Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask

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Literally one woman talking about cataloging discrepancies in museums. Also history, dress, material culture, and my cat. she/her/hers BAL via ALX/PVD

An orange ladder and two orange closed for maintenance straps block a classroom doorway.
A fluffy black and white cat sits in a cardboard box. It looks like she is screaming with joy but she is yelling for her dinner. A black and white hexagonal treat box and a blue and red fish shaped mat surround her box. She is spoiled.
A bag of tootsie roll candy with America 250th branding and the Tootsie Pop owl dressed as Uncle Sam.
A fluffy black and white cat with wide whiskers, a pink nose, and green eyes stares to the right of the frame. Behind her, in big black headphones, a woman’s face is obscured. She’s pretending the cat is charge. The cat is, in fact, in charge.
a screenshot from the FlightRadar app shows the Baltimore Police Department’s helicopter, “Foxtrot,” circling the federal building on Hopkins Place between Pratt and Lombard Streets. It’s a thick, yellow donut of a track.
A tall pile of snow blocks a zebra crosswalk and one traffic lane in Baltimore. In the background, a pedestrian walks in front of a brick rowhouse.
A screen cap of two Bluesky posts : The top post reads: All in a year’s work. RFK Jr.’s relentless assault on vaccines has been wildly successful for the anti-vaccine agenda and detrimental to us all. A rundown of what he has managed to accomplish I such a short time should terrify everyone. A thread. The second post, from Moby Dick, reads: Delicious death. Which of course RFK Jr’s policies will cause.
The black cast iron base of a dressmaker’s dummy sits across two sisal rugs over a wooden floor.
A fuzzy black and white cat with a pink nose and green eyes stares to the left. Behind her, a blue-eyed woman with silver and bronze hair also peers to the left. They are watching a documentary on Richard the third for very different reasons.
Queer Enlightenments book cover, by Anthony Delaney.
A fuzzy black and white cat lies on her back next to a laptop. Her human’s hand rubs her tummy. Her back toes are curled up in pleasure.
A fuzzy black and white cat reclines, belly up, next to a laptop. Her leg and tail obscure the keyboard. She is more important and adorable than any screen.
A fluffy black and white cat reclines next to a laptop, her back to the camera. She lies on papers, printouts of the document the human must write 1540 more words about by Monday.
A fuzzy black and white cat lies in her back on a length of pink silk. Her very fluffy white tummy is exposed, distracting attention from the two open books sitting in front of her. One is a photocopy of “letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania” written by John Dickinson in the 1760s.
Plywood boarding up a shop window of an art supply store, with the spray painted information “It was a car We are still open 10 am-6pm” seen on a corner in Baltimore.
A brown tabby cat with a creamy round tummy sits with one back foot up. He is watching a fly in an iPad game for cats. He cheats.
A fluffy black and white cat sits with her back to the camera; in front of her sits an iPad playing Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel. A cat’s gotta get her history lesson somewhere.
A fluffy black and white cat with no shame lies on a handwritten paper draft on a desk. She is full of judgement and purrs.
A corgi wearing glasses is posed with a paw on an open book. The text of the meme reads This homework looks hard ... would you like me to eat it?
A classic grey tabby cat yawns widely while lounging on the top of a sofa cushion. The cushion is being crushed beneath his formerly svelte and now meaty expanse. His primordial cat flap— a fuzzy cream patch— peeps out from under his stripey flank.
A fluffy black and white cat sits with her head inside a rip-stop collapsible cat play tunnel. She is inspecting it for some reason, possibly to verify structural soundness, before she dashes through it to attach a toy.
A fucking green Toyota SUV with flower decals blocking a downtown crosswalk in Baltimore.
A fluffy black and white cat with green eyes and a pink nose reclines on a wavy corrugated cardboard scratching toy. The toy has a black brushy arch inserted into one end, in front of a slot with a pink ball. The cat has found a very flattering surface as the toy’s pink sides complement her little nose.
A tall woman in a blue and white plaid linen 1920s style dress and hat stands next to the memorial to Ann Reynolds Cutbush in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC on a very hot June day in 2024
A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf of bread on grey silk. The human is trying to pleat the back of a short sacque gown. The turned her head away and declared that would not happen.
A fluffy black and white cat lies on her left side obscuring graph paper on which her human is trying to map a dress pattern. The cat claims she is helping. She is not.
A small, doll-sized Windsor chair with a white dimity patterned stuffed cushion and draped apron-style front. The drape is trimmed with white cotton lace. The chair sits on a sisal rug in front of a wooden chest with drawers.
A blue Baltimore Sun newspaper box, graffitied and with a broken window, sits on a downtown sidewalk. On the top rests a pile of dark orange powder-covered cheese food snacks. Even the pigeons eschew them.
A book cover, The Painter’s Fire: a forgotten history of the Artists who championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin. The cover has text in white over a woodcut image of a ship rendered in teal and black. There are decorative flame-shaped elements in bright orange.
The cover of a book titled Sailors: English Merchant Seamen, 1650-1775 by Peter Earle. The cover shows several tall ships in an early port.
A fluffy black and white cat makes a small mew with her pink mouth. Her left front leg is shaved where an IV was inserted. She sits in front of her water fountain with a yellow flower. Her pupils are still widely dilated from painkillers. But she will be okay and is very happy to be home.
A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf on a pile of blue and white cross barred linen. She doesn’t care what you thought you were doing, it’s hers now. But she would never bomb Iran, no matter how fur-ocious she is.
A fluffy black and white cat with green eyes and a pink nose reclines inside the wooden cubby of a Japanese chest. The wood is cool for summertime snoozing. Now go away unless you have some of the wet food she likes.
A small fluffy black and white cat sits at a window sill, looking out the open window at birds flying by.
A small, fluffy black and white cat with big whiskers steps on an open book next to a laptop showing citations in Zotero. One second later she stepped on the keyboard and added a citation. It might be in the paper, who know?
A small but fluffy black and white cat sits on an ironing board facing an air conditioner. Birds are around the air conditioner, but it’s running, so she’s mad.
A fuzzy black and white cat reclines on an open notebook and a photocopy of an article. She tilts her head back to show her pink nose and flourishing whiskers, insouciant in her disregard for human endeavors.
A fluffy black and white cat sleeps on a beige armchair. Her head is doing back, chin in the air, and curves towards her fluffy tail.
A fluffy black and white cat sits on blue Linsey-Woolsy fabric in front a woman trying to turn that fabric into a historic garment. The woman has frizzy grey hair and big glasses. To left is a mahogany framed federal mirror and a tin candle sconce. These people are weird, but they feed the cat well so she puts up with their silliness. Fabric is cozy to sleep on, after all.
A fluffy black and white cat stands, facing the camera, with her tail curled over her back. Her green eyes regard you with skepticism. Her black ears almost tilt back in disapproval.
A fluffy black and white cat sits in front of a MacBook blocking access to reading a document onscreen AND to the keyboard. She glares at the camera with a frown on her fuzzy cat face.
A fluffy black and white cat sits to the side of a MacBook with a document open in Word on the screen. She has a paw on the keyboard, ready to delete the whole thing if the human doesn’t provide adequate treats.
A fluffy black and white cat lies across an open notebook in front of a laptop. The silly human was reading a PDF on the laptop and taking notes, trying to get her homework done. The cat looks up with shiny green eyes and does not care.
Search result from the LibGen database with the article title May the Best Man Win, published in The Public Historian. Author’s name redacted by me, the author, for your good.
A fuzzy black and white cat stands on an office chair. She is screaming at a person off camera. The person feels the cat is unreasonable. In the background, a headless dress form named Cassandra wears a white 1820s petticoat, silent in her judgement of human and feline folly.
The discolored bottom of an apparently stainless steel coffee pot is show. At the top, just off center, is a patch of rust and a tiny hole. The author has a sad.
A fluffy black and white cat lounges between and on an embroidered pillow and beige sofa arm. Her green eyes express disdain for the human who dares consider using that arm rest.
A fluffy black and white cat sits like a loaf next to a pile of scholarly texts on a white desk. A MacBook is open on a stand, where someone hopes to write an assignment due soon. Good luck, sucker.
A young man with glasses and a scruffy beard holds a fluffy black and white cat in his arms as he sits on a sofa. The cat’s front legs drape over his forearms. She looks like she’s smiling and if you were here, you’d hear her great big purr.
Hardcover art and fashion books lean backwards against the horizontal support of a bookshelf. The shelf has collapsed inward under the weight. Ikea Hemnes shelf supports unequal to the task of holding up glazed paper and bindings.
A skyline seen from a train window in warm light. In the foreground there’s an empty expanse of dirt and a dirt pile. Row houses vanish into the distance. It’s West Baltimore.
A fluffy black and white act lolls on a white desk. Her head is over the edge of the table but magically she does not fall off. She demands pets: deliver or die. Or deliver and die, she doesn’t care.
Screenshot from Apple Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico labeled the Gulf of America. The detail also shows Florida, Cuba, and the northern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula.
A red breasted felt bird from Ikea lies on its back next to a table leg. The bird was knocked to the floor from a mantle by an angry spoiled cat. See next photo.
View through a 1774 window illuminated in green light. Through window a partially lit office building is visible. In the foreground there is a dark 18th century structure of red brick.
A fluffy black and white sits on the back of a green upholstered easy chair; a red and white woven coverlet with an American eagle design is draped over the chair. Her back paw rests on the eagle’s head. The cat looks slightly outraged.
A fuzzy black and white cat sits atop an early federal easy chair to peer around a door opening. A blue and white lamp with a red shade glows behind her. Treats are due soon.
A fluffy black and white cat stands on a sofa looking peeved. It’s quarter to six in the morning and she wants pets, NOW, or else there will be more howling
An American soldier flanked by two American Army nurses sits on the tail of a downed Stuka in Germany, spring 1945
A tabby cat with white cheeks and whiskers looks sadly at his disappointing human who has failed —again— to provide adequate never ending skritches and tuna snacks.