Loved Disclosure Day. I got strong emotional reactions throughout but gonna need to think about why. Have I grown up on a Spielberg diet? Or is he a really good writer and director? Superb cast? All of the above? Bunch of other stuff?

Masters of the Universe was gloriously silly in all the best ways

I think a good strategy for living well is to leave the sort of stories I've been reading about Anthony Head.

Preemptive post:

I hadn’t realised the extent to Germany was leading by having wind as number one! What is wrong with the coal-first countries with so much access to sun, wind, AND capital?? Australia, China, Indonesia — do better!!

When even the most dystopian science fiction does not go as hard as reality.

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Turns out Close Encounters looks and sounds fucking magnificent at the cinema. Who knew?

British actor Anthony Head, best known for his roles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, has died at the age of 72

Close Encounters of the Third Kind tomorrow then Disclosure Day on Thursday. Really interested in watching the two close together. Couldn't quite get the double-bill!

Won the pub quiz by tiebreaker "what is the driving distance from Sheffield to London". I guessed 165 miles and their answer was 170. Victory tastes sweet (although I'm not actually drinking atm!)

Got cinema membership for my birthday so I'm seeing a lot more movies right now. Watched Tuner this evening, great cast and sound design.

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Well that got a tear

Blimey, Backrooms got under my skin. Highly recommend

Congratulations to Somto Ihezue for winning the Locus Award for Novelette! We love our community. We love our art. And we love celebrating it. Together!

"My house flooded so I'm voting reform". Not sure that Reform are going to be much help with the impact of climate change

Big shout-out to the completely inadequate drinking water supply at UKGE. Down for a tournament yesterday and only had an hour spare to browse the stalls. Spent most of it in a queue for water. Saved me a fortune.

Off to see Backrooms today. Booked yesterday: almost no seats left for today in our local cinema! Great to see it doing well

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Just popping up to say that we have launched GCSE Astronomy online. Totally free - send this to your space nerds. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Made a minor, easily corrected mistake in a car park. The absolute screaming gesticulating ott response from another driver was a bit unsettling.

Ultimately dissatisfied with The Boroughs: felt too familiar. Shame with that good a cast! Now onto Spider-noir watch is absolutely ticking my boxes

As a teacher for (nearly) 25 years, I'm a *bit* disappointed to hear Starmer say "The institutions built to support young people into adulthood are no longer fit for purpose." Maybe actually fund the payrises then?

The lovely @jeremycobb1.bsky.social and I are doing a meet and greet at 12pm on the Saturday of UKGE! Come and say hi if you'd like! Jeremy & Liv of 3 Black Halflings! - UK Games Expo share.google/GnibCHlymy1c...

Painting faces on 28mm miniatures.

The Sheep Detectives managing to do several different things at once *really* well.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

This is a newly processed view of the largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons. It's 21 km tall. It's as wide as Arizona. Metropolitan LA fits inside its summit caldera. Its basal cliff is 7 km high. And it started to grow ~3.5 billion years ago but has lavas only 2 million years old.

Luhman 16 is a pair of brown dwarfs just 6.5 light-years from us. Despite being the third closest system to the sun it was only discovered in 2013! Both BDs are *faint* and located in a crowded area of the sky making detection difficult.

My hometown featuring in this chaos

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Goddamn ninjas cutting onions…

@terryreintke.bsky.social We need the EU to issue an urgent travel advisory for the UK. It is not a safe country for LGBTQIA+ people, especially trans & non-binary people because of Labour’s Toilet Ban.

Fuck YES. I’ve had issues with MCM in the past but this is really, really good to see

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

The Mandalorian and Grogu was fun. Dialogue a little clunky and a basic plot: in summary, a Star Wars film! A lot of the CGI lacks heft, but the stop motion work is glorious and the dragon snake (from the trailer) was one of the best creatures I've seen onscreen.

This Maximum Overdrive reboot is underwhelming.

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Two year 11 girls independently told me on their leaving day yesterday they were taking A level physics because of my teaching. It's a bloody tough job at times but hearing that is just the best.

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.