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Stuart Langridge

@sil.kryogenix.org
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Builds stuff for computers, advises other people how to do so, plays PBP D&D, makes the occasional solo game, eats sandwiches. Part of Open Web Advocacy. Runner of the Critical Role transcript search. In the People’s Republic of Brum. kryogenix.org

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 29/09/2026
blimey. I am now going to misstate my finances by £920.7 million. are you ready? I have £920.7 million.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 28/09/2026
see you there!
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today 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. ❤️
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This 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.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come 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
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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House. 
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham 
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You 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"
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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)
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 23/09/2026
since politics opinion-havers are talking about an early election again, i shall reiterate the same point: why would anyone do this ever
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 23/09/2026
I 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
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 22/09/2026
awh man, have you no humanity at all? now Apple will have to rename "Apple Intelligence" to "Siri Intelligence"!
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to seeing people here!
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looking 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!
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the earliest fashion label in the British Isles was Tommy Hill Figure
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 21/09/2026
Goodness, some American press people discover a picture of some balls. Let’s see how long it lasts. Hopefully for long enough for TTACO
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
CMA: 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.uk
Bruce Lawson's personal site
» CMA: The Umpire Strikes Back?
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 20/09/2026
That said, given some… discussion… today, I would also be curious about the prevalence of such Actual Players in Northern England and Scotland.
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Rick Viscomi @rviscomi.dev · 21/09/2026
the mark of a proud web developer
Screenshot of a website footer saying that it is built with modern, vanilla HTML. CSS, and JS. Below are performance stats from that page load: TTFB 466ms, LCP 676ms, INP 48ms, and CLS 0.00
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 19/09/2026
Ooh 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.com
This City Moves - Go Jauntly
Join the region-wide steps challenge. Discover local walks, feel good. Grab friends, family & neighbours, everyone’s welcome
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 17/09/2026
things I did not expect for today: feeling a little bit sorry for Death as she makes things worse for everyone
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026
Actually LOL at this, which is rare
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026
We’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
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026
open 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.
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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.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 14/09/2026
In 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.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13/09/2026
I 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.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 13/09/2026
OK, 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
The Bilderberg Group, or the Trilateral Commission, or the World Security Council, or something: a bunch of shadowy figures controlling everything
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 13/09/2026
oh 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?
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 12/09/2026
What’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
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale.
Roman mosaic depicting man carrying a large bird like an emu.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 12/09/2026
this looks pretty amazing. I suspect it hits harder if you know who Mr Boozler is, too.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 11/09/2026
this 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?
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Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We 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!
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here'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...
Among the many consequences of the 40 years of neoliberalism repeatedly called out by the Prime Minister is a libertarian attitude to technology. We are told that Governments are too slow and too stupid to shape tech, and that the market knows best—the market will ensure the best, most innovative products and services are delivered to the people who need them and keep them safe in the process. I hope that we can all agree now that neolibertarian complacency has not worked.

The tech giants are hubs of amazing innovation but, as my Committee has heard, they are controlled by a small number of extremely wealthy men without the usual corporate governance or competitive constraints. We need to limit their power with our democratic power to protect our citizens. What better way to do that than by giving people the power to control whether we are being copied by companies looking to make money out of us? There is only one you, Madam Deputy Speaker—we need to keep it that way.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 10/09/2026
Eyelids are razors.
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Putting the :/ in https://
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 08/09/2026
heh, 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.
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Mic 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.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 06/09/2026
Haha nice. Good one Burnham. Never forget.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Law of the Internet says that every time you see this story, you have to share it. And here we are again.
THRASHED BY A LADY CYCLIST.
WHO IS NOTED FOR HER ATHLETIC POWERS.
[SUBJECT OF ILLUSTRATION.]
An extraordinary scene was witnessed on Saturday morning in Peel Lane, a thorough-tare connecting Little Hulton with Tyldesley, in which the principal participants were a young lady cyclist and a youth of nineteen or twenty. The lady was riding at a good pace, and when in a quiet part of the road the young man, who-had apparently been imbibing, stepped into the roadway, and addressing some insulting remarks to. the cyclist, made as if he intended pulling nei off the machine.
She immediately alighted
caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him & sound thrashing, using her tists in scientific fashion, to the delight of several colliers who were passing.
The young man
made of and the list, who is believed to be a Bolton lady noted for her athletio powers, rode off towards Tyldesley.Picture of said scoundrel being thrashed by the lady cyclist, who is known for her athletic prowess. Several gentlemen stand in the background cheering her on.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 05/09/2026
The 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!
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 04/09/2026
I 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.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 04/09/2026
someone stole my laptop in the Chandos once. Never really forgiven the pub for that
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With 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.
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 02/09/2026
Best thing about a Holborn by-election is to see how many commentators pronounce the L
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 02/09/2026
Without 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
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 31/08/2026
awh, 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
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 30/08/2026
Iron 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)
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 28/08/2026
one 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
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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 28/08/2026
Candy Canda
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