Dr Kate Laity 🧿
@katelaity.bsky.social
Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • 💀SLAC Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson *Visionary Fuel* https://linktr.ee/katelaity
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CFP: Divination, Witchcraft, and The Occult
Call for PresentationsDivination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*Popular Culture Association Conference8-11 April 2026Atlanta, GA, USThe broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and th…
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Deadline extended to December 5th!
More surreal art in Berlin! kalaity.com/2025/12/02/s...
Surrealism in Berlin
Legoland Giraffe This week has been rather more hectic than expected so I’m jumping around and the roulette wheel lands on Surrealism in Berlin — specifically the exhibit at the Neue Na…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
More surreal art in Berlin! kalaity.com/2025/12/02/s...
Reminder: don't wear clinky jewellery when recording.
homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a shelf with stuffed animals and says d ' oh .
Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a shelf with stuffed animals and says d ' oh .
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December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reminder: don't wear clinky jewellery when recording.
I don't think the smallest pair of christmas cracker tweezers could find a stray shred of his soul left in that carcass.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I don't think the smallest pair of christmas cracker tweezers could find a stray shred of his soul left in that carcass.
JEB!
This tweet didn’t work the first time, but I think he should try it again.
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
JEB!
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I feel bad for the crew of this series, who brought so much collective experience, skill, & artistry, working so hard to make Mad Men look & sound great. But I also laughed at this image for a solid 5 minutes.
God help me I had to check for myself if this is real, and it is. But also: this episode is "Red in the Face" and it's on the HBO Max site as "Babylon"! We used to be a proper country.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I feel bad for the crew of this series, who brought so much collective experience, skill, & artistry, working so hard to make Mad Men look & sound great. But I also laughed at this image for a solid 5 minutes.
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Today in #Palaeolunch we considered the evidence for cannibalism of gracile female Neanderthals and children from Goyet cave. Who was eating who? was this hunting, warfare, desperation or ritual? The latest study of the site takes our understanding a lot further. #PaPa 🦣🏺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Today in #Palaeolunch we considered the evidence for cannibalism of gracile female Neanderthals and children from Goyet cave. Who was eating who? was this hunting, warfare, desperation or ritual? The latest study of the site takes our understanding a lot further. #PaPa 🦣🏺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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I'm using Qobuz (and sometimes Apple Music) and it's very easy to port over and Qobuz pays artists more per track
help.qobuz.com/en/articles/...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm using Qobuz (and sometimes Apple Music) and it's very easy to port over and Qobuz pays artists more per track
help.qobuz.com/en/articles/...
help.qobuz.com/en/articles/...
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Make America Only Normally Racist And Violent Again
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Make America Only Normally Racist And Violent Again
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I love when Member of Congress claim they didn’t watch the news, as if they don’t have it on constantly in whatever office they are in and don’t carry a news device in their pockets which they check with the precision and dedication of nuclear scientists
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I love when Member of Congress claim they didn’t watch the news, as if they don’t have it on constantly in whatever office they are in and don’t carry a news device in their pockets which they check with the precision and dedication of nuclear scientists
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Never forget: Art matters.
‘Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia’
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Art matters.
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Dancing demons for your Tuesday, by David Ryckaert. Honestly, this is how I feel right now.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Dancing demons for your Tuesday, by David Ryckaert. Honestly, this is how I feel right now.
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Healy’s visceral disdain for people who want news to be news is appalling.
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Healy’s visceral disdain for people who want news to be news is appalling.
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Departments, faculty: we have to get our heads out of the sand. We have to understand the political landscape and take concerns seriously. Our students and NTT colleagues need our help and support. Retreating to a silo is giving up just when active support is necessary. 10/end
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Departments, faculty: we have to get our heads out of the sand. We have to understand the political landscape and take concerns seriously. Our students and NTT colleagues need our help and support. Retreating to a silo is giving up just when active support is necessary. 10/end
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Great podcast on the creator of Afrobeat, by one of the creators of Radiolab. We don’t hear enough about modern African history and culture.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
Society & Culture Podcast · Series · In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do?
Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?
In Fela K...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Great podcast on the creator of Afrobeat, by one of the creators of Radiolab. We don’t hear enough about modern African history and culture.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
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Don’t steal.
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Don’t steal.
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THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW is coming to FETV Jan 1 "in its original, uncut format."
These are not the familiar 30-min edits that are on MeTV and streaming, but full hour shows.
FETV's run kicks off w/ New Year's Day marathon. The series begins airing nightly Jan 3.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
These are not the familiar 30-min edits that are on MeTV and streaming, but full hour shows.
FETV's run kicks off w/ New Year's Day marathon. The series begins airing nightly Jan 3.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
FETV to Debut The Carol Burnett Show on January 1st
/PRNewswire/ -- FETV (Family Entertainment Television), home to beloved and timeless television series and movies carried across cable, satellite, and virtual...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW is coming to FETV Jan 1 "in its original, uncut format."
These are not the familiar 30-min edits that are on MeTV and streaming, but full hour shows.
FETV's run kicks off w/ New Year's Day marathon. The series begins airing nightly Jan 3.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
These are not the familiar 30-min edits that are on MeTV and streaming, but full hour shows.
FETV's run kicks off w/ New Year's Day marathon. The series begins airing nightly Jan 3.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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They have deleted Nurse Raghad's account again, if she manages to get back on here she'll likely be removed again. So at the least I'm going to share for her & share her posts from Upscrolled.
No voice should be silenced, especially not when it endangers them. Donate if you can.
shorturl.at/rvLMH
No voice should be silenced, especially not when it endangers them. Donate if you can.
shorturl.at/rvLMH
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
They have deleted Nurse Raghad's account again, if she manages to get back on here she'll likely be removed again. So at the least I'm going to share for her & share her posts from Upscrolled.
No voice should be silenced, especially not when it endangers them. Donate if you can.
shorturl.at/rvLMH
No voice should be silenced, especially not when it endangers them. Donate if you can.
shorturl.at/rvLMH
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Assume everything on a work phone is available to your employer.
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Assume everything on a work phone is available to your employer.
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Stephen Miller and his friends in the government adore the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act, which created the "Asiatic Barred Zone" and heavily restricted immigration from anywhere other than Western and Northern Europe.
100 years later, they're trying to replicate it.
100 years later, they're trying to replicate it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Stephen Miller and his friends in the government adore the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act, which created the "Asiatic Barred Zone" and heavily restricted immigration from anywhere other than Western and Northern Europe.
100 years later, they're trying to replicate it.
100 years later, they're trying to replicate it.
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Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
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For the quiet ones #mentalhealth #anxiety #ADHD #autism #neurodiversity
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December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
For the quiet ones #mentalhealth #anxiety #ADHD #autism #neurodiversity
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
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I'm excited to share my first cover story is a profile of and conversation with filmmaker Brittany Shyne about her brilliant documentary SEEDS for @documentary.org.
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm excited to share my first cover story is a profile of and conversation with filmmaker Brittany Shyne about her brilliant documentary SEEDS for @documentary.org.
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
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Yikes
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Yikes