@kimlockhartga Of course! Thank you ️

Back in 2019 when we put down fake grass carpet in our office meeting room, I suggested we write messages to the future on the floorboards. Now we’re moving to a new office the fake grass has been pulled up, revealing this message I wrote when I was struggling through the early stages of my transition.

Hey Past Kate,
It really did.
— your future self

I was devastated when I missed the spectacular aurora a couple of years ago. We were travelling to Scotland at the time, but had stopped off overnight near Manchester, and from our hotel just south of a motorway the sky was just a yellow glow of light pollution. The next day on Skye (and on Mastodon) it was all anyone was talking about.

I’m delighted to say that last night I finally saw the northern lights for the first time in my life, aged 42, from the balcony of our flat in the far south west of England.

Know your Star Trek phenomena:

Plasma storm: Something colourful is shaking the ship

Gravimetric distortion: Something heavy is shaking the ship

Subspace anomaly: Something invisible is shaking the ship