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/https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mre2f3khxk22Popping in to commend to you this thoroughly interesting read: https://rimonhadassah.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-looms24 Jul 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre2f3khxk22https://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mq3rzgqmfs2vThe cruel punchline. Australia's usual solution: go and die somewhere else. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2026 23:46 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3rzgqmfs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpn76bkfpc2yThe dogpile is increasingly distressing. Too many times, *I've* been the fan whose unwise words have loosed the dogs. *I've* been the person about whom it is permissible to say anything you like. In the dogpile, you show everyone your ugliest face. Blocking isn't helping. Time for a Bluesky break.02 Jul 2026 04:31 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpn76bkfpc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpn3g6exhc2qWhen the guvmint brought in a law forcing ISPs to retain a record of what Web sites we visit, I installed a VPN, purely to give them the finger. Recently I've been using NordVPN. Now that I've switched it off, my laptop has stopped constantly crashing. 🤦‍♀️02 Jul 2026 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpn3g6exhc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpmyig3fs22zAnother day, another YouTuber unsubscribed from for pimping AI *if there was a middle finger emoji it would be here*02 Jul 2026 02:31 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmyig3fs22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpmu3xhlkk2fNo national ban on "conversion therapy", no protection for intersex kids against unnecessary surgery, amongst other failures. https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/human-rights-concerns-raised-after-australia-rejects-un-lgbtqia-recommendations/24230102 Jul 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmu3xhlkk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpmrz5hacs2yTime is a funny thing. I read a little about the violent dispossession of Indigenous Australians of their lands by English settlers. Apparently the last incident in the frontier wars, a massacre of 31 Aboriginal people, took place in 1928, the year my maternal grandmother turned 21.02 Jul 2026 00:36 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmrz5hacs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpmh4fnsgk2uIt's Disability Pride Month? yay *falls over* [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmh4fnsgk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpmgyjm64c2uI'm intrigued by the idea that women's categories were added to sports not to encourage women to participate, but to avoid any risk of men sometimes being beaten by women. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmgyjm64c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpmgldixnc2uJust saw someone use a metaphor to make a point, and someone else contest the metaphor instead of the point, and now I'm going crazy trying to remember a quote like "all right, so most metaphors don't stand up to close examination". The Young Ones? TNG?01 Jul 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmgldixnc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpl7qoazf22iAs a target for bullies, whose big mouth has sometimes outraged people, I want to post a word of caution. When you react with shock, hurt, anger -- those are natural human feelings. When you egg each other on, sitting in judgement on the worth of someone you know nothing about -- -- I see you.01 Jul 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpl7qoazf22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpkyjsfejs2aStart of day: depressed, no idea for novel End of day: energised, quite a good idea for novel Yay for coffee and Jon for letting me bruise his ears with my rambling thought 😁01 Jul 2026 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpkyjsfejs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpk6igigws2nI'm hijacking Ian's post to show you the state I was in when I wrote most of my Doctor Who novels. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpk6igigws2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpioztc5ik2tWhat I'm enjoying are landscapes of my childhood -- all those long driving holidays on dodgy, narrow country roads, past reflector posts and yellow fields. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpioztc5ik2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpimib64ws2tWatching Mad Max (1979). It would suck being Mrs Max, waiting to get fridged or have a line of dialogue, whichever comes first.30 Jun 2026 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpimib64ws2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpifiz7wis2uDr West described a rash guess as "temerarious"! What a word! "Marked by temerity"!30 Jun 2026 06:41 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpifiz7wis2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpibep26p22e"... the text presents so many oddities that the reader is reduced to the conclusion that the writer was simply baffled by much of the text which he was supposed to be translating." -- Classical scholar Stephanie West, in 1969, about Richard Reitzenstein's 1923 translation of the legend of Tefnut30 Jun 2026 05:27 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpibep26p22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpi5ikvozc2kEOFY looms and the charity begging emails are coming thick and fast30 Jun 2026 04:18 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpi5ikvozc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mphwm3wyp22tThanks, God30 Jun 2026 02:14 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphwm3wyp22thttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mphokt7ggk2vI thought this was funny for one and a half seconds. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphokt7ggk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mphbb3ijuc2aOh good heavens! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphbb3ijuc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpgjfttcsk2vA strange cosmic power has descended upon me. I can reorder the videos in a YouTube playlist on my phone.29 Jun 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgjfttcsk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpgerbrlgs2lWell -- thank you very much, Penelope. 💐 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgerbrlgs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpgeo57ors2lThe History of the World Part I (1981) is more silly than funny, but very likeable. The effects shots are incredible! The whole experience is rather like watching an old-fashioned adventure movie with a teenager who keeps cracking dirty jokes.29 Jun 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgeo57ors2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpfxaazb6c2fThis is so well-put! I thought of our ancestors, the weak little monkeys who had to work together or die, had to understand each others' minds and hearts. Cooperation was a virtue, cheating was a profound crime. I think they'd recognise these "no empathy!" individuals as the cheats they are. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 07:20 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpfxaazb6c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpfwcdcdys2eI'm starting to feel sorry for all those poor women whose self-introductions everyone skips as they Jump To Recipe. "Hi! I'm -- oh well, enjoy the soup."29 Jun 2026 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpfwcdcdys2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpfvvkhqh22t"Intelligent Design" [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 06:56 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpfvvkhqh22thttps://bsky.app/profile/kateorman.bsky.social/post/3mpfowti3dk2wlol, Colin sleeps in his clothes so that when he becomes Omega's slave, he's not wandering around in his undies29 Jun 2026 04:52 +0000at://did:plc:y543a3jo2ff4cuobjogmjrfa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpfowti3dk2w