Jay Greasley

@ArmyChaplaincy Top work

The #TenTors Challenge 2026 took place last weekend and began with a prayer from the Chaplain General, setting a thoughtful tone for the weekend ahead. Chaplaincy support was available throughout provided by Padre Birch, HQ SW Chaplain, alongside two ACF Chaplains.

@SgtMajFrenchie not hanging up the smock quite yet I hope?

‘I heard you’re leaving Sandhurst, Sergeant Major.’ ‘Yes, Sir. Bought a house in Somerset. Just outside Glastonbury.’ ‘Not an area I know well.’ ‘Such a shame, Sir. I was hoping you might visit.’ #somerset #officers #moving

This is what people voted for...fucking hell :D Bizarre moment Reform Councillor Kieran Lay, Thorne and Moorends Ward, asks Full Council for measures to monitor UFO activity as part of reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport. Step 1- Work towards cutting council tax. Step 2- Set up a panel for UAP sightings. Couldn't make this up... #doncasterreform #reform

@OctopusEnergy Hey there. Can you install heat pumps on a garage roof?

@james406 Hire

sent an offer to a senior engineer. she wanted to negotiate. i said sure. she said her demands included unlimited token spend. no problem. she also requested an NVIDIA H100 GPU. this was a key hire, so i was willing to give on that. oh, and unlimited electricity. weird thing to add, but ok. she then asked for $2,000 gold-plated HDMI cables. this is getting fishy, i thought. finally, she asked for a bespoke 20TB data set including every YC Demo Day pitch, every email sent from 2020-2023, and all future SWE-bench tasks. at this point i realized i was negotiating with an OpenClaw what should i do here?

@brian_armstrong TL;DR: Overhiring post 2020, economic uncertainty -> free money drying up, making lofty moonshot projects an impossibility, + mention AI to minimize stock price damage (almost everyone understands that if you had the magic 10x productivity multiplier you’d hire, not fire)

@afneil @TimesRadio 25 years of peace dividend where Putin has played the long game. Worrying. Who to vote for tomorrow?

My monologue from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil @TimesRadio ROYAL NAVY RIP While US destroyers duke it out with Iranian navy fast boats over the Strait of Hormuz, we learned yesterday that the Royal Navy’s HMS Iron Duke, a Type 23 frigate, was being withdrawn from active service, despite a recent £100m five-year refit, which suggests that was largely a waste of money.  More important, it underlines the stark reality that we no longer have a functioning navy.  That’s right. The country of Rule Britannia, which once had the most powerful navy in the world, capable of protecting an empire which covered a quarter of the globe, no longer has a navy worthy of the name.   For the factual basis of what I’m about to say, I am indebted to Britsky, who posts important naval data on X and has become the reliable go-to source for information on our disappearing Navy.  HMS Iron Duke joins another ageing Type 23, HMS Richmond, in retirement. Leaving the Royal Navy with just five frigates to monitor Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic and other Russian activity in the Channel.  Even that doesn’t reveal the full, desperate picture. Of the five frigates still supposedly available for service, one, HMS Kent, has been almost 750 days in refit and is not available for service. HMS Portland and HMS St Albans have also been laid up for some time.  Only HMS Somerset is currently deployed and HMS Sutherland could be, pretty quickly. So the Royal Navy can call on the immediate services of only two of the five frigates we have, all dating from the 1990s.  What about the more powerful Type 45 destroyers? Sad to relate the picture is even bleaker. There are only six. One, HMS Dragon, has been deployed to the East Mediterranean to protect Cyprus, though that took some time.  Another, HMS Daring, has been in refit for 3,260 days and still not available for duty. HMS Defender has been out of action for over 1,000 days, HMS Diamond for just under 700 days. HMS Dauntless is in maintenance. Other than Dragon, out of our six destroyers, only HMS Duncan could be deployed quickly.  What about our hugely expensive, powerful Astute class submarines? Better you don’t ask. We have only five — and only one, HMS Anson, is on active service somewhere in the Indian Ocean.  The other four — Astute, Ambush, Artful and Audacious — have been laid up for a total of 4,000 days. That’s right 4,000 days. HMS Ambush alone has been inactive for 1,400 days. It’s currently laid up on the River Clyde.  So the currently deployable, conventional Royal Navy, excluding the ancient, creaking subs carrying our nuclear deterrent, amounts to two frigates, two destroyers and one sub. That’s not a navy for a maritime nation. That’s a joke.  Yes, we have two big aircraft carriers too. They also seem to spend a lot of time in maintenance, which is where they are at the moment. But both could currently be deployed pretty quickly, which is an improvement. But we don’t have the frigates or destroyers to form a carrier fleet. So they can only be used in concert with better equipped allies.  We might be short of fighting ships. But we’re not short of admirals. We currently have around 30 rear admirals or above, which works out around four per deployable ship. That’s admirals. Not captains.  None, of course, of this bloated top brass has been held accountable for the near disappearance of our naval power. Nor have any Tory politicians who for 14 years presided over our navy’s degradation. Nor is the current Labour government in any apparent hurry to put matters right. Our airforce and army are in no great shapes either. But it is the state of our non-navy, an integral, vital part of our island history, which is the real national scandal.  And, as is so often the case in modern Britain, nobody is held to account. Nobody forced to carry the can. Nobody making it their mission to put it right. And that is the real national disgrace.

Interesting piece on @BBCr4today from @amolrajan @DameWendyDBE and the professor who's name I didn't catch. The emphasis was on Anthropic's good citizen approach but not much around if/when Grok and other states develop similar capability..

Cracking service by all staff on @LNER train last night. 7 hour delay due to trespasser. Hope they all got a late shift today, 3am at Grantham and they probably had to get to Newcastle or London after that

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

@SgtMajFrenchie @ReiverHall Cruel :-)

@ReiverHall We found a rescue centre and off he went. We had him for a week and fed him cookhouse sausages every day.

Cyprus… ‘Cpl, where’s the Med Sgt? He’s supposed to be on the range.’ ‘Back at camp with a casualty, Sir.’ ‘What casualty?’ ‘A stray dog with ticks, Sir.’ ‘Please return to camp and ask Sgt F if he would be so kind as to report to me at his earliest convenience.’ #trouble

@guy_laron @HelenHet20 And now the Houthi are capitalising :(

Turns out Trump's wars in Venezuela and Iran don't just target countries providing a fifth of China's oil imports; they eliminate the very suppliers that sold China oil at discounted prices because they were under sanctions.

@SgtMajFrenchie @ClaireBowen1 We have a bunch of cadet events up at ATR (G). I happened past the cookhouse and saw them enjoying the fish and chip Friday. I overheard some of them chatting, saying they miss the crypto guy.

@ClaireBowen1 It’s gravy. I agree that the crypto bloke is a better choice.

‘Sergeant Major, just the man. Do you have a minute?’ ‘On my way to the cookhouse, Sir. It’s Friday. Fish and chips.’ ‘It is quite important.’ ‘Are we under attack, Sir?’ ‘No, why?’ ‘Fish and chips, Sir.’ #fishandchips #friday

@thebookseller Hurrah. Do you have a publish date? @PenguinUKBooks @AllenLaneBooks

Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Press, has acquired Glitch: How to Think in a Time of Monsters by critical theorist Louisa Toxvaerd Munch 👇 ebx.sh/79Q4sm

@Matt_Pinner Looks like lab grown to me

What’s your first thought when you see this steak?

@antonycotton Signed. Thank you for all the work, effort and time you put into your Armed Forces work.

Please watch and sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7577…

@larisamlbrown Let us all hope the investigation is into how to prepare better, not to oust the messenger...

Exclusive: The army has launched an investigation after officers complained about their lack of kit and that they are “not ready for wars” and joked they would die in the first wave of conflict thetimes.com/article/2bde2e…

@SgtMajFrenchie @Kirky_Kirkwood hurrah x.com/SgtMajFrench

@SgtMajFrenchie @Kirky_Kirkwood Machu Pichu - luvly...

When I worked in Welfare. ‘Why are there crisps in the fridge, Sgt Maj?’ ‘For the cadets, Sir. There’s a padlock on the fridge. Otherwise the Colour Sergeants sneak in and eat everything.’ ‘Seems a little extreme.’ ‘Operational Security wins wars, Sir.’ #snacks @Kirky_Kirkwood

Hello @stephenctimms - please can you engage with us over Veterans benefits being taken away over their Armed Forces compensation awards being counted as “savings”. There is something so unbelievably cruel about that term. No injury from service/war should be referred to as such