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Stuart Herbert
@stuherbert.bsky.social
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He / him. Software industry vet & public speaker. Economic migrant. Passionate about my causes, passionate about my hobbies. @stuherbert@mastodonapp.uk too

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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · Nov 29
I can't remember the last time I worked in a team that wasn't multicultural. Stronger for it.
stuherbert.bsky.social
First impressions of the #Blackstar Debut 100RH amp head: very happy.

Bought it to be an affordable pedal platform amp. Goes *really* well with Celestion V-Type speaker IRs.

It’s going to get a lot of use!
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
stuherbert.bsky.social
Looking at the just-released @thorpyfx.bsky.social The J pedal.

AFAIK, this is the only 5e3-style pedal to offer separate normal and bright channels.

Oh, and we can switch between them too.

Props for making something that gives new options to players.

#guitars #pedals #hometoneblog
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
stuherbert.bsky.social
A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif.
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
stuherbert.bsky.social
Autumn colours at the #Westernbirt National Arboretum yesterday.

#Fujifilm #SOOC #JPEG #AutumnFalls #photography
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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deelomas.bsky.social
The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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chazhutton.com
Daylight Saving Explained:
So we’ve got a big 6-panel comic here! Let’s dig in. The comic is titled ‘How to Tell if You Lost or Gained an Hour’ In the first drawing, we have the words “This is the Hour Hand” and below it is an anthropomorphic hour hand waving and saying ‘sup losers’ Next panel says “If the clocks go forward, it eats up that hour” and now our Hour character is chasing after an hour-sized wedge of a clock, screaming ‘Come Here!” while the hour goes, “AHH!” Next panel goes “But if clocks go back, it also eats that hour…” and now the hour hand is eating another house screaming ‘AAH HA HA’ while that hour runs away saying ‘Not again!’ Next panel points out that ‘In short, the hour hand is a real dick’ and theres a drawing of the hour hand smoking a cig, giving the finger and saying ‘Fuck You’ - Panel five continues the narration with “...and nobody knows what happened to the hour” and below this, there’s a policeman with a sniffer dog looking for a shallow grave in the woods. Our last panel begins “...But someone will try and explain it to you…” Below this we have one of those annoying people saying “So in Spring, the clocks spring…” but their words mean nothing because they’re talking to a grieving anthropomorphic clock, who’s missing that hour, shown by a missing wedge in their face and they’re saying “That will not bring my baby back!” Anyway, I’m really sorry if you were actually hoping to find out if we gained or lost an hour here.
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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drronholt.bsky.social
This is a welcoming account.
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
stuherbert.bsky.social
Fellow children of the 70s might appreciate this: a funk re-imagining of Metallica's ...And Justice For All album.

"With 100% more bass" 😂

#Metallica #Funktallica #AndJusticeForAll #Saxophone

youtu.be/xtzhSJxNFQQ
Metallica - And Justice For all Album (If it was FUNK)
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October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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wolfgang.bremer.co
Perfect reply. No notes. 😆
Why is the W lower on the Word Icon for Mac compared to the other letters on the other apps? Is it a mistake? Have you tried to place an image in Word and have it stay in position? That's why.
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
stuherbert.bsky.social
Railway cars waiting for their next passengers.

#photography #cymru #Wales #porthmadog #WelshMountainRailway #fujifilm #XH2 #AutumnFalls #heritage #railway
This photo is a square (1x1) aspect ratio. The left half of the image is taken up by an old railway passenger carriage. The lower half of the carriage is a rich green, while the top half appears to be empty window frames at first glance. There's a sign on the outside that says "third class", alongside the number "38". Most of the right half of the frame is taken up by a flexible pipe or thick cable snaking its away across to the next carriage. And then, at the very edge of the photo, there's just a hint of the next carriage. Behind, in the distance, there's a bay or river estuary, and beyond that, the hills and mountains of North Wales rise.
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
stuherbert.bsky.social
Fuck me, the Windows 11 setup experience on a new machine is just awful.

My favourite bit: you can’t create installation media unless you already have a Windows machine.

Which genius signed that off?
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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jenrubin.bsky.social
ANTIFA:
October 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
stuherbert.bsky.social
Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get activation to work in Office for Mac?
yairwallach.bsky.social Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Oct 9
Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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ianvisits.co.uk
In memoriam...
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
If you go down to Stromness Library today, you can see Stephanie's superbly spooktacular window painting of Meg and Mog, from the brilliant books by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pieńkowski. 🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦉🧹🌙

#LoveLibraries #Halloween
A photo of a window painting of Meg and Mog. A witch on a broomstick, a cat, an owl and a moon and stars Photos of a window painting of Meg and Mog. A witch on a broomstick, a cat, an owl and a moon
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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yearprogress.bsky.social
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October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:
Case 1:25-cv-10685-WGY Document 261 Filed 09/30/25 Page 1 of 161 Post card dated June 19, 2025 (On file in Chambers) 1 9/S UNE 2025 TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS.. WHAT DO You HAVE? Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States -- you and me --have our magnificent Constitution. Here's how that works out in a specific case -- UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- HARVARD FACULTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, RUTGERS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, and MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Plaintiffs, ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 25-10685-WGY v. MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KRISTI NOEM, in her official [1]
September 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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dgar.bsky.social
“Loving my new Klingon Bird of Prey tattoo!!!” [Image: Someone (unknown - not Dgar) pulls their shirt sleeve back to reveal the back of their shoulder. There is no tattoo.]
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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snarkysteff.bsky.social
This is a great example of why humanizing Nazis is bad, actually.
NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30 My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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We're starting small but we have big ambitions.

Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.

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September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
stuherbert.bsky.social
I, for one, don’t want a Labour UK government that is doing Reform’s work for them.

Stop being a useful idiot.
September 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
stuherbert.bsky.social
When you’re researching guitar pickups, and Google AI summary just quotes your own blog back at you 😂😭

I want to say “Not. Helpful.”, but the algorithm seems to think my blog actually is.
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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guitarmoog.bsky.social
Probably a good moment for a periodic reminder:
guitarmoog.bsky.social Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · Apr 30
Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them.

Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack.

There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM