Jess McCabe
@jessmccabe.bsky.social
Deputy ed at Inside Housing
We are a very strange country
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We are a very strange country
I keep seeing this awful AI card advertised and every time I think, hello again Buddy Christ
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I keep seeing this awful AI card advertised and every time I think, hello again Buddy Christ
There’s been a bit of chat about how practical trade jobs are insulated from the risk of AI. Well, there is a bricklaying robot 🤖 at the Homes conference today:
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
There’s been a bit of chat about how practical trade jobs are insulated from the risk of AI. Well, there is a bricklaying robot 🤖 at the Homes conference today:
As the law came into effect, housing ombudsman Richard Blakeway told Ellie there’s a lot we don’t know:
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
As the law came into effect, housing ombudsman Richard Blakeway told Ellie there’s a lot we don’t know:
It seems like whoever designed this school survey has fallen into the throes of the tiresome “who is British?” discourse.
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It seems like whoever designed this school survey has fallen into the throes of the tiresome “who is British?” discourse.
The thing with using a white room to exhibit art is that the location is unlikely to thoroughly upstage the show
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The thing with using a white room to exhibit art is that the location is unlikely to thoroughly upstage the show
It’s my grandmother’s yartzeit, so here are some photos of her with the same grin, from a young girl, a teenager in WW2, in the 1950s with my aunts and cousin, and in 2008 when she was still smiling the same way despite dementia
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It’s my grandmother’s yartzeit, so here are some photos of her with the same grin, from a young girl, a teenager in WW2, in the 1950s with my aunts and cousin, and in 2008 when she was still smiling the same way despite dementia
So the university of Sunderland has opened a campus in London (!!), where are the think pieces about what this means for the north-south divide
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So the university of Sunderland has opened a campus in London (!!), where are the think pieces about what this means for the north-south divide
Wtf: in the 18th and 19th centuries, green park and st James’ park were covered with cows and milkmaids, and you could buy milk fresh from the cow
memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...
memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wtf: in the 18th and 19th centuries, green park and st James’ park were covered with cows and milkmaids, and you could buy milk fresh from the cow
memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...
memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...
“I would rather she swallowed bad books than not like reading at all”
Advice from 1689 France on what a young woman should be reading, from 1) her grandmother and 2) her uncle.
Advice from 1689 France on what a young woman should be reading, from 1) her grandmother and 2) her uncle.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“I would rather she swallowed bad books than not like reading at all”
Advice from 1689 France on what a young woman should be reading, from 1) her grandmother and 2) her uncle.
Advice from 1689 France on what a young woman should be reading, from 1) her grandmother and 2) her uncle.
A nice chart from the FT and Dostoyevsky anecdote from the Guardian to calm the nerves of anyone worried about the imminent death of literacy
on.ft.com/4qGgk9K
on.ft.com/4qGgk9K
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A nice chart from the FT and Dostoyevsky anecdote from the Guardian to calm the nerves of anyone worried about the imminent death of literacy
on.ft.com/4qGgk9K
on.ft.com/4qGgk9K
I happened to compliment my aunt on her coat today, and she said, well you should like it, it was yours.
It was one of my coats from secondary school in the 90s and still has my name tag sewn in
They don’t make clothes that last this long anymore…
It was one of my coats from secondary school in the 90s and still has my name tag sewn in
They don’t make clothes that last this long anymore…
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I happened to compliment my aunt on her coat today, and she said, well you should like it, it was yours.
It was one of my coats from secondary school in the 90s and still has my name tag sewn in
They don’t make clothes that last this long anymore…
It was one of my coats from secondary school in the 90s and still has my name tag sewn in
They don’t make clothes that last this long anymore…
October including a fantastic book by a brilliant colleague, @peteapps.bsky.social
I also very much recommend the Sun King by Nancy Mitford, in case anyone wants to talk about Louis XIV I am ready now
I also very much recommend the Sun King by Nancy Mitford, in case anyone wants to talk about Louis XIV I am ready now
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
October including a fantastic book by a brilliant colleague, @peteapps.bsky.social
I also very much recommend the Sun King by Nancy Mitford, in case anyone wants to talk about Louis XIV I am ready now
I also very much recommend the Sun King by Nancy Mitford, in case anyone wants to talk about Louis XIV I am ready now
Contemporaneous court reporting in 17th century France: someone goes to the trial, then tells their friend the great letter writer Madame de Sévigne about it, she writes you a letter about it.
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Contemporaneous court reporting in 17th century France: someone goes to the trial, then tells their friend the great letter writer Madame de Sévigne about it, she writes you a letter about it.
I get the desire not to misgender people, but addressing people by last name only? Dear McCabe? What am I, a child at boarding school? Who is cheering herself up from her overprivileged homesickness by FOIing Hastings Council?
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I get the desire not to misgender people, but addressing people by last name only? Dear McCabe? What am I, a child at boarding school? Who is cheering herself up from her overprivileged homesickness by FOIing Hastings Council?
You can even see a corridor and selection of the door handles from the Robin Hood Gardens estate
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You can even see a corridor and selection of the door handles from the Robin Hood Gardens estate
I went on a tour of some new housing in the Olympic Park today, about 35% affordable. It’s right next to the V&A East Storehouse, in which hangs the facade of the old Robin Hood Gardens estate, preserved for visitors much like the 1666 wooden facade of a house in the main V&A
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I went on a tour of some new housing in the Olympic Park today, about 35% affordable. It’s right next to the V&A East Storehouse, in which hangs the facade of the old Robin Hood Gardens estate, preserved for visitors much like the 1666 wooden facade of a house in the main V&A
A toilet story Mitford recounts as true, however - Louis XIV liked to take carriage rides only with women but didn’t want them to have any physical needs. The Duchess of chevreuse was on a 6 hour ride with him and needed the loo:
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A toilet story Mitford recounts as true, however - Louis XIV liked to take carriage rides only with women but didn’t want them to have any physical needs. The Duchess of chevreuse was on a 6 hour ride with him and needed the loo:
Is this in the crown? 🤔
October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Is this in the crown? 🤔
Has someone turned Wii sports into a bar concept
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Has someone turned Wii sports into a bar concept
In this version of the garden of Eden, on the sixth day god created the basset hound
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In this version of the garden of Eden, on the sixth day god created the basset hound
Ai is good because instead of just reproducing the book jacket info you can get AI to randomly speculate what it might be about
October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ai is good because instead of just reproducing the book jacket info you can get AI to randomly speculate what it might be about