Author | Lightnews

Stuart Herbert

@stuherbert.bsky.social

290 followers 220 following 260 posts

He / him. Software industry vet & public speaker. Economic migrant. Passionate about my causes, passionate about my hobbies. @[email protected] too https://youtube.com/c/@ganbarodigital http://hometoneblog.com

youtube.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · Nov 29

I can't remember the last time I worked in a team that wasn't multicultural. Stronger for it.

1 1 6

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 3d

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

50 460 1.3K

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 4d

Daylight Saving Explained:

So we’ve got a big 6-panel comic here! Let’s dig in.

The comic is titled ‘How to Tell if You Lost or Gained an Hour’

In the first drawing, we have the words “This is the Hour Hand” and below it is an anthropomorphic hour hand waving and saying ‘sup losers’

Next panel says “If the clocks go forward, it eats up that hour” and now our Hour character is chasing after an hour-sized wedge of a clock, screaming ‘Come Here!” while the hour goes, “AHH!”

Next panel goes “But if clocks go back, it also eats that hour…” and now the hour hand is eating another house screaming ‘AAH HA HA’ while that hour runs away saying ‘Not again!’

Next panel points out that ‘In short, the hour hand is a real dick’ and theres a drawing of the hour hand smoking a cig, giving the finger and saying ‘Fuck You’ -

Panel five continues the narration with “...and nobody knows what happened to the hour” and below this, there’s a policeman with a sniffer dog looking for a shallow grave in the woods.

Our last panel begins “...But someone will try and explain it to you…”
Below this we have one of those annoying people saying “So in Spring, the clocks spring…” but their words mean nothing because they’re talking to a grieving anthropomorphic clock, who’s missing that hour, shown by a missing wedge in their face and they’re saying “That will not bring my baby back!”

Anyway, I’m really sorry if you were actually hoping to find out if we gained or lost an hour here.

1 14 40

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 8d

This is a welcoming account.

20 420 580

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 11d

Fellow children of the 70s might appreciate this: a funk re-imagining of Metallica's ...And Justice For All album.

"With 100% more bass" 😂

#Metallica #Funktallica #AndJusticeForAll #Saxophone

youtu.be/xtzhSJxNFQQ

Metallica - And Justice For all Album (If it was FUNK)

YouTube video by Conhuir

youtu.be

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 13d

Perfect reply. No notes. 😆

Why is the W lower on the Word Icon for Mac compared to the other letters on the other apps? Is it a mistake?

Have you tried to place an image in Word and have it stay in position? That's why.

3 15 80

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 12d

Railway cars waiting for their next passengers.

#photography #cymru #Wales #porthmadog #WelshMountainRailway #fujifilm #XH2 #AutumnFalls #heritage #railway

This photo is a square (1x1) aspect ratio.

The left half of the image is taken up by an old railway passenger carriage. The lower half of the carriage is a rich green, while the top half appears to be empty window frames at first glance. There's a sign on the outside that says "third class", alongside the number "38".

Most of the right half of the frame is taken up by a flexible pipe or thick cable snaking its away across to the next carriage. And then, at the very edge of the photo, there's just a hint of the next carriage.

Behind, in the distance, there's a bay or river estuary, and beyond that, the hills and mountains of North Wales rise.

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 19d

Try to download Chrome, and Microsoft Edge pops up a banner saying:

“Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft.”

You’ve just proven you can’t be trusted by snooping on my activity.

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 19d

Fuck me, the Windows 11 setup experience on a new machine is just awful.

My favourite bit: you can’t create installation media unless you already have a Windows machine.

Which genius signed that off?

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19d

ANTIFA:

200 2.5K 8.3K

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

54 710 1.4K

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · 20d

Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get activation to work in Office for Mac?

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20d

Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 23d

Folks, i need a job or a contract so bad. I'm a full-stack developer, i work in several frameworks (including #laravel and #yii2), and with several CMSes (notably #craftcms and #expressionengine but i can also work in Wordpress). I've got SQL wizard skills and a deep focus on #a11y . Please hire me!

17 140 210

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 26d

In memoriam...

59 1.6K 5.5K

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 26d

If you go down to Stromness Library today, you can see Stephanie's superbly spooktacular window painting of Meg and Mog, from the brilliant books by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pieńkowski. 🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦉🧹🌙

#LoveLibraries #Halloween

A photo of a window painting of Meg and Mog. A witch on a broomstick, a cat, an owl and a moon and stars

Photos of a window painting of Meg and Mog. A witch on a broomstick, a cat, an owl and a moon

6 29 200

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 28d

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ 75.00%

2 44 110

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29d

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Case 1:25-cv-10685-WGY Document 261
Filed 09/30/25
Page 1 of 161
Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers)
1 9/S UNE 2025
TRUMP HAS PARDONS
AND TANKS..
WHAT DO
You
HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States -- you and me --have our magnificent Constitution.
Here's how that works out in a
specific case --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- HARVARD FACULTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AT NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY, RUTGERS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, and
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiffs,
)
CIVIL ACTION NO.
25-10685-WGY
v.
MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KRISTI NOEM, in her official
[1]

65 810 2.7K

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Dgar @dgar.bsky.social · Sep 27

“Loving my new Klingon Bird of Prey tattoo!!!”

[Image: Someone (unknown - not Dgar) pulls their shirt sleeve back to reveal the back of their shoulder. There is no tattoo.]

10 24 170

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · Sep 26

This is a great example of why humanizing Nazis is bad, actually.

NickFrank40
@NickyFrank30
My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.

10 46

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Sep 26

Coming very soon. Please sign up! We can only do this together.

We're starting small but we have big ambitions.

Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.

www.thenerve.news

The Nerve

www.thenerve.news

23 150 430

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · Sep 26

I, for one, don’t want a Labour UK government that is doing Reform’s work for them.

Stop being a useful idiot.

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · Sep 22

When you’re researching guitar pickups, and Google AI summary just quotes your own blog back at you 😂😭

I want to say “Not. Helpful.”, but the algorithm seems to think my blog actually is.

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

💀🎃👻It was a Moog and stormy night…👻🎃💀 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · Sep 18

Probably a good moment for a periodic reminder:

💀🎃👻It was a Moog and stormy night…👻🎃💀 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · Apr 30

Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them.

Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack.

There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.

2 18 57

Reposted by Stuart Herbert

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Sep 16

Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books?

Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people?

There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at:

myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

13 110 260

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · Sep 16

RIP Robert Redford. What a life you led.

Stuart Herbert @stuherbert.bsky.social · Sep 15

As with every year, I’ll wait for the .2 release of #iOS & #macOS (at least) before I consider upgrading.

#StabilityOverShiny