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Claire Kotecki
@klarusu.bsky.social
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Writer, Scientist, Educator. History postgraduate student. You can always win me over with a cat. 🐈‍⬛ Here be dragons 🐉

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Ekko is #NotMyCat but he comes round to visit and eat all the food and looks a lot like a movie star.
A particularly handsome grey cat with a green collar and bell lying in a windowsill and gazing into the distance like a professional model
November 23, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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My supper companion was looking very dapper tonight. She dressed for dinner.
A black and white tuxedo cat sitting at a wooden dining table. She is on a wooden dining chair and just here head is visible above the table. The table has a place mat on it.
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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Current status: regretting my life choices 🤦‍♀️
Picture of a laptop screen with a whirring blue circle of doom that is superimposed over a dialogue box that says “Word will now convert your PDF to an editable Word document. This may take a while …”
November 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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I needed ‘Songs of a Lost World’ so much more than I realised. Wonderful work from The Cure.
Album cover of Songs of a Lost World by The Cure. A black and white image of a stone sculpted head lying on its side with the top eroded.
November 16, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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I am trying to read a paper. I have nearly snoozed twice. Trixie the Terrible isn’t helping.
A black and white tuxedo cat lying curled on a bed showing her magic toe beans and white belly in an attempt to catch the photographer. She has one eye open.
November 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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In the Settings you can hide reposts from the Following feed
Screenshot of Bluesky settings where there is a toggle Yes/No option on ‘Show Reposts’
November 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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Excellent misty moon last night. After two weeks of literally no sunlight, we’ve had proper autumn fog and blue-sky-days and finally I remember why I love this season.
A bright white moon in a dark foggy sky with tree branches in the foreground.
November 14, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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Meeting tonight at Kings with the sci-comms writing collective that I’m a member of, Absolute Zero, so that means a quick coffee at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social members’ room. A bookish oasis in London’s hubub #writing #scicomms
On a café table: a latte coffee in a tall glass, a rather luscious slice of lemon drizzle cake and a copy of China Miéville’s ‘The City and the City’ with reading glasses on top.
November 12, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Rainbow jumper day. It’s grey. I’m tired. I have a lot of the tedious part of work on my plate. The jumper works miracles. It’s a #glimmer It came from the Hemp Shop in Tofino nearly 30 yrs ago and it has magic powers 🌈
A woman (who is me) sitting in an office wearing a really big handknitted bright rainbow jumper. She has pink, purple and ash blonde hair and is looking at the camera with a smile.
November 12, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Latest read. This was a quietly powerful book. Melancholic. Hopeful. Beautifully written.
Front cover of ‘How High We Go In the Dark’ by Sequoia Nagamatsu
November 9, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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My favourite #writing focus strategy, or #reading focus strategy, is to write alongside a timed candle. These are 30mins and 60 mins. There’s something about small rituals and properly disconnecting to focus that helps me.
Green candles in a blue narwhal pot, with a pot of matches and two candle holders.
November 9, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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These two are actually my cats 🤣🤦‍♀️ Happy Caturday!
Black and white cat lying at full stretch on their back on a sofa … basically looking like a doofus Black cat sitting in a washing basket looking at the camera
October 28, 2023 at 7:27 PM
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Happy Caturday! Jinx is #NotMyCat and she’s Salem’s sister. We all miss Salem (who was also #NotMyCat and we list him a week ago to a car) but we still have a visitor from next door 😍😍
Beautiful tabby cat looking straight at the camera.
October 28, 2023 at 7:18 PM