Stu Clennett
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'Muscular Portuguese racing sardine' - Mr P Woodcock
"You see things as they are and ask why,
I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"You see things as they are and ask why,
I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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A civilisation that contains destitute poor as well as billionaires is an abject failure. A civilisation that contains trillionaires is one that will soon collapse. You've all been warned, many times, by many people, and yet here we fucking are.
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A civilisation that contains destitute poor as well as billionaires is an abject failure. A civilisation that contains trillionaires is one that will soon collapse. You've all been warned, many times, by many people, and yet here we fucking are.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
Huge congratulations to VRBO who, after repeated attempts over the last two months, have singularly failed to remove me from their mailing list.
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Huge congratulations to VRBO who, after repeated attempts over the last two months, have singularly failed to remove me from their mailing list.
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Changing the user interface on phones and other computers every few months doesn't really help anyone. We need laws to keep user interfaces stable for at least 10 years at a time.
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Changing the user interface on phones and other computers every few months doesn't really help anyone. We need laws to keep user interfaces stable for at least 10 years at a time.
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This country would be one step closer to being better if we banned the sale of fireworks and disposable barbecues in supermarkets.
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This country would be one step closer to being better if we banned the sale of fireworks and disposable barbecues in supermarkets.
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Wrote a thing about agents. If you’re a new writer or are actively querying, hope this helps keep you safe!
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
Too Many Sharks: A Warning About "Agents"
No, seriously
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November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Wrote a thing about agents. If you’re a new writer or are actively querying, hope this helps keep you safe!
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
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If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
If there's a choice between watching the movie Northmen and stabbing yourself in the eye with a knitting needle, my advice would be to make sure you sterilise the knitting need first.
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If there's a choice between watching the movie Northmen and stabbing yourself in the eye with a knitting needle, my advice would be to make sure you sterilise the knitting need first.
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Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
![But the sketch I have here attempted to give of its varied functions shows us that it is really a most complex structure, a wonderful piece of machinery, as[ 259] it were, which in its various component gases, its actions and reactions upon the water and the land, its production of electrical discharges, and its furnishing the elements from which the whole fabric of organic life is composed and perpetually renewed, may be truly considered to be the very source and foundation of life itself. This is seen, not only in the fact of our absolute dependence upon it every minute of our lives, but in the terrible effects produced by even a slight degree of impurity in this vital element. Yet it is among those nations that claim to be the most civilised, those that profess to be guided by a knowledge of the laws of nature, those that most glory in the advance of science, that we find the greatest apathy, the greatest recklessness, in continually rendering impure this all-important necessary of life, to such a degree that the health of the larger portion of their populations is injured and their vitality lowered, by conditions which compel them to breathe more or less foul and impure air for the greater part of their lives. The huge and ever-increasing cities, the vast manufacturing towns belching forth smoke and poisonous gases, with the crowded dwellings, where millions are forced to live under the most terrible insanitary conditions, are the witnesses to this criminal apathy, this incredible recklessness and inhumanity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2g72wvrmzdfakrjq56d3lddj/bafkreidgfp3g5erh7m3rdhzqvar2th65nqj72arwtpxrzak4yvtepmshba@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
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There's got to be a massive chance of public backlash against all this AI assistant stuff
It's totally being forced down people's throats and it barely works yet
Those pushing it have a massive megaphone
But one killerapp of capitalism is people vote with their wallets
It's totally being forced down people's throats and it barely works yet
Those pushing it have a massive megaphone
But one killerapp of capitalism is people vote with their wallets
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
There's got to be a massive chance of public backlash against all this AI assistant stuff
It's totally being forced down people's throats and it barely works yet
Those pushing it have a massive megaphone
But one killerapp of capitalism is people vote with their wallets
It's totally being forced down people's throats and it barely works yet
Those pushing it have a massive megaphone
But one killerapp of capitalism is people vote with their wallets
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Some key stats on UK immigration
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Some key stats on UK immigration
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
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To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
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There comes a point in the lives of the rich and famous that they stop having people around them who can turn to them and say "Don't be a dickhead, Darren. For fuck's sake." and they will listen.
That point comes well before they reach billionaire status. By then, it's sycophants only.
That point comes well before they reach billionaire status. By then, it's sycophants only.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There comes a point in the lives of the rich and famous that they stop having people around them who can turn to them and say "Don't be a dickhead, Darren. For fuck's sake." and they will listen.
That point comes well before they reach billionaire status. By then, it's sycophants only.
That point comes well before they reach billionaire status. By then, it's sycophants only.
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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F##king hell!
"Don't believe what you read in books, except the bible."
SERIOUSLY?!
youtube.com/shorts/qPLAX...
"Don't believe what you read in books, except the bible."
SERIOUSLY?!
youtube.com/shorts/qPLAX...
Hegseth GRILLED After He Did THIS
YouTube video by MoveOn
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October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
F##king hell!
"Don't believe what you read in books, except the bible."
SERIOUSLY?!
youtube.com/shorts/qPLAX...
"Don't believe what you read in books, except the bible."
SERIOUSLY?!
youtube.com/shorts/qPLAX...
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They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
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The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
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“Don't allow yourself to be governed; be the master. Never have a favorite or a prime minister.”
Louis XV 🇫🇷
Louis XV 🇫🇷
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
“Don't allow yourself to be governed; be the master. Never have a favorite or a prime minister.”
Louis XV 🇫🇷
Louis XV 🇫🇷
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My latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar
If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinb...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
My latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...