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Catherine Fowles
@ccfowles.bsky.social
✨not defined by labour✨
Neurospicy pansexual socialist 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
COVID conscious 😷 Cat Mom 😼😻
She / Her 🧬 🌍🌱🍉🖤🤎🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Formerly: a scientist and a theatre producer

Exploring: what comes next

Current hyperfixations:
🔴⚪️⚫️David Lynch🔵⚫️
🧶 Knitting & Crochet
🎧 Creating Audio Drama
🎮 Games Producing
📊 Excel
📚 Reading my backlog of books
🎥 Movie Club - BFI Top 100 Critics’ List
🐈 My cats
🩷💛🩵Pansexual superheroes 🔥⚔️🧊
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?

Interesting

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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As a society, we can easily provide for everyone.

The top 1% and those in power are choosing not to.

They want you to believe people must “earn” their right to housing, food, healthcare & education.

No one should have to “earn” those things.

They’re basic human rights.
December 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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women do not want men who look like Andrew Tate, we want men who look like the ghost of Christmas present in The Muppet Christmas Carol, especially when he goes silver fox mode
December 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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What an amazing analogy of life under Trump!
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
lol.

Remember that they are actively trying to pass assisted dying bills so they don’t have to pay for the ongoing mass disabling event.

I don’t want to roll my health dice on those odds, so guess imma have to be a zealot!
Paywalled, but you get the idea. 🙄

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is why it is never “just” flu, y’all. Your “just a cold” could kill or disable somebody.

Please mask. Please stay home when sick. Please advocate for clean air everywhere, and especially in spaces where folx have to be (like hospitals or school or care homes or work or…)
I literally watched a pt on an influenza outbreak ward at PLC, who did not have influenza when she arrived, expire in front of me. Other supposed pts in isolation in beds along the ward hallways. Seeing more pts with neuro complications of flu viruses too.
Home
not.at
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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covid never ended but everyone agreed to pretend it did and that the "summer flu" exists instead because they were tired of wearing masks. there are almost 500k scientific papers about how dangerous covid is and no one cares. that part of the population is like 99%
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
www.avclub.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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There’s nothing wrong with healthy eating, exercise, sunlight & stress reduction.

They’re great ways to improve health.

The problem is the “wellness” community.

It’s always been a direct pipeline into eugenics.

They believe you can “healthy living” your way out of disability, and it’s not true
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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You can see this force of nature.

You can’t see flu and C19.

This is what I see when I see “normal” people doing “happy” things as a wave rolls in.
not much longer to go in 2025 so it’s time to start posting some of my favorite still photos from this chase season. Here is a black and white edit of a friend and fellow storm chaser standing in front of the Gary, South Dakota tornado on June 28th of this year
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Good morning.

A reminder that slavery disabled people. Also, prisons disable people. Dehumanization disables.
Author's note for poem ☝🏾

It is written about Harriet Jacobs's 1861 "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", where she writes of her confinement:

"I lived in that little dismal hole… for nearly 7 years. My body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul."
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Broadview Press
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -
broadviewpress.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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If this doesn’t sum up these pandemic years perfectly. 😮‍💨
November 30, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I feel like I've been struggling to articulate this for years, but I just figured it out: Musicians that can read music/are classically trained are wizards, and musicians that can't read music/learned by ear are sorcerers.
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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deep down, he believes we are all good chaps and he believes it hard enough that everyone wants to live up to it, just a little, just for him
December 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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This week my younger son decided to stop masking after being COVID-aware for 5+ years.

Despite the fact that he got rhabdomyolysis from his first infection (was hospitalized for 5 days), his Dad has just completed chemo, & his brother & Mum have had Long COVID for 5+ years.

And now he is sick -
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM