Kathryn Rose
@artsyhonker.bsky.social
composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, chaser after the wind, pastoral assistant, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's just a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they
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Kathryn Rose
@artsyhonker.bsky.social
· Apr 4
OK people are talking about #gardening as a response to economic crisis and I see we are doing the "subsistence agriculture is hard, actually" disk horse again and I have a *bunch* of thoughts on this which I am going to put into a thread here so my ADHD brain will let me do the next task. 1/?
You just died.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
You just died.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
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there were plans announced today to sequester carbon under the North Sea
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
Announced while everyone's reacting to the budget, Labour are backtracking from their already weak position on new fossil fuel extraction.
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan - BBC News
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
there were plans announced today to sequester carbon under the North Sea
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
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ok: 2025 "AI" is built and funded by fascists for fascist purposes, and that should be the first thing anyone talks about when mentioning it in any regard.
that's my view as a technologist.
that's my view as a technologist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ok: 2025 "AI" is built and funded by fascists for fascist purposes, and that should be the first thing anyone talks about when mentioning it in any regard.
that's my view as a technologist.
that's my view as a technologist.
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A great deal of ‘welfare’ spending is basically the taxpayer picking up the tab for economic and political failures. I mean, how much of the UK’s welfare spending is basically down to the housing crisis and a decade of minimal wage growth?
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A great deal of ‘welfare’ spending is basically the taxpayer picking up the tab for economic and political failures. I mean, how much of the UK’s welfare spending is basically down to the housing crisis and a decade of minimal wage growth?
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And the sad fact is, ain't nobody got the time, or the money, for that shit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And the sad fact is, ain't nobody got the time, or the money, for that shit.
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If you're going to "do without" juries, you have to have a completely redesigned judicial process, which doesn't hinge on the presentation of two competing narratives, but rests on judges trained to work, as they are in France, Germany, etc, in a completely different way.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If you're going to "do without" juries, you have to have a completely redesigned judicial process, which doesn't hinge on the presentation of two competing narratives, but rests on judges trained to work, as they are in France, Germany, etc, in a completely different way.
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I have complained as well. Perhaps others might wish to complain as well, fwiw?
I strongly suspect I'm pissing in the wind, but here's my complaint to BBC News about their use of this language to describe a *teenage victim of crime*. I even said I want a response, like someone who is *determined* to suffer.
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have complained as well. Perhaps others might wish to complain as well, fwiw?
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I strongly suspect I'm pissing in the wind, but here's my complaint to BBC News about their use of this language to describe a *teenage victim of crime*. I even said I want a response, like someone who is *determined* to suffer.
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I strongly suspect I'm pissing in the wind, but here's my complaint to BBC News about their use of this language to describe a *teenage victim of crime*. I even said I want a response, like someone who is *determined* to suffer.
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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There is still no programme of ensuring #cleanair in classrooms. Children continue to get repeatedly infected. #makehopenormal #boldpolitics #Covid #LongCovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There is still no programme of ensuring #cleanair in classrooms. Children continue to get repeatedly infected. #makehopenormal #boldpolitics #Covid #LongCovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social
@greensagainstcovid.bsky.social this seems like something to get behind
New petition: "Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
New petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment by FFP2/3 masked staff, safe air and ventilation in every setting and stronger infection control.
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@greensagainstcovid.bsky.social this seems like something to get behind
@elhopkins.bsky.social this seems of interest (if you don't already know about it, which you might!)
New petition: "Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
New petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment by FFP2/3 masked staff, safe air and ventilation in every setting and stronger infection control.
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@elhopkins.bsky.social this seems of interest (if you don't already know about it, which you might!)
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New petition: "Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
New petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment by FFP2/3 masked staff, safe air and ventilation in every setting and stronger infection control.
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New petition: "Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Kay Price
#NewPetition
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Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
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Another way to think of this is that when someone talks about economic populism, the first questions to ask them are: How do you define the people, and how do you define the working class?
And what the answers to those questions make clear is that economic populism is also woke.
And what the answers to those questions make clear is that economic populism is also woke.
Tell me you don't know what woke is without telling me you don't know what woke is.
And to be less cryptic about it, woke is economic populism, and if someone can't see that they're revealing quite a bit about their analytic lens.
And to be less cryptic about it, woke is economic populism, and if someone can't see that they're revealing quite a bit about their analytic lens.
Opinion | James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Another way to think of this is that when someone talks about economic populism, the first questions to ask them are: How do you define the people, and how do you define the working class?
And what the answers to those questions make clear is that economic populism is also woke.
And what the answers to those questions make clear is that economic populism is also woke.
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New petition: "Stop new powers limiting repeat protests"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Peter Guy Yates
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Peter Guy Yates
#NewPetition
New petition: Stop new powers limiting repeat protests
Withdraw proposals to give police powers to restrict or ban “repeat protests". We think these measures undermine the right to free expression, peaceful assembly and democratic participation in the UK. Peaceful protest is a vital part of holding Government to account. Defend free speech.
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New petition: "Stop new powers limiting repeat protests"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Peter Guy Yates
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Peter Guy Yates
#NewPetition
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New petition: "Ban Members of Parliament from being residential landlords"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Brendan Keenan
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Brendan Keenan
#NewPetition
New petition: Ban Members of Parliament from being residential landlords
We ask the Government to introduce legislation preventing sitting MPs from being residential landlords. We believe MPs who profit from rental income are in a conflict of interest when voting on housing, rent, and tenant legislation, which may undermine public trust and fair representation.
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New petition: "Ban Members of Parliament from being residential landlords"
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Brendan Keenan
#NewPetition
Deadline 25 May 2026, created by Brendan Keenan
#NewPetition
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So yeah perception that you’re being fleeced by taxation when it’s more your employer giving inadequate rises and corporations profiteering you can see why ostensibly high earning people feel aggrieved
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
So yeah perception that you’re being fleeced by taxation when it’s more your employer giving inadequate rises and corporations profiteering you can see why ostensibly high earning people feel aggrieved
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the number of ebike fires where it turns out the fire started from plugging a 48V charger into a 36V battery is uh
yeah. a sign to me that we need a universal charging port standard with a) different sockets for different voltages and b) automatic overvoltage protection.
yeah. a sign to me that we need a universal charging port standard with a) different sockets for different voltages and b) automatic overvoltage protection.
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
the number of ebike fires where it turns out the fire started from plugging a 48V charger into a 36V battery is uh
yeah. a sign to me that we need a universal charging port standard with a) different sockets for different voltages and b) automatic overvoltage protection.
yeah. a sign to me that we need a universal charging port standard with a) different sockets for different voltages and b) automatic overvoltage protection.
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
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Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way.
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö
Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.
ysaatio.fi
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way.
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
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UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
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one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
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It's a cliche at this point, but HMRC is now so hamstrung it has no chance of fighting lawsuits against tax evading HNW Individuals and corporations, but hey, one more round of disciplining the absolute bottom rung and I'm sure the growth fairy will appear like magic.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's a cliche at this point, but HMRC is now so hamstrung it has no chance of fighting lawsuits against tax evading HNW Individuals and corporations, but hey, one more round of disciplining the absolute bottom rung and I'm sure the growth fairy will appear like magic.
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Ah good - we're getting a crackdown on benefit fraud. An idea nobody in the last 40 years has ever come up with.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Ah good - we're getting a crackdown on benefit fraud. An idea nobody in the last 40 years has ever come up with.