Justin Stach
@stach.uk
I make things better.
Sourdough without the hassle: https://justin.stach.uk/good_ordinary_bread
#sourdough #running #pottery #fermentation #photography #design #EastLondon
Sourdough without the hassle: https://justin.stach.uk/good_ordinary_bread
#sourdough #running #pottery #fermentation #photography #design #EastLondon
Bit obsessed with the idea that big tech is trading software’s asset-light advantage for utility-like capital intensity. Massive GPU spending will hit hard as depreciation whilst AI productivity gains prove illusory and are really just induced demand for low-value features.
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Bit obsessed with the idea that big tech is trading software’s asset-light advantage for utility-like capital intensity. Massive GPU spending will hit hard as depreciation whilst AI productivity gains prove illusory and are really just induced demand for low-value features.
In my experience, the people who adore new tech very rarely understand other humans. And even more rarely have any developed sense of taste.
Theory: really successful innovations were based much more on insights into consumer demand than technological supply/possibility. E.g.:
- punters would buy an EV if it were cool enough
- people will trust online shopping
- a computer in every house
- they'll provide social media content for free 1/
- punters would buy an EV if it were cool enough
- people will trust online shopping
- a computer in every house
- they'll provide social media content for free 1/
My own guess is that this Optimus robot is to Musk what the Metaverse is to Zuckerberg, but plenty of people much richer than me seem to think differently- on.ft.com/3LpFJV3
When will we know?
When will we know?
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In my experience, the people who adore new tech very rarely understand other humans. And even more rarely have any developed sense of taste.
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One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
Fresh from the oven, and still crackling.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fresh from the oven, and still crackling.
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...
Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...
If you don’t know how to behave in a pub, you don’t know how to behave in society.
Be the punter who takes the empties back to the bar.
Be the punter who takes the empties back to the bar.
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
If you don’t know how to behave in a pub, you don’t know how to behave in society.
Be the punter who takes the empties back to the bar.
Be the punter who takes the empties back to the bar.
Stunning.
Then read what it took to create it.
Then read what it took to create it.
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Stunning.
Then read what it took to create it.
Then read what it took to create it.
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On this day in 1981, I was taking photos of Depeche Mode at the Locarno in Birmingham. Here are some from the soundcheck, backstage and the show (THREAD)
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
On this day in 1981, I was taking photos of Depeche Mode at the Locarno in Birmingham. Here are some from the soundcheck, backstage and the show (THREAD)
Was thinking this seems pertinent to UK politics too. Too much political energy has been caught by marketing-brain people who fell in love with advertising/social platforms.
From those insights, you can draw two conclusions:
(a) make politics local again! The Democratic Party has to represent different things in different places if it wants to compete on the unlevel playing field.
or
(b) fuck it. This isn't going to work without reforming the electoral system.
(a) make politics local again! The Democratic Party has to represent different things in different places if it wants to compete on the unlevel playing field.
or
(b) fuck it. This isn't going to work without reforming the electoral system.
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Was thinking this seems pertinent to UK politics too. Too much political energy has been caught by marketing-brain people who fell in love with advertising/social platforms.
If it’s any barometer, I’m turning down some incredible home swaps simply because they’re in America.
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If it’s any barometer, I’m turning down some incredible home swaps simply because they’re in America.
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Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human
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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Negative something. Many of these I will go out of my way to eat.
I thought we on the spectrum were supposed to be picky eaters.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Negative something. Many of these I will go out of my way to eat.
Draft Augustiner relaunches in the U.K. next month. That is all.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA
www.ft.com/content/1377...
www.ft.com/content/1377...
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
www.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA
www.ft.com/content/1377...
www.ft.com/content/1377...
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I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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r/LosAngeles 6h
Any recommendations for heavy equipment rental in San Gabriel?
r/UnethicalLifeProTips 6h
ULPT Is there a way to remove the reversing alarm on an electric forklift?
r/UnethicalLifeProTips 12h
ULPT I need a way to move 13 2000lbs pallets of margarine side to side and then down into a 6ft hole and then cover it with dirt It must be quiet and fast. I'm not opposed to renting heavy machinery but they must be quiet and able to be operated in low light conditions. For the record, I don't think there's anything unethical about this, but it was recommended I...
r/diet 1d
What might happen to someone if they were to consume say, 3lbs of margarine every day for a month?
Just have some extra margarine lying around that I'm hoping to put to good use. If not 3lbs, how much could I eat a day and still be okay? Thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtcm54bmbkuaj32aiqtbvrwu/bafkreibzhetovxcwgpqwitexh7ifjezeywakn2pvrtyzqcxnsi3uov7xeq@jpeg)
“putting a portico at the end of a long facade and not in the center is what one might say is untutored.”
If you ever wondered about the architect of Trump’s monstrous carbuncle. Wild to me that he worked under Peter Eisenman and seemingly learnt nothing.
www.punchlistmag.com/p/what-to-kn...
If you ever wondered about the architect of Trump’s monstrous carbuncle. Wild to me that he worked under Peter Eisenman and seemingly learnt nothing.
www.punchlistmag.com/p/what-to-kn...
What to know about James McCrery, Trump’s White House architect
And what Peter Eisenman, his former mentor, thinks of his ballroom plan
www.punchlistmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“putting a portico at the end of a long facade and not in the center is what one might say is untutored.”
If you ever wondered about the architect of Trump’s monstrous carbuncle. Wild to me that he worked under Peter Eisenman and seemingly learnt nothing.
www.punchlistmag.com/p/what-to-kn...
If you ever wondered about the architect of Trump’s monstrous carbuncle. Wild to me that he worked under Peter Eisenman and seemingly learnt nothing.
www.punchlistmag.com/p/what-to-kn...
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www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)
At Gail's, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?
The economics and migration behind the Gail's expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)
Kind of wish I hadn't stumbled across that Rail Clock. What a missed opportunity.
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Kind of wish I hadn't stumbled across that Rail Clock. What a missed opportunity.
‘Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood’ killed me.
Next up on my reading list.
…I am already regretting this choice.
…I am already regretting this choice.
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood’ killed me.
The decisiveness is by design. We plant ourselves in neatly delineated camps, all sorted and ready to have ads posted for us. That’s what social media wants.
Excellent thoughts from @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Excellent thoughts from @jonnelledge.bsky.social
"We’ve talked a lot about how X will bring about the end of the world, and it might. I just worry we should talk more about the way the internet is systematically stripping us of our capacity to feel empathy, too."
Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)
Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)
The Two Minutes Hate
Some thoughts on what pile-ons are doing to our brains, because ouch. Also: everything objectively insane about Kash Patel’s “challenge coin”; and meet “ratzilla”.
jonn.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The decisiveness is by design. We plant ourselves in neatly delineated camps, all sorted and ready to have ads posted for us. That’s what social media wants.
Excellent thoughts from @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Excellent thoughts from @jonnelledge.bsky.social
These ‘unhinged literary opinions’ are tending towards laboriously hinged.
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
These ‘unhinged literary opinions’ are tending towards laboriously hinged.
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Look, we hate craft beer as much as the next person but it's rapidly approaching the end of 2025 and we've just seen a fairly well known satirical spoof news site doing a story about how there's lots of IPAs with stupid names and hipsters like them. Mind boggling.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Look, we hate craft beer as much as the next person but it's rapidly approaching the end of 2025 and we've just seen a fairly well known satirical spoof news site doing a story about how there's lots of IPAs with stupid names and hipsters like them. Mind boggling.