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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · Jul 7

Still time to grab a FREE ticket for our online event this Thurs 'Poetry for all? Reviving poetry's radical vision’, with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, Testament + Smokestack Books' Andy Croft, chaired by @gailrenard.bsky.social, 7-8pm

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Photo of the panel from left to right: Andy Croft, Kate Fox, Testament and Michael Rosen

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Jun 17

Are you a poet? Or know any who might wish to take part in our Bylines Network Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025?

The winner will be picked by our esteemed judges Kate Fox and Ian McMillan.

Submission window: 23 June - 6 July 2025
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social @imcmillan.bsky.social

Bylines Network Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025 - Bylines Network

Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025 is open for entries from 23 June until 6 July. Results will be announced in August

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jun 16

Perhaps as a consequence of attending a British comprehensive school in the 1990s (hot buildings)

I don’t really think I should have to do any work when it’s over 22degrees C outside.

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jun 8

Shop server who I’m fairly sure was one of my neurokin:

“I like to do this challenge every week. It’s called ‘The week’ “

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jun 8

Usage: “It’s just makey on”. Past: It was just makey on”. Don’t think “I was just making on” would be a thing-but possibly.

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jun 8

Also, if I’m still saying “ Ooh it’s like Knightrider!” about modern vehicles in 2065, please know I first started saying it back in about 2017.

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jun 8

I don’t really know how to use Bluesky I’ll be honest, but I did realise it felt the most suitable platform to register my appreciation for the North East England phrase for “make believe” or “made up”:

“Makey on”

It DOES something.

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Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · May 22

The second part of the interview I did with @scrappapertiger.bsky.social for Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws (with Nic King and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social) is finally out!

We talked about privilege, mutual aid (particularly about @amase.org.uk) and community…
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Special Guests: Fergus and Sonny Part 2

Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws · Episode

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FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social · May 5

☀️ Brilliant Bank Holiday Sunday w/ @robinince.bsky.social being normally weird & wonderfully lovely chatting to @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social - pure joy, energy + inspiration 🫶 we 💜 his new book & we’ve signed ones for you!

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Robin Ince talking to Kate Fox at the bound Whitley Bay

Robin Ince signing his new book the bound

Robin signed our wall - Spectrum
minds make rainbows 🌈

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Apr 22

Feeling I’m an expert on the Papal election process because I watched Conclave -quite similar to how I become a football expert every four years after I’ve watched 3 World Cup games.

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Apr 17

Running another “Speaking Differently: Writing Workshops for Weird Times” this aft online & can’t wait to look at “solastalgia”

( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Apr 10

I love the synchronicity of that -& loved reading George’s poem. Thank you for sharing.

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Apr 10

Running a new kind of writing workshop online this afternoon at 1.30pm GMT. Have called it “Speaking differently: a writing workshop for weird times”. Now realise it’s hard to describe!

Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.

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Christine Jenkins, Canada @christineajenkins.bsky.social · Apr 4

Very cool issue of a Quaker journal in the UK features autistic stand-up comic,author and presenter @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Check out A Place of Unmasking. www.friendsjournal.org/issue-catego.... #WAAM #AutisticElders #SensoryProcessing

Neurodiversity

March 2025

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Mar 7

I still use it occasionally but find Claude generally gentler on my nervous system somehow. Deepseek is more like the friend I’ll talk to at midnight at parties when it doesn’t matter that it’s very intense and a bit high.

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AMASE @amase.org.uk · Feb 20

As well as the online event on Weird Pride Day itself (the 4th of March) with @fergus.oolong.co.uk, @josielong.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, we've got Weird Pride Edinburgh happening at Shrub Co-op on the 7th of March!
#WeirdPride
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2025 - Weird Pride Day

Welcome to Weird Pride Day Five, happening on 2025-03-04. Since 2021, the 4th of March has been a day to celebrate all the ways there are to be weird without hurting anyone else. Humans are a strange ...

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OT Expert @ot-expert.bsky.social · Feb 17

✨Neuromes✨

Interesting new word meaning "the mind equivalent of a biome"

Inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, see @stimpunks.org's post below to find out more! 👇

Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · Feb 16

New glossary page about neuromes inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social

"What is a neurome? It’s the mind equivalent of a biome. It’s a space where quirky minds can thrive and flourish. Where they accepted in their diversity and their associated sensory needs."

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Neurome

What is a neurome? It’s the mind equivalent of a biome. It’s a space where quirky minds can thrive and flourish. Where they accepted in their diversity and their associated sensory needs.

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Feb 4

Deepseek is very supportive of me thinking that AI companies could probably do with anti-bias training around place & class

(and helpfully imagined a worst-case scenario of newspaper headlines; “Chatbots Insult Yorkshire Grandmas”). 😆

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Feb 1

I ask deepseek to imagine what AI designed by octopuses would be like.

It concludes its (beautiful) thought experiment with:

“(Now I’m imagining an octopus version of OpenAI, funded by pearl heists and run out of a shipwreck. *Thanks for the fun prompt!*)”

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jan 30

Love that my book (& these women) are now in London (with a pint).

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jan 29

(“warm, calm and inspiring”. sounds like a nervous system going “phew, that’s just about right input-wise).

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jan 29

How to find your neurome (a biome for your brain). & is it harder to find in neuronormative spaces like campuses?

My latest Substack (Bigger on the Inside-ongoingly about neuroqueering the world).

Link: katewriter.substack.com/p/neuronorma...

Neuronormativity, neuromes, campuses and finding a safe space

Really it's about community that works for you

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jan 28

Rollercoaster of a day with the new Chinese open source AI “deepseek”. We started off plotting revolution.

Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.

News broke about it tanking American tech shares.

Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event

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Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social · Jan 27

It’s been magical. Thank you so much for the neurome-making.

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