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Alan

@two-cats.com
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Northern Irish, but Cambridge is home. I work in tech with strong opinions on agile and engineering management. Also into government - especially the local kind. Skiing, gym, gin, and video games. 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇪 🇬🇧

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Alan @two-cats.com · 04/10/2026
No it wasn’t. And proving it was hard or you just didn’t both and it was expensive. I did that latter. But then closed the business as the risk and reward wasn’t there.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 04/10/2026
Stand in Petersfield. Tell me you support, busways, EWR and Council Housing and I’m there. Being against EWR and Council House Building as “anti growth” when it is actually NIMBYism was thin. Especially when silence was the norm over things like the A428 widening.
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve got an idea Satya, if you have a bunch of “developers” they can produce “games” which you can then “sell” in exchange for “money”.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 28/09/2026
Imagine what this could look like if we joined the a huge free trade bloc that’s so close you could swim or walk to it.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Surprise!
Chart from The Economist showing % change in real GDP in the first half of 2026 compared with the previous six months for all G7 countries. Britain soars ahead, far outpacing Canada and the US by almost as much as 0.2 percentage pointsPaul Rudd saying "Hey, look at us, huh?"
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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did more dreadful bougie parents start flinging their entitled offspring onto STEM courses after the Facebook IPO? Maybe? Am I grasping for a societal phenomenon to explain three or four grad hires who annoyed the shit out of me in 2015? Absolutely!
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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG I've just realised what Google's AI search interference model is: An automated mansplainer. Think about it: Unsolicited ✅ Confident ✅ Frequently wrong ✅
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Alan @two-cats.com · 24/09/2026
Ehhhh. It isn’t that. I used an older iOS version and it worked exactly how my muscle memory expected.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 24/09/2026
I don’t understand how it’s got so bad.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026
guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”
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Alan @two-cats.com · 24/09/2026
The best cat name. This is my Barney
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New belt-tightening indicator just dropped
James Timpson on Twitter:

You can tell Ozempic and Mounjaro are popular…in our Timpson shops we have seen a 680% increase in the number of free holes in customers belts we’ve been doing this year.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 23/09/2026
That £45 would take your wine even further at King Street. Bacchanalia a bit over priced these days for wine
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery.
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More Britons are failing to comply what used to be seen as civic obligations. Disparate, sometimes important and sometimes trivial, overlay them and it seems like something has slipped in the relationship with the state
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I rather unwisely took a mouthful of beer before watching this and nearly drowned.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 17/09/2026
Also so far they’ve hacked systems which have in general been set up terribly. Default passwords and such. Their strength is their relentlessness. Not their innovation or novelty.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 17/09/2026
ICYMI - A genetically modified pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months before a successful human kidney transplant, according to a world-first report in The Lancet. Read now: spkl.io/633257r8p1
Figures showing (A) Total daily urine output (mL) during the first week after xenotransplantation. (B) Serum creatinine and eGFR throughout the xenograft period. Note that scales on y axes differ between plots. Vertical dashed lines indicate for-cause kidney biopsies—key histopathological findings are annotated: day 14, Banff IIA TCMR; day 176, MVI with endothelial injury; day 264, TMA with transplant glomerulopathy. (C) Serum sodium. (D) Serum potassium. All panels share a common x-axis representing days relative to xenotransplantation (day 0). eGFR=estimated glomerular filtration rate. MVI=microvascular inflammation. TCMR=T-cell-mediated rejection. TMA=thrombotic microangiopathy. Copyright: 2026 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Headline: 'Shoplifting has become totally normalised': The crime blighting communities across England' What's 'normalised' is poverty. What 'blights' is poverty. Without poverty, the only shoplifting would be the cri(m)es for help of the guilty, filthy rich. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
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'Shoplifting has become totally normalised': The crime blighting communities across England
From profilic shoplifters to organised gangs, we look at the scale of shoplifting in England and how local communities are responding.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Alan @two-cats.com · 15/09/2026
My cocktail came with a rasher of candied bacon. I didn’t expect this.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 14/09/2026
Yeah. It’s got to the point where we’re seriously looking at buying 200 Apple studios at work and giving the engineers one each a do a neo/air for home use. It’s be cheaper than the token cost, even the 5-6k machines pay for themselves in less than a year.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 14/09/2026
I’m pretty sure coffee exists. And for now AI hasn’t screwed up my coffee machine.
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Alan @two-cats.com · 13/09/2026
Let’s see if the new leadership are less road / car obsessed.
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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every headline about AI this weekend is just this post from 5 years ago
A screenshot of a tweet that says:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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Alan @two-cats.com · 11/09/2026
Controversial opinion maybe. But anyone saying anything other than Don’t know (MAYBE neither?) is an idiot.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 11/09/2026
In the case of this one, because a bunch of nimbys care more about a garden centre than equitable fast public transport.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 07/09/2026
Cambridgeshire isn’t on the list of those where plans are paused? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Plans for major overhaul of councils halted
Proposals to merge smaller councils to form larger authorities have been paused or withdrawn in a number of areas.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 06/09/2026
And translucent of course so you can see what they contain. I should be a product manager.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 06/09/2026
So what we need to do is seal them. So there are more combinations. Collectibles inside collectibles. And of course they’re worth more unopened. 1%chance of a gold / platinum enclosure with a shiny inside also with a 1% chance.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 04/09/2026
This isn’t quite accurate on a few counts though. But it’s a decent video for those who want a high level glance.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thank you lesbian tractor witch
image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 03/09/2026
All I Can Do Nowadays Is Pea... Artist: judge62 b3ta.com/board/11430782 From the 'Product Placement Books' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/productplacement… #ProductPlacementBooks
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Subject: All I Can Do Nowadays Is Pea...
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 03/09/2026
Artist: christhebarker b3ta.com/board/11430751 From the 'Product Placement Books' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/productplacement… #ProductPlacementBooks
An image made by christhebarker posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 03/09/2026
Hard relate. I’ve screamed at and cried over inanimate objects.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 03/09/2026
You’re now less than 50% asshole. We need to get you in the squat rack.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 03/09/2026
Correct, and what I hoped to achieve was your fascination. Mission accomplished.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 02/09/2026
The government also doesn’t know why I’m riding a train or using the internet. The issue with data centres isn’t the transparency of their use. But the resources they consume space they take and their impact on the places we put them. Attack the tangibles.
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💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 31/08/2026
I'm having salad for dinner. Actually, it's fruit salad. Well, mostly grapes. OK, all grapes. Fermented Grapes. Wine. I'm having wine for dinner.
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Lee Draws Stuff @leedrawsstuff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Daily Trek Character #18 - Chancellor Gowron "You have made many enemies, Worf. Fortunately, I am not one of them." The Way of the Warrior, DS9 S4 #startrek #Startrektng #startrekds9 #klingon
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Alan @two-cats.com · 30/08/2026
We notice.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Favourite Stations - Northfields Meet Emily Medhurst, a policy researcher & Mastermind contestant with a passion for London Underground moquette and design. Emily’s favourite station is Northfields, which has been part of her life since childhood We also talked about her favourite Moquette design
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Caturday 😺
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don't know why or how "picky bits" entered the national lexicon but it's a cursed phrase and needs binning off
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title reads, "Suddenly Finding A New Obsession".
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, in front of her computer. She has a bored expression on her face.
In the second panel we zoom in on her face. She looks suddenly alert.
In the third panel we zoom in even closer on her face. Her eyes and mouth are wide open in intrigue.
In the fourth panel we zoom out and see Sarah in front of her computer again, but this time she is dressed in a frog costume, surrounded by frog toys, and has an "I heart frogs" poster behind her.
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Alan @two-cats.com · 29/08/2026
What have you found most interesting?
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Today's Pragmatic Engineer newsletter [t.ly/ltiYl] was talking about Meta's misguided attempt to fire everybody and replace them with AI. Zuch was evididently thinking (if you can call it that) that mass layoffs would make them look more like a startup. 1/9
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