Not gonna lie, I love this not just because it's Richard Hell but also because, in my untidy mind, it kinda vindicates how I live - all books and dust and damp and cracked paint - difference being I'm not in New York but an old council house in England.

This rules.

Obliterating public trust in the programme with bias to populist weirdoes probably more of an issue than podcasts.

I rubbed my eyes before I'd washed Twiglets residue off my fingers... 🥹

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in? www.ft.com/content/4493...

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

(Tried to come up with a post about evolution and brains and how we don't freak the fuck out about literally everything but thinking about everything almost caused me to freak the fuck out and I couldn't find the words but I didn't freak out and posted this.)

Donald Trump is a crime against humanity.

(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.

Spent Thursday thinking it's Friday.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I'm going to post this every time I listen to it until I forget because Mark E Smith...

So I don’t think a sitting president has ever threatened the life of a soccer team coming to their country’s World Cup?

I love this film, was hoping the local independent cinema had it in their schedule, get to see it on the big screen again, but they don't. Will have to make do with another small screen screening.

Deep in thought, stroking my beard, took a sniff, reminded me of Christmas pudding. Pleasant but probably not a good thing.

Fuck's sake.

Me: And this morning for breakfast we have the finest luxury kibble prepared with whole meat cuts, vegetables, eggs, pear, apple and blueberry, *reads packet* echoing the natural prey diet of the grey wolf. Dog: I JUST ATE SOMETHING I FOUND OUTSIDE MIGHT BE POO I DON'T KNOW

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths from this recent Dorsey interview:

So good. #NowPlaying

Oh. Oh no.

everything Joe Brainard, ‘Poem’

This is from 1975.

I asked Kemi Badenoch's spokesperson why she objected to British wildlife being on new UK banknotes, and this was the answer.

The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.

My last three reposts are three different ways AI is fundamentally damaging our culture. I’ve also received six emails this morning all written by AI. Two are scams claiming to be from famous writers who are fans of my work. It’s exhausting having to wade through slop and scams just to do my job

My latest food thing is adding or sprinkling cayenne/chilli/curry powder on pretty much everything I eat. Works surprisingly well and does wonders for my mood - less so my rosacea. 🌶️😳

Survivors of the Twitter wars really should check out Bean Dad's band. #NowPlaying www.last.fm/user/Guerril...

Even granted that the Home Office makes ministers at least 50% more evil, there’s something unnerving about Mahmood’s performative cruelty

The first day of the Cheltenham Festival today. So many memories. Clerking and tic-tac-ing for an on-course bookmaker at Cheltenham in 1991 was the making of me. Talk about growing up quickly.

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

I say this every year, but: The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better. With a new addition for 2026: They deeply hate AI.

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

That's good news he thinks as he swallows a multivitamin with the dregs of a glass of wine.

We spent approx. $9B to murder those Iranian schoolgirls so now we can declare victory.

The cunt's gonna outlive me, I just know it.

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

All the religious nonsense involved in attending a Church of England primary school - the assemblies, the singing of hymns, the church services, the playing of one of the shepherds in the nativity play - deep down I knew it was all a load of bollocks. Kum ba yah my arse.

Good evening from me and Carl Sandburg.

Quite the choice for a Zoom background by this defence lawyer...

"I'm your huckleberry"

"[T]he money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard".

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

“People have a rugged idea of Kerouac, but that macho vibe is not so accurate. He had an enormous open heart ... on a certain level, he was too gentle and nice a person for the world he was in.”

Oil just hit Dad’s bought a convertible without telling Mum shortly after the open

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

I have my doubts about this guy...

Yep. The idea that the cabinet actually debating ideas, policies and difficult decisions is bad is *quite* the take. Yet another regular criticism that takes not much thought at all to unpick, and yet very little unpicking seems to happen in much of the Westminster press.