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Kate Orman

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1m
It's fascinating: what if there are phenomena which are real, but which can't be characterised with the scientific method? Intellectual humility stops us thinking we already have all the answers. Much more interesting and scientific to ask why someone believes in ghosts than it is to sneer at them.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It took several minutes to explain to my husband why I was laughing like an idiot
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
my organs clenched
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
person woman man camera TV
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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is happening! “Who Am I?” officially releases on October 30 in ebook and paperback on our website and from online retailers globally. #sapphicbooks #smallpress
A blue tile with an ocean background show The Who Am I? book cover and says “
Save the Date” releasing October 30
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was this the same day he took three beetles unknown to science and put them in his mouth?
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
give 'em heaps mate
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HowmuchofthishymncanIfit PRAISING HER NAMES PRAISING HER NAMES OH SACRED BITCH MOTHER OF MAGIC MOTHER OF FEAR MOTHER OF LAUGHTER MOTHER OF TEARS MOTHER OF FAGGOTS MOTHER OF QUEERS OH SACRED BITCH THAT HOLY WITCH PRAISING HER NAMES PRAISING HER NAMES OH SACRED BITCH MOTHER OF MAGIC MOTHER OF FEAR MOT
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God no -- I have way more ideas than I will ever have time to use! I've been collecting clippings and jotting down notes for as long as I can remember.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was on in a cafe the other day. I know this because I Shazam-ed it because I thought she was singing "pesticide" 🤔
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*struggling to think of a good pun on "dead metaphor"*
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHAT
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
TN librarian Luanne James, fired for refusing to move children's queer books into the adult section, is bringing a federal suit against the censors. I hope she kicks their collective ass from here to next Wednesday. www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help...
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Donate to Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need, organized by Dianne M
On March 30th, the Rutherford County Library Board terminated Luanne James from her pos… Dianne M needs your support for Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've only just seen the curious possible meaning of "tie it to your vitals". 🤔
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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
COVER REVEAL! The amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social worked on this, along with @ellatholmes.bsky.social, and the result is astounding. It truly captures the essence of the book we and all the contributors created. Here is 'Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose! So proud. 📚🪐
A green background with a blue circle. Inside is the cover of a book with animated figures, titled "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose with the title "Cover Reveal".A green background with a blue circle. Inside is the cover of a book with animated figures, titled "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose. It shows the front cover and spine.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For years my Wordpress has just been for announcements, but I've started properly blogging there about writing -- what I'm writing, the craft itself, etc. Fer yer interest: kateorman.wordpress.com
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the immortal words of Grimlock: "Me not thought of that!"
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A time machine that somehow let you go back about thirty seconds would be a God-send. Stop yourself stepping in front of a truck, saying something embarrassing. Although you could end up a bit like that woman from Twilight Zone, endlessly cycling back thirty seconds to escape a nuclear explosion
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
snort
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nope 2: The Revenge
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Further to which, I found myself admiring the intellectual dexterity in this statement from the Jehovah's Witnesses, and wondered if Fundamentalism is another example of reasoning without evidence. (I shall bugger off now and look it up in an encyclopaedia.) www.jw.org/en/library/s...
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh! Is that what "Critique of Pure Reason" is about -- reasoning in the absence of evidence?
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did cynically assume, on sighting the headline, that it was another "Gosh, AI is just so powerful!!!" advertisement.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Man missing; only clue is last photo on phone
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A simile?
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We could save a lot of time if we used some sort of compression algorithm on space
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And won't have been blown up in any way.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One of them achieved sentience and the other two died killing it.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Photosynthesisers' first attempt at self-defence, kill everything else on the planet, was a flop. It must have been a horror movie for land plants when mobile, herbivorous creatures invaded. And for many, many organisms when their predator evolved eyes.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On my dash, the above post from Matthew about Invasion of the Dinosaurs was immediately followed by quote from the Ursula K. Le Guin Bot: "He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons."
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I just watched the 2011 documentary Nuclear Savage, about the US intentionally nuking the Marshall Islands so they could learn what radiation did to human beings, an enormity so dumbfounding that I can only think someone must have made money out of it.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Make an LLM that can fix half a chapter of prose written in the wrong tense, ya snake oil merchants. But of course, you can't. Writing is making the reader's neurons fire in a particular way, based on your internal map of their brain. To put it another way, you have to be a person to do it.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm in this! 😁 Put my rusty biology degree to good use, or rather, bad use. ellatholmes.com/why-arent-yo...
The cover of Why Aren't You Dead Yet? An Anthology of Disability in Dystopia. A suburban street with dimly-seen figures, over which looms a mushroom cloud.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A potato flew around my room before you came
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I was intrigued by the suggestion that Mercury is a planetary core that escaped!
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Veronica Holmes @veronicaholmes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Meet Lia - she’s a succubus in a symbiotic relationship with the city she prowls in, trying to save the woman she loves from a desperate bargain with a demon. Meet her in the @scyllapublishing.bsky.social anthology “Who Am I?”. Thanks @kholbatar.bsky.social for the pic straight from my brain!
High contrast illustration - blue eyed sexy women at night against a dark background.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It took me a bewildered few seconds to understand what I was seeing!
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are... are the mountain and the giant rock made out of books?!
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm managing. Studying, and looking for a new job. How about you?
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I've been wearing mine since 2020, and wondering when someone was going to say something about it. On the weekend, the hairdresser asked why I had it on! A landmark!
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Suddenly it's a pressing question whether there are bears in Serbia and/or Croatia.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Popping in to commend to you this thoroughly interesting read: rimonhadassah.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
rimonhadassah.substack.com
Who's Afraid of Looms?
I'm doing transfeminist readings of obscure Doctor Who expanded universe novels now.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Take the cash and use it for vaccine research and support for kids with autism. "Just like you told us, right, boss?"
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Oh, that's excellent.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@veronicaholmes.bsky.social
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The cruel punchline. Australia's usual solution: go and die somewhere else.
abc.net.au
Deadline arrives for homeless to leave campsite
People living at a homeless hotspot in Wagga were given until today to move on, but some say they still have nowhere to go.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The dogpile is increasingly distressing. Too many times, *I've* been the fan whose unwise words have loosed the dogs. *I've* been the person about whom it is permissible to say anything you like. In the dogpile, you show everyone your ugliest face. Blocking isn't helping. Time for a Bluesky break.
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
When the guvmint brought in a law forcing ISPs to retain a record of what Web sites we visit, I installed a VPN, purely to give them the finger. Recently I've been using NordVPN. Now that I've switched it off, my laptop has stopped constantly crashing. 🤦‍♀️
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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
zomg!!
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