It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Updating application icons for macOS 26 Tahoe and Liquid Glass: successfulsoftware.net/2025/09/26/u...

Just a reminder: there is no evidence to support the claim that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism. www.gov.uk/government/n...

@adamrutherford.bsky.social I did a little side project that might be of interest for science communicators: howmanyelephants.co.uk

A little side project: howmanyelephants.co.uk

My son John (right) is in the Black Rocket desert at BALLS33. He is planning to launch his monster rocket today. He is hoping to get his level 3 high power rocketry certificate and smash the UK amateur altitude record. Fingers crossed!

Free speech alive and well in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epstein Scandal "Now Over" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmF...

Easy Data Transform v2.9.0 now available, with a new Difference transform, improved handling of locale + more. Got a data wrangling problem and not sure if Easy Data Transform can help? Message me. www.easydatatransform.com/easydatatran...

TIL: Medievals were mad for a fruit known as 'open arse' and 'dog's bottom': www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Utterly revolting to see the supposed 'leader of the free world' chumming it up with a mass murderer.🤮

The Despot's Guide to Job Statistics: how Trump's handpicked Nazi warship-admiring, January 6th-attending hack economist was chosen on the sole basis of loyalty and ideology as he seeks to undermine objective economic data, all for his Dear Leader: www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-despot...

Got a #data #wrangling task? Send me a clear description of the input you have and the output you want, and I will tell you if/how Easy Data Transform can solve it.

Hyper Plan v2.10.6 released for Windows and Mac, for all your visual planning needs. Now available as a Windows 64 bit executable and as a Mac Universal binary for Intel and ARM (M series) chips. www.hyperplan.com/newsletters/...

I finally found the ideal use cases for LLMs. Writing stuff no human is ever going to read! ;0)

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The BBC published a piece about wasps, saying that the wasp was the 2nd most disliked insect, after spiders. SPIDERS ARE NOT INSECTS. Embarassing that a BBC Environment correspondent would make so basic a mistake.

Sad news. Another institution bending the knee to King Trump? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New video. How to clean, merge and scrub email lists: app.screencast.com/CvACcWbziB7pt

Still trying with GPTo3. I asked it to help me confirm and find a half-remembered anecdote from philosopher Jonathan Glover probably his brilliant book "Humanity". GPT found it, gave me page refs in 2 editions, and listed other sources. Impressive! Only problem: the story is not in the book.

I asked CoPilot to create an image for advertising Easy Data Transform. Why is he staring at the back of the screen?

It is seventy years today since the publication of the ‘Russell-Einstein Manifesto’, containing the immortal words of those two great humanists on the great potential of human science and the great peril of human conflict - words as true today as then.

I'm trying Reddit Ads. Not off to a great start as it kept refusing to recognize I had added their tracking pixel. Wish me luck.

How separate a column of names in Excel into title, first name, last name etc using Easy Data Transform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8kF...

"The “big, beautiful bill” finances largesse for the rich with austerity for the poor. It will kill tens of thousands of Americans and impoverish millions more to grant million-dollar tax cuts to Trump and other billionaires." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Easy Data Transform v2.7.0 is now out, with lots of improvements, for all your data wrangling needs: www.easydatatransform.com/easydatatran...

Summerfest 2025 is live, with 25% off lots of your favourite Indie apps for Mac and Windows, including my own Easy Data Transform and Hyper Plan: www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

Watch this awesome video about the eradication of Smallpox. Highly recommended. youtu.be/ybVZ7vluYhQ?...

If they haven’t had a million cat videos by the end of the week then I will be very disappointed in Great Britain.

Apple have announced macOS 26. Buckle up.

How to pseudonymise data: www.easydatatransform.com/pseudonymise...

It was always on cards that 2 massive egos like Musk and Trump would fall out. But this is better than I hoped for. 🍿

Breaking out the popcorn for Musk vs Trump. I hope they both lose. 🍿🥳

It wouldn't be the worst game show on channel 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_0e...

Jordan Peterson on lasagne

Apparently motocross is not mad enough for some people. So they invented sidecar cross. Here is a sequence from the first corner of one of the races at Foxhill on Sunday.

What the hell is this? Some sort of torture device? Advertised in The Atlantic newsletter, no less. Would love to hear @helenlewis.bsky.social 's take on it.

Eurovision 2025 Jury vs Public Vote Discrepancies successfulsoftware.net/2025/05/19/e...

If you thought there was very little correlation between the public and jury votes at Eurovision, you were right. Pearson correlation = 0.1603.

It appears that the Eurovision voting public are big on ethnic cleansing.

I thought the Iceland song going to do really well. What do I know.

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Went to watch the new Attenborough film 'Ocean' on the big screen. The footage of the bottom trawling is really shocking. I hope lots of politicians will see it.

64 x 64 = 4k *bits* of woven memory storage.