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Bat Krown 🦇

@katbrownwrites.com

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Freelance journalist and editor, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Feb 2

I was so excited to celebrate It's Not a Bloody Trend's birthday this morning, only to discover that it was actually...yesterday. Anyway, my book on (you'll be shocked to hear) ADHD is one today!

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 5m

WTF is going on with the BBC coverage of this story.

The court did not hear it was unlawful. His lawyer claimed it was unlawful. The prosecution said it was imperfect but lawful.

This headline implies undisputed fact.

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC headline: Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1h

I don't think I've ever loved any performer as much as I loved him in The Worst Witch.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4h

Thank you, she thinks so too!

A resplendently fluffy plush plum pudding of a calico cat with a white bib and white paws sits on top of an abandoned brown envelope

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4h

Plus, lots of people simply hate trans people, but having grown up through Section 28 know that’s a bad look, so they want an excuse for their hatred that they can pretend isn’t bigotry.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4h

This sequence of posts sums it up, really. Men are the problem - cis men, who don’t need to change anything about themselves to do harm - but trans people are the scapegoat because tackling men would require a total dismantling of societal structure.

A story about the former Premier League referee David Coote admitting making an indecent image of a child, followed by a story about trans people being at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 5h

On Radio 4 now. God they’re so brave and kind and brilliant and FIERCE.

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 6h

I can thoroughly recommend that if you find scrolling A Lot that you follow some good bot accounts like @birdperhour.net or @pomological.xor.blue or @art.feediverse.org (plus plenty more!) that put nice things in front of your eyes once an hour or so.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 6h

She does have regular visits from a local entrepreneur, and they get on quite well outside, but he’s banned from entry since weeing in random places.

A large round faced tabby patterned boy cat

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

My lovely pal Pippa Vosper is on Woman’s Hour today with Pippa Bennett-Warner talking about their short film 22+1. It is absolutely extraordinary and so moving. Also, PV put her own story of losing her son Axel at five months pregnant into it so generously. On Radio 4 from 10am.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

She is very protective of her corner office, although my husband does report an awful lot of snoring mid-morning so I’m not sure what she’s actually doing.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7h

A few months ago I got Genevieve this little cocoon bed and now every morning, when my husband does his emails or works from home, she takes herself up there like a busy business lady going to the office.

A bright eyed calico cat with ears pricked sits in a pink fluffy cat bed with a hole at the front. Someone had left it out on a fence near us so I took it home and aired it for a few days in case she’d like it, because God knows every new bed I’ve ever bought her has been met with absolute disdain!

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Monkey/screen wash update from my friend Damon who has just returned from working in southeast Asia for a decade, thank you Damon

He’s trying to drink the screen wash because it’s got alcohol in it and macaques are little hairy ASBOs

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Anything that comes from a first-person perspective will be different. I have a chapter on society and press coverage in INABT.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

I am so pleased she got on board with the party - that must have been so moving and quite lovely!

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Had a very normal drive at Longleat this weekend, 10/10, even if our passengers only tipped us with bum marks and saliva.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

This is a lovely story about community, recovery, ADHD and autism - and growing older in contentment www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A new start after 60: I realised I had autism – and suddenly my life made sense. I have never been so happy

After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …

www.theguardian.com

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 2d

God love Kew, this is incredible

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

David, the irony of seeing this at the top of the Discover tab

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

I thought of you immediately, and then
mind floated towards that Twitter thread of Irish burns towards snazzy dressers

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

That sounds amazing - and to see them, you need to do the boat trip which also shows you the hippos, the gorillas, and the extremely loud sea lions who you can feed!

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Popsiwinkle @popsiwinkle.bsky.social · 1d

We're going to longleat for the lights at Christmas and now I must see wee lad and wee wee lad.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

I absolutely adored Longleat. I was also thrilled to learn that, while some of their colobus monkeys came from French zoos and had chic names, two came from Belfast zoo: Wee Lad, and his younger brother, Wee Wee Lad.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 1d

Ross seems such a lovely chap and came across as such a jolly good sort. That’s definitely not something you can say about every person you see on this show, let alone one wearing a Thunderbirds costume. #SCD #Strictly

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

*runs up excitedly*A meerkat and a mere Kat!

(I made Claire take this photo for this reason, it’s probably time we went home and had a sleep.)

A grinning giant woman in many autumnal layers of clothing points at a meerkat who is facing the other direction and steadfastly refusing to take part in this joke

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 2d

Is it ok if it craps on the back of the car near the towing post?