I'm no fan of Piers Morgan, but this clip shows what a grifting charlatan Russell Brand is so effectively. Brand is so self confident yet so lazy, he wasn't prepared to be questioned on his newly found beliefs. It isn't as if sticky tabs or highlighters exist. Or that Bible verses are numbered.

FORE! A Russian businessman looked at buying a Lake District golf course that sits next to the rail line serving the UK's shipyard where the nuclear-power Aukus attacks submarines will be built. Then the FT started asking questions... www.ft.com/content/19a3...

Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.

i think a very big indicator is that everyone has forgotten that it started in late february and its almost may

“Lentrex” filmed practical effect. 2D animation loop created on the 1982 Vectrex console with the light pen, filmed off the vector display through and reflected in curved/angled lenticular sheets to create an illusion of 3D volumetric depth. This is not CG; it looks like this to the naked eye!

The guy who made Chuckie Egg was only 15 at the time. He now works as a forecaster for a global firm www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Leeds trams update

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

🚨 Grabbed 2000 years of data for 169 countries & compared it to UN's projections for Chinese population collapse. www.ft.com/content/78bc...

Fun fact: the under-construction East Anglia Three offshore wind farm is being fitted with the longest blades yet used in UK waters. Each blade (manufactured in Hull) is longer than a football field. The rotor diameter is 236 m – it's hard to understand the scale of these machines!

Two genuinely interesting companies at the forefront of green tech in the UK have *so much beef* with each other. Would make a fascinating docudrama… OctoTricity the movie

Rain is wet, sugar is sweet, clap your hands and remove marginal gas pricing for electricity markets

As Ed Miliband seeks to 'double down' on the UK energy transition to clean power, this is a reminder of why that matters to consumers: The highest proportion of fossil fuels in the energy mix leads to the highest prices according to Fidelity international www.ft.com/content/6b4e...

Hi this joke is for me

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com

Be sure to read the whole thing.

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist

Does your child’s school use ScoPay? Is it messed up? We’ve had months of incorrect records. Curious whether it is happening across multiple schools…

This is ingenious. Examine 25 years of the NYT tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

Mars Express has captured a blanket of dark ash creeping across the Red Planet. It has spread hundreds of kilometres in less than 50 years. 🔭 🧪 #planetsci 1/4

It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock. But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic. No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar. It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction

So you've stolen a Matisse — what do you do next? ft.trib.al/lydvMCz

How does the whole Periodic Table originate in Southwest Asia

Child: “Was there Duolingo when you were around?” Me: “I’m still around!” 💀

I was recreationally reading the What3Words accounts and noted they'll need to raise more money soon, but surely they wouldn't dare run another crowdfunder given the hilariously bad financials. Well apparently they would. Here we go again. www.crowdcube.com/early-access...

In my head all day

Loving the Boards of Canada hexagon graph map theory... www.reddit.com/r/boardsofca...

Video I produced for the Orban piece in Sunday's FT (first 300 clicks are free to read) as.ft.com/r/73a471dc-d...

Perhaps now is a good time to share the @financialtimes.com investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/8cd54659-d...

A number of British academics and ex-academics just lost a potential pay cheque.

Share your greenest Conservative MP leaflets… (Rebecca Paul has voted consistently against environmental issues)

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Articles like this should link directly to the planning docs. The planning docs should be directly viewable in a web browser. Then you’d see exactly what is proposed. Some batteries behind some trees. upa.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/online-appli...

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sorry I can't respond to your email I'm currently surrounded by plasma

NEW Why Melania Trump's statement is a fascinating exercise in text and performance A close reading of an odd public statement By me, now without paywall. emptycity.substack.com/p/why-melani... (Non-Substack version later.)

oh, this is very important to know!!

I keep thinking that a news-focused satellite unencumbered by state censorship requests isn’t a dumb idea. Cube-sats are cheap. Every news org wants to look at the same place right now. Why should that be dictated by the US govt?

I’m watching two kids who don’t speak much French playing Mario Party with three kids who don’t speak much English, and they are having a fantastic time. It’s amazing how fun these games are despite being almost completely non-verbal “Allez! A gauche! A droit! Aaaaaa” etc

Heads up GitHub users. You have less than a month left to opt out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training". "On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out." github.com/settings/cop...

Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd. flic.kr/p/2s5E44L

Extremely topical game: “The Moon Is Our Friend” You are the moon. Your job is to save the earth from asteroids by spinning around and deflecting them using gravitational pull. Such a brilliantly simple idea, hard to believe it’s never been done @viewsourcecode.org play.date/games/the-mo...