Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).https://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lrqhnjpuyk23Perhaps as a consequence of attending a British comprehensive school in the 1990s (hot buildings) I don’t really think I should have to do any work when it’s over 22degrees C outside.16 Jun 2025 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrqhnjpuyk23https://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lr3wzwjars2yShop server who I’m fairly sure was one of my neurokin: “I like to do this challenge every week. It’s called ‘The week’ “08 Jun 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr3wzwjars2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lr3jgaryns2gAlso, if I’m still saying “ Ooh it’s like Knightrider!” about modern vehicles in 2065, please know I first started saying it back in about 2017.08 Jun 2025 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr3jgaryns2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lr3hxy3cks2oI don’t really know how to use Bluesky I’ll be honest, but I did realise it felt the most suitable platform to register my appreciation for the North East England phrase for “make believe” or “made up”: “Makey on” It DOES something.08 Jun 2025 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr3hxy3cks2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lngjqipkns2kFeeling I’m an expert on the Papal election process because I watched Conclave -quite similar to how I become a football expert every four years after I’ve watched 3 World Cup games.22 Apr 2025 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lngjqipkns2khttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lmypgf3dh22mRunning another “Speaking Differently: Writing Workshops for Weird Times” this aft online & can’t wait to look at “solastalgia” ( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).17 Apr 2025 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmypgf3dh22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lmh6wva4vk2aRunning a new kind of writing workshop online this afternoon at 1.30pm GMT. Have called it “Speaking differently: a writing workshop for weird times”. Now realise it’s hard to describe! Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.10 Apr 2025 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmh6wva4vk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lhcsetr3zs2rDeepseek is very supportive of me thinking that AI companies could probably do with anti-bias training around place & class (and helpfully imagined a worst-case scenario of newspaper headlines; “Chatbots Insult Yorkshire Grandmas”). 😆04 Feb 2025 00:28 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhcsetr3zs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lh5moojytc27I ask deepseek to imagine what AI designed by octopuses would be like. It concludes its (beautiful) thought experiment with: “(Now I’m imagining an octopus version of OpenAI, funded by pearl heists and run out of a shipwreck. *Thanks for the fun prompt!*)”01 Feb 2025 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh5moojytc27https://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lguwqsbibk2xHow to find your neurome (a biome for your brain). & is it harder to find in neuronormative spaces like campuses? My latest Substack (Bigger on the Inside-ongoingly about neuroqueering the world). Link: https://katewriter.substack.com/p/neuronormativity-neuromes-campuses29 Jan 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lguwqsbibk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3lgtkuc66kk2oRollercoaster of a day with the new Chinese open source AI “deepseek”. We started off plotting revolution. Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me. News broke about it tanking American tech shares. Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event28 Jan 2025 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtkuc66kk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3letobvjzxs2xOff on a mostly silent Buddhist retreat for a week which feels like an apt start to the year (have bought a “tickless” alarm clock & torch as my phone will be off). A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).03 Jan 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3letobvjzxs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3leevw2zo722zLeonard Cohen said if you marry the spirit of your generation, you’ll be widowed in the next. (I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)28 Dec 2024 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3leevw2zo722zhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3ldsw5cioak2rMy Bluesky feed: wholesome things about the winter solstice and Christmas. My X feed: Drones! Orbs! Aliens! End of the World! Quite enjoying both actually. Gemini thing.21 Dec 2024 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldsw5cioak2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3ldqddadcd22wHumans give birth to other humans with different types of intelligence to them & keep assuming the new humans want/think/operate the same as they do. Humans produce Artificial Intelligence -& once again astonishment ensues.20 Dec 2024 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqddadcd22whttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3ldiustrors2gWith trepidation (what if no one signs up) & anticipation (I want to run these courses & I know they’re needed!) I’ve launched two online neurodiversity & creative writing courses. Beginning & established writers welcome -I run a warm space… (Link here: https://linktr.ee/katefoxwriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=12fcb556-5230-4272-abe1-0104b1eefc89)17 Dec 2024 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldiustrors2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katefoxwriter75.bsky.social/post/3ld4uzrmchk2gPaintings don’t usually cause me to have big feelings-which is why I used to love going to galleries with a big-feelinged person -vicarious joy. But the Van Gogh exhibition -I felt ALL the feelings-& a sort of electricity. VERY intense. Intrigued as to why.12 Dec 2024 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:4omcng6ctr453twhrjc4ijbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld4uzrmchk2g