RedSamurai
@redsamurai.bsky.social
Resident of #Japan🇯🇵, #Taiwan🇹🇼, from the #UK🇬🇧.
A testimony to what I have seen: Then & Now and Here & There.
🚫DM 🚫Trump🚫Musk #fintech
Get busy livin’. Currently in 🇬🇧
A testimony to what I have seen: Then & Now and Here & There.
🚫DM 🚫Trump🚫Musk #fintech
Get busy livin’. Currently in 🇬🇧
Now getting funky answers when I ask my personalised AI about my assets.
So sorting that, is today’s task, ahead of a delicate HNW meeting on Wednesday.
Yes I know, I know, I am dancing with the devil…but then again, I always have🤷♂️
So sorting that, is today’s task, ahead of a delicate HNW meeting on Wednesday.
Yes I know, I know, I am dancing with the devil…but then again, I always have🤷♂️
a person behind a grid of squares with their hand on the glass
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January 25, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Now getting funky answers when I ask my personalised AI about my assets.
So sorting that, is today’s task, ahead of a delicate HNW meeting on Wednesday.
Yes I know, I know, I am dancing with the devil…but then again, I always have🤷♂️
So sorting that, is today’s task, ahead of a delicate HNW meeting on Wednesday.
Yes I know, I know, I am dancing with the devil…but then again, I always have🤷♂️
Many people seem angry in the UK but their lives seem good
I think I have found an issue - what we in business call- God Meetings.
When there is a custom price given, but the person making the price, is not it the meeting.”I just need to talk to my boss”
Never accept this negotiation format🚫
I think I have found an issue - what we in business call- God Meetings.
When there is a custom price given, but the person making the price, is not it the meeting.”I just need to talk to my boss”
Never accept this negotiation format🚫
January 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Many people seem angry in the UK but their lives seem good
I think I have found an issue - what we in business call- God Meetings.
When there is a custom price given, but the person making the price, is not it the meeting.”I just need to talk to my boss”
Never accept this negotiation format🚫
I think I have found an issue - what we in business call- God Meetings.
When there is a custom price given, but the person making the price, is not it the meeting.”I just need to talk to my boss”
Never accept this negotiation format🚫
In finance institutions, there are things done to make money, and loss leader things done that don't make money, but allow them to offer a comprehensive service
FinTech companies that make any contract only on the loss-leader stuff, are stupid, and will bankrupt themselves
FinTech companies that make any contract only on the loss-leader stuff, are stupid, and will bankrupt themselves
January 25, 2026 at 1:03 PM
In finance institutions, there are things done to make money, and loss leader things done that don't make money, but allow them to offer a comprehensive service
FinTech companies that make any contract only on the loss-leader stuff, are stupid, and will bankrupt themselves
FinTech companies that make any contract only on the loss-leader stuff, are stupid, and will bankrupt themselves
For me, the 🇯🇵system of rubbish disposal is much better than the 🇬🇧one
In the 🇬🇧I spend time thinking “is the recyclable of not?”. Putting glass and paper together seems odd
But in 🇯🇵I know the difference between burnable/non burnable
And yes there are many subsets in🇯🇵🇬🇧
In the 🇬🇧I spend time thinking “is the recyclable of not?”. Putting glass and paper together seems odd
But in 🇯🇵I know the difference between burnable/non burnable
And yes there are many subsets in🇯🇵🇬🇧
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
For me, the 🇯🇵system of rubbish disposal is much better than the 🇬🇧one
In the 🇬🇧I spend time thinking “is the recyclable of not?”. Putting glass and paper together seems odd
But in 🇯🇵I know the difference between burnable/non burnable
And yes there are many subsets in🇯🇵🇬🇧
In the 🇬🇧I spend time thinking “is the recyclable of not?”. Putting glass and paper together seems odd
But in 🇯🇵I know the difference between burnable/non burnable
And yes there are many subsets in🇯🇵🇬🇧
Stripping off and putting everything in the washing machine is one way to guarantee that, just at that moment, a bunch of tourists will cruise by the window.
And now they appear to be wisely retreating😉
And now they appear to be wisely retreating😉
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Stripping off and putting everything in the washing machine is one way to guarantee that, just at that moment, a bunch of tourists will cruise by the window.
And now they appear to be wisely retreating😉
And now they appear to be wisely retreating😉
My mum asks me the same question, again and again, “would I have done anything different with hindsight?”
I am like…
”No. Hindsight is pale.
Foresight, on the other hand, could have been a bit useful though!” 🤣
I am like…
”No. Hindsight is pale.
Foresight, on the other hand, could have been a bit useful though!” 🤣
January 23, 2026 at 10:27 PM
My mum asks me the same question, again and again, “would I have done anything different with hindsight?”
I am like…
”No. Hindsight is pale.
Foresight, on the other hand, could have been a bit useful though!” 🤣
I am like…
”No. Hindsight is pale.
Foresight, on the other hand, could have been a bit useful though!” 🤣
London Financial District, Canary Wharf, had a bit of extra dressing today.
January 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
London Financial District, Canary Wharf, had a bit of extra dressing today.
Lucky to find a map of my local area from 1881.
Most of the old docks are now woods, which is very nice, but a couple still have water.
Most of the old docks are now woods, which is very nice, but a couple still have water.
January 23, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Lucky to find a map of my local area from 1881.
Most of the old docks are now woods, which is very nice, but a couple still have water.
Most of the old docks are now woods, which is very nice, but a couple still have water.
I knew the foreign Nikko guys that were found guilty of market manipulation, last year in 🇯🇵
I took them to Wolfgang's for a pile of steak in Marunouchi. Last time I saw them I took them for lunch in London too.
They seemed decent people. Find it hard to believe.
Olympus?
I took them to Wolfgang's for a pile of steak in Marunouchi. Last time I saw them I took them for lunch in London too.
They seemed decent people. Find it hard to believe.
Olympus?
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I knew the foreign Nikko guys that were found guilty of market manipulation, last year in 🇯🇵
I took them to Wolfgang's for a pile of steak in Marunouchi. Last time I saw them I took them for lunch in London too.
They seemed decent people. Find it hard to believe.
Olympus?
I took them to Wolfgang's for a pile of steak in Marunouchi. Last time I saw them I took them for lunch in London too.
They seemed decent people. Find it hard to believe.
Olympus?
Too much holiday cheer, and meet and greet, leaves jack a dull boy.
Time to get back in the daily saddle and pay the piper.
Ready, set, go…
Time to get back in the daily saddle and pay the piper.
Ready, set, go…
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Too much holiday cheer, and meet and greet, leaves jack a dull boy.
Time to get back in the daily saddle and pay the piper.
Ready, set, go…
Time to get back in the daily saddle and pay the piper.
Ready, set, go…
A great evening with my old colleagues from London, HK, Taipei and Tokyo last night
Seems the M&A gravy train ended, after the rise of interest rates
Comfortable life, kids, 1 day a week at the office, seems to have mellowed everyone. Low mojo
Not got me yet..still got a last battle in me
Seems the M&A gravy train ended, after the rise of interest rates
Comfortable life, kids, 1 day a week at the office, seems to have mellowed everyone. Low mojo
Not got me yet..still got a last battle in me
a man in chain mail stands in front of a crowd of soldiers with netflix written on the bottom right
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January 22, 2026 at 1:01 PM
A great evening with my old colleagues from London, HK, Taipei and Tokyo last night
Seems the M&A gravy train ended, after the rise of interest rates
Comfortable life, kids, 1 day a week at the office, seems to have mellowed everyone. Low mojo
Not got me yet..still got a last battle in me
Seems the M&A gravy train ended, after the rise of interest rates
Comfortable life, kids, 1 day a week at the office, seems to have mellowed everyone. Low mojo
Not got me yet..still got a last battle in me
Tried of taking hours out of my day to watch that Hippo’s arse of a president spray meaningless shit at us, only to do double u-turns all day long, and go nowhere
It’s a waste of time listening anything he, and his dumb sycophant lackeys, say
We need to tune them all out now.
It’s a waste of time listening anything he, and his dumb sycophant lackeys, say
We need to tune them all out now.
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Tried of taking hours out of my day to watch that Hippo’s arse of a president spray meaningless shit at us, only to do double u-turns all day long, and go nowhere
It’s a waste of time listening anything he, and his dumb sycophant lackeys, say
We need to tune them all out now.
It’s a waste of time listening anything he, and his dumb sycophant lackeys, say
We need to tune them all out now.
Police are practicing today.
Dragging things out of the river where I live. Round and round may times.
I guess they read my previous Tweet.
Dragging things out of the river where I live. Round and round may times.
I guess they read my previous Tweet.
January 20, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Police are practicing today.
Dragging things out of the river where I live. Round and round may times.
I guess they read my previous Tweet.
Dragging things out of the river where I live. Round and round may times.
I guess they read my previous Tweet.
Looking for the decades old email, on a decades old laptop, that changed my life.
But first, defrag the disk🤣
But first, defrag the disk🤣
January 19, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Looking for the decades old email, on a decades old laptop, that changed my life.
But first, defrag the disk🤣
But first, defrag the disk🤣
Now I am into this drink of my childhood.
January 18, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Now I am into this drink of my childhood.
Foggy London Sunday.
I don’t meditate, I vegetate 😉
I don’t meditate, I vegetate 😉
January 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Foggy London Sunday.
I don’t meditate, I vegetate 😉
I don’t meditate, I vegetate 😉
Fuck Trump - invasion by extortion🖕
January 18, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Fuck Trump - invasion by extortion🖕
A lazy Sat watching Industry, memories of London investment banking
Was at Flemings, Scottish Art & bagpiper played every morning at the open
Then F bought by Chase. Next day he played Yankee Doodle & day after - fired
Then Chase bought by JPM
@3 banks in few months & I never moved an inch🤷♂️
Was at Flemings, Scottish Art & bagpiper played every morning at the open
Then F bought by Chase. Next day he played Yankee Doodle & day after - fired
Then Chase bought by JPM
@3 banks in few months & I never moved an inch🤷♂️
January 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
A lazy Sat watching Industry, memories of London investment banking
Was at Flemings, Scottish Art & bagpiper played every morning at the open
Then F bought by Chase. Next day he played Yankee Doodle & day after - fired
Then Chase bought by JPM
@3 banks in few months & I never moved an inch🤷♂️
Was at Flemings, Scottish Art & bagpiper played every morning at the open
Then F bought by Chase. Next day he played Yankee Doodle & day after - fired
Then Chase bought by JPM
@3 banks in few months & I never moved an inch🤷♂️
So its 6am Saturday morning in London, not doing work today, no way. Two hours before sunrise…
So binge watching the series Amadeus, loved the original movie, but sad to say, this cannot hold a candle to that.
What is genius? That is a good question though.
So binge watching the series Amadeus, loved the original movie, but sad to say, this cannot hold a candle to that.
What is genius? That is a good question though.
January 17, 2026 at 6:19 AM
So its 6am Saturday morning in London, not doing work today, no way. Two hours before sunrise…
So binge watching the series Amadeus, loved the original movie, but sad to say, this cannot hold a candle to that.
What is genius? That is a good question though.
So binge watching the series Amadeus, loved the original movie, but sad to say, this cannot hold a candle to that.
What is genius? That is a good question though.
Wow! Saw a tall, blonde, athletic woman strip down to her pants, and go for a swim in the freezing, rip tided, Thames today. Obviously didn’t photo, at the place below.
I was confused is this a man, suicide, triathlon? should I call the police? She got out, totally self-assured & dried herself off🫡
I was confused is this a man, suicide, triathlon? should I call the police? She got out, totally self-assured & dried herself off🫡
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Wow! Saw a tall, blonde, athletic woman strip down to her pants, and go for a swim in the freezing, rip tided, Thames today. Obviously didn’t photo, at the place below.
I was confused is this a man, suicide, triathlon? should I call the police? She got out, totally self-assured & dried herself off🫡
I was confused is this a man, suicide, triathlon? should I call the police? She got out, totally self-assured & dried herself off🫡
Have to try stuff I cannot get in Asia before I go back, and never gave it much thought as a kid, but is dandelion even edible?
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Have to try stuff I cannot get in Asia before I go back, and never gave it much thought as a kid, but is dandelion even edible?
Beautiful weather today in London.
Nice day for a visit by our French comrades.
Nice day for a visit by our French comrades.
January 16, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Beautiful weather today in London.
Nice day for a visit by our French comrades.
Nice day for a visit by our French comrades.
New passport today. Looks like I am out of Europe now…
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
New passport today. Looks like I am out of Europe now…
Ferry across the Thames.
January 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Ferry across the Thames.
FWIW, the pressure seems to have grudgingly worked.
“Elon Musk's Al model Grok will no longer be able to edit photos of real people to show them in revealing clothing, after widespread concern over sexualised Al deepfakes in countries including the UK and US.”
Reports the BBC.
“Elon Musk's Al model Grok will no longer be able to edit photos of real people to show them in revealing clothing, after widespread concern over sexualised Al deepfakes in countries including the UK and US.”
Reports the BBC.
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 AM
FWIW, the pressure seems to have grudgingly worked.
“Elon Musk's Al model Grok will no longer be able to edit photos of real people to show them in revealing clothing, after widespread concern over sexualised Al deepfakes in countries including the UK and US.”
Reports the BBC.
“Elon Musk's Al model Grok will no longer be able to edit photos of real people to show them in revealing clothing, after widespread concern over sexualised Al deepfakes in countries including the UK and US.”
Reports the BBC.