Stuart
@smuso.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Music MolBiol Theol Piano
Tom of Finland but mostly my boys.
Windsor/Carcassonne
Tom of Finland but mostly my boys.
Windsor/Carcassonne
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.
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Joan Sutherland died on this day fifteen years ago. Too many astonishing performances and recordings, really, to choose just one, but her 1965 Semiramide is simply staggering. Here's the Act II duet with Marilyn Horne.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
Rossini - Semiramide - Act II Arsace - Semiramide duet - Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne (1965)
YouTube video by vicmanu
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October 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Joan Sutherland died on this day fifteen years ago. Too many astonishing performances and recordings, really, to choose just one, but her 1965 Semiramide is simply staggering. Here's the Act II duet with Marilyn Horne.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
43 years together and I still haven’t persuaded him to stop playing with church!
October 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
43 years together and I still haven’t persuaded him to stop playing with church!
Conservative Party are a bunch of lunatic chancers now. A Brexit fuelled disintegration of a once mostly reasonable and competent organisation.
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Conservative Party are a bunch of lunatic chancers now. A Brexit fuelled disintegration of a once mostly reasonable and competent organisation.
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One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney
Murdoch’s royal welcome
Rupert goes to Windsor...
writesbright.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney
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Canada’s new government is creating an entirely new housing industry.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Canada’s new government is creating an entirely new housing industry.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
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See the reply from Douglas Bader’s (WW2 hero) relatives
Superb!
Superb!
September 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
See the reply from Douglas Bader’s (WW2 hero) relatives
Superb!
Superb!
The farm shop is closed!
That’s all I’m saying
That’s all I’m saying
September 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The farm shop is closed!
That’s all I’m saying
That’s all I’m saying
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Mix of cowardice and failing to understand the way racists have forced the agenda. This has to come to an end.
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mix of cowardice and failing to understand the way racists have forced the agenda. This has to come to an end.
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This is spot on. There is much to be grateful for - and much overdone negativity to rebut - as I point out in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social comments. Please subscribe and read!
At the risk of sounding like a government spokesperson, I wonder if we're too gloomy. NHS waiting times are falling, as are net migration numbers. Growth hasn't been fast, but it's improved. Real wages are growing. Inflation is a bit sticky, but much reduced.
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is spot on. There is much to be grateful for - and much overdone negativity to rebut - as I point out in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social comments. Please subscribe and read!
Despite labour losing its way nothing on earth would encourage me to back the chaotic and random Corbin world of
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
September 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Despite labour losing its way nothing on earth would encourage me to back the chaotic and random Corbin world of
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
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It isn't mostly about the boats, it isn't mostly about the growth, it is rather a generalised feeling that the system is working against ordinary people.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
September 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It isn't mostly about the boats, it isn't mostly about the growth, it is rather a generalised feeling that the system is working against ordinary people.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
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This (Sun Times) is why the Reform clownshow feels unstoppable…
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
September 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This (Sun Times) is why the Reform clownshow feels unstoppable…
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
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Never deleting this vid @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Never deleting this vid @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
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not seeing 'concerned mums' here, more like 'thugs threatening violence'
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
not seeing 'concerned mums' here, more like 'thugs threatening violence'
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I took thus screenshot from the State Department Twitter page. What a load of Christofascist horseshit.
September 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I took thus screenshot from the State Department Twitter page. What a load of Christofascist horseshit.
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
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Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
September 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
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"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Chicken Farage bans The New World
It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
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Farage's tactic as an MEP was to show up just to make an anti-EU tirade and then clip it for YouTube. Nice to see the tactic used the other way around.
Jamie Raskin's full speech roasting Farage and free speech imposters like him/Trump is now online here.....
Watch it all.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Watch it all.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
HEATED DEBATE: Rep. Jamie Raskin DESTROYS Nigel Farage in Explosive Capitol Hill Clash | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Farage's tactic as an MEP was to show up just to make an anti-EU tirade and then clip it for YouTube. Nice to see the tactic used the other way around.
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He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
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Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass