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...reflect the actual content of the image. Likewise, the hilarious comic strip you've drawn (or nicked from the creator) needs more than 'a funny picture' in the alt. Just... try harder. Please. /scold mode.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 1h

I don’t enjoy being a Bluesky scold, but. Listen. Alt text exists for a REASON. For the love of all that's holy, PLEASE don’t put a screenshot of a wall of text, and alt-text it 'a statement on today's news' or whatever. That's not the point and it's completely useless. The alt text should...

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 21h

Yep. I have my great-grandfather's foreign name, but have never once in my life been asked to prove my right to be here, because I'm whiter than fricken Casper.

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

I struggled with burnout in dead-end jobs before my autism diagnosis. Now I can access proper accommodations I have a well-paid job and I'm finally a net contributor to the economy.

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

Hey y'all, new Etsy just dropped. Fybe.art: no gen-AI, no drop shipping, just human art made by humans. I was going to wait a little to advertise but I just made my first sale there! I'll get more of my beautiful handmades listed over the next few days and share as I go 😍

fybe.art

Fybe. The No-GenAI Arts Marketplace You’ve Been Waiting For - Fybe.

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

They sometimes pretend to be mortal enemies. They don't appear to realise that I can see through windows too.

Two cats - one tabby, one white-and-tabby - inside the house while I take a photo from outside, through the closed patio door. The white-and-tabby one is sitting upright looking out of the window, while the tabby one lies on the carpet beside her. They both look relaxed, and there are a few cat toys around them.

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

The unalloyed happiness of both cats when they think that Mama has gone to the office for the day but then no! she is home after just a couple of hours having only popped to the shops.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 07/10/2026

My section is completely empty - doesn't even have my shoe size, which is weird given I've definitely bought shoes on Amazon. Maybe a geographic/permissions thing?

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 07/10/2026

A sunbeam for lying in and a fishy for a pillow. What more could a kitty ask for? (Treats. The answer is treats.)

A tabby cat with white back legs, lying stretched out on a cream carpet, sunlight streaming over her. Her head is resting on a toy fish.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Not quite sure what I'm making here since I measured the starting chain wrong. Hey ho, it will be what it will be. An adventure in crochet.

A strip of moss stitch crochet, about 10 centimetres across, fading from deep orange on one side to yellow on the other side.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Local sentiment

On a metal post is a red sticker. In black capitals it reads “LET IN EVERY REFUGEE. THROW THE FASCISTS IN THE SEA” Below is a picture of a wave.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 05/10/2026

*Pick up book from TBR pile. *Quickly discover it's about a small group of dissidents trying and failing to resist a fascist state. *Replace book on TBR, hoping future me is better able to treat that as escapism.

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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.

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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 · 25/09/2026

I had to download an app for the cats' new water fountain 😐

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

My recovery has been entirely self-guided and self-funded (to have the time and resources to do this is privilege in itself) and often helped the most by things that contradict accepted medical recommendations. Only time will tell whether I truly fully recover, or go into long-term remission.

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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

Brought to you by the same people who think that going on holiday to the Lakes is a staycation.

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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

I remember once staying in a Travelodge family room and Dad telling me his own (highly improvised) take on Jack & the Beanstalk. I don’t remember much about it other than being in tears of laughter, but I treasure the memory. ChatGPT could never.

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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

redpepper.org.uk

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

I hope they all go down together.

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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 · 29/08/2026

Nope, but it did teach me that in order to demonstrate my penitence, God requires the kneeling to be followed up by a forward roll. Church never taught me that bit.

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

Definitely saw something a while back like "autistic culture is speaking normally and then joining in with the laughter if it turns out that you're accidentally hilarious".

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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 · 27/08/2026

JK wishes she was fit to even kiss Dolly's rhinestoned boots.

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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

Ugh they shouldn't be allowed to do that.

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