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Cat O’ Nine Tales

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Glaswegian street philosopher who overthinks everything (well, d’uh) especially comics. Flailing at motherhood. A *bit* of a Catwoman fan. Fanfics & what-have you: https://archiveofourown.org/users/CatONineTailz/works . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 + Romani/Traveller

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Nov 25

Ok, so by er...no demand whatsoever, I'm going to post my #Catwoman #fanfiction, every day for the next wee while. Mostly sassy/romantic & not terribly explicit, fun, hopefully Here's my first effort, Roses in the Dark. Warning:Bittersweet Flavours archiveofourown.org/works/349944... #Batcat #Batman

Batman asks Catwoman a question. From Brubaker/Cooke Catwoman (2002).

Batman gets to know Catwoman. By Adam Hughes.

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · May 15

I've finally picked up on Chapter 2 of #Catwoman 'I've Got my reasons' one of many poor, neglected #fanfictions. Starts & ends with classic BatCat badinage with lots of Selina being a magnificent bastard to people who absolutely deserve it inbetween. #batman archiveofourown.org/works/501784...

Cat and Bat, from Batman: The Rebirth #50.

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 25

Catwoman and Domino please and thank you.

Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 24

Ok, maybe I was a wee bit hasty in hating on AI…

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 24

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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Dan from thepuddingblog.blog @thepuddingblog.blog · Feb 24

Everyone: we don't want this
Tech Cos: Everyone wants AI
Everyone: we don't want this
Tech Cos: Here, have more of it
Everyone: We don't want this
Tech Cos: It's faster, more powerful, we have lots of it
Everyone: We don't want this
Tech Cos (finally, hopefully): I think maybe people don't want this

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Feb 24

(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Feb 24

NEW: A Reform UK councillor has been accused of 'deliberately peddling misinformation' about the newly opened safe consumption room in Glasgow

Reform councillor 'deliberately peddling misinformation' on safe consumption room

www.thenational.scot

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 24

Glasgow’s finest moment.

Pop Base @popbase.tv · Feb 24

1 year ago today, the infamous 'Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience' took place.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · Feb 24

Your friend and mine @katebeaton.bsky.social has a new picture book, and it's out TOMORROW! It's called "Shark Girl" and if you can read these two spreads and NOT be totally taken by it, you have achieved the impossible. Out tomorrow at a bookstore near you! <3

the cover of Shark Girl, featuring a GIRL who is a SHARK

Shark girl spread: she's swimming in the ocean!

Shark Girl is caught in a ne and feels her first ever human feeling: A FEELING OF REVENGE!! :0

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 22

I’m never gonna see any payment or royalties for that recording session, am I?

Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 17

Anyone who’s ever experienced the Scottish “climate” would fry Eddie Woodward without a moment’s hesitation if it brought one more day of sunshine…

…and by the way, this lassie is from London. 😂

Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 12

A terrible story, beautifully drawn.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · Feb 11

In a court in Scotland right now lawyers are aggressively cross-examining trans people on the very concept of transness and apparently that's fine. We are an inch away from trans people being legally erased. Fight.

Ms Cunningham suggested the medic was asking Ms Peggie to "submit" and say she believed that Dr Upton was a woman which they "both know to be false".

"We don't both know that to be false," said Dr Upton. "I know it to be true.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 8

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.

It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.

The goal is destroy US universities.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Feb 10

Thank you, @goraina.bsky.social and @scottmccloud.bsky.social! ❤️
#ForOurLibraries

ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · Feb 10

"Now, more than ever, ALA has our backs. And we have theirs."

Join legendary comics creators Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud —become a Supporter of the American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

→ ilovelibraries.org

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · Feb 9

Kanye West is tweeting swastikas. They are not being removed.

The owner of Twitter supports German Neo Nazis and does Nazi salutes.

It’s time to be clear that Twitter is a Nazi app.

WHY are schools and government bodies using a Nazi app?

Twitter is a Nazi app.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Feb 10

Anas Sarwar couldn’t help the cause of independence more if he dressed up as a Redcoat and marched around Edinburgh Castle with a flintlock musket

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Labour has sold out Scotland. No wonder we're demanding indy

Grangemouth is Starmer’s Thatcher moment in Scotland – the selling out of ordinary people, the smashing of their lives, the destruction of their…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Feb 10

Look, I have nothing to say on the Superbowl other than I'm glad Kendrick was Kendrick, and that American Football is Rugby as played by a bunch of Big Girl's Blouses.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Feb 9

Still no explanation from @rcolvile.bsky.social as to why, in a discussion about recent migrants (mostly from India/Nigeria) he's randomly lashing out at women who have mostly been here decades who happen to be from Muslim countries.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Feb 4

This Byline Times story on Farage pictured with far-right activists has not been picked up by any established media outlet - including liberal/democratic/left publications. Why? Because people like being comfortable in their own power and status.

The newspaper I edit will keep sounding the alarm.

Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist Rants

EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts

bylinetimes.com

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · Jan 28

Excited to see people start to get their copies of The Comics Courier in their mailboxes.

Physical copies will go on sale in February for anyone who missed out on the Kickstarter.

For digital readers, you can pick up a PDF of The Comics Courier on Gumroad now!

tbabb.gumroad.com/l/comicscour...

The Comics Courier Issue 1

The Comics Courier is a biannual print newspaper. The first issue features essays and reviews from critics Douglas Wolk, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Tiffany Babb, Dave Baker, Carrie McClain, Sean Dillon, K...

tbabb.gumroad.com

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Cat O’ Nine Tales @catoninetalez.bsky.social · Jan 28

Oh, Hush is important, no question about that. And as a Very Silly Romp that crams practically every Batman trope into its storyline-sorry, ‘storyline’, I can see the appeal.

But quality-wise? It absolutely IS rubbish. Sound and fury, signifying nothing. But some very fun set pieces.

Big Bang Comics @bigbangcomics.bsky.social · Jan 27

In online comic circles, Marvel's CIVIL WAR and DC's BATMAN: HUSH so often have their quality, importance and appeal downplayed.

In the real world, they are perennial best sellers and favourites with new readers.

a woman in a blue dress is sitting on a red couch holding a book and says it 's interesting

Alt: a woman in a blue dress is sitting on a red couch holding a book and says it 's interesting

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Jan 25

my generation had a good and normal alternative to someone like Jordan Peterson, and it was the Beastie Boys, who dispensed invaluable life lessons like "if you've got bad breath then maybe try Scope/if you wash your ass, you best use soap"

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NOH8 Campaign @noh8campaign.bsky.social · Jan 24

"I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others. I hope that a message calling for dignity, respecting dignity, honesty, humility, and kindness is resonating with people. I'm grateful for that." – Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde #NOH8

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · Jan 24

One of my Twitter creeps trying to make ‘news’ out of me but I do love a teachable moment 🧵 Yes, boys, I have indeed linked the anti abortion movement to fascism, because it is very much linked to fascism. For a start, the Nazis banned abortion to force German women to breed for The Reich.

Screenshot from a Christian Institute article saying I’ve linked the anti abortion movement to facsism. Which I have 🙌🏻

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jan 25

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.

An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.

#Resist

(📸 Ricarda Lang)

Thousand stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with lights lit on their phones. 14 people at the front hood lit letters spelling out Hope & Resistance

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Diane Darcy @dianedarcy.bsky.social · Jan 25

I recreated the Huntress account if you want to give it a follow: @helenawaynehunt.bsky.social I'll later add the reading recommendations links again.

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