Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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A case in point, as far as we know we did not watch an episode of Cannabis Drag Race (although that might explain some of the dodgy decision making of the judges’)
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A case in point, as far as we know we did not watch an episode of Cannabis Drag Race (although that might explain some of the dodgy decision making of the judges’)
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Following a spring clean at Longbarrow HQ, I've found a number of hardbacks (ex-bookshop / damaged in transit) that are perfectly readable, but not saleable.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
December 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Following a spring clean at Longbarrow HQ, I've found a number of hardbacks (ex-bookshop / damaged in transit) that are perfectly readable, but not saleable.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
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The thing about the Church of England is that it has actual church laws and church courts and church judges and church lawyers and I know this because I've been part of an actual church court case and had to get a pro-bono church lawyer and it was all as wild as you'd expect it to be.
I just need you to know that although I am not a church cop I am, as Churchwarden, empowered to arrest people for various church-based nuisances (and am told, every year, at my swearing in, that under no circumstances am I to actually use those powers of arrest).
December 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The thing about the Church of England is that it has actual church laws and church courts and church judges and church lawyers and I know this because I've been part of an actual church court case and had to get a pro-bono church lawyer and it was all as wild as you'd expect it to be.
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The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen
This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure.
davekeating.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
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Merry Christmas from me and my extremely tolerant horse Sammy!
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Merry Christmas from me and my extremely tolerant horse Sammy!
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helicopterodactyl
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
helicopterodactyl
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I've mentioned this before: there are lots of SF novels in which no women appear & this fact is never acknowledged or explained. There are some SF novels where there are no men.
(con't)
(con't)
December 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I've mentioned this before: there are lots of SF novels in which no women appear & this fact is never acknowledged or explained. There are some SF novels where there are no men.
(con't)
(con't)
Goes with pterodactyl.
Friendly reminder
Helico-pter. Spinning wing
Not heli-copter
Helico-pter. Spinning wing
Not heli-copter
December 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Goes with pterodactyl.
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Friendly reminder
Helico-pter. Spinning wing
Not heli-copter
Helico-pter. Spinning wing
Not heli-copter
December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Friendly reminder
Helico-pter. Spinning wing
Not heli-copter
Helico-pter. Spinning wing
Not heli-copter
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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
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I STG women like reading/watching gay romances bc they get to enjoy men being sexy while not trying to dominate anyone (I don’t mean kink, either).
“What if men could love without owning?” 🫠
(There are straight romances that aren’t about domination, but a much smaller proportion.)
“What if men could love without owning?” 🫠
(There are straight romances that aren’t about domination, but a much smaller proportion.)
Another great interview with Jacob Tierney in Variety, especially his comments in response to Deuxmoi and other criticisms of the show: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘Heated Rivalry’ Creator on That Romantic Finale, Why Women Love the Show and How the Sex Might Evolve in Season 2: ‘They Can’t Always Be F—ing. God Knows, That’s Just Exhausting!’
'Heated Rivalry' creator Jacob Tierney on the Season 1 finale, changes from Rachel Reid's book, how sex on the show will evolve and why women love it.
variety.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I STG women like reading/watching gay romances bc they get to enjoy men being sexy while not trying to dominate anyone (I don’t mean kink, either).
“What if men could love without owning?” 🫠
(There are straight romances that aren’t about domination, but a much smaller proportion.)
“What if men could love without owning?” 🫠
(There are straight romances that aren’t about domination, but a much smaller proportion.)
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I lost my job and had to give up my health insurance when the premiums exceeded $40,000. But at least I know some of those uppity student loan borrowers will have their wages garnished starting next month.
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I lost my job and had to give up my health insurance when the premiums exceeded $40,000. But at least I know some of those uppity student loan borrowers will have their wages garnished starting next month.
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Come on man you can't do stuff that's so trite it's been a bumper sticker for like 30 years
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Come on man you can't do stuff that's so trite it's been a bumper sticker for like 30 years
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And you can't possibly stop using Paypal/Venmo and Amazon, right?
Well done to jazz musician Chuck Redd who canceled the huge Christmas Eve concert he has hosted at the Kennedy Center for 20 years in protest of the orange felon illegally/corruptly adding his disgusting name with President Kennedy.
Love this. 💙👊
Love this. 💙👊
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
And you can't possibly stop using Paypal/Venmo and Amazon, right?
That’s no billionaire, that’s a fully leveraged asset.
December 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
That’s no billionaire, that’s a fully leveraged asset.
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That’s it. I’m doing it. I’m going to do the Marxist-to-finance-ghoul move like some filthy Trot. My goal? To invent the first big tech bubble since the dotcom era that involves a strategy besides “so first, you buy a shitload of GPUs from my friend Jensen”
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
That’s it. I’m doing it. I’m going to do the Marxist-to-finance-ghoul move like some filthy Trot. My goal? To invent the first big tech bubble since the dotcom era that involves a strategy besides “so first, you buy a shitload of GPUs from my friend Jensen”
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Stranger Things' final season releasing in chunks with the finale being the last one and also being offered theatrically is very funny to me. Netflix bumbles into figuring out that spreading a show out keeps the conversation alive and that you can get money from people going theaters
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Stranger Things' final season releasing in chunks with the finale being the last one and also being offered theatrically is very funny to me. Netflix bumbles into figuring out that spreading a show out keeps the conversation alive and that you can get money from people going theaters
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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This reminds me of the complaints of several of the Sad Puppies. They went to conventions and were treated with the ordinary friendliness extended to newcomers and not with the instant enthusiasm they considered their due.
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This reminds me of the complaints of several of the Sad Puppies. They went to conventions and were treated with the ordinary friendliness extended to newcomers and not with the instant enthusiasm they considered their due.
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I'd believe this anecdote because I've met guys like this at conventions. People do ask (politely) about their work and they can't pitch it because what makes it special is that they are the specialest boy. They go to panels and hear queer and BIPOC writers talk about their work and think "ah ha". +
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'd believe this anecdote because I've met guys like this at conventions. People do ask (politely) about their work and they can't pitch it because what makes it special is that they are the specialest boy. They go to panels and hear queer and BIPOC writers talk about their work and think "ah ha". +
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We’re fortunate to have him. 😄
The fact the Menswear Guy is actively dunking on the Bsky user base now instead of just cross-posting the threads where he does that to Twitter users should terrify all of us.
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We’re fortunate to have him. 😄
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I’d never heard of John Doar before. If you haven’t either, give him a google. People like this, all the allies through history, give the lie to “but those were different times”. There have always been people raised in privilege who still knew right from wrong and took on the status quo.
Well, after eight years of research, writing and revision, I just sent the full manuscript for THE DIVISION: JOHN DOAR, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT to my publisher.
This is happening, people. Whether you want it or not.
This is happening, people. Whether you want it or not.
a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I’d never heard of John Doar before. If you haven’t either, give him a google. People like this, all the allies through history, give the lie to “but those were different times”. There have always been people raised in privilege who still knew right from wrong and took on the status quo.
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Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
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"Well, aktshually it's pointless criticising British arms manufacturers for selling £billions of weapons to an ethonationalist fascist state who is continuing the genocide of Palestinians at Xmas"
I am very smart 🤡
I am very smart 🤡
December 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Well, aktshually it's pointless criticising British arms manufacturers for selling £billions of weapons to an ethonationalist fascist state who is continuing the genocide of Palestinians at Xmas"
I am very smart 🤡
I am very smart 🤡
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Sam Bankman-Fried changes careers! from unqualified financier to unqualified lawyer www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/n...
Crypto Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Has New Pursuit: Jailhouse Lawyer
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sam Bankman-Fried changes careers! from unqualified financier to unqualified lawyer www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/n...