i remember learning once that no single human being on earth has the combined set of skills to make a #2 yellow pencil from scratch and that fundamentally changed my perception of the world

Overheard someone at the airport say "thank you kindly" with no irony. Gonna miss you, Canada. You are pretty great.

One Man One Biscuit

OH the year was 1778...

Rocks and trees and trees and rocks and water

You've truly never gone souvenir shopping until you've done it with @entropical.bsky.social right behind you chanting "Buy something insane! Buy something insane!"

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

chat, if I am lucky I might - might! - fully clear all the immediate things off my desk before I go on annual leave on Friday! and celebrate getting a promotion, whoohoo!

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

On the plus side, having an appointment at 8am on a Sunday means there was no traffic getting here. On the downside, it is 8am on a Sunday and apparently we still live in Interesting Times.

I'm continually impressed at how motornormativity causes people to create a revisionist history of American cities where they sprouted up fully formed and filled with cars and parking spots. Motornormativity also causes these people to ignore the many places that have reversed car dependency.

The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place on this day 1932, organised by Manchester communist leader and Jewish anti-fascist Benny Rothman, secretary of the British Workers' Sports Federation. The Peak District was designated the UK’s first national park in April 1951.

i have one day off work between now and 2nd May and today I foolishly agreed to arrange a medical thing in the morning of that one day off, like an absolute numpty

I'll be speaking at a seminar on AI and expertise next Wednesday, following on from my work on AI, publishing, and disinformation risks - pages.thebulletin.org/2026-0422-ex...

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”

My little fundraiser in Kieran’s memory is live now - www.warleywoods.org.uk/fundraisers/... Warley Woods is a beautiful place and it doesn’t get external funding!

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

truly, that this has happened to ANYONE makes me so happy, this would be pretty much everything bb me could imagine from the future

Fire deaths ARE quite rare: because we have improved and increased our knowledge of fire safety measures and implemented additional requirements through regulation. Fuck ALL the way off with this.

almost like the whole story was racist...

if I were having kids take the piss outta me this bad I would simply not admit to it in a national newspaper

omg this, there are plenty of working class writers struggling to get a break, and their difficulty isn't LACK OF AI, ffs

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Just wagered 90K on Polymarket that Polymarket would be legally declared an illegal scam betting site, collapse in a fiery bankruptcy, and fail to pay out any of its obligations

But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me, and makes every Sunday a treat for me...

this is fascinating and really reinforces my idea that Car People effectively live in a different world: they don't see the non-car stuff, they often think that walking or public transport sounds scary or weird. the needs of cars become their needs. we can change that.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

The morally correct answer to the trolley problem is to design better safety into the public transport infrastructure so that people are not getting trapped on the tracks in such high numbers.

this post alone would be enough to follow the CPSC, honestly

Imagine if your city did urban transformations like this. The 18th arrondissement of Paris, before and after, 2020 to 2024. Think about how that neighbourhood would feel after this change. How YOUR neighbourhood would feel. It can happen. Just takes vision & leadership. HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

And also, That ship did get unstuck.

it is very rude of adult life to insist you still do things like "make dinner" and "wash up" and "buy wallpaper" even on a Thursday.

This comment has been bringing me such joy

Or, as some would call it Matt, democracy.

we are officially at the point in this godforsaken election where I cannot prevent myself from telling my dad to STOP JINXING THE RESULT

The dream of changing this is way more the fantasy fueling Heated Rivalry/Game Changers than the romance, or even the butts

No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. I am doing pretty well!

The arc of history can bend towards a little justice, as a treat

@entropical.bsky.social guess what i am gonna be singing at you sooooon

the place where I live is currently the focus of a whole lot of political attention for Reasons, and I know this is not the world's biggest thing but OMG I HATE IT. i hate it SO MUCH. i want to live in BORING TIMES, okay, BORING.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

if just reading the description makes something in your cold black heart go clench, run and do not walk to this fic. SO GOOD.

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

hold on i gotta take this

This by itself might get me using tiktok. Makes you proud to be British!