I know I should hate them, but Silent Running has made me find the Uber Eats robots quite cute as they toddle along the pavement getting in everyone's way.

checking out the crypto gaming magazine’s 2026 “most anticipated” list to see how blockchain gaming has been going

Look, it clearly says the Peace Prize only applies to 2025.

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR SwearSky word for 2026.

Been really enjoying picking up the randomiser stuff again - it's such a specific type of technology, carefully writing templates and word lists. It has a deliberateness you can't achieve in AI slop whilst also having the fun of mashing buttons and seeing what bullshit I can make it spit out.

A cartoon by Enrico Pinto. #NewYorkerCartoons

If anyone shares my interest in celebrities who code, I just discovered from this that Lloyd Cole built his own site in Flash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ49...

Southern Fried Science social media traffic, 2025: Bluesky is the clear winner, with 12,000 visitors. Facebook: 9300 LinkedIn: 3100 Pinterest: 1600 Instagram: 900 Reddit: 700 Twitter: 600 Is 2020, with roughly the same traffic, Twitter drove 6,000 visitors.

I've stuck randomly generated conspiracies onto Matt from the Telegraph's cartoons to create "Tinfoil Matt" (Not AI, me writing templates, the good old fashioned way to do these things with a strong degree of authorship.) Follow @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social NOW.

One for b3ta's Rob Reiner challenge b3ta.com/challenge/ro...

Have you seen this? It's the literary map of London. I think it's Fabulous!!

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year theonion.com/cia-realizes...

Fixed any broken videos on my 90s Festival Generator. All 972 bands now work (Must have had quite a bit of spare time to populate it in summer 2020 for some reason). www.monkeon.co.uk/90sfestivalg...

I'm bored so here once again is the greatest Christmas title sequence in TV history

Fixed another broken old game. Can you guess what year the newspaper was published? www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/ Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.

Given John Peel Roulette a polish www.monkeon.co.uk/johnpeelroul... Removed any broken shows (when you make anything with a database of YouTube videos, you notice quite what a transient site it is) and added a load of ones that had been uploaded since I made it.

I felt compelled

I often think of this absolutely *perfect* description by @rockingbob.bsky.social: "Noddy Holder had a voice like John Lennon screaming down the chimney of the QE2."

NEW REACTION TEST Skip The Ads www.monkeon.co.uk/skip-the-ads/ "I lived on leaves when there weren't any shops / but I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops"

🧵 It's almost a joke. Entshittification by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy - I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'. - It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...

Doing a bit of maintenance, so my Shuttleworth or Chiles quiz now has: * No links to Twitter or Facebook * 12 new Adrian Chiles questions My big discovery on making this one was the early Shuttleworth tapes, which are worth your time tracking down. www.monkeon.co.uk/shuttleworth...

It’s our Office Christmas Party today, so it’s #XmasJumper time! Design your own unique Yuletide Wooly Pully from the comfort of your ZX Spectrum! 💾 robertmorrison.me/public/files...

Got this broken old game working again and removed the Twitter share whilst I was at it. Weird playing your old games and realising how tough they are to fresh eyes. Should have made more of the Hangman element or made it multi-choice, I reckon. www.monkeon.co.uk/wikiinthemid...

We have launched a new Play Online Centre. Not just the Dizzy games, but a lot of the classic Codemasters games to play online too. 🥚 thecodemastersarchive.co.uk/playonline/

🍺 Artist: monkeon https://b3ta.com/board/11423387 From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling

Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled

You presumably have to like their music (which I do), but I found this far more captivating than I was expecting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3j...

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

A few for the b3ta Fruit and Veg Replacements challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/re...

🆒 NEW GAME! 🆒 Only the coolest people can draw a Cool S really fast vole.wtf/cool-s/

Incredible archive of Byte magazine. The covers. THE COVERS.

My copy has arrived. About 30 years since I last had anything published in a computer magazine. (Thanks @mattround.com!)

🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️ Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages! 10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed vole.wtf/doctype/

Too many massive overheads. www.ibtimes.co.uk/funko-pop-fi...

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

Beyond Nostalgia #16: Reporting from ZXGFXTOBER 2025 ZX Spectrum pixel art graphics competition beyondnostalgia.substack.com/p/fifteen-co... #pixelart #ZXreposts #photography #CRT

On the off-chance this one hasn't been done yet.

Well, I’ve just seen this picture of Christopher Lee, and now you have too.

Pet peeve; anyone who uses the word 'snuck' - this is what I see in my head.

🎶What a difference a day makes... 🎶

Wikipedia seems to be attempting to create a list of Garth Marenghi's 400+ books. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_M...

A few for b3ta's Two Authors One Book challenge b3ta.com/challenge/tw...

Sometimes I forget I own the best piece of music merch that ever existed.

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Reddit comment of the day.

🪫NEW THING🪫 Any riff-raff can join Bluesky, but it takes true dedication to apply for this club vole.wtf/one-percent/