Katherine Jane Wright

@katherinejanew

30. Queer trans lesbian (She/Her). Disabled. Socialist. PhD history student, when I'm not too ill. Studying mountain imagery in ancient religious texts. A bit obsessed with 17th Century British politics. I also like heavy metal and taking photos of birds

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Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jun 25

Oh no you don't

Dr Thrasher: For centuries, Europeans have framed tech to protect against cold (fire, furnaces) as noble and good, while they've framed the warm climates they've colonized as full of lazy people (Asians, Africans) and, thus, the need to use AC or fans as frivolous, wasteful and unnecessary

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jun 23

Cartoon man says 'it could be any year from 1993' to another, moustachioed cartoon man. It's the bottom right panel from that linux comic. Which apparently was originally a Minecraft comic. The more you know

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jun 23

Alternatively:

Robin, from classic British costume drama Robin of Sherwood, getting grim with it, saying 'Nobody Ran at Hastings'

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jun 4

The writing is the thinking

David Lynch looking slightly pained, with the caption, "And it's, um, the film is the talking.'

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· May 29

"No, James, you can't donate *that!*"

The cover of Metallica's 1996 album, Load. It features a photograph of mixed cow's blood and human semen, pressed between two panes of glass.

It's not actually James Hetfield's blood, or semen for that matter, and actually it was Kirk Hammett who picked the image for the cover, but it's funnier if you imagine it's James, so

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· May 22

They made my old landlady an actual Sheriff! 😅 It is my proposal that all landlords should be made to dress this way, actually, so that they can be accurately identified at a distance

Some Green Party members in Southampton council offices. Most are dressed normally, albeit with green theming. One is an older lady, dressed in blue gown, gold chain, white lace cravatte thingy and black tricorn hat. She is my ex-landlady, and also Southampton Green Party councillor and now sheriff, Katherine Barbour

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Apr 25

Settled in to watch the Dan Olson Mr Beast double bill with my love this evening, in the manner such cinema deserves

A bearded man in glasses in front of some fake Guiness World Records and a commemorative Folding Ideas Beast Games jumpsuit, projected onto a living room wall. Some plushies lurk in the shadows

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Apr 7

Gotta stop seeing this as descriptive and start seeing it as prescriptive

Map of the historic cultural 'nations' of North America, by one JayMan, per 'The American Nations' by Colin Woodard

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Mar 19

Incredible. Site, juice, etc.

n @uruzrune.bsky.social Ulster wasn't Britain in 540

Trev Ellis #YES @gingertre... 1h It's a bit of light hearted, archive tv geekery. Not a serious, historical post.

n @uruzrune.bsky.social Nothing light-hearted about Irish independence

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Mar 14

Conservatives have had one joke since 1689

Aphotograoh of an excerpt from Tim Harris' 'Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy: 1685-1720'.

Text reads:

In the end, however, very few Tory Anglicans refused to swear allegiance to the new monarchs. Some, it should be said, procrastinated for an awfully long time: William Sherlock did not capitulate until August 1690, though prior to then he continued to lecture in St Dunstan's in the West in London and to offer prayers for William and Mary as de facto monarchs. Jacobites were fiercely critical of the apparent hypocrisy of those clergy who took the new oaths: 'there never was so sudden and so shameful a Turn of Men professing Religion', bemoaned the Protestant Irish Jacobite Charles Leslie. Indeed, Leslie reported that 'the Common People' joked 'that there was but one thing formerly which the Parliament could not do, that is, to make a Man a Woman: But now there is another, that is, to make an Oath which the Clergy will not take'.

Tories who threw in their lot with the Revolution inevitably insisted that the Convention had not deposed James Il and distanced themselves from resistance theory, They did not eschew resistance theory altogether. As we saw in the nrevions chapter land as we shall See

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Mar 1

Dueling protests in Southampton today. We outnumbered the fash four-to-one, and apparently they had to bus some of theirs in from Oxfordshire of all places 😅 We stopped them from marching through Portswood and Bevois Valley and terrorising the people, and then marched through the city. No pasaran!

Anti-raciam protesters gathered on a street corner. In the centre-left is a woman whose blonde hair has gone very frizzy in the humidity 😅

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Nov 23

Diagram below:

The final scene of Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite: Emma Stone's foot in a white, heeled shoe, descending on a dark brown rabbit to crush it. I have crudely drawn a large foot onto it in red

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Nov 6

The BBC News homepage is just increasingly syncing up with your racist uncle's fevered brain. I think we have to syart seriously thinking about ripping up BBC News and starting again. The other parts of the corporation are I think salvageable but the News team is rotten to the core

BBC News homepage, including articles on a migrant worker fine relief 'fixer', an 'illegal worker network', and two men mistakenly released from prison

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Sep 18

Jay Foreman's channel officially rebranding as 'Jay and Mark' is the Habsburgs conceding the Dual Monarchy to the Hungarians for geography and urban planning YouTube. Revolutionary spring for Map Men!

A screenshot of the newly rebranded 'Jay and Mark' YouTube channel landing page

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Sep 10

If I might be forgiven for being a smidge pretentious for a moment, this popped into my head:

Mark Twain quote from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: “There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Aug 16

Gaslight, *game*keep, girlboss

A screen shot from r/Environmentalism including the headline 'An all women ranger unit reduced elephant poaching by 90%', clarifying text that the headline refers to the Lower Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe, and a photo of five women of the unit, wearing face paint and military-style fatigues, hats, and in the case of the central woman camouflage fringing to her uniform

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jun 29

It's pretty obviously inspired by this shot from the epilogue of Mewtwo Returns, but we both *distinctly* remember the hat, pulled low over its face as a disguise. I've even seen fanart of it with the fedora just as I remember, so it's not even just us!

Mewtwo, wearing a brown cloak, on a rooftop alone in front of a dark cityscape

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· May 16

The rivers are alive! It's giving anmism 2.0, it's giving @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social, and frankly I am very much here for it. The land breathes

Screenshot of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Facebook post discussing the granting of legal personhood to local rivers by Basingstoke & Deane Council

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· May 15

Screenshot of Bluesky posts reading: 'Are people mad about an actual Onion joke or are they sjust still being freaks about Collins dating Abugazaleh,' and, 'The latter. Ethics in game journalism level red and mad.'

Gif of the giant from Twin Peaks saying, "It is happening again"

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Feb 10

Well damn, I've got one! ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukma...

The front page of Labour's 2017 manifesto, entitled 'For the Many, Not the Few'. Title in white lettering in a white squared off speech bubble with white outlines of diverse people surrounding it, all on a red background

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jan 15

I decided to play my first game of my new board game Bärenpark with the self-imposed rule that the enclosures had to be next to matching animal houses. I didn't score particularly highly, but at least my bears could play outside!

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jan 6

Just started learning to crochet. Obviously got a long way to go but I'm glad I finally - after a...number of attempts - managed to get my hands to do the thing more or less right!

A short fifteen stitch crochet chain in pink, tied together at the yarn ends.

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Jan 2

Ken from Barbie 'My job is just beach' meme with 'job' crossed out and replaced with the word 'ham'.

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Dec 24

Definitely got to be this one of me in the salon after I finally got my hair dyed blonde, which I had been wanting to do for years and years

Blonde white woman in a grey hairdressers' shawl, sat beaming in a hair salon.

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Nov 27

Saw this for sale on a second hand site, and the more I look at it the funnier I find it

Katherine Jane Wright@katherinejanew· Nov 22

I really do understand the impulse here but if the criminal courts ever 'caught up' with the civil ones, that would be bloody terrifying. They have a way higher standard of evidence for a reason. Being sent to prison should never just be a 'balance of probabilities' thing