Kate Mascarenhas
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A "book marketing" scammer has been claiming I'm a client, and using a fake reference. If they approach you let me know. I've never used book marketing services or provided a book marketer with a reference.
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
I bet it's spoiler avoidance rather than aiming at brevity.
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Thanks! Only bruised fortunately.
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It's a bit puffy and swollen on one cheek. Managed to cut my eyelid so glad at least it didn't get my eye!
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
See also, the publishing industry.
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
Fell off a ladder face first into a book trolley. I'm... quite bruised
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
When I was 7 and I asked my brother what was going on at the Blue Oyster Bar in Police Academy.
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This and different era pics pushback = old teenage beef
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The majority of QTs are not so much hinged or unhinged as muttering "you're not the boss of me" at their secondary school English teacher from several decades ago
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jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social
I wrote this down in around 2007 after having a dream about bowling with Jacques Derrida.

As you can see it’s a visual representation of “The Second Coming” as a gyre composed of two cones and something about a section of a cone being parabola/parable/parole.
A water-damaged drawing of the Hyde as described with the labels “The worst art full of passionate intensity,” “2nd Coming” and “The best lack all conviction” pointing to the point where the two cones meet (narrow tip of second against wide base of first). There’s also a drawing of a cone with a line intersecting it with “parabola parable parole” written next to it.
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
Yeah I'd be down for it in any field of creativity really.
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
At one time I would have said: I'm not convinced books should be read with any knowledge of the author. No name on the cover. All books published anonymously. But this did depend on me taking for granted that anonymous writers would at minimum be human, so there goes that dream.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
Incidentally I think it is fine for people to post their ancient thirst traps
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
Remember that time on twitter when Nigella joined in and the bar moved suddenly and painfully
cjayanetti.bsky.social
"Post you from a different era" is middle-aged Bluesky code for "lemme see you when you were hot"
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
Yeah, I do not have many photos of me pre- living with a photographer, tbh.
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@silversprite.bsky.social I can't DM (no age verification), but Matt, ofc! He has all household photo responsibilities
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Post you from a different era.

Aged 26. That dress had very dramatic skirts.
Me in a red halter dress.
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The one time I ate mince pie flavoured ice cream it basically tasted of rum and raisin but with pastry (which was fine just not uniquely festive in any way)
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
I mean they are a religious order I guess 😂
katemascarenhas.bsky.social
Just to flip this on its head, for some reason locals tend to pronounce Birmingham's Alcester Road with three syllables (even though we pronounce the town name as Alster), while visitors assume two.
merriam-webster.com
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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The automated train announcements also get Hawarden wrong (or used to at any rate - it's a while since I was over that way)