Kate Bevan
@katebevan.com
Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. No Christmas until after my birthday.
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Ginormous Turkish lion securing prime beachfront sunbed and ready to defend against all rivals feline or human. 10/10 for chumminess and physics-defying mass. Would stand in awe of again. @thecatreviewer.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Ginormous Turkish lion securing prime beachfront sunbed and ready to defend against all rivals feline or human. 10/10 for chumminess and physics-defying mass. Would stand in awe of again. @thecatreviewer.bsky.social
Hope the BBC tells Trump to get fucked
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hope the BBC tells Trump to get fucked
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I have a new bed
I will sleep test it when very important dinner matters have been resolved
I will sleep test it when very important dinner matters have been resolved
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have a new bed
I will sleep test it when very important dinner matters have been resolved
I will sleep test it when very important dinner matters have been resolved
"It is time to stop working, human."
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"It is time to stop working, human."
Punctuation goes inside the quote marks IF THE PUNCTUATION IS PART OF THE QUOTE. Otherwise it goes outside the quote marks.
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Punctuation goes inside the quote marks IF THE PUNCTUATION IS PART OF THE QUOTE. Otherwise it goes outside the quote marks.
Reminder for Brits writing about the BBC: the licence fee, licensing. C for the noun, S for the verb. Ignore the poor benighted Americans who do that the other way round.
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reminder for Brits writing about the BBC: the licence fee, licensing. C for the noun, S for the verb. Ignore the poor benighted Americans who do that the other way round.
also, apparently only young white men with beards or stubble read?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
also, apparently only young white men with beards or stubble read?
in my old age I am turning into a process Nazi, reminding team members that they need to change assignees in Asana so that we know where everything is and how long it gets stuck in bottlenecks and honestly, I don't recognise myself any more 😬
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
in my old age I am turning into a process Nazi, reminding team members that they need to change assignees in Asana so that we know where everything is and how long it gets stuck in bottlenecks and honestly, I don't recognise myself any more 😬
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Obviously, it’s been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Obviously, it’s been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
please for the love of all that's unholy stop using bald naked fembots as illustrations for tech stories.
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
please for the love of all that's unholy stop using bald naked fembots as illustrations for tech stories.
my favourite fancy body wash has been showing as "out of stock" on the website for ages and now it's totally vanished, while the body lotion is also now out of stock and this is SUBOPTIMAL as I was going to ask for them as birthday/Christmas gifts 😭😭
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
my favourite fancy body wash has been showing as "out of stock" on the website for ages and now it's totally vanished, while the body lotion is also now out of stock and this is SUBOPTIMAL as I was going to ask for them as birthday/Christmas gifts 😭😭
yes, this: "balanced news" is not "news I agree with". It's more likely to be "news I don't agree with". And that, broadly, is a good thing.
Also that lots of people talk about these three things but don’t actually want them, they want news they agree with.
We all insist that’s something *other people* do, not ourselves, but there’s a lotttt of it about.
We all insist that’s something *other people* do, not ourselves, but there’s a lotttt of it about.
Objectivity, impartiality and balance are all *different things*, and the lazy tendency to treat them as synonyms, and to use partisan balance alone as a proxy for the others, is the root cause of a vast amount of nonsense.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
yes, this: "balanced news" is not "news I agree with". It's more likely to be "news I don't agree with". And that, broadly, is a good thing.
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
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The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Change will only come if both the BBC board and the politicians that ultimately appoint that board realise that the corporation’s problems in News are fundamentally about money and competence" - think that's bang on from @stephenkb.bsky.social
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Change will only come if both the BBC board and the politicians that ultimately appoint that board realise that the corporation’s problems in News are fundamentally about money and competence" - think that's bang on from @stephenkb.bsky.social
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I have two missions in life:
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I have two missions in life:
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
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Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
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One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
#Trespasses on Channel 4 is so good
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#Trespasses on Channel 4 is so good
ugh, Freeview signal breaking up like mad tonight
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
ugh, Freeview signal breaking up like mad tonight
I honestly think I prefer La Voix when she's being Chris: the La Voix personality is funny and sparkling and clever, but I like seeing the underlying, authentic Chris. #Strictly
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I honestly think I prefer La Voix when she's being Chris: the La Voix personality is funny and sparkling and clever, but I like seeing the underlying, authentic Chris. #Strictly
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The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.