Kat Arney

You will prise my postal vote from my cold dead British hands, you pathetic sore loser.

Another weekend decluttering my parents' house - sorting through some priceless antiques

So cosy

The world was saved because a human being didn't trust a computer.

Glass of whisky, red and white king Charles cavalier spaniel

Nice. I'm having a cheeky scotch on the sofa with a snoozing dog

I've been watching council planning committee meetings as research for my next short film and it's remarkable how many of them involve a professional woman giving evidence getting bellowed at by red-faced old men.

My houseplants need some love, so it's mostly indoor gardening today.

🤬

Take up gardening, they said. It will be good for you, they said.

*wrestles with piles of sodden, slug-infested slimy vegetation, vicious rose thorns and surprise cat turds*

View of a rainy garden through a window

Me: Really looking forward to getting on with some gardening jobs this morning!

The weather:

This.

I'm loving this whole Spring business. The Chap saw three amphibians in the garden (2 toads, 1 frog) while putting the bins out last night, so hopefully we'll get some spawn soon.

Disapppointed she isn't going full Neom on this. Where's the aspirational floating hotel or upside-down swimming pool??

Will never forget standing in the hospice by my mother's bedside, all of us in hushed voices thinking she would never wake up again - Chaplain came booming in, her eyes snapped open and she told him to go away. Doing the Lord's work there.

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

"Are YOU a licensed Young Lady????"

The Longevity Scam Pouring some cold water on cold plunges

If they come saying:
* Longevity
* Wellness
* Supplements
* Peptides
* Light therapy
...they will be effective at taking your money, but they will not be effective in making you healthier. Walk away.

@theatlantic.com gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

I had the privilege of visiting the MERL today and getting a closer look at the board

Make American Child Mortality Great Again!

Of particular relevance in the context of all the recent authoritative reports claiming LLMs can help novices develop and build threats.
#biosky

PUT IT BACK. PEBBLE IS NOT FRIEND.

How to survive the AI Slopocalypse It took 50 years for Gutenberg's invention of the printing press to spawn 9 million books. It's been three short years since ChatGPT was launched, and it feels like I've seen that many pieces of AI sl...

Over on LinkedIn, a platform that is being rapidly destroyed by AI slop, I've been ruminating on the coming AI Slopocalypse and how to survive it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-su...

No newts, as i don't think there are any nearby and it's a very new pond/estate but we have frogs and toads

Longevity influencers tell millions to take rapamycin, sit in hyperbaric oxygen chambers, blast themselves with red light therapy, and take 50+ supplements daily.

Meanwhile something that cuts dementia risk by 20% is invisible.

overmatter.substack.com/p/your-anti-...

Wildlife pond

Dug July 2022 in a completely sterile new build garden - now teeming with wildlife.

Wildlife pond

Here you go - dug in a completely bare new build garden in July 2022 and now home to all manner of wildlife!

If you think knitters and gardeners are just chill and not weirdly fascinated and obsessed, you have not found the right Facebook groups hun

Or you could be like me and come across as a person abnormally obsessed with science AND gardening AND knitting. Have I shown you a picture of my pond lately???

Misread this as “the year of the Fire Hose” and I thought, you’re not wrong

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.