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Kathryn Rose

@artsyhonker.bsky.social

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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/?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26m

That chant is a banger. Now we gotta get it to the front lines on the Portland front, where it can be shouted by someone wearing an inflatable dinosaur suit.

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 41m

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 1d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 27m

Sometimes weeks are like that

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 28m

Also.... am I correct in my understanding that bariatric surgery has a bunch of associated health risks?

I am certainly wary of GLP-1s for the time being.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 4d

So Labour want to:
- Reform the ECHR (for the worse)
- Make life much much tougher for Indefinite Leave to Remain visa holders and applicants
- Bring in draconian extra powers to police protest
- Widen facial recognition
- Bring in compulsory national ID
- Deport more people

Not very Labourish.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 38m

file under "crapitalism ruins everything" I guess

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 43m

Great that the police are cracking down on illegal ebikes. Disappointing that they make statements like this. Legal ebikes may travel at more than 15.5 mph, but electrical assistance is only available up to that speed and only while pedalling. I assume that this is what by "working pedals"

The only legal electric bikes are electric assisted pedal cycles (EAPC). These must have working pedals, travel no more than 15.5 mph, and an output of no more than 250 watts.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 42m

(The ADHD clinic has only lost my prescription once...)

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 43m

In any case I hope you get the support you need for your lungs.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 44m

I would end up just going without care most of the time if I lived there, I think. I can barely manage the admin load of getting e.g. ADHD meds *without* having to fight with insurance about it.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for clarification, I did kindof wonder what you had been reading/watching!

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1h

I missed this entirely, but I am very glad you went and asked for help. Take care.

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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 2h

The reason you can never have a leftist Joe Rogan, is this:
1. Joe Rogan has a 3 hour per day show. Leftists have jobs.
2. Joe Rogan talks in circles to eat up minutes. No thinking person want to drag out conversations like that.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 2h

it doesn't, I think? iirc the NHS has better outcomes at some fraction of the cost, though that may have changed simceast time I looked.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, a bunch of the older people I know are in the same "…well I guess the Greens are okay, everyone other party appears to be full of right wing garbage" boat as I am.

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6h

Job coaches are not a treatment for mental ill health, whether they sit in a GP surgery or anywhere else. This is not a government that is at all serious about treating people so they can recover and stay well.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 6h

Because in the 1980s the UK's Gini Coefficient of social inequality rose substantially from its post-1945 level, and has never come down again.

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah @deborah-c.bsky.social · 7h

If you want to reduce the amount of long term sickness, or at least slow its increase, perhaps we could consider changing the policy of having everyone catch a disease three times a year that causes long term disability?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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2 Wheeled Wolf @2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social · 8h

Ha! Rather see more GPs in the GP surgeries so we can get to see a GP.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, yeah, if you twist it hard enough. But a soundbite isn't necessarily a truth.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 18h

then I can't see if the nut is in the cracker properly

I have literally killgrams of these nuts, lifting a tea towel on and off every time is not going to be efficient

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 22h

I need both hands to get the handles together sometimes, these nuts are hard to crack.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 23h

I.have one like that and it shoots the nut shells out the big side.

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1d

i for one welcome our new trans windmill overlords

Bloody Marla 🏳️‍⚧️ @desperatemarlas.bsky.social · 1d

trump: transgenders and windmills all over the place

This is a real quote. This is the most horrific thing he can conjure up

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

OK folks in the UK, what nutcracker is the best? I have a few kilos of almonds and they are delicious but I am going to need a better nutcracker than the one I have.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

In 2015, it was obvious to me that stopping Eastern Europeans from entering the country was a cipher for deporting black & brown people that have been in the UK for generations.

I knew that because people were literally saying that out loud at the time.

This is not news, this was the next step.

Deporting ethnic minority Britons was the goal of Brexit for many

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