Stuart
@stuartgt.bsky.social
Increasingly grumpy with politicians. Poor creator of biographies. Friendly-ish. Not in order of priority. 🇬🇧
Out of the mouths of infantile presidents…
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Out of the mouths of infantile presidents…
This video is now 8yrs old, today it feels as relevant as it did on its initial release. Watch it to the end.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2...
MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!
YouTube video by CS Consulting
m.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This video is now 8yrs old, today it feels as relevant as it did on its initial release. Watch it to the end.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2...
We really need to ban foreign donations to political parties or politicians.
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We really need to ban foreign donations to political parties or politicians.
Bizarrely, the interestingly named TomTom Tom device only works with the free app, and not the TomTom Go “expert” app. So I thought I’d check out the free app. I regularly drive from The Cotswolds to Cornwall, about 150 miles. They’ve lost their damned mind. #TomTom
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Bizarrely, the interestingly named TomTom Tom device only works with the free app, and not the TomTom Go “expert” app. So I thought I’d check out the free app. I regularly drive from The Cotswolds to Cornwall, about 150 miles. They’ve lost their damned mind. #TomTom
Mamdani is going to implement Shh Aria law. Everyone will have to sing solo opera works, quietly.
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shh Aria law. Everyone will have to sing solo opera works, quietly.
The local swimming lake today, Lake 32 nr Cirencester UK
September 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The local swimming lake today, Lake 32 nr Cirencester UK
Had a conversation with an ex-colleague about a manager…
Ex colleague: “They’re a goat”
Me: “The goat?”
Them: “No, a goat. As in a goat in a tree. You wonder, How the fuck did they get into that position and more importantly, how are they still there?!”
Ex colleague: “They’re a goat”
Me: “The goat?”
Them: “No, a goat. As in a goat in a tree. You wonder, How the fuck did they get into that position and more importantly, how are they still there?!”
August 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Had a conversation with an ex-colleague about a manager…
Ex colleague: “They’re a goat”
Me: “The goat?”
Them: “No, a goat. As in a goat in a tree. You wonder, How the fuck did they get into that position and more importantly, how are they still there?!”
Ex colleague: “They’re a goat”
Me: “The goat?”
Them: “No, a goat. As in a goat in a tree. You wonder, How the fuck did they get into that position and more importantly, how are they still there?!”
I think this is exactly right. Worse, politicians are in thrall to technocrats
I think Labour’s problem is that, as power has shifted to technocrats over recent decades, its ambitions have shrunk to chasing populist policies shaped by an algorithmically skewed version of public opinion, one amplified by rage-bait rather than grounded in reality.
August 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I think this is exactly right. Worse, politicians are in thrall to technocrats
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It's funny what we can and can't do when money is involved. The markets trump all, even life and death. And politicians wonder why they don't have moral legitimacy anymore.
July 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It's funny what we can and can't do when money is involved. The markets trump all, even life and death. And politicians wonder why they don't have moral legitimacy anymore.
My favourite coffee place (UK) welcoming our colonial cousins.
June 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My favourite coffee place (UK) welcoming our colonial cousins.
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
- Terry Pratchett
- Terry Pratchett
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
- Terry Pratchett
- Terry Pratchett
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” -Terry Pratchett
June 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” -Terry Pratchett
Did Jedward clone themselves and move to Iceland? #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Did Jedward clone themselves and move to Iceland? #eurovision
Watched The Accountant 2 last night. If you liked the first one you’ll like this. Recommended.
April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Watched The Accountant 2 last night. If you liked the first one you’ll like this. Recommended.
This powerful and important youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This powerful and important youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8
“The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed” - unknown
March 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed” - unknown
Reposted by Stuart
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
border-pocket-guide-2.pdf
www.eff.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
If Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom aren’t making plans to counter the risk of the fifth eye being totally untrustworthy then we are all fucked.
March 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom aren’t making plans to counter the risk of the fifth eye being totally untrustworthy then we are all fucked.
I am 61
I am British with European heritage (grandmother was Polish)
More than that I am European
I want Great Britain back in the EU 🇪🇺
I am British with European heritage (grandmother was Polish)
More than that I am European
I want Great Britain back in the EU 🇪🇺
March 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I am 61
I am British with European heritage (grandmother was Polish)
More than that I am European
I want Great Britain back in the EU 🇪🇺
I am British with European heritage (grandmother was Polish)
More than that I am European
I want Great Britain back in the EU 🇪🇺
Poetry
February 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Poetry
Reposted by Stuart
For those of us who are increasingly in positions where we cannot count on the rule of law to protect our digital privacy or security, here are some thoughts on how to threat model for your community: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Building a Community Privacy Plan
Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look a...
www.eff.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For those of us who are increasingly in positions where we cannot count on the rule of law to protect our digital privacy or security, here are some thoughts on how to threat model for your community: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Reposted by Stuart
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
I wondered how long it would take for this to materialise…
#gaza #trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
#gaza #trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’
Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I wondered how long it would take for this to materialise…
#gaza #trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
#gaza #trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...