Sad that the BBC spends so much effort pandering to the people who are determined to destroy it. Infinite Monkey Cage won't be the same without @robinince.bsky.social .

Stunning drone photography: droneawards.photo/gallery

Is there a cooler Latin species name than 'Vampyroteuthis infernalis '? www.sciencealert.com/vampire-squi...

Apparently 'The Liz Truss' show was every bit as bad as you would expect: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Scientists have analysed DNA from Hitler's sofa. Can they do JD Vance's sofa next? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The demographics of China are pretty wild: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...

if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers

'Bugonia' is definately not your average hollywood fare. Worth seeing if you like your dark comedy more dark than comedy.

Yes, car colours really are getting more boring.

Farage: epic grifter

I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?" I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Easy Data Transform v2.10.0 is now available, with a new binning transform, improved notes, a 'liquid glass' icon on Mac + more. www.easydatatransform.com/newsletters/... Got a data wrangling problem and not sure if Easy Data Transform can help? Message me.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

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