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http://kateorman.wordpress.com. she/her Three Doctor Who novels available at Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman Black Archives: The Pyramids of Mars https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · Jul 25

she/her
Occasional news kateorman.wordpress.com
Doctor Who Novels www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: Pyramids of Mars obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
Read "Saltier" free at IZ Digital interzone.digital/saltier/
The Mirror Matter - 3rd Dr audio www.bigfinish.com/

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 11m

do a bicoid one

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 25m

I would fund a crack team of detectives, translators, video restoration experts, and miracle workers to find Andra (ABC-TV, 1976) and release it on DVD.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 3h

Ruh roh

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 7h

Go fash no cash

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 10h

The same sort of thing as crushing out on Data, or Daneel Olivaw? Romance/sex with a man programmed to never hurt you.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 15h

A year ago we launched Clipper towards Europa.
Since then NASA science has been ravaged & threatened by our malevolent administration. By the time Clipper is orbiting Jupiter and sending back precious data we will have different people in power. As perilous as the journey is, that gives me hope.
🧪🔭

The rocket carrying Europa Clipper, rising from the launchpad.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 12h

What is it!

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 22h

(briskly)
pop-ta-te-ro-tau, hey baby baby!
pop-ta-te-ro-tau, hey baby baby!

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't heard that idea before -- I'm intrigued! My first thought was that it's too close to the sun to be a captured wanderer, but as you point out, there's lot of room out there.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 1d

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

I missed that because I had a piano lesson. I'm always slightly surprised by it.

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody needs to go out there and take look

www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

Uranus and Neptune may not be 'ice giants' after all, new research suggests

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these planets be called "rocky giants" instead.

www.space.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Kyla Lee Ward @kylaw.bsky.social · 2d

Enthusiastic new review of *Those That Pursue Us Yet* up at Gingernuts of Horror! gnofhorror.com/those-that-p...
#KylaLeeWard #ThoseThatPursueUsYet #IndependentLegionsPublishing #horrornovella #newhorror #horrorreview #author #hwa #horrorwriting #nightmares #luciddreaming

Those That Pursue Us Yet By Kyla Lee Ward: Surreal Horror & Dreams - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Those That Pursue Us Yet by Kyla Lee Ward A lucid dreamer is hunted by the nightmare god Phobetor a surreal tale blurs reality & dream

gnofhorror.com

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn pretty.

Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 1d

Flocculent spirals, like NGC 2090, seen in this #NASAWebb image, are one of the more common types of spiral galaxies. They have patchy arms that seemingly blend together and disconnect in spots.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy. 🔭 🧪

A spiral galaxy. There is a fuzzy, blue-white spot at the center of the galaxy, which is a cluster of stars. Two, patchy orange arms composed of dust and gas spiral outward and wrap around the central region. Brighter orange patches dot the arms. The entire structure glows with a slight blue halo, which becomes more diffuse toward the edges of the image. There are many orange, white, and blue background galaxies spread throughout.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · Oct 14

Ma cualli īmilhuiuh
in macehualtin,
in nican tlacah,
in cemanahuacah.

"May their day be good,
the common folk [macehuales],
the people from here,
the people of the Americas [Cemanahuac]."

#Nahuatl
#HappyIndigenousPeoplesDay

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaaaahhhhhh

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Have fruit flies got mushroom bodies? Those give me the creeps. Extra little brains peering at you from inside their tiny heads, thinking God knows what thoughts.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Part of my ultimately doomed career as a geneticist involved cutting off fruit fly heads with a razor and lining up the severed heads on a piece of adhesive tape. At this distance I cannot recall why we were doing that.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

😮

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Leese on Life @katherineleese.is.tired.fyi · 2d

A Doctor Who pure-historical where the TARDIS breaks down in 1750 BC Mesopotamia; luckily, it’s actually a really simple part to fix as long as they can find someone to sell them some good quality Sumerian copper.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Found an unfinished piece of my writing, dated 2006, and read it with mounting horror at its meandering awfulness. I suddenly remembered it had been my sole attempt at NaNoWriMo.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

PS I have so many times seen people carelessly misquote someone, and when their invented quote is questioned, they counter: "Well, it's the sort of thing he/she/you *would* say."

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

I assume it's supposed to work like this:
Someone: *posts obviously fake video of reporter arrest*
Everyone: That's obviously fake!
Someone else: posts about *real* reported arrest
A lot of people: I heard that was fake?

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how many times one instance of ChatGPT has dated another instance of ChatGPT.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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