Richard Newbold
@rnewbold.org
These posts? They’re scraps, fragments, cut-up pieces of the mind’s puzzle sent drifting like bottle messages into the infinite static of cyberspace—to ease the pressure, to let the steam hiss out of the valve...
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Richard Newbold
@rnewbold.org
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By some wild twist of fate, the universe slipped a peculiar gift into my skull—an empty‑canvas mind they call Aphantasia. No colours splash across my thoughts, no pictures dance to the words I read—all I have is the beat of syllables—and if I'm lucky, it's a musical rhythm that rolls like jazz.
The festive spirit doesn’t come knocking 'til the Christmas Radio Times begins—that's when it all starts for me. So I slap down £6.50 for it, a holy book of schedules, knowing full well it’s a catalogue of shows I’ll never see, because I don’t do live TV, man—except for the ladies football.
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The festive spirit doesn’t come knocking 'til the Christmas Radio Times begins—that's when it all starts for me. So I slap down £6.50 for it, a holy book of schedules, knowing full well it’s a catalogue of shows I’ll never see, because I don’t do live TV, man—except for the ladies football.
If I wanted the dead-eyed hum of AI riding shotgun in my browser, I wouldn’t be rolling with Firefox, man. A flimsy kill‑switch? Sure, but what’s the point if I still gotta haul the dead weight of that bloated code along for the ride?
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If I wanted the dead-eyed hum of AI riding shotgun in my browser, I wouldn’t be rolling with Firefox, man. A flimsy kill‑switch? Sure, but what’s the point if I still gotta haul the dead weight of that bloated code along for the ride?
Having two Lionesses running loose for SPOTY this year—one Arsenal red, one Chelsea blue—has probably split the vote right down the middle, man, and bust the door wide open for one of the other contenders.
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Having two Lionesses running loose for SPOTY this year—one Arsenal red, one Chelsea blue—has probably split the vote right down the middle, man, and bust the door wide open for one of the other contenders.
Guess I'm the bozo now.
Pretty sure that's The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, you bozos.
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Guess I'm the bozo now.
C'mon, use your head, Ed! The Clacton Führer should be last in the dock—to squirm like the traitorous snake he is—after all the Regress rodents have ratted him out.
I'm glad Keir Starmer has listened to our calls for this inquiry following the Reform Russian bribery scandal.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has launched a formal investigation into foreign election interference
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to over 10 years in prison last month for making pro-Russia statements for bribes
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to over 10 years in prison last month for making pro-Russia statements for bribes
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
C'mon, use your head, Ed! The Clacton Führer should be last in the dock—to squirm like the traitorous snake he is—after all the Regress rodents have ratted him out.
The longer you bow to a bully, the taller he grows.
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The longer you bow to a bully, the taller he grows.
We turned our backs to our continental cousins, gave 'em the cold shoulder and ripped up our membership to the largest trading block, all so we could blindly throw our lot in with these reprobates. Why? 'Cause the Commoner Rabble are treacherous fools and bigots. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US pauses implementation of $40 billion technology deal with Britain
The United States is stalling the implementation of a $40 billion technology agreement with Britain, officials said, following concerns in Washington over London's approach to digital regulation and f...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We turned our backs to our continental cousins, gave 'em the cold shoulder and ripped up our membership to the largest trading block, all so we could blindly throw our lot in with these reprobates. Why? 'Cause the Commoner Rabble are treacherous fools and bigots. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Somehow this straight-up customer tripped one of Apple's secret wires, and bam—like a silent mushroom cloud blooming in Cupertino—the whole account went up in smoke. A dire warning to all who believed that Apple stood against the punitive machine. Apple now plays Big Brother from that old ’84 dream.
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Somehow this straight-up customer tripped one of Apple's secret wires, and bam—like a silent mushroom cloud blooming in Cupertino—the whole account went up in smoke. A dire warning to all who believed that Apple stood against the punitive machine. Apple now plays Big Brother from that old ’84 dream.
Screwed together my first PC back in ’94, and by ’96 I was already flirting with Linux—compiling Apache et al. straight from the source like rolling my own cigarettes. These days I run Debian, plain and steady, because I’ve done enough wandering to know the value of a quiet, dependable ride.
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Screwed together my first PC back in ’94, and by ’96 I was already flirting with Linux—compiling Apache et al. straight from the source like rolling my own cigarettes. These days I run Debian, plain and steady, because I’ve done enough wandering to know the value of a quiet, dependable ride.
If you’re jumping the tracks over to Linux, do yourself a favour and ride with a distro that’s been around the block, that's solid, well-supported and unapologetically boring. Trust me, you don't want the shiny bleeding-edge stuff if organising your own files and folders seems like wizardry to you.
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you’re jumping the tracks over to Linux, do yourself a favour and ride with a distro that’s been around the block, that's solid, well-supported and unapologetically boring. Trust me, you don't want the shiny bleeding-edge stuff if organising your own files and folders seems like wizardry to you.
Not saying there aren’t cold shoulders out there, but half the cats crying about Linux gatekeeping just aren’t used to a straight answer—no baby talk, no soft pillows—just the raw, unvarnished facts coming fast from some autistic guy hammering the keys at 3 a.m., trying honestly, fiercely, to help.
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Not saying there aren’t cold shoulders out there, but half the cats crying about Linux gatekeeping just aren’t used to a straight answer—no baby talk, no soft pillows—just the raw, unvarnished facts coming fast from some autistic guy hammering the keys at 3 a.m., trying honestly, fiercely, to help.
Those restless souls on the deGoogle Subreddit hunting for a free‑spun alternative to Gmail, they’re chasing a mirage—you always pay one way or the other.
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Those restless souls on the deGoogle Subreddit hunting for a free‑spun alternative to Gmail, they’re chasing a mirage—you always pay one way or the other.
Timely.
Man, everyone's always talking about the kids, the boys, the young souls getting snatched up by the wild blue flicker of the internet, radicalised by slick-talking influencers, but few notice the older folks glued night after night to their little glowing slabs of lies.
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Timely.
I say it's cool, man, to turn your back on the jittery glow of the mobile net when carving out a personal website or wandering blog—you should reject the frantic thumb‑scrolls and half‑interested glances.
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I say it's cool, man, to turn your back on the jittery glow of the mobile net when carving out a personal website or wandering blog—you should reject the frantic thumb‑scrolls and half‑interested glances.
When I was twelve, back in the age of four lonely TV stations, the screen was often dull as dust—'cause the cats who ran TV carried this strange old-world duty, to lift us up, teach us something, pour a little culture into our heads. I miss that uplift.
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
When I was twelve, back in the age of four lonely TV stations, the screen was often dull as dust—'cause the cats who ran TV carried this strange old-world duty, to lift us up, teach us something, pour a little culture into our heads. I miss that uplift.
There are other haunts on this cursed digital highway where I could get my fix of cool bike art, retro computing pics, and Barça Femení updates, but the tolls are far too expensive.
bsky.app/profile/rnew...
bsky.app/profile/rnew...
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
There are other haunts on this cursed digital highway where I could get my fix of cool bike art, retro computing pics, and Barça Femení updates, but the tolls are far too expensive.
bsky.app/profile/rnew...
bsky.app/profile/rnew...
Pretty sure that's The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, you bozos.
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Pretty sure that's The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, you bozos.
If you can let the dream hum louder than the drag of the day-to-day grind, man, If you can see the world with clear eyes and see hope and possibility and not let the reality of your existence beat you down, you can leapfrog the Commoners and ascend from Misfit to Outlier.
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If you can let the dream hum louder than the drag of the day-to-day grind, man, If you can see the world with clear eyes and see hope and possibility and not let the reality of your existence beat you down, you can leapfrog the Commoners and ascend from Misfit to Outlier.
Man, if you’re stepping onto Linux, don’t linger in the shadows of the old world. Drop the cheap disguises that dress it up like Windows or macOS—toss out closed source commercial crap and Wine fakery—embrace the freedom of open source software and ride the endless highway of true, unfiltered Linux.
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Man, if you’re stepping onto Linux, don’t linger in the shadows of the old world. Drop the cheap disguises that dress it up like Windows or macOS—toss out closed source commercial crap and Wine fakery—embrace the freedom of open source software and ride the endless highway of true, unfiltered Linux.
Man, the jokes on Meta for hiring the cat who slipped that glass‑y, liquid nightmare into Apple’s palm.
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Man, the jokes on Meta for hiring the cat who slipped that glass‑y, liquid nightmare into Apple’s palm.
Nice. I had an Apple Performa in the mid '90s, looked a lot like this—solid, simple, a little futuristic in that '90s way. It even came with an infrared remote for the internal TV card.
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Nice. I had an Apple Performa in the mid '90s, looked a lot like this—solid, simple, a little futuristic in that '90s way. It even came with an infrared remote for the internal TV card.
So, basically, the OBR chairman has resigned because some joker picked WordPress—a system that installs 10,000 files for a simple 10 page website. Nothing good rolls from using WordPress—ever.
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So, basically, the OBR chairman has resigned because some joker picked WordPress—a system that installs 10,000 files for a simple 10 page website. Nothing good rolls from using WordPress—ever.
Europe is finally waking up to the fact that leaning on U.S. tech—especially the slick, invisible code that runs our lives—has got to be put on the back burner. Yet, in the rush to break the shackles we risk spitting out mountains of e‑waste. www.politico.eu/article/get-...
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Europe is finally waking up to the fact that leaning on U.S. tech—especially the slick, invisible code that runs our lives—has got to be put on the back burner. Yet, in the rush to break the shackles we risk spitting out mountains of e‑waste. www.politico.eu/article/get-...
Damn—December 1st, my first weigh-in in months, and I'm two‑sixty‑six pounds, the heaviest I’ve ever been. This cannot stand, man—I must do something about it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Damn—December 1st, my first weigh-in in months, and I'm two‑sixty‑six pounds, the heaviest I’ve ever been. This cannot stand, man—I must do something about it.
Aitana—my favourite—drew me to The Bridge, where, like a traitor among the Chelsea faithful, I quietly cheered for La Blaugrana. But lately she’s moving awkwardly, her passing's a little wayward, her spark dimming. This injury's a total drag, man, but I think she needs a break to rest and recharge.
🏥 Aitana Bonmatí has suffered a fracture in her left fibula after landing awkwardly during training today.
She has been withdrawn from Spain’s national team and will travel to Barcelona to begin her recovery process.
#fcbfemeni
She has been withdrawn from Spain’s national team and will travel to Barcelona to begin her recovery process.
#fcbfemeni
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Aitana—my favourite—drew me to The Bridge, where, like a traitor among the Chelsea faithful, I quietly cheered for La Blaugrana. But lately she’s moving awkwardly, her passing's a little wayward, her spark dimming. This injury's a total drag, man, but I think she needs a break to rest and recharge.