Tom Nelthorpe
@nelthorpe.bsky.social
Country stuff. Infrastructure finance stuff. Some metal
"so-called" www.enbw.com/investors/ne...
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM
"so-called" www.enbw.com/investors/ne...
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We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.
Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.
blog.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.
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1. U. Roy, 2. I. Roy, 3. Dillinger, 4. Prince Jazzbo, 5. Doctor Alimantado, 6. Ranking Trevor, 7. Lone Ranger, 8. Brigadier Jerry, 9. Prince Far I, 10. Tapper Zukie... I'll be honest, I'm going to struggle to get to 240.
January 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM
1. U. Roy, 2. I. Roy, 3. Dillinger, 4. Prince Jazzbo, 5. Doctor Alimantado, 6. Ranking Trevor, 7. Lone Ranger, 8. Brigadier Jerry, 9. Prince Far I, 10. Tapper Zukie... I'll be honest, I'm going to struggle to get to 240.
Having attempted, without complete success, to pivot from (financial) journalism to forestry I can only sympathise. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Having attempted, without complete success, to pivot from (financial) journalism to forestry I can only sympathise. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
The last big US-led investment in Venezuela's oil sector was in the Orinoco heavy oil projects in the 1990s and early 2000s. Venezuela later massively hiked their royalties, and then expropriated them (though it left US EXIM whole!).
It will cost $10 billion a year to build the infrastructure needed to boost oil production. If Venezuela turns into another Iraq or Libya, it will be a US money pit, thanks to Trump. The oil cash machine Trump is selling only works if there's security, stability.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/...
Who controls Venezuela's oil now? What Maduro's arrest means for energy markets
The arrest of Nicolás Maduro has thrown Venezuela's politically fraught oil industries back into focus.
www.cnbc.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The last big US-led investment in Venezuela's oil sector was in the Orinoco heavy oil projects in the 1990s and early 2000s. Venezuela later massively hiked their royalties, and then expropriated them (though it left US EXIM whole!).
Happy New Year. It's been a while. Been eating and travelling. Sometimes at the same time. In fact, I was too busy to remark upon the first Friday of January, during which I was in Derbyshire and there was no official Bandcamp Friday anyway. /1
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Happy New Year. It's been a while. Been eating and travelling. Sometimes at the same time. In fact, I was too busy to remark upon the first Friday of January, during which I was in Derbyshire and there was no official Bandcamp Friday anyway. /1
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"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is amazing investigative reporting from the FT's @miles-johnson.bsky.social and all I can think about it is... he named his international arms broker after Sheffield's premier defunct stoner metal band? www.ft.com/content/d7f9...
Inside the secret supply chain fuelling America’s wars
And what Will Somerindyke’s company, Regulus Global, means for the future of conflict
www.ft.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is amazing investigative reporting from the FT's @miles-johnson.bsky.social and all I can think about it is... he named his international arms broker after Sheffield's premier defunct stoner metal band? www.ft.com/content/d7f9...
The launch of New Coke - particularly the dislike of outsiders and the manipulation of coverage by a small number of motivated opponents - reminds me of nothing so much as every English planning application ever. excelpope.net/2025/12/07/n...
New Coke: A Warning from History
If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…
excelpope.net
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The launch of New Coke - particularly the dislike of outsiders and the manipulation of coverage by a small number of motivated opponents - reminds me of nothing so much as every English planning application ever. excelpope.net/2025/12/07/n...
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'AI is writing psych rock albums. AAARGH! Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has pivoted to ACTUAL ARMS DEALING and people are still subscribing to his shitty streaming service. AAARGH!'
JR Moores finds some comfort in his favourite psych and avant-rock albums of the year
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JR Moores finds some comfort in his favourite psych and avant-rock albums of the year
buff.ly/1IhgXYL
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
'AI is writing psych rock albums. AAARGH! Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has pivoted to ACTUAL ARMS DEALING and people are still subscribing to his shitty streaming service. AAARGH!'
JR Moores finds some comfort in his favourite psych and avant-rock albums of the year
buff.ly/1IhgXYL
JR Moores finds some comfort in his favourite psych and avant-rock albums of the year
buff.ly/1IhgXYL
It is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year. Too soon to really exploit all of the year-end lists. Not least among them the mighty' Obelisk's. isitbandcampfriday.com /1
Is it Bandcamp Friday?
Is it?
isitbandcampfriday.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year. Too soon to really exploit all of the year-end lists. Not least among them the mighty' Obelisk's. isitbandcampfriday.com /1
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One of the greatest to ever do it.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One of the greatest to ever do it.
I am not sure about some of the assertions in this White & Case infrastructure M&A briefing at all. mergers.whitecase.com/highlights/p... /1
Private capital takes on expanding role in European infrastructure
Despite national regulatory differences and continued high financing costs, European infrastructure—including data centers, digital assets and renewables—provides increasingly tempting opportunities f...
mergers.whitecase.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I am not sure about some of the assertions in this White & Case infrastructure M&A briefing at all. mergers.whitecase.com/highlights/p... /1
I just saw that the Courier has created a searchable database of Epstein's emails, and my first thought is that this is probably the Enron Corpus that this generation deserves. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I just saw that the Courier has created a searchable database of Epstein's emails, and my first thought is that this is probably the Enron Corpus that this generation deserves. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
It turns out that every Parisian waiter is now a strange aproned cross between Yoda and Mr Miyagi. Even the brusque ones are friendly! www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
My search for the perfect steak frites in Paris, the staple of French brasserie cuisine
It’s on every prix fixe menu in France, but which restaurant serves up the best incarnation in the capital? I stomped and chomped my way across the city to find out
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It turns out that every Parisian waiter is now a strange aproned cross between Yoda and Mr Miyagi. Even the brusque ones are friendly! www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Oh god AI powered NIMBYs this really is the worst timeline
‘A new service called Objector is offering “policy-backed objections in minutes” to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes.’
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Oh god AI powered NIMBYs this really is the worst timeline
What I always say: It all went to hell after Peter Green left
What I really, deep down, believe:
What I really, deep down, believe:
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What I always say: It all went to hell after Peter Green left
What I really, deep down, believe:
What I really, deep down, believe:
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
I see Jonathan Jones is again suggesting that a master of 18th century painting was a proto hunt sab. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Wright of Derby: From the Shadows review – science, skeletons and a suffocated cockatoo
Joseph Wright of Derby’s vivid paintings depicted Enlightenment thinking and illumination amid the dark. So why are they so terrifying?
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I see Jonathan Jones is again suggesting that a master of 18th century painting was a proto hunt sab. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Hey hey it's not Bandcamp Friday. They don't have one in November. No doubt for Bonfire-related reasons. isitbandcampfriday.com /1
Is it Bandcamp Friday?
Is it?
isitbandcampfriday.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey hey it's not Bandcamp Friday. They don't have one in November. No doubt for Bonfire-related reasons. isitbandcampfriday.com /1
Selective licencing is (IMHO) a very iniquitous way of spreading the costs associated with policing bad landlords across all landlords. When there are already ways of extracting penalties from bad landlords. /1 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves admits breaking rules by renting out her house without a licence
Chancellor is backed by prime minister after saying she ‘inadvertently’ failed to pay fee required by London council
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Selective licencing is (IMHO) a very iniquitous way of spreading the costs associated with policing bad landlords across all landlords. When there are already ways of extracting penalties from bad landlords. /1 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Even if I did not hate everything Virgin-related with a cold fury and want Gemini to win (I think their team is MUCH more capable than the ORR seems to suggest) I think this would be a poor outcome.
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Even if I did not hate everything Virgin-related with a cold fury and want Gemini to win (I think their team is MUCH more capable than the ORR seems to suggest) I think this would be a poor outcome.
The idea that offshore wind from the North Sea can power all these data centres is... touching
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Backing for North Lincolnshire to become AI growth zone
If approved, it would create thousands of jobs and bring in billions of pounds in investment.
www.bbc.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The idea that offshore wind from the North Sea can power all these data centres is... touching
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Unsolicited Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks pic
October 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Unsolicited Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks pic