the absolute state of things, in one image

Best thing Johnny Ive has done since the G3 iMac 😀 arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02...

Best piece of merch ever this.

This is the same tech that all the software engineering influencers on X are telling you to use to open PRs to your codebase without reviewing the diffs.

The next time you hear some GDP-climate emissions #decoupling bullshit, just quote this graph. If we had another century... maybe?

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma #climatecrisis Story by Bethan McKernan www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Radio 2 now. That's all.

Speaking as someone who used to follow City through the Kinkladze, Dickov-Goater and Keegan years (and who had to sit v quietly in the home end when Cardiff beat us 3-2), CV but can no longer stand to look at them, this is very on point. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

In today's "I didn't realise the face-eating-porn-hotel-spycam-leopards would eat MY AND MY GIRLFRIEND'S FACE" news... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Of all the things I had on my late-capitalism bingo card, Chomsky being an absolute **** was not one of them.

oh well done

Take 10 seconds to ask yourself: what sort of ads might appear during a conversation between an AI Chatbot and someone with suicidal thoughts? Scary thought ain't it? arstechnica.com/information-...

Insightful stuff from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What no .... Travesty! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

It's Thursday and tonight I'll be settling down in front of the Six Nations. Madness.

"This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale." The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails

Who knew Brown would be the best PM we'd have for the next 15 years (and counting) ?

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The jokes write themselves. #Gwent

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Years ago I did a liberation of Auschwitz thread on the other platform. Time to redo Jan. 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. What happened? How? The Western Front is studied minute by minute, the East a black hole. The strange thing, though is that many documents are declassified and online

Remember, Tim Cook gave Trump $1 million for his inauguration, presented him with a 24-carat trophy, and attended a screening of Melania, a $75 million bribe by Jeff Bezos. Right after Trump’s goons murdered a VA nurse in broad daylight.

Will nobody think of poor Chris Mason in these troubled times?

Everything you need to know about Labour PLP's approach to devolution in one headline. The Mayor of the north's largest and most successful (?) conurbation isn't already 'on the pitch', and becoming a back bench MP (lol) is answering a higher calling. And this from a Middlesborough MP 🤨

Any parents who nod sagely at the need for a ban on children's use of social media but also use Facebook can fuck right off in my humble opinion.  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University! 1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness. Details 👇👇👇

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Is academic research experiencing the same ‘enshittification’ that Cory Doctorow identifies in online platforms? Martina Linnenluecke and I say yes! A summary of our paper is out today in The Conversation Full paper at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Look forward to a day soon when US troops are fighting alongside the Danes in Ukraine and against them in Greenland 🤷‍♂️

I was today years old when I realised Rickenbacker couldn't be arsed making a new neck for the left hand version of the 4001 bass 😂 #guitar #Beatles

PULLING ON THE BIG SAM PARACHUTE AS I TYPE! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is the kind of news I'm looking for

Of course @jburnmurdoch.ft.com remains excellent, but the conflation of degrowth with hard left in this piece does no-one any favours. There's plenty of evidence that in terms of climate headroom and ecological quality we *do* live in a zero sum world.

#ukhighered

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

In the last 6 months, the Welsh Labour Gov has sent 2 letters to their UK Labour colleagues asking them to change local housing allowance back to the 50th percentile (Wales has the fastest growing rents in the UK). An FoI shows that UK Gov haven't bothered to reply to either.

#bookologythursday Thinking of buying your loved one a copy of The Mabinogion for Christmas, but not sure which edition or translation to gift? Here are my quick gift-giving edition recommendations to help you out! 1/5

This is the best I've read of the genre. Listening to the article via the AI robot voice reader makes it even better.

Could we run out of water? “People would be shocked if they knew just how close we’ve come", a former Environment Agency officer told me. To many on this damp little island, the idea’s preposterous. But it’s a very real threat. Here's what I know... watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...

🔈 NEW EVENT 🔈 Join us, WISERD and Carnegie UK as we reflect on 10 years of the Future Generations Act, and debate how we can enable it to deliver its policy aspirations better ⤵️ 🗓️ 15 January ⏰ 10am 📍Cardiff 🔗 https://ow.ly/ABUC50XyZHA Co-production Network for Wales Calvin Jones

Microsoft: We've recently invested, directly and indirectly, more than $50bn in Large Language Models. Also Microsoft: Hello Jones, Calvin!

I'm giving evidence a British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly Committee on #rural housing in Dec, and I've just looked at the membership and frankly I'm in awe of this bloke's name.

Reinforces what @mariaabreu.bsky.social and I found in 2021 - along with higher political disengagement, cynicism and apathy. There is something differently dysfunctional about the coalfields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

is @theguardian.com really suggesting *ministers* are briefing against the leadership like this, or do they mean backbenchers? #Graun

An hour free before a work event and am reminded yet again how shit Cardiff pubs are. Not sure there's a UK town I wouldn't rather be in. Except Portsmouth obvs

Quite aside from the horrifically shallow, performative and stigmatising policy itself... this is @alfaromeo.bsky.social's biggest PR win since Mussolini chose them for his parademobile.

Microsoft Excel also does not understand jokes Genuinely, it is such a serious problem that academics and media outlets are presenting text processing software as if it could ever "understand" anything. All this does is misinform the public and do supply free PR for tech companies

this. I can bear the Rest is History in my lugholes but man, have you seen those boys IRL? Also, they ABSOLUTELY HAVE EACH OTHER'S EXPECTED VOICE it's so annoying.