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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We would not be surprised if this was N Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, but it's America. We, or at least the US, are going backwards. This is not the future I imagined, this is literally reminiscent of 1936.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What has America become? Live streaming an execution by firing squad, however heinous the crime, is a regressive act normally associated with totalitarian regimes First since a 1936 public hanging, first military execution since 1961, first firing squad since WW2 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, Software Engineer, 1936-2026 "Don't let fear get in the way and don't be afraid to say ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t understand’ – no question is a dumb question." katyjonwent.substack.com/p/margaret-h...

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Margaret Hamilton, Software Engineer

Don't let fear get in the way of asking questions

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different." "It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen." Dolly Parton ❤️ RIP

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton is no longer working 9-5 RIP "I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is." "Find out who you are. And do it on purpose." youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4?...

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Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On this basis does it make the U.S. the North given that derriere is pronounced arse – rhymes with southern grass in the UK and ass – rhymes with northern grass across the water?

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Where is up north for you? When I lived in London it was Walthamstow, now I live in South Norfolk, it's Swaffham or even Hellesdon! I'm only 3 miles from Norwich but going in to the city is heading up north for me

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

He had that Robin Williams like anarchic creativity and infectious enthusiasm. Rest in Peace Bill Oddie #RIPBillOddie

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I start my days sat by my pond, with cats, books, and coffee, listening to the birds and frogs, catching up on my Spanish or some other language practice. By midday, I'm approaching human and ready to take meetings and emails but a morning in nature is my medicine.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nature brings some calm to many of us who suffer (a word we are discouraged from using) from many mental health diagnoses and neurodiverse ones too.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I still remember Kitten Kong aka Twinkle knocking over the BT Telecom tower in the early 1970s Goodies episode which I lived in the shadow of whilst at UCL youtu.be/Jr6CyU-Ev_M?...

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Kitten Kong

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bill Oddie has headed on to greener pastures. He was a goodun and a Goodie. He battled #Bipolar (as I do), had a mum with Schizophrenia, but found mental health relief in nature (as I do). #BillOddie #TheGoodies #Nature #MentalHealth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Obituary: Bill Oddie

Comedian and former Goodie who became a noted ornithologist and TV presenter.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Love this. #Norwich was the site of the first purpose-built accessible public toilet in the UK and dropped kerbs. In the 1960s, Selwyn Goldsmith used Norwich as a test site for disability architecture. #DisabilityPride #NorwichPride www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Norwich's key role in helping disabled people hailed

Jenni Pettican says the work of Selwyn Goldsmith in Norwich has improved accessibility for everyone.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sometimes we're called to arms to defend democracy, to defeat fascism or any militant extremism, but in the end we have to coexist, heal, rebuild, that's why we have to humanise even our opponents and enemies. As we've seen in the Holocaust where dehumanisation leads.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If your activism involves dehumanising others even those that dehumanise you, you're still part of the cycle of hate, even if it feels warranted, justified.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists... Then they came for the trade unionists... Then they came for the Jews... Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me” – Pastor Niemoller

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It begins with words, those we use of others. Yes, we have freedom of speech but that's not a freedom to hate. Hate leads to dehumanisation and harm, harm to holocaust. We must stand up, wherever and for whomever, against all forms of dehumanisation. History teaches us where it leads.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We remember Holocaust Memorial Day, so as not to repeat it or the cycle of hate and monstering of others that leads to it. These days, that remains the Jewish people but also Palestinians, Rohingya Muslims, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, Trans people.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Many people don’t realise that Roma, those with mental and physical disabilities, abortionists, Jehovah Witnesses, non-conformist pastors and clergy, certain intellectual opponents, communists, and tens of thousands of homosexuals were sent to concentration camps by the Nazis.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Swap out 'homosexual' and replace it with Israeli, Palestinian, Immigrant, Transgender... and you know we haven't left behind the language of hate.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The Nazis spoke of Lebensunwertes Leben “life unworthy of life”, especially the Jews but also of others, e.g., gay people: “We must exterminate these people (homosexuals) root and branch… We can’t permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated.” – Heinrich Himmler.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We live at a time when the Jewish people remain villified, some blamed for the actions of an Israeli government 3,000 miles away, actions many of them critique themselves. Actions, whatever your views as to their excessive nature were brought on by a message of hate, sometimes mutual.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"...Discrimination has not ended, nor has the use of the language of hatred or exclusion. There is still much to do to create a safer future and HMD is an opportunity to start this process." – HMD Trust Holocaust Memorial Day is critical still to remember, despite its decline in remembrance.

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"#HolocaustMemorialDay is a time when we seek to learn the lessons of the past and recognise that genocide does not just take place on its own – it’s a steady process which can begin if discrimination, racism and hatred are not checked and prevented...

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I thought AI was the greatest threat to humanity but no, it's human intelligence that is.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

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Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries By Investing.com

Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Here you go Viktor, yours was the Cappuccino, and Vladimir, black, three sugars, right? Donald I used your personal gold MAGA mug, just how you like it. Javier and Tayyip, I forgot yours, let me go back. Sorry for my "GREAT STUPIDITY!"

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

lnvitees includes UK, Jordan, Russia, Qatar, Turkey. Argentina & Hungary say they will join, France says it won't to which Trump threatened 200% tariffs on champagne & wine. A Board of Peace with Trump and Putin on it, both of who've ignored the sovereignty of other nations, is not a board of peace

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The DJT Board of Peace to oversee Gaza will be run by a $1bn a ticket international members club chaired by Trump and anyone he appoints as his successor. It's mandate may go beyond Palestine to any conflict zone. Critics see it as a Trump-run rival to the UN. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

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What to Know About Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We will not let anyone “bring down the American Empire.” President DJT via Truth Social Trump shares photos of US occupied Greenland and Canada

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A 2004 satire, Team America World Police, feels more like a prediction now

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

[1] American-European War [2] American Civil War [3] Global Trade War [4] None of the above! Crazy that the US is sabre rattling war with Greenland, Denmark & NATO, – and Minnesota!

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The 11th Airborne Division aka the "Arctic Angels" is a US Army multirole infantry division made up of light & airborne elite troops specialised in "arctic warfare, airborne operations, combined arms, maneuver warfare, & urban warfare," based in Alaska. Now ready-to-deploy to Minnesota or Greenland?

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

#MAGA spoof hats saying, ‘Make America Go Away.’ and ‘Nu det NUUK’, Danish for ‘Now that's enough (nok)’ a pun on the #Greenland capital #Nuuk metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co...

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Greenlanders hijack MAGA hats with their own message to Donald Trump

The US president

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Putting American workers first" so long as they are white Christian heterosexual non-disabled and dressed appropriately for the 1950s. The US is currently a Back to the Future reboot with a Tesla instead of a DeLorean

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire #Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to #Norway’s prime minister over the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

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Denied Peace Prize, Trump Tells Norway He’ll Push for Greenland

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Trump’s nemesis BBC ran it 6hrs ago but NYT now covering it www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

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Denied Peace Prize, Trump Tells Norway He’ll Push for Greenland

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19/01/2026

Donald Trump’s duties on imported goods are paid almost entirely by American importers, their domestic customers and ultimately US consumers, a study from a think tank has concluded. Read more: bloom.bg/4jNnBRT 📷️: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The fact that SecDef or SecWar as now known and the Commandant in Chief are prepping 1500+ soldiers for deployment to... Minnesota and perhaps Greenland, not N Korea, Russian border, Iran or some other usual suspects military arena. Who had Minnesota down as the start of the 2nd American Revolution

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, BBC & Bloomberg have confirmed it BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

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Starmer says Trump's Greenland threat 'completely wrong' but plays down retaliatory tariffs

Calling it a

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

He'll be after the Nobel Prize in Economics next, because, he changed the world order through global tariffs, made inflation disappear just by saying it was so (ignoring the tariffs), banning credit card interest over 10%, forcibly removing ½ million immigrants to make space for America first jobs

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Trump writes to Norway's PM, saying because they didn't give him "the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace...The world is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland" A sulky teenager wants to run the world

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Zitron sees #AI as the logical conclusion of neoliberalism "The biggest thing we’ve learned from the large language model generation is how many people are excited to replace human beings, and how many people just don’t understand labour of any kind" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’

His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Was on the BBC this morning and they are cautious, even more so with the Trump legal case

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

America, we'd like to speak to your manager please... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

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Opinion | Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Watching Daredevil Born Again, it's dark, Fisk is policing by paramilitary force. It's Marvel fantasy, right, but it's less shocking because it feels like the news coming out of America with ICE and National Guard mobilisations. Dystopian fantasy and reality have become one

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Discussed curiosity over judgement and more with The Octopus Movement for non-linear thinkers🎙 www.youtube.com/live/vyY87jG...

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Why We Judge in Microseconds (and How to Unjudge Fast) | Katy Jon Went, Human Library UK

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

“Targeting a reporter in their own home as part of a federal law enforcement action is an extraordinary escalation that strikes at the heart of press freedom." Read PEN America's statement on FBI’s search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home here: pen.org/press-releas...

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FBI Search of Washington Post Reporter's Home Strikes at Heart of Press Freedom

PEN America expressed alarm today over the FBI’s search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home, saying it “strikes at the heart of press freedom.” The Post reported that federal agents sei...

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Katy Jon Went @katyjonwent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Omaha mum goes viral for wanting to unsubscribe from 2026 after the 7-day free trial! Definitely feels like a drunken signup to a random Amazon Prime streaming channel and now we're living in a dystopian B-movie

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