Kate Connolly
@bagathacat.bsky.social
Book-lover, by the sea
Often furious
She/ her
Often furious
She/ her
‘Thin Air’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
December 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘Thin Air’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
‘Letter to my Daughter’ - Maya Angelou #sharingmyreading2025
December 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
‘Letter to my Daughter’ - Maya Angelou #sharingmyreading2025
‘The Story Collector’ - Evie Woods #sharingmyreading2025
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘The Story Collector’ - Evie Woods #sharingmyreading2025
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We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
notinourname.org.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
‘Long Island Compromise’ - Taffy Brodesser-Akner #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks
December 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
‘Long Island Compromise’ - Taffy Brodesser-Akner #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks
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This debate over Stephen Yaxley Lenon finding Jesus is hilarious. The Klan were Christians. The Nazis were Christians. Are we having conversations about whether to tolerate them? Hand wringing stupidity is dragging us to hell, not these right wing grifters
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond
C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel message
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This debate over Stephen Yaxley Lenon finding Jesus is hilarious. The Klan were Christians. The Nazis were Christians. Are we having conversations about whether to tolerate them? Hand wringing stupidity is dragging us to hell, not these right wing grifters
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘The God of the Woods’ - Liz Moore #sharingmyreading2025
December 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
‘The God of the Woods’ - Liz Moore #sharingmyreading2025
‘Theo of Golden’ - Allen Levi #sharingmyreading2025
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
‘Theo of Golden’ - Allen Levi #sharingmyreading2025
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Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed.
The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message.
We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.
The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message.
We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.
The UK government is spending £476m tear-gassing babies?
Someone needs to get real if they're to be taken seriously.
Someone needs to get real if they're to be taken seriously.
The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here.
1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping.
2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.
1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping.
2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed.
The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message.
We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.
The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message.
We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.
‘Blue Lightning’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
‘Blue Lightning’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
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I do wonder, if the British state lets hunger strikers die again, in order to preserve its right to supply weapons and military support to an ongoing genocide, who will even notice? To paraphrase Kwame Ture, Britain has no conscience.
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I do wonder, if the British state lets hunger strikers die again, in order to preserve its right to supply weapons and military support to an ongoing genocide, who will even notice? To paraphrase Kwame Ture, Britain has no conscience.
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‘Red Bones’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
‘Red Bones’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
‘Death at the White Hart’ - Chris Chibnall #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
‘Death at the White Hart’ - Chris Chibnall #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
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Robin Ince has resigned from Infinite Monkey Cage. And this is a problem that goes way beyond the BBC.
December 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Robin Ince has resigned from Infinite Monkey Cage. And this is a problem that goes way beyond the BBC.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
‘White Nights’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
‘White Nights’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
‘The Glorious Dead’ - Justin Myers #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
‘The Glorious Dead’ - Justin Myers #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks
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This is appalling.
If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.
If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.
December 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is appalling.
If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.
If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.
‘Raven Black’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
‘Raven Black’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
‘The Break’ - Marian Keyes #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
‘The Break’ - Marian Keyes #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
‘The Dark Wives’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
‘The Dark Wives’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox