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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.
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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.
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tekweenie.bsky.social
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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the daily heil looks set to buy the torygraph. oh joy oh rapture oh holy fucking fascist media conglomerate
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.

One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.

What could go wrong?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
karendelange.co.uk
Lying on my lap having a belly rub. What a way to start Caturday.
#CatsOfBluesky
A tabby-and-white cat lying on my lap with her eyes closed in bliss, while I scritch her tummy.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Fidget toy that went to the States today. I love seeing what colours people choose! Time (and stock) running out if you're outside the UK and wanting to order in time for Christmas: classicalcatcrochet.etsy.com/listing/1534388230
A fidget toy made of four interlocking knitted rings, two purple and two green.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
karendelange.co.uk
When you finish your working week with a surprisingly large number of spoons, but then your #chronicillness decides that this evening's symptom of choice is ✨️visual disturbances✨️ and therefore none of your hobbies are accessible.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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actionfdn.bsky.social
Angry, frustrated or just plain bewildered by the latest government asylum system proposals?
You're not alone. Read our CEO, Duncan's thoughts over on our website today - then please support our Stand With Refugee Families appeal 🧡
tinyurl.com/muce5fep
tinyurl.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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owenjones.bsky.social
The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.

Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!

And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I wanted to put more in the shop before Christmas, but time has run away with me. Here are some of my favourites that are available at the moment. If you want to support indie artists with your gifting this year: link in bio.
A crochet lace shawl in an orange to purple sunset gradient. A crochet scarf in red, orange and purple autumn colours. A crochet lace shawl in a pink to purple ombre gradient. A crochet scarf with alternating zig zag stripes in navy and lighter blue.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I leave my cosy fleece on the floor for ten seconds...
#CatsOfBluesky
A tabby-and-white cat curled up on a fleece on my study floor. She's not going to let me have it back.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
karendelange.co.uk
Just finished: Medea by Rosie Hewlett. I'm a sucker for the Greek myth women's-perspective retellings, and this one is particularly good.
#BookSky
Book cover of Medea by Rosie Hewlett
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Oh AND, if you're as furious about the asylum announcement as I am and you want to DO something other than scream into the void, then why not support a charity doing amazing work to help refugees and asylum seekers, like, I dunno, the one I work for maybe?
actionfdn.bsky.social Action Foundation🧡 @actionfdn.bsky.social · 5d
Excited to launch our Stand With Refugee Families appeal today!

Every £1 will be doubled by the Aviva Community Fund. So your donation will have TWICE the impact!

Please visit our Crowdfunding page to find out how your gift will help families this winter. 🙏🧡
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stand-with...
Stand with Refugee Families: Winter Appeal
We are raising money to stand with and support refugee children and families facing financial hardship living in the North East of England.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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OK so if anyone wants a really good layperson's breakdown of yesterday's asylum announcement and exactly how barbaric and dehumanising it is and why we should fight it and and and (takes deep breath to avoid starting yet another rant about rising tide of fascism in UK)... 👇👇👇
Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: "Restoring Order and Control" - Free Movement
Following a plethora of media briefings and coverage over the past few days, the Home Secretary has officially published her policy paper on "Restoring Order
freemovement.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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It's you, Shabana. You're the one stirring up anger, doing Reform's work for them. The problem is you.
News headline reading "Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs 'dark forces are stirring up anger' oblver migration
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
karendelange.co.uk
On a lighter note, here's Freyja enjoying a belly rub on my lap.
#CatsOfBluesky
A tabby-and-white cat, blissed out lying on my lap while I rub her belly.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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"These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up."
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
karendelange.co.uk
Look. If you claim to be a left-wing government but Tommy fucking Robinson is claiming credit for your policies, maybe you're just three fascists in a trenchcoat.
Anyway join.greenparty.org.uk
Headline from The Guardian that reads: "Government set to make support for asylum seekers 'discretionary'." Illustrated with a photo of Shabana Mahmood looking irritatingly smug.
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
join.greenparty.org.uk
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d
Shabana Mahmood plans to extend the period refugees have to wait for permanent residence in the UK to 20 years, during which time their status will be under repeated review
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Now confirmed: no action. news.sky.com/story/police...
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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lesliejanderson.bsky.social
You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
“Here’s the bias of politics: leftwing policies are portrayed as unrealistic and childish, while the centre and right’s ideas are framed as sensible and all that’s possible.”

My column on a system that welcomes Reform and dismisses the Greens as fantasy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
karendelange.co.uk
Little girl got a clean bill of health at her annual checkup, so enjoy her wild-eyed madness as she kills her favourite toy.
#CatsOfBluesky
A tabby cat lying on her side, eyes wide and ears back, with a feathery toy clasped between her front paws.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM