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Karen de Lange

@karendelange.co.uk

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Author, reader, cat lover, fibre artist, anti-fascist, opinionated miscreant. She/her. Writing: karendelange.co.uk Crochet: classicalcatcrochet.etsy.com

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · Mar 5

Despite all the dark and awful things - or rather, because of all the dark and awful things - I will continue to post cats and books and yarn and whimsy.

It is hard to fight for the good things in the world if you do not see the good things in the world.

This account stands for hope.

Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 23h

A box and a blep.

#CatsOfBluesky

A white-and-tabby cat sits in a cardboard Amazon box. Her tongue is out, licking her own nose.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 1d

I have ME/CFS and I'm autistic. There are no NHS supports for either, and I'm stuck being too disabled to live the life I want to, and not disabled enough to qualify for any benefits. This government's approach to both conditions makes me furious.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3d

A Green government would proscribe the Israel Defense Forces as a terrorist organisation.

The forces currently actioning war crimes and genocide upon the people of Gaza on behalf of the Israeli government.

This must not be allowed to continue.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@greens4palestine.bsky.social

Picture of a shoulder clad in military uniform with an Israeli flag patch.

Text reads:
Green Conference 2025 votes to recognise
The IDF
as a
Terrorist
Organisation
Greens
Organise

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 7d

I generally only come across it being used by other SFF writers. I've hardly ever seen it used by anyone else, apart from maybe the occasional SFF fan.

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Alice Tyson @ladybirduk.bsky.social · 13d

Immigrants-are-eating-the-swans season seems to come round earlier every year. Either that or I am getting old. Maybe both. #fuckreform

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 16d

This is Freyja, looking intently at... something. Ghosts?

A tabby-and-white cat, sitting upright on a grey sofa, staring intently into the middle distance.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 16d

Received an invite for 'learning to write with AI' via my day job. Including 'how to avoid common tells like the em dash'.

You will pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands; it was OURS first.

I am S—E—E—T—H—I—N—G

#WritingCommunity

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The Oreo Cat @theoreocat.bsky.social · 16d

Princess of the misbehave 👸

#catsofbluesky
Audio by @maseplace.bsky.social

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17d

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17d

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 17d

Our house rule is "the one who made it gets the extra helping". Works wonders for motivating dessert-making.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19d

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 20d

Home-grown carrots, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

A row of carrots ranging from very big to very small, lined up in size order on a chopping board.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21d

Look who came with

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 25d

I don’t see how this could possibly be comfortable, but what do I know?

#CatsOfBluesky

A tabby cat with a white belly and white back legs, asleep half-in and half-out of a round cat bed, in a sunbeam.

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Chris Baker @chrisbaker108.bsky.social · 28d

Is he ok?
"A government of patriots"?

Mate. The roundabout painters aren't going to vote for you in any circumstance, and you shouldn't want them to.

Just give it up and govern.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 28d

I have my grandfather's wartime commission certificate framed on my wall. He signed up specifically to fight Nazis. He would've despised Farage even more than I do, if that is possible.

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Simon ⚒️⛩️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴‍☠️🇪🇺 @sulaco68.bsky.social · 29d

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 28d

Paralysis by cat.

#CatsOfBluesky

I am sitting on the sofa with my legs propped up. A tabby cat is sitting on my lap, facing away from me. I'm not going anywhere any time soon.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Labour party's support is not leaking to Reform in any substantial numbers. It's going to the Greens, to the LibDems, to YourParty, to "they're all as bad as each other".

Labour have a massive (if unearned) majority, and absolutely no backbone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour must do more to tackle populist right as party’s support leaks to Reform, say unions

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak urged government to show working people ‘whose side you are on’

www.theguardian.com

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Sep 5

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · Sep 6

But he's not a working-class woman, so the press won't go after him, and so he'll be fine. I wonder how many other MPs have similar but are equally safe from scrutiny. Blood boiling.

Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · Sep 3

This is the sole reason I only have my paperbacks on the Zon (much to my own disappointment in myself) - for the sales I make compared to ebooks, it's not yet worth the upfront fees to put them elsewhere. I daren't publish without seeing a proof first.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · Sep 2

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