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Katie Martin

@katie0martin.ft.com

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FT, E17, Unhedged podcast, gardening, making bread, climbing, cycling, 6 Music Mum. I don't deserve my bad Uber rating and I never give investment advice - if it looks like I am, it's a scam.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · Feb 14

If only there had been some kind of warning

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 27m

Shocking I know

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1h

Have you considered giving up avocado on toast?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1h

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️

School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

literally nobody cares about this 'all you other slim shadys are just imitating' stuff

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

"Alphaville is going to be experimenting with a live blog today. We might end up borking the entire FT’s publishing platform in the process, but given the importance of this event it will all have been worth it."

Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3h

The Nobel Prize for economics is due to be announced soon, and Alphaville is running a live blog to mark the occasion. www.ft.com/content/f392...

Alphaville’s Nobel Prize for economics live blog

Welcome to the FTAV hot take factory

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

The "this is actually bollocks" community note things are obv not working so we do need a Plan B, asap

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

(I am arsing around here but I do genuinely think this would be a really important public health campaign. Too many people are losing their grip on reality)

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

Charlie says don't be a huge fckn idiot

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

I think we should go full 1970s farm safety/don't play on the train tracks ads. Maximum scary.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

Bros. Don't die of ignorance.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 2d

Three Hoover dams worth

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17h

TF is this? Has it got booze in it?
It's a no from me

Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 18h

This madness must be stopped.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

It's going to be a wonderful time to be a pervert

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

Sigh. The Pervert Glasses (tm) are happening whether we like it or not aren't they?

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22h

Apple made the right call pivoting from a Vision Air headset to a range of smart glasses, Mark Gurman writes in this week’s Power On.

Inside Apple’s Pivot From a ‘Vision Air’ Headset to Meta-Like Smart Glasses

After spending a week with Meta’s new display-embedded smart glasses, I’m convinced that Apple made the right call pivoting from the so-called Vision Air to spectacles. Also: The company begins reshuffling its executive team, and its latest product launch is imminent.

bloom.bg

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

😂

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

Goddammit @bryce.lol got the delicious suckling pig. This is top tier reviewing from @jayrayner1.bsky.social on.ft.com/4q7qhfW

‘Sublime, transcendent . . . and morally complex?’ Jay Rayner reviews Legado, Shoreditch

[FREE TO READ] Beautiful suckling pig served with a side of existential crisis

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

"Now, we know what you’re thinking: this is all very stupid and funny. And we agree."

Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no 💎 🙌 😔 😢 😭
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Behold the trash crash

Pray for Dogecoin

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Well House of Dynamite is pretty terrifying

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Please don't give the SEC ideas

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Ate these cola bottles on Sunday...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

a man wearing a top hat and a vest is standing in front of a pile of rocks ..

ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a vest is standing in front of a pile of rocks ..

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Someone (American) was telling me this week that very soon, we'll be paying for donuts with tokenised intellectual property rights on the Blockchain and I'm like

a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie .

ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie .

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Really cool