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Stuart Herbert

@stuherbert.bsky.social
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He / him. Software industry vet & public speaker. Economic migrant. Passionate about my causes, passionate about my hobbies. @stuherbert@mastodonapp.uk too youtube.com/c/@ganbarodigital hometoneblog.com

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 18h
#Streetart by Sonac in #Amiens, France #art
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sign clearly says TREATO COLLECTION POINT. I have presented myself for collection I don’t wish to complain, but the Treato Collection Point appears to be experiencing severe supply-chain issues. I’d like to speak to someone in management
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I saw the headline, this was my reaction too. Gordon Brown was one of the worst chancellors ever. With his pension reforms, he created a ticking time bomb that’s going to explode for far too many of my generation. Burnham should not be making this worse.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anthropic’s leadership seem to be forgetting that it’s just code, running on hardware that’s powered over hard lines. Sincerely hope they don’t believe their own bullshit. But I’m not holding my breath there.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Damn. That, right there, is how you get the message across.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What *is* it about Reform that consistently attracts the worst people to it? #rhetorical
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ve been struggling for what to say about 9/11, that hasn’t already been said. Like many, I watched it happen on live TV. I’ll never forget where I was, or the horror we all felt as it became clear what was happening. An act of pure hatred and evil.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Has Burnham come out and condemned the masked cowardly thugs yet? And sent a clear message of support for the RNLI? Surely he has, and I’ve simply missed it, right?
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Update: This is now the most signed petition on Senedd site petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... Keep signing & sharing - I know petitions don't fix everything but we need to use all the tools we have to address this If they can remove healthcare for one group, they could remove it for anyone
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Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who ha...
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When you see something horrible done to someone you don’t like, take a moment and think: how would I feel if the same thing happened to someone I do like? While context matters, so does personal integrity and consistency. Otherwise, you’re just the flip side of the same coin.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Increasingly looking like history will remember him has just the latest disappointment in No 10 Downing Street.
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Racism isn’t “viewpoint neutral” and claiming that it is is fucking lunacy
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avidreader8.bsky.social @avidreader8.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/08/2026
This Substack post is gloriously written and made me laugh out loud three times
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
To people living in fear of abuse who have a secret phone - or indeed anyone with good reason to want emergency alerts off their phone - please share. I've not had any alerts today so I'm guessing it worked when I did this on my phone a while back 👍 www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...
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Opting out of emergency alerts
Opting out of emergency alerts
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is there anything more Whitehall than: - sending out an emergency alert only in Welsh - while gov.uk says “there are no current alerts”? Sir Humphrey would be proud!
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farage: just another chicken-shit coward, wannabe fascist and fraud. I assume there were no catering carts available last night for him to feel safe in.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Horrified to hear of recent vandalism at Gregynog. WTF is wrong with some people?
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 05/08/2026
Bath lost and found: has your bike been nicked? Is it this one? It’s in safe hands, get in touch.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Microsoft strikes again. New login system for #LinkedIn: you have to click on a notification in the app to login from your browser. Only problem is … the app never receives the notification, and there’s no way to tell Microsoft “this is broken” 🤦‍♂️
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If the Conservative Party had any morals or ethics, they would expel Badenoch over this. A rotten party for morally corrupt people.
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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Do you run a theatre or somewhere that puts on performances? I've invested in lenses that let me get a bit closer to the action and I love doing work like this. Get in touch if you want me to to do some photography for you!
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🤍 forever #caturday 🙃🤭🤣 🤍🤍🤍💛🔆 🎈🔆💛🤍🤍🤍
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Disgraceful decision. Absolutely disgraceful.
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Guido Schmidt @narkerns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yes. #writingcommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
A cozy bookstore filled with shelves and stacks of books, overlaid with a social media post by Allyson Cagle. The post reads: “If I ever feel bad about spending $ on books, I just tell myself I’m supporting a writer whose parents told them they’d never make any money.”
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Packagist @packagist.com · 23/07/2026
CI/CD pipelines are a prime target for supply chain attacks. We hardened the GitHub Actions workflows for Composer, Packagist and Private Packagist with 🌈zizmor and wrote down how to do the same on yours. blog.packagist.com/securing-ou... #php #phpc #composerphp #github #githubactions #zizmor
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Securing our GitHub Actions workflows with zizmor
This is the next post in our supply chain security series, following the supply chain security update, the Composer 2.10 release and immutable version metadata on Packagist.org. The earlier posts covered Composer behavior, changes to Packagist.org, and Private Packagist features. Today we’ll cover how we hardened
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Looking at who Burnham has left in their old cabinet roles, it does look like he’s just an old fashioned northern bigot. You can’t appease these people with your continued anti-immigrant, anti-trans policies. They still won’t vote for you. Because there’s no appeasing hate.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Today is the first day of the school summer holidays here in Wales … … and the “Back to School” adverts have already begun on TV.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ofcom is not fit for purpose. Abolish it.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19/07/2026
The biggest solar eclipse visible from Wales since 1999 will take place next month, with the next comparable event more than 50 years away
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Wales set for biggest solar eclipse since 1999
Nation.Cymru Staff The biggest solar eclipse visible from Wales since 1999 will take place next month, with the next comparable event more than 50 years away. Wednesday 12 August 2026 will see a parti...
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My first quality guitar was a Charvel. They don’t make them like that any more. RIP
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Receive email from Universal Audio, saying they’re conducting a survey to help make their audio interfaces better. Sure, I’m happy to send feedback. Been using them for a decade. I have Opinions™.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
June temperature records tumble across
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 09/07/2026
Looking for experienced scythers to come and teach scything classes at Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath, end of summer. We’ve got a calcareous grassland to work on and we’re going for heritage low carbon methods for as much of the cut as we can.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
😂 Farage is the laughing stock of Britain right now, and rightly so. But there’s nothing funny about his grift and political fraud, nor the character of those who are attracted to his orbit. We’ll all be better off when he has retired to a flat in Moscow.
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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As much as we should really take this all seriously. Sometimes comedy and satire is the only way to fight fascists and bigots. Imagine if @countbinface.bsky.social really did beat Nigel Farage.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
America arguably lost far more credibility over the large number of Americans (including folks on this platform) who believed that this corrupt act was okay. Trump will be gone soon, but the corruption he has normalised will remain for many many years.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This would be a very British two fingers up to him.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The democratic vote can never legitimise Farage’s grift, racism, incitement, or his dodgy backers. Once again, the voters of Clacton are being used by man who has no intention of ever doing the job.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For once, the cheaters got the thumping they deserved. If only that was normal in everyday life. The world would be a much better place.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means […]
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
After 5 days of heavy AI-assisted coding with Claude Fable, I think the model is aptly named … … for it is the model of lies.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If all the other nations won’t walk away from this tainted World Cup and FIFA’s blatant corruption, then they’ve tacitly endorsed it.
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Every pure heart in the world expects only one thing from Ukraine: that we defeat this Russian scum. And we certainly will. We will defend our state.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The very first thing Burnham should do is revert back from Starmer’s “digital only” approach to GDS’s original “digital first”. Apart from it making much harder for many ordinary folks, “digital only” is incredibly fragile in an increasingly hostile world.
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Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
OH: “if you had a band, it would be called OCDC”
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