Stew Elliott
@stewcelliott.bsky.social
British / Irish. Software engineer, amateur photographer, urbanism dilettante. 🔶 (he/him)
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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I hope this goes, I love Honor Among Thieves- these guys get it.
Another Trek movie project!
With the Paramount regime change, it could be serious this time... Or not 🖖
The good news?
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) will write and direct a movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done. 🙏
With the Paramount regime change, it could be serious this time... Or not 🖖
The good news?
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) will write and direct a movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done. 🙏
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works From John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
The 'Dungeons & Dragons' filmmakers will create a project unrelated to previous incarnations.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I hope this goes, I love Honor Among Thieves- these guys get it.
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Terrific but depressing by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. LLMs are, I am convinced, the worst thing to happen to fair hiring since the end of legal discrimination:
The AI Shift: Is hiring becoming less meritocratic?
[FREE TO READ] Use of LLMs encourage more applications but they change the commitment signal of employers and employees
on.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Terrific but depressing by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. LLMs are, I am convinced, the worst thing to happen to fair hiring since the end of legal discrimination:
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This is actually really good news for Your Party and Sultana specifically, which is pretty much the only shining light of hope they've had in months of chaotic launch.
Why? Because Hussain is an anti-LGBTQ+ landlord who basically has nothing in common with any of the left other than Gaza support.
Why? Because Hussain is an anti-LGBTQ+ landlord who basically has nothing in common with any of the left other than Gaza support.
Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is actually really good news for Your Party and Sultana specifically, which is pretty much the only shining light of hope they've had in months of chaotic launch.
Why? Because Hussain is an anti-LGBTQ+ landlord who basically has nothing in common with any of the left other than Gaza support.
Why? Because Hussain is an anti-LGBTQ+ landlord who basically has nothing in common with any of the left other than Gaza support.
Didn't expect to witness a murder on a Reddit thread about stuffed cabbage rolls.
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Didn't expect to witness a murder on a Reddit thread about stuffed cabbage rolls.
I will crib one that I saw doing the rounds here a few days ago which is that I fully believe in a corporate death penalty. A company guilty of doing sufficiently heinous crimes should be punished with dissolution, with the proceeds of its liquiditation shared amongst non-executive workers.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I will crib one that I saw doing the rounds here a few days ago which is that I fully believe in a corporate death penalty. A company guilty of doing sufficiently heinous crimes should be punished with dissolution, with the proceeds of its liquiditation shared amongst non-executive workers.
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my most woke opinion is that any truck/SUV over 4,000 pounds should require a commercial drivers license, increased insurance/registration, more expensive parking, and higher punishments for traffic violations
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my most woke opinion is that any truck/SUV over 4,000 pounds should require a commercial drivers license, increased insurance/registration, more expensive parking, and higher punishments for traffic violations
That's a very fine frown and wrinkled lip. Sneer of cold command needs work though.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
That's a very fine frown and wrinkled lip. Sneer of cold command needs work though.
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“Now show it in the rain,” is a comment that pops up in our feed occasionally, as if the country that cycles 18 billion kilometres while experiencing 217 days of precipitation each year grinds to a halt every single time the skies open.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad infrastructure.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad infrastructure.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Now show it in the rain,” is a comment that pops up in our feed occasionally, as if the country that cycles 18 billion kilometres while experiencing 217 days of precipitation each year grinds to a halt every single time the skies open.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad infrastructure.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad infrastructure.
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
When your employer increases the frequency of "performance reflections" from twice yearly to once quarterly
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When your employer increases the frequency of "performance reflections" from twice yearly to once quarterly
Anno....yeah this one hurts. This is a real low point. The (hand drawn) loading screen art in Anno 1800 was so beautiful I didn't mind the long loading times.
Really love how Generative AI tools are enabling tiny developers like ~checks notes~ ...Ubisoft... to really punch above their weight with risky indie hits like... the 8th game in the Anno franchise.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Anno....yeah this one hurts. This is a real low point. The (hand drawn) loading screen art in Anno 1800 was so beautiful I didn't mind the long loading times.
And yet there are solid anti-car cases no matter which ideology you subscribe to:
If you're a socialist, cars are drivers of inequality.
If you're a liberal, car-centric infrastructure deprives you of choice.
If you're a conservative, cars cost the public purse and hoover up state subsidies.
If you're a socialist, cars are drivers of inequality.
If you're a liberal, car-centric infrastructure deprives you of choice.
If you're a conservative, cars cost the public purse and hoover up state subsidies.
A stark contrast between London Labour & Oxfordshire LibDems (pro charging drivers more to tackle congestion) and London LibDems and Oxfordshire Labour (against additional charges).
Which party is in favour of which travel schemes is so often a postcode lottery.
Which party is in favour of which travel schemes is so often a postcode lottery.
From 2 January 2026, London's daily Congestion Charge will jump from £15 to £18. TfL says it's necessary to tackle increasing traffic.
Electric vehicles will be affected too, though with a 50 per cent discount for electric vans, HGVs and quadricycles and a 25 per cent discount for electric cars.
Electric vehicles will be affected too, though with a 50 per cent discount for electric vans, HGVs and quadricycles and a 25 per cent discount for electric cars.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And yet there are solid anti-car cases no matter which ideology you subscribe to:
If you're a socialist, cars are drivers of inequality.
If you're a liberal, car-centric infrastructure deprives you of choice.
If you're a conservative, cars cost the public purse and hoover up state subsidies.
If you're a socialist, cars are drivers of inequality.
If you're a liberal, car-centric infrastructure deprives you of choice.
If you're a conservative, cars cost the public purse and hoover up state subsidies.
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A stark contrast between London Labour & Oxfordshire LibDems (pro charging drivers more to tackle congestion) and London LibDems and Oxfordshire Labour (against additional charges).
Which party is in favour of which travel schemes is so often a postcode lottery.
Which party is in favour of which travel schemes is so often a postcode lottery.
From 2 January 2026, London's daily Congestion Charge will jump from £15 to £18. TfL says it's necessary to tackle increasing traffic.
Electric vehicles will be affected too, though with a 50 per cent discount for electric vans, HGVs and quadricycles and a 25 per cent discount for electric cars.
Electric vehicles will be affected too, though with a 50 per cent discount for electric vans, HGVs and quadricycles and a 25 per cent discount for electric cars.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A stark contrast between London Labour & Oxfordshire LibDems (pro charging drivers more to tackle congestion) and London LibDems and Oxfordshire Labour (against additional charges).
Which party is in favour of which travel schemes is so often a postcode lottery.
Which party is in favour of which travel schemes is so often a postcode lottery.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
Sitting here in the UK, where the most incentive we have to cycle comes in the form of salary sacrifice and tax breaks, looking enviously at France where they just give you the damn money.
Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sitting here in the UK, where the most incentive we have to cycle comes in the form of salary sacrifice and tax breaks, looking enviously at France where they just give you the damn money.
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The British public yearns for the creations of autistic elderly shed-hermits and their well meaning grandsons
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The British public yearns for the creations of autistic elderly shed-hermits and their well meaning grandsons
Worth it entirely for the confected Daily Mail outrage stories about how Sergeant Bash uses they/them pronouns or Sir Killalot is vegan now.
The BBC could really redeem itself to much of the public by re-commissioning Robot Wars
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worth it entirely for the confected Daily Mail outrage stories about how Sergeant Bash uses they/them pronouns or Sir Killalot is vegan now.
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Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
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Oh god the whole scheme should be reformed 100% it’s horrendously regressive and built around a legal fiction. But equally the scheme is the sole reason I have a cargo bike that means I don’t need a car with two kids. So my take is “we’re opening it up to everyone of all incomes… right? Right?”
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Oh god the whole scheme should be reformed 100% it’s horrendously regressive and built around a legal fiction. But equally the scheme is the sole reason I have a cargo bike that means I don’t need a car with two kids. So my take is “we’re opening it up to everyone of all incomes… right? Right?”
Am I to take this quote to mean that this government figure thinks the only bikes you should be able to buy via this scheme are uncomfortable old clunkers? If the aim is to "switch to greener travel" then yes, £4000 ebikes are exactly what it should support.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Am I to take this quote to mean that this government figure thinks the only bikes you should be able to buy via this scheme are uncomfortable old clunkers? If the aim is to "switch to greener travel" then yes, £4000 ebikes are exactly what it should support.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Taking bets that fuel duty is still going to be frozen?
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
Rachel Reeves to curb bike purchases through salary sacrifice in Budget
Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Taking bets that fuel duty is still going to be frozen?
Nothing like updating your address en-masse to make you realise that a lot of organisations (hello Cycling UK) are truly shoddy at maintaining their user account databases.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nothing like updating your address en-masse to make you realise that a lot of organisations (hello Cycling UK) are truly shoddy at maintaining their user account databases.