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@kairsten

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Hellhole resident@kairsten· Apr 13

IT'S THE SAME FOOD THAT'S IN THEIR BOWLS ALREADY

Two grey-and-brown tabby cats standing up to eat dry food out of a bin of it, which is in between their food dishes.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Dec 25

Concerned that Anish Kapoor is going to jump out with a lawsuit due to my 9-year-old's stocking stuffer.

A coffin-shaped packaging insert. It has a striped background that varies lighter and darker purple. There is a silhouette of Wednesday Addams from the current TV show. The gold lettering says:
Wednesday
Blacker than black anti stress putty

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Dec 24

Important to note that a hot dog vendor was a key part of this story.

A wikipedia page:
Barki was invited to travel to the United States, where it hung in the set designer's house, to confirm its identity.[1] Barki met the set designer in a park in Washington, D.C., and, after unscrewing the frame with a screwdriver borrowed from a hotdog vendor, was able to confirm the painting was genuine

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Dec 4

Did I send you this from the pumpkin patch this year?

A very bad skeeball game, the end of which says "Double Duece" and "live music bar" and "no fighting, be nice!" and "any problems, talk to Dalton"

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Nov 25

The Addams' Family motto "Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc" or "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us" is the original "fuck around and find out." In this essay, I will -

A still from the 90s Addams Family movie, from the cemetery showing the motto.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Nov 8

Post a non religious image you think of as holy

A coyote in the drinks cooler of a Quiznos in downtown Chicago on April 3 2007, amongst the Sobe.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Sep 24

That's what happens when we let someone named Matt McCool be in charge.

An AP photo of an FBI guy looking at a bunch of surveillance feeds with this caption:

Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service's New York field office, looks at live surveillance video feeds Monday.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Aug 28

In other news, the 9-year-old got her belated birthday gift, and our household is now plus one lizard. (A 3-4 month old bearded dragon whom she has named Streaks.)

A bearded dragon perched on a log in a terrarium.

A bearded dragon perched on a log in a terrarium. His mouth is open in order to thermoregulate.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Aug 12

With alt text

a screenshot a white dude named Will Chamberlain posting: I brought my family to DC for the Cherry Blossom Festival.

The first thing I saw when I exited the L'Enfant Plaza Metro was a gang of youths driving ATVs down the street, one of whom was doing a wheelie.

So forgive me if I doubt that crime is down.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Aug 5

I haven't had a Both Cats Bedtime Cuddle in a long time. I think they miss the kid, who is at her grandparent's house right now.

Two grey and black tabbies are asleep next to each other on a bed. They are also next to a human. One cat has a shaved belly.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jul 10

The nearly 9-year-old, while reading: what's a tide chart? Me: I don't know. I assume it's drawing of the beach and it shows the time that the tide will be at what level on the beach? Let's search. Reality: [it's a list, see graphic] Me: ... I like mine better. Kid: I like yours better too.

It is a paper with days of a month and the times in the AM PM it will be low and high tide and the height. It also includes sunrise and sunset and which day is which phase of the moon, if you're into that sort of thing.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jul 5

Oh it's time for the meme isn't it.

The Simpsons "don't make me tap the sign" meme.

The bottom text says "people in red states do not deserve the negative consequences of policies enacted by their oppressors. Stop using them as scapegoats for this country's problems."

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jul 5

This is so cut-and-dried, but the contents of the bag are what is incredibly telling. blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/29/l...

Article screenshotNone of the witnesses interviewed said they heard any of the boys make threats toward Leto. The shooting was caught on camera but no audio was recorded. Leto’s backpack contained two ammunition magazines, a kevlar vest panel and a satellite phone.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jul 5

Not the best photo, but here's Merry grooming Pippin this morning.

Two grey tabbies in a bed. One is curled up with his back to the camera. The other is in loaf position and, although you can't see his tongue, is grooming the first kitty's head.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jul 3

I went to a small museum that was having an exhibit on - I think it was iridescence? At the time. Maybe you'll enjoy these.

A mother of pearl and abalone shell lighter, in a museum case, labeled late 19th century to early 20th century.

Mother of pearl opera glasses, 20th century.

Atomizer, late 19th century to early 20th century, made of mercury glass.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jun 28

This was from Act Blue

screenshot of a text message thread from Thursday June 5.

First message has a picture of Al Franken and it starts

"Hey [redacted because it was to my mom for some reason?], Al Franken here."

And then they're a lot of writing about elections that I'm not going to copy out.

And my reply says "stop and also I never want to hear from Al Franken again, gross"

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jun 7

The cats wanted dinner last night. Merry's food is now on a box because his back leg muscles were getting slightly atrophied and the vet wanted him to have to use them more. Witness my solution. His food has a cardboard guard because he gets both wet and dry food. Pippin WANTS dry food.

Two grey and black tabbies look at the camera. The scene consists of two cat feeding devices - the kind that only open to the correct microchip. The feeder on the left is on top of a box, approximately 10 inches elevated. There is a covered bin of dry cat food between the two dishes. One of the cats is sitting on top of that bin. The second cat is sitting in front of the feeder on the left. That feeder has cardboard on the right side and behind it.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 29

This post brought to you by our rewatch of The Birds after yesterday's Bodega Bay pilgrimage.

A photo of the house that was the schoolhouse in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. There are now large pine trees to the left of the tree.

A sign on the fence in front of the schoolhouse from The Birds. It says:

POTTER SCHOOL EST. 1873
Sheriff Samuel Potter donated the land for this public school in 1872. In September of 1873 classes for grades 1 through 8 were held in two large classrooms on the first floor.
The upstairs functioned as a multi-use room and community hall. In December of 1961 the condemned school building was sold by auction to the highest bidder. In March of 1962 Alfred Hitchcock used the schoolin his film, The Birds".

The old school sat vacant and condemned until June of 1966, when Tom and Mary Taylor purchased it. With the help of their three children, they lovingly restored the Italianate structure to its original splendor.

The 6,000 square foot space is still owned by the Taylor Family. The old school serves as a residence for three generations of their family. Yes, they live here.

THIS PROPERTY is PRIVATELY OWNED. NO TRESPASSING.
PLEASE respect our privacy, dispose of your litter in a proper receptacle and clean up after your dog. Al rights reserved by owners. Building may not be used for promotion,
publicity or profit except by written permission from owners.
For more information: www.bodegaschool.com

A facsimile of the Tides restaurant from The Birds, which shows clips from the movie.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 25

This lamp in our airbnb could star in a ghibli movie.

A wooden lamp which is kind of square right under the shade. It has white circles just under the shade that have black dots in the middle of the white circles. It's surprisingly emotive.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 22

The cats have invented religion and this is the Dry Food Vigil.

Two grey and black tabby cats sit with their backs to the camera, lined up sequentially in front of a tub of dry food, looking at the tub of food.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 18

Cat ear in the light. Fascinated by this piece of normally invisible biology made visible. It was in the same place on the other ear too.

My cat's ear is backlit, and a bright red line runs down his ear, parallel to the outer edge of it. I can only assume it's part of the circulatory system.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 17

Ok am I a middle-aged person coming upstairs after checking on my laundry, or a teenager coming home after curfew whose parents aren't angry, just disappointed?

Two grey-and-black tabby cats sit at the top of a staircase, looking down at the viewpoint of the camera holder.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 14

There's more. And a cat who snuck out.

A grey-and-black tabby cat sitting outside and looking up.

He's looking away from the moon though.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 14

Doing my part to make your timeline a pile of blurry photos of the moon. You're welcome.

A photo of the lunar eclipse in its partial state.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 9

Someone worked hard on this and I applaud them.

A wayfinding sign from Museum Campus in Chicago.

Go straight to get to taxis at Roosevelt Rd and Michigan Ave.

Go left to get to Gate 47 and Gate 45.

Go diagonal left/down to get to the CTA and - bolted on, covering whatever should be there but matching completely - is a photo of a UFO.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Mar 5

Pippin exists. Probably.

A grey and black tabby sleeps on his side, tucked like a sushi roll, back feet by his face.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Feb 17

Threw a top surgery party (a detittification party) for a dear friend today. Alliance Bakery in Chicago understood the cupcake assignment. Label because tit cupcakes might not be suitable for work?

A box of cupcakes decorated to look like breasts, with a variety of skin colors and shapes. One has a nipple piercing. Two cupcakes have a flatter shape and surgical scars.

A box of cupcakes decorated to look like breasts, with a variety of skin colors and shapes. One has a nipple piercing.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Feb 15

I finally got my own copy of the infamous 16th "male chauvinism" edition of Williams Obstetrics and I'm inordinately pleased.

A textbook index with the entry "Chauvinism, male, voluminous amounts, 1 - 1102" circled.

A textbook hardcover front with the title in gold lettering:
Pritchard-Macdonald
Williams Obstetrics
Sixteenth Edition

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jan 30

This is the first time Cancer Cat has torn up toilet paper since August 14 2024. Well, he's officially feeling better.

A roll of toilet paper, still hanging, but just absolutely shredded by a cat. There are toilet paper shreds on the floor below as well.

Hellhole resident@kairsten· Jan 25

Today went to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture specifically to see the current "liminal: LGBTQ+ Chicago – Boricua Imaginings" exhibit. Both the exhibit itself and watching my 8-year-old interact with the art nourished my soul in important ways. nmprac.org/exhibitions/...