Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
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Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
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Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
· Dec 16
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Steve Jobs: "Computers are a bicycle for the mind.
Jeff Bezos: "My computers are a hamster wheel for my bank account."
Jeff Bezos: "My computers are a hamster wheel for my bank account."
One end goal of "AI" is to end personal computing so big tech companies can fully be landlords once again; just like back in the era of renting time on timesharing mainframes.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
www.windowscentral.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Steve Jobs: "Computers are a bicycle for the mind.
Jeff Bezos: "My computers are a hamster wheel for my bank account."
Jeff Bezos: "My computers are a hamster wheel for my bank account."
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When you don’t know something about a people, you don’t have to therefore choose to believe the worst about them.
That’s such a basic concept yet it’s amazing how many people need to hear and contemplate it.
That’s such a basic concept yet it’s amazing how many people need to hear and contemplate it.
January 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When you don’t know something about a people, you don’t have to therefore choose to believe the worst about them.
That’s such a basic concept yet it’s amazing how many people need to hear and contemplate it.
That’s such a basic concept yet it’s amazing how many people need to hear and contemplate it.
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am I "falling for the bait" or am I "having a proportionate and reasonable reaction to a racially motivated pogrom being carried out against my neighbors" can someone please help me figure that out
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
am I "falling for the bait" or am I "having a proportionate and reasonable reaction to a racially motivated pogrom being carried out against my neighbors" can someone please help me figure that out
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This report from 2015 estimated at the time that up to 320,000 people a year leave for healthcare (which is more than come to the US for healthcare, yes people come to the US for healthcare)
www.usitc.gov/publications...
www.usitc.gov/publications...
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
This report from 2015 estimated at the time that up to 320,000 people a year leave for healthcare (which is more than come to the US for healthcare, yes people come to the US for healthcare)
www.usitc.gov/publications...
www.usitc.gov/publications...
Anyway if we could get those prayers, charms, wards, and assorted positive wishes going again I would be very grateful.
Mum hospital update: she looks exactly as battered as you would expect for someone who had half their scalp peeled off only five days ago, that’s to say absolutely dreadful, and has had to go back into ICU this evening because part of her lung has collapsed, but is generally in pretty good spirits!
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Anyway if we could get those prayers, charms, wards, and assorted positive wishes going again I would be very grateful.
Mum hospital update: she looks exactly as battered as you would expect for someone who had half their scalp peeled off only five days ago, that’s to say absolutely dreadful, and has had to go back into ICU this evening because part of her lung has collapsed, but is generally in pretty good spirits!
January 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Mum hospital update: she looks exactly as battered as you would expect for someone who had half their scalp peeled off only five days ago, that’s to say absolutely dreadful, and has had to go back into ICU this evening because part of her lung has collapsed, but is generally in pretty good spirits!
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You might wonder whether Robert Jenrick is just a treacherous, unprincipled, creepy little mediocrity, but you only need to watch him being interviewed for a couple of minutes to remove any doubt about it.
January 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
You might wonder whether Robert Jenrick is just a treacherous, unprincipled, creepy little mediocrity, but you only need to watch him being interviewed for a couple of minutes to remove any doubt about it.
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French Air Force tanker heading direction Greenland highly likely with Danish fighters jets in tow. Not pictured: support aircraft.
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
French Air Force tanker heading direction Greenland highly likely with Danish fighters jets in tow. Not pictured: support aircraft.
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Premium Newsletter: The comparisons between the AI bubble and the Dot Com bubble don’t make sense, because what’s coming will be far, far worse. GPUs are not fiber, AI startups are all worse businesses than Pets.com, and the crash threatens a global contagion.
www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/
www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/
Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble
Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police
I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up: bullshit.
LG, a company known for making home appliances and televisions, de...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Premium Newsletter: The comparisons between the AI bubble and the Dot Com bubble don’t make sense, because what’s coming will be far, far worse. GPUs are not fiber, AI startups are all worse businesses than Pets.com, and the crash threatens a global contagion.
www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/
www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/
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Genuinely no because in my job when you research something, it's important to get the correct answer
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Genuinely no because in my job when you research something, it's important to get the correct answer
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I bring you all the delightful fact that the large black BMW parked outside the Jamaican embassy has the numberplate “I JAM”.
January 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I bring you all the delightful fact that the large black BMW parked outside the Jamaican embassy has the numberplate “I JAM”.
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this is my favorite part, tho, because it's barely even about ideology at all
everyone at UATX was so focused on their complaints about the humanities that they forgot to hire anyone in math or science
everyone at UATX was so focused on their complaints about the humanities that they forgot to hire anyone in math or science
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
this is my favorite part, tho, because it's barely even about ideology at all
everyone at UATX was so focused on their complaints about the humanities that they forgot to hire anyone in math or science
everyone at UATX was so focused on their complaints about the humanities that they forgot to hire anyone in math or science
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As predicted, the MAGAs are now trying to blame a baby for being flash banged
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
January 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
As predicted, the MAGAs are now trying to blame a baby for being flash banged
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NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
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Easy mistake to make, that's actually a Smurfbox
January 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Easy mistake to make, that's actually a Smurfbox
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Turns out we're too racist to let anyone build the pollution warehouse for the plagiarism machine.
www.nola.com/news/ice-arr...
www.nola.com/news/ice-arr...
ICE arrests two immigrant workers heading to Meta site in Louisiana, sheriff says
ICE agents assisted by the Richland Parish Sheriff's Office arrested two people Wednesday after traffic stops on garbage truck near the Meta data center site.
www.nola.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Turns out we're too racist to let anyone build the pollution warehouse for the plagiarism machine.
www.nola.com/news/ice-arr...
www.nola.com/news/ice-arr...
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"one could insist that scientists should never accept any claim because they never have absolute proof that they are correct. This would solve the reproducibility crisis because scientists would never make claims that later turn out to be false, but it would render science useless.."
in a nutshell
in a nutshell
New on the Archive:
Douglas, Heather (2022) Addressing the reproducibility crisis: A response to Hudson. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27909/
Douglas, Heather (2022) Addressing the reproducibility crisis: A response to Hudson. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27909/
January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"one could insist that scientists should never accept any claim because they never have absolute proof that they are correct. This would solve the reproducibility crisis because scientists would never make claims that later turn out to be false, but it would render science useless.."
in a nutshell
in a nutshell
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Yes. and also The Boat Race changes official name about once every three years and not once in two hundred years has anyone called it anything other than The Boat Race
Do sports venues in the UK change names as often as they do in the US when naming rights are sold?
January 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Yes. and also The Boat Race changes official name about once every three years and not once in two hundred years has anyone called it anything other than The Boat Race
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What they really want to do is direct.
Sharks are famous for their fearsome teeth. That could change
Sharks are famous for their fearsome teeth. That could change
Sharks are famous for their fearsome teeth. That could change
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
What they really want to do is direct.
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yes, a key aspect of talking shit about Gavin Newsom now is because I would like to stop his presidential ambitions as early as possible.
I’m not worried either but I think it’s important to trash that man every day so he doesn’t even file for ’28. Don’t want to deal with it.
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
yes, a key aspect of talking shit about Gavin Newsom now is because I would like to stop his presidential ambitions as early as possible.
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it turns out if you give bigots an inch they will take as many miles as they can get their bigot fingers on
a thing we all told everyone and have repeatedly begged for our politicians to fix.
a thing we all told everyone and have repeatedly begged for our politicians to fix.
It's not good, to put it mildly, that the outcomes of employment tribunals involving trans people now entirely come down to the ideological leanings of the judge involved. There is no clear law underpinning this at all. Everyone is improvising.
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
it turns out if you give bigots an inch they will take as many miles as they can get their bigot fingers on
a thing we all told everyone and have repeatedly begged for our politicians to fix.
a thing we all told everyone and have repeatedly begged for our politicians to fix.
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It's so deeply disappointing how Right-wing many formerly anti-establishment rock stars have become in old age, not to mention protective of their so-called "property". Take Roger Daltrey from The Who, for example, who marched me haughtily off his land just after I took this photograph of him.
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
It's so deeply disappointing how Right-wing many formerly anti-establishment rock stars have become in old age, not to mention protective of their so-called "property". Take Roger Daltrey from The Who, for example, who marched me haughtily off his land just after I took this photograph of him.
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a man with glasses and a bow tie is screaming and saying i 'd buy that for a dollar .
ALT: a man with glasses and a bow tie is screaming and saying i 'd buy that for a dollar .
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Subscribe to the @500songspodcast.bsky.social Patreon -- as little as $1 (one dollar!) a month to a) support the best music podcast ever & b) get amazing bonus episodes!
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What I’ve learned about American politics the last decade is there is an annoyingly sizable population that does not actually believe in anything and simply imprints on the latest thing they heard on the radio like a duckling
January 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
What I’ve learned about American politics the last decade is there is an annoyingly sizable population that does not actually believe in anything and simply imprints on the latest thing they heard on the radio like a duckling
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Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because