Kitty Dorkling
@kittydorkling.bsky.social
She/her
Lefty Cat lady living in Yorkshire (and also Baldur's Gate). ADHD Late Diagnosis Club.
Tories, TERFs, GenAI users and suchlike get blocked on sight. And yes, that includes headers and profile pics: get fucked.
Lefty Cat lady living in Yorkshire (and also Baldur's Gate). ADHD Late Diagnosis Club.
Tories, TERFs, GenAI users and suchlike get blocked on sight. And yes, that includes headers and profile pics: get fucked.
If you live around Austin/central Texas, these two are looking for a home, and I would like someone I follow to adopt them so I can carry on seeing videos of Little Big Fat and his adorable noises, please.
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you live around Austin/central Texas, these two are looking for a home, and I would like someone I follow to adopt them so I can carry on seeing videos of Little Big Fat and his adorable noises, please.
I see Sultana is now refusing to leave her bedroom because actually she TOLD grandad she was inviting her own friends too and it's NOT FAIR, he never listens to her!
Meanwhile Grandad is simultaneously telling everyone to be nicer to each other and mumbling about how he never liked that girl.
Meanwhile Grandad is simultaneously telling everyone to be nicer to each other and mumbling about how he never liked that girl.
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I see Sultana is now refusing to leave her bedroom because actually she TOLD grandad she was inviting her own friends too and it's NOT FAIR, he never listens to her!
Meanwhile Grandad is simultaneously telling everyone to be nicer to each other and mumbling about how he never liked that girl.
Meanwhile Grandad is simultaneously telling everyone to be nicer to each other and mumbling about how he never liked that girl.
I was about to start sewing, but Beetle often tends to have Opinions about that. Idk why he always wants to sit on me in this room and nowhere else, but what can you do. Cats.
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I was about to start sewing, but Beetle often tends to have Opinions about that. Idk why he always wants to sit on me in this room and nowhere else, but what can you do. Cats.
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Popcorn time!
Jenny Watson's recent Substack posts seem to indicate internal strains and stresses in the GC
community.
It's always worth remembering that sooner or later terrible people are terrible to each other.
Jenny Watson's recent Substack posts seem to indicate internal strains and stresses in the GC
community.
It's always worth remembering that sooner or later terrible people are terrible to each other.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Popcorn time!
Jenny Watson's recent Substack posts seem to indicate internal strains and stresses in the GC
community.
It's always worth remembering that sooner or later terrible people are terrible to each other.
Jenny Watson's recent Substack posts seem to indicate internal strains and stresses in the GC
community.
It's always worth remembering that sooner or later terrible people are terrible to each other.
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When a cat covers their face with their paw in their sleep you get -1 depression in the surrounding 5 feet
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
When a cat covers their face with their paw in their sleep you get -1 depression in the surrounding 5 feet
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Drop bear
Yeti
Unicorn
Jackalope
Black Shuck
Drop bear
Yeti
Unicorn
Jackalope
Black Shuck
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Drop bear
Yeti
Unicorn
Jackalope
Black Shuck
Drop bear
Yeti
Unicorn
Jackalope
Black Shuck
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Dear Lord what a sad little life, Jane
"Leave it, he's not worth it!"
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Dear Lord what a sad little life, Jane
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We have an announcement.
Stick Man has now made it home to the family tree (with his Stick Lady Love and his Stick children three) ❤️
Stick Man has now made it home to the family tree (with his Stick Lady Love and his Stick children three) ❤️
This guy was left in the library yesterday. 🪵
We don't know much about him but he keeps telling us
1) that he's Stick Man
and
2) that he's trying to get back to the family tree
If you left Stick Man behind you can collect him from reception.
We don't know much about him but he keeps telling us
1) that he's Stick Man
and
2) that he's trying to get back to the family tree
If you left Stick Man behind you can collect him from reception.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We have an announcement.
Stick Man has now made it home to the family tree (with his Stick Lady Love and his Stick children three) ❤️
Stick Man has now made it home to the family tree (with his Stick Lady Love and his Stick children three) ❤️
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Lord Wellington. Lino on paper.
liquoricelino.etsy.com/listing/4306...
Liquoricelino.etsy.com
#birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #crow
liquoricelino.etsy.com/listing/4306...
Liquoricelino.etsy.com
#birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #crow
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Lord Wellington. Lino on paper.
liquoricelino.etsy.com/listing/4306...
Liquoricelino.etsy.com
#birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #crow
liquoricelino.etsy.com/listing/4306...
Liquoricelino.etsy.com
#birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #crow
Everything is awful but Will is very funny about it, at least?
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Everything is awful but Will is very funny about it, at least?
If in doubt, twat it wi' hammer
"Leave it, he's not worth it!"
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If in doubt, twat it wi' hammer
Crikey, it's a bit Weather out there!
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Crikey, it's a bit Weather out there!
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New comic: "Enjoy the ride" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Enjoy the ride - Bad Machinery
In 1968, Shetland was still called Zetland. I’m all for bringing Zetland back. As for fishwives, I think they were very much “of their time” and the term is best left to slumber.
badmachinery.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
New comic: "Enjoy the ride" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
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joining the raft of picture- and thing- makers on here who are saying "we're not doing Black Friday but buy from us anyway pls" #fuckamazon
here is a non-exhaustive thread of Giftable Things available in my shop that are £25 or under, because *gestures at calendar*:
1) cats not terfs A2 print shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/cats... #art #trans
1) cats not terfs A2 print shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/cats... #art #trans
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
joining the raft of picture- and thing- makers on here who are saying "we're not doing Black Friday but buy from us anyway pls" #fuckamazon
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*rubs temples*
That’s a quadruple lock.
There will be pensioners earning more than me & be more liquid.
I’m a husband, single income father of two.
That’s a quadruple lock.
There will be pensioners earning more than me & be more liquid.
I’m a husband, single income father of two.
Interesting - the Chancellor tells @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com that those receiving only the state pension won’t pay income tax even when the pension passes the (frozen) income tax threshold. So in effect the income tax threshold will newly rise by the triple lock, for some not all pensioners
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
*rubs temples*
That’s a quadruple lock.
There will be pensioners earning more than me & be more liquid.
I’m a husband, single income father of two.
That’s a quadruple lock.
There will be pensioners earning more than me & be more liquid.
I’m a husband, single income father of two.
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brb gotta go buy a case of Thanksgiving tomatoes.
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
brb gotta go buy a case of Thanksgiving tomatoes.
HIGH QUALITY SCRIPTED COMEDY, imagine that. We used to have so much of it, you know! We really did!
Episode 2 of It Takes A Village is out now!
@davejones.actor joins me to chat about acting, the industry, and engorging - ahem - gorging on comedy shows on the BBC.
Watch now on my YouTube!
m.youtube.com/@samantha_be...
Watch now on my YouTube!
m.youtube.com/@samantha_be...
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
HIGH QUALITY SCRIPTED COMEDY, imagine that. We used to have so much of it, you know! We really did!
This is EXACTLY the sort of shit that was all over Birmingham Uni's open day.
I mean it wasn't top of Trainboy's list but dang did it fall all the way to the bottom real fast after that.
I mean it wasn't top of Trainboy's list but dang did it fall all the way to the bottom real fast after that.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is EXACTLY the sort of shit that was all over Birmingham Uni's open day.
I mean it wasn't top of Trainboy's list but dang did it fall all the way to the bottom real fast after that.
I mean it wasn't top of Trainboy's list but dang did it fall all the way to the bottom real fast after that.
This is BONKERS crazy, what the fuck happened?!
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is BONKERS crazy, what the fuck happened?!
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By contrast, my elderly neighbour Gordon needed 24/7 care in his 2 bed council flat. His daughter moved in, saved the state ££s in care costs. Gordon died 11 months later. His daughter hadn't been there 12 months, was 'underoccupying' the flat, she was given 14 days to clear his stuff & move out.
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
By contrast, my elderly neighbour Gordon needed 24/7 care in his 2 bed council flat. His daughter moved in, saved the state ££s in care costs. Gordon died 11 months later. His daughter hadn't been there 12 months, was 'underoccupying' the flat, she was given 14 days to clear his stuff & move out.
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Time for my favourite festive poem tradition: 'in which Jesus the babe explains his eventual crucifixion in detail to his mother':
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50408/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50408/...
Jesus Comforts His Mother
Dere modere, for you weppe I noght, But for thinges that shall be wroght, Or that I have mankind iboght. That I shuld see this wo: It were to me gret heivynis.” “My hondes, modere, that ye now see, Th...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Time for my favourite festive poem tradition: 'in which Jesus the babe explains his eventual crucifixion in detail to his mother':
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50408/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50408/...
One problem with making complaints these days is Customer Service people have been taught to be so obsequiously grovelling in their responses.
I don't want you to be "truly sorry to have disappointed" me! They're not paying you nearly enough for that!
I don't want you to be "truly sorry to have disappointed" me! They're not paying you nearly enough for that!
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
One problem with making complaints these days is Customer Service people have been taught to be so obsequiously grovelling in their responses.
I don't want you to be "truly sorry to have disappointed" me! They're not paying you nearly enough for that!
I don't want you to be "truly sorry to have disappointed" me! They're not paying you nearly enough for that!
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you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
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Unbound, Substack... They're the writer's friends! Supporting the little guys! Smashing the system and offering viable alternatives! Look how much they are helping us with our art! So brave. And definitely *definitely* not cleverly conning writers into being evangelists for them for their own gain.
I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
What follows is a minor modern horror story.
substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Unbound, Substack... They're the writer's friends! Supporting the little guys! Smashing the system and offering viable alternatives! Look how much they are helping us with our art! So brave. And definitely *definitely* not cleverly conning writers into being evangelists for them for their own gain.