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V.H. Belvadi

@vhbelvadi.com

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PhD student at Cambridge HPS • Trinity–Cambridge Researcher 2025 • Caian • Researching climate models • Cambridge ThinkLab • Bromptonista —— @iop.org • @bshsnews.bsky.social • #IndieWeb • FC Bayern • fmr @hpsleeds.bsky.social —— ↳ VHBelvadi.com

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 24/08/2026

11GB and less useful than a post-it note.

A screenshot of my macOS storage settings page showing Apple Intelligence taking up 11.37GB of precious space on my MacBook.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 16/08/2026

The new game ‘No. 10: Full Confidence’ is great fun. A bit like Medieval Dynasty but modern and text-based, so no reason not to like it.

‘Report card’ from the new game No. 10: Full Confidence showing my character Percival Ashwoerh having been PM for 3 years and 6 months.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 13/08/2026

The polls just opened but Bluesky has already declared Farage the winner.

Bluesky trending list says ‘Farage wins Clacton seat’.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 15/06/2026

Brilliant @the-independent.com

Full page headline on The Independent newspaper, which reads, ‘Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves. They are the guilty men and should ... hang their heads in shame.’ It is accompanied by photographs of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 08/05/2026

Elected officials should be discouraged from using analogies. This is a classic case of a baseless analogy intended solely to serve the speaker. Pilots do change mid-flight on long haul but, more importantly, to rationalise this analogy, how is running government like flying a plane?

Overnight, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said now was not the time for Keir Starmer to resign: "You don't change the pilot during the flight."

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 18/04/2026

In other news, as the likes of Andrew Tate appear high on Substack’s ranking, my defunct newsletter from years ago has been pulled from public view for violating Substack guidelines. I wouldn't have known if, a couple of days ago, I hadn't decided to delete my account.

A warning from Substack on my account page telling me my publication has been removed from public view due to 'a violation of Substack's spam and phishing policy'.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 09/04/2026

Overnight experts too: medium.com/@gptmanuscri...

An author bio claiming awareness of ‘bixomania’, a fake illness created as an experiment on LLM data consumption

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 13/02/2026

This opening paragraph is a great summary of the times we live in ~ arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 02/02/2026

NY Times headline reading ‘'Melania' Arrives With Strong Box Office Showing for a Documentary’

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 02/02/2026

Fascinating country. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...

Excerpt from NY Times reads, ‘Bob Schmidt, 60, went to see "Melania" at the Alamo Drafthouse on Staten Island on Friday. He rarely goes to the movies anymore, he said, but he bought a ticket to send a message to what he called the liberal movie industry. "I wanted to see this movie kick Hollywood's ass," Mr. Schmidt said. (During the screening, attendees erupted in applause during the scene when President Trump is sworn in.
Someone shouted, "Trump 2028!")’

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 24/01/2026

Earlier today I posted a Guardian article containing this cartoon:

Guardian cartoon by Ella Baron showing Donald Trump’s fickleness.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 24/01/2026

I have many questions this morning about Crossplay: • Why is this a two-person game when Scrabble (which is what this really is) is playable by four? • Is anyone actively playing it? Everyone with whom I’ve started a game has vanished into thin air. • Why is Kurt a suggested match, @nytimes.com?

A screenshot from the NYT Crossplay game app in which Kurt and kurt (among others) are listed as ‘suggested matches’ but a modal screen then declares Kurt is unable to play because he has reached the maximum number of games, indicating a deep logical flaw in how the Crossplay app decides to offer suggested partners with whom to play. For the record, kurt and one other person among the suggested matches (not visible in this screenshot) were unavailable for the same reason.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 14/01/2026

Fun song near Parliament this morning. #UK #Politics

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 18/11/2025

So @cloudflare.social is down, and of all the websites critical to humanity that are down because of it, so is mine. Time for some tea.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 08/05/2025

It’s so odd to see an all-uppercase quote in the middle of an otherwise perfectly grammatically sound newspaper.

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V.H. Belvadi @vhbelvadi.com · 14/07/2023

Since by decree everyone’s first Bluesky post must be a blue sky… (More here: vhbelvadi.com/photography/cloudscap…)

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