Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...

Don’t worry, there’ll still be all the content funded by right-wing billionaires...

this is it, this is the take. inventing sources is not new! expecting not to be called out on it is the new part

Today’s hacky, deliberately-unrealistic coding: WATER Looks far better after reducing ripple height with distance from camera, even though that’s obviously not how it should work

every now and then i pop into threads. the meta algorithm is truly… one-of-a-kind

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

I remember seeing a scary rabies poster on the wall whenever my mother popped into the local butchers shop, it genuinely was a thing

My webcomic “Terran Omega: The Ghosts of War“ has been nominated as Best Webcomic in the Eisners this year, if you’ve received an invite to vote, I’d be delighted if you could vote for me. My webcomic is at www.pauljholden.com

Music & visuals from 16 bytes (BYTES) of code hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b... Less than this line

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

Apparently the massive spike in media storage on my Mastodon instance is due to AI crawlers, especially Meta's Thanks, Mark, that’s just fucking great

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

i googled this image's text because i thought it was funny and google's ai result nearly killed me

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS!!

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

“Alley entry, my dear Watson”

The missus and I were having a light-hearted argument about whether we eat porridge or drink porridge. It escalated unexpectedly, words were exchanged, and she revealed she's been fucking someone on the side, so I suppose we're splitting up. Because of porridge.

It’s a hard life being a spaniel

Over the last six months, I've written histories of the 26 games to have reached #1 in the UK charts during 1986: superchartisland.com/timeline/#1986 Here is a thread on what I learned, with links to each post!

this would make a great exclamation

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

hey this thing is great (i have one). like a Makey Makey except you don't gotta touch ground with your other hand shop.pimoroni.com/products/spo...

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

British libel law means news outlets probably won’t dare to describe even this bloke as a nazi or far-right, unless he gave an interview saying “I am a far-right nazi"

YouTube trying to get me to join the fash demonstration in amongst a load of completely unrelated content 🤮

personal lifelong side quest to fix these every time I see it. the red cord needs to hang all the way to the ground so people can reach it if they fall.

Superb work from Birdbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it. English: N + eight = Night German: N + acht = Nacht French: N + huit = Nuit Spanish: N + ocho = Noche Italian: N + otto = Notte Portuguese: N + oito = Noite ⬇️

Friday! Lunchtime! Something with which to fill in the many interminable hours while you wait to see if Bambi can make it! BETTER THAN POLITICS! Web Curios! Share, enjoy, CLICK! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-15...

Stay classy BBC 🙄 They couldn't make it plainer that demeaning trans women is official BBC policy

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

So turns out now would be a VERY good time to treat yourself to a print, if you've had your eye on one - and there's 10% off when you use the discount code FECKINGCAR at checkout for a limited time. Shop here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints #SpéirGhorm

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

RIP David Burke The first of two excellent Watsons (the other being Edward Hardwicke) who played opposite Jeremy Brett’s iconic Holmes in Granada’s wonderful Sherlock Holmes series.

Every time I open Bluesky,

Just made the sky pink in current project to test something & OMG suddenly it’s gone all No Man’s Sky, definitely going to have to push the style as far into bold colours as possible

Last push for Manchester Fesshole gig - come to 53two - 7:30pm. I promise good times, well, you'll hear local fesses & learn about the people of Manchester. Got 21 submitted by the audience & normally it'll double that during the show and here are their names TICKETS - sites.google.com/view/fesshole

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

i love you grain weevil

The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

“Washington Post had a large and highly competent video team that made very good and successful video content. It laid the vast majority of them off, and this is what we’re left with.” Brutal. www.404media.co/washington-p...