Menguins

"Like dead-eyed cashiers in bare-shelved Soviet supermarkets, they stand and wait." The man is a genius.

fancy a spot of Mortal Kombat now

the thing is right. £5m is _so much money_

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

I was raised on these streets

bargain_hunt_all.xls Team results by expert, fair location and auction house, for every episode I watched during lockdown (which was all of them available on iPlayer). I would only watch the auction bit, and get through three eps each lunchtime. Looking back I'm not sure I was coping that well.

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

This isn't the first time the effect of the SCP Foundation in training data has come up. Delicious.

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!?1? smfh

God I hate being right...

Cadbury, like all the great chocolate companies of that time, were Quakers, and founded on Quaker principles. This is, to say the least, very disappointing.

Any government which puts such an effort into turning 700 pensioners into terrorists for holding pieces of cardboard is not fit to govern.

"Giving children their childhood back" is snappier but probably less accurate than "Making everyone in the country upload a photo of their genitals in order to send an RSVP to Auntie Jackie's wake"

Looking forward to the new generation of network engineers this ban is going to inspire 🧑🏻‍🔧👩🏽‍🔧

They've quite literally gone mad

This is one of my favorite pieces of footage from space. Remember the early Macs had a motorized floppy drive that would eject the disk?

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

R.I.P Anthony Head 💔

I too assumed this was a photoshopped gag, but no... Now. I am OK with LLMs not being particularly good at this type of task. But I am not OK with a search engine upon which we have all come to rely - for which we have coined a new verb - giving this kind of answer.

For reasons I've been unable to fathom, my TV now always starts on the Poldark channel. Aidan Turner, 24 hours a day. Not 100% against it, if I'm honest

This has been in my head the entire bank holiday weekend. What a track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkJ...

Initially they just thought she was far away.

"WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS PANTSES" Taken at Manchester's emergency protest against the EHRC guidance, May 2026

Please don't make me go back to self-hosting email. Please.

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone

The very best Watson to the very best Holmes. The ur-Watson, the proto-Watson, the fountainhead, the wellspring. (yeah, I've seen Elementary. yeah, it's really good. But.)

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

We cannot have a PM with an air of ineffable sadness. We would have no credibility at an international level. Who will believe that this man, who looks like he is watching as a doughnut he was really looking forward to rolls into a puddle, who will believe he could push the button?

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQGN... He's good, isn't he?

Happy May Day everyone

Blueberry Sinus Infection

A little bounce for your morning youtu.be/gJftloLIgE4

You can say what you like about LLMs - and I get the mistrust - but the impact on software development is unavoidable and (say it quietly) positive. blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-s...

I fear we've reached the end times

Great that the Strait of Hormuz has reopened but I worry that, with all this news coverage, it'll become too commercialised now. Hard to see it recreating the amazing nights that those of us who were there in the early days had.

And this is why AI is still crepe. I thank you.

Drop your crime fighting catholics

This is what the world needed

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Inspired by @robmanuel.b3ta.com youtu.be/c7BGrrYajTk?...

I have two of these. Manic Street Preachers in Alcuin JCR at York Uni in 1991, a venue that held around 100 people, and Hookworms' first ever gig, supporting either Moon Duo or Wooden Shjips at the Brudenell, Leeds

This very much made me think of the drills in Neal Stephenson's In The Beginning Was The Command Line web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/...

You've got to love Airbnb bookcase finds

Never let it be said that I live in a bubble...

Happy Friday everyone! (First ever cover of a Led Zeppelin track committed to vinyl) What a fucking record www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aQ...

I still think about Rudi Guliani shaving at the breakfast table more than I should

This screenshot of Elite is 23 kilobytes. The entire game was 22 kilobytes.

Now I'm angry!