Kat H
@kat-hill.bsky.social
Words & art & cosmic winks.
Made in Hong Kong, lives in London
Made in Hong Kong, lives in London
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A really great piece by my favorite tech journalist:
Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A really great piece by my favorite tech journalist:
I hate that the ugly racists are being so emboldened now.
I hate that we have to learn these lessons the hard way, again and again and again.
I hate that we have to learn these lessons the hard way, again and again and again.
September 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I hate that the ugly racists are being so emboldened now.
I hate that we have to learn these lessons the hard way, again and again and again.
I hate that we have to learn these lessons the hard way, again and again and again.
Take a bow, Channel4.
Exquisite scheduling.
Exquisite scheduling.
September 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Take a bow, Channel4.
Exquisite scheduling.
Exquisite scheduling.
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Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally
Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally
www.independent.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Being mixed race is a whole other bag of fun.
over long experience of both the UK and the US my view is that - as a white-skinned Ashkenazi Jew - I am not "white" in the UK/Europe and become "white" somewhere over the Atlantic on my way to New York.
(possibly I become not-white again crossing into certain states?)
(possibly I become not-white again crossing into certain states?)
nothing drives home just how much race is a social construct than people crossing from one system to another, even in places as superficially similar as the UK and US.
July 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Being mixed race is a whole other bag of fun.
Lord, the anxiety from watching the trailer for Project Hail Mary.
I love that book. I'm not sold on Ryan Gosling in this role (he's all right but just not quite this character) & I don't 100% trust a team willing to drop that spoiler so casually...
I love that book. I'm not sold on Ryan Gosling in this role (he's all right but just not quite this character) & I don't 100% trust a team willing to drop that spoiler so casually...
July 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Lord, the anxiety from watching the trailer for Project Hail Mary.
I love that book. I'm not sold on Ryan Gosling in this role (he's all right but just not quite this character) & I don't 100% trust a team willing to drop that spoiler so casually...
I love that book. I'm not sold on Ryan Gosling in this role (he's all right but just not quite this character) & I don't 100% trust a team willing to drop that spoiler so casually...
Part of my (utterly futile) campaign to get my nephews to appreciate analogue.
June 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Part of my (utterly futile) campaign to get my nephews to appreciate analogue.
Strong week for pigeon news.
Strolling by HMS Belfast & saw a man with a splendid hawk on his arm. Had to ask and the man said the hawk was on his way to work. & what line of work was this hawk engaged in? I enquired.
'He's in pigeon control.'
Say what you will about London but it's never dull.
Strolling by HMS Belfast & saw a man with a splendid hawk on his arm. Had to ask and the man said the hawk was on his way to work. & what line of work was this hawk engaged in? I enquired.
'He's in pigeon control.'
Say what you will about London but it's never dull.
I've been working on researching my other half's geneaology and when he gets home I've got to break it to him one of his ancestors was taken to court for stabbing a man in the hand after an argument about pigeons.
June 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Strong week for pigeon news.
Strolling by HMS Belfast & saw a man with a splendid hawk on his arm. Had to ask and the man said the hawk was on his way to work. & what line of work was this hawk engaged in? I enquired.
'He's in pigeon control.'
Say what you will about London but it's never dull.
Strolling by HMS Belfast & saw a man with a splendid hawk on his arm. Had to ask and the man said the hawk was on his way to work. & what line of work was this hawk engaged in? I enquired.
'He's in pigeon control.'
Say what you will about London but it's never dull.
I've been working on researching my other half's geneaology and when he gets home I've got to break it to him one of his ancestors was taken to court for stabbing a man in the hand after an argument about pigeons.
June 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I've been working on researching my other half's geneaology and when he gets home I've got to break it to him one of his ancestors was taken to court for stabbing a man in the hand after an argument about pigeons.
Downloading our photos from our St. Cuthbert's Way walk and laughing at this pic my other half took of me. On the final leg to Lindisfarne, you have to cross a highspeed railway line. There's no bridge or underpass so you have to call a signalman from this little booth and get the OK to cross.
June 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Downloading our photos from our St. Cuthbert's Way walk and laughing at this pic my other half took of me. On the final leg to Lindisfarne, you have to cross a highspeed railway line. There's no bridge or underpass so you have to call a signalman from this little booth and get the OK to cross.
Just home from a week hiking St Cutbert's Way. Eyeballs fizzing with all the beautiful scenery but it was the little history museum en route that made me smile most of all.
June 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just home from a week hiking St Cutbert's Way. Eyeballs fizzing with all the beautiful scenery but it was the little history museum en route that made me smile most of all.
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We’re proud to announce, today’s turnout has already surpassed the Hands Off protest! Over 5.5m people and counting across the U.S. Get out there, be seen, and be counted. This is history in the making. Take plenty of photos and videos and post them publicly. Let the world see what’s happening.
June 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We’re proud to announce, today’s turnout has already surpassed the Hands Off protest! Over 5.5m people and counting across the U.S. Get out there, be seen, and be counted. This is history in the making. Take plenty of photos and videos and post them publicly. Let the world see what’s happening.
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A US Senator was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents, and then the DHS Secretary went on to say that they are taking control from the "socialist" local government. That is fascist, there is no other proper word for it than that. No euphemisms are necessary or warranted.
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A US Senator was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents, and then the DHS Secretary went on to say that they are taking control from the "socialist" local government. That is fascist, there is no other proper word for it than that. No euphemisms are necessary or warranted.
Am in a hotel room.
Is today the day I finally try using the trouser press? Has there ever been a more intimidating bit of kit haunting hotel rooms up and down the country?
Is today the day I finally try using the trouser press? Has there ever been a more intimidating bit of kit haunting hotel rooms up and down the country?
June 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Am in a hotel room.
Is today the day I finally try using the trouser press? Has there ever been a more intimidating bit of kit haunting hotel rooms up and down the country?
Is today the day I finally try using the trouser press? Has there ever been a more intimidating bit of kit haunting hotel rooms up and down the country?
100% would read this dual-timeline novel.
(Can someone please write it?)
(Can someone please write it?)
June 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
100% would read this dual-timeline novel.
(Can someone please write it?)
(Can someone please write it?)
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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
In the middle of reminiscing about house renovations, Nigel Slater casually serving up the creepiest, most chilling thing I have ever read:
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
In the middle of reminiscing about house renovations, Nigel Slater casually serving up the creepiest, most chilling thing I have ever read:
Writing letters this morning, one going with this utterly beautiful Catherine Howard stamp. I wish Royal Mail would issue stamps like this again
June 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Writing letters this morning, one going with this utterly beautiful Catherine Howard stamp. I wish Royal Mail would issue stamps like this again
Big fan of Olga Tokarczuk anyway, but Olga Tokarczuk + "A Health Resort Horror Story"?
Yes please.
Yes please.
May 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Big fan of Olga Tokarczuk anyway, but Olga Tokarczuk + "A Health Resort Horror Story"?
Yes please.
Yes please.
When you're planning a country walk via an ancient pilgrim trail, through a landscape heavy with history and a ruined medieval church but this is the what3words location
May 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
When you're planning a country walk via an ancient pilgrim trail, through a landscape heavy with history and a ruined medieval church but this is the what3words location
May 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
May 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Every time I log on to social media these days, things feel so ugly and unhinged.
What a joy to have this speech pop up, full of grace & generosity, in among all the madness. Can't wait to read the book.
What a joy to have this speech pop up, full of grace & generosity, in among all the madness. Can't wait to read the book.
You can now read International-Booker-Prize-Winner Banu Mushtaq’s acceptance speech, in full, over on our Ampersand blog:
www.andotherstories.org/2025/05/21/b...
www.andotherstories.org/2025/05/21/b...
May 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Every time I log on to social media these days, things feel so ugly and unhinged.
What a joy to have this speech pop up, full of grace & generosity, in among all the madness. Can't wait to read the book.
What a joy to have this speech pop up, full of grace & generosity, in among all the madness. Can't wait to read the book.
I'm in the 'giddy with excitement because my black out curtains are being delivered today' stage of life.
May 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I'm in the 'giddy with excitement because my black out curtains are being delivered today' stage of life.
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Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
May 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."