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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 2h

I watched this far too young. Terrifying.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paying taxes is punishment is it? Some might say it's a contribution to the infrastructure and regulations (like the rule of law) that enables you to build a successful business and, being less transactional, your contribution to society..

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m not sure they are fully up to speed with the concept of ‘independence’

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok, I know people are not fans, but for shits and giggles I asked Co Pilot. With consideration of demographic changes, aging, recent votes, polls, geographic profiles etc, and that membership would likely be single currency, Schengen etc. Inevitable. 😂 52% Rejoin / 48% Stay Out

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Give me the confidence in my opinions on stuff I specialise in that Musk has in his opinions on stuff he doesn’t.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I scrolled past this … and had to return to like it when it hit.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is correct. Sure, make the ‘things’ - but make them out of the standard parts. They won’t be perfect - but that’s kinda the point.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The problem with Thatcherism is that eventually you run out of stuff to sell. The balance sheet never was balanced.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dan Hannan thinking this is the best news I’ve had since 2016

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dan Hannan thinking this is the best news I’ve had since 2016

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“MAGA and the other Far Right parties around the world are a Victim Movement. All the problems I’m experiencing in my life are caused by someone else, definitely not me. People who aren’t White. Trans people. Gay people. And women.”

chadbourn.substack.com

The Man Problem

The Cornell Rape Case is a feature not a bug

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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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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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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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agree. But he absolutely does need to get on top of it. There undoubtedly will be high level governmental approaches on this - and it is a risk he needs to mitigate. Just NOT by trying to change it.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ferrybridge power station was always the signal to come off the M62 when visiting my grandparents when I was a kid. Always very exciting coz we were about to get spoiled rotten.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yup. Made that mistake. Once. Only once.

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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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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ah yes. The early morning trip to Piccadilly records in Manchester for tx. Better than ‘there are 3,637 people ahead of you in the queue’!

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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

I mean … even copilot to clear on the matter 😉

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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 · 25/09/2026

Yeah, I speak to my younger colleagues who have just been through the whole ‘applying for a job’ thing. It sounds terrifying.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They must have thought the tories were coming to town.

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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 · 23/09/2026

That’s what those big circular particle accelerators are for. Keeps em going round till needed.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can’t fool me. That’s Dustin Hoffman.

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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 · 20/09/2026

Haha. I’m kinda the same. I have Spotify, but it’s just for convenience. I have bought every song on my playlist on CD or vinyl.

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Stuart Arnell @stuartarnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Like with so much else, we are now paying the price of thatcher’s legacy.

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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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