Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Like how he asked if people wanted to pay tuition fees? Or wanted austerity? He never asks. Liars don’t.

Going to speedrun F.R.I.E.N.D.S

We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.

No.

I forget who originally said it, but AI anxiety is capitalism anxiety, and it really does feel like this AI push = a very late hour of the "late capitalism" saga. It's the current capitalist order pushing all of their chips to the center of the table.

This is so damn cool www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just found out a lift on our estate has been broken for over 2 weeks becuase the lift engineers refused to use the existing ladder (and don't have their own?!) a new ladder was ordered but it was the 'wrong one'. I just...the enshittification of contractor outsourcing is something to behold.

It’s so much fun paying 5 different taxes (my fair share) that go up increasingly each yeah whilst millionaire land owners get concession after concession. Its really really difficult to get behind these lot at the moment.

Read something earlier about invest in your developer experience. And so for 2026 decided to switch away from VS Code and purchase a license for Nova by Panic. Use to use Coda, many many (many?) years ago, so nice to be back.

Quite amazing that only focus the American economy has is AI - that’s currently stockpiling chips for unbuilt data Centers - that can’t be built becuase they can’t be connected to the grid.

With strong data foundations, AI can join-up operations. public.digital/pd-insights/...

The number one use for generative AI for these and similar professions - and I am not doing a bit here, and I do think it is genuinely incredibly useful - is in handling a certain kind of 'tedious but important correspondence'.

The doom and gloom about London is ridiculous and harmful. Team FT is Team London - as.ft.com/r/19d3d36d-e...

Yo, yo, yo

Glad I went for that 32gb MBP 3 years ago now.

Not put any JavaScript snow on any websites this holiday season and that makes me sad.

The EU froze €210bn of Russian sovereign assets held in the bloc on Friday. The freezing paves the way for a loan to be raised against the assets to prop up Ukraine's defence. on.ft.com/48PfDCV

Disney gives away its IP to ChatGPT and also a Billion dollars. That seems quite a single sided deal.

I guess at least the US state department didn’t switch to Fraktur

Right. The three shops I go to buy hand sanitizer and it’s all sold out. Um.

Just found out about item sharing in TOTK

Tried to do a full site editing theme again today. Didn’t last too long. Just love code too much.

Now WordPress 6.9 is fully released we have a new Accordion block, which I managed to style as if it’s a GOV.UK design system one via WP_HTML_Tag_Processor dgw.ltd/2025/11/10/6...

This absolutely needs to be a campaign. The UK and the EU (Germany especially,) need to get all government business OFF of X. Start with that and charities and other organizations will follow. Come to BlueSky. Cut off the oxygen at X.

Replaying TOTK on the Switch 2. Thats it, thats it thats the tweet.

This React flaw looks really really really bad. www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/e...

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

I guess that's one way to keep Friends on Netflix. www.ft.com/content/6532...

I see the racist man that leads a racist party with racist policies doesn’t like being called a racist.

Happy 291st Birthday JavaScript!

SEO is strange, I've got a blog post that I did in 2009, and somehow Google now thinks this should be top of the search results for 'animated gif' and am currently getting around 5k visitors a month to my weird little blog.

Phew, don't let the skeuomorphic glass door icon hit you on the way out www.theverge.com/news/837654/...

Pride in Place prospectus has just been published. Govt should be applauded for this. They said they wanted it to be community centred. And this - the requirement all places transition to a community-led model by year 3 - is them turning words into action.

A project I work on is looking for lawyers to help build AI tools for climate aligned contracting: chancerylaneproject.org/news/our-nex...

Me: I wonder what sort of person donates 9 million quid to Reform Oh: Christopher Harborne, an aviation entrepreneur and crypto investor, was born in Britain but lives in Thailand

No other JavaScript course gives you the feeling... of JavaScript for Everyone. piccalil.li/javascript-f...

Managed to set up Stripe this morning for a charity - fully connected and verified. 🤜🤛

The GLA has adopted the Greater London Council’s coat of arms, which was put into abeyance when the GLC was abolished in 1986. I remember a former London Assembly member proposing to do just this in 2020 (yes it was me). A wonderful 25th anniversary gift for the GLA.

Wooooo! That was *a lot* of fun.

I saw someone post this once and been thinking about it ever since. “If your calendar was a bunch of progressively enhanced checkboxes and a submit button, you could be riding off into the sunset and counting money instead of taking support calls from frustrated octogenarians”

‘Some evidence suggests previous OBR reports may have been hacked early, without anyone knowing, Murray tells MPs’ Sorry but hitting CMD+R on OBR_Economic_and_fiscal_outlook_November_2025.pdf is not hacking.

Woh, the OBR publishing the budget was because someone uploaded a PDF to WordPress (all media assets are public by default) with a generic name (the current one is OBR_Economic_and_fiscal_outlook_November_2025). Oooofffffffff. WordPress is great, but it really does default to everything is public

Public interest tech - that does good for people, communities and the planet - is a no-brainer, so why does no one want to fund it? @jamestplunkett.bsky.social and I have 4 recs for how the UK civic and community tech landscape could be better supported www.careful.industries/blog/2025-12...

The government should do more comms where they treat people like adults. Interesting thread outlining the growth strategy!

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

@profanity.accountant how many swears? I think on balance I am not too bad?

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.