As someone who lives directly on the York Marathon route can I say how much I fucking hate it? When it first started the organisers were super engaged with residents, but year on year we get less info, less help, and the restrictions on parking and moving around get worse and worse.

Why the fuck is this morning's earworm "Gordon is a Moron" by Jilted John?! I haven't heard it for decades... Stupid brain.

Some little piggies go to market. Some little piggies stay at home. Andy Theyers helps us work out if the little piggies are buying roast beef - or going "Wee wee wee" all the way home. isotoma.com/the-stack/st...

Remember kids. A website is for life, not just for Christmas

static.everythingability.opalstacked.com/tour/ Crazy!

There's a couple of clues in today's Everyman that can absolutely do one. That is all.

Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.

I am here for the new Arts and Crafts

Fucking hell it knows how to rain in Manchester, doesn't it?

I'm assuming this shares a sample source with Spooky's Orange Coloured Liquid. But. That's as far as the similarity goes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLmp...

It takes a remarkable kind of genius to do all the hugely unpopular work of building the state mechanism the approaching far-right govt will need to deport hundreds of thousands of people, while allowing that approaching far-right govt to present itself as the champion of liberty. Quite dazzling.

This. So much this. Sums up exactly how I feel. Let's spend a chunk of our extremely limited resources to hand yet more money to the private sector and give Reform the tools to really fuck shit up should they get in.

Gosh. What a surprise. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

JLR and Co-op cyber attacks both in the news today. Not a great day for TCS.

It worked for football hooliganism, don't see why it wouldn't work again

Right behind the nina in today's Guardian Cryptic (see also 29ac)

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

_sigh_

I have not banged on about music enough recently. Apologies. Here, have Grails live on KEXP to make up for it www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xl3...

Reminded me of the best editorial email of all time:

Are you and your LLM friend on a one-way ticket to Lazy Town? Never one to shy away from a chinwag, Andy Theyers had a chat with his bot and the results were interesting... isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...

thinking once again about one of the all-time great newspaper mixups, when Dennis the Menace and The Far Side got their captions swapped

A good* book about the current political climate in the UK and the US, really www.bloomsbury.com/uk/man-lies-... * by good I mean "masterpiece" but I'm too modest

We are all Janey Godley today.

I mean. As Andrew says. However. B&W Movies that are not boring: Clerks

Octopuses’ response to a human illusion suggests a sense of body ownership

In a grim week, this really did make me laugh.

I'm not sure you can say $9bn is "just ahead" Nine. Billion. Fucking. Dollars.

“An interview with Emily Maitlis you say“

I'm going back to university. First lecture tomorrow. I'll be the one in the back row with a cherry cola vape up my sleeve.

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going. Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.

We're an arty bunch at Isotoma HQ. And the prints adorning the walls bring us all a lot of joy. So we'd like to say thank you to the artists responsible, starting with the delightful @gailmyerscough.bsky.social You can purchase prints and more via her website: www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

First there was phishing, then quishing; now we need to be on the look out for splitting and nesting. Beware, the once helpful QR code has gone rogue. www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hackers...

get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

Well. If anyone would like a recommendation for most byzantine, kafka-esque, soul crushing, and ultimately potentially illegal (for me, not them, obviously) customer experience, can I suggest NatWest Business Banking?

Seriously depressing that you think "I need to ring the bank, but I've only got 35 minutes before my next meeting, so I'd better leave it til later"

This is supposed to be ironic but I saw it and went “Yeah!”

What are we become.

Ever wondered what kind of life your 13th century self would have lived? Ponder no more. Now you can use The National Archives currency converter to work out how many squirrel skins your peasants wage would afford you. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...

You can’t even start a serious post with “You can’t even” because of joke.

What a fucking shit show this is turning out to be.

I do wonder *who* is now allowed to make threats of physical harm on social media and who is not. I'm sure there's no discriminatory element to that, I'm sure it'll be applied fairly across the board, I'm sure it will totally fine if those threats come from minorities, just fine.

The wait is almost over. Python: The Documentary premieres today. Will you be watching it?... Watch the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBq...

Has the King died? Why are all these flags at half mast?

Idea for a future Sewing Bee recycle challenge: take 5 flags ripped down from lampposts and turn them into an outfit for the Notting Hill Carnival 😆

The idiot who wrote it even manages to include this astonishing self-own observation: ‘As a Black woman in the public eye, Williams has always faced a disproportionate level of scrutiny over her body.’ You don’t say?

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon