Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@katebaucherel.bsky.social

Sci-fi fan & writer thereof | Mum standing up for 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | Dual national 🇬🇧🇫🇷 NE England & Vienne 86 | Sandan karateka 🥋 | Speaker, Author, Blockchain & Emerging Tech specialist | https://linktr.ee/KateBaucherel

Friends, I say this kindly: please stop asking Shecky to do things. Shecky seems exhausted and is also grieving. If you have the energy, send the email. Help these kitties if you can. If you can't, please share this.

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 7d ago

UPDATE: Yes, their owner passed away Thursday. We're taking them in today, but as I said, that CAN'T be permanent; they NEED a HOME NOW. We're willing to drive pretty much anywhere in the Northeast for the right adopter. We're begging.

A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’

I saw one of these last night! We have known for years we have Little Owls (Chevêche d’Athena) thanks to their habit of hunting noisily above the bedroom Velux, and suddenly there it was, perched on a gable end in the dusk. Proselytising perhaps. #InternationalOwlDay

Lorelei King@loreleiking.bsky.social · 4w ago

In honour of #InternationalOwlDay. (It may be a bit niche [or maybe not, seeing the popularity of #TheOdyssey], but it's my favourite of any memes I've made.)

A tiny owl standing on a road, looking up at a policewoman who is crouching down. A balloon above the owls head reads: Ma'am, do you have a moment to talk about our goddess Pallas Athena?

I did everything they asked, played nicely, played their games. - Fought for a GP referral to GIC - Waited 16 months for a GIC appointment - Answered the invasive questions - Took their homeopathic doses of HRT - Saved the NHS money by having private SRS - Took statutory declarations 1/8