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Katherine Duke

@katducduk.bsky.social
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Writer. Editor. Comedy geek. Trivia nerd. Podcast junkie. Creator of the book Kissability: People with Disabilities Talk About Sex, Love, and Relationships (www.goodreads.com/book/show/2473891…). (she/her)

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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 14h
I just emailed someone who lives in Nairobi and almost closed with "Happy fall!" but then Googled it and learned that Nairobi is (just barely) in the Southern Hemisphere. So then I considered "Happy spring!" but realized I don't know enough about the climate and seasons there.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Molly is a cutie! Her chair is black with purple accents, like mine. She's level-headed, adaptable, and resilient when she encounters setbacks. Of course. I don't necessarily think she has the baking brilliance to go all the way in the competition. But, whatever happens, she'll be fine.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just saw the word "painstaking" misspelled as "pain staken" It's not quite an eggcorn, but it feels noteworthy
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A diagram of a person's mouth "Eating One Battery" and "Eating Five Batteries" (from HomestarRunner.com).
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's Monday, and yet my distractibility and procrastination are already approaching Friday levels.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I edited this lawyer's obituary.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wheelchair 👩‍🦽 user 👩‍🦽 on 👩‍🦽 GBBO! I expect the show to be very chill about it, as they have been about past contestants' disabilities. But I am chuffed!
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Homer Simpson reading a book titled "Owning Your Okayness"
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Homer Simpson reading a book titled "Owning Your Okayness"
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Years ago, when I was struggling with depression, a psychiatrist expressed surprise that I rated my mood that day as a 4 out of 10. I asked what a typical answer would be, and she said, "Most people say 9 or 10." And I blurted out, "Is that why people value their lives so much?!"
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Alys Rujasu @rujasu.net · 23/09/2026
When I was a kid, I learned that the Philadelphia Phillies had a minor league team called the Reading Phillies. However, I didn't know the town was pronounced redding and not reeding, so I though they were a minor league baseball team that also went around to schools teaching kids to read
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The neighbors are at it again, with many more family members yelling. Rude.
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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He’ll be drafted by the Minnesota Vikings, as Lizzo foretold
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Daniel MacEachern @danielmaceachern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ME: I watched Reacher. I think you’d like it MY WIFE: OK, I’ll give it a shot *later, watching Reacher* MY WIFE: [every five minutes] Could you do that ME: This was a mistake
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My mother just told me that our old family friends, visiting from Kansas, have a dog named ZZ Top. "I didn't know what that name was about," Mom said, "but apparently it's a band."
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My mother just told me that our old family friends, visiting from Kansas, have a dog named ZZ Top. "I didn't know what that name was about," Mom said, "but apparently it's a band."
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He graduated from the college where I work. I once described him to my co-workers as "a total hey-it's-that-guy," and one of them looked him up and said, "Hey, it's that guy!"
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I used to pride myself on remembering friends' birthdays. I can still tell you the DOB of many grade-school classmates. Facebook eventually took over that job. I kind of outsourced that function of my brain. Now that I no longer use FB much, I've missed two friends' birthdays in Sept. 2026 alone.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Let us all take a moment to imagine that guy petting the newly discovered species of cat.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just spent half an hour cleaning my wheelchair immediately *before* making pancakes, which is a very "brush my teeth and then drink orange juice" move.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just spent half an hour cleaning my wheelchair immediately *before* making pancakes, which is a very "brush my teeth and then drink orange juice" move.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All right, who leaked the premise of my upcoming horror film, MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE?
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
While everyone is still talking about Macklemore, I might as well re-share this video, which I discovered two years ago (to the day!) and kind of love. Idris Elba's part is really fun to memorize and recite. Just now I found that I still knew, like, 90% of it.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As I'm not directly watching the broadcast, I'll just choose to imagine that Katie Dippold showed up to the ceremony dressed as The Babadook.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The NYT's live feed just keeps announcing Kate O'Flynn's win over and over again. They've posted it like eight times. Fine by me!
Listed twice in a row:

"Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Kate O'Flynn
Wins best supporting actress for 'Widow's Bay.'"
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
one person in dentists office: rhys rhys rhys everyone in dentists office: RHYS RHYS RHYS
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scene from Freaks and Geeks: Ken (Seth Rogen) telling Lindsay (Linda Cardellini), emphatically, “The name of the song is ‘Baba O’Riley’.”
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
[guy who's just hurriedly skimming his timeline today but feels compelled to post something] RIP Bob Macklemore
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
[guy who's just hurriedly skimming his timeline today but feels compelled to post something] RIP Bob Macklemore
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scene from Freaks and Geeks: Ken (Seth Rogen) telling Lindsay (Linda Cardellini), emphatically, “The name of the song is ‘Baba O’Riley’.”
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just read an article about the history of soy products in the U.S., and now I can't get the phrase "craved the bean" out of my head.
Soy conquered America not because Americans craved the bean, but because it was remarkably versatile. Its protein could feed a chicken or a pig, its oil could fry French fries or propel a truck, and its lecithin could emulsify chocolate or mayonnaise. It could ...
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When I was in fourth grade, Jeremy Bobrzynski won the presidency with a poster that read, "Vote for me! I'm given [sic] out candy!" For me, it was a formative moment of disillusionment with politics. "It's as if no one is taking this elementary school student council election seriously!" I thought.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Critics* are raving: It's a "beautifully constructed puzzle" and "really fun!" See for yourself what all the buzz is about! * "Critics" = the one (1) person who has solved it so far
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just read an article about the history of soy products in the U.S., and now I can't get the phrase "craved the bean" out of my head.
Soy conquered America not because Americans craved the bean, but because it was remarkably versatile. Its protein could feed a chicken or a pig, its oil could fry French fries or propel a truck, and its lecithin could emulsify chocolate or mayonnaise. It could ...
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Critics* are raving: It's a "beautifully constructed puzzle" and "really fun!" See for yourself what all the buzz is about! * "Critics" = the one (1) person who has solved it so far
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fellow nerds, help me out with a work thing by TESTING OUT A FUN PUZZLE! I'm designing a magazine contest in the style of a NYT Connections puzzle-- or, if you prefer, the Connecting Wall from the BBC show Only Connect. DM me if you'd like to try to solve it and tell me what you think of it.
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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Excellent thread
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fellow nerds, help me out with a work thing by TESTING OUT A FUN PUZZLE! I'm designing a magazine contest in the style of a NYT Connections puzzle-- or, if you prefer, the Connecting Wall from the BBC show Only Connect. DM me if you'd like to try to solve it and tell me what you think of it.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtube.com
We Got Five Thousand Dollars! (Wayne's World)
YouTube video by bloodsploosh
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Genial Black Man @trecoolx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The candy you have permission to fuck
hallpass 
70 calories per package
1g sugar
2 peanut cups
naturally & artificially flavored
net wt 1.5 oz
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🎵 All [they] wanna do is eat [our] brains. [They're] not unreasonable; I mean, no one's gonna eat [our] eyes... 🎵
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Re: Your Brains
YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton - Topic
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From the makers of Jon Hamm's John Ham?
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Jon Hamm's John Ham - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Now I’m reading a whole book of children’s letters to Highlights. I hope Chase has been out there doing great.
A brief letter, hand-printed on wide-ruled paper by Chase, age 8, in 2014:

“Dear Highlights, 
            I’m a romance kind of guy, but my friends HATE it. can you help?”
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tonight I've been writing a short story in which the characters drink chamomile tea. Now I am drinking chamomile tea. I like chamomile tea.
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The jerk store called. They appreciate your patronage!
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m a single writer/editor in Massachusetts, and I like the part in The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” when one of the twins chimes in on only every other syllable of the chorus: “… the … who … a … -sand … an’ … doon …”
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
there’s actually a long tradition, dating back before colonialism, of people having feet down below their knees
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m a single writer/editor in Massachusetts, and I like the part in The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” when one of the twins chimes in on only every other syllable of the chorus: “… the … who … a … -sand … an’ … doon …”
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m so proud of us
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Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ooh, this account doesn't often take such a turn... 👀
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