Why am I a cat?

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💻 Support engineer at GitHub 🐈 Sphynx enthusiast 😷 Covid conscious 🎶 Dream pop to doom metal 📚 Sci-fi & post modernism Matt. UK based - He/Him

CADENCE 73th metronomic CHORUS 36th in conversation VIGIL 3th very nocturnal gaps DRIFT 16th very a different person LEXICON 36th sprawling POLISH 87th very immaculate 24 WARM-BLOODED The Rested Hand Every sentence closed, every night slept. @yamiacat.bsky.social 8,088 posts over 641 days b.mino.mobi/palm percentile among 77 accounts, not a probability
Metallica's black album, with the band logo and a coiled snake in dark grey on a black background. The first album that made me stop just passively receiving music from the TV and radio and made me want to start a collection.
A haphazardly folded peach coloured blanket lying on the floor.
Thumbnails for: The Deep Dark (2023) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Rose of Nevada (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Cape Fear (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Cunk on Life (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Supergirl (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: Devour - Manet / Starlight - Triptides / Who Let The Dogs Out - Lambrini Girls / The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull - Earth / Return to Solaris - Kevin Richard Martin Acquainted With Night - Lael Neale / System - Prewn / Touch - Tortoise / Rumours - Fleetwood Mac / Deep End - veronicavon Blue Moon - Brendon Moeller / Chuncked and Muddled - Doo Rag / The Comeback Kid - Marnie Stern / The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers - Punch Brothers / Heaven - Softcult Butterfly - Daphni / Against The Wood, Opposed To Flesh - KAVARI / I Can See - Nick Hakim / Hillbilly Erotica - Sir Richard Bishop / WHO ASKED? - DOMI & JD Beck Sojourn - Glass Vaults / bury me at makeout creek - Mitski / Foundlings - Dead Meadow / Hasta El Cielo - Khruangbin / It's Always About Liberation - Ancient Infinity Orchestra
Thumbnails for: Rabbit Trap ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ ♻️ Backrooms ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ ♻️ Saloum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ The Old Dark House ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️
Steve McQueen in The Blob, looking not at all like a kid still in high school
A pink sphynx is sitting sphinx-style on a slightly battered black office chair looking at the camera.
The cover of Victor Pelevin's "The Helmet of Horror" - it's an abstract cover, most of which is taken up with a globular diagram of branches, similar to when you map a section of the internet, or part of the brain. The background has a lot of boxes, mostly square, sometimes rectangular or an L shape - they might be pixels, keys on a keyboard, or maybe genes.
Thumbnails for: Savage House (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Caddo Lake (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Incident at Raven's Gate (1988) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Witch Hunt (1994) ⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Trancers III (1992) ⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Masters of the Universe (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️
The cover of Martha Wells' "Platform Decay". A figure in spacesuit-like armor is floating in zero G inside a large shaft
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: Sing to God - Cardiacs / Dark side of the valley - Manet / Young, Loud And Snotty - Dead Boys / Desolation Years - Hong Faux / Three Fingers - The Rogers Sisters Shuffle - Jamie Lenman / Wrath - Bleached Cross / Unconscious Silence - Chihei Hatakeyama / Cycles in the Infinite Dream - REZN / The Shape of Space - Hypnodrone Ensemble Soda Pop * Rip Off - Slant 6 / God Was Like, No - The Fun Years / First Method - Ancient Methods / Emotional Junglist - Nia Archives / The Jericho Records - Ancient Methods Cause and Effect - Saffronkeira + Mario Massa / Teeth - Die Spitz / Laudanum - KAVARI / Orbweaving - Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya / The Voices Became Louder - Pearly Drops Different When It's Silent - Tricky / 24→24 Music - Dinosaur L / Hoping as a Coping Mechanism - Mould / Uncovered - Zamilska / Fear Paralysis - Rebekah
An interior view of a conservatory with a very colourful vortex pattern rug, several floral print chairs and matching footstool, a very battered office chair, and some environmental appliances like air filters, heaters and a dehumidifier... A pink sphynx is licking up a treat from a plastic lid...
A pink sphynx squinting in bright sunshine, sitting on a pink fuzzy cat sleeping bad
The cover of Caleb Azumah Nelson's "Open Water". On the top half, a portrait of a young Black man looking at the camera on a dull red background. On the bottom half, a portrait of a young Black woman looking downwards on a yellow background.
The cover of Clive Barker's "Books of Blood Vol. III". An image of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt being blown up is also part of a monstrous face, with eyes appearing behind her arms and the skirt being an upper lip, revealing sharp teeth underneath. A dressing room mirror with skulls instead of lightbulbs is behind her, and an evil looking Mickey Mouse with an eye hanging out of its socket is at her side.
A grey blanket, in which you can just see a sphynx face and some paws poking out
Abe Simpson pointing out of the image saying "This week it's youuuuuu!"
A pink and grey sphynx lying on her side on a grey bed, partially covered by a black blanket. She has her front paws curled up covering her nose, and you can see the toebeans on a back paw, and her comparatively furrier tail.
Thumbnails for: The Killings at Parrish Station (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Disclosure Day (2026) ⭐️⭐️½ Trancers II (1991) ⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Lone Star (1996) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: World of Echo - Arthur Russell / Pussy Whipped - Bikini Kill / Lemonade - Beyoncé / The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails / Pink - Boris Something to Consume - Die Spitz / Madvillainy - Madvillain / Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil / Peasant - Richard Dawson / Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco Patchouli Blue - Bohren & der Club of Gore / What of Our Nature - Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover / Am I Conscious Now? - Hawksmoor / Heaven Was Wild - Hey Colossus / Satellite Rides - Old 97's I and Love and You - The Avett Brothers / Spirit's Furnace - The Bones of J.R. Jones / Altar of Dreams - Aspidistrafly / Essam - Imarhan / Garlands - Cocteau Twins To Where The Wild Things Are... - Death and Vanilla / Walls of Jericho - Helloween / Attempted Martyr - Prostitute / Stranger on the Sofa - Barry Adamson / Lost Horizons - Lemon Jelly
The cover of Clark's "Feast / Beast" A man in a grey shirt is holding his wrist, from which springs forth a confusion of many hands
The poster for The Killings at Parrish Station. Two detectives stand facing away from each other, and a landscape involving a radio telescope, a cairn, and some wooden sculptures, is superimposed over them
Meme in which a character is shown telling his computer to say "I am alive," the computer says the line, and he responds, "Oh my god," as if shocked that the computer just admitted to being sentient.
B&W footage from a film involving a punch a judy performance - Judy batters Punch with a bat. Then it cuts to a young girl holding a stuffed toy laughing
The cover of Vonda N McIntyre's "The Exile Waiting". The image is mostly in shades of blue, so it looks like it might be underwater. There are a collection of hemispherical domes with portholes, and each dome is mounted on a column that looks like a strand of DNA
Thumbnails for: Backrooms (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ ♻️ Rabbit Trap (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ ♻️
Sean Connery's iconic all red pants, thigh boots and bandoliers outfit from Zardoz
The cover of Jess Brett's single "To Romance", where she's holding a sword and has a piece of shoulder armour on
The Dude lies in a bath smoking a joint using a roach clip
The cover of Jazmin Bean's "Worldwide Torture" They have blond hair with ear-like braids, contacts and make up that make them look like an alien of some kind, and they're holding an ornate symmetrical bladed weapon with a pink bow.
Thumbnails for: Theatre of Blood (1973) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Backrooms (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ In the Mouth of Madness (1994) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ ♻️ The Seventh Victim (1943) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rabbit Trap (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Digital Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro: The Real-World Guide to Set Up and Workflow (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: Sanguine - Julianna Barwick / The Magic Place - Julianna Barwick / swallowtail - she's green / The Future Will Come - The Juan Maclean / Contra - Vampire Weekend MJ Lenderman - MJ Lenderman / Deep Space - Model 500 / The Ground Above - Beth Orton / Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! - Gotcha! / Lost Futures - Marisa Anderson & William Tyler new avatar - Kelela / The Arsonist - Wailin Storms / Season of the Peach - Black Lips / Shadow Language - Brendon Moeller / Truly - Caoilfhionn Rose More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art - Carl Craig / An Empty Bliss Beyond This World - The Caretaker / Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / The Bluest Star - Free Cake For Every Creature / Warm, In Your Coat - Romeo Void Games - Synergy / Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart / Offering - Ibeyi / Squeezing Out Sparks - Graham Parker / Spanish Train And Other Stories - Chris de Burgh
Poster for "Star City" - in the foreground a young woman in a coat carrying a satchel looks back over her shoulder as she climbs some steps. The background shows a rocket taking off, seen through the silhouette of a man in profile listening to a headset.
A meme showing a skeleton lifting weights with text that says: My body is a machine that turns [Special promotion -75%] into [Play Time: 0 Minutes / Last Played: Never]
The cover of Clive Barker's "Books of Blood Vol II". A cloudy sky and blasted landscape lies in the background. Filling most of the image in the foreground, a woman's face in profile giving the reader sideye. Her hair is kinda Bride of Frankenstein, and is decorated with little partly flayed, partly skeletal human figures. Her earring is a tiny skull hung by its hair.
The cover of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" On a plain beige background with no image, there's blocky red and rust brown text giving the author, title and a pull quote: CORMAC MCCARTHY CHILD GOD HIS PROSE, UNFAILINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND EXACT, CARRIES US INTO A DREAMWORLD OF ASTONISHING AND VIOLENT REVELATION - TOBIAS WOLFF
The cover of Doris Lessing's "Shikasta". There is no picture, just a yellow background, and the full title, which is: CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES RE: COLONISED PLANET 5 SHIKASTA PERSONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO VISIT BY JOHOR (GEORGE SHERBAN) EMISSARY (GRADE 9) 87TH OF THE LAST PERIOD OF THE LAST DAYS
A Terry Pratchett meme showing the grim reaper Death holding a kitten, overlaid with text: HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Kitty? [That last word crudely photoshopped in] YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. So we can believe the big ones? YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. They're not the same at all! YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY AND YET.. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEALORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point - MY POINT EXACTLY.
Four books lying on some brown beige carpet, with a pink sphynx head jutting into shot to have a sniff. All but the Borges are hardbacks!
Thumbnails for: Saloum (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ The Petrified Forest (1936) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ The Furious (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Trancers: City of Lost Angels (1988) ⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ The Aura (2005) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Trancers (1984) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: Paradise Metal - Father Dionysios Tabakis / Harmony - Brutalismus 3000 / Shout at the Devil - Mötley Crüe / Up to Here - The Tragically Hip / Enema of the State - blink-182 Boilerism - ECHT! / No Balance Palace - Kashmir / Nightbirds - Labelle / Everything's Peachy - Matt Berry Trio / Night Reign - Arooj Aftab Gongbu - Balming Tiger / Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise - The Dear Hunter / In Praise of Shadows - The Asteroid #4 / Almoraima - Paco de Lucía No Rush - Tokyo Tea Room / The Devil And All His Works - Witchsorrow / Films - Yuki Murata / Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) - Gurrumul / نور - The Thing With Five Eyes The Petrified Forest - Biosphere / Mirage - Glass Beams / The Unbinding - Soothsayer / your inner world is deeply uninteresting - Spiral Staircase / The Menace Of Mechanical Music - Team Picture
A picture of a squinting pink sphynx taken through a toilet roll so that most of the image is black, with a light circle showing just the face. The cat is lit from the side so it looks like a waxing moon, and the wrinkles and whisker bumps look a little like a craggy lunar landscape.
The cover of Clive Barker's "Books of Blood Vol I". A dark and grimy scene with many odd characters crowded together. The largest is the titular book of blood, a naked young man covered in cuts. Next to him is a dark haired mustachioed man wearing a stripy suit, raising his had towards us, which appears to be on fire. In the foreground there's a green horned creature wearing purple robes leaning on a cross, and a grinning naked man with a knife sticking out of his head holding up a photograph of another man (Clive Barker himself, I think?)
I tiger in a box that has "Free Kittens" written on it, with the "s" crossed out
A colourful alphabet of bubble letters
The cover of Premee Mohamed's "No One Will Come Back For Us, and Other Stories" - An untethered astronaut floats in a greenish nebula, and 2 huge octopus-like tentacles reach out for them
Thumbnails for: Flow (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Old Dark House (1932) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Obsession (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Murder Death Koreatown (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ The Shadow Strays (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ I Love Boosters (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: Your Day Will Come - Chanel Beads / Sea Change - Beck / Az Ördög Álarcosbálja = Devil's Masquerade - Syrius / Grief in Exile - Mariee Sioux / On Whatever You Prey - Meredith Edgar Magazine - YHWH Nailgun / Bakerz Dozen - Wu-Lu & POISON ANNA / Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band / We Rock Hard - Freestylers / Hecla & Griper - Songs: Ohia Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World - Habibi Funk / The Magnolia Electric Co. - Songs: Ohia / Now You Exist - The Field / "Good God / Baad Man" - Corrosion of Conformity / Get Fucked - The Chats The General Electric - Shihad / Songs: Ohia - Songs: Ohia / The Hypnogogue - The Church / Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun - Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri / Night Blooms - Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra False Lankum - Lankum / Loophole - Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band / Quiet Music - Steve Roach / Chasing Shadows - Nubiyan Twist / II - Psychic Temple
Thumbnails for: I Love Boosters (2026) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ 27 Jun The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ 25 Jun The Christophers (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ 22 Jun The Blob (1988) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ 21 Jun
A green slime drip droops down from a branch and lies in a hollow while singing "Don't say there's nothing to do in the doldrums", from "The Phantom Tollbooth" (1970)
The smarmy monorail salesman from the simpsons, in an orange jacket and bow tie, and straw boater hat
Hans Moleman from the Simpsons using a phone booth being sieged by birds says: "I need all the MK movies" "No, that's too many"
Thumbnails for: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Tuner (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Mārama (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ The Christophers (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ The Blob (1988) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ The Pied Piper (1986) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ The Long Walk (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Decibel (2024) ⭐️⭐️½
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: BRAT - Charli xcx / Endless Summer - Fifi Rong & Davyd / Carpet Bed - Ethel Cain / 30 Something - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine / Stationnment - Kyle Bobby Dunn Silent Shout - The Knife / Give Up - The Postal Service / Your Blood - Bombus / Stranger in Town - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters Brat and it's completely different but also still brat - Charli xcx / Ribbons - Bibio / Alien Soundtracks - Chrome / First Utterance - Comus / Body Talk - Robyn No Talking Just Head - The Heads / Belladonna Nocturne - Daniel Lanois / Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne / Shards - Tim Hecker / Sunset Mission - Bohren & der Club of Gore In Dreams - Duster / Lapse - Idaho / Jet Plane and Oxbow - Shearwater / The Charmer - Toadies / Madonna - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The cover of Hacks season 1. Jean Smart holding a mic, and Hannah Einbinder, both wearing shades, are sitting on a desert highway - the yellow road lines have been painted over the top of them
A Japanese portable record player with a green case, with the two dials being chrome, and the turn table and arm being in simple white
The cover of "Memory's Legion" by James SA Corey. Unusually for an Expanse book, it's pretty clear what's happening on the cover! A red planet is in the background. In the foreground, the drive plume of a ship is blasting a hole through an asteroid. A second ship is moored to the asteroid, perilously close to the blast site...
Thumbnails for: Onibaba (1964) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ The Power of the Dog (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Civil War (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ Fall (2022) ⭐️⭐️½ Keeper (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ❤️ Looper (2012) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ ❤️ ♻️ The Bluff (2026) ⭐️⭐️ ❤️
A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring: Album - Artist: The Truth Doesn't Matter - Mesh / Somersaults - deathcrash / Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! - Horse Lords / The Universe Smiles Upon You - Khruangbin / Into the Great Wide Yonder - Trentemøller Holy Wars - Tuxedomoon / Magazine - YHWH Nailgun / Inferno - Boards of Canada / Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light / Bi Cinnete Bakar - LALALAR Anadolu Pop - Moğollar / Sigils For Survival - Octo Octa / Instrumentals 2015 - Flying Saucer Attack / Basic - Basic / Cinema 3000 - Common Saints Hello Darling - The Violet Mindfield / Confusions - l'éclair / Magic Of The Sale - Teethe / PON - Tujiko Noriko / A Turn in the Dream-Songs - Jeffrey Lewis Neon Summer Skin - Bedouine / I Was Real - 75 Dollar Bill / Chronicles of Gnowt - Gnod / Event Beat - Holy Fuck / Mutiny After Midnight - Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds