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@mittenbird.bsky.social

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MI→GA→VA. cat mama to Coal🖤, Steele🩶, and Lissy Lou💔🌈. auntie, historian, legal professional (not a lawyer), musician, genealogist. mad online (and offline too). lurking in the comment section. she/her or they/them. opinions mine. #FireUpChips

photograph of a gray sky with a small neon orange dot in the center, which is the sun. there are trees with green leaves in the bottom and sides of the picture.
Steele, a gray cat with a white mustache, gazes off into the distance past his mom, who’s taking his picture. Steele is burrowed into a pile of clean sheets fresh out of the dryer.
Coal, a shiny black cat with big gold eyes, peers up at his mom from inside a canvas laundry hamper
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, curled up in a tight ball, asleep in a cat tree with a front leg over his face and two of his four white socks visible
Coal, a sleek black cat, sits on a brown wood floor with alert pointed ears and wide golden eyes
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache and white socks, cuddles in a beige cat tree with his brother Coal, a sleek black cat. Coal has one front leg wrapped around Steele like an arm around his shoulders.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a small white mustache, white whiskers, and white socks gazes at the camera from where he has burrowed under white and green blankets.
Coal, a sleek black cat, looks at his mom with big golden eyes from where he sits inside a tall, empty laundry hamper he has hopped inside without turning it over
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, looks at his mom upside down from her lap. his front paws are curled and two shiny canine teeth are poking out of his mouth.
Coal, a solid cat with huge golden eyes, looks shocked that his mom caught him enjoying the new carrier
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a tiny white mustache, dangles one front paw with a little white sock on it off the couch footrest
a white “staring cat” plushie with cartoonishly large bugged-out eyes
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, shows off his white front socks on the back wooden frame of a bed. the rest of his body is curled up on the mattress. he’s looking at his mom and her camera like he’s not sure what she could possibly be looking at, since he’s acting totally normal.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, is lying in the bottom perch of a two-tier cat tree looking up at his brother Coal in the top perch with affection
a gray and white tuxedo cat sleeps in his mom’s lap with his front paws stretched out, ready to pat her if necessary. his front paws have little white socks on them.
Coal, a sleek black cat, looks back at his mom with big gold eyes while standing on his back feet with his front paws up on the wall. there is a door to his right and a full laundry bin to his left.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, stands on his back feet atop a beige cat tree with his front paws against the white wall in front of him. his tuxedo and his tiny meows are not visible from this angle.
Coal, a black cat, stands on a wood floor, refusing to look directly at mom, waiting for his breakfast
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a tiny white mustache and round cheeks, peers down at his mom from atop a beige cat tree
Coal, a shiny black cat, looks at his mom with big eyes from a small gap in the folds of the same beige/off-white blanket his brother likes to tunnel into
Coal, a sleek black cat, stands in a darkened bathroom doorway, in contrast to white walls, floor, and cabinets, and brown wood flooring around him. he has large, round, luminous gold eyes, and he looks alert.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, peering at his mom through an opening in a beige blanket that he has burrowed into
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a small white mustache, looks intently at his mom from where he’s tucked himself in under a white blanket. he’s on a gray sheet with one front paw visible and hanging over the end of the bed, and there’s a light blue blanket in the foreground.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, and Coal, a sleek black cat, look at their mom with wide, bright, and very innocent eyes from where they’re sitting on the floor. a blanket they pulled partway off the bed is visible under their front paws and one of their mom’s socks is in the background.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a little white mustache, showing the tip of his tongue just under his mustache.
Coal, a shiny black cat, curled up on some blankets over his mom’s feet. his eyes are closed and you can’t tell from the picture, but he’s purring very loudly.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, sits inside a large Amazon box that says “I’m empty inside”. he is looking off into space with his round eyes.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache and long white whiskers, looks intently at his mom with his paws folded in front of him.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a tiny white mustache and white socks on all four feet, stretches out on a wood floor and looks up at his mother expectantly
Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave: “I don’t know what any of this shit is and I’m fucking scared”
a graphic labeled “Cheboygan Lock & Dam Complex Daily Water Level Update” for April 15, 2026 at 9:00 am indicating water levels have risen to 6.6 inches below the top of the dam, a rise of 1.44 inches overnight
Coal, a black cat, looks up at the ceiling from the top of a beige cat tree. his brother Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, sits on a black nightstand with a black lamp next to the cat tree and looks over his shoulder past their mom and her camera. no amount of pspspsps changed this situation.
Coal, a black cat, is stretched out on a black shelf in front of a window with dark blue curtains. he is watching sparrows on a neighboring balcony, and quietly chatters at them.
Coal, a black cat, and Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, crouch on a black shelf next to a window with blue curtains. they are watching something out the window very intently, probably a pair of sparrows we believe are nesting on the neighbor’s balcony.
Coal, a shiny black cat, relaxes with his eyes closed and his paws curled in the air while his mom rubs the top of his head. he is on a light blue blanket.
Coal, a shiny and handsome black cat with big luminous gold eyes, looks grumpily beyond his mom, who’s trying to take a good picture of him
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with white paws and a little white mustache, displays his white belly/chest patches and multicolored toe beans while lounging on his side on a wooden floor. he’s seen through a doorway.
Coal, a solid black cat, lounges on a bed with the front half of his body draped over his mom’s legs, which are covered with a green blanket.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, stretches out on a beige carpet while simultaneously hiding all of his legs and his tail. if he could roll his eyes at his mom, he would.
Coal, a solid black cat, stands on his back feet on a wood floor with his front paws on a white cabinet. he is alert and looking around the exam room for what kind of trouble he can get into next.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache and a small overbite, looks upward. he looks happy.
Coal, a sleek black cat, looks at his mom suspiciously with wide yellow eyes. he is in the top of a beige cat tree, above a dangly feather toy that his brother Steele ate within 3 days of Dad bringing the cat tree home from PetSmart.
Coal, a shiny solid black cat, sleeps with his belly up and his curled front paws in the air. his mouth is visible between his paws. not pictured: the extremely loud purring he was doing in his sleep.
Coal, a sleek black cat, relaxes on the footrest of a beige couch. he has one long, slim front leg dangling in front of him while looking intensely at the camera.
Coal, a sleek black cat, loafing in a beige cat tree. his head is turned, he will not look at his mom for a picture
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a little white mustache, white socks, and white spots on his chest and belly, gives his mom a wide-eyed expression from his spot on the hallway floor.
Coal, a solid black cat, is stretched out on a wooden floor. there is a white door with a doormat in front of it, the doormat has a picture of a surprised cat face on it. Coal is lying in between late afternoon sunbeams.
Coal, a black cat, is stretched out flat on his belly on a green sheet. he is looking at the camera with half-open eyes.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a little white mustache, sits on a black desk next to a black lamp and a gray keyboard. there is a blue curtain behind him and a green coffee mug with white polka dots in front of him.
Coal, a shiny solid black cat, is slightly blurry as he looks suspiciously at his mom from inside a canvas bin with a print of cats and a bird on a branch on the front.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, sits in a canvas bin with a print of cats and a bird on a branch on the front
a tuxedo cat guards a dark blue sheet, which is wadded up on a white mattress. while tugging at the sheet, a female voice (cat mom) asks if she can make the bed and the cat replies with a big hiss.
a close-up of back feet belonging to Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with white socks. one foot has the toe furthest to the left spread away from the rest, with his claw digging into the carpet. his other back foot has visible toe beans on display.
Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, stands on his back feet with his front paws on a door. he is looking at his reflector in a mirror on the door, but also licking the mirror.
Steele, a gray and white tuxedo cat with a white mustache, perches on the back of his mom’s chair. she is partially visible on the left side of the photo.
Coal, a shiny and sleek black cat, yawns widely while perched at the top of a beige cat tree
Coal, a sleek black cat with big golden eyes, refuses to look at the camera
Coal, a sleek black cat, meows loudly at his mom after she reveals his secret hideway and begins talking to him
Coal, a black cat, and Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, are close together while individually stretched out on a bed. Coal’s back legs are stretched straight out while Steele’s back paws are curled in the air.
screenshot of a weather forecast, showing predicted high temperatures below or right around freezing for the next week and mostly single-digit low temperatures