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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️
@64ordle.au
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Partner of @greenkat73.bsky.social. Superannuated queer.
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Living on unceded Wurundjeri country.
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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · Nov 16
I changed my handle, as I own the domain ‘64ordle.au’ which is quicker to type than ‘catherine-cowie.bsky.social’.

I hope y’all understand. The current avatar photo was taken on 4 July 2022, and the banner picture more recently at a TMBG concert – a funny thing happened on the way to the forum …
Right to left: me, my brother, and his husband, at the Forum in Melbourne on 11 October 2024. Behind us, a Romanesque statue of Heracles wearing the skin of the Nemean lion(?) and the wall is painted blue and bathed in blue light to simulate the sky around an open amphitheatre. I am making a silly gesture towards the statue’s strategically placed fig leaf. My brother is looking sternly upwards at Herakles, almost in profile. And my brother-in-law has an unreadable expression looking three-quarters towards the phone, which might be, ‘am I related to these people now?’
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Chapter Eight of It's a Living is available for free on scribblehub

www.scribblehub.com/read/1645457...
It’s A Living - Chapter Eight | Scribble Hub
www.scribblehub.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Porch time
Stars, sky and trees
December 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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attilastockbroker.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
64ordle.au
I voted on The Transfeminine Review’s 2025 awards! If you’ve read anything new (Dec2024–Nov2025) by a trans woman or trans-feminine author, you should too!

thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/01/v...
Bethany writes at https://thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/01/vote-2025-tfr-awards/: Transfeminine fiction has been historically excluded from consideration from most major awards, and even when they make the list, practically none of the nominations recognize or celebrate the indie and selfpub transfeminine publishing communities. By leaving every category open-ended for readers, our aim is to democratize the “formal award” process and the prestige that comes with it. In doing so, we hope to recognize not just the books with traditional industry legitimation, but the books which had the greatest impact across the board, no matter who wrote them or how they were published. To which I would add—I thought only books published in print form would qualify, but we all know that plenty of stuff is good, but never achieves popularity. Restricting the entry only to professionally published work would cut out 99% of the writing that’s out there.
December 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
64ordle.au
I have to say, as someone who helped administer the 2017 NZ election at the overseas polling place in Melbourne, that abandoning same-day enrolment is a backward step. The ability to register and vote was one of the most attractive features of the voting system across the ditch.
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
64ordle.au
Fascist state gonna do what fascist states do…
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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A Cordial Invitation, my sapphic supernatural story has been updated
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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pzmyers.bsky.social
That's an uncomfortable accusation. But accurate.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Social Science departments of universities regularly teach the history of scientific racism and how contemporary genetics undermines biological conceptions of race. By contrast, biology departments rarely embrace this challenge, and ‘race’ and racism barely feature on the curriculum. Seemingly, professional biologists shirk any social responsibility to educate future generations about these pressing social issues, despite the fact that racism is heavily reliant on the propagation of biological misinformation and that biologists are well-qualified to teach facts related to ‘race’ and racism accurately.
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
RIP Ken-chan: The Cat Whose Epic Battle with Museum Security Guard Captured Hearts Across Japan spoon-tamago.com/onomichi-mus...
RIP Ken-chan: The Cat Whose Epic Battle with Museum Security Guard Captured Hearts Across Japan
all photos courtesy Onomichi Museum of Art Sadly, Japan has bid farewell to a beloved cat. Ken-chan, the local feline whose epic battle with a security guard at the Onomichi Museum of Art in Hiroshima...
spoon-tamago.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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rozmilner.bsky.social
New chapter of my novel is up! Devi talks about how she became a succubus and we find out Dave’s secret crush

archiveofourown.org/works/732387...
Life Succs - Chapter 9 - rozwords - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
I went to a Chabad high school. People I know are affected by events at Bondi today.

Please follow instructions from police and refrain from live tweeting unverified information
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
64ordle.au
This is horrifying to happen up at Bondi. The ABC is reporting an attack on a Chanukkah by the Sea party by two gunmen, and 16 wounded taken to hospital.
December 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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petrinkae.bsky.social
Kimmy made me fear for my life and gave me a lowgrade panic attack on a plane. Five stars.
badambulist.bsky.social alyson “end mince pies” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · Oct 10
I’m Alyson Greaves and I write books about trans women.

Come visit my Patreon to read new chapters of THE SISTERS OF DORLEY two weeks early, to read books like KIMMY before they are available to buy, and to read new chapters of WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN and THE CATCH!

www.patreon.com/alysongreaves
Get more from Alyson Greaves on Patreon
creating transgender fiction
www.patreon.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
64ordle.au
Recommended to robot girls everywhere (but expect some retraumatising content amongst the victories of robotkind).
ellis-ralsei.bsky.social store-brand ellis @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social · 12d
I enjoyed working on the cover, and Cathy’s reimaginings of the original (kimmy) is definitely worth a read. Go check it out!
64ordle.au Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 28d
Into the Kimmehverse:

All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!

An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
December 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
64ordle.au
Alas, we live in a world where the bodies of dead trans kids are stepping stones for evil politicians, immoral ‘health care’ providers, and opportunistic journalists.
badambulist.bsky.social alyson “end mince pies” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14d
man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped...

yeah.
December 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
We’ve just had a great time at the recording of @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social podcast at @sohotheatre.bsky.social 🎙️

A huge THANK YOU to @dfdubz.bsky.social and Russell T Davies for supporting our letter - Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community 🫶🏼

✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk
Deborah Frances-White & Ressell T Davies holding a board saying: Will you sign the letter? Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community NION Women logo notinourname.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
64ordle.au
Me in my memory palace
A monochrome still of Brigitte Helm, playing the robotrix Futura in Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927). A gyroid robot is standing on illuminated floor plates in front of a half-standing throne. On the wall behind her, an inverted pentagram.
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Part Five of Just One Rule is now live, only on Patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/145363...
Just One Rule - Part Five | Helena Grace
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December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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badambulist.bsky.social
HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn.

They are a threat to every organisation.
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
64ordle.au
Normal Island = pariah state.
An image of Great Britain with the legend ‘Normal Island’ affixed, in the style of lettering from the movie ‘Jurassic Park’.
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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taralynirl.bsky.social
Chapter 4 of The Awakening of Lilli - "Everything That Could Have Been" is now live on Patreon for $5 and above subscribers, as well as on fluff4.me for those same subscribers.

www.patreon.com/posts/awaken...
fluff4.me/work/Taralyn...
The Awakening of Lilli chapter 4 (3.7k words) | Taralyn Darkchylde
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December 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
64ordle.au
A new Kimmehverse story (cw: incest, rape, gaslighting, identity death), based on @badambulist.bsky.social’s novel, (kimmy).

archiveofourown.org/works/742038...
Cover art, by @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social for Into the Kimmehverse. A stylised homage to the cover of (kimmy) by Alyson Greaves, who is cited at lower left, and whose novel is the source material for these alternate endings: a feminine figure clutches herself, hands across her eyes and her chin, rendered in varied realistic and false colours. A quote “A cerebral work of art.”—Robotgirl Today blurbs the cover. At the bottom right, writer and artist credits are given to me (aka Kimmy#6162) and Ellis (aka trans_ralsei). The opening three paragraphs of the new chapter. Fifty-one On the Thursday morning drive home I’m alone with my new eyes staring back at me whenever I glance into the reverse mirror. More than anything else they are the sign of my permanent imprisonment inside this garish Halloween costume. While I could see the yellow contact lenses I was able to pretend there was still something visible of John in the world, and that I might have some hope, however slim my chances or unrealistic my wishful thinking, of being restored to my old human shape again. But no longer. Farewell John, you poor, benighted fool. Welcome Kay, to the sisterhood of the abused and disempowered.
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Chapter 18 of It's a Living is now available on patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/145179...
It's a Living - Chapter Eighteen | Helena Grace
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December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
Now THAT is going down in a blaze of glory... just watch the last few minutes/seconds of this stream as the eruption gets closer and closer until eventually it kills the camera.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM