Right, fellow Welsh learners, I am taking the plunge: My new structured practice program is ready for early birds at just £5 pcm until 31 March. Properly learn all the grammar your course skimmed over, expand your vocabulary, and grow your confidence! ymestyn.cymru #dysgucymraeg

Clearly ‘I will not use LLMs to generate documents submitted to the court’ needs to become part of the standard retainer agreement.

The more I learn Welsh, the more I realise how fucked up English is.

I have already done the most important thing on my To Do List today, which is order more cocoa powder. Can't be going without my morning hot chocolate.

@grabbity.bsky.social was at my desk 45 mins before me this morning. She's spark out, though, which I wish I could be.

Your definitive guide to the sports of the Winter Olympics

One point I haven't seen in the 'I make $$ with AI romance novels - pay me $$$ to learn how says wonan' discourse. Crooks need not rely on duping actual readers. They set up bot farms so thousands of fake accounts can download their KU ebooks and 'read' the required pages to trigger a KDP payout.

Dear Apple, When I told you “Remind Me Later” when you suggested an upgrade to iOS 26.x, what I really meant was “Fuck off”, but that wasn’t on offer. Just so you know….

Wasn't aware that Zaphod Beeblebrox was a key trend for Spring...

I never noticed this either.

Our new album "Twilight" is done. It'll be coming out in September. More details on our website x https://www.jesusjones.com/new-album-news-twilight/

It's crazy to churn out 200 books a year with A.I. Why should anyone want to read a book that you couldn't even be bothered to write? There are so many great books that were lovingly written and rewritten and then rewritten again by people and so little time to read them all. Just ... why do this?

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I've been in absolute awe at this picture for years. I didn't realise he was THAT far away from safety though!

Quite pleased with this little bit of invisible mending.

Thinking of putting Linux on an old MacBook Air from 2010. Mint? Budgie? Best how-to?

Proper hilarious (iykyk).

Anybody need any extra water? We seem to have some going spare.

That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

You are not entitled to the training and labor of your comrades solely because you want it and aren't satisfied with your own work.

Babe, you look great. I can barely tell.

Plus, of course, Bezos is a horrible person who hired horrible people who genuinely or conveniently endorse horrible ideas to enhance is horrible wealth. That rat fucking bastard.

2026, where you get more sense from the comics artists than you do from senior politicians and media commentators.

Forgot to mention I had breakfast in bed this morning. Aaah, luxury.

Ok, we're jumping straight off the back of last night's show to say, if you were sad to miss it, there's more chances almost immediately to see some of our team in action! Next week, Matt's stand up tour continues at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe! trafalgartickets.com/lyceum-theat...

This is 100% the right take. Normal people are not "effortlessly" charming and witty when something disruptive happens while they are giving a live speech in front of TV cameras. Normal people are awkward as fuck public speaking, and the robotic voice politicians adopt is the best they can do.

Oh look. Turns out there is an alternative to a painful, invasive test.

Good work, everyone. Let’s keep it up.

I’ve seen this and now you have to see this too. Let my eyes not suffer alone.

If we get to our fundraising goal, I will show you all our newest miracle cat. His name is Hamham, he has two noses, a wobbly head and a hearing deficiency, and he is SO CUTE I COULD SPLODE. Trust me, you want to see this cat! Donate here:

Grabbity has become obsessed with my jewellery, particularly my VLA necklace and earrings. She very nearly managed to walk off with my necklace, and had a good go at eating an earring.

youtube.com/shorts/2SHnZ... The voice is great but the eyes are superb.

I went to a screening of Hot Fuzz, inc Q&A with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. Saw them at the bar after, no one near them, so plucked up my courage to go and tell them that Shaun of the Dead was the first ever zombie movie that I, a non-zombie film liking person, had ever seen. I then...

The 41st eruptive episode of Kīlauea in Hawai'i a few weeks ago made a big mess thanks to tall lava fountains and strong winds. Check out some details on the clean up in the area around Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: eruptions.site/2026/02/04/c... #eruptions

Everything is stressful and bad and weird so here's another thread of tech jobs I've found where you make the world better (or at least hopefully not make it worse) I've started cross-posting these to my blog to make them easier to find, including some jobs not listed in the thread

A story in three parts

A categorisation of the non-miaow vocalisations made by cats and kittens: Maslow's Hierarchy of Meeps.

Taking over Staff's desk and readying myself to steal her water.

I'm finding that searches on Google Books now don't even pick up metadata, including for books that I'd expect to be out of copyright. Searches return lots of periodical literature and little else.

It also looks to me like they didn’t tailor the shirt to fit a corseted silhouette. You can’t just chuck on a regular shirt - you’ll end up with excess fabric causing wrinkles, which you can see under the jacket. It’s like this whole thing was done by men with no experience of corsets.

This makes no sense. Why would Google turn off book search like this?

Today's Word Count newsletter might be a bit later than usual, but it's a stonker, even if I do say so myself. And the lateness allowed me to add in some extra bits, so it all came good in the end. open.substack.com/pub/wordcoun...

This is a lovely interview with Mackenzie Crook, but honestly, someone needs to get him in a room with Smol Paul. I need to see Smol Paul climbing all over Small Paul. @hollyqueenofspayeds.com www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

OMG, I've spent 2.5 hours having quite intense conversations in Welsh, including a long debate on how to describe "snout" in Welsh when there's no word for it (nose, chin/jaw or mouth are the closest), and which word for "grass" is the closest to my intention. Then 1hr of user testing of my new...

This is making me think about cross-subsidy, which used to support a lot of writers. AutoTrader used to subsidise the Guardian's journalism. Bestselling books subsidised all the others. I'm sure even the BBC's best dramas subsidised its more niche offerings. But then people got all excited about...

Newydd gorffen fy ngyfweliad cyntaf yn y Gymraeg. A rŵan mae fy mhen wedi toddi.

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

"Without pay, writing and performing becomes a vanity hobby for rich people" One of those articles where you think, yup, that pretty much covers it.

There was an email, so I've dropped her a line, but I don't know how up-to-date those contact details are. So if anyone knows Nina Ševaljević, give me a shout. I have her driving licence.

Historically speaking, Peter Theil’s head on a pike is the way this sort of thing would typically end. Not saying it should, not saying it will, not saying I want it to, just that that’s how the masses have dealt with this sort of thing in the past.