Passed my Life in the UK test. Spent a while thinking about this mock test question…

My money is on Shia LaBeouf, Joaquin Phoenix, or James Franco.

One of the main reasons I haven’t been posting on socials much over the last six months :)

There’s no such thing as an internal only product name.

Robert Miles - Children may be the greatest ear worm of all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvyC...

Is it just me, or was the latest Rick and Morty unexpectedly moving?

In today's episode of "Most of your ancestors were xenophobic", I just discovered the origin of the Australian slang "to carry on like a pork chop" is the older phrase "like a pork chop in a synagogue" 😬

For a genre that came out of raves and clubs, dnb/jungle just hits so well on a glorious sunny day. skeemask.bandcamp.com/album/essent...

I haven’t watched Andor, is it a show about Boolean logic

'I’m just a girl, standing in front of the British government, asking why they want to give away all my work as part of the UK's 126 billion pound creative arts industry, to serve another industry being run by greedy tech bros, just so they can destroy everything else just that little bit faster.'

Eating falafel with hummus always feels vaguely wrong and cannibalistic.

Happy Mother's Day

I could watch this over and over again 🤣

What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out

I’ve loved so much of @aptshadow.bsky.social’s sci-fi that the different style of City of Last Chances has been a delicious surprise. Notes of Mervyn Peake with sprinklings of the less goofy parts of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, but a distinct voice and style and compelling world building.

(╭ರ_•́) goddamnit another interesting question ruined by AI swill “answers”.

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

I’m gonna have to get more prosecco to deal with this revelation:

As a relatively recent Arsenal fan who has felt like a lightweight Johnny come lately over the last five years, I now think I’ve suffered enough to be confident in my fandom.

I was driving through semi jungle today in Brazil (this is easily the most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever started a social media post with) and it reminded me of this glorious game I never managed to beat on my Apple //e, The Mask of the Sun. These were *immersive* graphics for me as a kid.

Driving in and out of Rio de Janeiro and dealing with Brazilian highways has been quite the experience…

The cncf must get back to some of the basics discussed at the start. The only way to make a large number of projects sustainable is for there to be clear business models that support the employment of maintainers and simplify the process of acquiring customers to fund this.

New pet hate. Mid tier finance bros at Canary Wharf in rush hour with enormous gym bags slung over their shoulder.

FYI, when reading out items from a menu, "Langoustine" rhymes with "Dancing Queen".

If there’s one thing that’s guided my career it’s “if it hurts do it more often.” Little frequent pain makes you correct and do all the things you need to. Once in a long period makes you just brush it off as a thing to get round to later. Deploy often. Please.

I just want to go one game without learning a referee’s name.

Is it really a coincidence that some of the hardest words to pronounce with a numbed mouth are “dentist”, “tooth” and “sore”?

I’m hiring for a product design leader on my team. Come help us build a great developer platform at Upsun! platform.sh/company/care...

referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.

On my way to @monkigras.com and realising just how infrequently I go to in-person conferences these days…

10 years later and I've still only ever seen The Dress as one colour.

this image in an HR training video is more nostalgia than I was really prepared for today.

This short walkthrough of the LCD Soundsystem live gig setup is amaaaazing. youtu.be/45CQuk9yPDI?...

My 17yo daughter has just been explaining to me the concept of "first time cool" in which dweeby people finally get status and then behave like a master race because they can't bear to be dragged back to their prior, humiliating state. It explains the behaviour of Musk and Zuckerberg, also Vance.

Brockley train station massive police presence due to the Palace vs Millwall game today. The Wetherspoons is *heaving* apparently.

This was the worst moment of US diplomacy I can ever recall seeing.

i'm just going to say it: i'm sorry but .net just has bad vibes. i can't trust anything on .net. You can almost feel a little bit of ... scungyness through the screen. steer clear

Finally a realistic London nightclub scene in a TV show.

Why do I get the builders who listen to irritating talkback radio, and my neighbours get the ones who listen to cool tunes on #6Music ?

The sudden realisation that the idea of the MDR tasks in Severance being quite pleasant is probably linked to how I play Turning and Threes on my phone to calm my brain.

Tonight on Spin we're joined by Peter Lalor, who was recently told by SEN that his commentary would no longer be required after sharing posts relating to Gaza. Plus: Cairo Takeaway, the caravan, Khaled Sabsabi, and what it means for media more broadly www.rrr.org.au from 7pm, or podcast tmw

I have a password so cool, so difficult to crack, and yet so memorable that I kind of want to tell people about it.

For five days I have fooled myself into thinking that Civ VII doesn't exist, and it just wore off, at 9pm on a Sunday night.

For 2025, I’m doing Control Panel Saturday! On Saturdays, I’ll post a retro sci-fi illustration of a control panel. Here’s a great 1982 illustration, used for Atari’s Star Raiders 2600, although the artist seems to be uncredited.

The next Wolf Creek movie should be set during the Australian total eclipse of 2028.

you’re telling me the score so hot it was a lead character isn’t worth an oscar

If the only thing we get out of Lewis Hamilton moving to Ferrari is a constant parade of bad ass Italian tailoring press shots, I'm quite ok with that.

uh oh! It's the internet's darling @brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job. heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

Big week for me legally releasing some of the hate in my heart ☺️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...