Katie G
@ktgarner.bsky.social
Words + Photographs.
Brit in Rwanda.
Portfolio: ktgphotography.com
Brit in Rwanda.
Portfolio: ktgphotography.com
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ICYMI: Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2025 (Updated) hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/b...
Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2025 (Updated)
Here’s your list of 2025 books from authors on the continent and in the Diaspora, sorted by month. There’s absolutely no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notabl…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
ICYMI: Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2025 (Updated) hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/b...
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In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
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Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Such a good piece, and vitally important.
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Such a good piece, and vitally important.
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Today we head to the aisle of Skye. On our trip we hadn’t planned to go but weather and ferries caused us to make different plans. Noticed this from the hotel
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Today we head to the aisle of Skye. On our trip we hadn’t planned to go but weather and ferries caused us to make different plans. Noticed this from the hotel
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This got to me. Haunting and beautifully written. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...
In memory of the Christmas Island shrew
It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voic...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This got to me. Haunting and beautifully written. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...
Some thoughts on AI + literacy in East Africa, with thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. africasacountry.com/2025/10/leap...
Leapfrogging literacy?
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Some thoughts on AI + literacy in East Africa, with thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social
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I feel like the LLM era is the perfect time for someone to relaunch the text-a-librarian reference service. It doesn't have to just be text, we can do email. But you can submit a question and a reference librarian working remotely will respond to it within an hour with verifiable resources.
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I feel like the LLM era is the perfect time for someone to relaunch the text-a-librarian reference service. It doesn't have to just be text, we can do email. But you can submit a question and a reference librarian working remotely will respond to it within an hour with verifiable resources.
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Deadwood is not dead
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Deadwood is not dead
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I made this video 4 days ago.
As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete.
Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State.
In case anyone gaf.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete.
Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State.
In case anyone gaf.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
@bsonblast.bsky.social with a weekly report on the state of Sudan.
I’m so glad she’s doing this, because mainstream media doesn’t seem to give a fuck 🫠 people need to know!
I’m so glad she’s doing this, because mainstream media doesn’t seem to give a fuck 🫠 people need to know!
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I made this video 4 days ago.
As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete.
Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State.
In case anyone gaf.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete.
Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State.
In case anyone gaf.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Hi, is anyone available to be Prime Minister of France from Wednesday to Friday this week? Shouldn't take any longer than that but I've already got something in my diary.
October 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Hi, is anyone available to be Prime Minister of France from Wednesday to Friday this week? Shouldn't take any longer than that but I've already got something in my diary.
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Data from the Office of National Statistics shows Londoners are less likely to be violent crime victims (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop) than the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences). Violent crime has fallen in every London borough in the past year.
September 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Data from the Office of National Statistics shows Londoners are less likely to be violent crime victims (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop) than the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences). Violent crime has fallen in every London borough in the past year.
Looking through the back catalogue @noemamag.com and found this fascinating + gorgeous piece by @olliemilman.bsky.social - well worth your time: www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-...
The Cult Of The American Lawn | NOEMA
Manicured grass yards are ecological dead zones. So why are they being forced on people by their neighbors and homeowner associations?
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September 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Looking through the back catalogue @noemamag.com and found this fascinating + gorgeous piece by @olliemilman.bsky.social - well worth your time: www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-...
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- Per a report by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, RSF has nearly completed building walls around the besieged city.
- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)
#KeepEyesOnSudan
September 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
- Per a report by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, RSF has nearly completed building walls around the besieged city.
- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Karel Martens ∘ Dutch graphic designer and educator known for innovative typography, minimalist aesthetic, and experimental printmaking techniques, '60s...'90s.
September 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Karel Martens ∘ Dutch graphic designer and educator known for innovative typography, minimalist aesthetic, and experimental printmaking techniques, '60s...'90s.
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More Woman Bass Players is I think a concept we can and must all rally behind
😮💨 I totally agree. But also…as a woman who does music, man I am tired of the prevalence of gender in music. Man = guitar, drums, bass, sometimes singer; woman = singer, keyboards. And good lord how many bands that are all men with a female singer!
September 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
More Woman Bass Players is I think a concept we can and must all rally behind
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This is brillaint, up the Choristers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bangor Cathedral choir suspended after singing ‘inappropriate’ hymn
In latest scandal embroiling the Welsh cathedral, choir performed piece during holy communion to protest about job losses
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September 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This is brillaint, up the Choristers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children.
Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children.
Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu
#GenZprotestnepal
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#GenZprotestnepal
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Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class
Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re
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September 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu
#GenZprotestnepal
buff.ly/5mxRifN
#GenZprotestnepal
buff.ly/5mxRifN
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Heavy rains and floods have been wreaking havoc on communities across #Sudan.
Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Reports indicate a landslide in central Jebel Marra (western Sudan) has claimed entire population of Tersin village, estimated at 1,000+ ppl.
- SPLM-N (Abdelwahid Nur), who control the area, appealed to regional/intl orgs to intervene to help recover victims.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- SPLM-N (Abdelwahid Nur), who control the area, appealed to regional/intl orgs to intervene to help recover victims.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
September 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Heavy rains and floods have been wreaking havoc on communities across #Sudan.
Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
I can’t stop thinking about this article from @thecontinent.org
‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’
‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’
August 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I can’t stop thinking about this article from @thecontinent.org
‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’
‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’
A great thread.
So many mispronounced words because I read them first.
Long live libraries.
So many mispronounced words because I read them first.
Long live libraries.
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
August 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A great thread.
So many mispronounced words because I read them first.
Long live libraries.
So many mispronounced words because I read them first.
Long live libraries.
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Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
August 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
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The horrors of Volkswagen’s ranch were forgotten. Then a priest made a call. - Washington Post
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Volkswagen kept a dark secret in the Amazon. Then a priest made a call.
Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say many were enslaved.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The horrors of Volkswagen’s ranch were forgotten. Then a priest made a call. - Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...