Alan
@two-cats.com
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. 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪 🇬🇧
Thread. Lots of Labour apologists angry that people like me are pissed at the budget. Here’s why:
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thread. Lots of Labour apologists angry that people like me are pissed at the budget. Here’s why:
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Techies are never easy to get gifts for. Our attempt to help with @hejelin.com:
45+ gift ideas and inspiration for the tech workers in your life (and maybe yourself) this holiday season:
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Holiday gift ideas for techies
Gift ideas and inspiration for the tech workers in your life (and maybe yourself) this holiday season
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November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Techies are never easy to get gifts for. Our attempt to help with @hejelin.com:
Talking of Christmas pudding haters, this is what I make for them! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
Chocolate Pudding for Christmas Pudding Haters With Hot Chocolate Sauce
Christmas pudding isn’t for everyone and, even though I have faith in my pudding’s ability to convert, there’s no point nagging or, indeed, fighting against real, die-hard antipathies. Besides, I have...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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In fact, fuck it. Building on what Jess says. Do you cis fuckers have any fucking ideas how much grief we carry? How every trans person has multiple dead friends? How death is just a thing we live with? How everywhere we gather has to have an explicit policy on expressing suicidal ideation?
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In fact, fuck it. Building on what Jess says. Do you cis fuckers have any fucking ideas how much grief we carry? How every trans person has multiple dead friends? How death is just a thing we live with? How everywhere we gather has to have an explicit policy on expressing suicidal ideation?
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New bus service for Cambridge's Mill Road Romsey Town. Circular via Ross Street, Fairfax Road & Thoday Street. One (slow) service on the third Sunday of November.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New bus service for Cambridge's Mill Road Romsey Town. Circular via Ross Street, Fairfax Road & Thoday Street. One (slow) service on the third Sunday of November.
It wasn’t me. It could be. But it wasn’t.
I said I'd only consent to a wedding video if it was just like a royal wedding TV show. My husband booked a video company and then got two reporters from the local radio station to commentate. It was technically brilliant and utterly horrifying. I'll never watch it again.
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It wasn’t me. It could be. But it wasn’t.
Gillian Anderson can do a decent Northern Irish accent so she can.
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gillian Anderson can do a decent Northern Irish accent so she can.
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Ahead of the Budget there is quite a bit of misinformation
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ahead of the Budget there is quite a bit of misinformation
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
So - as a primer - here is the truth about the UK economy in 2025 www.ft.com/content/99d2...
It’s the 90s, labour are in power and hope exists.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s the 90s, labour are in power and hope exists.
Know anyone who wants a job as an engineering manager? I’m hiring for two 👀
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Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager Function: Tech Location: Hybrid, London or Peterborough Curious about what’s next? So are we. Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millio...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Know anyone who wants a job as an engineering manager? I’m hiring for two 👀
jobs.comparethemarketcareers.com/en/sites/MK/...
jobs.comparethemarketcareers.com/en/sites/MK/...
Marler leans in close,
“Nick, we’ll ride this to the end,”
Trust fractures in flame.
“Nick, we’ll ride this to the end,”
Trust fractures in flame.
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Marler leans in close,
“Nick, we’ll ride this to the end,”
Trust fractures in flame.
“Nick, we’ll ride this to the end,”
Trust fractures in flame.
Halloween. So I listen to Zombie. I always cry for the childhood I had forced on me, and for the hope Mo Mowlam gave me. And I mourn how I’ll probably never feel hope like that again.
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Halloween. So I listen to Zombie. I always cry for the childhood I had forced on me, and for the hope Mo Mowlam gave me. And I mourn how I’ll probably never feel hope like that again.
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"To figure out where you fall on this spectrum after you’ve stabbed somebody, ask yourself: Do you feel energized because you have engaged in a social interaction with somebody? Or do you feel satisfied because you’re alone now that the person is dead?"
Understanding Your Michael Myers-Briggs Type
The Michael Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an assessment to help people determine how they perceive the world and make decisions about silently sta...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"To figure out where you fall on this spectrum after you’ve stabbed somebody, ask yourself: Do you feel energized because you have engaged in a social interaction with somebody? Or do you feel satisfied because you’re alone now that the person is dead?"
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When cats are confused by or upset about something, they just smack the shit out of whatever it is that's frustrating them and I think that's beautiful.
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
When cats are confused by or upset about something, they just smack the shit out of whatever it is that's frustrating them and I think that's beautiful.
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Fuck the FIA and everyone who got away with doing the same thing he did. Racist ass sport.
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fuck the FIA and everyone who got away with doing the same thing he did. Racist ass sport.
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It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃
Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...
#ChemSky 🧪
Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...
#ChemSky 🧪
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃
Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...
#ChemSky 🧪
Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...
#ChemSky 🧪
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Extraordinary packed scenes everywhere we're taking the Green Party message.
Darlington - another stop on the trip of the North East where we're making hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Darlington - another stop on the trip of the North East where we're making hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Extraordinary packed scenes everywhere we're taking the Green Party message.
Darlington - another stop on the trip of the North East where we're making hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Darlington - another stop on the trip of the North East where we're making hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Sexy Azithromycin.
Sexy Wisconsin Brick Cheese
😳
😳
Sexy [location of friends' wedding]
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Sexy Azithromycin.
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And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙
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It's time to bring back the traditional Irish rural pursuit of burning down the houses of landlords. According to this, it'll be fine as we're only indulging in what our ancestors did.
🗣️ “If a fox is being ripped limb from limb and is dying a slow and agonising death - how can you say you abhor animal cruelty?”
🗣️ “These are rural pursuits and have been for many, many years.”
Heather Humphreys discusses her support for fox hunting and hare coursing.
#TheBigInterview
🗣️ “These are rural pursuits and have been for many, many years.”
Heather Humphreys discusses her support for fox hunting and hare coursing.
#TheBigInterview
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It's time to bring back the traditional Irish rural pursuit of burning down the houses of landlords. According to this, it'll be fine as we're only indulging in what our ancestors did.
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Read the comments
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Read the comments
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Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.
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Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
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Northern Ireland’s beautiful Causeway Coast. 💚
“A beautiful end to Monday in Castlerock!”
📸 Ellie Kate
“A beautiful end to Monday in Castlerock!”
📸 Ellie Kate
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Northern Ireland’s beautiful Causeway Coast. 💚
“A beautiful end to Monday in Castlerock!”
📸 Ellie Kate
“A beautiful end to Monday in Castlerock!”
📸 Ellie Kate