Nigel Smith
@nigelsmith.org
🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 Technology, politics, and culture; working with ML and AI in maritime software - currently using Elixir, Kotlin, Python and friends to solve problems
I wonder if people at BA get paged when the app actually works
January 6, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I wonder if people at BA get paged when the app actually works
eww - please do not come to even virtual Greenwich
“Well, I’ve come here today to Greenwich, to have a think about what the country used to be,” says man clearly standing in front of a green screen, with an image of Greenwich superimposed behind him.
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
eww - please do not come to even virtual Greenwich
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car.
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car.
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
Not a kindle in sight on the tube this morning - books everywhere
July 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Not a kindle in sight on the tube this morning - books everywhere
It’s central Stratford, what’s he expecting to see? It’s always mayhem there; did he act by flinging himself in front of the ticket barriers?
May 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It’s central Stratford, what’s he expecting to see? It’s always mayhem there; did he act by flinging himself in front of the ticket barriers?
From Greenwich, earlier today
May 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
From Greenwich, earlier today
Yes, he just happened to take a special interest in the veracity of climate change - but just asking questions!
May 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Yes, he just happened to take a special interest in the veracity of climate change - but just asking questions!
The Empire would have been defeated on Ghorman by British planning rules.
“That administrative building is far too bulky, not in keeping with the area, and too tall for the low rise neighbourhood it’s sited in” #andor
“That administrative building is far too bulky, not in keeping with the area, and too tall for the low rise neighbourhood it’s sited in” #andor
May 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Empire would have been defeated on Ghorman by British planning rules.
“That administrative building is far too bulky, not in keeping with the area, and too tall for the low rise neighbourhood it’s sited in” #andor
“That administrative building is far too bulky, not in keeping with the area, and too tall for the low rise neighbourhood it’s sited in” #andor
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I clicked on this post from @timothysnyder.bsky.social with the intent to read it later, but instead found myself unable to look away.
An incredibly eye-opening read worthy of a few minutes of your time today:
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
An incredibly eye-opening read worthy of a few minutes of your time today:
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
snyder.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I clicked on this post from @timothysnyder.bsky.social with the intent to read it later, but instead found myself unable to look away.
An incredibly eye-opening read worthy of a few minutes of your time today:
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
An incredibly eye-opening read worthy of a few minutes of your time today:
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Launching on the 15th of March 2025.
Subscribe/Follow now, to get the first episode as soon as it hits the apps.
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March 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Launching on the 15th of March 2025.
Subscribe/Follow now, to get the first episode as soon as it hits the apps.
SPOTIFY 🎧: open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3H...
APPLE 🍏: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
RSS FEED 🔊: feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey
Subscribe/Follow now, to get the first episode as soon as it hits the apps.
SPOTIFY 🎧: open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3H...
APPLE 🍏: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
RSS FEED 🔊: feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey
February 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’d pay so much for the Stephen McKinley-Henderson/Thufir Hawat edit of Dune; especially if we saw it from the spacing guild perspective also
December 31, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I’d pay so much for the Stephen McKinley-Henderson/Thufir Hawat edit of Dune; especially if we saw it from the spacing guild perspective also
That sounds exciting though - it’s very high level for us; Kotlin, Elixir, Python etc
December 31, 2024 at 12:06 AM
That sounds exciting though - it’s very high level for us; Kotlin, Elixir, Python etc
Hey! I’m currently working at Sedna - we do maritime team email; have you used it?
December 30, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Hey! I’m currently working at Sedna - we do maritime team email; have you used it?
Yes, it’s more like “fellow traveller”, I’ll be in the stream with you
December 26, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Yes, it’s more like “fellow traveller”, I’ll be in the stream with you
This was a lot of fun - not sure what the sneak peek of the first episode is; I thought that was locked up next to the ark of the covenant!
PART 2 of our 🎄 special with @nigelsmith.org & @nigella.bsky.social is OUT NOW.
We discuss FOOD, kitchen gadgets, gastronomic trends plus there’s a very sneaky peak at our first ever pilot episode. Enjoy!
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/1bwU...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
We discuss FOOD, kitchen gadgets, gastronomic trends plus there’s a very sneaky peak at our first ever pilot episode. Enjoy!
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/1bwU...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part II
Quiet Riot · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 24, 2024 at 11:56 AM
This was a lot of fun - not sure what the sneak peek of the first episode is; I thought that was locked up next to the ark of the covenant!
The hellgate beckons… (now with 100% fewer ads)
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
The hellgate beckons… (now with 100% fewer ads)
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🎄🎇 A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Part I 🎆🎄
@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social, review 2024 with their BFFs @nigelsmith.org & @nigella.bsky.social!
What surprised us? Who impressed us? What TV did we binge?
🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Wmh...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social, review 2024 with their BFFs @nigelsmith.org & @nigella.bsky.social!
What surprised us? Who impressed us? What TV did we binge?
🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Wmh...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part I
Quiet Riot · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:03 AM
🎄🎇 A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Part I 🎆🎄
@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social, review 2024 with their BFFs @nigelsmith.org & @nigella.bsky.social!
What surprised us? Who impressed us? What TV did we binge?
🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Wmh...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social, review 2024 with their BFFs @nigelsmith.org & @nigella.bsky.social!
What surprised us? Who impressed us? What TV did we binge?
🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Wmh...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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What a beautiful hug of an episode! It feels like a warm invitation has been extended to join a group of clever, kind and fun friends.
Thank you to @quietriotpod.bsky.social
@sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @nigelsmith.org
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Thank you to @quietriotpod.bsky.social
@sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @nigelsmith.org
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part I
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 19/12/2024 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:53 AM
What a beautiful hug of an episode! It feels like a warm invitation has been extended to join a group of clever, kind and fun friends.
Thank you to @quietriotpod.bsky.social
@sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @nigelsmith.org
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Thank you to @quietriotpod.bsky.social
@sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @nigelsmith.org
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...