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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h

Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.

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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water

The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 06/10/2026

Cool. Cool. Now where do we get uranium from again? Oh yeah, Kazakhstan, which shares a huge land border with Russia and China. But it's totally ok, neither Russia or China have expansionist ambitions.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Hannah @nah.cat · 05/10/2026

Look, it has been a hard day at the Siberian Plague Institute, but everybody can cheer themselves up with this far happier news. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86

Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said

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Hannah @nah.cat · 05/10/2026

Plague outbreak, is it? Monday, is it?

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Hannah @nah.cat · 04/10/2026

*watching the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finale* Me: It's a giant space vagina. Husb: HANNAH! Me: but ... it is ...

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

Yes I totally agree. And there will always be small microprocessors that need efficiency and cannot afford to run garbage collection etc. There must be an argument for being able to trace function calls and raw memory allocations when debugging mission critical code too?

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

Technically, around 120 Cardinals elected him.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

I miss C. These days people can use type-safe and memory-safe languages and compilers, and just throw RAM and CPU at inefficiencies. It is probably for the best, but I liked having to be disciplined about memory management.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

Explaining the danger behind AI distorting the truth is worthwhile, but it can be easily dismissed as an academic exercise. It is not engaging on an emotional level. I think that demonstrating how AI can destroy the meaning that can be found in everyday human experiences is more engaging.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

Obviously compared to the damage untruthful output from AI can do in other domains, fake cat videos can seem trivial. But I think it is worth examining this small theft of joy because it is what AI does writ small, in an easily explainable form.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

One of my genuine and heartfelt beefs with the proliferation of AI content is the fake cat videos. Now, when I see a video of a cat being a weirdo I just move on because I won't invest time and energy trying to work out if it is real. AI has stolen the joy and meaning from cat videos.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

Why would I want to watch videos of cats being weirdos that are generated by AI? The joy of cats being weirdos is the reality and relatability of domestic cat behaviour. You might as well generate videos of cats smoking and drinking pints of you are going to fake it.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

But yeah Shin Ramyun is the best compromise. I do like Indomie mi goreng too. Indomie used to do a larger packet with jumbo noodles that were perfect, but they don't seem to be available any more. The standard packets are a nice snack though.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

The best instant noodles I have found are the Prima Taste singapore curry la mian. Expensive but lovely, if you like coconut-y, fish-y flavours (I get the curry version because I am not so keen on fish, and the fish paste flavour in it is very low key).

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

Anyway, I officially have D-cup boobs now. Measure your busts and get properly fitting underwear, gals. 👍 (I am getting weird, conflicting "the world is going to shit" vs "but I have boobs" vibes that I am having difficulty resolving.)

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Hannah @nah.cat · 03/10/2026

I like a buldak but I can only have it in moderation because the spicy + sticky is too much. Lovely flavours though and surprisingly nice, firm noodles.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

call me crazy guys but I don't think ethno-nationalists should be allowed on mainstream political tv shows. because of the ethno-nationalism?

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Photograph of Tory minister Norman Tebbit. He is old, with a wan, drawn face, mostly bald with patches of white hair at his ears. He is wearing a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt with a navy blue tie and he has a pair of glasses on.

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh, so trans women were right about him? so we were right? trans women were right about gavin newsom? trans women were correct? trans women fucking told you so?

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course this is the reason I suspect Wes Streeting wanted to take contracting off NHS England and bring it into the Department of Health, so ministers could make decision to appease tech bro donors rather than clinicians, who have to use the software asking awkward questions.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

Obviously I am not proposing that the government should go as nuts as Silicon Valley. But surely we are beyond the point of letting the Thatcherite / Monetarist cry of "there is no alternative" go unquestioned? I mean currently Healey isn't even matching Burnham's Blancmange Revolution talk.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

Why do we capitulate to Thatcher's trite "every housewife with a weekly budget" nonsense to this day. Look at the debt literally being created out of nothing to fund the mad AI buildout. What kind of prudent housewifery is The Market applying there? Yet Government must have Fiscal Rules?

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fiscal headroom is not a pot of money sitting at the Bank of England. It is simply the estimated margin by which the government is forecast to meet the fiscal rules it has chosen to impose upon itself.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

Anyway, there I go spoiling the joke again. "Hannah why are you like this?" "Hannah you think too much." I am entertaining in pubs, I promise.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

We have all felt that struggle to find meaning and purpose in acts that are beyond our control. The anxiety of mapping out our own behaviours - what could I have done differently? - in the face of loss that was never in our gift to control or prevent.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

Some of the thought of that time is really beautiful. It is easy to laugh at making up names for demons, but remember that the hierarchy of heaven and the various orderings of virtues started a thousand years prior and much of that was done to integrate ancient Greek philosophy into Catechism.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 02/10/2026

It's funny, but honestly I think it is really powerful to see minds at work, doing philosophical enquiry at a time when so much was unknown and so much must have seemed capricious. Think about how threatening and chaotic floods, crop blights or unexpected cold winters must have been.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽

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Hannah @nah.cat · 26/09/2026

Homeland, first season Maybe I just love the microcosm / macrocosm thing? The storm in Macbeth and all that. For its time, I thought the portrayal of bipolar was good but I might have to revisit the show to confirm that?

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Hannah @nah.cat · 26/09/2026

Battlestar Galactica I think the first three seasons are hugely underrated. The conclusion of the season two cliffhanger and the conclusion of season three are incredible. But I thought what made it thrive was the microcosm of interwoven human dramas, not the big-spaceships-go-bang.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 26/09/2026

This has actually been sober reading for me. I can't bring myself to put any show on the list into a Top Ten. TV shows never seem to know how to end. But I thought I would list a few personal standouts.....

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Hannah @nah.cat · 26/09/2026

Whatever its technical and other merits, Breaking Bad was one-note grief porn and should be nowhere near a Top Ten. Hill I will die on.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do not have any problem conceding that The Red Wedding changed the culture. in fact I think it gave a lot of white dude showrunners absolute brain worms and vastly increased the number of narratively pointless shock deaths we all had to sit through from someone trying to get a piece of that hype

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Hannah @nah.cat · 26/09/2026

AI is just a GPU's way of making more GPUs.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 24/09/2026

Would somebody PLEASE stop these breathless media cunts from publishing OpenAI fanfic as front page news stories???

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Hannah @nah.cat · 24/09/2026

With terrifying commentary from somebody with a PhD in Iberian Languages. "We predict that by 2028 all dogs will be playing poker with the stolen financal muscle of several small countries. This is what it will look like:"

A painting of dogs sat at a table playing poker in a dimly lit, panelled room.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 24/09/2026

This is like training a dog to take fivers out of your hand, then releasing him into a shop, then acting horrified when the shop owner complains that the dog stole a fiver right out of someone's hand. THEN the papers running: Dog Escapes Confinement And Accesses Customers Personal Bank Accounts

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Hannah @nah.cat · 22/09/2026

His name was Andy Burnham. His name was Andy Burnham. *spads and donors join in* His name was Andy Burnham.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 22/09/2026

My place of work has just imposed budgets on AI token spend so that's any token-intensive AI workflows fucked. I have been vocal about the inevitability of per-token charging for multiple years, so I am not sure whether to be sad, gleeful or disgusted about this happening.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 21/09/2026

Wow. Having to explain Charlie Brown and the football to a millennial psychotherapist really is a peak Gen-X experience.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 20/09/2026

You know the old joke: Why do Orangemen say f**k the Pope? Because it's quicker than saying f**k the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 19/09/2026

I didn't think that the end of the world would be so fucking stupid.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 19/09/2026

Have I lost my faculties and completely misunderstood the basic ideas of ML, transformer models and generalised LLMs? Has anybody actually explained how these LLMs become intelligent at all never mind "super intelligent"? Or the mechanism by which LLMs will reach AGI?

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Hannah @nah.cat · 19/09/2026

Am I going mental? Every day the media is saturated with AI Apocalypse stories. Supposed academics are writing papers about threats of mutually-assured destruction. Politicians and ex-politicians across the board are freaking out. But where is the evidence that any of it is actually happening?

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Hannah @nah.cat · 18/09/2026

Can I just point out that +-=÷× or however the fuck it goes is *arithmetic* not mathematics.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 18/09/2026

"Carbon footprint" is the biggest con ever run by corporate lobbies. I suppose there is an argument that the recycling message might have raised public consciousness a bit, but for what benefit? One data centre build fucks years of "carbon savings" from personal "carbon footprint" lowering.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 15/09/2026

He is! Perfect. No notes.

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Hannah @nah.cat · 15/09/2026

Happier post: rainbow over New Asgard, from the weekend.

Photograph of a harbour at low tide. The harbour walls merge into rocks below, which are only exposed at low tide. Several small boats are resting on the muddy sea bottom. In the distance some cliffs rise from the sea and, over them, sitting low in the sky, a rainbow has appeared.

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