Kathryn Rose
@artsyhonker.bsky.social
composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, chaser after the wind, pastoral assistant, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's just a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they
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Kathryn Rose
@artsyhonker.bsky.social
· Apr 4
OK people are talking about #gardening as a response to economic crisis and I see we are doing the "subsistence agriculture is hard, actually" disk horse again and I have a *bunch* of thoughts on this which I am going to put into a thread here so my ADHD brain will let me do the next task. 1/?
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“The researchers showed that raising body temperature to fever levels is effective at stopping human-origin flu viruses from replicating, but it is unlikely to stop avian flu viruses.”
Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks, according to new ...
www.gla.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“The researchers showed that raising body temperature to fever levels is effective at stopping human-origin flu viruses from replicating, but it is unlikely to stop avian flu viruses.”
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Burrowing owl
Coyote
Slow worm
Red kite
Rose chafer beetle
Burrowing owl
Coyote
Slow worm
Red kite
Rose chafer beetle
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Sierra tree frog
Bobcat
Northern Mockingbird
Ground squirrel
Humpback whale
Sierra tree frog
Bobcat
Northern Mockingbird
Ground squirrel
Humpback whale
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Oriental darter
Barred owl
Purple gallinule
Eurasian hoopoe
Golden eagle
Oriental darter
Barred owl
Purple gallinule
Eurasian hoopoe
Golden eagle
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Burrowing owl
Coyote
Slow worm
Red kite
Rose chafer beetle
Burrowing owl
Coyote
Slow worm
Red kite
Rose chafer beetle
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I've finally sorted the text, music, typesetting, photos and graphics for my Advent and Christmas collection of responsorial psalm settings. Please have a look and spread the word! psalteryandharp.uk (and yay! I seem to have a picture here instead of a black box!)
The Advent and Christmas Collection is now available
I am delighted to introduce the first set of responsorial psalm translations and settings for ordinary churches, which is now available in the shop section of this website. This collection includes th...
psalteryandharp.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I've finally sorted the text, music, typesetting, photos and graphics for my Advent and Christmas collection of responsorial psalm settings. Please have a look and spread the word! psalteryandharp.uk (and yay! I seem to have a picture here instead of a black box!)
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BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL ON MY BOOKS:
yours for $0.00 each! Two for $0.00!
LibGen is down, so just get them from me. Temporary!
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Attack%2...
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Libra%20...
if you like 'em buy the epub or paperback, the paper versions look real nice
yours for $0.00 each! Two for $0.00!
LibGen is down, so just get them from me. Temporary!
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Attack%2...
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Libra%20...
if you like 'em buy the epub or paperback, the paper versions look real nice
davidgerard.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL ON MY BOOKS:
yours for $0.00 each! Two for $0.00!
LibGen is down, so just get them from me. Temporary!
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Attack%2...
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Libra%20...
if you like 'em buy the epub or paperback, the paper versions look real nice
yours for $0.00 each! Two for $0.00!
LibGen is down, so just get them from me. Temporary!
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Attack%2...
davidgerard.co.uk/tmp/Libra%20...
if you like 'em buy the epub or paperback, the paper versions look real nice
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There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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Great illustration of the austerity ratchet in Britain - restoring the pre-Osborne welfare state treated like wild-eyed radicalism
Aside from anything else, the benefit cap was introduced in 2013. Claiming that going back to 2012, to a benefit system designed by Tories but missing some of the most egregious and punitive excesses, is a sign of a "return" to even the real 1970s let alone the media boogeyman 1970s, is bollocks.
Look. This isn't analysis of any stripe. That this absolute fucking hogwash is presented as clever, sensible moderate stuff should be considered just as much propaganda as the tabloid screaming about benefits street.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great illustration of the austerity ratchet in Britain - restoring the pre-Osborne welfare state treated like wild-eyed radicalism
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There's no getting around it. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is good at this, and his populist comms approach layered on top of the green parties solid, clear and comprehensive policy set makes a strong package.
Hope is here.
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Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
There's no getting around it. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is good at this, and his populist comms approach layered on top of the green parties solid, clear and comprehensive policy set makes a strong package.
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This is what the News Agents are calling a boom in “welfare bills”
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is what the News Agents are calling a boom in “welfare bills”
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That's a very interesting attack because, humanly, it will also prevent people from acknowledging the attack. Imagine noticing the hack. Would you go to your company and say "hey, so I was was interviewing to leave the company, I didn't get the job, but now I have a malware"?
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
That's a very interesting attack because, humanly, it will also prevent people from acknowledging the attack. Imagine noticing the hack. Would you go to your company and say "hey, so I was was interviewing to leave the company, I didn't get the job, but now I have a malware"?
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only Labour could ban books not because they were subversive, or critical of the government, but because the author might donate her own money to a cause she believes in
presumably we're gonna ban J K Rowling from selling books in the UK as well?
no?
astounding, whomst could have forseen etc
presumably we're gonna ban J K Rowling from selling books in the UK as well?
no?
astounding, whomst could have forseen etc
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
only Labour could ban books not because they were subversive, or critical of the government, but because the author might donate her own money to a cause she believes in
presumably we're gonna ban J K Rowling from selling books in the UK as well?
no?
astounding, whomst could have forseen etc
presumably we're gonna ban J K Rowling from selling books in the UK as well?
no?
astounding, whomst could have forseen etc
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Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
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Ah yes, all us petite bourgeoisie artists out here with our charcuterie plates and our means of production.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ah yes, all us petite bourgeoisie artists out here with our charcuterie plates and our means of production.
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
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I think we've reached the stage where we can no longer trust any image online unless it is guaranteed from a reputable source.
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I think we've reached the stage where we can no longer trust any image online unless it is guaranteed from a reputable source.
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It’s unpaid, so there’s historically quite a lean towards OAPs and upper middle class men taking on the work. But your job must give you leave, many offer paid leave (it’s a max of 13 days work per year), and if not, you can claim an allowance.
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It’s unpaid, so there’s historically quite a lean towards OAPs and upper middle class men taking on the work. But your job must give you leave, many offer paid leave (it’s a max of 13 days work per year), and if not, you can claim an allowance.
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Mental health wise I’m not up for it right now but it’s something I want to do in the future, because changing the entire system is going to take a lot of time and effort, and in the meantime, I could work to dismantle subconscious bias from the bench. Which does matter and add up.
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Mental health wise I’m not up for it right now but it’s something I want to do in the future, because changing the entire system is going to take a lot of time and effort, and in the meantime, I could work to dismantle subconscious bias from the bench. Which does matter and add up.
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One thing to know about Magistrates is that the qualifications for becoming one are: 1) be aged between 18-74, 2) be literate, and 3) be ‘of good character’ (no previous convictions or bankruptcy)
If you’re up for it, you can help beat bias in the system by entering it
If you’re up for it, you can help beat bias in the system by entering it
Can't believe they're going to end trial by jury. It's one of our most fundamental rights. Literally Magna Carta stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
One thing to know about Magistrates is that the qualifications for becoming one are: 1) be aged between 18-74, 2) be literate, and 3) be ‘of good character’ (no previous convictions or bankruptcy)
If you’re up for it, you can help beat bias in the system by entering it
If you’re up for it, you can help beat bias in the system by entering it
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Only two days to go to ‘Winter Reflections’ online concert for #CleanAir. Please see link to programme & tickets here. Lots of wonderful musicians taking part. You can also hear my work for Piano ‘Mysterious Light’.
corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/concert/
corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/concert/
Winter Reflections for Clean Air
Our mission is to improve human health by supplying and promoting the use of air purifiers to clean indoor air.
corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Only two days to go to ‘Winter Reflections’ online concert for #CleanAir. Please see link to programme & tickets here. Lots of wonderful musicians taking part. You can also hear my work for Piano ‘Mysterious Light’.
corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/concert/
corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/concert/
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This is why I’m here:
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
November 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
This is why I’m here:
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
You just died.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
You just died.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
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there were plans announced today to sequester carbon under the North Sea
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
Announced while everyone's reacting to the budget, Labour are backtracking from their already weak position on new fossil fuel extraction.
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan - BBC News
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
there were plans announced today to sequester carbon under the North Sea
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering
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ok: 2025 "AI" is built and funded by fascists for fascist purposes, and that should be the first thing anyone talks about when mentioning it in any regard.
that's my view as a technologist.
that's my view as a technologist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ok: 2025 "AI" is built and funded by fascists for fascist purposes, and that should be the first thing anyone talks about when mentioning it in any regard.
that's my view as a technologist.
that's my view as a technologist.
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A great deal of ‘welfare’ spending is basically the taxpayer picking up the tab for economic and political failures. I mean, how much of the UK’s welfare spending is basically down to the housing crisis and a decade of minimal wage growth?
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A great deal of ‘welfare’ spending is basically the taxpayer picking up the tab for economic and political failures. I mean, how much of the UK’s welfare spending is basically down to the housing crisis and a decade of minimal wage growth?