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Kitty Dorkling

@kittydorkling.bsky.social

She/her Lefty Cat lady living in Yorkshire (and also Baldur's Gate) Tories, TERFs, GenAI users and suchlike get blocked on sight

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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

19.08.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3853    πŸ” 1635    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 63

For the first time in my LIFE I am working on stuff I can't talk about yet and I get it now, holy shit, this is eating me ALIVE

19.08.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shed 100% sounds sampled from stuff in a shed, recorded, processed and sequenced entirely on an Ableton Push 3 Standalone for the DoA August 2025 Foley Challenge. Sound sources include a bucket, a tub ful

I made a tune by recording junk in my shed

18.08.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Literary prizes are like orgies - no one wants John Boyne there and his presence makes everyone so uncomfortable they leave.

19.08.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A beautiful, beautiful thing. Solidarity works.

19.08.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The witch runs herself a hot bath, and adds a muslin sachet stuffed with lavender, thyme, and rosemary. The scented water turns pale green around her.

19.08.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THOSE BELLS ARE GETTIN LOUDER!!!

19.08.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From the transgenderUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

19.08.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3228    πŸ” 1536    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 118
19.08.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

THANK YOU that panel was my first thought and I couldn't be arsed to go and find it, now I can just rebleet it from you.

19.08.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Worked for me too.

HWORK! *yeet*

18.08.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Practice responding to compliments with "you're right and you're right to say it"

19.08.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are they looking for the brain cell?

19.08.2025 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the FUCK. Yeah I got 50%

19.08.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

She's so wiggly her bum isn't even in focus there! She is AMAZING 😻

19.08.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I actively wish ill upon JK Rowling basically every day of my life at this point.

I am a nice cis middle-aged lady in the UK. Well. Fairly nice, anyway, most of the time. I try, ok.

19.08.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ohhh DAMN, that's savage πŸ™€

19.08.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha, my son never looked back - I asked after a while if I could still read to him sometimes and he considered and said "no thank you". Maybe my voices weren't as good as I thought 😹

19.08.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ohhh when my son did this to me it broke my damn heart. I DID GOOD VOICES TOO, I even kept them consistent when I re-read the favourites, did it mean NOTHING to him??? 😭

19.08.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Den stora kyrkflytten – FΓΆrsta dagen I direktsΓ€ndning fΓΆljer vi den vΓ€rldsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, frΓ₯n gamla stadskΓ€rnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar tvΓ₯ dagar och Γ€r en del av den omfattande ...

If you want some slow TV over the next few days, Swedish TV is live streaming the relocation of a 113 year old wooden church in Kiruna. It's being shifted to a new site 5km away.

www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...

19.08.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 12

Sleepover?!?

18.08.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh BIG STRETCH

18.08.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No cheating, last photo of your pet

Shaming my housekeeping by walking around with a massive cobweb on his face, thanks Beetle.

18.08.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, I like it!

18.08.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Where's that @roseschmits.bsky.social cartoon of Hard Keith, the Hard Man of Politics, when you need it?

18.08.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
one happy little sandpiper!

one happy little sandpiper!

i wish i felt half as good as this sandpiper felt. least sandpiper? most satisfied sandpiper is more like it. πŸͺΆπŸ“Έ

04.08.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Marry me.

18.08.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For β€˜a small inconvenience to adults’ read β€˜drastically harms privacy, puts people at risk of being scammed, trains them to routinely use tools that bypass government censorship of genuinely illegal content, and destroys many of their livelihoods.’

www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-ver...

18.08.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
A close up of a black cats face

A close up of a black cats face

"black cats aren't photogenic"

ok then explain this

26.12.2024 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8308    πŸ” 561    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 57

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