Kate Connolly
@bagathacat.bsky.social
Book-lover, by the sea
Often furious
She/ her
Often furious
She/ her
‘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
‘10 Marchfield Square’ - Nicola Whyte #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
‘10 Marchfield Square’ - Nicola Whyte #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks
‘The Rising Tide’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
‘The Rising Tide’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
‘The Seagull’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
‘The Seagull’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
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Literally the only difference between Reform and Labour is that Reform is honest about how much it hates the marginalised
Labour will pretend it's in everyone's best interest and they're doing it for the people and just enact the same policies
Labour will pretend it's in everyone's best interest and they're doing it for the people and just enact the same policies
“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government”
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Literally the only difference between Reform and Labour is that Reform is honest about how much it hates the marginalised
Labour will pretend it's in everyone's best interest and they're doing it for the people and just enact the same policies
Labour will pretend it's in everyone's best interest and they're doing it for the people and just enact the same policies
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The last sentence is an interesting moment in the English language. Of course it's true that these articles hinder the removal of asylum seekers, much like making murder illegal hinders people who want to kill people.
There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The last sentence is an interesting moment in the English language. Of course it's true that these articles hinder the removal of asylum seekers, much like making murder illegal hinders people who want to kill people.
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When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
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Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
‘Just One Damned Thing After Another’ - Jodi Taylor #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘Just One Damned Thing After Another’ - Jodi Taylor #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
‘The Moth Catcher’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
‘The Moth Catcher’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
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This is what the EHRC's shitty Code will result in.
All. The. Time.
It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.
All. The. Time.
It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is what the EHRC's shitty Code will result in.
All. The. Time.
It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.
All. The. Time.
It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.
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Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. Or a social media app. She was murdered in cold blood with knives plunged into her 28 times by two 15-year-olds fed a constant stream of hate and dehumanization by UK corporate media and the UK government.
Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. Or a social media app. She was murdered in cold blood with knives plunged into her 28 times by two 15-year-olds fed a constant stream of hate and dehumanization by UK corporate media and the UK government.
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Honestly terrifying that the BBC can run an unhinged story about lesbians being forced to have sex with trans women, with one of the main sources being a rapist who responded to the story's publication by calling for trans people to all be hung, and the Official Consensus is they are too pro-trans
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Honestly terrifying that the BBC can run an unhinged story about lesbians being forced to have sex with trans women, with one of the main sources being a rapist who responded to the story's publication by calling for trans people to all be hung, and the Official Consensus is they are too pro-trans
‘Harbour Street’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
‘Harbour Street’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox
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These awful people can never be satisfied, so they will never stop, ever. There is no point in humouring their bullshit for a moment longer.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
These awful people can never be satisfied, so they will never stop, ever. There is no point in humouring their bullshit for a moment longer.
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I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
‘The Glass Room’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
‘The Glass Room’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox
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Over 10,000 killed within three days.
Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space.
An absolute nightmare.
Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space.
An absolute nightmare.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Over 10,000 killed within three days.
Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space.
An absolute nightmare.
Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space.
An absolute nightmare.