Stew Elliott

@stewcelliott.bsky.social

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British / Irish. Software engineer, amateur photographer, urbanism dilettante. 🔶 (he/him)

A photograph of a page in a book featuring a short poem titled "The Underfunder's Utopia" which reads "the state hospital with one bed always full always efficient"
A four panel meme featuring Anakin and Padme. - In the first panel Anakin says "I'll be advising the Tories on how young men become radicalised" - In the second Padme says "to stop it happening right?", with a smile on her face - In the third Anakin simply looks at her slyly without saying anything - In the fourth Padme repeats "to stop it happening right?" with a look of concern.
The top lookups on Merriam-Websters site, number one is "existential".
"Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, an it's not okay."
A rainbow set against a stormy sky with some brightly sunlit fields in the foreground.
"Language matters." Compare John Ruskin and Sam Altman on art and creativity, for example. Ruskin argued "that great art, whether expressing itself in words, colours, or stones, does not say the same thing over and over again; that the merit of architectural, as of every other art, consists in its saying new and different things; that to repeat itself is no more characteristic of genius in marble that it is of genius in print...Nothing is a great work of art, for the production of which either rules or models can be given". A couple of centuries later, Altman had this to say: "Everything 'creative' is a remix of things that happened in the past, plus epsilon and times the quality of the feedback loop and number of iterations. People think they should maximise epsilon but the trick is to maximise the other two"."
A screen cap of Peep Show showing Mark sitting in a chair looking pensive with the caption "I've started to get this feeling that I'm totally, totally fucked."
Brighton seafront from the air, showing the city separated from its beach by four lanes of car traffic and a line of car parking spaces.
PROFESSOR! LAVA! HOT!
A screencap from Andor showing Syril lying despondent on exhausted on his bed.
A post from @InternetHippo that reads "They taught AI how to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the AI was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren't".
A two‑panel Futurama scene shows a basketball player in a red, white, and blue uniform sitting on a bench beside a jar containing a preserved human head wearing headphones. Behind them, spectators sit in bleachers. The captions read: “It was always our plan to trail at the half,” and “thus deepening England’s eventual humiliation.”
A Reading Chronicle headline that reads "Thousands of bus lane fines in Reading blamed on 'poor signage'" illustrated with a photo of a woman pointing at some giant letters that say "Bus Gate".
A very small door with a line of brilliant red roses hanging in a diagonal stream above it.
A pavement completely blocked by drooping branches.
A screenshot of my notifications, showing a post from a few weeks ago that reads "Piss tank at 8% captain!" over a gif of the Enterprise crew being rocked on the bridge doing numbers once again. The post was a QP of the ISS piss tank account.
A very much not AI photo of a steam train
A screencap from Jurassic Park, Sam Neill stands in the middle of a group with his hands on his hips, looking down with a smile on his face. The caption reads "When you're about to just absolutely fcking[sic] destroy a shithead kid who doesn't respect Dinos".
A post captions "what happened to this style of graphic design" featuring an image of Tim Allen holding a graphical representation of an atom and Sam Neill holding a miniature CGI star. Both are holding them out towards the camera and smiling. The reply to the post reads "dudes used to just hand you particles".
A cow staring mournfully out to sea with the caption "I can't go the rest of my life asking if it's AI or not".
A Google Maps "historical landmark" called "The Great Bike Mountain", situated in the back garden of a house repeatedly raided and found to be trafficking in stolen bicycles.
Rik Mayall as Alan B'stard.
A screenshot of DuckDuckGo with the search term "qr https://example.com" and the generated QR code that results.
An Argos catalogue.
A screenshot of a temperature map of the UK and near continent. Scotland is orange to green and Inverness is circled, showing a temperature of 15C. Large parts of England and the near continent are deep red indicating temperatures in the mid to high thirties.
Captain Barbossa laughing maniacally at the wheel of a ship, a speech bubble extends from him towards the bottom of the image, implying he is speaking the text of the quoted post.
An artists impression of a fictitious Sun front page. The banner features the words "IT'S A SCORCHER" in bright orange text next to an exploding thermometer indicating 42C. The main story, a Sun Exclusive, has the headline "EVERYONE IS DEAD", featuring a human skill on a beach next to two sun loungers.
Weather forecast for the 23rd through 25th of June showing peak daytime temperatures of 37, 39 and 38C.
A story from Left Foot Forward headlined "Mick Lynch humiliates Reform candidate in fiery Newsnight clash". Lynch looks calm and collected in a photo juxtaposed with a photo of the Reform candidate looking speechless.
The NX-01 bridge
The cast of TNG pose on the Enterprise D bridge (the set reconstructed for Star Trek Picard).
Four men in *extremely* tight jeans that are also too short, wearing shoes either without socks or with low ankle socks with bared, muscular tattooed arms. People you wouldn't leave your drink unattended around, essentially.
Pingu, his arms folded with a stubborn expression on his face with the caption "well now I am not doing it".
An Oxford Mail headline that reads "Pubs and cafes shut early over protest fears during World Cup England opener".
A BBC News story with the headline "Shop ordered to remove illegal floor".
A screen capture from Star Trek TNG, showing Riker, Picard, Worf and an extra being shaken on the bridge as the Enterprise is attacked. A shower of sparks is raining down on them.
"Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who. As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come. After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory. The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production. Details of the tender will be announced in due course. The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC. "
Garak, with all of his Cardassian features smoothed out. He is smiling placidly.
A screenshot of the main character, Ro Laren, from Star Trek Shadow Frontier. She does not look like Michelle Forbes.
A sage green Tern HSD pictured on a driveway. It has an attached front rack with a blue backpack resting in it.
A screen cap from Futurama. A farmer on the moon has removed his helmet and is suffocating
A scuba diver holding a hammer on the left of the image, labelled "Me, working". On the right hand side of the image a large fish looms into frame, closely inspecting what the scuba diver is doing with the caption "aren't you using AI? Why is it still taking so much time? AI is magic, are you a muggle? New best AI tool launched just today".
A Jigsaw puzzle box, labelled "Train Scene" and "Premium quality jigsaw". A picture of a steam locomotive hauling carriages through the countryside can be seen on the front.
"84% are more right wing than you"
My result from findmypolitics.com - a centre left social democrat 85% left wing 100% libertarian 65% pro-liberty 90% globalist 40% high trust
Old Steve Rogers, looking placidly into the middle distance with the caption "No, I don't think I will."
A screenshot of Wikipedia showing the composition of Oxfordshire County Council. The Liberal Democrats are the largest party on 36. The Conservatives, who think they should lead the council, are in third place on 10.
a screenshot of a chart showing our household energy consumption on the 9th of May - 2.69 kWh total.
A vertical two panel meme featurinig Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. In the top panel he smiles condescendingly and the caption reads "Oh, you added a new AI feature? Impressive. Very nice." In the bottom panel he is saying "Now, show me how I disable it."
A screenshot of an OS Map focused on Wychwood Forest, showing only a single public footpatch in the entire forest and multiple inaccessible private tracks.
A photograph of a page of a book with a section highlighted that reads "As Baidu raced to develop its ChatGPT equivalent, employees working to advance AI technologies for drug discovery had to suspend their research and cede their computer chips to develop the chatbot instead".
John Simm as the Master in Doctor Who, pointing and firing his laser screwdriver just out of frame with a manically angry expression on his face.
"Back in the day, he'd certainly paid lip service to plenty of those back-to-the-old-ways types. Mostly so he could point them at his enemies and ensure they didn't start looking at him. People like that, he had always opined, were machines with big obvious levers. Feed them the right line on who should be controlling whom, whose rights were protected and whose weren't, which out-group was the devil, and they'd become your pet attack dog for life."
The FTSE 100 company, which has more than 800 Premier Inn hotels in the UK, has been under pressure from American activist investor Corvex, a New York-based hedge fund, to rethink its business strategy.
A screenshot of Facebook showing the Meta AI button above the Friends button
An ad sponsored by Boots Hearingcare that reads "Why so many people over 60 in the UK are turning to Boots Hearingcare".