Richard Bartlett
@rgbartlett.bsky.social
Infosec nerd, environmentalist, wannabe #solarpunk and water gypsy. End User Computing Manager at a humanitarian non-profit. All views my own.
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The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling.
All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.
Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.
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All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.
Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling.
All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.
Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.
Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Having used my #Fairphone5 with @calyxos.bsky.social and @fdroidorg.bsky.social I'm struck by how much better the experience is compared to my (work) Android Samsung Galaxy A16. If you want to retain that freedom of choice sign this petition to stop Google taking it away c.org/XQBckBYV9W
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop Google from limiting APK file usage
c.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Having used my #Fairphone5 with @calyxos.bsky.social and @fdroidorg.bsky.social I'm struck by how much better the experience is compared to my (work) Android Samsung Galaxy A16. If you want to retain that freedom of choice sign this petition to stop Google taking it away c.org/XQBckBYV9W
A lot of dogs don't like vacuum cleaners, some are petrified. Not so much our dog, he's completely unfazed.
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A lot of dogs don't like vacuum cleaners, some are petrified. Not so much our dog, he's completely unfazed.
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
I swear if I hear "We need to capitalise on AI" one more time I'm going to flip the table. This whole industry is a masterclass in snake oil sales, they've convinced a whole class of 'leaders' that they have to use it, without it being of actual use to 99% of them.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I swear if I hear "We need to capitalise on AI" one more time I'm going to flip the table. This whole industry is a masterclass in snake oil sales, they've convinced a whole class of 'leaders' that they have to use it, without it being of actual use to 99% of them.
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Interesting that (a) he didn't feel able to give a categorical 'no' in response to the question & (b) he answered a completely different question to the one he was asked — from which we may draw the conclusion that he did not want to be pressed about _current_ RefUK MPs &/or members & Russian bribes
You think it'd be in Zia Yusuf and Reform's interests to be a lot more convincing than this...
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interesting that (a) he didn't feel able to give a categorical 'no' in response to the question & (b) he answered a completely different question to the one he was asked — from which we may draw the conclusion that he did not want to be pressed about _current_ RefUK MPs &/or members & Russian bribes
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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The Government needs to get serious about climate change. And it hasn't so we're suing. But this is the longest and most expensive legal letter Good Law Project has ever sent - and it involves a huge team of specialist lawyers. And we really could use your help. goodlaw.social/4cqi
Make Keir Starmer step up on climate
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Government needs to get serious about climate change. And it hasn't so we're suing. But this is the longest and most expensive legal letter Good Law Project has ever sent - and it involves a huge team of specialist lawyers. And we really could use your help. goodlaw.social/4cqi
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URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Today on the blog I wrote about AI and the golem, and the benefit of listening to cautionary tales from the past.
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…
going-medieval.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today on the blog I wrote about AI and the golem, and the benefit of listening to cautionary tales from the past.
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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A lovely way to warm the heart of anyone who's sick of Kier Starmer. Its poetry. @cassetteboy.bsky.social is a legend. youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?...
Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer
YouTube video by cassetteboy
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October 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A lovely way to warm the heart of anyone who's sick of Kier Starmer. Its poetry. @cassetteboy.bsky.social is a legend. youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?...
This is the kind of leadership we need, this is the politics I support. Let's fucking goooo
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is the kind of leadership we need, this is the politics I support. Let's fucking goooo
I watched Riot Woman on the BBC earlier, and bloody hell its a must watch. Traumatic, powerful, joyous and righteous in equal parts. It exposes the uphill struggle women with menopause and perimenopause face, and also the misogyny still rife in our society, from our families to our police force.
October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I watched Riot Woman on the BBC earlier, and bloody hell its a must watch. Traumatic, powerful, joyous and righteous in equal parts. It exposes the uphill struggle women with menopause and perimenopause face, and also the misogyny still rife in our society, from our families to our police force.
I was looking forward to replacing our 2018 MacBook Pro with something more sustainable, and the @frame.work Laptop 16 was in my basket. Then by coincidence I found out their CEO, when challenged about supporting a known racist, had tried to hand wave it away community.frame.work/t/framework-...
Framework supporting far-right racists?
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality. If I understand cor...
community.frame.work
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I was looking forward to replacing our 2018 MacBook Pro with something more sustainable, and the @frame.work Laptop 16 was in my basket. Then by coincidence I found out their CEO, when challenged about supporting a known racist, had tried to hand wave it away community.frame.work/t/framework-...
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I keep hearing a lot about 'British Values', and as someone born and educated in Britain I'm not entirely sure what those values are, or who gets to decide what they are. I went to our governments website to find out, and it appears British Values are comma separated. Glad I cleared that up.
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I keep hearing a lot about 'British Values', and as someone born and educated in Britain I'm not entirely sure what those values are, or who gets to decide what they are. I went to our governments website to find out, and it appears British Values are comma separated. Glad I cleared that up.
I keep hearing a lot about 'British Values', and as someone born and educated in Britain I'm not entirely sure what those values are, or who gets to decide what they are. I went to our governments website to find out, and it appears British Values are comma separated. Glad I cleared that up.
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I keep hearing a lot about 'British Values', and as someone born and educated in Britain I'm not entirely sure what those values are, or who gets to decide what they are. I went to our governments website to find out, and it appears British Values are comma separated. Glad I cleared that up.
Unbelievable! We complained to @nationalhighways.bsky.social about England flags painted on the A1 underpass at Buckden, they said they wouldn't come out unless the graffiti was 'offensive', they've since attended site, painted over the word 'nonce', and left the England flags! What is going on!?
October 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Unbelievable! We complained to @nationalhighways.bsky.social about England flags painted on the A1 underpass at Buckden, they said they wouldn't come out unless the graffiti was 'offensive', they've since attended site, painted over the word 'nonce', and left the England flags! What is going on!?
I love it when I read a book, and before I even finish it I'm already looking forward to reading more from the same writer. This is Wild Folk People from the amazing Beans on Toast and its just full of lovely stories about amazing people!
September 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I love it when I read a book, and before I even finish it I'm already looking forward to reading more from the same writer. This is Wild Folk People from the amazing Beans on Toast and its just full of lovely stories about amazing people!
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Virgin Active has enforced a changing room and bathroom ban because of a threat by GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry.
Email Virgin Active and let them know they should follow the law, not transphobes 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law
Email Virgin Active and let them know they should follow the law, not transphobes 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law
September 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Virgin Active has enforced a changing room and bathroom ban because of a threat by GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry.
Email Virgin Active and let them know they should follow the law, not transphobes 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law
Email Virgin Active and let them know they should follow the law, not transphobes 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law
I discovered a lovely English Rum at my local today. Smelled amazing, subtle flavours, an amazing aftertaste, a real treat. Highly recommend Lugger Spiced Rum, and the Horseshoe Inn at Offord D'Arcy if you're in the Huntingdonshire area.
September 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I discovered a lovely English Rum at my local today. Smelled amazing, subtle flavours, an amazing aftertaste, a real treat. Highly recommend Lugger Spiced Rum, and the Horseshoe Inn at Offord D'Arcy if you're in the Huntingdonshire area.
Loved the Make Them Pay march today in London with thousands of diverse but like minded people. Slightly confused as to why the police weren't able to stop marching bands flying the flags of various Unionist paramilitary groups (e.g. the UVF) march right through the middle of it!
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Loved the Make Them Pay march today in London with thousands of diverse but like minded people. Slightly confused as to why the police weren't able to stop marching bands flying the flags of various Unionist paramilitary groups (e.g. the UVF) march right through the middle of it!
Make your mind up John Lewis. Fortunately it was delivered, might be nice to include an unboxing service so people who can't lift an 11.5kg microwave out of a cupboard box, like my mother (who's in her 80's)
September 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Make your mind up John Lewis. Fortunately it was delivered, might be nice to include an unboxing service so people who can't lift an 11.5kg microwave out of a cupboard box, like my mother (who's in her 80's)