Harley

@harlequinworks.bsky.social

Personal account of a queer and kink friendly London handyman. I also make steel restraints, dungeon furniture. I also also post lewd ideas and pictures sometimes. Poly, queer, sub, mostly he/him, 39. 18+ Work account: @HarlequinWorks.com

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK

also re: "you can't escape AI code in software": it's very hard to go through life without ever being at risk of getting the flu but I'm still not licking any doorknobs

In clearing out the workshop, I've come across a bunch of old stock which I'm going to start listing on Vinted. There's embroidered belts! Embroidered pants! Wristbands! There's also a whole bunch of clothes which I will get to soon

A selection of embroidered products on a table

my mentals after getting fired 🍆🍆💦 #mge and really, that's on me, should've never let a job stress me to the point of not pursuing my real passion: drawing guys taking it up the ass

A doodle depicting the user mge2x5 drawing on her tablet. The text in the background says: I'll draw a guy taking a strap-on that's sooo big and soo weirdly shaped that the puritan mob will sense it's girth four websites over

Good day! It's Saturday, I've got no plans and a kink for lockable clothing, so I'm going to try and make some anti-masturbation shorts. Join me, won't you, on this threadventure?

Good day! It's Saturday, I've got no plans and a kink for lockable clothing, so I'm going to try and make some anti-masturbation shorts. Join me, won't you, on this threadventure?

Hey gang, I feel like I've recently seen some canvas anti masturbation underwear for the penis'd among us, and I can't remember where. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead

AI has completely changed the game on calendar invite spam. I wake up every day to fake legal notices and meetings from hacked strangers that take up my entire calendar which I then must manually delete. Nothing has ever made me more #efficient than the beautiful future created by #AI.

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social · last wk.

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...