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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social

Was something published recently about these orange ones (like our Wheezie) being a partial subspecies, or something?

aug 24, 2025, 2:11 am • 167 6

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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social

yees.. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

aug 24, 2025, 5:32 am • 1 0 • view
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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social

Yes. We love our mutants. www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

aug 24, 2025, 2:13 am • 41 5 • view
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Wolfenred @wolfenred.bsky.social

@johngcole.bsky.social

aug 24, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
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J.R. Raith 🤘🏻 @jrronimo.bsky.social

The specific mutation leading to their coloration was found: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new... Our ~20 year old orange boy Conoco doesn't much care.

Conoco, a 20ish year old orange kitty, standing on a scale.
aug 24, 2025, 2:14 am • 17 1 • view
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Rahvin @rahvin.bsky.social

The cat was the color of tang mixed with streaks of brown sugar (on television).

aug 24, 2025, 3:05 am • 2 0 • view
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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org

They say that orange cats are more likely to be male, but oddly enough two of my three orange cats are female.

My female orange cat Lynnie My other orange female cat, Tama-chan
aug 24, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
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John @johnrt.bsky.social

Band name!

aug 24, 2025, 10:41 am • 0 0 • view
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lcrl1961.bsky.social @lcrl1961.bsky.social

One orange braincell

aug 24, 2025, 2:25 am • 4 0 • view
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Steven Arden @ardensteve.bsky.social

Pippin did not have the brain cell today!

Orange cat standing on ledge wondering why he can’t move forward.
aug 24, 2025, 2:44 am • 7 0 • view
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lcrl1961.bsky.social @lcrl1961.bsky.social

The bug took it

aug 24, 2025, 2:52 am • 2 0 • view
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4d3fect @4d3fect.bsky.social

That's the one

aug 24, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Goodbye Serotonin @goodbyeserotonin.bsky.social

There are multiple Reddit communities dedicated to orange cats specifically. No idea why!

aug 24, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
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redstormpopcorn @wasteof.technology

They're very special cats that all collectively share a single brain cell

aug 24, 2025, 2:17 am • 8 0 • view
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rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social

Orange Sherbert Mittens thinks she is special. And science says she is right. Drat you science!

aug 24, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 1 • view
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Flynny da Modern_Robot 🤖 @modernrobot.bsky.social

The vikings are to blame for the orange cat distribution.

aug 24, 2025, 5:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social

Could well be since apparently they only have one brain cell

aug 24, 2025, 5:00 am • 5 0 • view