Catherine Reynolds
@catherinereynolds.bsky.social
Norfolk, UK. Retired. Bacteriologist - human gut flora long before it became 'microbiome'. Professional Science Communicator - long before the skill even had a name. Dog(s) and horse owner. NCFC supporter. Gardener. Left-leaning.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For the last in our November-long series of pieces on pubs and pub culture, @fred-gs.bsky.social visits The Fat Cat in Norwich, a pub that's close to his heart for many reasons. We hope you enjoy this beautiful salutation of an all-time great.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
Cool for Cats — The Fat Cat in Norwich, Norfolk — Pellicle
Night has fallen over The Fat Cat in Norwich, and I’ve been here long enough to watch the clientele change. I saw the post-work crowd rush in; now, as it thins, I head to the bar to order a pint of Ti...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Reposted by Catherine Reynolds
For the last in our November-long series of pieces on pubs and pub culture, @fred-gs.bsky.social visits The Fat Cat in Norwich, a pub that's close to his heart for many reasons. We hope you enjoy this beautiful salutation of an all-time great.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
Cool for Cats — The Fat Cat in Norwich, Norfolk — Pellicle
Night has fallen over The Fat Cat in Norwich, and I’ve been here long enough to watch the clientele change. I saw the post-work crowd rush in; now, as it thins, I head to the bar to order a pint of Ti...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For the last in our November-long series of pieces on pubs and pub culture, @fred-gs.bsky.social visits The Fat Cat in Norwich, a pub that's close to his heart for many reasons. We hope you enjoy this beautiful salutation of an all-time great.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
@mikereynolds08.bsky.social this year?
If by chance you do have some pounds to spare there's no #gift like a book, and there's no book like a surprise #book.
Do consider giving to @booktrust.org.uk and get children (and their parents) reading 🎄📚
Do consider giving to @booktrust.org.uk and get children (and their parents) reading 🎄📚
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@mikereynolds08.bsky.social this year?
Beautifully written as befits a beautiful performance. 🏴 observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Stunning Scotland give the nation a night to remember | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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November Admin Update: Fifty Months and 900 Posts
Five Months I give a brief update on life, writing, illness, hope, gratitude and the incredible growth of this community.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Ooooof.
According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ooooof.
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This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
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GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
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Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
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QUICK THREAD 🧵: This is another excellent article from Bearly Politics @bearlypolitics.co.uk coming out of the Sky News investigation into Twitter now called X, that I posted about yesterday.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
QUICK THREAD 🧵: This is another excellent article from Bearly Politics @bearlypolitics.co.uk coming out of the Sky News investigation into Twitter now called X, that I posted about yesterday.
Reposted by Catherine Reynolds
October's the yellow month in @kateblincoe.bsky.social's @theguardian.com country diary today.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: There’s something cooking in the woods | Kate Blincoe
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: In this moment of great seasonal change, I go looking for butterflies and find a ‘feathered’ fungus
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
October's the yellow month in @kateblincoe.bsky.social's @theguardian.com country diary today.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
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When I first heard about Project 2025, I thought it was conspiracy nonsense - too brazen, too cartoonishly evil to be real.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)
Heritage Foundation’s playbook for Trump 2.0 shows what happens when authoritarian ambition meets bureaucratic precision.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When I first heard about Project 2025, I thought it was conspiracy nonsense - too brazen, too cartoonishly evil to be real.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
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Magnolia stellata. 2nd October 2025. Some sort of fruiting bodies and the leaves are sad, burnt brown. It's a beautiful old shrub, about 2m in every direction, last 2 yrs (since we moved here) has had wonderful spring flowers. But looks SO sad. Comments? 🌱
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Magnolia stellata. 2nd October 2025. Some sort of fruiting bodies and the leaves are sad, burnt brown. It's a beautiful old shrub, about 2m in every direction, last 2 yrs (since we moved here) has had wonderful spring flowers. But looks SO sad. Comments? 🌱
My 'trash garden' still getting the sun, but the figs are shitting down for the winter 🌱
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My 'trash garden' still getting the sun, but the figs are shitting down for the winter 🌱
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Dreadful waste of money. Rural Norfolk, UK
🚧 Tory Norfolk County Council at it again: “repairing” potholes on Norwich Rd, Morningthorpe… by tarring the grass verge.
Good news for ants, bad news for drivers. 🐜
£56m of your taxes meant for roads: how much is being sprayed away?
Good news for ants, bad news for drivers. 🐜
£56m of your taxes meant for roads: how much is being sprayed away?
September 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Dreadful waste of money. Rural Norfolk, UK
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To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
September 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
Indian-Spiced Chicken and Potato Traybake is #RecipeOfTheDay, a most uplifting proposition! www.nigella.com/recipes/indi...
Indian-Spiced Chicken and Potato Traybake
It’s no secret that I love a chicken traybake — or sheet pan dinner, if you prefer — as those of you have made my Chicken Traybake with Bitter Orange and Fennel, Chicken and Pea Traybake, and One Pan ...
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September 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you want to get mad with someone, get mad with Nick Fuentes.
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Lives of the super rich
Tankers used to transport water to fill private lakes. Normal people face shortages due to droughts.
The same class opposes wealth taxes and higher wages for workers.
They have friends in high places.
Tankers used to transport water to fill private lakes. Normal people face shortages due to droughts.
The same class opposes wealth taxes and higher wages for workers.
They have friends in high places.
Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake
Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Lives of the super rich
Tankers used to transport water to fill private lakes. Normal people face shortages due to droughts.
The same class opposes wealth taxes and higher wages for workers.
They have friends in high places.
Tankers used to transport water to fill private lakes. Normal people face shortages due to droughts.
The same class opposes wealth taxes and higher wages for workers.
They have friends in high places.
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HMRC lost £836m due to small business ‘phoenixing’.
People form a company, don't pay tax & other debts, keep PAYE, NIC and VAT due to HMRC; liquidate company, form another.
Public purse robbed
Don't discharge directors from bankruptcy until all taxes paid. Fund HMRC to prosecute.
archive.ph/oU0oH
People form a company, don't pay tax & other debts, keep PAYE, NIC and VAT due to HMRC; liquidate company, form another.
Public purse robbed
Don't discharge directors from bankruptcy until all taxes paid. Fund HMRC to prosecute.
archive.ph/oU0oH
HMRC raises small business ‘phoenixing’ tax loss to £836mn
Higher than previously estimated figure underlines challenge faced by UK agency in curbing losses
www.ft.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
HMRC lost £836m due to small business ‘phoenixing’.
People form a company, don't pay tax & other debts, keep PAYE, NIC and VAT due to HMRC; liquidate company, form another.
Public purse robbed
Don't discharge directors from bankruptcy until all taxes paid. Fund HMRC to prosecute.
archive.ph/oU0oH
People form a company, don't pay tax & other debts, keep PAYE, NIC and VAT due to HMRC; liquidate company, form another.
Public purse robbed
Don't discharge directors from bankruptcy until all taxes paid. Fund HMRC to prosecute.
archive.ph/oU0oH
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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Chief Scientific Officer to support the development of the institute’s scientific strategy and scientific leadership of the institute.
💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 12 October 2025
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💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 12 October 2025
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September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Chief Scientific Officer to support the development of the institute’s scientific strategy and scientific leadership of the institute.
💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 12 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/mKUhD3K
💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 12 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/mKUhD3K
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I despised Charlie Kirk’s politics, but I won’t celebrate his murder.
If democracy has any meaning left, it has to mean ballots, not bullets.
Disagreements, not assassinations.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-assass...
If democracy has any meaning left, it has to mean ballots, not bullets.
Disagreements, not assassinations.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-assass...
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political Violence Doesn't Stay Contained. It Cascades - and Democracy Pays the Price
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I despised Charlie Kirk’s politics, but I won’t celebrate his murder.
If democracy has any meaning left, it has to mean ballots, not bullets.
Disagreements, not assassinations.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-assass...
If democracy has any meaning left, it has to mean ballots, not bullets.
Disagreements, not assassinations.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-assass...