Stuart Douglas
@stuartdouglas.com
www.stuartdouglas.com
www.obversebooks.co.uk
www.blackarchive.co.uk
Author, editor, publisher, football, music.
www.obversebooks.co.uk
www.blackarchive.co.uk
Author, editor, publisher, football, music.
Hesgeth is a drunken idiot, no doubt about that - but wouldn't the lettering on his medals also be reversed in that case? The the text saying 'EXPEDITIONARY SERVICE' one looks the right way round to me?
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hesgeth is a drunken idiot, no doubt about that - but wouldn't the lettering on his medals also be reversed in that case? The the text saying 'EXPEDITIONARY SERVICE' one looks the right way round to me?
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
Some good coverage of the campaign to get the BBC to reverse their decision to limit access to the Written Archive at Caversham.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Some good coverage of the campaign to get the BBC to reverse their decision to limit access to the Written Archive at Caversham.
Weekend listening - mostly vinyl, all great, some brilliant.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Weekend listening - mostly vinyl, all great, some brilliant.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
This was very much not as nice as I recall from my childhood, when it was a real treat for special occasions. For a start, it contains no minced beef - no meat at all really - or onion, just a strange, faintly meat flavoured slime.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This was very much not as nice as I recall from my childhood, when it was a real treat for special occasions. For a start, it contains no minced beef - no meat at all really - or onion, just a strange, faintly meat flavoured slime.
You will only need one guess.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
You will only need one guess.
Twitter and ChatGBT both down?
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Twitter and ChatGBT both down?
Recent records listened to...
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Recent records listened to...
You think people move there *by mistake*?
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
You think people move there *by mistake*?
Records have been played, including the new ones from Rose Io and Johnny Trunk.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Records have been played, including the new ones from Rose Io and Johnny Trunk.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
Always a good day that starts with a new record from Ron Geesin and Johnny Trunk!
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Always a good day that starts with a new record from Ron Geesin and Johnny Trunk!
Every time I see pics of these two together, I am freshly astonished that the country which, for almost my entire life, was the most important and powerful in the world, is now controlled by actual idiots.
October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Every time I see pics of these two together, I am freshly astonished that the country which, for almost my entire life, was the most important and powerful in the world, is now controlled by actual idiots.
Via Andrew Field on Facebook, re Farage.
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Via Andrew Field on Facebook, re Farage.
"Braveheart is a great film."
October 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"Braveheart is a great film."
Unsolicited Brix pic.
October 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Unsolicited Brix pic.
When watching a Japanese movie in which a cop can see, stamped on their foreheads, the number of sexual partners everyone has had (though only while the cop is masturbating!), I did not expect this Everton fan to pop up.
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
When watching a Japanese movie in which a cop can see, stamped on their foreheads, the number of sexual partners everyone has had (though only while the cop is masturbating!), I did not expect this Everton fan to pop up.
More Things wrong than there are sentences in this report on the derby from the Edinburgh Evening News.
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
More Things wrong than there are sentences in this report on the derby from the Edinburgh Evening News.
Rangers fans confront the board last night. Almost as funny as Celtic's disallowed goal. Police called and everything!
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rangers fans confront the board last night. Almost as funny as Celtic's disallowed goal. Police called and everything!
Not sure what the worst thing I saw yesterday was - Michelle Mone whining that she's the real victim of her own apparent fraud, or this, where a man who looks to be in his 60s admits that he likes this teenage looking AI 'actress' because she's a virgin.
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Not sure what the worst thing I saw yesterday was - Michelle Mone whining that she's the real victim of her own apparent fraud, or this, where a man who looks to be in his 60s admits that he likes this teenage looking AI 'actress' because she's a virgin.
Vinyl listening over the weekend.
September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Vinyl listening over the weekend.
Cool I things kept arriving this weekend!
September 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Cool I things kept arriving this weekend!
I put this disclaimer in the front of all @obversebooks.co.uk books now. Like you say, it'll get harder to be sure no AI has been used at all in a source as time goes by and it becomes more widespread, but you're right - not doing it knowingly is the key.
September 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I put this disclaimer in the front of all @obversebooks.co.uk books now. Like you say, it'll get harder to be sure no AI has been used at all in a source as time goes by and it becomes more widespread, but you're right - not doing it knowingly is the key.
Also memorably used on the Penguin Classics cover of Ecce Homo, back in the day.
September 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Also memorably used on the Penguin Classics cover of Ecce Homo, back in the day.
A handy Groyper primer by Sophie Labelle.
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A handy Groyper primer by Sophie Labelle.
Decent @officialpvfc.bsky.social lineup today.
September 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Decent @officialpvfc.bsky.social lineup today.