Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him
www.amnesiana.com
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Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Facial ID has arrived in the UK and is coming to Australia in November, so I'm putting my Signal contact here for anyone who's lost DMs.
Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.
Try me here first
KayOrchison.71
Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.
Try me here first
KayOrchison.71
Pahahaha
Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pahahaha
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If only a specific song or indeed album about this in the UK was around oh wait www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbd...
Everything English Is The Enemy - The Indelicates
YouTube video by happygnome
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If only a specific song or indeed album about this in the UK was around oh wait www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbd...
Seeing the topic has come up in relation to, of all things, Hookland:
Nostalgia is an attempt to escape the present by fleeing into an idyllic simulacrum of the past.
It is the exact opposite of reckoning with the persistent thread of darkness from the horrors we have survived to those yet to come
Nostalgia is an attempt to escape the present by fleeing into an idyllic simulacrum of the past.
It is the exact opposite of reckoning with the persistent thread of darkness from the horrors we have survived to those yet to come
If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Seeing the topic has come up in relation to, of all things, Hookland:
Nostalgia is an attempt to escape the present by fleeing into an idyllic simulacrum of the past.
It is the exact opposite of reckoning with the persistent thread of darkness from the horrors we have survived to those yet to come
Nostalgia is an attempt to escape the present by fleeing into an idyllic simulacrum of the past.
It is the exact opposite of reckoning with the persistent thread of darkness from the horrors we have survived to those yet to come
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Happy Nov 14th, everybody!
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Happy Nov 14th, everybody!
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You can walk and after two miles of tangled lane that's untroubled with being on the Ordinance Survey, find a feral church. These are the chapels beyond bishops, untethered from parishes. Existing in green communion, their gathered ghosts sing wild hymns. – #DAKilroy, 1982
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
You can walk and after two miles of tangled lane that's untroubled with being on the Ordinance Survey, find a feral church. These are the chapels beyond bishops, untethered from parishes. Existing in green communion, their gathered ghosts sing wild hymns. – #DAKilroy, 1982
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Years ago I saw a sticker that said "why not hang a fascist from this lamppost?" and someone had written underneath "because it's not load-bearing".
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Years ago I saw a sticker that said "why not hang a fascist from this lamppost?" and someone had written underneath "because it's not load-bearing".
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With every passing day under this new regime, my thoughts wander more and more to the haunting silence of Italian whindchimes
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
With every passing day under this new regime, my thoughts wander more and more to the haunting silence of Italian whindchimes
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I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.
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Please keep in mind - English doesn't sound so sympathetic but this translation would:
- Allow most of *Africa* to read the story, people who don't read Shona
- Allow the writers to share with *us*
- NOT force writers to write *in* the colonial languages. It's not the same; it's a different loom.
- Allow most of *Africa* to read the story, people who don't read Shona
- Allow the writers to share with *us*
- NOT force writers to write *in* the colonial languages. It's not the same; it's a different loom.
Also, sorry, one graphic has a higher %. I'm a bit worn thin. This one is accurate.
I've seen literary communities raise $2820 in an hour. Frequently. I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this *8 months* for a Black woman owned small press; can we get a rally and close this up?
I've seen literary communities raise $2820 in an hour. Frequently. I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this *8 months* for a Black woman owned small press; can we get a rally and close this up?
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2820, 44% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is currently off the table...
ko-fi.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Please keep in mind - English doesn't sound so sympathetic but this translation would:
- Allow most of *Africa* to read the story, people who don't read Shona
- Allow the writers to share with *us*
- NOT force writers to write *in* the colonial languages. It's not the same; it's a different loom.
- Allow most of *Africa* to read the story, people who don't read Shona
- Allow the writers to share with *us*
- NOT force writers to write *in* the colonial languages. It's not the same; it's a different loom.
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In what the kids are calling "a mood", Comet K1 ATLAS survives its closest encounter to the Sun just to fall apart a month later... 🔭🧪
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
We Jinxed It – Golden Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) Has Now Broken Into Pieces
We spoke too soon, and now the other ATLAS comet is in pieces.
www.iflscience.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In what the kids are calling "a mood", Comet K1 ATLAS survives its closest encounter to the Sun just to fall apart a month later... 🔭🧪
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
Either the kitchen is haunted or the cat is malfunctioning. Your guess is as good as mine.
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Either the kitchen is haunted or the cat is malfunctioning. Your guess is as good as mine.
Yeah still ticked off that the one I commented on last week saying "great thread, annoying that it doesn't have alt text, can someone with more spoons than me repost it with alt" just deleted in response and didn't repost
It was a genuinely useful thread about particulate distribution and PPE
It was a genuinely useful thread about particulate distribution and PPE
Journalists please, please, please copy paste your big blocks screenshot text into alt text. It takes five seconds longer and makes your work three times as accessible and searchable.
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Yeah still ticked off that the one I commented on last week saying "great thread, annoying that it doesn't have alt text, can someone with more spoons than me repost it with alt" just deleted in response and didn't repost
It was a genuinely useful thread about particulate distribution and PPE
It was a genuinely useful thread about particulate distribution and PPE
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I need to be evacuated as soon as possible
This is a great idea to help spread my link.
I’m at a point where I desperately need to get it out there I’m exhausted, and I can’t reach anyone, especially with Bluesky limiting me.
Please do this for me.
Post the code in public spaces. 😢🙏🏽
This is a great idea to help spread my link.
I’m at a point where I desperately need to get it out there I’m exhausted, and I can’t reach anyone, especially with Bluesky limiting me.
Please do this for me.
Post the code in public spaces. 😢🙏🏽
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I need to be evacuated as soon as possible
This is a great idea to help spread my link.
I’m at a point where I desperately need to get it out there I’m exhausted, and I can’t reach anyone, especially with Bluesky limiting me.
Please do this for me.
Post the code in public spaces. 😢🙏🏽
This is a great idea to help spread my link.
I’m at a point where I desperately need to get it out there I’m exhausted, and I can’t reach anyone, especially with Bluesky limiting me.
Please do this for me.
Post the code in public spaces. 😢🙏🏽
It was just talking shit anyway
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It was just talking shit anyway
Hey @dailygrail.com you catch this yet?
Near-death experience opens minds to a better way of dying
Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth accompanies two palliative care doctors researching psilocybin use deep into the Amazon jungle to see if it can change the end-of-life experience for terminal pa...
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hey @dailygrail.com you catch this yet?
If I check this bloody Apple Watch while you're talking it's to see if my heart's still beating
This may or may not have anything to do with you
Don't mind me, keep yakking
This may or may not have anything to do with you
Don't mind me, keep yakking
If a person checks their watch while you’re talking, it’s probably because they’re timing you and this is a competition. Keep talking. It’s win-time baby. You got this.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
If I check this bloody Apple Watch while you're talking it's to see if my heart's still beating
This may or may not have anything to do with you
Don't mind me, keep yakking
This may or may not have anything to do with you
Don't mind me, keep yakking
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Me to The Creature from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein:
Someone handed this to my grandpa in an Inwood bar, c. 1946
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Me to The Creature from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein:
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
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Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
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I get that everyone thinks we are only fighting scarred Hollywood looking versions of Nazis. But the soccer mom who just called the ICE agents to her school and is sitting in her car filming the "horrible thing that just happened" isn't your friend either, and you need her out of your neighbourhood.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I get that everyone thinks we are only fighting scarred Hollywood looking versions of Nazis. But the soccer mom who just called the ICE agents to her school and is sitting in her car filming the "horrible thing that just happened" isn't your friend either, and you need her out of your neighbourhood.
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Yes, the bigots are horrible, but bigots are loud and out themselves after a while. An enemy that insists on breaking cover at every opportunity to thump their chests is easily found and defeated.
But the centrist fencesitters who are just waiting to see how the wind blows...they're dangerous.
But the centrist fencesitters who are just waiting to see how the wind blows...they're dangerous.
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, the bigots are horrible, but bigots are loud and out themselves after a while. An enemy that insists on breaking cover at every opportunity to thump their chests is easily found and defeated.
But the centrist fencesitters who are just waiting to see how the wind blows...they're dangerous.
But the centrist fencesitters who are just waiting to see how the wind blows...they're dangerous.
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We need to remember who was "uncomfortable" with ICE kidnapping people on the street.
We need to remember the people who treated every horror like an interesting debate.
We need to remember the ones who say that raping a child is acceptable in some way because a/b/c/d.
They're complicit. 100%.
We need to remember the people who treated every horror like an interesting debate.
We need to remember the ones who say that raping a child is acceptable in some way because a/b/c/d.
They're complicit. 100%.
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
We need to remember who was "uncomfortable" with ICE kidnapping people on the street.
We need to remember the people who treated every horror like an interesting debate.
We need to remember the ones who say that raping a child is acceptable in some way because a/b/c/d.
They're complicit. 100%.
We need to remember the people who treated every horror like an interesting debate.
We need to remember the ones who say that raping a child is acceptable in some way because a/b/c/d.
They're complicit. 100%.
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There's a group of people in the US who routinely levies accusations of perversity, grooming, etc. at their opponents for political gain, and then there's another group who genuinely wants predators to be stopped, removed from positions of authority, and punished.
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
There's a group of people in the US who routinely levies accusations of perversity, grooming, etc. at their opponents for political gain, and then there's another group who genuinely wants predators to be stopped, removed from positions of authority, and punished.
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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And now that this is coming to light for those same people to start moving on to "well maybe it isn't such a big deal that these men have engaged grooming and pedophilia?" is going to make me vomit up my entire skeleton in inchoate rage.
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
And now that this is coming to light for those same people to start moving on to "well maybe it isn't such a big deal that these men have engaged grooming and pedophilia?" is going to make me vomit up my entire skeleton in inchoate rage.