There are reflecting pools everywhere for those with eyes to see them

Starting the day the best way: cereal, amphetamines*, chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavoured water

MORE CONTENT from @tomscott.com, @garybrannan.bsky.social, Chris Joel and me! There's a segment in this that had me doubled over laughing when re-watching it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cL...

I get endless cold-emails selling me something. Was wondering how many of them are human. The answer turns out to be: none. Updated my LinkedIn profile yesterday. 10 monastic messages today, of which this was the best.

MORE CONTENT from @tomscott.com, @garybrannan.bsky.social, Chris Joel and me! There's a segment in this that had me doubled over laughing when re-watching it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cL...

If the Vatican started issuing government bonds, would they be called Catholic Gilt?

A ban on social media for under 16s would likely require *everyone* to prove their age in order to use social media platforms, which means handing biometric data over to commercial tech companies. www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

Alright go shag your gran then??

Me trying to understand your posts.

Nothing says “my regulatory framework for media is working exactly as intended” quite as much as resorting to banning kids from the interwebs

Again asking why it's OK for Uncle Graham to doom scroll right wing racist anti-trans hate speech algorithmic propaganda in to the wee hours but young people have to have their entire social and study support network cut off at the knees.

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I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

Amen. I'd say the same goes for billionaires.

To the tune of randy newmans 'you got a friend in me' 6 7 skibidi

Folks! Remember! Pray silence! We are BACK BACK BACK youtu.be/HprnN7iyiZI?...

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Not to be confused with the gulf of Herthegothina

Them: "Canada has slightly better range of cheese than the USA including some we make here" Me: "What? Monter-eh Jaques?"

T H U R S D A Y

Don’t worry nobody noticed.

T H U R S D A Y

Huh. I wonder why the “users give scans of their eyeballs to Sam Altman for no discernible benefit” startup is failing

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this… 🌭

I spoke to @jeremyvine.bsky.social on BBC Radio 2 about the tech that makes train WiFi work (or not) and how it soon may be improved. Scrub 1h 36m into the show for the full segment incl. @simoncalder.bsky.social live on train WiFi www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"I don't know what I'm looking at but it's definitely a cleft"

Story of my life, ducky

Never mind labradors it's all about the labrawindows

Quietly, quietly, the UK Supreme Court is embarked on a rollback of the human rights and judicial protections of vulnerable minorities which looks every bit as stark as that of the US Supreme Court.

Chrome offered me a new "AI Mode" button. Asked it how to disable AI Mode. Got a reasonable reply. Satisfied with the service.

every company from june 1st until june 30th

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The only true pan-political movement in America is the grift

A recent @newscientist cartoon p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

tuesday

The CFP for #emfcamp2026 is closing soon - you have until the 7th June to submit your talk or workshop proposal. So get on it!! www.emfcamp.org/cfp

I’ve done something terrible

This was going around again and the original is stuck on a private account on a terrible website, so... Repost of the time back in 2020 when I played Bad Apple inside a pregnancy test.

If you can recommend a place for a full-range freq response hearing test in London, please share! (This is different to normal high-street hearing tests which mostly check speech frequencies. Which is fine for telling if hearing aids etc would help make speech more intelligibile for you.)

There’s only so much you can do to check yourself. I can hear 30-14.9k Hz from a tone generator via my phone speaker. But I’d expect the speaker’s range to sharply drop off somewhere around 14.5kHz, making anything above that much quieter, a harmonic, or silent. www.szynalski.com/tone-generat...

I turned on my CRT for some retro games recently and my (mid-20s) friends found it unbearable. I could sense it but not really hear it. And while it makes sense that my top end’s degraded with age, it could also be a notch. I think I’ve got a notch at ~7k? from a noisy UPS I regularly worked near

I’ve always wanted to get a full range, detailed hearing test done out of interest to see how my hearing compares to “default best human” and average 40yo. I hadn’t considered I could have a notch in my hearing at ~15.5kHz from growing up with CRTs.

I’ve always wanted to get a full range, detailed hearing test done out of interest to see how my hearing compares to “default best human” and average 40yo. I hadn’t considered I could have a notch in my hearing at ~15.5kHz from growing up with CRTs.

From that thread, a playlist of CRT whines! open.spotify.com/playlist/3oU...