Note left behind by the Iranian team before leaving Seattle:

Hate to be the one to say this but the UK really needs to get used to hot weather and adapt accordingly. This is getting ridiculous. Schools closed, trains cancelled, everything delayed... it's madness. I had to explain what was happening to an American yesterday and it didn't feel good!

Just seen a B2B marketer who prides himself on 'humanising B2B' describe how he is 'humanely relevant'. Should I message him (I don't know him) with a definition of humanely?

'The UK government has lots of powers to govern the internet that it simply isn’t using. Hosting images of child abuse is a strict liability offence, one that Elon Musk’s X platform blatantly breached.' Why do we consistently let platforms shake their responsibilities?

Instagram is down 🫠

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Still a few tickets available for this! Come and see @robinince.bsky.social in #bucks

Can the Zara stylist tell me when is this outfit on the left ever appropriate? Why would you hang out with a friend getting coffee whilst on a call using wired headphones (?) with your trousers undone and your bikini showing. So relatable.

Meta’s new Facebook and Instagram “Plus” subscriptions are now live in the US, although there’s still no UK launch date. What’s interesting is that paying for Facebook still feels weird somehow - even though LinkedIn Premium has existed for years.

"To have arguably the most powerful man in the world sending me things about using his space technology in the election…" Men's weakness is always oversharing with their mistress. A tale as ollllld as time!

Today in "which lying liar is lying to me?"

Come and see @robinince.bsky.social at Haddenham community library in June! He is going to be talking about his new book and signing copies. Tickets available here: tinyurl.com/hadlib

Can someone tell me what Wes Streeting stands for? I genuinely have no idea

I always tell people to be cautious about how they're using ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude etc and this recent case involving Musk and Greg Brockman validates this! They are reading through his chat history in court as evidence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If I grow up I want to write this well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

Jeeves saying 'Ask me anything' was surely the OG of LLMs? Sadly, Ask Jeeves is no more - mashable.com/article/ask-...

Robin Ince is returning to Haddenham library to talk about his latest books and for a bit of a chat - tinyurl.com/HadLib @robinince.bsky.social

Happy #EdBallsDay to all that celebrate

Happy Tuesday!

It's time for a family Spotify account. My algorithm is off.

It's a growing movement...

How well can you spot an AI image? These things are always harder than you think whichoneisreal.com (I got 6/12 which apparently makes me better than 33%)

Am I too young to sign up?

If it is over £100 I am likely to do it on a laptop... I feel seen.

Which new emoji represents your mood today? I am definitely landslide

Who knew Ryan had an economics degree?

When is that video of Brooklyn dancing with VB going to be released? I need to block some time out to fully analyse it

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

I would not have predicted that I would be sad about the downfall of the conservative party. What a twist

There’s been a lot in the news recently about issues with AI-generated imagery from Grok, Musk’s AI platform, which is accessible via X. Beyond the immediate concerns around the safety, accuracy & ethics of AI and LLMs, it also raises wider questions about governance & accountability of using X.

Define 'earth positive change'. What a weirdly vague statement on sustainability

There are so many books on AI being touted around for Christmas but AI is developing so rapidly that surely they're all out of date by the time they hit shelves?

How *not* to do corporate comms

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

This aged well (it's from 2 days ago)

Elon Musk thinks he's bigger than Jesus

“Presented with someone else’s argument, we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own.” – Elizabeth Kolbert

I love this city

Also, ChatGPT (boo)

Twitter is down if you were looking for your right wing hit #TwitterDown

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

Always a pragmatist

In theory, it means Amazon will own even more data about you and your health and leverage it to make more money to fund Bezos's lifestyle.

Brooklyn Beckham is one of the headline speakers at BrandWeek in Atlanta and described as an 'entrepreneur'. Good enough reason to bring this up.

Slow TV is a growing trend with people watching hours of Moose migration or a fish doorbell. But ultimately, I think we all just need a bit of the BBC test card www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtzM...

Instagram now has 3 billion users. Let that sink in. That is over a third of the world's population & you can't access Meta in China (1.4 billion people). Facebook & WhatsApp already have 3 billion users. Mark Zuckerberg is the 3rd richest man in the world. I guess 3 really is a magic number for him

and they say social media is just pretty pictures...