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Stuart Arnell

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IT Architect in the north west of England. Shovelling money into pension funds in the vain hope of ever retiring.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 27m
No. No it isnt. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 20h
Oh my word. That makes my eyes itch.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clearly this was a rug pull on Farage. Set the scene Wait till he is fully committed to ‘the thing’ PULL THE RUG NOW!
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An inconvenient truth for the racists and xenophobes. Low birth rate in the UK inevitably means fewer young supporting ever more older people. Immigration brings in young people and eases the problem. Without it, everyone must work longer.
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/09/2026
To assert that any contemporary AI can think or is conscious represents a particularly emaciated meaning of those words, and suggests that any author of such assertions has a profound misunderstanding of the exquisite nature of what it means to be human.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh wow. I had no idea. While it makes more sense, it’s …. An ‘interesting’ choice.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This company just radiates predator energy
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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Far right AfD ban stumbling stones. 🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No. No they can’t.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Maybe, just maybe, we would be better off if you hadn’t enthusiastically backed and funded Brexit.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TV pet peeve: People just being able to wander in to police stations, lawyers offices, hospitals, without apparently needing to deal with any kind of reception and security check.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😂🤪
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The single biggest drivers in UK energy prices has been Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Trump attacking Iran. The idea the UK (or Eu) could ever compete with the US both in raw materials and manufacturing capacity is unfeasible. At most there's ~some~ feasible arguments here if he wasn't so idiotic
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don’t see any viable path for AI to destroy humanity in the next 10 years. I do, however, see a path for people to use AI in dumb ways without sufficient oversight leading to humanity destroying humanity in the next 10 years.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The GOPs obsession with other people’s genitalia continues.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If only …
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Is it ‘because they don’t have Boris Johnson and David Frost in charge’?
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Time for the silent majority to pick a side
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is an absolute disgrace. There is no excuse for anyone not calling this out for the thuggish extremism it is.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine how much of a deluded bellend you must be to attack brave volunteers putting themselves in harms way to save lives. Absolute cowards threatening RNLI staff and volunteers. Solidarity with the RNLI ❤️ rnli.org/support-us/g...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A med student asked me today: "Why does cold mucus turn yellow or green? Does that mean I need antibiotics?" Millions of people panic when they see green. They think it’s a bacterial takeover. But the biology is actually fascinating and way less scary. Let me explain.🧵
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a tale of two 15-year-olds. on raheem sterling, jj gabriel and football's army of child labour www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
The winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yeah, I know it’s performative shopping, but I will enjoy wearing this out in my right wing home town.
Order confirmation screenshot for RNLI t shirt.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I mean, I’m not surprised, but …. 😬
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Soooo …. If they are avoiding serving the ads in SF, they can clearly recognise and stop them , but have decided it’s ok to serve AI generated sexual abuse images everywhere else!?!?
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What a fantastic photo
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Came in thru Manchester airport last night. NATS problems = queues. Guy in front shuffled back to us and started spouting about small boats (they wld all be hotels by now blah…) I hate that this has become the assumed default opinion for a conversation starter? We’ve shifted a long way.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I still can’t believe that a nut job exclaimed, “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” and millions of Americans said, “That’s the guy I want as president.”
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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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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Please ignore the fact that small boat crossings are down 44%, deportations are at their highest level in ten years and immigration is 82% lower.
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Canada?
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
To be quite honest, I don't think Reform's heart is in it any more. I think they've given up and settled for 'noisy pressure group' status. Somewhere amidst their tiny grouping of brain cells they realise they'd be held accountable if the UK economy collapsed entirely, and they've bottled it.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As a natural m-dash user and a not x but y-er I suspect I’ve been a LLM all along.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Again I note that parts of the right are literally trying to turn empathy into a negative and that this is a bad thing.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farage: the police told me not to attend the count Police: no we didn’t. It’s not a complicated story. There aren’t two sides to it.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Has crime fallen, or has reported crime fallen?" Good question. Statisticians thought of it first. Here's why it doesn't rescue your argument. 🧵
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Woah ‼️. SCOOP 🔥 “George Cottrell carried a fraudulent Swiss passport in the name of ‘Oscar Drewitt’ – the identity under which he was hired into a City corporate finance network by the future Reform UK treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami.“
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ah no. Kevin Keegan is the reason I am a Liverpool fan. Idolised him as a kid. Happy to say I did see him a couple of times at Anfield (thanks, dad). #lfc #lfc
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Airbus is migrating 70 critical applications from AWS to Scaleway, a French cloud provider, to increase digital sovereignty and ensure data remains under European control.
theregister.com
Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push
Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Going to double down on my view that the Harbourne stuff is bad, but the Cottrell stuff does end up with someone in front of a judge. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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George Cottrell opened account days before mystery Reform donation
Sunday Times revelations raise new questions over the provenance of £500,000 gifted to Nigel Farage’s party by the convicted fraudster’s mother
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