Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
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Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
What is romance except preamble to pair-bonding and if so arguably any pair-bonding animal experiences romance?
January 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
What is romance except preamble to pair-bonding and if so arguably any pair-bonding animal experiences romance?
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Several people on here reported getting suspicious password reset emails recently, this might be why…
January 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Several people on here reported getting suspicious password reset emails recently, this might be why…
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we are not afraid
radicalized wine moms everywhere are deciding what they would like to say knowing it might be their last burn 🔥
we will win
radicalized wine moms everywhere are deciding what they would like to say knowing it might be their last burn 🔥
we will win
January 10, 2026 at 9:57 PM
we are not afraid
radicalized wine moms everywhere are deciding what they would like to say knowing it might be their last burn 🔥
we will win
radicalized wine moms everywhere are deciding what they would like to say knowing it might be their last burn 🔥
we will win
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Re-upping this as Mum is still in surgery after 12 hours, your religious or atheist or pagan good wishes for her would be very welcome.
I know some of you are prayerful people. If you are, some kind thoughts for my Mum who is having major surgery (expected to take seven hours) today would be appreciated. 😳
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Re-upping this as Mum is still in surgery after 12 hours, your religious or atheist or pagan good wishes for her would be very welcome.
It has been the longest day of my life for a long time at this point.
January 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
It has been the longest day of my life for a long time at this point.
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@bencollins.bsky.social -- someone's trying to steal The Onion's schtick.
They just aren't any good at it!
They just aren't any good at it!
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
@bencollins.bsky.social -- someone's trying to steal The Onion's schtick.
They just aren't any good at it!
They just aren't any good at it!
Somewhat? Last update a couple of hours ago that things were going to plan (?) and another hour or so, nothing since.
January 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Somewhat? Last update a couple of hours ago that things were going to plan (?) and another hour or so, nothing since.
I’m exhausted Morag, and afraid, and exhausted…
January 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I’m exhausted Morag, and afraid, and exhausted…
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Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
January 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.
Re-upping this as Mum is still in surgery after 12 hours, your religious or atheist or pagan good wishes for her would be very welcome.
I know some of you are prayerful people. If you are, some kind thoughts for my Mum who is having major surgery (expected to take seven hours) today would be appreciated. 😳
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Re-upping this as Mum is still in surgery after 12 hours, your religious or atheist or pagan good wishes for her would be very welcome.
I am quite strung out now if I’m honest.
January 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I am quite strung out now if I’m honest.
Last update (two hours ago) was ‘all going to plan probably another hour or so’ and no surgery I ever did that was going basically to plan took twice as long as intended…
January 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Last update (two hours ago) was ‘all going to plan probably another hour or so’ and no surgery I ever did that was going basically to plan took twice as long as intended…
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well well well
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
fortune.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
well well well
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This is a lesson I learned as a preteen, listening to Soviet refuseniks talk about how they survived until they were allowed to leave the country. You make art, you make joy, and you fight. Because those three things are the same thing.
If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2
January 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This is a lesson I learned as a preteen, listening to Soviet refuseniks talk about how they survived until they were allowed to leave the country. You make art, you make joy, and you fight. Because those three things are the same thing.
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“for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states”
A grievance against George III in Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of mIndependence published in my 1829, first edition copy of his memoirs & correspondence.
A grievance against George III in Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of mIndependence published in my 1829, first edition copy of his memoirs & correspondence.
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
“for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states”
A grievance against George III in Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of mIndependence published in my 1829, first edition copy of his memoirs & correspondence.
A grievance against George III in Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of mIndependence published in my 1829, first edition copy of his memoirs & correspondence.
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He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them
And oil companies are like
Meh
And oil companies are like
Meh
January 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them
And oil companies are like
Meh
And oil companies are like
Meh
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It will always be morbidly funny to me when they found that autistic people had more consistent morality in some studies and they were just twisting themselves in knots trying to frame that as bad.
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
It will always be morbidly funny to me when they found that autistic people had more consistent morality in some studies and they were just twisting themselves in knots trying to frame that as bad.
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I want to emphasize for people again: there's a bunch of AI stuff going around of people confronting ICE agents. It's fake. It's slop.
Verify before reposting.
Verify before reposting.
January 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I want to emphasize for people again: there's a bunch of AI stuff going around of people confronting ICE agents. It's fake. It's slop.
Verify before reposting.
Verify before reposting.
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Essentially this is how governments/media response to x have felt this week
January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Essentially this is how governments/media response to x have felt this week
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There’s no “fighting back” or “winning” when the platform is making money from illegal material! Your continued activity on that platform just supports that!
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
There’s no “fighting back” or “winning” when the platform is making money from illegal material! Your continued activity on that platform just supports that!
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Not saying "God is dead, and the Geologists have killed Him," but that was very much our field's reputation for a significant part of the 19th Century.
It's why the Creationists want to destroy us.
It's why the Creationists want to destroy us.
January 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Not saying "God is dead, and the Geologists have killed Him," but that was very much our field's reputation for a significant part of the 19th Century.
It's why the Creationists want to destroy us.
It's why the Creationists want to destroy us.
Anyway I used long grain and it was fine but FFS universe, today of all days?
January 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Anyway I used long grain and it was fine but FFS universe, today of all days?
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But crap, I just realized that in Acts 10 (the Epistle reading for tomorrow) ... Cornelius the Centurion is the first-century equivalent of an ICE officer.
We can never write people off. Even the occupiers may repent and be converted.
Dammit, Jesus.
We can never write people off. Even the occupiers may repent and be converted.
Dammit, Jesus.
The felt board script is feeling kinda on point right now, is what I'm saying
January 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
But crap, I just realized that in Acts 10 (the Epistle reading for tomorrow) ... Cornelius the Centurion is the first-century equivalent of an ICE officer.
We can never write people off. Even the occupiers may repent and be converted.
Dammit, Jesus.
We can never write people off. Even the occupiers may repent and be converted.
Dammit, Jesus.
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A Kent Police officer who quickly launched a drone which then crashed injuring a child had not spotted an overhead cable, an investigation has found.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Child hit by Kent Police drone after cable 'not seen' by pilot
A child was seriously injured by the police drone, the Air Accident Investigation Branch says.
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
A Kent Police officer who quickly launched a drone which then crashed injuring a child had not spotted an overhead cable, an investigation has found.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...