@mstanhope.bsky.social
Ex ”expat”, music maker, dog walker, carer
The new Keeley Nocturne guitar pedal is incredible
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The new Keeley Nocturne guitar pedal is incredible
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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Portishead live from the Roseland Ballroom NYC is on Sky Arts at midnight tomorrow (Sunday)
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Portishead live from the Roseland Ballroom NYC is on Sky Arts at midnight tomorrow (Sunday)
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I do think it would be better if journalists - especially BBC ones - realised that for most people politics are currently frustrating, tedious and sometimew scary. Not "wild". It's not a spectacle.
Fascism is on the rise, the cost of living is higher than ever, the NHS is still in the shitter and people are scared, tired, and furious with a useless failure of a government, but don’t worry! If you live in the cosseted political media bubble, 2026 is going to be WILD. Fuck off.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I do think it would be better if journalists - especially BBC ones - realised that for most people politics are currently frustrating, tedious and sometimew scary. Not "wild". It's not a spectacle.
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I think way too often about that software engineer who said that Google LaMDA was sentient
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I think way too often about that software engineer who said that Google LaMDA was sentient
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Martin Parr and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - a brief tribute from me .... www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...
Martin Parr (1952–2025): A Tribute
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Martin Parr and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - a brief tribute from me .... www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...
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Not a Warhol, more like an ar*ehole !
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Not a Warhol, more like an ar*ehole !
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Hoy en "Como lo hacen?"
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hoy en "Como lo hacen?"
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
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Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Q: You've had some concerns about crime in cities that will be hosting the World Cup. Have they remedied that or will you be asking FIFA to move some of those cities?
TRUMP: I don't want to do that but if they have a problem by the time we get there we'll take care of it. I've proven that in DC
TRUMP: I don't want to do that but if they have a problem by the time we get there we'll take care of it. I've proven that in DC
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Q: You've had some concerns about crime in cities that will be hosting the World Cup. Have they remedied that or will you be asking FIFA to move some of those cities?
TRUMP: I don't want to do that but if they have a problem by the time we get there we'll take care of it. I've proven that in DC
TRUMP: I don't want to do that but if they have a problem by the time we get there we'll take care of it. I've proven that in DC
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Happy 93rd Birthday to Alf Dubs! From arriving in Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee to becoming a lifelong campaigner for human rights, children’s rights, and humanist values, few people have done more to champion compassion, justice, and support for those who need it most.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy 93rd Birthday to Alf Dubs! From arriving in Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee to becoming a lifelong campaigner for human rights, children’s rights, and humanist values, few people have done more to champion compassion, justice, and support for those who need it most.
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The news from the US is a constant stream of derangement, but this is quite something.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The news from the US is a constant stream of derangement, but this is quite something.
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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage’s biggest donor Christopher Harborne helped “turbocharge” money laundering says NCA
One Russian laundering network that switched to Tether in 2020 enabled “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime including providing services to the Russian state”
One Russian laundering network that switched to Tether in 2020 enabled “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime including providing services to the Russian state”
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage’s biggest donor Christopher Harborne helped “turbocharge” money laundering says NCA
One Russian laundering network that switched to Tether in 2020 enabled “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime including providing services to the Russian state”
One Russian laundering network that switched to Tether in 2020 enabled “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime including providing services to the Russian state”
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'We are rushing headlong into an AI-driven future, but our legal protections...remain stuck in the past.'
Institute for Ethics in AI's Prof Yuval Shany warns that as AI reshapes society at speed, it’s already impacting our human rights ⬇️
Institute for Ethics in AI's Prof Yuval Shany warns that as AI reshapes society at speed, it’s already impacting our human rights ⬇️
Expert Comment: Is it time to reconsider our human rights in the age
Professor Yuval Shany, Fellow of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme in the Institute for Ethics in AI, argues that in an age where AI is rapidly evolving and reshaping our society, there can be no
www.ox.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
'We are rushing headlong into an AI-driven future, but our legal protections...remain stuck in the past.'
Institute for Ethics in AI's Prof Yuval Shany warns that as AI reshapes society at speed, it’s already impacting our human rights ⬇️
Institute for Ethics in AI's Prof Yuval Shany warns that as AI reshapes society at speed, it’s already impacting our human rights ⬇️
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Who gave the billionaires like Musk and Bezos the right to cut the Earth off from the Universe?
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Who gave the billionaires like Musk and Bezos the right to cut the Earth off from the Universe?
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That Tomlinson guy is deeply problematic
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
That Tomlinson guy is deeply problematic
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Brilliant choice of Misha Glenny for In Our Time! He interviewed me at the Vienna Humanities festival a few weeks ago and he had the perfect wide-ranging interests and intelligence. As a fan of IOT I am cheering. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Misha Glenny to present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time
The much loved series returns on 15 January 2026
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Brilliant choice of Misha Glenny for In Our Time! He interviewed me at the Vienna Humanities festival a few weeks ago and he had the perfect wide-ranging interests and intelligence. As a fan of IOT I am cheering. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Anyone know where to get packaging for shipping a guitar amp head? Would need to be about 85x45x40cm
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Anyone know where to get packaging for shipping a guitar amp head? Would need to be about 85x45x40cm
When a solictor starts with - I hope this email finds you well.
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
When a solictor starts with - I hope this email finds you well.
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Tom Stoppard special BBC Front Row tonight. Emma Fielding, who was in the original Arcadia, Michael Billington and biographer Hermione Lee among the guests. 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Tom Stoppard special BBC Front Row tonight. Emma Fielding, who was in the original Arcadia, Michael Billington and biographer Hermione Lee among the guests. 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Ah this is a huge loss!
“I mean, you’d never know you were in a box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. Not that I’d like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air-you’d wake up dead, for a start, and then where would you be?”
RIP Mr Stoppard…
youtu.be/9LYDKs480UA?...
RIP Mr Stoppard…
youtu.be/9LYDKs480UA?...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Life in a Box
YouTube video by Runabrat
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November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ah this is a huge loss!
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Donald Trump is a disgusting buffoon without a single redeeming quality.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Donald Trump is a disgusting buffoon without a single redeeming quality.