Sign in

Katie Lee

@shinykatie.bsky.social
388 followers 364 following 317 posts

Writer. Crime fic as @KJLyttleton, comedy sci-fi as me. Rep DHAMedia. Inevitable Substack: shinykatie.substack Also: ex tech journo, ex digital media entrepreneur.

PostsRepliesMedia
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is true, my daughters hate age gaps. But isn’t that just young people? I did Sense & Sensibility for A-Level and we all thought the age gap was revolting too… until we saw Alan Rickman asking “What can I do” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Gen Z has very strong opinions about age gap relationships – and it could be right | Zoe Williams
Older men and younger women were once an unremarkable screen pairing. But watching them with a new generation is a real education, writes Zoe Williams
000
Reposted by Katie Lee
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today I learnt that Charles Dance's dad was born in 1874. And THEN Charles Dance's youngest kid was born in 2012. Imagine being 14, and your Granda served in the Second Boer War.
919156
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tickets are here! www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/works...
hastingsbookfest.org
WORKSHOP Motive, Means and Opportunity | Hastings Book Fest
The cunning craft of the crime writer
000
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi gang. I’m running a crime panel NEXT MONDAY as part of the Hastings Book Festival (under my pen name @kjlyttleton.bsky.social ) and I’d love you to come. Me, Cathryn Kemp and Chris Bridges talking crime and answering questions. It will be fun!
Motive Means and Opportunity, Sugarpie, Honeybuns, London Road 7pm 14th August
021
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I laughed my tits off watching Gentlemen Bronchos and then checked its IMDb score…
000
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What british crime dramas are actually good? I know not everything can be Happy Valley, but why are so many of them so clunky? Recommendations v welcome
100
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’ve been trying so hard to finish writing my third Aldhill Mystery (@kjlyttleton.bsky.social) but we’ve just welcomed this massive little distraction into the family
020
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is brilliant and I love David Thorpe’s narration. You don’t need to start at book one because they’re discrete stories, I’d say it’s worth doing them in order for the occasional recurring character who pops up.
140
Reposted by Katie Lee
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“What dreadful Hot weather we have!—it keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” — Jane Austen, letter to her sister, Cassandra, September 18, 1796.
"A Calm" by caricaturist James Gillray, published 1810. It depicts a seaside scene showing a fashionable woman in a light muslin dress and a straw bonnet. She is carrying a parasol and looks calm and cool. Walking by her is a man dressed in a heavy, warm suit and waistcoat.  He has removed his hat and wig and is mopping the sweat from his head. In the distance, people are seen swimming in the ocean next to bathing machines (huts with wheels that are drawn into the water to assist with getting into the water to swim. Others stroll on the sands. Two women and a dog sit and gaze at the sea.  A young fisherman carrying a net walks by.
515024
Reposted by Katie Lee
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The book's now quietly crept up to number 7 in the Blackwell's bestseller chart. Thanks to everyone helping with the numbers! It really assists with persuading more shops to stock the book... And remember: FREE international delivery.
1504
Reposted by Katie Lee
Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
1041711907
Reposted by Katie Lee
NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2026
These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence. n.pr/3QSZmax
n.pr
Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully
These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence.
927135
Reposted by Katie Lee
Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My wife who used to live in Hungary is correcting the pronunciation of Magyar every time they say it on the news
3312
Reposted by Katie Lee
YSC Rugby - Women’s Rugby News @yscrugby.com · 24/03/2026
BBC Sport to show every Women’s Six Nations match www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcasting...
broadcastnow.co.uk
BBC Sport to show every Women’s Six Nations match
England's World Cup winning captain Zoe Stratford will join fellow World Cup winners Katy Daley-McLean and Maggie Alphonsi on the punditry team
052
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Neat idea!
010
Reposted by Katie Lee
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I've written about how important March is for making changes. Everyone should be hibernating in January. You should be in goblin mode, not attempting goblin squats. substack.com/home/post/p-...
March is all about bold steps. I’m convinced that March is special for the simple reason I get so cheesed off over winter that I am no longer afraid to make sweeping changes. This year, for example, I am thinking about another business idea and growing increasingly convinced it’s time to go for it[...] It’s not just big decisions, March is also the month for thoughts and ideas. With the magical spring light comes clarity over all the things that have festered and swelled in the damp darkness of winter. I’m a firm believer that January is a terrible time for making resolutions...
242
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Today’s newsletter is a from a silly course that turned into a sitcom pilot that got me shortlisted for a Funny Women award that got me a screenwriting agent. So if you’re ever wondering if it’s ok to be distracted by a silly side project, just remember what it might lead to! crisis
Text: This was my mum life crisis. Photo: me holding my youngest daughter as a baby
220
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Turns out, it doesn't matter what methods you use to mitigate your social media use, WhatsApp is now such a monster that you still have to spend a chunk of your day staring at your phone to say, yes your child will be at footie training, no you can't make the walking trip, 🤣 to the funny meme.
120
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I've written about how important March is for making changes. Everyone should be hibernating in January. You should be in goblin mode, not attempting goblin squats. substack.com/home/post/p-...
March is all about bold steps. I’m convinced that March is special for the simple reason I get so cheesed off over winter that I am no longer afraid to make sweeping changes. This year, for example, I am thinking about another business idea and growing increasingly convinced it’s time to go for it[...] It’s not just big decisions, March is also the month for thoughts and ideas. With the magical spring light comes clarity over all the things that have festered and swelled in the damp darkness of winter. I’m a firm believer that January is a terrible time for making resolutions...
242
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
2FA systems that insist on emailing you a code (like Bluesky) are the devil's work. OK thanks. Just wanted to complain about that to no one in particular.
010
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I’ve been with the same man for thirty years. How is that possible?! Well, it helps if you start when you’re a teenager...
At the end of 1995, my friend Glen told me he was going to introduce me to the “nicest man in Shrewsbury”, and then he did.

By March 1996, I realised I quite fancied the nicest man in Shrewsbury. It was snowing, and we kissed for the first time under a street lamp by the English Bridge in Shrewsbury. He came round to visit me the next day and we stayed together for the next 30 years (and counting).

Happy anniversary, Alex Milway. Love you.
230
Reposted by Katie Lee
Techmeme @techmeme.com · 04/03/2026
An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on NATO classified networks, and that it was for "unclassified networks" (Hyunsu Yim/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
073
Reposted by Katie Lee
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Every time I see either of these men:
Tweet that reads “this senate hearing looks like the tale of a marooned lighthouse keeper and the robot butler he built to stave off loneliness” above a screenshot of Jack Dorsey with a bigass dumbass beard and zuck looking like an android
114537
Reposted by Katie Lee
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
One thing I've learned from this by-election is that everywhere is like Manchester and Labour should remember that.
4558
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Omg just catching up with socials and THIS 👇
010
Reposted by Katie Lee
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
As requested, here’s the secret door in action! It’s hard to film one handed, but I did my best. It leads through to another room and we kept the door for warmth. Really the back should be painted green too, but it took @alexmilway.bsky.social long enough to do the rest of it! Maybe one day…
910522
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is a great piece
010
Reposted by Katie Lee
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
791719834
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is like watching my youngest as a preschooler denying she wrote her own name on the skirting board
010
Reposted by Katie Lee
Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In today's @theoverspill: if you haven't got your own hyperbaric chamber, are you even a billionaire? But do such life-lengthening procedures actually.. work?
theoverspill.blog
Start Up No.2601: how Musk turned Grok into a porn chatbot, Moltbook exposed, global warming hits US and UK weather, and more
If you haven't got your own hyperbaric chamber, are you even a billionaire? But do such life-lengthening procedures actually.. work? CC-licensed photo by Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing on Flickr. A selection of 9 links for you. Deep breathing. I'm @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome.
001
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trying to watch Wild London but the dog is furious about it.
100
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Just this minute discovered I’ve reached an age where I think Tony Christie is pretty good actually #totp
media.tenor.com
an elderly woman in a green jacket is sitting at a table with a glass of chocolate pudding .
ALT: an elderly woman in a green jacket is sitting at a table with a glass of chocolate pudding .
140
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My daughter has spent the past few years being paid as a church chorister. It’s meant I’ve spent a lot of time in church of late (it’s C of E so they don’t really mind if you don’t believe). It’s been a real reminder of what many of us have lost. Not just the loss of community, but also the ritual
010
Reposted by Katie Lee
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 31/12/2025
How I rebooted my social life <— a slightly more personal essay than usual, for New Year. (Free to read.) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
How I rebooted my social life
Some self-help for the New Year
269012
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Told my sixteen-year-old she could have her mates over for New Year. They arrived an hour ago and have already started on the karaoke. Send help.
121
Reposted by Katie Lee
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Time between walking through my relatives door and fixing a tech issue that has been "driving them mad": 8 minutes. The TV was in demo mode. It has been in demo mode for several months.
4456
Reposted by Katie Lee
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 15/12/2025
Yes, it’s like how Apple buys up much of TSMC’s chip production capacity to build chips at some point in the future, for phones that don’t yet exist, and which haven’t been sold yet.
2103
Reposted by Katie Lee
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 25/11/2025
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
theringer.com
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
2001791255
Reposted by Katie Lee
Cass @cassmarshall.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
After Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet, a few of us ended up at rogue.site, where we're doing reader-supported games writing, reviews, guides, podcasts.
rogue.site
Rogue
Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans
117749
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I’m so sad about Ian Marchant. I only met him once when we visited him in Presteigne, but he was so kind. And recently, despite being so ill, he left me friendly comments on my Substacks and kept us all updated with his declining health with so much humour and candour.
031
Reposted by Katie Lee
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It's amazing how often I have cause to post this cartoon of mine. Two armchairs vulgarly roasting each other.
Cartoon. A living room with a coffee table, two armchairs, a standard lamp. One armchair is saying to the other "FUCK OFF" to which the other is replying "NO YOU FUCK OFF". Caption: The Internet of Things
4498103
Reposted by Katie Lee
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC. Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
818961
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I think I’ve just experienced my first Mandela Effect
000
Reposted by Katie Lee
lord-piltdown.bsky.social @lord-piltdown.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
You might be cool, but you'll never be as cool as Johnny Cash taking a break during his 1968 Folsom Prison concert.
118220
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
He’s The Man In Black. How can he possibly be “uncool”?
020
Reposted by Katie Lee
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
theoatmeal.com
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
14612224
Reposted by Katie Lee
Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In today's @theoverspill: the first rule of Qantas hacking is, Australia's courts say hackers can't release the data. Seriously.
theoverspill.blog
Start Up No.2532: Denmark plans under-15 social media ban, Ted Cruz v Wikipedia, Sora 2 flood begins, ICEBlock redux, and more
The first rule of Qantas hacking is, Australia's courts say hackers can't release the data. Seriously. CC-licensed photo by Steven Coochin on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. There's another post coming this week at the Social Warming Substack on Friday at 0845 UK time.
011
Reposted by Katie Lee
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2025
Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...
4389
Reposted by Katie Lee
Nick Bryan @nickbryan.com · 02/09/2025
We launch at 1PM, and I have checked that I've definitely gone through Kickstarter approval about 50 times in the last two days.
056