Katie Moten
@katie-is-dreaming.bsky.social
Katie, from Ireland. Dog mum to Elsie. Reader, writer, knitter, crafter.
Blog: dreamingbylamplight.com
Member of London Writers Salon
Writing ✍️ Climate change-related fantasy novel
Reading 📚 Cosmocomicd, Alone in Berlin
Knitting 🧶 Cumulus Tee
Blog: dreamingbylamplight.com
Member of London Writers Salon
Writing ✍️ Climate change-related fantasy novel
Reading 📚 Cosmocomicd, Alone in Berlin
Knitting 🧶 Cumulus Tee
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Hello, Bluesky 👋 Here, you'll find books, writing, dogs, knitting, and crafting. Also, a welcome to all good souls who believe everyone has the right to freedom and equality no matter who they are, where they come from, what they look like, or who they love. Pro Palestine. Anti hate. Pro democracy.
RIP to Jane Goodall. What an inspiring woman. What a loss to the world 😥 I hope she has a marvellous next adventure.
#JaneGoodall
#JaneGoodall
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
RIP to Jane Goodall. What an inspiring woman. What a loss to the world 😥 I hope she has a marvellous next adventure.
#JaneGoodall
#JaneGoodall
Happy National Dog Day to all the doggies, but especially to mine, my beautiful Elsie ❤️❤️❤️
August 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Happy National Dog Day to all the doggies, but especially to mine, my beautiful Elsie ❤️❤️❤️
@samblakebooks.bsky.social is an amazing writer and mentor to aspiring writers. She is so generous with her time and advice. This is a terrible thing to have happen. Sending love, Sam! Hope this is resolved quickly ❤️
Appalling rip-off of the hugely popular work of @samblakebooks.bsky.social Readers beware. Hope this is resolved quickly and prevented from happening again. I can only imagine how stressful and infuriating this must be.
Truly shocking...
'Imagine discovering that your identity has been hijacked and someone is trying to trade off your name.'
My identity has been stolen to produce fake AI-generated books in my name -
@samblakebooks.bsky.social via
@independent.ie
youtu.be/pZxfNYucJrc?...
'Imagine discovering that your identity has been hijacked and someone is trying to trade off your name.'
My identity has been stolen to produce fake AI-generated books in my name -
@samblakebooks.bsky.social via
@independent.ie
youtu.be/pZxfNYucJrc?...
August 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@samblakebooks.bsky.social is an amazing writer and mentor to aspiring writers. She is so generous with her time and advice. This is a terrible thing to have happen. Sending love, Sam! Hope this is resolved quickly ❤️
Reposted by Katie Moten
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
20/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
August 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
20/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
19/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
19/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
July 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
19/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
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#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
Reposted by Katie Moten
"The National Development Plan announced by the government this week has allocated nothing to nature, instead taking 3.15 billion euro from the Climate +Nature Fund for infrastructure."
Ireland disgracing itself on nature *yet again*. This is NOT what people want, but we keep getting the same. Why?
Ireland disgracing itself on nature *yet again*. This is NOT what people want, but we keep getting the same. Why?
The gutting of nature from the Infrastructure, Climate & Nature Fund to finance transport, energy & water infrastructure projects in the NDP is very alarming, deeply disappointing & flies in the face of the Government’s previous guarantees on nature restoration environmentalpillar.ie/environmenta...
July 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
"The National Development Plan announced by the government this week has allocated nothing to nature, instead taking 3.15 billion euro from the Climate +Nature Fund for infrastructure."
Ireland disgracing itself on nature *yet again*. This is NOT what people want, but we keep getting the same. Why?
Ireland disgracing itself on nature *yet again*. This is NOT what people want, but we keep getting the same. Why?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
18/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
18/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
18/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
18/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
17/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
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July 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
17/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
17/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
My friend recently alerted me to a shocking case of a neglected dog. The Kildare Animal Foundation has been trying to help a dog that's severely emaciated, but was returned by the Gardaí to its owners. Posts are on Facebook. Please donate and help if you can. Thank you.
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July 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
My friend recently alerted me to a shocking case of a neglected dog. The Kildare Animal Foundation has been trying to help a dog that's severely emaciated, but was returned by the Gardaí to its owners. Posts are on Facebook. Please donate and help if you can. Thank you.
www.facebook.com/KAFRescue/
www.facebook.com/KAFRescue/
Up Tipp!!! My dad is very happy right now 😊 #AllIreland
July 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Up Tipp!!! My dad is very happy right now 😊 #AllIreland
Is it a good thing or a bad thing if you make yourself cry with your own writing? #5amWritersClub #Writing
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Is it a good thing or a bad thing if you make yourself cry with your own writing? #5amWritersClub #Writing
#3GoodThings
1. My mam is the wisest person I know, and I love talking things out with her.
2. I've achieved my writing goals for June and looking forward to achieving more in July.
3. I am working on my mindset and it's really opening up new paths for me.
#Writing #Contentment
1. My mam is the wisest person I know, and I love talking things out with her.
2. I've achieved my writing goals for June and looking forward to achieving more in July.
3. I am working on my mindset and it's really opening up new paths for me.
#Writing #Contentment
June 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#3GoodThings
1. My mam is the wisest person I know, and I love talking things out with her.
2. I've achieved my writing goals for June and looking forward to achieving more in July.
3. I am working on my mindset and it's really opening up new paths for me.
#Writing #Contentment
1. My mam is the wisest person I know, and I love talking things out with her.
2. I've achieved my writing goals for June and looking forward to achieving more in July.
3. I am working on my mindset and it's really opening up new paths for me.
#Writing #Contentment
For every morning I get up early to write, the jar gets a pretty stone from the bag. 10 so far. I have lots more stones in that bag, though. I'm gonna empty it! ✍️📚❤️ #Writing #5amWritersClub
June 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For every morning I get up early to write, the jar gets a pretty stone from the bag. 10 so far. I have lots more stones in that bag, though. I'm gonna empty it! ✍️📚❤️ #Writing #5amWritersClub
Reposted by Katie Moten
"There is no excuse for blaming the Jewish people as a whole for what [Israel] and its ideological backers are doing. There is no excuse, ever, for antisemitism, just as there is no excuse for any other form of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, or any other prejudice."
🎯
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I felt it was essential to make this comment on Youtube, below the line on my Palestine Action video, in view of some of the truly disgusting things being said.
June 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"There is no excuse for blaming the Jewish people as a whole for what [Israel] and its ideological backers are doing. There is no excuse, ever, for antisemitism, just as there is no excuse for any other form of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, or any other prejudice."
🎯
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Today is seven days in a row of early morning writing for me. Let's go! #5anWritersClub #Writing
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Today is seven days in a row of early morning writing for me. Let's go! #5anWritersClub #Writing
Back at my desk for morning writing #5amWritersClub #Writing
June 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Back at my desk for morning writing #5amWritersClub #Writing
Let's do a #3GoodThings
1. I'm really starting to build a good routine for early morning writing ✍️ 😊
2. I'm working on talking more positively to myself, and it is really uplifting.
3. I've been feeling really focused and creative lately, which I'm so happy about 🥰
#Writing #Positivity #Happiness
1. I'm really starting to build a good routine for early morning writing ✍️ 😊
2. I'm working on talking more positively to myself, and it is really uplifting.
3. I've been feeling really focused and creative lately, which I'm so happy about 🥰
#Writing #Positivity #Happiness
June 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Let's do a #3GoodThings
1. I'm really starting to build a good routine for early morning writing ✍️ 😊
2. I'm working on talking more positively to myself, and it is really uplifting.
3. I've been feeling really focused and creative lately, which I'm so happy about 🥰
#Writing #Positivity #Happiness
1. I'm really starting to build a good routine for early morning writing ✍️ 😊
2. I'm working on talking more positively to myself, and it is really uplifting.
3. I've been feeling really focused and creative lately, which I'm so happy about 🥰
#Writing #Positivity #Happiness
Reposted by Katie Moten
Come on lads, why might Silicon Valley zillionaires plough all of their money into technology that helps idiots sound like they might be smart
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Come on lads, why might Silicon Valley zillionaires plough all of their money into technology that helps idiots sound like they might be smart
Reposted by Katie Moten
If you were too young in 2022 here is what Putin told the Russian people:
1)The Special Operation won’t cost a lot of money
2)We won’t need a lot of troops
3)We’ll bring peace & freedom to Ukraine
4)We’ll find nazis
5)We’ll be welcomed as liberators
6)It will be easy
7)It won’t take long
All lies.
1)The Special Operation won’t cost a lot of money
2)We won’t need a lot of troops
3)We’ll bring peace & freedom to Ukraine
4)We’ll find nazis
5)We’ll be welcomed as liberators
6)It will be easy
7)It won’t take long
All lies.
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you were too young in 2022 here is what Putin told the Russian people:
1)The Special Operation won’t cost a lot of money
2)We won’t need a lot of troops
3)We’ll bring peace & freedom to Ukraine
4)We’ll find nazis
5)We’ll be welcomed as liberators
6)It will be easy
7)It won’t take long
All lies.
1)The Special Operation won’t cost a lot of money
2)We won’t need a lot of troops
3)We’ll bring peace & freedom to Ukraine
4)We’ll find nazis
5)We’ll be welcomed as liberators
6)It will be easy
7)It won’t take long
All lies.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
16/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
16/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
June 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
16/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
16/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚
Reposted by Katie Moten
The moment when the Russian drone directly hit a residential building in Kyiv appeared online.
Russians continue to fight against civilians.
Russians continue to fight against civilians.
June 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The moment when the Russian drone directly hit a residential building in Kyiv appeared online.
Russians continue to fight against civilians.
Russians continue to fight against civilians.
Yeah, that's gonna be longer than a month. Way longer. At least until 2029. At least.
Airfares from Europe to the United States have dropped to rates not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic, as travellers from Western Europe lead a pullback in travel to the US that is expected to continue until at least next month.
Transatlantic airfares slump as Europeans skip US travel
Airfares from Europe to the United States have dropped to rates not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic, as travellers from Western Europe lead a pullback in travel to the US that is expected to c...
www.rte.ie
June 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Yeah, that's gonna be longer than a month. Way longer. At least until 2029. At least.
Reposted by Katie Moten
My grandmother was a young Jewish girl in Poland during WWII and she lived because a white christian family took her in and hid her for the entire war. The rest of her family didn't survive. She survived because a few people chose to do the right thing instead of following unjust laws.
My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.
June 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
My grandmother was a young Jewish girl in Poland during WWII and she lived because a white christian family took her in and hid her for the entire war. The rest of her family didn't survive. She survived because a few people chose to do the right thing instead of following unjust laws.