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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Unrelatedly, I remain just a bit say that we never went in for calling them RAT tests in this country. LFT is so dull.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Unrelatedly, I remain just a bit say that we never went in for calling them RAT tests in this country. LFT is so dull.
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Perfect encapsulation of rights under capitalism: depravity and cruelty against a 17 year old girl is fine but don't you dare interfere with her property.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Perfect encapsulation of rights under capitalism: depravity and cruelty against a 17 year old girl is fine but don't you dare interfere with her property.
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Wild that some folks can remind troops they’re not supposed to follow "illegal orders" & everyone, including the president & his supporters, immediately knew that would mean disobeying this president specifically
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wild that some folks can remind troops they’re not supposed to follow "illegal orders" & everyone, including the president & his supporters, immediately knew that would mean disobeying this president specifically
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They treat nature like it has no voice.
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
https://action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/action/1?ea.tracking.id=rspb_uk_bluesky👈
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
They treat nature like it has no voice.
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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I have many reasons for never lending Labour my vote again. Most relate to their decisions impacting humans but this is now added to my list. www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/public-...
A shameful step back for nature as UK Government pushes through damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill | The Wildlife Trusts
Despite valiant efforts by nature champions in the House of Lords, last night saw the Government bulldoze the wildlife-harming Planning & Infrastructure Bill through its last remaining hurdles. Matt B...
www.wildlifetrusts.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have many reasons for never lending Labour my vote again. Most relate to their decisions impacting humans but this is now added to my list. www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/public-...
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And if you have to do QE, you give it to ordinary people to pay off their debt rather than feeding it into the ravenous maw of the financial system; that’s better all round, in the end.
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
And if you have to do QE, you give it to ordinary people to pay off their debt rather than feeding it into the ravenous maw of the financial system; that’s better all round, in the end.
My sneaky dog just grumbled as if there was someone at the door (I’m expecting post so I went-there wasn’t) then made a false accusation of her water being empty (shoves the bowl with her nose) because she was conspiring to get me to offer her a treat.
Which I did, right? Cleverness needs rewarding.
Which I did, right? Cleverness needs rewarding.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My sneaky dog just grumbled as if there was someone at the door (I’m expecting post so I went-there wasn’t) then made a false accusation of her water being empty (shoves the bowl with her nose) because she was conspiring to get me to offer her a treat.
Which I did, right? Cleverness needs rewarding.
Which I did, right? Cleverness needs rewarding.
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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.