Katherine Duke

@katducduk

Writer. Editor. Comedy geek. Trivia nerd. Podcast junkie. Creator of the book Kissability: People with Disabilities Talk About Sex, Love, and Relationships ( (she/her)

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Katherine Duke@katducduk· 23d

PAUSA DE COCO Y HIDRATACIÓN

Katherine Duke@katducduk· 24d

I love the way the Google preview shortens the first sentence of this author's bio.

Google listing for AGNI Online's page on David Serafino, which begins, "David Serafino's fiction has appeared."

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jul 9

Jesse Plemons and other cast members of Black Mirror's "U.S.S. Callister" episode.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jul 9

My family ordered a LOT of Indian food tonight

Twelve little plastic cups of tamarind and mint sauce on my parents’ kitchen counter.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jul 4

Here’s my puzzle and solution. The editors tweaked it slightly from my original phrasing—for the better, I think.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jul 4

I just found this old packet of cucumber seeds I bought years ago. Apparently it got wet recently and the seeds all sprouted?! It’s amazing how distinctively they smell of cucumber already.

A tattered paper package of cucumber seeds with numerous yellow sprouts busting out of it.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 27

Put some respect on his name!

Fudgie the Whale, the classic smiling, whale-shaped chocolate ice cream cake from Carvel.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 26

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 22

I'm editing an automated transcript of a talk someone gave, and the system apparently bleeps out all instances of the word "homo" 🤦‍♀️

And we do. We always have. As long as there have
been **** sapiens, there have been ****
sapiens storytellers from the earliest
cave dwellings, cave dwellers telling
tales around a fire, or carving records of epic
hunts into the walls. Because as it turns out [...]

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 18

Obligatory rainbow photo

A rainbow stretching across a cloudy sky behind leafy green trees and telephone wires.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 16

[A list from the Notes app on my phone]

Good Names for Bands

* Peanut & the Tree Nuts
* Speld Rong
* Skinner Box
* Wire Mother
* Milpool

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 12

A new favorite (of which I'm glad to see there will be a second season!)

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 12

deep conversation with the person I’ve been dating

Text messages I sent this evening:

“There comes a time in every man’s life when he must have dinner.

Nowadays, even some women experience this.”

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 10

Can any of you plant-knowers identify this tall, stemmy boy for me? It started growing this spring as a “volunteer” out of a pot in which I’d grown spinach and cucumber in previous years, so at first I assumed it was a cuke. But it’s not developing the usual cuke features (tendrils, flowers, etc.).

A tall, leafy green plant growing up out of a pot of soil on my patio. The plant is slightly taller than a nearby table.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 7

BACKROOMS (2026)

Bob's Burgers' Sofa Jester (husband of the Sofa Queen) standing in their furniture store.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 5

“The sap is running!” is both a happy exclamation during maple syrup season and a mean taunt to yell about a fleeing coward.

A wintry poster at my local café with the caption “the sap is running: enjoy our seasonal maple offerings!”

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 3

This company’s little pun made me giggle on the bus:

The side of a truck (as seen through a bus window) advertising Mohawk Sweeping Service.

A “warning” on the back of the truck: “CAUTION: Driver Fast Asweep!”

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Jun 1

lol 🏳️‍🌈

Pride Month synchronicity on my timeline: a post reading "YALL GAY YET" followed by a post showing a piece of music annotated "Suddenly very gay"

Katherine Duke@katducduk· May 23

Katherine Duke@katducduk· May 20

Officer Karen O'Leary (played by the actor of the same name) on Wellington Paranormal.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· May 17

I welcome anyone’s theories as to why there is a coconut shell on my patio. It’s not my coconut.

Half a coconut shell, empty, sitting near the screen door on my patio.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· May 7

absolute horpses

2017 tweet from @TheAndrewNadeau with four images of weird-looking medieval illustrations of horses:

HIM: Do you know what horses are?
MEDIEVAL ARTIST: Ha ha! Of course I know horkses!
HIM: Horses.
MEDIEVAL ARTIST:…Horp-horpses.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· May 6

snickering during a work meeting at who's in the shared Google doc

Icons indicating the initials of people working in a Google doc: A S S

Katherine Duke@katducduk· May 2

The scene from Heated Rivalry when Shane is trying to talk on the phone but Ilya is starting to... uh... distract him.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Apr 21

Fortunately, I still have some that I found at a bakery years ago

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Apr 20

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Apr 20

I've been thinking of this one a lot as I endeavor to watch every episode of The Twilight Zone:

The twist ending of "The Scary Door" in which a mad scientist is creating "the most evil creature of them all" and... "IT TURNS OUT IT'S MAN"

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Apr 18

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

FBI Agent Dana Scully in a confessional.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Apr 6

My name is Fozziemandias, King of Kings; Look on my Wocka Wockas, ye Mighty, and this bear!

A plastic bobblehead doll of Fozzie Bear holding a rubber chicken and standing on a pedestal with his name on it.

Katherine Duke@katducduk· Apr 2

Here’s what Beanie & Beret* look like on (approximately) their first birthday * the family decided Beret’s name is “Bert” now, which ruins the hat theme