Mutineering

Mutineering

@mutineering.bsky.social

Ex-architect/engineer/economist turned co-operator. Platforms, human-centric identity and governance. Not a fan of hierarchies. Open source. Open borders. Brighton, UK.. Maker in metal, wood and code, working on small edge-tech and boaty-things.

55 followers91 following189 posts

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

The UK abandoned its ID scheme again and scuppered the chance to reduce bureaucracy, improve trust and reduce fraud, mainly out of a misunderstanding that some sort of centralised national ID super-database was involved.

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

The 'paper' part is the problem, with absurdly repeated verification and presentation and easy forgery and the holding of excessive, inconsistent and unnecessary credentials by multiple government departments.

Mutineering reposted

Sarah Murphy
@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

The undercover reporter suggested people did not mind if Farage “makes a few bob [from politics]” Jukes replied: “Well it’s a bit priced in with our Nige, isn’t it, no one’s voting for him to be the pope” But a racist, corrupt, security-risk PM is fine, is it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comFarage claim that £5m was reward for Brexit was ‘not press office line’, close aide saysExclusive: Undercover footage of Dan Jukes raises fresh questions about Reform leader’s statement that £5m gift was for security

Mutineering reposted

Davenant 📸
@marcdavenant.bsky.social

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social

A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

As a plumber, when I look at the UK economy, I wonder why with all that unused capacity we don't run a deficit to grow the system. It's like failing to add all the extra radiators you have because you are trying to save the water needed to fill them. There's no leak. #billphillips #economics

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Bill's MONIAC didn't deal with income distribution, but it did show the ability of taxation to dampen inflationary demand. A central heating system can have zone valves that stop those in the penthouse upstairs getting even more warmth than they get from the trickle UP effect. #plumbing #economics

Mutineering reposted

Sarah Murphy
@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

BBCR4's More Or Less last week featured a piece on refugees that confused the cost to the Exchequer with the cost/benefit to the economy as a whole, and also failed to consider the long run impact, as opposed to short term issues and costs. #refugees #migration #economics

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

I think there is more to say about the way that refugees are welcomed, prepared and economically integrated and a comparison to make with successful integration policies in other countries. But above all, welcoming refugees is a question of humanity, and the lack of it is shameful.

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

BBCR4's More Or Less last week featured a piece on refugees that confused the cost to the Exchequer with the cost/benefit to the economy as a whole, and also failed to consider the long run impact, as opposed to short term issues and costs. #refugees #migration #economics

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Neither did it mention the context of an ageing population in the UK, the associated economic impact on working capacity and the shortages in care and future cost of a care service. We need migration.

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

I'm always amazed at the BBC's persistence with the household income metaphor for government borrowing and spending. Yes it's simple to set out but... simplistic. Bank reserves? Interest paid to banks on bank reserves? That's something to cut from the 'housekeeping'! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukGovernment borrowing, bonds and yields explainedYou may have heard about government borrowing costs going up and then down again. Here's a quick guide on government borrowing, bonds and yields.
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Defence of GPS is overdue, given that we ignored it with Brexit, losing our £1Bn+ stake in EU's Galileo. The UK started, and then abandoned, its own costly satellite navigation system. It seems we now rely on the US? But we do have an office and some principles: www.gov.uk/guidance/pos...

gov.ukPositioning, Navigation and Timing: OverviewGuidance on Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), why it matters and the government framework for Greater PNT Resilience.

Mutineering reposted

Tom Freeman
@tomfreeman.bsky.social

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

I am an old nerd who worries that #NATS testing may not be using the right #mathematics to tackle what looks like a complex 'interleaving' problem in concurrency. Can they formally identify and trap these errors? Have they heard of the process calculi? Maybe this will come up in the inquiry?

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Basically, simulation and conventional testing isn't good enough for up front verification of safety-critical code whose correctness depends on millisecond-scale interleavings of events. Or are we back to the IT Crowd and 'just turn it off and on again?'

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Please read this, @BBCR4 Nick Robinson, and know that cutting public spending makes much less sense as long as private consumption continues to increase.. #economics

Simon Wren-Lewis@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social

This week's post: Understanding long term interest rates movements over the austerity period and today mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/unde... As higher interest rates particularly benefit wealth holders, it makes sense to raise taxes on those who save rather than those who borrow.

mainlymacro.blogspot.comUnderstanding long term interest rates movements over the austerity period and todayThe first section explains some basic ideas, and those familiar with arbitrage and the natural real rate of interest can skip to the auste...
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

I watched Schlesinger's movie of 'The Day of the Locust' in 1975 and it gave me nightmares. Nightmares that I hoped were contained in 1930's Hollywood. Now, in my later years I see them engulfing the world, again and again. God help us. adamipsmith.com/2015/02/16/t...

adamipsmith.comThe Day of the Locust and the Rise of the RightWhen I went there, I thought that Alta Loma terrace, in Hollywood, CA, was a pretty, rather enviable place to live. Unusually for any residential street in America the houses are arranged on either…
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Get land out of the hands of the major house and retail builders. Left to them, desolation of UK towns and city centres will continue. The Dutch do this so much better, as Andy Burnham's missus knows very well. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #planning #housing #politics

tandfonline.comLand value capture for place quality: how do land policy strategies and planning systems determine outcomes?In response to public spending chal­lenges, as well as an increasing cognisance of the magnitude of asset wealth invested in land, land value capture has come to the fore as a topic of planning res...
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

BBC R4 Nick Robinson aired Dr Laffer's unsupported claim that reducing taxes will increase tax revenue in the UK. That's as laughable as Liz Truss herself the last time they tried it. #economics #bbcr4 #dumbingdown

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

We should instead ask what we can tax without suppressing useful production, and which taxes do the opposite. Let's tax land/location value, natural-resource rents, monopoly rents and excess corporate profits. #tax

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

act.38degrees.org.ukAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

BBC News again gets basic monetary #economics wrong in talk of "balancing the books" and "multi-billion pound gaps caused by rising borrowing costs". It's not a household. Deficit spend increases banking reserves, but long term investment doesn't need bond cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukChancellor John Healey to say UK economy 'turning a corner' despite debt concernsJohn Healey will detail plans to spread growth more widely across the UK, ahead of his first Budget.
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Bad Boys Burgers probably won't mind, but maybe that other US movie franchise will object to having the stain of three corrupt grifters right there in their typeface?

Mutineering reposted

Russ Jones
@russincheshire.bsky.social

Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comBlack-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in KentTraffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Masked Stop the Boats thugs besiege Dover and no arrests made by Kent Police. If it had been a Palestine Action protest it would have been rather different I think. There should be some questioning among the ranks of Kent Police. #politics #protest #resistance

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

What does youth rebellion and resistance look like today? Despite the rain at Shambala 'Hope Over Fear' it's cheerful... But I long to see more acts of digital resistance in the music industry.... Read more: substack.com/profile/2031... #shambala @zackpolanski.bsky.social #streaming @mirlo.space

substack.comMutineering (@mutineering341644)Youth activism and rebellion at a Music Festival We're at Shambala, a 'nice' small music event, focused on youth, activism, environment and resistance to fascism, establishment constructs of youth an...
Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

Burnham's premiership needs to consider "the type of industrial policy, rather than whether there should be an industrial policy at all. It is about the best way the public can regain control over natural monopolies, which may or may not include ownership." @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #economics

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

..but where are the models for alternative, locally-focused economic collaboration and leadership? Local councils have been destroyed as an economic force. Can local co-operatives be the foundation of an 'entrepreneurial state'?

Mutineering
@mutineering.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... AirBnB sinks to a new low in curation and stewardship. I wish we had the collective goodwill to make alternatives like fairbnb.coop a success. www.thenews.coop/co-op-soluti... ...but solidarity is in short supply. Give the alternatives a regulatory hand up!

theguardian.comGangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official saysFlexible short-term bookings used to store and pack drugs and stash weapons and cash, says Ine Van Wymersch