I would simply look at each of the letters in turn from left to right to work out what the word is.

You guys wanna see a dead body?

learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research i’m afraid that’s all gone

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

The Critique of Pure Reason has a tech tree. Everything by Virginia Woolf has fog of war. Infinite Jest has both

but the question remain, who does Tim Davie will regenerate as?

A bit long term, but my favourite version of "how poor the past was" is in this chart. Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

Pitch for new DG: - Bring back Grandstand

If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon

New social media aesthetic just dropped. Typography having a day.

Also in June, Christopher Bonanos at @curbed.com did a deep dive on the Zohran graphic design and typography “What a Mamdani graphic doesn’t look like, particularly, is a standard campaign logo.” www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

If I don't have a carousel, how can I carouse?

Photography is a well-named hobby.

The man who did this just received a $1 trillion pay package.

Europe’s airspace chaos, the new commonplace

one of these days...

This guy is a master communicator.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Cllr Garnett is now reading from JRR Tolkien’s 1960s satire on Oxford traffic, recently published as the Bovadium Fragments: www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

It was a hard pill to swallow.

Audrey Tang uses her hacker skills, her IQ of 180, and her position as Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs to make the internet a safer place. For ‚advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides’ Tang has won a 2025 Right Livelihood Award.

Soft secession. Blue states building parallel systems, withholding cooperation, and creating facts on the ground that render federal authority meaningless within their borders. “Without state cooperation, much of the federal government’s agenda becomes unenforceable.”

Aha, cities with slums exist. Brown skinned people live there. You look at them and conclude the only solution to slums is to build a wall and thereby ensure that the slums are out of sight. You are an urban development genius.

JK taketh away but also giveth back Basement Jaxx Red Alert with this remix. youtu.be/M48gMh5zeR8?...

The correct framing.

Podcast microphones have got too big, too obtrusive. They need to be smaller, and to fade into the background more. Stay in your lane, microphones. We see you, now get out of the frame.

More notifications from the kidnappers aka DPD.

Repeat across every street in Britain.

Rejoin the EU like yesterday Introduce a carbon tax and 1% property tax over whatever my house is worth Nationwide 20mph speed limit in urban areas like Wales. Build HS2 in full and electrify EWR Devolve congestion charging powers to elected councillors.

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

New personal wellness service pun just dropped.

The most annoying thing about that FT article - and yes, I shouldn't give it the oxygen of publicity - is that it's largely based on the claimed economic benefits of road investment. But this fails on its own terms, as we know the RoI on non-motor travel is better www.ciht.org.uk/media/mjloxl...

The DDHIPA Dads are fighting.

To save you time, it wasn't General Melchett with the dustpan, it was Field Marshall Haig.

Finally, a job opens up for Amol Rajan.

The fields near Pokrovsk are literally wrapped in a web of fiber optics. The current war is, above all, a war of drones. The result is right outside the window.

It ain't me. youtu.be/ZWijx_AgPiA?...

Every day's a school day.

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

You should have seen the other lot.

The earth seems to have tilted on its axis over the past week. Six months after Donald Trump launched his global trade war, a realisation appears to have descended on the US administration that America may be losing. My latest on the West's unfolding rare earth disaster...

(his mum paid £12m)

*walks into Waterstones* Where's your Motonormativity section?

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.