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Nigel Smith

@nigelsmith.org
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🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 Technology, politics, and culture; working with ML and AI in maritime software - currently using Elixir, Kotlin, Python and friends to solve problems

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.
Actor Gary Oldman playing Jackson Lamb in the Slow Horses TV series. He is scruffy, unshaven, with lank, greasy hair.
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 12/03/2026
From the 90s cycle
A vintage thinkgeek t-shirt with the words “will work for bandwidth” written on it
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Swan Lake Pas De Quatre GIF
Alt: A GIF of dancers from Swan Lake, implying an old Soviet meme
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 06/01/2026
I wonder if people at BA get paged when the app actually works
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 31/12/2025
eww - please do not come to even virtual Greenwich
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car. It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 22/07/2025
Not a kindle in sight on the tube this morning - books everywhere
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 10/05/2025
The Empire would have been defeated on Ghorman by British planning rules. “That administrative building is far too bulky, not in keeping with the area, and too tall for the low rise neighbourhood it’s sited in” #andor
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 17/03/2025
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a man with a beard is running on a track with a sign that says 100m race
ALT: a man with a beard is running on a track with a sign that says 100m race
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 16/03/2025
It means, it’s time
A frame from Dune part 1 showing the mentat thufir hawat A frame from the David lynch adaptation of dune showing thufir hawat
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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I clicked on this post from @timothysnyder.bsky.social with the intent to read it later, but instead found myself unable to look away. An incredibly eye-opening read worthy of a few minutes of your time today: snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Launching on the 15th of March 2025. Subscribe/Follow now, to get the first episode as soon as it hits the apps. SPOTIFY 🎧: open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3H... APPLE 🍏: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... RSS FEED 🔊: feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 24/02/2025
How could this situation possibly have developed? www.ft.com/content/aa6d...
Daily Mail front page from 2016 describing judges as "enemies of the people"A screenshot of a Financial Times article which reads "Judiciary in England and Wales facing 'recruitment crisis', study finds" - the subheading of the article states "More judges complain about threats to personal safety and poor working conditions"
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 31/12/2024
I’d pay so much for the Stephen McKinley-Henderson/Thufir Hawat edit of Dune; especially if we saw it from the spacing guild perspective also
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 24/12/2024
This was a lot of fun - not sure what the sneak peek of the first episode is; I thought that was locked up next to the ark of the covenant!
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 21/12/2024
The hellgate beckons… (now with 100% fewer ads)
Euston station concourse featuring the new information board display; previously they were using the entire length to show adverts
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🎄🎇 A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Part I 🎆🎄 @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social, review 2024 with their BFFs @nigelsmith.org & @nigella.bsky.social! What surprised us? Who impressed us? What TV did we binge? 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Wmh... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part I
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Dr Ruth Smith @dr-ruthsmith.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What a beautiful hug of an episode! It feels like a warm invitation has been extended to join a group of clever, kind and fun friends. Thank you to @quietriotpod.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @nigelsmith.org podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part I
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 19/12/2024 · 52m
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In which Quiet Riot reclaims 'Nigel' and its variants from camp Farage, and has some festive lols to boot. Featuring @nigella.bsky.social @nigelsmith.org plus @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @pimlicat.bsky.social
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
ONES SLEEPS to Part 1 of the Quiet Riot Xmas episode... 👀👀👀
The Quiet Riot team on the Spotify sofas, with special guests.The Quiet Riot team on the Spotify sofas, with special guests.
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 30/11/2024
The thing about Elon is that his thinking is simple but I suspect even more base. He reacts aggressively to anything that threatens his businesses - in California he built tunnels to head off talk of trains He’s mad at the UK because we aren’t using X www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/o...
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Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't interested in AI
Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 29/11/2024
At long last opera cloaks are back www.ft.com/content/cfee... , finally my entrances and exits can feature the drama they deserve
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The opera cloak gets a stylish update
The lavish outerwear has recently appeared on several fashion runways, and also features in Angelina Jolie’s new film ‘Maria’
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 25/11/2024
Dune Prophecy really feels like someone themed the plot of Foundation, complete with a second foundation, but the Mule shows up straight away
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Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org · 25/11/2024
A live feed of a Trump rally achieves this doesn't it?
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Charles Kennedy would've turned 65 today. I still miss him. "To be seen to be human, provided you’re doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all." CK
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