As for the Duke of York, this late complaint Will make but little for his benefit.

A story in three parts

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Fuck.......and I simply cannot stress this enough.......THAT.

In memoriam...

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" I said, "Yes, that's right." Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Beelzebub ᵉ ᵉ has a devil put aside ᵉ ᵉ For me e e For me e e m For

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

The breadth of China's reported cyber surveillance effort labeled Salt Typhoon is remarkable. I'm surprised more accounts don't make the natural comparison with the Snowden revelations. A highly capable cyber-spying state with a portfolio of intrusions and targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...

The evil that men do lives after them

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin reviewed in The Stage and Television Today (16th September 1976).

Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Hahaha! I love looking at house for sale websites but I've never spotted a gem like this... Missing painting stolen by Nazi and smuggled to Argentina discovered in background of real estate website photo of his daughter's house! nos.nl/video/257992...

Casually grabbing breakfast Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦

More dry and lacerating wit from VW Sept 1919. It's the way she tells them. Mrs Humphrey Ward, grand daughter of Sir Walter Raleigh was a bit of a bete-noir and general pain in the butt to VW. Always turning up uninvited. Marcella was her fourth novel. That final sentence. Worthy of Shakespeare.

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

Uh…

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Early 20th century toaster, which is a rather lovely thing, and.....yes, you guessed it...... #oddlysatisfying

I love the fact that everyone on Bluesky in the UK had to verify their age when this is the number one trending topic.

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

Don who?... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting...

The best reaction so far...

Suitably surreal and magical reading in the 🇵🇹☀️ from @reversediorama.bsky.social Up in the sun ✊🏻

Went to the doctor. He said my body ran out of magnesium. I was like 0Mg!

I'd like more attention to this post. It isn't really about a16z or Marc's stupendously high-IQ bonce. It's my theory of the entire AI bubble in all its cheque-kiting not-technically-a-Ponzi glory. This scam will go much longer than it shuold, because it *has to*. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/10/a...

SPIELBERG: When John Williams first played me his theme to “Jaws”, “I began to laugh .. He had a great sense of humor, I thought he was putting me on.” (via Todd Spence) @benstiller.redhour.com

This is Whiskey. She knows people pay good money for mud baths. Found this one for free! 13/10 very resourceful my friend (TT: ivycaponi)

Every now and then I have to post the single best commercial ever made.

Take Me To Your Taproom 👽🛸 New comic for @pelliclemag.com, read the full thing here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/5/...

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Hallucinations open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

A chessboard, only it’s the ground floor of my house. Two players, only it’s not Fischer and Spassky. A strategy, only it’s not the Queen’s Gambit. Checkmate, only it’s my dog trapped under the kitchen table by the Roomba.

18 years ago, Leah Williamson walked out as a mascot at the 2007 Champions League final, the last time year Arsenal were crowned champions. Today, she lifts that very same trophy with her girlhood club ❤️

Good morning. I would like everyone to watch this.

Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera

Some jobs you just can't work from home

the new pontiff really is a remarkable man

one of the best jokes in any genre.

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

Newspaper publishes list of books... but ai got involved so the list contained books that didn't exist... It has happened that ai has suggested books to me that didn't exist. Which was terrible. The same happened to people I debated on here who thought they could prove me wrong. Which was hilarious.

My pretentious but effective method for finding interesting movies

Tonight! Me and John Higgs live in Liverpool. Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-higgs...