KateW
@kateweb.bsky.social
Often found in front of a stage or a screen.
Shed | Morveren | Play it by ear @BigTellyNI | @CriTheatre New Writing She/her
Shed | Morveren | Play it by ear @BigTellyNI | @CriTheatre New Writing She/her
On the train and football dickheads are being absolute dickheads.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
On the train and football dickheads are being absolute dickheads.
Great range of t-shirts here,for you or your record/book/Brutalist architecture icing family and friends. There's also one with Pete's face on. 🐾
Eco-Friendly T-Shirts by Gail Myerscough
Organic cotton and vegan friendly range of bold and colourful t-shirts.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Great range of t-shirts here,for you or your record/book/Brutalist architecture icing family and friends. There's also one with Pete's face on. 🐾
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Daily Mail owner DMGT has just signed a deal to buy the Telegraph, which would unite the UK’s two strongest right-wing papers under one owner.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph on.ft.com/3JSdIFj
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Daily Mail owner DMGT has just signed a deal to buy the Telegraph, which would unite the UK’s two strongest right-wing papers under one owner.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
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"My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine."
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine."
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead
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This episode of the search for Cardenio ends on a cliffhangerl "He dramatically announced, dramatically!!": pca.st/podcast/3a74...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This episode of the search for Cardenio ends on a cliffhangerl "He dramatically announced, dramatically!!": pca.st/podcast/3a74...
£13 tickets for Tuneyards at Sunderland Fire Station, North East people! www.weticketit.com/showfilmfirs... (Cc @andromedadurham.bsky.social, @fnafilms.com in case it's any use to you.)
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
£13 tickets for Tuneyards at Sunderland Fire Station, North East people! www.weticketit.com/showfilmfirs... (Cc @andromedadurham.bsky.social, @fnafilms.com in case it's any use to you.)
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“So this is Chris” Christmas card is in the shop! I’ll make it three for two just as soon as I’ve worked out how to do that. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“So this is Chris” Christmas card is in the shop! I’ll make it three for two just as soon as I’ve worked out how to do that. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
If anyone's interested in History Today (the magazine, rather than *waves hands* The Events), they do a three month trial of print and digital for £5 (five pounds). Means you get the physical magazine AND can go wild with their archive.
Subscribe from only £5!
Buy a subscription to Britain’s leading serious history magazine and enjoy significant savings on the shop price.
www.historytoday.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If anyone's interested in History Today (the magazine, rather than *waves hands* The Events), they do a three month trial of print and digital for £5 (five pounds). Means you get the physical magazine AND can go wild with their archive.
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The Hudd from Castle Hill #Huddersfield
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Hudd from Castle Hill #Huddersfield
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social Hi - The Blazing World is on my TBR pile, but could I possibly ask for a reading recommendation? I studied the English Civil War at A-level (a VERY long time ago), so have a basic overview, but am really looking for something on reactions to the Republic 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social Hi - The Blazing World is on my TBR pile, but could I possibly ask for a reading recommendation? I studied the English Civil War at A-level (a VERY long time ago), so have a basic overview, but am really looking for something on reactions to the Republic 1/2
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Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
Weird how much that sounds like a threat.
US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future
US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future
‘No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,’ says US army secretary in sombre meeting
US officials have told Nato allies they expect to push president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it will face a much worse deal in future.
The US army secretary Dan Driscoll briefed ambassadors from Nato nations at a meeting in Kyiv late on Friday, after talks with Zelenskyy and taking a phone call from the White House. “No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,” he told them, according to one person who was present. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Weird how much that sounds like a threat.
A friend made brownies for a party a load of us are going to tonight - then, while getting them onto the cooling rack, dropped the whole lot on the floor. "I see now why they cry on Bake Off."
So I hope your Saturday morning's going better than hers.
So I hope your Saturday morning's going better than hers.
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A friend made brownies for a party a load of us are going to tonight - then, while getting them onto the cooling rack, dropped the whole lot on the floor. "I see now why they cry on Bake Off."
So I hope your Saturday morning's going better than hers.
So I hope your Saturday morning's going better than hers.
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"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
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This SUNDAY - COLCHESTER!!
A solo show for @samaritans.bsky.social
Tickets here
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Tell your friends
A solo show for @samaritans.bsky.social
Tickets here
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Tell your friends
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This SUNDAY - COLCHESTER!!
A solo show for @samaritans.bsky.social
Tickets here
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Tell your friends
A solo show for @samaritans.bsky.social
Tickets here
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Tell your friends
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Also this, of course! If women are defined by the production of large gametes, the production of large gametes quickly comes to define women. Feminism once argued that biology was not destiny; the anti-trans movement insists that it is. bsky.app/profile/jack...
If you are arguing that what essentially makes you a woman is your reproductive capacity, then it’s real easy to slide into the “you must reproduce” logic.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Also this, of course! If women are defined by the production of large gametes, the production of large gametes quickly comes to define women. Feminism once argued that biology was not destiny; the anti-trans movement insists that it is. bsky.app/profile/jack...
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None of us will ever be this comfy.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
None of us will ever be this comfy.
Saw some really good, very convincing, LED candles today; not for sale, just part of the shop's display, but they gave me the brand name. I just had a look and a 20cm high candle is €43! That sound is my jaw hitting the floor.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Saw some really good, very convincing, LED candles today; not for sale, just part of the shop's display, but they gave me the brand name. I just had a look and a 20cm high candle is €43! That sound is my jaw hitting the floor.
There's an hour of Nick Drake songs, recorded live at the Barbican, currently on BBC FOUR if that appeals to anyone.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
There's an hour of Nick Drake songs, recorded live at the Barbican, currently on BBC FOUR if that appeals to anyone.
See thread for more background, alt text and guesses so far:
Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop.
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
See thread for more background, alt text and guesses so far:
This episode of the search for Cardenio ends on a cliffhangerl "He dramatically announced, dramatically!!": pca.st/podcast/3a74...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This episode of the search for Cardenio ends on a cliffhangerl "He dramatically announced, dramatically!!": pca.st/podcast/3a74...
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The whole process of Samuel Barnett's Unknown has been a delight. Sam, Tom, @scotthandcock1984.bsky.social and I decided to do something a bit different - finding a new way of making audio. One of the loveliest things has been that it's found an audience so quickly, and the feedback.
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The whole process of Samuel Barnett's Unknown has been a delight. Sam, Tom, @scotthandcock1984.bsky.social and I decided to do something a bit different - finding a new way of making audio. One of the loveliest things has been that it's found an audience so quickly, and the feedback.
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Here's a highlight from Episode 2 of Samuel Barnett's Unknown as Sam and Tom find out what the ghost of a cook has to do with the missing Shakespeare play Cardenio
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Here's a highlight from Episode 2 of Samuel Barnett's Unknown as Sam and Tom find out what the ghost of a cook has to do with the missing Shakespeare play Cardenio
Banging Friday night: seen some music, seen some art, got a bag of Co-op prawn crackers for the train home.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Banging Friday night: seen some music, seen some art, got a bag of Co-op prawn crackers for the train home.
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14 year old son just did an insult at me that made me laugh out loud: “old man, show us your landline”
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
14 year old son just did an insult at me that made me laugh out loud: “old man, show us your landline”