Antonia Mochan

Apparently… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna...

Never mind those Jacobite upstarts, the monarch should be a Plantagenet surely? Usurped by those pesky Tudors…

Moving to a new home — Purl and Chain It's an exciting time for this little side hustle of mine. I've completely outgrown my house and have taken the plunge to move into a separate studio. I've...

Exciting news about my yarn side hustle. Not only have I moved digitally (set up a new website and moved domains to an ethical cloud provider) I'm going physical, setting up a studio in a creative co-working space here in Brussels: purlandchain.eu/news-and-eve...

Just deactivated my X account, after not using it for almost3 years. Feels great.

Someone suggested Beehiiv, but it seems to lack the community dimension which Substack has done so well. Maybe I just need to dig a bit more.

The start of the makeover - admitting you need one How I'm going to try to clean up my tech stack over the course of 2026

I'm taking 2026 to do a digital makeover - to wean myself off the big tech and find interesting alternatives. Follow along if you're interested in the process (and please feel free to suggest an alternative to Substack...!)

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"I actually think studying the humanities is going to be more important than ever," she explained. "A lot of these models are actually very good at STEM. But I think this idea that there are things that make us uniquely human —understanding ourselves, understanding history, understanding what makes us tick-l think that will always be really, really important. And I think the ability to have critical thinking skills and learn how to interact with other people will be more important in the future, rather than less."

Coda: advice from the co founder of Anthropic is ‘study the humanities’
fortune.com/2026/02/07/a...

Who would have thought that 2025 would see me becoming something of an internal reference on neurotechnology? This work, with a huge contribution by Beth Parkin, was probably my professional highlight of the year.

Once again female football achieving what male football has thus far been unable to do…

But not quite as good as Gorka’s.

Thinking that Johannes Radebe should be prescribed on the NHS…#scd

I love that the transcription/translation service at #fwd50 has as much difficulty with tu/vous as I do 🤣

Smart procurement could be such an amazing driver for innovation in govt, but as done now, it usually ends up doing just the opposite. #fwd50

I’m not sure if it makes me feel better or worse that so many of the problems Canadian speakers are raising at #fwd50 are the same as wec are dealing with in the EU…🤷‍♀️

Interesting example of community co-creation. #fwd50

I think exploring the problem space is important for all policy actions, not just in the digital gov area. #fwd50

Excited to be at #FWD50, have already met some people doing great things. Two days of government innovation nerding out!

A great example of AI for good via @londoncentric.media onodi.co/bisect/

I’m in a train that goes through three countries! Liege-Maastricht-Aachen. Europe in action right there. Also, am on this train because the faster one from Liege to Aachen is ending halfway and not going all the way to Aachen…

The label of a face serum that says it “combines neurotechnology and a biomimetic botanical blend”.

What is this nonsense? How can face cream be neurotech? Has some marketing AI gone rogue?

Do we need to give the shadow minister a little geography lesson? 🤦‍♀️

My best thing today? Finding out that Neil Hannon ( @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social )’s wife has set up an animal rescue called My Lovely Horse. (ps Neil, see you next year when you come to Bxl!)

Photo of a phone notification that says “you have 15 events starting at 06:20”

It’s going to be a three-coffee day…

I’ve been getting (back) into sewing this summer. Bags seem about my right level of expertise

Is there some kind of tracker to monitor how much tacky gold colouring Trump is introducing into the White House decor? It looks like there’s more every time the cameras go in.

I lived in Melbourne for 8 years after 6 in London, and really, what a load of bollocks this is...

One of my "Brussels is quiet, do some deep work" activities this summer is a good look into Serious Games. If you've got any advice for me - good examples, bad examples, literature - please send it my way! #policylab

Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.

Can you sign this petition to get a parliamentary debate on supporting people with Parkinson’s? I could tell you about my personal connection, but I don’t think it should need that to get our representatives to address such an important topic: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood invites us to laugh at ourselves – I wanted my music to do the same | Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Dylan Thomas’s evocative radio play has been adapted into films, a ballet, even a jazz suite. From its drunkards and nosey-parkers, to its ghosts and dreamers, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade’s new reimagining ...

Proud cousin klaxon! My very talented cousin Ninfea is in the Guardian writing about her Under Milk Wood composition: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Some evidence of empirical observations…