Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 29/09/2026blimey. I am now going to misstate my finances by £920.7 million. are you ready? I have £920.7 million. 241
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeBaroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️ 611339165
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well. 55376109
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home 4300104
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard" 2893712652
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 23/09/2026"local-only, run in the browser, don’t track anything, aren’t full of AI features nobody asked for, and are designed to be as useful and as lovely as I could possibly make them." Certainly something I'd like to see more of. (Early release, so I suspect work is still to be done on keyboard nav etc) 020
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 23/09/2026since politics opinion-havers are talking about an early election again, i shall reiterate the same point: why would anyone do this ever 000
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 23/09/2026I am very disappointed that this is not a thing. Not because of the subject matter, or the characters who I don't actually recognise, but... I would very much like to see a world where I can get egg and chips in pubs. Specifically my mum's egg and chips from the late 80s which we had every Monday 010
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 22/09/2026awh man, have you no humanity at all? now Apple will have to rename "Apple Intelligence" to "Siri Intelligence"! 010
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeGrant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Looking for someone who can do 90’s point-and-click style pixel art for a commission. Short notice but it’d need to be done in the next two weeks. Lemme know if that’s you, and share your portfolio please! 39125118
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the earliest fashion label in the British Isles was Tommy Hill Figure 318534
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 21/09/2026Goodness, some American press people discover a picture of some balls. Let’s see how long it lasts. Hopefully for long enough for TTACO 010
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeBruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026CMA: The Umpire Strikes Back? brucelawson.co.uk/2026/cma-the... - my report from the trenches of a meeting called "Time to Reset: Unlocking Growth & Sovereignty Through Digital Competition" in the Financial Times building with movers and shakers.brucelawson.co.ukBruce Lawson's personal site» CMA: The Umpire Strikes Back? 031
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeDr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 20/09/2026That said, given some… discussion… today, I would also be curious about the prevalence of such Actual Players in Northern England and Scotland. 6233
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeRick Viscomi @rviscomi.dev · 21/09/2026the mark of a proud web developer 1342
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 19/09/2026Ooh Brum vs Liverpool walking challenge, that I find out about… in Liverpool, heh. Maybe I’ll have a look walks.gojauntly.com/challenges/t...walks.gojauntly.comThis City Moves - Go JauntlyJoin the region-wide steps challenge. Discover local walks, feel good. Grab friends, family & neighbours, everyone’s welcome 011
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 17/09/2026things I did not expect for today: feeling a little bit sorry for Death as she makes things worse for everyone 011
Reposted by Stuart Langridgelukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is 128131702117
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026We’ve got a couple of decent journalists here in the people’s republic of Brum, and I know of a couple in other cities, who are at Reach publications. I honestly don’t know whether I should be supporting their good work for these papers or sacking them off in favour of the Birmingham Dispatch et al 200
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026open notepad type hi this is my website. type here is a link to elsewhere: <a href=“https://sil.kryogenix.org/“>me on Bluesky</a> There, you have a web page. You still need to publish it, but that’s no more difficult than signing up for (and ignoring crazy people on) Facebook, I promise. 131
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026(a) if I want to buy “ugly thick 1980s NHS glasses” then Poundland sell a bunch already (b) it is so good that “pervert glasses” has caught on as a phrase just like “glasshole” did and for the same reason. I wonder if anybody who makes them will recognise this? Doubt it. 010
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 14/09/2026In web development teams across the land, someone wrote up a task which said “you know Reader Mode? that browsers do to make a clean easy way to read pages? Make sure that’s broken on our website so it doesn’t work.” And then a developer implemented it. I wonder if a little bit of their souls died. 0100
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeDr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13/09/2026I don’t normally do this: If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know. If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful. But it needs to be there. 1016579
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 13/09/2026OK, what’s next in Project All Public Conversations Must Be About AI All The Time? Well, “we’ve achieved AGI” only lasted a few days but “AI will kill us all” has legs. And “AI will take your job” is still strong. Goooood. What’s next? We have “AI girlfriends” and “AI food” cued up for November 020
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 13/09/2026oh look, looking at my inbox I have also achieved enough fame to get oppressive "helpfulness" by some bot from ilands. Can someone explain why a company like this gets given a huge pile of money that they can set fire to like this? 000
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 12/09/2026What’s your origin story? I was born [predictive text] I was born in the same time as you and I was born in the wrong time and I was a little bit older than you but I was born in the right time and I am now a little older than you and I am a little older than your age 210
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeDuncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale. 231297313
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 12/09/2026this looks pretty amazing. I suspect it hits harder if you know who Mr Boozler is, too. 010
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 11/09/2026this is really terrible. Imagine if almost every British newspaper journalist were to point this out on Bluesky but basically none of them were to point it out in the paper or call out the Telegraph and other papers like it. Is this omerta? Journalist solidarity? When does that end? Maybe never? 011
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeChi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We know tech companies collect data on everything we do but now that data is being combined with AI to make algorithms which predict our behaviour. Today I presented a bill to stop 'digital twinning' without express consent. There is only one you. Lets keep it that way! 071
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeBruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Here's the speech from Chi Onwurah MP yesterday in the Commons introducing her Digital Twin Bill, to outlaw surveillance profiling of individuals hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026... 121
Reposted by Stuart Langridgekonnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Putting the :/ in https:// 92260688
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 08/09/2026heh, just discovered that one of the actual Peaky Blinders was called Percy Langridge. No relation, as far as I'm aware (although my family history's a bit murky on that side), but that's a nice little Brum connection. 021
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain. 421608452
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Law of the Internet says that every time you see this story, you have to share it. And here we are again. 515759
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 05/09/2026The pope can name someone a cardinal “in pectore”, i.e., secretly without announcement (even to the person themselves). Pope John Paul II named four cardinals in pectore but only announced three before dying. Nobody knows who the fourth one is! It could be you! 1246
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 04/09/2026I like public transport. I don’t even own a car. But it’s hard to defend it when I don’t think I’ve been on a trip involving a train journey that wasn’t delayed, for honestly years. 220
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 04/09/2026someone stole my laptop in the Chandos once. Never really forgiven the pub for that 000
Reposted by Stuart LangridgeRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law. 12750391202
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 02/09/2026Best thing about a Holborn by-election is to see how many commentators pronounce the L 120
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 02/09/2026Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? This is harder than it looks. Pretty much all my favourite films came out AROUND when I was 20 but not actually IN that year. Weird that all the best films in history came out exactly when I was that age 100
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 31/08/2026awh, I thought they were going to wait for @brucel.bsky.social and me to announce our new positions of leadership at Apple but looks like they jumped the gun 050
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 30/08/2026Iron Maiden Rage Against The Machine Professor Elemental Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer Bon Jovi One Direction Elastica Chas and Dave Press Play On Tape ̶M̶i̶s̶t̶y̶’̶s̶ ̶B̶i̶g̶ ̶A̶d̶v̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ (dammit covid) 230
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 28/08/2026one of the things I enjoy most about my ttrpg campaign is, once I've thought of a thing that needs to have happened in the background, working out how it happened according to the rules so that the players, when confronted with the thing, can follow the rules back to work out how it happened 000