Kat W
@katwhen.bsky.social
Intersectional feminism, books, television, words of love and rage. She/Her.
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Let's keep everyone company this year. I'll be around on christmas day with #joinin whether you need fun or a bit of support or a rant.
No-one should feel alone on christmas day.
No-one should feel alone on christmas day.
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Let's keep everyone company this year. I'll be around on christmas day with #joinin whether you need fun or a bit of support or a rant.
No-one should feel alone on christmas day.
No-one should feel alone on christmas day.
I've been missing proper, loose-skinned satsumas for the brief weeks of Advent. TIL. Thread, up and down.
#FuckBrexit
#FuckBrexit
2. New customs rules due to the UK now being outside of the EU single market.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I've been missing proper, loose-skinned satsumas for the brief weeks of Advent. TIL. Thread, up and down.
#FuckBrexit
#FuckBrexit
#TheWarBetweenTheLandAndSea
Whoniverse episodes are always better with a sea ballet interlude.
Russell Tovey wins this year's best temp from Chiswick award.
Whoniverse episodes are always better with a sea ballet interlude.
Russell Tovey wins this year's best temp from Chiswick award.
December 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#TheWarBetweenTheLandAndSea
Whoniverse episodes are always better with a sea ballet interlude.
Russell Tovey wins this year's best temp from Chiswick award.
Whoniverse episodes are always better with a sea ballet interlude.
Russell Tovey wins this year's best temp from Chiswick award.
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A thread to read up and down.
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A thread to read up and down.
Strains of "Silent Night" have just drifted across my hearing from somewhere.
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Strains of "Silent Night" have just drifted across my hearing from somewhere.
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The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings.
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
Policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings
Our policy position is centred around the need to advocate for equitable access to healthcare, create safe and inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary people working in healthcare settings, and ...
www.bma.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Morning, all! I have started the week by stabbing myself in the finger while trying to cut my toenails. How's your Monday going?
December 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Morning, all! I have started the week by stabbing myself in the finger while trying to cut my toenails. How's your Monday going?
Ah, go on then. #KnowingTheRules
December 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Ah, go on then. #KnowingTheRules
Yesterday:
Me: *makes pickling liquid for radishes for dinner with friends*
Me: *is distracted*
Pickling liquid: *is syrup*
Me: *sighs, makes second lot of pickling liquid*
S: *washes up*
Me: Where is the pan with the pickling liquid?
Words: *are exchanged*
Me: *makes third batch of pickling liquid*
Me: *makes pickling liquid for radishes for dinner with friends*
Me: *is distracted*
Pickling liquid: *is syrup*
Me: *sighs, makes second lot of pickling liquid*
S: *washes up*
Me: Where is the pan with the pickling liquid?
Words: *are exchanged*
Me: *makes third batch of pickling liquid*
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yesterday:
Me: *makes pickling liquid for radishes for dinner with friends*
Me: *is distracted*
Pickling liquid: *is syrup*
Me: *sighs, makes second lot of pickling liquid*
S: *washes up*
Me: Where is the pan with the pickling liquid?
Words: *are exchanged*
Me: *makes third batch of pickling liquid*
Me: *makes pickling liquid for radishes for dinner with friends*
Me: *is distracted*
Pickling liquid: *is syrup*
Me: *sighs, makes second lot of pickling liquid*
S: *washes up*
Me: Where is the pan with the pickling liquid?
Words: *are exchanged*
Me: *makes third batch of pickling liquid*
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Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough
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That looks like it is wearing a little blanket.
Not everyone is happy about this festive sheep-decorating tradition, are they?
Ancient Animal Advent Day 13! Info below.
Ancient Animal Advent Day 13! Info below.
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
That looks like it is wearing a little blanket.
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It's a little known fact that back in the old days, girls liked to celebrate #Christmas by walking about in threes.
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's a little known fact that back in the old days, girls liked to celebrate #Christmas by walking about in threes.
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Go flaccidly amid the noise & haste.
Go ahead, flop: get completely flat, absolutely mollusc boneless, slither & ripple along like a sidewinder, devolve into a blissfully frictionless goo, reject your spine & slip through the day in silky indolence like the mellow unhurried globules in a lava lamp
Go ahead, flop: get completely flat, absolutely mollusc boneless, slither & ripple along like a sidewinder, devolve into a blissfully frictionless goo, reject your spine & slip through the day in silky indolence like the mellow unhurried globules in a lava lamp
December 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Go flaccidly amid the noise & haste.
Go ahead, flop: get completely flat, absolutely mollusc boneless, slither & ripple along like a sidewinder, devolve into a blissfully frictionless goo, reject your spine & slip through the day in silky indolence like the mellow unhurried globules in a lava lamp
Go ahead, flop: get completely flat, absolutely mollusc boneless, slither & ripple along like a sidewinder, devolve into a blissfully frictionless goo, reject your spine & slip through the day in silky indolence like the mellow unhurried globules in a lava lamp
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Today is Human Rights Day. Protecting human rights is essential, especially in these days of relentless and brutal attacks against so many groups of people.
Saying "no" isn't enough, but it is a start. I wrote about why, and provide a few suggestions as to what and how.
ko-fi.com/post/Saying-...
Saying "no" isn't enough, but it is a start. I wrote about why, and provide a few suggestions as to what and how.
ko-fi.com/post/Saying-...
Saying No to the Assault on Human Rights
SJ Groenewegen published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Today is Human Rights Day. Protecting human rights is essential, especially in these days of relentless and brutal attacks against so many groups of people.
Saying "no" isn't enough, but it is a start. I wrote about why, and provide a few suggestions as to what and how.
ko-fi.com/post/Saying-...
Saying "no" isn't enough, but it is a start. I wrote about why, and provide a few suggestions as to what and how.
ko-fi.com/post/Saying-...
Given there's bunch of font discussion popping up on my tl, it seems appropriate to post this once more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu...
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Given there's bunch of font discussion popping up on my tl, it seems appropriate to post this once more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu...
Went to the PO late this morning to post parcels and buy pretty seasonal stamps. In an astonishing turn of events:
1) There was no queue.
2) The weather did not blatter down on me.
I'm now worried I've used up my Christmas luck in one go.
1) There was no queue.
2) The weather did not blatter down on me.
I'm now worried I've used up my Christmas luck in one go.
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Went to the PO late this morning to post parcels and buy pretty seasonal stamps. In an astonishing turn of events:
1) There was no queue.
2) The weather did not blatter down on me.
I'm now worried I've used up my Christmas luck in one go.
1) There was no queue.
2) The weather did not blatter down on me.
I'm now worried I've used up my Christmas luck in one go.
Persephone. I rhymed it with 'telephone'.
My gran was actually kind about this and told me that as she had a friend called Penelope, she was very confident that she knew how to pronounce 'antelope' when encountering it for the first time whilst reading aloud in class.
My gran was actually kind about this and told me that as she had a friend called Penelope, she was very confident that she knew how to pronounce 'antelope' when encountering it for the first time whilst reading aloud in class.
Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Persephone. I rhymed it with 'telephone'.
My gran was actually kind about this and told me that as she had a friend called Penelope, she was very confident that she knew how to pronounce 'antelope' when encountering it for the first time whilst reading aloud in class.
My gran was actually kind about this and told me that as she had a friend called Penelope, she was very confident that she knew how to pronounce 'antelope' when encountering it for the first time whilst reading aloud in class.
It was a close shave on Wednesday night at Botanics Lights but that was a cover. Alas, though, I have only lasted a week of #Whamageddon, due to 80s music at the cafe this morning.
(At least it was followed up by Madonna's Like a Prayer which is a banger.)
See you all in #Whamhalla!
(At least it was followed up by Madonna's Like a Prayer which is a banger.)
See you all in #Whamhalla!
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It was a close shave on Wednesday night at Botanics Lights but that was a cover. Alas, though, I have only lasted a week of #Whamageddon, due to 80s music at the cafe this morning.
(At least it was followed up by Madonna's Like a Prayer which is a banger.)
See you all in #Whamhalla!
(At least it was followed up by Madonna's Like a Prayer which is a banger.)
See you all in #Whamhalla!
"About the Word the unstilled world still whirled." - and a bunch more from the same.
"The planet goes on being round." - because mansplainers.
"On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way." - lyrics can be poetry too.
"The planet goes on being round." - because mansplainers.
"On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way." - lyrics can be poetry too.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"About the Word the unstilled world still whirled." - and a bunch more from the same.
"The planet goes on being round." - because mansplainers.
"On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way." - lyrics can be poetry too.
"The planet goes on being round." - because mansplainers.
"On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way." - lyrics can be poetry too.
Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account.
December 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account.
This thread is well worth a read.
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This thread is well worth a read.
Oh, look, a prototype of one of Skagra's Krargs!
“Engineers at Cornell University have created the blackest fabric on record, finding it absorbs 99.87 percent of all light that dares to illuminate its surface.”
#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/blackest-fab...
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#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/blackest-fab...
🧪
Blackest Fabric Ever Made Absorbs 99.87% of All Light That Hits It
If you want to stand out at your next metal gig, don't settle for a spot of color in a sea of black – go ultrablack instead.
www.sciencealert.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Oh, look, a prototype of one of Skagra's Krargs!
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True joy recognizes and acknowledges pain, tears, sadness, and every other emotion that exists within the spectrum of human experience. It is about discovering and finding balance, equilibrium, and a sense of steadiness even in the midst of difficult, trying, and turbulent times.
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
True joy recognizes and acknowledges pain, tears, sadness, and every other emotion that exists within the spectrum of human experience. It is about discovering and finding balance, equilibrium, and a sense of steadiness even in the midst of difficult, trying, and turbulent times.