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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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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 18h

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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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20h

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 21h

And the reason *that* is annoying is that the whole thing that makes it both social and accessible for my particular flavour of brain is the incidental, chat-over-the-garden fence nature of it. Too much structure will turn it into a chore.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 21h

Possibly I should set up something that will scrape my posts from here and mastodon and automatically post them on dreamwidth in a locked post behind a cut tag, but probably I need to be more intentional about my social media time. Bah.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 21h

(I mean share it off-bluesky, with people who aren't on bluesky)

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 21h

I basically don't have bandwidth for more than one or two social posting platforms unless I create some kind of structure, so I mostly post here and on a private slack, but I am also on mastodon and a few discord servers and dreamwidth and and and.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 21h

Are you happy for me to share a screenshot of this with your name and handle and icon rubbed out?

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 21h

I need to set up a schedule or something, it's ridiculous.

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 22h

I’m actually being quite serious here. Fascism is about keeping people emotionally dysregulated, especially through the reinforcement of shame, and offering them relief through mass conformity. That’s why fascism is so opposed to empathy, authenticity and queerness

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 22h

My first instinct with that is to check my tyre pressure is looking all right

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 22h

It absolutely does! there's high duvet gravity today in east London.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 23h

netting not betting. Usually rigid metal or plastic mesh.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 23h

Need exclusion betting around the edges of the panels, there are companies who will come and install it and get rid of pigeons.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23h

You cannot have "discourse" with people bent on your destruction.

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 23h

I'm in the UK so have no idea what any of my drugs cost. (And people who have never used any health system except the NHS do not, as a rule, know how lucky they are. It is being driven into the ground by underfunding and this is a travesty that should have us all on the streets.)

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Good that renewables are rising - but if you've ever asked yourself "are renewables replacing fossil fuel or just meeting added demand so far?" this chart provides the clearest answer I've ever seen. Everything except renewables is basically constant. Hopefully we'll see fossil decline soon.

Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

mefanamic acid is also helpful for some people (but is an NSAID, different mechanism of action, consult a medical professional about this rather than taking advice from me, a weirdo on the internet)

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of problems with the stipendiary system in the C of E but at least there is some attempt at this.