Justin Stach

Alan Milburn’s position on @therestpolitics.bsky.social, that young people out of work is a system problem rather than a young people problem, got me. So I built a way to see the system: follow today’s 16-year-olds to 40, change the support, see what happens. justin.stach.uk/neet

I wanted to see what changing the UK tax bands around would mean, which of course meant I needed to make a fantasy HMRC simulator... justin.stach.uk/tax/?a=12570...

Lovely people watching my calligraphy performance at the York Wayzgoose 👋 They say the banner installed in the middle of the Thin Ice Press room is still there since early August! Can you imagine a calligraphy performance at another event? I'd love to do it more and more. #calligraphy #performance

The Europe of the Long Good Friday. youtu.be/RXFIsPGPl2k?...

Presumably the less remarkable version of this is of Martin having a Sigue Sigue Sputnik breakfast in his Sigue Sigue Sputnik B&B with a Sigue Sigue Sputnik candelabra on the window.

Thes people in the Dots video seem deeply lonely. openai.com/index/introd...

One must imagine Wall-E happy.

Great investigation work from a horribly under resourced Environment Agency. A record fine of £8M against South West Water. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@mikeywil.bsky.social Hello! How the hell are you?

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Fuck me sideways, Meta really is a fucking toxic business. Totally ignoring the privacy and hoovering 187,000 lines from a journalist’s Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being off.

They aren’t worried Roko’s basilisk will kill them; they’re worried it wont exist to grant them immortality.

This might mean Gove was right.

Very odd hearing my weird, side project The Water Dictionary being talked about by @andrewhunterm.bsky.social as I walked the dog. overcast.fm/+AALJPD3wP_I...

I suspect that this is actually asking about the favourite album of a band/artist you only half liked.

I’m so spreadsheet people I built my own horribly niche spreadsheet. b2.stach.ltd

There’s a Hammer of the Gods style book about Depeche Mode that needs to be written.

Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/17/l... *So it wasn't a dream!* I'm really happy to have found this, and Happy World Emoji Day. 🎉

New favourite account - eviscerated job adverts from the bleaker end of late stage capitalism 👇

More fiddling with my #watercolor experiments. Added where the colours sit on the gamut solid, and what they are. Ran it through a shader to make it look more like watercolour itself, and put it on a white background. All to avoid working on the app’s marketing.

A little bit obsessed with these visualisations of reachable colour in #watercolor sets.

I wanted to visualise the colours that commonly available #watercolour palettes are able to reach (part of a feature I'm working on for my app Undertint). For fun, I've made a tool to compare them side-by-side. I think they're rather lovely in their own right. justin.stach.uk/palette-spac...

On mapping colour... justin.stach.uk/mapping-a-pa...

If there was a copyright claim against these listings, eBay would have these down in minutes.

Conceding that perhaps today the butter may indeed need to go in the fridge.

As the UK takes in its newest PM, get ready for a miracle. All of the country’s deep-seated problems are about to completely vanish into thin air thanks to the new guy's "charisma"... 🧵

“People who know me think I’m ghastly”

another big one for me is how extreme wealth inequality less a moral issue and more a security risk so much money that you're insulated from every conceivable fuckup demonstrably makes you stupid like the power to drag the entire world off a cliff with you and be the only one with a parachute

Solid and thoughtful. And I couldn’t agree more with, ‘Any platform that uses an algorithm more complex than ‘people you follow in chronological order’ to be treated as a publisher, and held to account for content’.

Interesting that Starmer, like Corbyn seems to elicit the same visceral but never explicable reaction from normal folks. Makes me wonder just what is it about Labour leaders that prevents them clicking with the general public.

Please read this if you want to think clearly about the issue

My latest project, “Tatebanko” (Mac, iPad, iPhone) to create interactive paper dioramas. Shown is a Hokusai tatebanko from @mfaboston.bsky.social Author shapes and folds, then build! Trace-to-cut, pinch-to-fold, and drag-to-position in an adjustable 3D scene. Sugoi!

Got App Store approval for v1.2 of my watercolour tools app Undertint. If you’re learning how to paint and have grown out of tutorials it might be of interest. It helps you learn how to mix the colours you see. Free, with lifetime one-time purchase Pro features. apps.apple.com/gb/app/under...

Still thinking about Backrooms. Might have to go and watch it again.

My fellow North Devonians will be interested to know this beauty was tested on Westward Ho! beach.

RETVRN

Back Rooms is very good, but even better was the two incredibly freaked out people frozen in the cinema’s dark exit corridor because they were trying to push the door open from the hinge side.

The Circle Of Life

When someone starts talking about unorthodox ways to deal with tax, you can be sure there’s Freemen of the Land or Sovereign Citizens coming up next. And sure enough…

I agree. He's made silly mistakes but the actual data proves that the economy is improving (despite a world in turmoil), immigration is down (despite what reform would like you to believe) and we're building closer ties to the EU. Not extreme enough for the left or the right though.

EQer is my app that customises your system audio based on your hearing profile, allowing you to enjoy music at its fullest. Recent improvements: - improved processing - transition audio on changes - passthrough mode - new Outputs layout apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

Beyond surreal for a *Green* party to be advocating for fossil fuel subsidies that would directly harm the poorest people in the world.

The fucking people who spent three years telling us Biden was reckless fool because every Humvee begrudgingly sent to Ukraine could force Putin to nuke the world are now like, "WE THOUGHT THEY HAD NUKES, SO WE BOMBED THEIR LEADERS A BIT IN THE HOPES THEY'D BE CHILL."

Fun fact. There are no state school educated people working in corporate strategy.

EQer is particularly brilliant for the older gentleman who may have attended a few too many gigs.