Yep. And in print, you get into hairline spaces territory as well. The disconnect between UK and US dash use is a pain in the backside when you write for both. (I also personally prefer the US system, because it provides three different use types for dashes, unlike the UK, which mashes two together)

Lads lads lads the robot revolution is happening NOW

Weeknote! 👾 Pico-8 is the best retro console you’ve never heard of 📸 Turn the iPhone Action button into a launcher for photographers 🌅 Start using Photographic Styles 📱 What I want to see from iOS 27 🎧 Bring back FluxTunes for iPhone 🌸 The joy of no-mow May reverttosaved.com/2026/05/31/w...

No-mow May update. Daisies are now almost waist height. Quite a bit of sorrel. A few barren patches (like where I mowed the boundary) but otherwise healthy, despite the recent weather. A chunky ragwort has rocked up and bedded in too, which should flower next year.

Incidentally, if anyone has some Pico-8 recommendations, please fire them my way. #pico8

GF products are becoming even pricier. I wish @theguardian.com hadn’t let Aldi of the hook though. It killed its GF range and has been telling people and publications it still offers GF foods and items for specialist diets. Yes, but no specialist GF foods. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Column! Pico-8 is the best retro-gaming console you’ve never heard of // 16,000 free games. Bite-sized retro challenges. Demakes. Weirdness. Experiments. FUN! Well, what are you waiting for? www.stuff.tv/features/pic... If you’d like more Pico-8 coverage from me, please share this one! #pico8

AI is eating the tech world – and your favourite gadgets are next www.stuff.tv/features/ai-... ^ I got some shit for this back in March, because “who cares about niche handhelds?” But now Steam Deck price is up 40%. But, hey, everyone has access to infinite bullshit generators so ups and downs!

Huh. Wordle 1,804 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Magazines’ best feature is its curated limitation, absolutely. No endless scroll. Just good stuff thoughtfully collected between two covers. Still undefeated.

@nedhartley.com Is there a reason all the folks in Bananaman now lack pupils? I like the new art style but that one think is a bit freaky. (My 11yo really dislikes it!)

I’d somehow missed this news a while back: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m... Got my email today. I’ve had my last UK print edition of Wired. This one hurts. I adore the magazine format. It gives me focus and ‘forces’ me to read about things I’d probably have skipped online.

"All the best movies, music, and shit just so happens to be from the period of my life when I was old enough to exhibit agency but too young to feel the full weight of adult concerns and anxieties. What a coincidence!"

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Column! My ultimate TV streaming services hack is to cancel everything www.stuff.tv/features/my-...

I think my favourite piece of advice I got before mini-G arrived was to create a note and write down fun interactions and things she said. It’s an entirely different thing from photos and videos and really fun to look back at how she figured out the world.

Telegraph story bemoaning the UK music biz which does not once mention: A] Brexit and how it wrecked touring & thus the ability of British acts to build audiences in the EU B] Tory govts treating the biz as a nest of lefties and sniggering when Brexit damaged it www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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I must be super evolved then because I understand very well that Google is trying to build an agentic wall around the entire internet with the ultimate goal of users paying to access it and data owners paying to contribute to it.

There’s no social event I go to where someone new I meet doesn’t end up talking about how terribly their business is being fucked over by AI.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

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Bit of doomscrolling relief for you here. Genuinely sweet story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

During the mess of the UK leaving, the EU provided a handy diagram that even a young child could understand. One step was EEA (eh Norway). There was no “actually, we’d quite like to cherry pick from the single market”.

Liberal Democrats do not believe we should have won 100% of the seats in Richmond with only 51% of the vote Just as Reform in Wigan should not have won 96% of available seats with 46% of the vote These are just two recent examples highlighting why we need to fix our politics

Google working hard to leapfrog Apple in the top of the shit icon redesign league.

“None of the benefits promised by the leave campaign have materialised. It is all downside, but political discussion of any significant rewriting of the terms of departure is taboo. Starmer’s “reset” of European relations is mostly tinkering at the margins” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is either proof that Google’s AI has no actual intelligence or it’s suddenly just got a massive dose of self-awareness*. * yes, I know it’s the first one.

I say we test this theory

Given that Google AI is essentially writing responses based on the most likely next word, until a sentence is considered complete, I do wonder what happens next. This isn’t providing a list of links. Google is now summarising and *rewriting* content. (It’s also been testing *rewriting headlines*.)

Today feels like a good day to also repost my article from last year about search engine Kagi and how its subscription model is a rare example that you won’t hate. www.stuff.tv/features/hat...

Looks like I was on the money last year re Google AI mode: www.stuff.tv/features/goo... Google is now bringing in an AI-powered search box, aiming to tie you into a conversation (and Google) rather than send you to sources. blog.google/products-and... 1/2

See also: AI eating itself, which is the inevitable future once it runs out of new stuff to rip off.

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

@iandunt.bsky.social the child just yelled out “Ian Dunt’s twin brother!” (several times) after some kind of misunderstanding about whether I said “Noah Dunt” when I actually said “no, I didn’t”. Half term really can’t come quickly enough.

Google Search as you know it is over

I wrote about how AI is destroying my career and what it means that highly skilled jobs are being deskilled with nothing to replace them Link below 👇

This being the Eisner Awards that still hasn’t put John Wagner in its hall of fame.

in fairness to Burnham...he says "Make Brexit Work" in a thick Mancunian accent. He hasn't forgotten where he's from, even if he has forgotten which way he was going.

This is great. Also, the contrast couldn’t be greater from the address Jobs did years back (Stanford, 2005). www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8u...

Davey has not been great of late. But good grief. Sort the bloody strategy and comms out, rather than ousting the leader who helped get the party its biggest seat count since it was founded, and the biggest ‘liberal’ seat count since, what, 1923?

Burnham apparently speedrunning pissing off anyone who isn’t some kind of Lexity Labour type who really wishes it was the 1970s again.

Racist wankers: “Britain risks being torn apart by people refusing to think like us, despite us generously putting up flags everywhere against their will and stomping around demanding anyone who can’t trace their roots back to King Arthur be forcibly deported.”

The new Labour Party: KNOW YOUR PLACE!

You’re going to die. Hopefully not soon. But you should plan your digital legacy so loved ones can access your data after you’ve gone. Here’s how. www.stuff.tv/features/how...

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@iandunt.bsky.social Assuming Burnham doesn’t shift position again, looking forward to your piece on his stance that no electoral reform prior to GE 2029 and even then only SV. What a position to take at this point in time.

I find it amazing that the two really consistent things about every stripe of modern Labour leader are: 1. Preferring to tear everything down than work with other parties 2. Being against PR for the Commons but implementing electoral reform anywhere else (ie where it helps Labour)

If Burnham’s pitch to Greens and Libs really is “Vote for Labour in 2029 to get an electoral system that helps Labour and doesn’t do a great deal for you, unlike the PR systems you want and that are *actual Labour policy*” he’s only got himself to blame now when Green/LD say bollocks to it.