Katherine Gregor
@scribedoll.bsky.social
Literary translator, writer, amateur cartoonist and photographer, Qi Gong practitioner. Blog on scribedoll.com
*No offence intended – will block followers I or one of my contacts don't personally know*
*No offence intended – will block followers I or one of my contacts don't personally know*
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2582711... Hooray for the good people of Norfolk!
'Strike' among Sandringham staff after Andrew's Norfolk move
Sandringham staff on "strike" amid Andrew Mountbatten-Windor's move to the King's country estate in Norfolk.
www.edp24.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2582711... Hooray for the good people of Norfolk!
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The owner of Twitter is inciting murder, according to the owner of Twitter.
February 4, 2026 at 9:19 AM
The owner of Twitter is inciting murder, according to the owner of Twitter.
My Sunday Blog Post: scribedoll.com/2026/02/01/s...
Snow Moon
Outside my window, the night has fallen softly on this first day of the Celtic spring. Although still naked, the trees across the street have lost some of their winter gauntness and you can j…
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February 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
My Sunday Blog Post: scribedoll.com/2026/02/01/s...
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Encourage Mainers to:
-Start neighborhood Signal groups, rapid response teams
-Don't plan actions publicly. Be small, be smart.
-Best Resource Hub: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...
-Get folks on other platforms to join Bluesky: Follow me & @activatemaine.bsky.social
#EveryEffortCounts
-Start neighborhood Signal groups, rapid response teams
-Don't plan actions publicly. Be small, be smart.
-Best Resource Hub: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...
-Get folks on other platforms to join Bluesky: Follow me & @activatemaine.bsky.social
#EveryEffortCounts
January 27, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Encourage Mainers to:
-Start neighborhood Signal groups, rapid response teams
-Don't plan actions publicly. Be small, be smart.
-Best Resource Hub: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...
-Get folks on other platforms to join Bluesky: Follow me & @activatemaine.bsky.social
#EveryEffortCounts
-Start neighborhood Signal groups, rapid response teams
-Don't plan actions publicly. Be small, be smart.
-Best Resource Hub: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...
-Get folks on other platforms to join Bluesky: Follow me & @activatemaine.bsky.social
#EveryEffortCounts
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Arresting people who are legally here. Terrorizing our neighbors. Harming our local businesses. ICE out now.
ICE activity in Maine is hurting businesses owned and staffed by immigrants * Free to access
ICE activity in Maine is hurting businesses owned and staffed by immigrants
Some are temporarily closing their doors or making contingency plans.
www.pressherald.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Arresting people who are legally here. Terrorizing our neighbors. Harming our local businesses. ICE out now.
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Good morning. My daughter is studying animation & they’ve been asked to write an essay on how Ai directly affects their business. As part of this she wants to add snippets from people in the arts who have been directly affected. Does anyone have any stories to share please?
January 26, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Good morning. My daughter is studying animation & they’ve been asked to write an essay on how Ai directly affects their business. As part of this she wants to add snippets from people in the arts who have been directly affected. Does anyone have any stories to share please?
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If that's what they're willing to do in public, while being filmed, what do they do behind closed doors?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Video shows moments around fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Bystander footage has captured the seconds before the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 AM
If that's what they're willing to do in public, while being filmed, what do they do behind closed doors?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Project Home Maine (formerly Quality Housing Coalition) has set up funding to help pay rent for folks either detained by ICE or who miss work because they're afraid of being detained by ICE coming into our neighborhoods.
They raised $73,000 by Wed afternoon.
You can help here, Project Home Maine:
They raised $73,000 by Wed afternoon.
You can help here, Project Home Maine:
Give Now to Create Housing & Hope
Help build stable pathways so Maine families can thrive—not just survive. Your gift supports Project Home’s work to create pathways to stable housing, better health, and long-term financial security ...
projecthomemaine.networkforgood.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Project Home Maine (formerly Quality Housing Coalition) has set up funding to help pay rent for folks either detained by ICE or who miss work because they're afraid of being detained by ICE coming into our neighborhoods.
They raised $73,000 by Wed afternoon.
You can help here, Project Home Maine:
They raised $73,000 by Wed afternoon.
You can help here, Project Home Maine:
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Hey folks: if you’re wondering what you can do from afar to be in solidarity with Mainers who are bracing for impact, please donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund. It helps our immigrant and trans neighbors who are under attack with legal, medical, & housing needs.
Maine Solidarity Fund
www.mainesolidarity.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Hey folks: if you’re wondering what you can do from afar to be in solidarity with Mainers who are bracing for impact, please donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund. It helps our immigrant and trans neighbors who are under attack with legal, medical, & housing needs.
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TODAY at 6 pm GMT I'll be interviewing the wonderful @Lilydunn.bsky.social for @womenwritersnet.bsky.social. If you're writing #memoir, I highly recommend Lily's new book, "Into Being" (@ManchesterUP.bsky.social). To hear from Lily and pose your own questions, come and join our conversation!
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
TODAY at 6 pm GMT I'll be interviewing the wonderful @Lilydunn.bsky.social for @womenwritersnet.bsky.social. If you're writing #memoir, I highly recommend Lily's new book, "Into Being" (@ManchesterUP.bsky.social). To hear from Lily and pose your own questions, come and join our conversation!
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The issue is beyond the 25th Amendment. The American people have voted in a sick man without any humility or moral compass to the office of presidency.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
The issue is beyond the 25th Amendment. The American people have voted in a sick man without any humility or moral compass to the office of presidency.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
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OTD 1689 b Montesquieu Argued for sep of powers,influencing Amer Rev:"When in same person or body of magistracy legisl auth is combined w/exec auth there's no freedom bc same monarch or senate cd make tyrannical laws.No freedom if authority to judge isn't separated from legisl & exec authorities."
January 18, 2026 at 11:38 AM
OTD 1689 b Montesquieu Argued for sep of powers,influencing Amer Rev:"When in same person or body of magistracy legisl auth is combined w/exec auth there's no freedom bc same monarch or senate cd make tyrannical laws.No freedom if authority to judge isn't separated from legisl & exec authorities."
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@hjm.bsky.social: ‘If you spend a lot of time with another creature, you sense another world’
The H is for Hawk author walks the frosty Cambridgeshire fields where Mabel the goshawk became a spiritual guide with @timadamswrites.bsky.social.
https://bit.ly/4pDx0wR
The H is for Hawk author walks the frosty Cambridgeshire fields where Mabel the goshawk became a spiritual guide with @timadamswrites.bsky.social.
https://bit.ly/4pDx0wR
Helen Macdonald: ‘If you spend a lot of time with another...
As a film based on the award-winning memoir arrives in cinemas, the H is for Hawk author walks the frosty Cambridgeshire fields where Mabel the goshawk became a spiritual guide
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January 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
@hjm.bsky.social: ‘If you spend a lot of time with another creature, you sense another world’
The H is for Hawk author walks the frosty Cambridgeshire fields where Mabel the goshawk became a spiritual guide with @timadamswrites.bsky.social.
https://bit.ly/4pDx0wR
The H is for Hawk author walks the frosty Cambridgeshire fields where Mabel the goshawk became a spiritual guide with @timadamswrites.bsky.social.
https://bit.ly/4pDx0wR
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Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
38d.gs
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
Norwich today...
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Norwich today...
The River Yare through smoke...
January 2, 2026 at 5:19 PM
The River Yare through smoke...
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Some New Year’s thoughts and memories, not all of them somber, with a helping hand from Alexander Voloshin…
“We only love, only hold dear
the scenes that vanish, disappear . . .
Now at our temples we may find
frost of a rather different kind . . .”
bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
“We only love, only hold dear
the scenes that vanish, disappear . . .
Now at our temples we may find
frost of a rather different kind . . .”
bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
“Board the Troika of the Past”: Alexander Voloshin Rings in the New Year
The New Year has always been a merry holiday in my family, even in the worst of times. A decade ago, when I was still editing the Los Angeles Review of Books (which celebrates its fifteenth anniver…
bdralyuk.wordpress.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Some New Year’s thoughts and memories, not all of them somber, with a helping hand from Alexander Voloshin…
“We only love, only hold dear
the scenes that vanish, disappear . . .
Now at our temples we may find
frost of a rather different kind . . .”
bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
“We only love, only hold dear
the scenes that vanish, disappear . . .
Now at our temples we may find
frost of a rather different kind . . .”
bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
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✨ Great news! ✨
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
The Sebald Lecture 2025: Elif Shafak
This lecture took place at the British Library, London, on 1 December 2025
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller. She has published 21 books, 13 of which are…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
✨ Great news! ✨
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
This year's Sebald Lecture with Elif Shafak is available to watch on Youtube 📽️
Watch: youtu.be/WUoCPnDHI30?...
My Sunday scribblings: scribedoll.com/2025/12/07/s...
Season Lag
What kind of person says she misses the Norwich winter when she lives in Nice? Yes, Nice. That place on the Côte d’Azur, with the perennially cyan sky and soft, golden haze that sets th…
scribedoll.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My Sunday scribblings: scribedoll.com/2025/12/07/s...
Apparently, humans aren't the only creatures who vandalise their habitat.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Apparently, humans aren't the only creatures who vandalise their habitat.
Say hello to Luna, an East London rescue who moved in with us on Saturday.
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Say hello to Luna, an East London rescue who moved in with us on Saturday.
POLITE REMINDER: No offence intended, but because of previous (negative) experience with followers who turned out to be nasty bots, I automatically block any new follower I don't know personally, or someone I know doesn't know personally.
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
POLITE REMINDER: No offence intended, but because of previous (negative) experience with followers who turned out to be nasty bots, I automatically block any new follower I don't know personally, or someone I know doesn't know personally.