Richard Stidworthy
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They find occasion to do something vile and discover that human rights law - the attempt to codify the limits basic decency imposes on state action - precludes their grim little agenda, and instead of recoiling from their own ugliness they decide the mirror is at fault.
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
They find occasion to do something vile and discover that human rights law - the attempt to codify the limits basic decency imposes on state action - precludes their grim little agenda, and instead of recoiling from their own ugliness they decide the mirror is at fault.
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Of course if Reform get in the BBC will be forced to apologise for Pike calling Hitler a twerp.
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Of course if Reform get in the BBC will be forced to apologise for Pike calling Hitler a twerp.
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Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Cold, dead and unnecessary hands.
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Cold, dead and unnecessary hands.
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The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
"Let us take these oddly sourced parts, a fish finger, four walnuts, Casemiro, and bake them into a workable meal, but only, and I will not compromise on this, if I can do it in the shape of a bicycle."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
At any normal club Ruben Amorim would lose his job – but not Manchester United | Barney Ronay
Obdurate manager’s Ruben-ball could arguably take the blame for Fernandes’s penalty fluff in another utterly bloodless performance
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Let us take these oddly sourced parts, a fish finger, four walnuts, Casemiro, and bake them into a workable meal, but only, and I will not compromise on this, if I can do it in the shape of a bicycle."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Sci-fi has long insisted that the arrival of AI would be a singular moment in human civilisation, one so significant it would immediately change everything forever, for better or worse
Instead it's been a steady, inexorable increase in having to say "Will you just FU*K OFF!" multiple times daily
Instead it's been a steady, inexorable increase in having to say "Will you just FU*K OFF!" multiple times daily
September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Sci-fi has long insisted that the arrival of AI would be a singular moment in human civilisation, one so significant it would immediately change everything forever, for better or worse
Instead it's been a steady, inexorable increase in having to say "Will you just FU*K OFF!" multiple times daily
Instead it's been a steady, inexorable increase in having to say "Will you just FU*K OFF!" multiple times daily
Slightly diminish a band:
Comme ci comme ca Iver
Comme ci comme ca Iver
Slightly diminish a band:
The Velvet Underground without Nico.
The Velvet Underground without Nico.
Slightly diminish a band: Orange Juice (from concentrate).
August 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Comme ci comme ca Iver
Comme ci comme ca Iver
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The minimum qualifications for joining the MET need looking at…
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The minimum qualifications for joining the MET need looking at…
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AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
August 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
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I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.
July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.
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FFS! Buy CDs direct from the artists' websites! Or failing that, a music shop. Or failing that, the HMV online store. You don't need to buy *anything* from Amazon.
May 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
FFS! Buy CDs direct from the artists' websites! Or failing that, a music shop. Or failing that, the HMV online store. You don't need to buy *anything* from Amazon.
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When the choice is between a) every artist, writer, performer, and environmentalist in the world and b) seven billionaires and all the Nazis, I don't think it's something you need to agonise over.
April 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
When the choice is between a) every artist, writer, performer, and environmentalist in the world and b) seven billionaires and all the Nazis, I don't think it's something you need to agonise over.
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Ditto news and journalism.
It’s broadly true of consumer capitalism in general. You make money by giving substandard product in great quantities to large numbers of people, while offering a better made product as a premium good to a smaller demographic.
It’s broadly true of consumer capitalism in general. You make money by giving substandard product in great quantities to large numbers of people, while offering a better made product as a premium good to a smaller demographic.
April 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ditto news and journalism.
It’s broadly true of consumer capitalism in general. You make money by giving substandard product in great quantities to large numbers of people, while offering a better made product as a premium good to a smaller demographic.
It’s broadly true of consumer capitalism in general. You make money by giving substandard product in great quantities to large numbers of people, while offering a better made product as a premium good to a smaller demographic.
Bus stop's so hip, it's twisting my...
I'm for fruit-themed bus infrastructure.
April 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Bus stop's so hip, it's twisting my...
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tech bro is short for technically broken
April 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
tech bro is short for technically broken
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I’m honestly pretty shocked at how brazenly pro-big tech the final version of the report is, and that their proposed solutions are an academic centre and a tax on consumers.
7 /8
7 /8
April 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I’m honestly pretty shocked at how brazenly pro-big tech the final version of the report is, and that their proposed solutions are an academic centre and a tax on consumers.
7 /8
7 /8
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FIFA and the club World Cup. An act of disruption
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Infantino’s $1bn prize: act of commercial disruption disguised as benevolence | Barney Ronay
Fifa president’s talk of the Club World Cup promoting access and equity is simply double-think to disguise another land grab
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
FIFA and the club World Cup. An act of disruption
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
![a Google search for 'the effect of UX on [expletive] libraries' showing no AI overview, just the search results](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgpxmpiumlpxxclzsgar5lnq/bafkreic6uzw2erxbl6v67yece6647wgdmxvqjfglrs767cq7rghazbukxu@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
Post your favourite Doctor Who (wrong answers only)
March 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Post your favourite Doctor Who (wrong answers only)