Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been a member of the same leisure centre for years. This evening I saw an AI poster for a new spin class and my instant reaction was "oh no, but I don't want to cancel my membership!" 030
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The three most Faithful-coded contestants IMHO are James Acaster, Hannah Fry and James Blunt. It would be very funny if they *all* ended up as Traitors. #CelebrityTraitors 060
Reposted by Kate GriffinToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026went on traitors got recruited had a breakdown bon appetit #celebritytraitors 117328
Reposted by Kate GriffinChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 08/10/2026teaching people to identify the situations where the human effort and investment of time and energy *is the point of the exercise* never seemed so urgent 2247
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Flabbergasted to learn there's not a single country in the world where people get to control access to their own health records. www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-che...linkedin.comWe checked 198 countries. In none of them do you hold the keys to your own health record.Most of us think we own our health records because there’s an app for that. I thought so too. 000
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't remember this 😭but I really like it. Past-me has good ideas! 010
Reposted by Kate GriffinRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 06/10/2026Hypothesis that gen ai is the answer to the question “how do we identify the things that don’t need to be done by anyone” still not disproven 1363
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah I'm going to have to measure the ones I've already got, which will slow me down by like three months because I'll somehow keep failing to be in the same room as the tabs and a tape measure 230
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stationery Bluesky! How/where do I buy the little card tabs in this picture? I already own an accordion-style organiser & want fresh tabs for it. I do not want: - anything sticky - to buy a new organiser! Have looked online and searched a real branch of used-to-be-WHSmith but drawn a blank. 311
Reposted by Kate Griffintoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191114523118
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I say, it really is a stroke of luck that the big energy companies hadn't finished moving away from fossil fuels when data centre demand rocketed. Imagine what a pickle we'd be in if they'd dismantled their extraction gubbins a year or two BEFORE we needed peaker plants to help us write emails! 040
Reposted by Kate Griffinflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Put it this way: if the Greens, Kneecap and Gary Lineker are prompting enraged all-channels screaming fury but e.g. an army seizing, depopulating and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon of its racially undesirable populace doesn’t make anyone blink, then I am going to conclude - bullshit 329460
Reposted by Kate GriffinJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994652974
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Ah, so they give you an image of where the words are gonna go and ask you to write them?" oh dear me no they commission you to write the stuff and you unsuccessfully beg for a copy of the design and then you finally get an idea of the wordcount when they tell you you wrote too much 030
Reposted by Kate Griffina team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the THRILL of being in a non customer-facing part of a business and seeing the internal signage that only employees are supposed to see. I love when they're from corporate with a logo on the bottom, I love when they're handwritten, I LOVE when they're a palimpsest of evolving procedures. 310812
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026yeah and the party has hundreds of thousands of members, most of whom will only be dimly aware that conference was even on. it's just not productive to say they should all have acted to stop this motion. we need to look at how to stop entryism and bad-faith actions like you say! 030
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026that's true, but it's more productive to focus on: - the people who wrote this motion - those who supported it - what flaws in the system allowed this to go through before we start blaming people who failed to vote against it because they didn't vote at all 030
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Attending the conference wouldn't have necessarily meant you could change anybody's mind. It's the luck of the draw how fair the session chairs are about picking who gets to speak. I've had the unedifying experience of trying & failing to speak on a topic I had a literal qualification in... 240
Reposted by Kate Griffinmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6163372431
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Doing the "I'm not going to be in - reschedule my delivery" thing on the Royal Mail website always makes me feel like a baby with a set of plastic keys 010
Reposted by Kate Griffindonni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s easy to panic, but that’s just one of the many good reasons to do it 132861
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Your message is giving me an idea but I don't have a handy way to express that concept 000
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They call it Fry's Five Boys, but if you look closely you can see it's actually the same boy pulling different faces! wow this blew up, check out my gramophone record 130
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's so, so hard! Of course he doesn't want to come back from school and immediately do school-type stuff...but how the hell else do you fit it all into the evening? I sympathise with you all! 020
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Have you tried giving him a snack the second he gets home? I remember not having the energy to tackle homework until I'd eaten something! 110
Reposted by Kate GriffinShahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors 436183
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026About to go through the delightful process of booking a private flu jab through our local pharmacy, in the sure knowledge that the pharmacist will say "oh, you're entitled to a jab on the NHS, didn't your GP tell you?" for the third year running 010
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why are so many experiences of interacting with the NHS like this? 🧵 042
Reposted by Kate GriffinAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off. 520380
Reposted by Kate Griffinthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article 101769250
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good summary of how the textile recycling crisis (too many textiles, not enough recycling) is affecting the viability of charity shops. (Substack link) onenightstanzas.substack.com/p/vinted-isn...onenightstanzas.substack.comJo Andrews on One Night StanzasI wish charity shops were a bit more honest themselves about what they actually want, what they don’t want, how much of what they are donated they sell on and what happens to what they get rid of. For... 020
Reposted by Kate Griffinj4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026creature Mouth perfec t size for put vicar in to preach! inside very Soft and Comfort 16833
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Walked past an AI poster yesterday. My partner said "ok, here's a test, you just saw that poster...tell me what the date of the event is." It's a Bonfire Night thing so it's probably either November the Actual Fifth or the Sat after...but still, an actual date on the poster would be nice 040
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026TFW you contact tech support to ask how to do something, then follow up an hour later to say "nvm, I worked it out" and then tech support replies to say "but you shouldn't be able to do that" 020
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Very sorry for your loss. Those tweets were absolutely hilarious and the love shone through the exasperation. 110
Reposted by Kate GriffinDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Whenever I hear this what I want to see in the headline is: - What was profit last year - what was profit trajectory year on year - what was average non exec pay & what pay rises were there average - what changes were there in investors 3329
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Delighted to learn a new Scottish word from this online review for leggings. Even better than "havering"! The hint that the reviewer is a bit tight is welcome character development, despite playing into national stereotypes. 121
Reposted by Kate GriffinBrynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the pedestrian crossing to Spalding's only McDonald's captured on Street View 222
Reposted by Kate GriffinDan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When he got home and realised it was missing, he logged onto his banking app to cancel his cards, only to discover that, within the last hour he had received four payments of £0.01 each into his account. In the Ref. field for each one was: "Found your" "Wallet in street" "Call me on" "07xxx xxxxxx" 48410
Reposted by Kate GriffinDan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026HERE IS A LOVELY STORY: a friend lost his wallet on his way home from work the other day. (that's not the lovely bit) 1/2 13329
Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That's the question right there. And the answer seems to come down to Thatcherite ideology around the public sector being "inefficient". It's absolutely fine to systematically cream off money for shareholders as long as they don't accidentally order too many paperclips or pay staff too much 🤷 000
![Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.
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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
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