Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social re your latest great episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, let me introduce you to @kyracloudy.bsky.social who writes outstanding articles about plane crashes (admiralcloudberg.medium.com) and also a podcast (www.youtube.com/@ControlledP...). Happy reading

What's the modern-day equivalent of DeviantArt when you're looking for things like fan art *cough* LOTR emoji sets *cough* ?

Just read John Harris in the Guardian on the collapse of the UK high street - and why Reform is feeding on the wreckage. It reads like a crime story. So let’s analyse it like TV detectives do: Means. Motive. Opportunity. 🧵

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Remember the site Second Life? It was partly defeated because people could build online fantasy worlds separate from reality just by using social media. There, they could become cleverer or more popular than reality. They could even build phantom crises in which they were expert. And so here we are

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

I've just done this with 3 sides of our badly installed UPVC lounge bay window and it's made a big difference to comfort. We had 56mph gusts this afternoon and only minor draughts inside. Plus it's so much quieter indoors now!

“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more.”

I want an interview about his ornaments. It's such an eclectic collection.

In all seriousness, this is an appalling way to make policy. A small group of people rushing through decisions they can’t possibly have thought through, just to make the numbers on a spreadsheet add up

A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n

The Three Kings One of the options in my Christmas Charity Print fundraiser. 12 to choose from, only £15 per print, 3 for £40 or 4 for £50 and every penny to the great causes I am supporting. circa35mm.com/art-store/p/... #charityprint #christmascharityprint

My friend @designthinking.lol made this amazing illustration back in 2009 to make a point when I would argue with him about flash vs HTML. Seeing it again now and thinking how tailwind had been used to homogenise the aesthetic of so many sites and now it is in my head rent free.

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians buff.ly/rTfNmFC

Anyone I know who is on lobste.rs? I seek an invite...

Yesterday we kicked off #useR2025 with eight fantastic tutorials, a poster session, and Hadley Wickham's keynote, which you can watch at www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3... #rstats

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Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

100% this. New HTML elements are the way forward.

Letter from DSIT SoS Peter Kyle to @laylamoran.bsky.social about impact of #OnlineSafetyAct on small community forum sites. b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2025/04/resp...

How British people register their dissatisfaction when eating out. #comicsky #webcomics

Trying to propagate bougainvilleas today. According to the web I have a 0% chance of succeeding...

The politics of local government is already not in a very good way and one reason for that - among others - is that it’s often a bunch of bald men squabbling over a comb. Local politicians often have no ability to make choices: because there’s *no money*. So you end up in a spiral

New blog post: I need a new challenge heatherburns.tech/2025/04/11/i...

@michaelburchert.bsky.social Hi, what are your thoughts on good floor coverings? Solid wood planks? I particularly dislike how few modern floor finishes (engineered wood etc)can be (easily) lifted for reuse or when emergency underfloor access is needed. At least floating laminate can be!

Here are the reasons for economic inactivity (not looking for work) in today's labour market stats. Most of the people who are not looking for work are, well, not looking for work for very good reasons. Why on earth would we report on them like it's a problem?? www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...

This is a very unhelpful article, and should be withdrawn imo. Of these "more than a fifth" of people not working... - 2.4 million are students - 1.1 million are retired! - 1.6 million are looking after home / family - 2.8 million are long-term sick www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@quinnypig.com is out of a job

If only someone had predicted that the #OnlineSafetyAct was a hideous mess of an act that would be awful to implement and raise false hopes about what could actually be achieved. Oh yes. Pretty much every real expert did. But they passed it anyway.

There's at least one #webperf design review waiting - but even more excitingly, CSS Inline text-box, text-box-trim, and text-box-edge properties! Go have your say on what's prioritised

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE. I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

@projectwallace.com any way to detect invalid media queries?

I do like the #ElixirLang community. Such a sensible discussion of Event Sourcing / CQRS

In Christian nationalist America any priest, bishop, monk, nun, rabbi or imam with temerity to challenge the word of the all-powerful god emperor risks being crushed by the full force of state power

It's almost as if the American nationalist evangelicals are rapidly evolving towards a belief system increasingly disconnected from the foundations of Christian or other monotheistic belief systems towards some form of neo-Roman emperor worship

We're shipping the new `Node#moveBefore()` API in Chrome 133! Read more in our latest blog post: developer.chrome.com/blog/movebef... Huge thx to @nomster.bsky.social for help bringing this to life, frameworks that helped test it, and the spec ecosystem for working with us to get it standardized!

Spent the day looking at peering, XGS-PON or GPON, and the rabbit hole of IPoE vs PPPoE (interesting UK anomaly). Yes, it's time to pick a CityFibre ISP. I really don't want to leave AAISP, but their CF pricing is £240/yr more than other semi-equivalent ISPs...

Don’t let the bastards grind you down! New for 2024, A2 posters An ideal gift for almost all the family, or an excellent addition to your staff-room, bathroom or behind you in Zoom meetings rickardsisters.com/product/the-...

Would you want core web vitals In Safari? Can you help me understand how you would use them and why numbers in one browser isn’t enough? (These may sound like silly questions, but I’d love to understand *your* specific context and use cases)

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Okay Bskyers: Lists vs Feeds vs Hashtags. Is there one place to follow topics I'm interested in? #lazyweb

Will I post more than on Twitter? Only time will tell.