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Katherine Jane Wright
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29. Queer trans lesbian (She/Her). Disabled. Socialist.

PhD history student, when I'm not too ill. Studying mountain imagery in ancient religious texts. A bit obsessed with 17th Century British politics.

I also like heavy metal and taking photos of birds
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The BBC News homepage is just increasingly syncing up with your racist uncle's fevered brain.

I think we have to syart seriously thinking about ripping up BBC News and starting again.

The other parts of the corporation are I think salvageable but the News team is rotten to the core
BBC News homepage, including articles on a migrant worker fine relief 'fixer', an 'illegal worker network', and two men mistakenly released from prison
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Jay Foreman's channel officially rebranding as 'Jay and Mark' is the Habsburgs conceding the Dual Monarchy to the Hungarians for geography and urban planning YouTube.

Revolutionary spring for Map Men!
A screenshot of the newly rebranded 'Jay and Mark' YouTube channel landing page
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
If I might be forgiven for being a smidge pretentious for a moment, this popped into my head:
Mark Twain quote from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: “There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Gaslight, *game*keep, girlboss
A screen shot from r/Environmentalism including the headline 'An all women ranger unit reduced elephant poaching by 90%', clarifying text that the headline refers to the Lower Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe, and a photo of five women of the unit, wearing face paint and military-style fatigues, hats, and in the case of the central woman camouflage fringing to her uniform
August 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
It's pretty obviously inspired by this shot from the epilogue of Mewtwo Returns, but we both *distinctly* remember the hat, pulled low over its face as a disguise.

I've even seen fanart of it with the fedora just as I remember, so it's not even just us!
Mewtwo, wearing a brown cloak, on a rooftop alone in front of a dark cityscape
June 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
The rivers are alive!

It's giving anmism 2.0, it's giving @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social, and frankly I am very much here for it.

The land breathes
Screenshot of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Facebook post discussing the granting of legal personhood to local rivers by Basingstoke & Deane Council
May 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Screenshot of Bluesky posts reading: 'Are people mad about an actual Onion joke or are they sjust still being freaks about Collins dating Abugazaleh,' and, 'The latter. Ethics in game journalism level red and mad.' Gif of the giant from Twin Peaks saying, "It is happening again"
May 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Well damn, I've got one!

ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukma...
The front page of Labour's 2017 manifesto, entitled 'For the Many, Not the Few'. Title in white lettering in a white squared off speech bubble with white outlines of diverse people surrounding it, all on a red background
February 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
I decided to play my first game of my new board game Bärenpark with the self-imposed rule that the enclosures had to be next to matching animal houses.

I didn't score particularly highly, but at least my bears could play outside!
January 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Just started learning to crochet.

Obviously got a long way to go but I'm glad I finally - after a...number of attempts - managed to get my hands to do the thing more or less right!
A short fifteen stitch crochet chain in pink, tied together at the yarn ends.
January 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Ken from Barbie 'My job is just beach' meme with 'job' crossed out and replaced with the word 'ham'.
January 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Definitely got to be this one of me in the salon after I finally got my hair dyed blonde, which I had been wanting to do for years and years
Blonde white woman in a grey hairdressers' shawl, sat beaming in a hair salon.
December 24, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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I have been enhatted for Christmas
December 23, 2024 at 9:04 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
The world is hard and I am tired but I am now basically done with Christmas shopping so that is *something*
A photo of the OP, a white woman in her twenties with blonde hair, in a black top and grey cardigan, sitting back on a sofa with some toys and cushions in the background
December 11, 2024 at 8:55 PM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
Saw this for sale on a second hand site, and the more I look at it the funnier I find it
November 27, 2024 at 12:34 AM
katherinejanew.bsky.social
I really do understand the impulse here but if the criminal courts ever 'caught up' with the civil ones, that would be bloody terrifying.

They have a way higher standard of evidence for a reason. Being sent to prison should never just be a 'balance of probabilities' thing
'When is the criminal court going to catch up with the civil one', posted in response to a BBC article about Conor McGregor being found liable for rape
November 22, 2024 at 5:18 PM