Kate Bevan
@katebevan.com
Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner.
I love this
February 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
I love this
Emergency podcasts, thousands of them
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Emergency podcasts, thousands of them
jolly good, but can we please have some more secure methods of doing 2FA? A code sent to email isn't quite as bad as SMS, but if your email is compromised, you're fucked. And while I'm at it, turn off user's reposts would be nice too.
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
jolly good, but can we please have some more secure methods of doing 2FA? A code sent to email isn't quite as bad as SMS, but if your email is compromised, you're fucked. And while I'm at it, turn off user's reposts would be nice too.
This is strong stuff on Andrew from the King - good for him www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Buckingham Palace issues major new statement over Andrew
The King has made clear his 'profound concern' over the allegations against his brother
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
This is strong stuff on Andrew from the King - good for him www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...
hm, this review feels a bit sniffy: I'm not sure it's actually possible to do a TV adaptation of a novel that's a well executed but rather clunking allegory without it too ending up at least in part a clunking allegory of a drama. The cast is fantastic, especially the lad playing Piggy.
Lord of the Flies review – Jack Thorne’s take on the classic is nowhere near the original’s power
The acting is absolutely excellent, but the script isn’t great. This show lacks the dread of William Golding’s novel
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
hm, this review feels a bit sniffy: I'm not sure it's actually possible to do a TV adaptation of a novel that's a well executed but rather clunking allegory without it too ending up at least in part a clunking allegory of a drama. The cast is fantastic, especially the lad playing Piggy.
anyone know if it's true that the fabulous Cafe Daquise in South Ken has indeed been saved?? @jayrayner1.bsky.social? www.instagram.com/reel/DUdpuHU...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
anyone know if it's true that the fabulous Cafe Daquise in South Ken has indeed been saved?? @jayrayner1.bsky.social? www.instagram.com/reel/DUdpuHU...
once again I bless whoever came up with the "detach quote" feature
February 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
once again I bless whoever came up with the "detach quote" feature
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Starmer won a thumping majority 18 months ago. He’s the PM, not whoever’s managing Watford this year.
Seven PMs in a decade is objectively ridiculous.
Seven PMs in a decade is objectively ridiculous.
Starmer has to survive 38 days to have had a longer tenure than Rishi Sunak.
If a successor were to be in place by 13th July, we'd have had 7 PMs in a decade, which, by my reckoning, is the most since the 8 of 1827-37.
If a successor were to be in place by 13th July, we'd have had 7 PMs in a decade, which, by my reckoning, is the most since the 8 of 1827-37.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Starmer won a thumping majority 18 months ago. He’s the PM, not whoever’s managing Watford this year.
Seven PMs in a decade is objectively ridiculous.
Seven PMs in a decade is objectively ridiculous.
I mean, I accept that I'm an outlier here, but I don't think Starmer is terrible? He led Labour to a thumping majority nobody thought possible; they're delivering on some big things: ending the 2-kid limit, renting reforms, renationalising railways, employment rights; support for Ukraine ...
Anas Sarwar, leader of Labour in Scotland, has called for Starmer to quit in a sensational intervention.
Sarwar said in a speech that “the leadership in Downing St has to change” because the priority for Labour had to be removing the SNP administration in Edinburgh in May’s Holyrood elections.
Sarwar said in a speech that “the leadership in Downing St has to change” because the priority for Labour had to be removing the SNP administration in Edinburgh in May’s Holyrood elections.
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I mean, I accept that I'm an outlier here, but I don't think Starmer is terrible? He led Labour to a thumping majority nobody thought possible; they're delivering on some big things: ending the 2-kid limit, renting reforms, renationalising railways, employment rights; support for Ukraine ...
Me, trying to work.
Daphne: No.
Daphne: No.
February 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Me, trying to work.
Daphne: No.
Daphne: No.
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Britain has 99 problems, but polite people who say thank you ain’t one.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The hill I will die on: Britons love saying thank you – I think we should ban the phrase | Sangeeta Pillai
Really, what is the point of this endless conversational back and forth? Step out of the loop, and change your life, says author Sangeeta Pillai
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Britain has 99 problems, but polite people who say thank you ain’t one.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I mean, I wouldn't trust the Greens as far as I could throw them anyway, but this is truly shit behaviour from them. But then perhaps this is what we should expect from a party led by a man who said he could hypnotise a woman into having bigger breasts.
I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I mean, I wouldn't trust the Greens as far as I could throw them anyway, but this is truly shit behaviour from them. But then perhaps this is what we should expect from a party led by a man who said he could hypnotise a woman into having bigger breasts.
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is "ai" a miracle oracle that can tell the future? many people are saying. we tried it and compared its output to the usual psychic we go to every other week.
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 AM
is "ai" a miracle oracle that can tell the future? many people are saying. we tried it and compared its output to the usual psychic we go to every other week.
oh for fuck's sake stop writing these pieces. AI is not a knowledge engine. Using it as such is idiotic, and writing a gotcha piece about how it didn't know something very specific to you makes you look stupid.
I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:24 AM
oh for fuck's sake stop writing these pieces. AI is not a knowledge engine. Using it as such is idiotic, and writing a gotcha piece about how it didn't know something very specific to you makes you look stupid.
please hold me in your #thoughtsandprayers today as I a) continue to chase Lenovo to find out when they're going to send a dude to fix my laptop and b) try and convince the helpdesk that the absolute piece of shit HP they've given me in the meantime should be switched out for a ThinkPad
February 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
please hold me in your #thoughtsandprayers today as I a) continue to chase Lenovo to find out when they're going to send a dude to fix my laptop and b) try and convince the helpdesk that the absolute piece of shit HP they've given me in the meantime should be switched out for a ThinkPad
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Woah! That Bluesky map is really accurate.
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Woah! That Bluesky map is really accurate.
Surely by now we've all learned never to even bother clicking on a Reach link because the website is so utterly hostile? Nobody is going to pay for it.
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Surely by now we've all learned never to even bother clicking on a Reach link because the website is so utterly hostile? Nobody is going to pay for it.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 AM
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...
three episodes left of this series of #CallTheMidwife and I am starting to dread the finale
February 8, 2026 at 9:03 PM
three episodes left of this series of #CallTheMidwife and I am starting to dread the finale
gosh, this is a bleak episode #CallTheMidwife
February 8, 2026 at 8:52 PM
gosh, this is a bleak episode #CallTheMidwife
carbon monoxide from the dodgy heating 😬😬😬 #CallTheMidwife
February 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
carbon monoxide from the dodgy heating 😬😬😬 #CallTheMidwife
Sr Monica Joan turning down pudding is *not* a good sign 😬 #CallTheMidwife
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Sr Monica Joan turning down pudding is *not* a good sign 😬 #CallTheMidwife
I madly covet one of those antique Louis Vuitton trunks #AntiquesRoadshow
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I madly covet one of those antique Louis Vuitton trunks #AntiquesRoadshow
Also, I'm not sure how this could be the fault of the printer: the client supplies a print-ready pdf. The printer doesn't add or subtract anything from that; it's a complete document. The printer literally just, you know, prints it.
Reform UK are seeking to fob off blame for their illegal leaflet on a printer error. That won’t stand up with the police - responsibility for making sure the law is followed lies with the party commissioning and distributing the leaflets.
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Also, I'm not sure how this could be the fault of the printer: the client supplies a print-ready pdf. The printer doesn't add or subtract anything from that; it's a complete document. The printer literally just, you know, prints it.
Also, it's a novel. Fiction. A story. Heathcliff can be anyone you like.
Allow me to complicate this on a couple of fronts. Firstly, Heathcliff’s background is ambiguous. Various characters in the book conjecture that he’s Romani, Indian, Chinese, American, or Spanish. Literary Terry Eagleton postulates him as a symbolic representation of the Irish..1/x
Also (and I know zero people follow me for Facts About C19th Novels, but anyway) it is quite evident from the novel that Heathcliff is probably Romani, so v odd to see self-righteous comments in my TL from people dismissing concerns about the casting
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/romani-g...
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/romani-g...
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Also, it's a novel. Fiction. A story. Heathcliff can be anyone you like.