Ste Roughley
@steroughley.bsky.social
Introverted people person, InfoSec and Lean Software veteran. Venting here about work, parenting life, with occasional outbursts about comics, music, and the social aspects of tech
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Ste Roughley
@steroughley.bsky.social
· May 27
Paul Parker said the Quakers would “welcome and affirm trans and non-binary people in Quaker spaces”, adding: “We must respect the dignity of each person to live with integrity, informed by the truth of their lived experience”.
“We must respect the dignity of each person to live with integrity, informed by the truth of their lived experience”.
So sad to hear this but it is worth celebrating the amount of joy Jim has brought to the world. RIP and thanks for all the experiences ❤️
Sad to hear of the passing of Jim Hamilton at 67. Jim and his business partner Kenny Penman [starting with the Science Fiction Bookshop and later Forbidden Planet] were a huge part of the Scottish comic community and industry along with AKA Book & Comics.
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Jim Hamilton Of Forbidden Planet Has Died, Aged 67
Jim Hamilton of Forbidden Planet International and Forbidden Planet Glasgow died yesterday, at the age of 67
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November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
So sad to hear this but it is worth celebrating the amount of joy Jim has brought to the world. RIP and thanks for all the experiences ❤️
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Sorry to hear about the passing of Jim Hamilton, co-founder of Forbidden Planet. I didn't know Jim, but I do know he was largely responsible for the excellent mix of mainstream and indie titles that were in the shop when I wandered in one day in 1989 and my love for comics was reignited. RIP.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Sorry to hear about the passing of Jim Hamilton, co-founder of Forbidden Planet. I didn't know Jim, but I do know he was largely responsible for the excellent mix of mainstream and indie titles that were in the shop when I wandered in one day in 1989 and my love for comics was reignited. RIP.
Anyone wondering if this trend of the BBC to be hijacked by the money people to help maintain a certain political-economic hegemony might be interested to read what they've been doing since the organisation ever existed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories...
The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’
For decades the BBC denied job applicants were vetted by MI5 - but vetting continued at the corporation until the 1990s.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Anyone wondering if this trend of the BBC to be hijacked by the money people to help maintain a certain political-economic hegemony might be interested to read what they've been doing since the organisation ever existed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories...
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Over these past decades, software has coached us into thinking like a computer. Not necessarily on purpose, but because the software wasn't designed to be usable by thinking like a human.
This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world
This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world
Paulina Borsook "warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, a book based on her 1990s writing" www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Over these past decades, software has coached us into thinking like a computer. Not necessarily on purpose, but because the software wasn't designed to be usable by thinking like a human.
This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world
This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world
Fashion designers: if you think the world needs yet another formless, oversized coat that makes it's wearer look like a homeless child in a grown-ups hand-me-down, you are wrong. Stop it. I'd give my right arm for a properly fitting coat but you seem to have stopped making them 😩
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Fashion designers: if you think the world needs yet another formless, oversized coat that makes it's wearer look like a homeless child in a grown-ups hand-me-down, you are wrong. Stop it. I'd give my right arm for a properly fitting coat but you seem to have stopped making them 😩
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The wet fart noise you hear is the AI bubble deflating. CEOs are pivoting from "AI will make us more productive, somehow" to "culture will make us more productive, somehow"
The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.
The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.
Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The wet fart noise you hear is the AI bubble deflating. CEOs are pivoting from "AI will make us more productive, somehow" to "culture will make us more productive, somehow"
The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.
The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.
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Using all the willpower I possess to mould the microplastics inside my brain into a Warhammer figurine.
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Using all the willpower I possess to mould the microplastics inside my brain into a Warhammer figurine.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned on Wednesday.
Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”
Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”
UK facing ‘most contested and complex’ threat in decades, warns GCHQ director
Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned on Wednesday.
Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”
Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”
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My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.
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Happy Day of Wonder! In case you didn't know, October 21st is celebrated as Wonder Woman's first appearance in All Star Comics #8 in 1941. (This is inspired by Darwyn Cooke's WW from New Frontier)
#wonderwoman #dayofwonder #allstarcomics8 #dcnewfrontier #clipstudiopaint #dccomics #patreon
#wonderwoman #dayofwonder #allstarcomics8 #dcnewfrontier #clipstudiopaint #dccomics #patreon
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happy Day of Wonder! In case you didn't know, October 21st is celebrated as Wonder Woman's first appearance in All Star Comics #8 in 1941. (This is inspired by Darwyn Cooke's WW from New Frontier)
#wonderwoman #dayofwonder #allstarcomics8 #dcnewfrontier #clipstudiopaint #dccomics #patreon
#wonderwoman #dayofwonder #allstarcomics8 #dcnewfrontier #clipstudiopaint #dccomics #patreon
If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.
No one does horror like Kelley Jones and his transformation of Batman into a truly demonic monster over the course of 3 long-form comics is one for the ages
No one does horror like Kelley Jones and his transformation of Batman into a truly demonic monster over the course of 3 long-form comics is one for the ages
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.
No one does horror like Kelley Jones and his transformation of Batman into a truly demonic monster over the course of 3 long-form comics is one for the ages
No one does horror like Kelley Jones and his transformation of Batman into a truly demonic monster over the course of 3 long-form comics is one for the ages
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I run all of my DNS queries through a local LLM because it’s more deterministic
October 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I run all of my DNS queries through a local LLM because it’s more deterministic
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This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)
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Are the worries about AI suddenly posing massive risks to cybersecurity overegged? A little bit, as my debut for @transformernews.ai suggests www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-catastr...
AI cyberrisk might be a bit overhyped — for now at least
Experts say key factors currently limit the risk of catastrophic harm from AI-enabled cyberattacks — as far as we know
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October 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Are the worries about AI suddenly posing massive risks to cybersecurity overegged? A little bit, as my debut for @transformernews.ai suggests www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-catastr...
I like AWS outages - they're usually like "Yes, shit, everything is down, we'll get you back up and running in a couple of hours" Not like Microsoft outages that are all "Our legal comms team says everything is fine, oh maybe a few things aren't at their best right now..." for freaking days on end 😩
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I like AWS outages - they're usually like "Yes, shit, everything is down, we'll get you back up and running in a couple of hours" Not like Microsoft outages that are all "Our legal comms team says everything is fine, oh maybe a few things aren't at their best right now..." for freaking days on end 😩
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The No Kings rally implies the existence of a Yes Queens rally
October 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The No Kings rally implies the existence of a Yes Queens rally
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Anyone who has worked in the AWS Console for long enough will be terrified to learn that AWS have made a UX that is actually much, much worse. I'd show it to you but I'm already traumatised enough that I want to avoid it completely. Pray that you never have to administer a Skill Builder subscription
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Anyone who has worked in the AWS Console for long enough will be terrified to learn that AWS have made a UX that is actually much, much worse. I'd show it to you but I'm already traumatised enough that I want to avoid it completely. Pray that you never have to administer a Skill Builder subscription
FYI fellow chronic migraine sufferers of the UK... I've just had a prescription approved for Rimegepant. The UK prescribing guidance has changed now so GPs can prescribe it without a neurology referral. I have hope for the first time in a while... will report back
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
FYI fellow chronic migraine sufferers of the UK... I've just had a prescription approved for Rimegepant. The UK prescribing guidance has changed now so GPs can prescribe it without a neurology referral. I have hope for the first time in a while... will report back
When I think about a film poster or film cover this is always my first thought. What an absolute legend
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
When I think about a film poster or film cover this is always my first thought. What an absolute legend
You just make sure to listen to the old Pork Chop Express here when I tell ya to take some time off from your busy schedule and enjoy some of Drew Struzan's work once in a while
If you know me, this is obviously one of my favorite movie posters of all time. Imagine being illustrated by Drew Struzan…damn, a master at making characters/actors really feel mythological. (Also just realized that is a CV radio thing in Jack Burton’s hand, his weapon really was being a loudmouth)
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You just make sure to listen to the old Pork Chop Express here when I tell ya to take some time off from your busy schedule and enjoy some of Drew Struzan's work once in a while
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Heyo #PortfolioDay! I'm Sygnin, I illustrate in an ink & color style.
Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.
Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com
Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.
Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Heyo #PortfolioDay! I'm Sygnin, I illustrate in an ink & color style.
Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.
Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com
Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.
Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com
Before telling me that "AI can reason" you better have a copy of your University-level qualifications in philosophy ready to share with me... I know zilch about reasoning but I know enough to know that humanity's greatest minds continuer to debate the concept and have debated it for millennia
a woman says get out of my face while holding her hand up
Alt: a woman says get out of my face while holding her hand up
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October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Before telling me that "AI can reason" you better have a copy of your University-level qualifications in philosophy ready to share with me... I know zilch about reasoning but I know enough to know that humanity's greatest minds continuer to debate the concept and have debated it for millennia
Brilliant! Enjoyable from start to finish. With Etrigan, Swampy and Ambush Bug this was always going to pique my interest but the execution is a delight 🤓
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Brilliant! Enjoyable from start to finish. With Etrigan, Swampy and Ambush Bug this was always going to pique my interest but the execution is a delight 🤓