Karie Bookish
@kariebookish.bsky.social
I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴🇩🇰🏳️🌈
These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
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Hello! Quite a few new followers. I'm Karie, a Danish woman living in Glasgow, Scotland. I've written a knitting book about Early Modern printing, teach psychogeographical craft workshops, stamp books, make my own jeans, and married someone from Clan Fraser before it was cool.
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"When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”"
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
"When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”"
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Just noticed that Channel 4 has Anna and the Apocalypse available for free. It's the Scottish Christmas zombie musical comedy you didn't know you needed. It's seriously fun.
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Official Trailer (2018)
YouTube video by Orion Pictures
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just noticed that Channel 4 has Anna and the Apocalypse available for free. It's the Scottish Christmas zombie musical comedy you didn't know you needed. It's seriously fun.
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
Linton Kwesi Johnson
James Brown
Nirvana
Manic Street Preachers (Cardiff, blood everywhere)
The Cramps
Linton Kwesi Johnson
James Brown
Nirvana
Manic Street Preachers (Cardiff, blood everywhere)
The Cramps
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
- Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Regina Spektor
- Manic Street Preachers (x11.. ha!)
- Paul Weller
- Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers
- Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Regina Spektor
- Manic Street Preachers (x11.. ha!)
- Paul Weller
- Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Went to a contemporary art space the other day, and I cannot stop thinking about how 36 artists were displaying and 33 of them were men. It's 2024, for god's sake.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Went to a contemporary art space the other day, and I cannot stop thinking about how 36 artists were displaying and 33 of them were men. It's 2024, for god's sake.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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this kid is going places. "english folklore" has the same syllables and stress pattern as "motherfucker", not to mention "folk" does the same labial-dental-fricative-to-velar-plosive thing that "fuck" does, and "lore" neatly takes the place of "-er."
My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
this kid is going places. "english folklore" has the same syllables and stress pattern as "motherfucker", not to mention "folk" does the same labial-dental-fricative-to-velar-plosive thing that "fuck" does, and "lore" neatly takes the place of "-er."
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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How about we sacrifice holiday homes so everyone has a home?
We need to talk about HOLIDAY HOMES
If you already own a home, should you be allowed to buy a spare one?
The Dutch don't think so
New laws require buyers to obtain permits to buy a 2nd home, while existing owners will be given 1 year amnesty
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome
If you already own a home, should you be allowed to buy a spare one?
The Dutch don't think so
New laws require buyers to obtain permits to buy a 2nd home, while existing owners will be given 1 year amnesty
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
How about we sacrifice holiday homes so everyone has a home?
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I think it's underrated how good a writer Darwin was.
Charles Darwin briefly discussed dogs’ senses of humor in the 2nd edition of ‘The Descent of Man’ 👇 and then fleshed those ideas out further in ‘The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals’
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I think it's underrated how good a writer Darwin was.
Good morning to me.
The Idea of Firs by Paul Klee, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137181
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137181
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Good morning to me.
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Amazing thread! I'm thankful this week for book historians like @drleonj.bsky.social and for their reminders about the complexities that the tech bro hype obscures.
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Amazing thread! I'm thankful this week for book historians like @drleonj.bsky.social and for their reminders about the complexities that the tech bro hype obscures.
The same when I see someone draw or dance. It is magical.
I was at a small concert today in college where the musicians invited some fellows to perform alongside them; I'm not musical at all but I was taking in the joy in the room and realised there's a special and irreplaceable pleasure in watching someone do something really well. AI got nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The same when I see someone draw or dance. It is magical.
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In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across
Okay, me & Pope Leo are on the same page here. Just different words. Good job, Pope Dude.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Okay, me & Pope Leo are on the same page here. Just different words. Good job, Pope Dude.
There's a thing about human creativity: it comes from our bodies. Our creation germinates in our heads and heart; our creation is made by our hands, our voices, or our bodies.
AI creations are disembodied. They come from data analysis, binary code, and machines
That's the difference you can feel.
AI creations are disembodied. They come from data analysis, binary code, and machines
That's the difference you can feel.
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There's a thing about human creativity: it comes from our bodies. Our creation germinates in our heads and heart; our creation is made by our hands, our voices, or our bodies.
AI creations are disembodied. They come from data analysis, binary code, and machines
That's the difference you can feel.
AI creations are disembodied. They come from data analysis, binary code, and machines
That's the difference you can feel.
This is why I have beef with "The US only has 250 years of history" folks. Because there's clearly history underneath your feet.
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is why I have beef with "The US only has 250 years of history" folks. Because there's clearly history underneath your feet.
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2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.
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One of the earliest forms of moving images, my friends. If you had a potter's wheel, you could make this. We think about moving images as a modern invention but the idea stretches back centuries if not millennia.
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
One of the earliest forms of moving images, my friends. If you had a potter's wheel, you could make this. We think about moving images as a modern invention but the idea stretches back centuries if not millennia.
I am currently working between three different languages when inputting my searches and the amount of autocorrect and hallucinations is just unbelievable.
Google is changing my search terms - as I'm typing them.
Google is changing my search terms - as I'm typing them.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am currently working between three different languages when inputting my searches and the amount of autocorrect and hallucinations is just unbelievable.
Google is changing my search terms - as I'm typing them.
Google is changing my search terms - as I'm typing them.
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It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times
Today's random album is Elvis Costello's Brutal Youth. The man can pen a lyric, I tell you.
On This is Hell: "My Favourite Thing is playing / but it's by Julie Andrews and not John Coltrane."
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On This is Hell: "My Favourite Thing is playing / but it's by Julie Andrews and not John Coltrane."
🗡️🗡️🗡️
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Today's random album is Elvis Costello's Brutal Youth. The man can pen a lyric, I tell you.
On This is Hell: "My Favourite Thing is playing / but it's by Julie Andrews and not John Coltrane."
🗡️🗡️🗡️
On This is Hell: "My Favourite Thing is playing / but it's by Julie Andrews and not John Coltrane."
🗡️🗡️🗡️
In other news, I have Stuff going on this week so I'm not around much.
If you fancy updating me on your weddings, births, and dogs, I'd would like that.
If you fancy updating me on your weddings, births, and dogs, I'd would like that.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In other news, I have Stuff going on this week so I'm not around much.
If you fancy updating me on your weddings, births, and dogs, I'd would like that.
If you fancy updating me on your weddings, births, and dogs, I'd would like that.
I decided against stocking on Amazon even if it cost me sales (I know this because people kept telling me it was out of stock when it was not). It was not an easy decision but for me it felt like the right one.
Hey fun fact I don't sell any of my books on Am*zon and I never have. If you ever see one of my books on Amazon that's actually a drop shipper trying to undercut honest publishers and physical stores by taking advantage of wholesale deals through distributors. Bad stuff!
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I decided against stocking on Amazon even if it cost me sales (I know this because people kept telling me it was out of stock when it was not). It was not an easy decision but for me it felt like the right one.