Katy Cooper

Yes - a copy of my “highest degree” certificate 25 years after the event. That took some finding…

I can’t decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. There is something so very satisfying about actually finding things out for oneself.

Also, how come I don’t feel like I know more than I did 25 years ago, even though I look things up and find answers *all* the time?

Fixed it for you:

“Frightened to get out of their cars”: racism threatens overseas care workers

This is hilarious!

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

I was waiting by the phone all day, too - but nope. Disappointing.

My dad was 47 when they had me and 50 when they had my sister. He taught me tennis, we got a puppy when he retired, he did all the things round my first house that needed doing - he was a great dad.

He’d waited his whole life to meet the right girl and have children. You’ll be fabulous.

I mean, why can’t they have carpet six inches thick in the bathroom?! 🤦‍♀️

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

That’s one classy letter 👏🏻

One for the neighbourhood “small electricals” recycling point?!

A work of art

Family Ties for me - oh how I adored Michael J Fox!

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

This is terrifying.

(Mortified, tbh. It’s late over here, not that that’s an excuse… Thank you so much for the gentle knuckle-rap when a massive thwack round the earhole would have been more appropriate.)

Buggeration! Yes. Thank you. The book looks awesome and I’m really grateful for the recommendation - very much my thing. x

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

Jane Goodall holding a sign that says “Vote for Nature!” in a group shot

For over 60 years, Jane Goodall was a force for research about our precious planet—and climate change action to protect it—while breaking glass ceilings along the way.

I'll so miss her courage and commitment to help expand what we know about our world and preserve it for the generations to come.

“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”

The part of Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how human music has been replaced by soulless, machine-generated pop songs. The AI attempt to take over the film and music industries is an attack on the human spirit. Boycott AI actors. Boycott AI bands. Support human artists.

So sorry to hear this. What a woman!

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91 "Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

Jane Goodall made the world a better place.

She helped shape how we view the world around us, fought vehemently for the environment, and her love of chimpanzees was infectious. She will be greatly missed.

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This is fabulous on *so* many levels!

Hear hear!

Absolutely right. This is a grim prospect.

I wonder how many people, on reading it, will think “oh my god, this is me!”