Martin SFP Bryant
Uncovering early stage startups at PreSeed Now, working on Geekout, helping the tech world communicate better with Big Revolution… always doing something.
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- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantKash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.
- Buying a washing machine. Looking up reviews, I discovered the world of washing machine enthusiasts. I suppose everyone needs a hobby.
- Wow. Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. Reform blames a printing error 🤔
- Maybe (and I realise I’m being optimistic here) mainstream media will start to question some of the right-wing figures they platform about how sincere they are, when America is throwing money around to say utter nonsense.
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- Eek.
- This used to be Bradford’s local newspaper offices. You could see the printing presses in action through the glass. Now? A restaurant.
- NYT snark: “A sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.”
- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantWhen you hire the crisis PR firm to talk for you but they refuse to comment on the record www.theverge.com/report/87207...
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- He still had one last resignation left in him
- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantExtraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government". More brilliant FT reporting www.ft.com/content/91e8...
- America in 2026
- I have never seen or heard of this. If I went into a bar where people did it probably be freaked out enough to leave immediately.
- I see Sarah Ferguson was schmoozing with Epstein in 2009, the same year she came to South Manchester to make a documentary depicting Northern Moor as some kind of hellhole only she could save, when it was, and is, a perfectly fine area.
- Proper ‘drunk old man in the corner of the pub’ vibes here
- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantJohn Oxley points out the clear yet often overlooked point that young men 18-24 are the second most liberal, left-leaning group in society (after young women) - being more so than young-ish thirtysomething women, and older women, as well as than men in older cohorts
- 🚨🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨🚨 The right wing should be worried about young men. Unlike Europe and the US, British young men are swinging wildly behind progressive parties. Some thoughts on why, and why most of the right are ignoring it. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
- America in 2026, where a tech news site offers gas mask recommendations
- The Mill certainly has the *moral* high ground here…. 👀
- SpaceX: parent company of Twitter?! Who could she seen that coming a few years ago…
- Sad to see Silicon Canals going from covering the Dutch and European tech startup world to... whatever this is... since it got acquired.
- This is a proper old-school folk protest song about things that are happening right now. Bruce Springsteen is a good ‘un
- The wild thing is with an annual design tweak or mild spec bump, Tesla could have kept selling the Model S in decent numbers to people who don’t care about Musk’s politics.
- I spoke to Crane Venture Partners' Rav Dhaliwal on helping technically-minded early-stage founders get to grip with sales.
- A lot of these people will seriously regret their life choices by the time they reach 40.
- www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.
- Two very different takes on the same news
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- Paid my income tax. I always leave it until a few days before the deadline simply because, while paying tax is important for a healthy society, I hate seeing the money leave my account
- So glad it’s music venues as well as pubs getting support. The grassroots end of the UK music industry was hanging into the balance due to a completely ridiculous approach to setting business rates.
- Going lower for more accessible satellite technology: Stars Edge has developed “the world's lowest flying satellite”
- Moderating a panel is harder than it looks. I wrote about some of what makes a good panel moderator...
- My dad @derekbryant.bsky.social died a week ago. People have told me they miss his prolific tweeting/Bluesky posts (1.4 million tweets since 2010!) Now when I post on here I instinctively wonder whether he’ll repost me. But he never will again.
- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantThe BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
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- I loved this show as a kid. And the theme tune was 👌👌👌
- Wow, BBC One has pushed the BBC News back 40 minutes to air The Traitors’ companion podcast in the usual slot. Wild.
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- Can I watch Nosferatu without seeing the original Nosfera?
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- New slightly spammy connection request from a consultant on LinkedIn... a wardrobe consultant! Actually quite impressed... unless they targeted me specifically...
- Depends where you look. I was barely even aware of it except for PR pros on LinkedIn talking about out what a nightmare it was for the family brand.
- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantLOOKS LEGIT
- Reposted by Martin SFP BryantTrump: "Based upon a very productive meeting I had with Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one... Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs"
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- Goodbye Davos, hello... Detroit? "Larry Fink, BlackRock chair and interim co-chair of the WEF’s governing board, has privately discussed options including moving the summit permanently from Davos or using venues on a rotational basis. "Among the locations discussed were Detroit and Dublin."
