Stewart
@yourfootmyface.bsky.social
Love of beer and bicycles combined with an unhealthy disdain of science, politics, art, engineering, TV, economics, music. Lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Not sure how.
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"...Globally, shipowners are not retiring their old vessels. Post-COVID, a surge in demand led to record profits in shipping. With freight rates soaring, owners are pushing ships beyond their usual operational life instead of sending them for dismantling.”
‘No work’: India’s Alang, the world’s largest graveyard of ships, is dying https://aje.io/xgn0xg
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
"...Globally, shipowners are not retiring their old vessels. Post-COVID, a surge in demand led to record profits in shipping. With freight rates soaring, owners are pushing ships beyond their usual operational life instead of sending them for dismantling.”
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🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker.
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
A New Yorker Profile
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker.
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
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As a dev who's mostly done web and mobile, I'm constantly struck by how many careful and thoughtful standards for UX and accessibility have been rigorously applied to everything digital, and how all of those standards are instantly 100% discarded when ads become a factor.
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
As a dev who's mostly done web and mobile, I'm constantly struck by how many careful and thoughtful standards for UX and accessibility have been rigorously applied to everything digital, and how all of those standards are instantly 100% discarded when ads become a factor.
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
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apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
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And who stands to gain from pushing AI?
The owner of Time, billionaire Marc Benioff.
When billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
time.com/7339685/pers...
The owner of Time, billionaire Marc Benioff.
When billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
time.com/7339685/pers...
The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world
time.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
And who stands to gain from pushing AI?
The owner of Time, billionaire Marc Benioff.
When billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
time.com/7339685/pers...
The owner of Time, billionaire Marc Benioff.
When billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
time.com/7339685/pers...
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Just saw a dog piss on one of these Uber Eats drones in Hyde Park
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Just saw a dog piss on one of these Uber Eats drones in Hyde Park
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Shot. Chaser.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Shot. Chaser.
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Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
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The SSpectator
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The SSpectator
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I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸
(sadly, without credit)
(sadly, without credit)
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸
(sadly, without credit)
(sadly, without credit)
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
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Returning, perhaps unwisely, to this.
This is dangerous territory for @zackpolanski.bsky.social because he needs economists to support him when he makes policy proposals. Not to support the proposals necessarily, but at least to say 'regardless of whether I favour the proposal, this is coherent'.
This is dangerous territory for @zackpolanski.bsky.social because he needs economists to support him when he makes policy proposals. Not to support the proposals necessarily, but at least to say 'regardless of whether I favour the proposal, this is coherent'.
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Returning, perhaps unwisely, to this.
This is dangerous territory for @zackpolanski.bsky.social because he needs economists to support him when he makes policy proposals. Not to support the proposals necessarily, but at least to say 'regardless of whether I favour the proposal, this is coherent'.
This is dangerous territory for @zackpolanski.bsky.social because he needs economists to support him when he makes policy proposals. Not to support the proposals necessarily, but at least to say 'regardless of whether I favour the proposal, this is coherent'.
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Guy Fawkes signature before and after watching this World Cup Draw
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Guy Fawkes signature before and after watching this World Cup Draw
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The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The CEO of Palantir.
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Newark, where the employment rate is well below the national average...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Newark, where the employment rate is well below the national average...
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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