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That (Least Influential) Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈
@simsarah.bsky.social
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Freelance NPC.
Recovering stagehand.
Museum enthusiast.
WoW guild leader.
Wonky brained.
Handcrafted word things.

Always here for your cat pictures!
(profile: @meggoart.bsky.social, header: my wits' end)
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It’s just head smoosh all the way down:
Window ledge with a tall thin cat statue face shoved to the wall, and a sleeping black and white cat with her own face smooshed into the base of the statue.
September 18, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Monkey happy returns of the day!
A redtail monkey sits in a tree, staring at the camera. He has an orange tail longer than the rest of his body, great big white furred cheeks and a small face either a striking white nose.
September 18, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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1 cat, several cats’ worth of belly. Oddly, not a trap:
A fluffy black and white cat sprawled in the corner of a screened in porch under some thin black chair legs. The vast majority of visible cat is white belly, with two feet sticking out slightly on the left and two legs extended over an upside down head in the sunlight on the right. (On the far right, the rump of a second smaller, darker cat.)
September 17, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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This… is actually how we have our bikes stored in the garage.

It’s way better than the apartment where I stored it in the bathtub!
A late 00s Trek 7300 multitrack hybrid bicycle stored at an angle in a small bathtub
September 11, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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Alanna is a very calm back sleeper.

I am a very fidgety side/stomach sleeper.

Why does this goober think sleeping between MY legs is the play?
Photo of a black and white cat pinning me to the bed with my own quilt. Dim orange lighting just before the lights go out for the night.
September 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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I agree, even though I will go to my grave wishing I knew what was on this drive:
A crushed hard drive held in one hand in front of the steamroller used to crush it. This was a very public and dramatic way of destroying Terry Pratchett’s unfinished works after his death.
September 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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When you're a Housing Sicko and also Terminally Online, this sort of thing happens:
Screenshot from World of Warcraft of a housing interior view of a fountain with green foliage surrounding it and a cartoony baby duck named Milkshake.
August 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Power’s still not back, alas, so I went and hooked up the generator:
The open hood of a white Hyundai Kona EV, with a yellow power inverter hooked to the 12v battery.
August 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Oh.
Another outage information screen shot. This time: Customers Out: 1.115 Estimated Time of Restoration: Today at 9:00 PM - Tomorrow at 2:00 AM Outage Cause: Storm Crews Status: Working
August 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Me at 4pm: gosh, I’m tired of being at work, can’t wait to go home and fuck off and play video games!
Dominion:
Screenshot of outage information: Customers out: 1,115 Estimated Time of Restoration: Today at 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Outage Cause: Pending Investigation Crew Status: Working
August 14, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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My little pocket birb:
A blue cartoon bird on a pink background. They have on collected garments, a purple flannel shirt, green shorts, brown boots and a blue bandana over a silly black wig (they’re a bird, any wig is silly.) they have a little group of fireflies as a pet and a rainbow striped slushee in one hand, while they wave at you with the other.
July 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Sometimes you get a mystery package from a guild member who knows how much you love otters… and refreshing beverages. Don’t anyone tell the carrier what was IN that box, m’kay?

And many thanks to the Otter Water Gotter (who is not on Bsky, I don’t think.)
A white can with a green and pink label from Long Road Distillery. it is a watermelon lime & mint vodka soda called “Otter Water” with a cute little otter head graphic.
July 26, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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This is what happens when I try to take pictures of the cats most of the time:
Hindquarters of a medium brown dog. In the background, the heads of cats are visible under a small table and chair in the porch corner.
July 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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What are all these BIRDS doing here?!
Two cats peering intently out the screen of the back porch at some birds in the foliage. The cat closest to the screen is Scottie, a big fluffy black and white cat, the one behind her is Cori, a small dark calico. Both cats are between the screen and the sofa, behind a plant stand.
July 24, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Me: damn the fucking gas grass* grew like a foot overnight, we need it to not rain so we can mow before the city sends a nastygram…
The Weather:
Screenshot from Carrot weather showing the week overview in icons: Mon - thunderstorm icon Tues - thunderstorm icon Wed - thunderstorm icon Thurs - rain icon Fri - thunderstorm icon Sat - rain icon Sun - rain icon with sun
July 20, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Sometimes the sign that you should bring your work friends doughnuts is quite literal.
The sign in front of a Krispy Kreme advertising doughnuts and coffee. Below the main logo sign is a round neon-look sign that repeats the main logo, with the words HOT and NOW above and below. Most significantly, this sub-sign is illuminated.
July 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Here, have a cat. I’m going to bed. May tomorrow be a better day, whatever that means for you.
A small dark calico cat reclining against the baseboard of the screened porch, viewed through some furniture.
July 15, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Bold white text on a dark grey background reads, “Chicago wouldn’t have happened if not for improv”
July 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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What better place to celebrate pride than in the kid's wing of my library? No book banning HERE, our librarians want every Azerothian child who visits to find warm welcome and open information here, because Libraries Are For Everyone!
Entrance to a large roundish room in wow player housing. The room is full of short library shelves, and decorated to appeal to younger readers. A mural at the back of the room reads LIBRARIES are for EVERYONE! A circular display of (presumably) queer books is front and center in rainbow book stands. Closer view of the pride book display and a better view of the back wall mural. To the left a library section is headed up by a spacescape wall, and to the right another section sports a murloc diorama over the shelves. The floor is carpeted in dark blue with large multicolored dots. Higher vantage view from the right side of the room, a large blue comet with a rainbow tail adorns the wall over a play area with blue blocks, the center of the room is all ready for story time, with cushions around a larger circular rug, and a floating book at hand.
July 9, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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You know, I stole this *just this morning* and didn’t anticipate needing it quite so soon…
Extremely grumpy tabby kitten captioned, “and yet, despite the look on my face you are still talking.”
July 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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I came down here so as to NOT be observed, human…
A small dark calico cat scrunched up under the porch sofa looks squinty at the camera. A multi colored striped rug comprises most of the foreground and she is framed by tan furniture and the dark brick wall.
June 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Yeah, when I lived in NYC I was always just baffled by it. I don’t approve in the ‘burbs now either.

This, infuriatingly, was my next door neighbors:
June 25, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Someone doing page layout at the Times-Dispatch has a well developed sense of irony:
Photo of a print copy of Saturday, June 20th’s Richmond Times-Dispatch (found in my dad’s hospital room) with two headlines in view, one a banner across the top under the masthead reads “Compromise taps data centers for $1.2B” and a second single column under a header “Conservation” on the right reads “Skip the car wash: Va. needs the water” Context: the VA state budget negotiations have been held up by a push to repeal tax exemptions for proliferating data centers - this article was about a proposed compromise that would leave the existing sales tax exemptions in place but would add a new electricity use tax. Juxtaposition of that with a scold piece about how individuals should curtail their own activities in the face of scarcity is extremely funny to me, since individuals’ choices are so inconsequential in comparison with policy level decisions.
June 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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There's been a lot of chatter about the recently datamined tier sets for the next patch in WoW and as usual, I like some and dislike others, but my real question is - what did the priests do to get ANGRY Dhadgar a la Wondrous Wisdomball on their shoulders?

Mhadgar, even.
Screenshot of datamined world of warcraft armor set in purple and black with gold-ish metallic trim. On the shoulders a blue circle appears to have a very angry male face in it.
June 20, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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I saw a cute cat I wanted to share with you, but ever since I pointed the phone at her, it’s been nonstop this:
A small dark calico cat sitting on her tail with her back legs splayed wide (little white paws very evident) and cleaning her butt. It’s a beautiful day on the porch, she’s sitting right up next to the brick wall of the house behind a small plant stand in the corner between the porch screen and the arm of the sofa, a safe hidden spot, as is her preference.
June 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM