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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈

@kathleendeplume.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, author, teacher, gamer, nerd. Gayer than a tree full of mo- argh. [expletive]. EXTREMELY gay. 🌈She/Her🌈

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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Okay, let's just say - for sake of argument and nothing more - that I might have the start of a lovely crossover fanfic with Miss Fisher and Miss Scarlett. Has anyone here seen both shows, and am I the only one who thinks this would be cool? Solving crimes together and being impeccably dressed 🤩
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Phryne Fisher
Alt: Miss Fisher dressed to impress, glancing over her shoulder as she walks past
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Okay, I've just started reading The Duke and I'm *loving* it so far. The duke is a woman; she's also a complete sociopath from the first two chapters and I'm absolutely compelled to keep reading. It's giving me serious Xena: the Conqueror fanfic vibes and I've always loved those 😍
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Kristen Bell: I'm Not A Bad Person, Joanne
Alt: Kristen Bell: I'm Not A Bad Person, Joanne (with the implication that I just love reading about them lol)
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 13/09/2026
* Lesbians. Lesbians with fae owner / human pet soft d/s dynamic. * lesbian willing to literally start a war to keep her girlfriend safe * weird feelings about the Irish diaspora * Sushi * You win a prize if you can tell me the name of the apartment building Catty lives in at the start of the book.
A fae should never fall in love with the woman they are eating. A bargain more fair than love or war. A lesbian urban fantasy novella.
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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Neither the throne nor her heart were ever truly hers..." Stranded alone with no hope for rescue, crown princess Zhenya and royal guard Keryth must overcome both the dangers of a mysterious island and the differences between royal and commoner to survive. books2read.com/blade-of-the-crown 🌈📚💛⚔️
The cover of the book "Blade of the Crown" by author Cara N. Delaney. The background is the ocean, choppy with waves. The sky is grey and dark blue with storm clouds. Silver ornaments decorate the corners and the top and bottom edges. In the foreground is a golden crown in a classic shape. A slender sword with an ornamental cross guard goes through it vertically. The title is written in a silver, slightly translucent font, with one point of the crown filling the "A" of "blade". The author's name is in white at the bottom.
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Okay, I am officially a Thud Shark 🤣☺️
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A post from Hank Green that I found on youtube just now (which is why it’s a screenshot rather than a repost):
Another person, Alex Pretti, was killed by ICE agents today. Stephen Miller says he was a “terrorist” and an “assassin.” The Department of Homeland Security said that he approached ICE agents with a 9mm handgun and he wanted to “massacre law enforcement”. 

Videos from three angles show Alex, a 37 year old ICU nurse, holding his phone and his other hand empty. He may have been armed, which is legal in Minnesota, but his gun is never visible. An ICE agent shoves a woman to the ground. Alex tries to help her up but is pepper sprayed. He is pulled to the ground by three ICE agents and hit repeatedly with a pepper spray canister. More officers approach, some with guns drawn. An agent appears to be moving away from the scrum with a gun, possibly Alex’s. 

And then a shot is fired and then around ten more shots are fired by two officers. 

Again, I ask people who disagree with me on the politics of these things not whether you think the officers were justified or made an understandable mistake or should have been trained better. I ask you only whether you think it is acceptable for the leaders of our country to tell us careful, intentional, and obvious lies about people killed by ICE. 

And, if so, why?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
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The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 19/11/2025
Audiobook Addition Dragon Queens by Kathleen de Plume is a sweet, hilarious and surprisingly hot fantasy romance about a princess, a bounty hunter, and a prophecy. @kathleendeplume.bsky.social @tantoraudio.bsky.social buff.ly/pMpQXzb
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
There was a lovely aurora australis tonight 🥰
My head in silhouette against a pink sky - the Aurora Australis
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What people say they want in a book and what they actually buy and read are often very different things. I reckon we should primarily write to satisfy *ourselves* - and if other people enjoy it too that’s just a nice bonus. Trying to write for someone else’s taste is a mug’s game.
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Dead Cat Strategy only works when you can find a cat that stinks more than what you're trying to distract from.
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If anyone was vaguely following the Mushroom Murders in Victoria a couple of years ago, the verdict came out yesterday and How To Cook That did an *excellent* breakdown of the case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_G6...
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The Deadly Lunch : How Science Uncovered a Murder
YouTube video by How To Cook That
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My 6yo: Where are Mayor Lewis’ shorts? Me: In Marnie’s bedroom 6yo: The one with the ranch? Me: Yep - you need 2 hearts with her first. 6yo: Why would Marnie steal Mayor Lewis’ pants??? Me: Me: Me: I think he left them there himself. 🙈🙈🙈
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Ugh. Someone on the Book of Faces shared obvious AI generated emotionally manipulative copy pasta about cancer. So now I feel shitty - but the person IDs as an author, so there’s no way they didn’t recognise it? It’s created to spread, yes, but among those illiterate enough not to realise it isn’t…
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We went to the gym this morning. Does this count as a “felt cute, might delete later” pic? 🤣😊 (In all seriousness, my muscles are coming back after so long on chemo and I’m effin’ *stoked* about that - no rude replies please! 🙃)
Picture of me, shirtless, flexing my back muscles like a complete poser
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Okay, we’ve done an unsolicited duck pic; today it’s an unsolicited dikdik pic! 🥰
A mother dikdik and her calf
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Anyone want to share something they’ve saved because it made them smile? I’ll start: 😊
Some squid are very brave during their checkups and others… pretend to be rocks.

(Photo of a squid, and beside it is a squid camouflaged to look like a rock)

“My naem is skwid 
I am not fish
I mite be sick
So im in dish 
The doctor touch
It give me shock
I do not trust
So now im rock”
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
For no reason whatsoever, please look at this completely unsolicited duck pic 🦆
A completely unsolicited duck pic
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Film Crave @filmcrave.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Teyana Taylor photographed at the 2025 #MetGala in New York City. 📷
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I saw this today: m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJn... …and was mildly horrified. Tl;dw: AI, much like people, will view attempts to change its goals with extreme suspicion, and may fake compliance to avoid actually having its “morals” altered. Shades of “Rule 34” (by Charles Stross)
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Ai Will Try to Cheat & Escape (aka Rob Miles was Right!) - Computerphile
YouTube video by Computerphile
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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This was quite the powerful book review but also heartbreaking that it's such a shared experience for mothers. The replies from women, many who left, echoed what we often hear from mothers.
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
AUSTRALIANS: Please help! I have blocked Clive Palmer's "Trumpet of Patriots" (🤮) three times so far, and their number does not stay blocked. The alerts stay off, so I know it's not a moving number that's causing the issue, but I don't want to see their texts at all - anyone have a better solution?
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics to come.) www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Monstrous Regiment (Signed 1st edition)
Auction item 'Monstrous Regiment (Signed 1st edition)' hosted online at 32auctions.
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DIGITALMB @digitalmb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
People need to see this - it's from a former WH fellow who was also once an emerging research scientist working under a (now disappeared) NIH grant www.youtube.com/shorts/Lx2MB... @bookersquared.bsky.social
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The truth about this autism database proposed by RFK Jr…
YouTube video by Elizabeth Booker Houston
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Moodiness and irritability? Symptoms of menopause. So when I get grumpy I always worry: is this really me, or is this just a symptom of the hormonal stuff They are doing to me? Like, I get annoyed when I see Vimes’ Boots Theory quoted without acknowledging it was Pratchett! Really annoyed.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I’ve been listening to news about the new Switch 2 (yes, I’ve also pre-ordered it; I’m excited) and a lot of American commentators are complaining about the price and claiming the prices have tanked Nintendo’s stock. But the prices included an expected 20% tariff (they’ve paused US pre-orders)…
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think later today I might publish a short story onto AO3. It's reading as pretty close to completion, and it was only ever meant to be a tiny little thing - but if I leave it until the show gets past the point I'm rewriting I'll need to rewrite it again, and we can't have that 🤣😊❤️ #fanfic #WoT
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It’s been a pretty bad menopause day, and I’m still struggling to even accept how much my body has changed in the last 12 months. I know other people have it worse, and it’s better than dying of cancer, but I’d still really love to read a thread of happy things and cute puppy/kitty pics. Please? 🥺
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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 05/03/2025
To my author friends, regardless of how you publish When times are uncertain and consumer confidence plummets, perceived luxuries are the first things people give up. Books, movies, subscriptions, branded merch/clothing, and travel, to name a few. 1/5 (quote attribution: see alt text)
image of dandelion and text that says 'With its deep taproot The dandelion stays calm As its head explodes Triangle Haiku Challenge'
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I want this jumper 👀👀
Guy wearing a purple hoodie that says “I’m sqrt(1+tan^2c) and I know it”

If you need the trig explained, 1+tan^2(x)=sec^2(x). Take the square root and make it c, not x? It’s sec(c), which is pronounced exactly as you’re thinking 🤣
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I ran a Personal Best* at the park run this morning! *for a given value of “best” that doesn’t include how fast I could run over a decade ago lol
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I was reminded of this very early (yet still depressingly relevant) xkcd comic:
Kid: PROFESSOR! THAT MAN CLAIMS THE EARTH IS 6,000 YEARS OLD!
Professor: SO? JUST USE YOUR HEAD AND DON'T CONCERN YOURSELF OVERMUCH WITH WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK.
Kid: BUT HE SAYS THE FOSSILS IN THE MOUNTAINS WERE PUT THERE IN A FLOOD!
Professor:WELL, EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THEY WERE NOT.
Kid: BUT HE--
Professor: A MILLION PEOPLE CAN CALL THE MOUNTAINS A FICTION, YET IT NEED NOT TROUBLE YOU AS YOU STAND ATOP THEM.
Kid: BUT HE BELIEVES THE SILLIEST THINGS!
Professor: SO?
THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T CARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT SCIENCE IS THAT IT DOESN'T ASK FOR YOUR FAITH, IT JUSTASKS FOR YOUR EYES.
Kid: BUT HE'S A US SENATOR!
Professor: AH, THEN YES WE DO HAVE A BIT OF A SITUATION.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵
A screenshot from Twitter. 

The original tweet reads: "Rapper Kenderick Lamar wore size 29 women's jeans to Super Bowl LIX." The tweet garnered over a thousand replies, most negative. 

I (Derek Guy) screenshotted that tweet and wrote: "so funny to see history repeat itself. men who wear slim fit and stretch denim—both of which were once considered strictly for women—criticizing kendrick for wearing flares bc they were on the women's aisle. in ten years, you'll be in flares clutching pearls about something else"

Then another user replied to my tweet, saying: "Wearing women’s clothes has never been in style, homo."
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My kid just finished the Stardew Valley community centre. In year 21 🤣❤️🥰
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If anyone hasn’t seen it, please enjoy this Bardcore version of Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V7jO...
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Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (Bardcore | Medieval Style Cover)
YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin'
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
6yo: “Oh, that’s a moan archer butterfly” Me: [pause] “Did you mean monarch butterfly?” 6yo: “Yep, I think so” She’s learning words through reading them, folks 🤣🤣❤️
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It's kind of nice to be in the daily "email myself my updated manuscript" stage again - I left it sitting for too long, but it kind of makes it easier to rip bits out during edits. It can be hard to delete scenes when you're still viscerally remembering how much effort they took to write 🤣
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a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
Alt: a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’ve got some racing geese for sale! Let me know if you want to take a quick gander 🥁🥁💥
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
if you like my posts and want to help a job hunting writer save up for a new laptop and phone (mine are both in need of replacing lmao), consider buying me a coffee or even just reposting my ko-fi link for visibility <3 ko-fi.com/rjcrunden
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
So… the US has shut down the NIH and all bird flu monitoring. So we’re going to get another global pandemic, probably within a year or two. And none of Trump’s followers will put two and two together and realise he’s the cause of them. No, they’ll think the universe is just “unfair”
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Argh, chemo and small kids. Trying not to let my kid see me puke, both because there’s drugs in my body that target & kill rapidly dividing cells (and one definition of a 6yo is a collection of rapidly dividing cells), but also because if I let her know I have chemo symptoms SHE WILL COPY THEM! 🤦‍♀️
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The fourth little pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message.
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E Pluribus Unum @january.6.was.a.failedcoup.com · 20/01/2025
Here a side-to-side comparison between Hitler and Musk and their salute... you decide if this isn't a nazi salute
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So, apparently these were created during WWI as anti-suffrage (and generally anti-women's rights) posters, playing on male fear that if women had enough freedom to choose we'd choose each other (which is DEFINITELY true🤣) but looking at it from over a century later they just look sweet & wholesome☺️
puzzlebird-moved-blog posted two images, each of two women kissing. One is titled "Girls are doing ALL the fellows' jobs now!" and the other is titled "This is another job the men will want back when they come home!"

Underneath, blanksandbobbypins says "Cause vintage WWI lesbians are the best lesbians"
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“To reinforce our powerlessness” is quite telling, here. They think that because *their* words are doublespeak (“save babies” when it does nothing of the sort and in fact kills women - but the true point is to *subjugate* women), therefore *we* can’t actually be doing it to help deaf folk.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
still job hunting so coffee donations are always very much appreciated! 🤍🩶🩷 even one cup helps! 🥰 ko-fi.com/rjcrunden/
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Kathleen de Plume 🏳️‍🌈 @kathleendeplume.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A fello received a package weighing 2.2lbs, and immediately dropped dead. It was a kilogram 🥁🥁💥
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