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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There's a silly line (I mean they're all silly) in the Mighty Boosh radio series that got stuck in my head: 'Pedro had a dream... a dream for a zoo as big... as a house'. And I find myself reading all these breathless reports in that cadence. 'A dream for a machine even faster... than a man 😮'

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh great timing! Working on a new Usborne UFO book I rewatched this ep yesterday with the excuse of brushing on my 'aliens are real' vs 'faked by the government' theories.

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

That was largely Waterstones' doing, but weirdly they've now became a kind of wolf-turned-sheepdog for indies. Its the only actual bookshop with enough buying power to counterbalance Amazon and the supermarkets and push terms with publishers that indies can also afford.

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Me too but there’s a reason most such podcasts are from freelancers or the higher-ups of (small) companies I guess… employees are in a far dodgier position discussing their work or even offering industry opinions publicly/commercially

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wish there was such a thing on Thameslink. My commutes had featured a lot of extra standing since the summer holidays started

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s never marked on the Southeast Today weather map either but I just assume that’s in some way Kent’s fault

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yes what is this?? Passed a few cars recently which actually seem to be projecting the occupant’s inane phone calls out of them at top volume like some kind of ice cream van technology repurposed for evil

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What a book, and one of the great opening lines!

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And I think lots of people have the sense that it’s possible to have way too much money where it becomes its own source of unhappiness and $1 bill is definitely way past that point. £1 mill or flip for £5 million is probably the harder question!

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm so sorry but I can't not share it

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Feeling remarkably happy with the slip I picked in the office sweeps

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Talking of generational midfielders why not celebrate with the greatest, most baffling ad of all time youtu.be/ek8zQQ2wZ9U?...

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TOTTI COFRA SPOT - EN

YouTube video by COFRA

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s impressive how they’re attempting to spin people’s hostility to AI as a skills issue. Isn’t the entire point of it that it takes no skills?

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It’s a slippery slope. If we don’t pronounce Pancras as spelled soon we’ll be doing the same with Marylebone, Holborn, Southwark and the Thames

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I like the bit in the tennis before the game where they stand either side of the net doing their hoppies and stretchies at each other like a pair of three years olds having a dance-off

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I don’t want dismiss any comedians’ apparent sudden passion for children’s fiction unfairly so I have a test… if I’ve seen them post even once about a kids’ book that wasn’t their own, a celeb mate’s, or a classic from their own childhood, I’d consider their book. None of them’s ever passed it.

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I can’t believe democracy is interfering with my right to spend any heatwave lying down listening to old episodes of Buzzfeed Unsolved and listlessly losing games of FruitMerge on my phone* *My local councillor resigned from the Labour Party triggering an election which is todaaayyy

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Sometimes cleverness even detracts from the more important purposes like clear communication to new audiences. So if you see a real functioning piece of design that’s a really clean pun, it feels much more unusual and exciting that it’s got through.

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think it’s like the difference between writing an apposite tweet and writing a novel. Design students are always coming up with clever visual pun logos, posters, book covers etc. But ‘clever’ is just one of many things a working design needs to be.

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Please sign to try to save yet another lovely, popular pub - The Alliance in West Hampstead - from becoming flats. I was there not 10 days ago and from the way the bar staff were talking they had no clue this was on the cards www.savethealliance.org

savethealliance.org

Save the Alliance

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

That’s a lovely touch with the objects framing the ‘A Puffin Book’ lockup, and the logo itself being incorporated into the objects as a pincushion

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I liked it better! I yearned for more drama in my shows. The Girl from Tomorrow had seemed like the coolest most compelling thing ever made and I wanted more of that!

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Who could forget ol’ backwards-ears Watt (though it didn’t have the advantage of CITVs hiding-an-alien show Mike and Angelo of a theme tune so catchy I could hum it right now despite not having remembered the show existed in decades)

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'Haha this van der Kolk guy is starting to give me almost Lawrence Pazder vibes... ohhh.'

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

One of the rare times the film tie-in cover is the best cover!

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

From an Italian, an ex flatmate. She could have been wrong (or it could vary by something like region I guess)!

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In Italy, unlike the US, but like much of Europe, black cats are seem as GOOD luck

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

... I'm not sure I want to know what that smells like given what said widowed policeman(/tree) sniffs in the series

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Composition is invisible if done well... and if done badly the layman often can't point to things like layout visual hierarchy etc as the reason why what they're looking at doesn't work.

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Definitely! To the point that people often can't see what my job - I design for children's books - even is; what could be required between the steps of someone writing the words, and handing them over to an illustrator!

It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Reposted by Kathryn Rosa Miller

Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There was a poster of the original pb cover for Northern Lights up in the library when it came out and I felt like I'd never seen a book look so intriguing. Cue a lifelong devotion to the book and a career in book design. Art is by Stuart Williams.

The cover of the first paperback edition of Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today Wikipedia-wonderings taught me that people have long been doing what we do with My Name is Cow to Summer Is Icummen In

A parody by 20s/30s poet A. Y. Campbell of the medieval song, around the theme of a plumber coming

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My favourite film in this genre is going to what was once Television Centre on Google street view and wondering the corridors of a place that has been gone for 13 years. The bit where you find the offices dressed in 60s gear for filming that creation-of-Doctor-Who drama is really well done

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

They were morris-ing in Brighton today. Had a shandy and watched. I can’t help but kind of love it. I blame Stealing Sheep for making it look cool youtu.be/xFWGrNR_mog?...

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Stealing Sheep - Apparition

YouTube video by StealingSheepVEVO

Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It’s a funny one. Continental Europe loves tinned sardines, they’re especially popular in Italy and France, usually the countries from whom Britain and America gets their ideas of ‘classiness’ in food. I guess it’s just their sheer cheapness that gets them looked down on.

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Even Séamas O’Reilly, who is known as a columnist and whose previous book was memoir, doesn’t have ‘a novel’ on the cover in the U.K.! We just don’t really do it

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Kathryn Rosa Miller @dreadfulkata.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I prefer the vaguely threatening Graham Greene model

A cover of Brighton Rock with the byline ‘an entertainment by Graham Greene’