Sarkat

@sarkat.bsky.social

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Geek, linguist, writer of fanfic, mom. Not a real mountain lion. She/her

Text at the top reads "me: 'I'm just going to do the dishes and then relax." And at the bottom, "also me, 45 minutes later on a side quest:" And the image is a woman sitting up in a pine tree cutting a branch with a large pair of clippers. As one does. There is a speaker icon at the bottom right corner, but it is not a button. At least not anymore.
A gray tabby cat sitting on a round kitchen table in front of an open laptop displaying lock screen with the time 8:55.
A tall, thin jar full of light brown tea, sitting on the edge of a round table, with the sun shining through it. In the background, out of focus, a gray cat is sitting in a chair by the window with his elbows on the windowsill, looking out the window.
A gray tabby cat sitting on a kitchen floor, staring up at a plastic bag on the counter with a paper back inside.
A photo of a large mug featuring a painting of “laughing” sea otters floating on their backs in ocean and, partly visible, the name and logo of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. In the background is an open laptop with a post-it note next to the glide pad, a wireless mouse and a pencil. Behind the laptop, there is a gray tabby cat lifting on front paw as he contemplates walking across the keyboard.
A close up photo looking down into a shallow, glass jar with several leaves of flat Italian parsley at the bottom. One leaf has a light brown, spherical insect egg about the size of a pin head. Another has a similar egg that is white and gray. A third has a sphere that is transparent and apparently empty. On two other leaves in the upper left and bottom center, there are two tiny, fuzzy black caterpillars with white bands around the middle of their bodies.
Closeup of a single leaf lobe of Italian flat parsley on a dark wood surface. On the leaf there is a small, spherical insect egg about the size of a pin head. The egg is white with a light brown band around the middle and a brown spot on the top.
A photo of a small garden plot with parsley, thyme, basil and a cucumber plant all being dwarfed by a tomato bush that has overrun its cage and is nearly as tall as the six foot wooden fence behind it and is sending out branches in all directions.
A photo of a small garden plot with parsley, thyme, basil and a cucumber plant all being dwarfed by a tomato bush that has overrun its cage and is nearly as tall as the six foot wooden fence behind it and is sending out branches in all directions.
A gray tabby lying on the foot of a bed, mostly over the comforter with only his head and shoulders sticking out. He has his head up, looking at the camera and wondering why I disturbed his nap.
A Victorian era post card showing woman in a long red skirt, white blouse and large, red hat being menaced by a human size stork with a baby in a sling around its neck. The stork has its neck extended as if to bite the woman and the woman is winding up to hit the stork with her umbrella. Text across the bottom reads “And the villain still pursues her”.
A jar of dark colored marmalade with a label that reads: California Jan Queen’s LGBT Marmalade Featuring lemon, grape, blood orange & tangerine Sweet, complex & not surprisingly, a little bit bitter Made in my Home Kitchen
A graph of the age and sex demographics of the United States in 1960 represented as a bar graph with age in 5 year increments on the Y axis and percentage of the population on the X axis. The male and female populations are shown as two mirrored bar graphs extending out from 0 in the center along the Percentage of Population axis. The 0 to 4 age group, at the bottom, is the largest and the bars get progressively smaller until 20 to 24 and 25 to 29 age groups which markedly shorter than the groups above or below them (on account of World War 2). The 30 to 34 bars get longer again and the 35 to 39 bars are longer still. From there, the age groups get steadily smaller and smaller until the graph comes to a point at the top with very small percentages being age 85+ The combination of the World War 2 drop in the birth rate and the subsequent rebound with the way the male and female populations are represented back to back creates a… very distinctive shape.
Rhomann Dey, from Guardians of the Galaxy looking nonplussed and saying "That's actually... murder"
A gray tabby cat with green eyes, crouching in front of a show bench, next to a black shoe, looking up at the camera suspiciously.
A package of Hollywood Silicone CoverUps nipple covers for light skin tones. In the foreground there is a nipple cover in a clear plastic case and another one out of the case. It is a round piece of light beige silicone thinking to translucency at the edges.
Paul Ballard, from Dollhouse, interrogating serial killer Terry Karens, asking “Have you been practicing dentistry on large cats?” Per the traces of vetrinary grade paralytic in his system.
A caption at the top reads “Saint Patrick isn’t the only saint whose feast day is March 17th. It is also the feast day of Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of cats and people who love them.” Below is a an oil pastel style picture of a woman in a black and white nuns habit, with a golden disc halo, holding and stroking a brown tabby cat. Text on the picture reads, “It’s happens every year: Patrick this and Patrick that. No one remembers me and my cats”
A Minecraft cobblestone block, which is dabbled shades of gray. Like a gray tabby cat.
A gray tabby cat sitting in a clear plastic bin of Manila folders, looking at the camera like, “What? I am folder.”
A screenshot of the auto-generated art text on a picture of Cruella de Vil that says, “a cartoon of cruella de vil holding a toothbrush”. Good try, auto caption, but that’s a cigarette holder.
A screenshot of the auto-generated art text on a picture of Cruella de Vil that says, “a cartoon of cruella de vil holding a toothbrush”. Good try, auto caption, but that’s a cigarette holder.
A screen shot of the Trending box from Bluesky that says Trending 1 Stephen Miller 2 Political Removal 3 Homan Appointment 4 Antique Roadshow 5 ICE Operations
A smiling, blonde, white woman wearing a shirt that says “WHITE, straight, Republican, MALE. How else can I piss you off today?”
A tall IKEA CD tower/bookshelf, about 8 inches with and deep standing in an obtuse corner. The top is level with the top of the window next to it. A gray, mackerel tabby cat is sprawled across the top of the tower, hanging off in every direction. He is trying to grab his tail, which hangs off one side while his head hangs over another another side, watching his tail.
Agent Hill, arms folded, asking, “When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?” Tony Stark, nonchalant, answering “Last night.”
A chart of reported measles cases in the United States by year from 1962 to 2023, showing a precipitous drop in the number of cases after the measles vaccine was licensed in 1963. The graph is annotated with "Joe Rogan was born in 1967" and an arrow pointing to 1967. By which time the number of measles cases had dropped from nearly 500,000 a year, before the introduction of the vaccine to only around 60,000 cases.
A gray tabby cat staring innocently out from amid the towels on a closest shelf.
A color swatch of deep green with the code #002d04 at the bottom. Below that, it says “ColorsWall.com” and colorswall.com/002d04
A piece of a word cloud that says: Friend Means Women Says LWJ
Emoji bubble chart for 2025 showing 50 different emojis used 466 times total, visualized as bubbles sized by frequency. Top 10: 😄 (83×), 😅 (64×), 🤔 (43×), 😆 (29×), 🤨 (26×), 🤷🏻‍♀ (23×), 😛 (17×), 🙃 (14×), 🏳‍🌈 (11×), 😩 (8×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "seems" (38×), "those" (36×), "sounds" (33×), "tell" (30×), "find" (30×), "without" (27×), "baby" (27×), "looks" (26×), "trans" (24×), "call" (23×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
Terry, from The Dragon Prince. A slim, wiry elf boy with light brown skin short, green hair and two small horns on top of his head.
A graph from Google NGram Viewer showing the frequency of occurrences of the phrase “a virgin” in books printed from 1800 to 2022. It shows a high, somewhat jagged line in the 1800s, then a steady decline until the 1920s, when it plateaus until the 1980s. In the 1980s, it starts rising Sharply and reaches 1926 levels again by 2015.
Embroidery hoop art of Wei Wuxian in black and Lan Wangji in white, standing side by side, from the back. Their clothes are done in satin stitch and the hair is long strands of thread hanging loose from the fabric. Wei Wuxian’s hair is tied up in a half ponytail with a red ribbon and Lan Wangji’s pale blue ribbon peeks out of his hair at the temples and the ends hang loose down his back.
A Goose Chasing Guy meme. In the first panel, a close up drawing skeptical looking goose’s face asking “Who did this “Antifa” fight against in the Weimar Republic? In the second panel, the goose is chasing a person with its head down and beak open in an aggressive posture and asking “WHO DID THEY FIGHT, JACK?”
The salt sucking alien from the Star Trek Episode “The Man Trap”. A humanoid creature with a wrinkly, leathery, grey-green skin, long white hair and a lamprey-like mouth.
A flier with that reads: INSECURE WITH YOUR MASCULINITY? C STUDENT AT BEST IN HIGH SCHOOL? TOO UGLY TO SHOW YOUR FACE? JOIN ICE! Below is a picture of a person wearing garter, sunglasses, a baseball cap and a bulletproof vest that reading “Police, Federal Agent”. At the bottom is it says JoinICEToday.com
A screen shot of a page showing v bill history for AB-1899 Courts
A drawing of a covered wagon with the text “Please be patient with me, I’m from the 1900s”
A photo of a small, metal and glass chamber with an oxygen canister attached, for resuscitating coal mine canaries after they save everybody by passing out at the first hint of carbon monoxide.
A Google Ngram viewer showing the frequency of appearances of the words “Gender” in written material from 1960 to 2022. In 1960, the frequency is low, but not zero and it begins to rise sharply around 1980. There is a dip beginning around 2004, then starting to rise again around 2011. Thule line peaks in 2019 and falls slightly from there to 2022. 1998 is marked with a vertical line, showing that gender did, in fact, exist before then.
Alice Green from Big City Greens
A photo a life size statue of a T-Rex skeleton covered by a whole flock of plastic lawn flamingos, as if they have just devoured the T-Rex down to the bones.
A photo a life size statue of a T-Rex skeleton covered by a whole flock of plastic lawn flamingos, as if they have just devoured the T-Rex down to the bones.
A hoop art embroidered picture of Zhou Zishu and white haired Wen Kexing, from the back leaning together, looking out at a starry sky and silver moon.
An iPhone alarm going off screen for an alarm labeled “Up” on Monday, July 28 at 7:09 with “Snooze” and “Stop” buttons.
Hoop art embroidery of two people, from the back, one in blue with long, black hair, half up in a topknot and one in red with long, white hair pulled back in a half ponytail. The are leaning together with their heads almost touching as they look out at a silver moon and stars against a black background. The hair is Turkey work stitch and I'm very proud of it. And yes, that is Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing.
A screen shot of part of a comic with Luz Noceda carrying King on her shoulders, King: “Hey, Luz?” Luz: “Yeah?” King: “Will you be my sister in my next like, too?” Luz: “Sure, I will.” King: “Pinky swear?”
A tiny green dragon made of seed beads sitting on the wrist ret of a laptop.
A drawing of a curled up Asian dragon as a cinnamon roll. The dragon has a speech bubble saying "Asmodeus, no..." A speech bubble from off screen says "Asmodeus YES."
A gray tabby cat sits at a window with his hind quarters on a kitchen chair and his elbows on the window sill.
A scene from Girl Genius in which Master Payne says to Oggie: "You CANNOT POSSIBLY be as stupid as you act." Oggie, grinning: "Ken if I WANTS to be!"
Bandit Heeler telling Bluey and Bingo, “The 80s were a wild place”
A copy of the Motherlover graphic novel displayed with the front cover facing out on a shelf full of graphic novels.
Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)
Jeremy Chetri (Wynonna Earp)
A three tier, white and blue wedding cake, topped with chocolate and white chocolate roses with /eɪdən ænd sɛɹə/ written on the first tier and /tʊ lʌv ɑːnɚ ænd t͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/ on the second tier
A black cat laying on its side with its front paws around a tiny, gray tabby kitten with the text: “Is too a squeaky toy! Listen when I squeeze it!”
A gray tabby cat lounging in a child’s booster style car seat on a bench, giving the camera a “What?” Look.