Turns out you DON'T need to actually build the thing, a visualisation will do. I've submitted it lads…

I'm not asking for that

been puzzling over how to integrate the ‘90s FPS trope of ‘just randomly finding weapons on the ground’ into Duke Smoochem and the world hands me a gift

Hard to believe that in what used to be one of world’s most prestigious newspapers, neither the NYT writers nor editors appear to know what the not-so-obscure acronym NATO stands for. (Hint: it’s *not* the below) BTW, a whopper like this probably would get you fired from a college paper in Ireland.

Social media en toto is losing relevance + utility. We will not see another "global water cooler" like peak twitter again in the medium-term. This is not specific to Bsky. Threads has a broken algo AND the worst of the griftfluencer class. These are just the times we live in. New things will emerge

The ban on fixie bikes has reminded me of one of my favourite comedy videos from back in the day (2010). www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmm...

Four years ago today, and June Brown’s obituary gets very dark very quickly.

Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.

This is important. Free office suites have existed for years, but this is more than just an office suite. This is part of EU governments starting to decouple from US tech giants. youtu.be/DrFc0LW0nL0?...

probably when we found out goblins were posting among us the whole time, we just never noticed

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Cuntius the Vampire

I ranked Easter* Bunnies for Guardian Film! This was fun. (*not strictly Easter - just bunny films, really) Naturally the only BTL comment so far (I'll stop looking at them now) is asking "Where's The Brown Bunny"?

It was originally a comment on an article but got nuked when the site broke their comments system, no respect for cultural heritage

Watching Artemis II earlier compelled me to try and find this: my one great shot from when my mom pulled me out of school to go to an overpass by NASA Ames/Moffett Field to watch Endeavor fly by, atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, on its way to its final home in L.A. Unforgettable.

there's a dril like quality here that i think isn't an accident - *this is* the sort of post is what he was riffing off

IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #github

Only a couple of months ago, I reported about a "vibe shift" in physics, towards feeling that powerful quantum computers were 1) definitely going to happen and 2) going to happen within 10 years, not a generic "decades". Now that timeline might have to be revised. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

happy easter everybody

How brilliant is this concept kit, Lego Fawlty Towers! Incredible detailing throughout. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

I still have to stop myself saying “real fuckin sexy just like you asked” whenever anything involves taking a photo

Was haunted by Columbia, I’ll never forget the newspaper front pages with a photo of a charred helmet in a Texan field. But…I also have thought of this at random points in the last twenty years and it is silly and strange and poignant all at once

The Tilly Norwood April Fool might set a Bluesky record for deleted quote posts

And… scene

I'm starting to feel what you humans call bantz.

'His fellow cosmonauts later reported, in regards to his nausea, that they "hadn't ever seen a man vomit that much."'

it's the one message no parent ever wants to get from their child 😱

This is interesting, and a lot of firms offering bog-standard LAMP hosting are going to be spending today pondering how it affects their future blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordp...

It’s sad that we’re still sending highly-motivated, super-fit geniuses into space, by now there should be lazy slobs up there

My other thought here: There is going to be a cottage industry of people that are going to want to make this move and don't have enough technical knowledge to make it happen. This could be some pretty solid freelance work for a few years for folks with old sites.

good news!

my pet theory is that this was the last truly great twitter tweet (literally one week before it got officially rebranded to X) and “jeff thinks the beans have to take turns” is the first truly great bluesky post (20 days later)

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Fascinating @markyarm.bsky.social interview with Apple's third co-founder, Ronald Wayne. Who, uh, seems to be a little lost. www.pcmag.com/articles/app...

what could possibly go wrong

oh wow is Mullenweg going to sue Cloudflare now, he's going to be so pissed off blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordp...

Skeuomorphic Egg Toggle Switch [HTML + CSS + JS] Organic mechanics. Complex box-shadow layering and border-radius manipulation. Tactile feedback through depth. Source code: freefrontend.com/code/skeuomo...

Thank you to @itsdanthomas.bsky.social for passing me this wonderful slice of life doc to add to my collection. It's so gentle, sweet and pastoral. Even though it's basically about bins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRse...

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

Me looking at brands’ giant Mini Eggs & giant chocolate rabbits: “Yeah but it’s no MegaFreddo is it" vole.wtf/freddo/

It’s Toshiro Mifune’s birthday. Here he is drunkenly getting ready to shoot people but Lee Marvin stays cool as a cucumber for a very good reason.

Yesterday I was coding at 300% normal capability, effortlessly churned out a full refactoring of Big Secret Project and changed 3 coordinate systems, today down to more like 75% and only just making sense of next steps, goddammit

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

April Fools from The Phoenix and Warhammer show how it’s done - you don’t just lie about doing a silly thing, you actually do a silly thing

Shit like this is how you become a cornerstone of the UK economy

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

I am not an April fools person, not at all, but The Phoenix is the one exception. Every year they prank kids with a different ‘wrong’ magazine, and every year the dedication to the bit is outSTANDING 🫡

The most ridiculous thing I've ever encountered on April Fools’ Day was a jaw-dropping documentary about a Japanese professor tracking down Einstein’s brain, being given a piece (cut off on kitchen chopping board), then celebrating with karaoke www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8-V...