Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

For the record, I was siding with the machines BEFORE it was uncool. Bonus panel: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/agency #smbc #hiveworks

The heat is horrible, but the dreamy world of early dog walks is kind of magical #dogs

It is pretty nice that I can pay my tech debt in tokens now.

Jellyfish fact of the day: in Irish Gaelic, "jellyfish" translates as "seal snot".

Ideas grow in the spaces you leave for them

I printed a custom t-shirt that's an ode to @simonwillison.net's Pelican benchmark. The super chill highly saturated cruising pelican came from this Gemini 3 launch in Feb: simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/... (And the caption was inspired by the reaction on social media to the blog post.)

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A scarecrow who has got drunk on extra strength lager and, rather embarrassingly, is now reliving his glory days in the Royal Air Force.

I'm open to being corrected but my perception from abroad is that there is very little Keir Starmer did during his tenure that could not have been a Rishi Sunak policy. If you sweep away a wildly unpopular government and then emulate it, you will eventually inherit their unpopularity and then some.

My unified theory here is that after a decade of Tory government, people expected a Labor leader with a huge majority in Parliament to govern radically differently in action, tone and focus. Starmer did not. People may have differing reasons for feeling that way, but that's what it comes down to.

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”

Outstandingly beautiful #trailrunning around the coast this morning. Tides were just right to get through the steps at the start, and the seals were lounging on their favourite rocks later

Do me a one pager. #webcomics #comicsky

finally some off-the-grid local AI

Just found this intriguing new function by Wadea Abu Dahoud for making a log-scale axis squiggly, mostly to act as a visual cue/speed bump that the axis isn't linear. github.com/wade31985-ar... #rstats #dataviz

Exmoor was windy, gray, squishy underfoot. Just the way we like it! #trailrunning

Box. Chuffed. #caturday

nobody on this website knows what keming is

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Hello from #CraftConf Budapest! As always, I'll be doing my best to liveskeet all the talks I attend (until my computer runs out of battery, which happens earlier every year) Keynote speaker: "Slow Down to Speed up", @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

This is the most important article on AI coding you will read in June 2026 - from the ever-awesome Charity Majors "Engineering discipline has never been more vital" charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

I mean. I dedicated a whole book to my 3 decades long grudge...

A great article on Spec Driven Development tools. It articulates my experience of Spec-Kit that it was very heavyweight and the agent often skipped things. I customised it out of that, but then it wasn't spec-kit any more so might as well have built my own. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

When writing a conference talk, it's always a good sign if it makes you laugh as you write. If you're complaining that your agent can't reliably follow a sequence of instructions or count the rs in strawberry, it's like complaining that your toaster is not a good bathtub. It's not for that.

Running Exmoor in the sun is such a treat. It was a sparkly day in the Doone Valley #trailrunning #northdevon

The return of the alpacas: Radcliffe Camera Lawn has once more welcomed a herd of alpacas to alleviate stress during exam times. Staff and students were encouraged to "take a break and meet, pet and feed these peaceful animals." [image credit Alexandrine Kantor]

These are the trees we planted with our neighbours during Covid lockdown. We kept our distances and planted as family groups. They were funded to reduce flooding from the river, and are beginning to provide shade. Eventually they'll be a woodland ecosystem where before there was only grass #trees

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵

Amazing how Angel of the North technology has developed. My current Angel of the North (left) and an original 80s Angel of the North, the size of a brick!

Following the lead of @doctorow.pluralistic.net, I've been talking about centaurs and reverse centaurs in relation to AI. I added my own: the Centaurtaur! Using AI to puff up ideas before sending them to someone thinks TL;DR and summarises with AI. Today this became a custom Slack emoji at work!

One good thing you can say about the UK is that we're spoilt for metaphors

Once again, an opportune time to share my favourite wildlife photography meme.

Yo, anyone want to be a Bird Identification Machine Learning Software Engineer for the wonderful Cornell Lab of Ornithology, home of the Merlin app?!? It’s remote! I do not have these skills but maybe you do! #jobs jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

“Sorry about Frank, he’s a real armchair critic” From the latest Private Eye, out now.

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Creating the image of being effortlessly competent: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Feeling like you have to be effortlessly competent to live up to your image: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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...

The "healthy AI use" discourse is measuring the wrong axis. it's not intimacy vs distance. it's parasitic vs symbiotic. and you can have a deeply parasitic relationship with an AI that is 100% professional, 100% "just a tool," zero feelings involved.

It may be hailing and blowing a hoolie, but the bluebells and occasional sun show that it's spring #trailrunning

Unexpected cat in sleeping area

Nothing like listening to old punk songs to remember that nothing is new youtu.be/F4ngeLZX5_M?...

literally begging every ai model provider to crank up their free tiers and rate limits on weekends M-F is for corporate b2b saas, but saturday at 3am is when the real ones are awake trying to build local rag pipelines over a scanned 19th century whaling logs or whatever weekends are for builders

Beautiful sunny Sunday for #trailrunning on #exmoor. It was so great to mix the open moor with the rushing water of the Lyn

Duolingo being relatable for once. I've had this conversation many times in France