their own individual paper bowls, one can of food each with a third can ready if they ask for it.

Tabouli & Denzel finally trust me. Tabs' tail serves as a chastity belt but she rolled belly up last week. Def a little femme. Yesterday was 1st time she did not flinch when I stroked her back. Denzel has a long battle scar on left rear leg. First feral to let me pet him. Healing for us all 💕

I will miss those [447633-warm-summer-nights].

vintage illustration of three black cats summoning spirits with a Ouija board.

My first year in 5 to welcome trick-or-treaters, 3 little ones and 3 big ones (16, I think). I had 4 cats (Denzel loved them), 1 Care Bear and 1 princess who thought the whole thing was suspicious. I couldn't remember where I put the candy so I gave out snack size Fritos. They were a hit.

a dozen individually baked chocolate chip cookies with issues identified by caption: control, baked too long, too much baking soda, melted butter, ionized plasma butter, live scorpions, haunted, too much chanting, not enough chanting, sentient oven, too much flour

your guide to Halloween baking.

I want this art on a shirt. This is the best portrait of me that I have ever seen. <3

I just always assumed the reason he dances that way is he doesn't want to dislodge the poo in his diaper.

young black cat named Spike, waiting patiently while I prepare his dinner. He likes to sit on the edge of this planter where the oxalis is thriving. He knows he is photogenic and is proud to have his picture taken.

After a summer of doctors/vet visits, Snow and I are glad for autumn! After a year of socializing my ferals, I am able to actually pet them! Beautiful voids Spike, Denzel and Jimi show up for meals with sweet, shy gray tabby, Tabs. Bonding with her has been slow but no one can resist me for long.

Snow the Snowshoe cat, sunny side up on the bed.

Hello, friends! I missed you! 😸 I got really sick this summer and lost weight. I thought my time was up. But Stormy took me to the vet a few times and helped me get well. So I'm back on the job as Stormy's aide and front door sentry. But food and naps are still my first priority. #TheSnowPlace #cats

What the Ronald Reagan ad that got Trump so angry was really all about | CNN Business President Donald Trump has canceled trade negotiations with Canada over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-tariff speech delivered by conservative hero and former President Rona...

O Canada. You cannot tweak the nose of the emperor with no clothes. (But thank you. Maybe it'll buy a clue for the Reaganites.)

I just have to say out loud to the world that the destruction of the East Wing of the White House has caused me heartache not since the death of David Bowie. Something in America has died. Not sleeping, dead. I will mourn this for a long time.

Title: Microdosing Jane Austen at the Office Panel 1: A woman sits at a desk which has a computer and a coffee on it. She says "I read a line or two of her writing every hour to keep a mild Regency buzz throughout the day." Panel 2: In a conference room with colleagues, she says "Meetings take on the thrill and romance of a glamorous ball." Panel 3: Typing at her computer she says "My emails are elegant, formal and heaving with restrained passions." Panel 4: "I glance demurely at eligible suitors as I daintily nibble a pret sandwich." she says as she looks across at three men at a different table. Panel 5: She leaves the office and says "It's not all been positive: on Tuesday I read a whole page, and before I knew it, I'd declined three proposals, danced several quadrilles and scandalously revealed an ankle!"

A Jane Austen cartoon for @theguardian.com

"A scar is a sign of strength…the sign of a survivor. "

Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains

closeup of young female gray tabby cat with distinct white markings and gorgeous black "eyeliner"

I spent several days wondering if we have two gray tabbies or just one. This is Diva. If she is the only one, then she is a shape shifter.

Snow looks for her all day. Snow lets me know when porch food needs replenishing. Diva is family, whether she likes it or not. But I suspect that she does. <3

if I saw you coming I would surrender immediately. 😎

the biggest game of chicken I have ever seen.

remiscent of Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks."

Young adult with older kitten, both solid black. George is on the left. They are looking at a car that just parked across the street. Driver is exiting the car with a dog on a leash. George stood his ground but his mini-me was too scared to stick around.

George was out back by the old shed.
I stepped out to say hi.
He got ready to bolt but didn't.

Then at the front door,
George was waiting!
How could he run that fast?

Back to the kitchen for cat food.

OMG, there are two Georges!

I have another black kitten!

thank you for introducing me to a new litho technique! Looks like fun! <3

A 1989 quote by Pete Hamill, former editor in chief of the New York Daily News. Subtext reads, "The above quote by Pete Hamill was written in 1989 after then citizen Trump took out full-page ads calling for New York State to adopt the death penalty following the arrest of black and Latino teenagers in the Central Park Five rape case. "The boy showed us his cards then. But we were too busy counting our chips."

I am breaching my own policy for a minute. I am so embarrassed. On so many levels. About so many things. But most of them about what passes for government in my country.

Rant ends here.

This has been a Public Service Announcement. Or not.

I'm pretty sure that she does. Snow is the mother of us all.