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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Freyja has filed a formal request that the central heating be turned on.

A tabby cat curled up in a circle, lying on a radiator bed hanging from a radiator that is, much to her disappointment, off. Her tail is over her face in disgust at this situation.

Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Did you know, if you ask the Pets At Home AI assistant to change the email address on your account, it will say that is done exactly that? And then do... not that? And then close the chat without giving you the option to speak to a human? #FuckAI

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I left Protestantism because the belief system was too formalised for me, and now the Pope himself keeps tempting me towards Catholicism?

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 02/10/2026

...saving this one to send to my boss at an opportune moment.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 02/10/2026

No Pinterest, I don't think I ever will take your recurring suggestion of "Screenshot your feed and share your vibe", since my vibe, according to your algorithm, is "very mentally unwell". Thanks though 😘

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Spiritual nourishment treat book haul.

Two books laid out on a cream carpet: Devotions by Mary Oliver and Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Today's earworm, yr welcome.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I'm catching up on my blocking: this one's a beauty. (though this part of the process does remind me every time how yucky that wet wool smell is) #crochet

A crochet scarf pinned put on blocking mats. It is brightly coloured with diagonal stripes of yellow, red, purple, green and blue, the colours change on every row.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I am incredibly lucky to be (touch wood) well on the recovery path from ME/CFS. Thanks are due in no part whatsoever to the NHS, who discharged me after 6 months because I was 'taking up clinic space' when they had an influx of new patients, and no treatment to offer me.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Since I didn't realise I was bi until I was in my 30s, it feels somehow appropriate that I didn't realise today is Bi Visibility Day until gone 4pm. Happy Bi Visibility Day.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 13/09/2026

I am convinced that cat food companies put different (tastier) food in their sample packs than they do in the full size ones. Only a cat will be able to persuade me otherwise.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 11/09/2026

As an excuse for not getting on with the housework, I'll take it.

A tabby-and-white cat curled up on my lap.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 10/09/2026

I made the mistake of opening Reddit without being logged in. God above, it's a bleak and bitter place without the benefit of the algorithm gently filtering my feed to a blend of cats, weaving, and Animal Crossing.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Thinking today - apropos *nothing whatsoever* - about the Battle of Stockton in 1933, when a group of locals gathered together to forcefully evict an organised fascist rally from their town. Y'know, just because. #AntiFa

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They shall not pass: Remembering the Battle of Stockton - Red Pepper

90 years after the 'Battle of Stockton', Shabana Marshall and Sharon Bailey examine what it can teach us about fighting the far right today

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Wait up, the AIs are down AND Reform are in deep doodoo? This evening just gets better and better.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 03/09/2026

I'm enjoying the fact that I only even found out that a bunch of AIs are down by logging on to BlueSky.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 01/09/2026

I see a few people saying that they don't blame Starmer for standing down but you see I will continue to blame him for destruction of trans rights and protest rights, and the villainisation of disabled people and immigrants. And I will continue to blame Burnham for carrying on those projects.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 28/08/2026

I love to see a typed out Yorkshire accent, Yorkshire accents are mint. Also, you'll prise y'all from my cold dead hands, though I do wish that youse was more widely accepted as an alternative.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 25/08/2026

Hey, you with the scythe, a quick word please about which 80-year-old with unnaturally blonde hair was on your list?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 24/08/2026

Bounty from the garden! I planted 15 baby corn plants, 12 of them lived, and now I have... 8 baby corn. But there are more on the way!

Eight baby corn on a wooden chopping board.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

More and more this AI bollocks is making me aware of all the ways tech is rotting my brain and making me want to get rid of more of it. No more google maps, no more search engines. More books, more maps, more human interaction. I'm going to end up in a cave with a stick if this continues

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 15/08/2026

I am rediscovering enjoyment of my crochet since closing my Etsy shop. Not sure what I'll make with this beauty yet, but I'm looking forward to finding out, and this time I don't need to take into account anybody else's opinions.

A cake of rainbow gradient yarn, colours changing from red on the inside all through the rainbow to purple on the outside.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Also, I didn't mind being scared out of my skin at 4am in Crete for a literal earthquake-right-now warning. This one felt like a less necessary expenditure of adrenaline.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 14/08/2026

The emergency alert system is all very well but there really ought to be a way to make the panic-inducing siren turn off without dismissing the whole damn message. Thanks to all the people who posted screenshots so I can actually read the thing.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Look I'm not saying this isn't a good thing because it is and it should have happened yonks ago, but also, something something deckchairs Titanic.

Headline reading "Heatwave: Burnham to consider ban in disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK"

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Sound on: this is incredible and heavenly.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Time for my annual August stress of making sure that the birthday cards for my husband, my dad, and my brother all get put into the correct envelopes. I'm pretty sure they'd work out what happened if I got it wrong, but still.

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 11/08/2026

genuinely though, the best advice i can give you is to just keep trying dont give up, change stuff if you gotta, move your goals around, make new goals, abandon goals if they dont make sense anymore, but god almighty keep trying

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 11/08/2026

Ribbit won't allow me 'quisling' as a valid word and frankly that's downright rude.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Getting out my phone to book an appointment: oh haha my calendar's opened up to August for some reason, let me just- WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S AUGUST

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Less than 48 hours back from 2 weeks' holiday, and all (ALL) the laundry is washed, dried, ironed and put away. I'll never be this efficient again in my life.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 09/08/2026

It's raining! Actual water falling out of the sky! Cat just came racing in through the cat flap looking very spiky and confused, I think she'd forgotten what rain is.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Heavens above, so much I could quote from this, let's try: "normality itself had to be invented. And it was invented, quite precisely, by and for capitalism". I've held the opinions set forth here for a long time, but I'd never be able to put it so logically and persuasively.

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The Narrowing Door:- Neurodiversity, Capitalism, and the Invention of the Abnormal Mind

An essay on autism, ADHD and the political economy of diagnosis by a Mum who is just trying to figure out what is happening. I.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Petition for legislation to force all billionaires to employ a full-time court jester to follow them around, continually mock them and remind them that other people are human too.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 08/08/2026

I tried wishing her Happy International Cat Day, but she just rolled over and went back to sleep. Happy International Cat Day, everybody.

A white-and-tabby cat lounging on the top of a cat tree, her eyes half-closed.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 28/07/2026

National Trust blokey just told me I look like Olivia Colman: "but I bet I'm not the first person to say that, right?" Sir, nobody has ever told me that before nor ever will again, but that won't stop it going on my gravestone.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 27/07/2026

"Excuse me, madam, but might I be able to persuade you to a few crumbs of your cream tea behind?"

A red-breasted robin perched on the corner of an outdoor table, with a hopeful glint in its eye.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 26/07/2026

I mean at least they're well-padded.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 26/07/2026

It's blackberrying time 😋

My hand full of juicy, ripe blackberries.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/07/2026

An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.

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Autistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuse

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