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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm. Although of course Daphne has finished all three books, and Ginger is only half way through that tome...

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

Nipped out and picked up another 50+ intact windfalls from the garden and there are still some on the tree. It's been an insane year of apples. And a lot of crumble.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

Live footage from US-East-1

three witches are standing around a cauldron with the words who should we mess with this time written on it .

Alt: three witches are standing around a cauldron with the words who should we mess with this time written on it .

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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be a widget inside a widget inside a third party whatever that causes the whole thing to fall over.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think they worked out that node needed heavy redundancy after the hurricane about 10 years ago… apparently not…

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s no Fail Whale but it’s a decent effort.

The header of the Kindle Direct Publishing website and beneath it a cartoon showing a small dog eating a sheet of paper with a bar chart on it.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

French one’s still up, satisfyingly.

Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1380 3/6

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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 1d

This is the moment you discover exactly how many of the sites you visit daily are AWS hosted. Amazon itself is down of course - but worse, Wordle!

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 2d

Comic cons are even more fun when sitting next to Atticus Finch Wobbly Cat and his protégée Pandora. Both have cerebral palsy, and they dress up to raise money 2Wish and disabled cats.

A full stall of books at Barnsley Comic-Con

Pandora as Lilo (Atticus has a Stitch costume)

Atticus and Pandora in their ‘green room’. The food bowl is very empty but Pandora is still checking.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 2d

Connected on LinkedIn, will DM you there.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hello ! Bitcoin Policy UK, yes? We have connections in common - Jillian Godsill for one - and your name has cropped up before. I saw the Tether news and haven’t they built Spark into the WDK now? I’m flat out this week and next but would be interested to hear how that’s going.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

lol I said HS2 to the producer beforehand by accident and couldn’t get it out of my head. Was thinking TGV / bullet train and kicked myself when it came out. Thought no one would notice 🤣🤣

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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

Stablecoin transaction volume globally exceeded Visa and Mastercard combined last year.

If you want technical details explained, maybe read my books. I read the Lightning white paper when it was published and know devs who worked with it. But is it always relevant in a five minute segment? No.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

It’s next May and the tickets go on sale in a few weeks. See if I can find a gig buddy.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

Kraftwerk are touring! They are playing a venue near me and I’m tempted.

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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

Adam Back is great and an utter legend, but when I last saw him speak in April he was talking about ETFs and institutional adoption and investment - not day to day use, and not necessarily direct investment by consumers but rather through portfolios.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

Hello. Lightning’s great but very limited in user access - I wish something like Bottlepay was still available. Bitcoin is Locomotion No1, a transformative innovation but not the fast train of the future. Users have voted with their feet and stablecoins are here at scale.

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Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

Did daughter’s. - deed poll (private, took a week, changes gender too), then send to bank etc so you have lived evidence to submit in that name for the passport, then driving licence piggy-backs on the passport.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

This is an outstanding, excoriating, entertaining and accurate read. It has made my morning.

Interesting that after months of radio silence my MP very recently acknowledged my email on the matter. The sands are shifting.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 3d

That is a magnificent write up. Made my morning.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, Suburbia! They opened with this in the summer. Great song, a treat to see them live even - gulp- close to 40 years later. #totp

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 4d

Cracking read. Well done.

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 4d

So THAT'S how he and Brad have been getting their paws on surfboards! @in-otter-news.bsky.social

Kate Baucherel @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a brilliant write up and absolutely on the, uh, money. My accountant antennae have been twitching over the circular deals and the huge values being touted with no clothes to show.