Kate Orman
@kateorman.bsky.social
http://kateorman.wordpress.com. she/her
Three Doctor Who novels available at Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: The Pyramids of Mars https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
Three Doctor Who novels available at Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: The Pyramids of Mars https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
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Kate Orman
@kateorman.bsky.social
· Jul 25
she/her
Occasional news kateorman.wordpress.com
Doctor Who Novels www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: Pyramids of Mars obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
Read "Saltier" free at IZ Digital interzone.digital/saltier/
The Mirror Matter - 3rd Dr audio www.bigfinish.com/
Occasional news kateorman.wordpress.com
Doctor Who Novels www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: Pyramids of Mars obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
Read "Saltier" free at IZ Digital interzone.digital/saltier/
The Mirror Matter - 3rd Dr audio www.bigfinish.com/
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
I want monetary compensation for the amount of time I spend avoiding AI. Great training resource 😃 Only way to access the contents is to have an AI search them for you 🤬 (At least I've now got www.google.com/search?q=%s&... set up in my browser as the default search.)
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I want monetary compensation for the amount of time I spend avoiding AI. Great training resource 😃 Only way to access the contents is to have an AI search them for you 🤬 (At least I've now got www.google.com/search?q=%s&... set up in my browser as the default search.)
As I suddenly find myself unbelievably busy I have learned the hard lesson that those moments of gawping slack-jawed at nonsense on the Internet, brain in neutral, neurons barely turning over, are precious.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
As I suddenly find myself unbelievably busy I have learned the hard lesson that those moments of gawping slack-jawed at nonsense on the Internet, brain in neutral, neurons barely turning over, are precious.
Thank heavens Jupiter doesn't have TWO red spots or Andrew Ainslie Common might have tumbled off his stool
The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thank heavens Jupiter doesn't have TWO red spots or Andrew Ainslie Common might have tumbled off his stool
Jon and I imagine episodes of The Muppet Show that Might Have Been. The Paul McCartney Muppet Show. The Brian Wilson Muppet Show.
I keep expecting to get bored of "film/TV show... but with Muppets!" posts, but nope, gets me every time.
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Jon and I imagine episodes of The Muppet Show that Might Have Been. The Paul McCartney Muppet Show. The Brian Wilson Muppet Show.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Today
my alimentary canal IS TO yesterday's sneaky carrot cake treat
AS
GenAI IS TO information
my alimentary canal IS TO yesterday's sneaky carrot cake treat
AS
GenAI IS TO information
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today
my alimentary canal IS TO yesterday's sneaky carrot cake treat
AS
GenAI IS TO information
my alimentary canal IS TO yesterday's sneaky carrot cake treat
AS
GenAI IS TO information
Was it Will who invented these? What are they called? I first encountered one in Sylvia Plath's poem "Morning Song", where the breastfeeding mother describes herself as "cow-heavy"
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Was it Will who invented these? What are they called? I first encountered one in Sylvia Plath's poem "Morning Song", where the breastfeeding mother describes herself as "cow-heavy"
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Taking Our Shoes off Before the Buddha
It’s about more than keeping the floor clean.
tricycle.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In my naivety I turn to you, O Bluesky, wondering how judges can enforce an order they give the US government.
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In my naivety I turn to you, O Bluesky, wondering how judges can enforce an order they give the US government.
Glancing through Duotrope's weekly newsletter for writers. So many presses large and small, so many magazines from pro rates to non-paying, all the agents, all the sales. Everyone is working so hard.
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Glancing through Duotrope's weekly newsletter for writers. So many presses large and small, so many magazines from pro rates to non-paying, all the agents, all the sales. Everyone is working so hard.
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Transphobia kills, literally.
The stresses of transphobia can cause harm to our physical health. @veraeikon.bsky.social dives into the science in this month's Journal Club.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The stresses of transphobia can cause harm to our physical health. @veraeikon.bsky.social dives into the science in this month's Journal Club.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The Health Impacts of Transphobia — Assigned
A 2021 paper links experiencing deadnaming and misgendering with significantly poorer health.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Transphobia kills, literally.
The stresses of transphobia can cause harm to our physical health. @veraeikon.bsky.social dives into the science in this month's Journal Club.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The stresses of transphobia can cause harm to our physical health. @veraeikon.bsky.social dives into the science in this month's Journal Club.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
I often find DuckDuckGo frustrating, but I will give it full marks for instantly nailing "song ah-leeky boom boom ha" and helping me get an inexplicable worm out of my ear.
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I often find DuckDuckGo frustrating, but I will give it full marks for instantly nailing "song ah-leeky boom boom ha" and helping me get an inexplicable worm out of my ear.
... which led me back to the soul-grinding question of whether Angel Bob is conscious.
(He's more conscious than bloody ChatGPT is, at least.)
(He's more conscious than bloody ChatGPT is, at least.)
Fantastic description of LLM scat. I thought of the eponymous Robots of Death: no facial expressions, no body language. "While these robots are humanoid... they give no signals. It's rather like being surrounded by walking, talking, dead men." AI is mockery of life, like the voice of a ghost.
Apparently "'The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)' is a triumph of clarity and curiosity, a book that proves science writing can sparkle as brightly as the stars it studies.", according to some unholy amalgamation of strangled undead text prompts. So heartwarming.
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
... which led me back to the soul-grinding question of whether Angel Bob is conscious.
(He's more conscious than bloody ChatGPT is, at least.)
(He's more conscious than bloody ChatGPT is, at least.)
Fantastic description of LLM scat. I thought of the eponymous Robots of Death: no facial expressions, no body language. "While these robots are humanoid... they give no signals. It's rather like being surrounded by walking, talking, dead men." AI is mockery of life, like the voice of a ghost.
Apparently "'The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)' is a triumph of clarity and curiosity, a book that proves science writing can sparkle as brightly as the stars it studies.", according to some unholy amalgamation of strangled undead text prompts. So heartwarming.
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Fantastic description of LLM scat. I thought of the eponymous Robots of Death: no facial expressions, no body language. "While these robots are humanoid... they give no signals. It's rather like being surrounded by walking, talking, dead men." AI is mockery of life, like the voice of a ghost.
Reposted by Kate Orman
We hear a lot about freedom of speech. What about freedom of hearing? Speech is gatekept by capital & capital can say what it pleases, de facto silencing that which it does not want said. What about the right to hear? That is a right of the people. It is the right to hear all that they need to hear.
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We hear a lot about freedom of speech. What about freedom of hearing? Speech is gatekept by capital & capital can say what it pleases, de facto silencing that which it does not want said. What about the right to hear? That is a right of the people. It is the right to hear all that they need to hear.
At one stage I proposed naming the local street cats Feryl Beryl, Feral Cheryl, Feryl Darryl, Feral Errol, Feral Gerald, Feral Harold, etc
Currently obsessed with a local shelter cat called “Colin Feral”
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
At one stage I proposed naming the local street cats Feryl Beryl, Feral Cheryl, Feryl Darryl, Feral Errol, Feral Gerald, Feral Harold, etc
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“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
The odd but encouraging experience of having your pet obsessions crop up naturally as you develop a tale. Hello there, false vacuum decay. (If you don't know what this is, don't look it up.)
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The odd but encouraging experience of having your pet obsessions crop up naturally as you develop a tale. Hello there, false vacuum decay. (If you don't know what this is, don't look it up.)
I'm a suspicious soul. Kobo just offered me a buck off on a book if I join their VIP thing before buying the book I want. And I thought "Is that $1 the author doesn't get?"
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm a suspicious soul. Kobo just offered me a buck off on a book if I join their VIP thing before buying the book I want. And I thought "Is that $1 the author doesn't get?"
*thinks* Progress on this novel outline is annoyingly slow. Hmm. Anyway -- what is it the villain wants?
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November 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
*thinks* Progress on this novel outline is annoyingly slow. Hmm. Anyway -- what is it the villain wants?
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... GREAT GOBS OF GOO, I HAVE NO IDEA
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... GREAT GOBS OF GOO, I HAVE NO IDEA
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The moral of Covid and the moral of Trump II are the same: national governments wield astonishing powers, and can implement massive changes rapidly and basically unstoppably.
The status quo is maintained at *massive* cost and effort, it's not just 'the way things have to be'.
The status quo is maintained at *massive* cost and effort, it's not just 'the way things have to be'.
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The moral of Covid and the moral of Trump II are the same: national governments wield astonishing powers, and can implement massive changes rapidly and basically unstoppably.
The status quo is maintained at *massive* cost and effort, it's not just 'the way things have to be'.
The status quo is maintained at *massive* cost and effort, it's not just 'the way things have to be'.