Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
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Hi! Would you like some of my lovely Christmas cards?
I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week.
You can find them here:
ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad
I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week.
You can find them here:
ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad
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I do want to applaud whoever at Twitter managed to push through the location data update despite the incredibly predictable outcome. anyone with half a brain cell could’ve seen that coming and I think somebody deserves credit for convincing mgmt to go ahead anyway
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I do want to applaud whoever at Twitter managed to push through the location data update despite the incredibly predictable outcome. anyone with half a brain cell could’ve seen that coming and I think somebody deserves credit for convincing mgmt to go ahead anyway
Also, jeans, and my favourite bra.
PITCH: I should be able to buy the exact same pair of sneakers every time my old ones wear out for the rest of my natural life.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Also, jeans, and my favourite bra.
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PITCH: I should be able to buy the exact same pair of sneakers every time my old ones wear out for the rest of my natural life.
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
PITCH: I should be able to buy the exact same pair of sneakers every time my old ones wear out for the rest of my natural life.
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Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
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Delete Twitter, the fascist propaganda site.
As soon as this new information was unleashed, people began looking at the location data for accounts that primarily serve to stoke political tensions in the U.S. with far-right narratives that are often misleading or outright false.
X's Top MAGA Trolls Revealed to Be Foreign Accounts
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Delete Twitter, the fascist propaganda site.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false. The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver
Guest post by Nicholas C. Weaver The AI companies and related enterprises are currently spending huge amounts in capital expenditures (CAPEX) to build “Gigawatt” class data centers for various AI-r…
pivot-to-ai.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false. The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
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Farage cited Enoch Powell as his political hero in an interview in Total Politics magazine in 2008.
In 2014 he cited Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired.
You want this guy as your next prime minister???
In 2014 he cited Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired.
You want this guy as your next prime minister???
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Farage cited Enoch Powell as his political hero in an interview in Total Politics magazine in 2008.
In 2014 he cited Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired.
You want this guy as your next prime minister???
In 2014 he cited Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired.
You want this guy as your next prime minister???
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That Enoch Powell fandom is really telling. I'm surprised that's not the story actually because it's firmly on the record.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
That Enoch Powell fandom is really telling. I'm surprised that's not the story actually because it's firmly on the record.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
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If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
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Just forwarded this to Krissy, either she will laugh or I will die
"You’ve been obsessively trying to prepare for it, but who knows what will actually happen."
Thanksgiving or Perimenopause?
1. There’s a turkey neck situation. 2. Is it four thousand degrees in the kitchen, or is it just you? 3. You love your family, but you also wish th...
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just forwarded this to Krissy, either she will laugh or I will die
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Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.
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There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inverness school's Christmas show cancelled after 'racist' abuse
Highland Council says some of the online messages were directed at staff at the primary.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The postings will continue until sales improve :)
Th famous Twisted Spire at Chesterfield.
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#chesterfield #spire #church #photography
Th famous Twisted Spire at Chesterfield.
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#chesterfield #spire #church #photography
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The postings will continue until sales improve :)
Th famous Twisted Spire at Chesterfield.
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#chesterfield #spire #church #photography
Th famous Twisted Spire at Chesterfield.
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#chesterfield #spire #church #photography
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Just amazing art from Ian.
Signing giclee prints of the artwork what I did for @aptshadow.bsky.social’s ‘Terrible Worlds’ anthology/the book itself
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just amazing art from Ian.
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Look, we all agree this is amazing. But we used to live comfortable in the understanding that you had to invite Chotiner in, like a vampire.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
my goodness:
Chotiner: who funds this shit
Ben Smith: How dare you ask such a question. Check your facts!
Chotiner: I have now checked my facts. A thread (1/381)
Ben Smith:
Chotiner: who funds this shit
Ben Smith: How dare you ask such a question. Check your facts!
Chotiner: I have now checked my facts. A thread (1/381)
Ben Smith:
a man in a hospital gown with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him
ALT: a man in a hospital gown with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Look, we all agree this is amazing. But we used to live comfortable in the understanding that you had to invite Chotiner in, like a vampire.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
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New November tradition:
Fuck off with whatever crap you're trying to sell me month.
Fuck off with whatever crap you're trying to sell me month.
ITS CYBER MONDAY
ITS GIVING TUESDAY
ITS MENTAL BREAKDOWN WENDESDAY
ITS THANKSGIVING THURSDAY
ITS BLACK FRIDAY
ITS EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR SATURDAY
ITS SMALL BUSINESS SUNDAY
i would like all of this to stop
ITS GIVING TUESDAY
ITS MENTAL BREAKDOWN WENDESDAY
ITS THANKSGIVING THURSDAY
ITS BLACK FRIDAY
ITS EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR SATURDAY
ITS SMALL BUSINESS SUNDAY
i would like all of this to stop
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New November tradition:
Fuck off with whatever crap you're trying to sell me month.
Fuck off with whatever crap you're trying to sell me month.
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Turns out shit like this is bad for your brand.
The fun bit was the moment someone from their social media team CLEARLY finally managed to get through to someone important enough to get a message to the call centre.
At which point SUDDENLY it was "oops oh yeah sprry let's cancel that for you."
The fun bit was the moment someone from their social media team CLEARLY finally managed to get through to someone important enough to get a message to the call centre.
At which point SUDDENLY it was "oops oh yeah sprry let's cancel that for you."
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Turns out shit like this is bad for your brand.
The fun bit was the moment someone from their social media team CLEARLY finally managed to get through to someone important enough to get a message to the call centre.
At which point SUDDENLY it was "oops oh yeah sprry let's cancel that for you."
The fun bit was the moment someone from their social media team CLEARLY finally managed to get through to someone important enough to get a message to the call centre.
At which point SUDDENLY it was "oops oh yeah sprry let's cancel that for you."
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I once live-tweeted our attempt to cancel a mis-sold Virgin Media contract.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
underrated feature of old twitter was people with a decent following being able to bully brands into acting right
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I once live-tweeted our attempt to cancel a mis-sold Virgin Media contract.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
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This is who we are now.
A nurse, who’s been in the US for 30 years with a legal work permit, with a citizen son & parents she takes care of, was detained at her routine ICE check in.
She couldn’t legally be sent back to Sierra Leone, so they sent her to Ghana who dragged her & then sent her to SL.
A nurse, who’s been in the US for 30 years with a legal work permit, with a citizen son & parents she takes care of, was detained at her routine ICE check in.
She couldn’t legally be sent back to Sierra Leone, so they sent her to Ghana who dragged her & then sent her to SL.
jfc. It was determined by a US judge that she could not be deported to Sierra Leone due to danger she would face in the country she fled. So they deported her to Ghana, a country she had never been to, and Ghana deported her to Sierra Leone.
This country is fucking sick. Deeply deeply fucking sick
This country is fucking sick. Deeply deeply fucking sick
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is who we are now.
A nurse, who’s been in the US for 30 years with a legal work permit, with a citizen son & parents she takes care of, was detained at her routine ICE check in.
She couldn’t legally be sent back to Sierra Leone, so they sent her to Ghana who dragged her & then sent her to SL.
A nurse, who’s been in the US for 30 years with a legal work permit, with a citizen son & parents she takes care of, was detained at her routine ICE check in.
She couldn’t legally be sent back to Sierra Leone, so they sent her to Ghana who dragged her & then sent her to SL.
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I am an expert witness in psych and have been for years
Diagnostic clarity is my specialty
AND - people who self identify as autistic are typically correct by DSM-V-TR standards
& I think it’s over medicalized & pathologized
Just like being trans
There’s the panic overlap, too
Diagnostic clarity is my specialty
AND - people who self identify as autistic are typically correct by DSM-V-TR standards
& I think it’s over medicalized & pathologized
Just like being trans
There’s the panic overlap, too
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I am an expert witness in psych and have been for years
Diagnostic clarity is my specialty
AND - people who self identify as autistic are typically correct by DSM-V-TR standards
& I think it’s over medicalized & pathologized
Just like being trans
There’s the panic overlap, too
Diagnostic clarity is my specialty
AND - people who self identify as autistic are typically correct by DSM-V-TR standards
& I think it’s over medicalized & pathologized
Just like being trans
There’s the panic overlap, too
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Unsurprisingly, according to their own Equality & Diversity reports, the part of the BBC with the smallest proportion of trans employees is the News division - a proportion that has been steadily, if slowly, decreasing over recent years.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Unsurprisingly, according to their own Equality & Diversity reports, the part of the BBC with the smallest proportion of trans employees is the News division - a proportion that has been steadily, if slowly, decreasing over recent years.
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen