When ChatGPT calls you Shirley instead of your real name, check if your phone is in airplane mode.

Yay - easier to get from #Stroud to Oxford (via Swindon) now!

Make Owen Cooper James Bond but he’s doing his apprenticeship

I dreamed Toto taught me a secret extra verse to Africa but I have already forgotten it. Damn life is fleeting

"Wrong way, down a one-way streeting" is this a thing

I'm in a very lanyardy corporate meeting this morning and we've already had a "the importance of this can't be underestimated" and, mystifyingly, "to use the jigsaw metaphor... The first arm of the jigsaw... The second arm of the jigsaw" 🤷🧩🐙

The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh #photography #scotland

You know we had to try it

I'm tired of seeing Wes Streeting's face on my feed already and it feels like this is just the beginning

I want the NHS and its various agents to treat my data responsibly, but I sometimes feel like my health experience is being actively harmed because the rules around it are drawn too tightly, and decision-makers are too risk-averse. Whatever the data security posture is, it's still too tight.

STOP FIXATING ON CATEGORIES OF PERSON Cut NHS waits. Support economic growth. Try to keep a lid on price rises. Get criminal cases to trial faster. Build houses. Push up school standards. Run a humane, competent asylum system. None of this requires declaring who you are (and aren't) the party of.

Guys, I saw it in person!!!

I've just had a spectacular day out at the Bristol all-day #SacredHarp singing in beautiful Frenchay village. 88 singers sang 84 songs from the green book, and we definitely earned our refreshments at the pub on the common afterwards! A tremendous noise in the room.

I propose that, as From Friday, the 8th of May should be known as Attenborough Day. It should be a bank holiday where the public are encouraged to take part in conservation work or state funded educational sessions promoting the natural world.

Zen is great

What a champion! Tremendous performance, tremendous final #Wuuuuu #TheSnooker

it's a great day in the south and midlands of england to have a BBQ this evening you totally will not regret having a BBQ

Higgins v Murphy should be a tremendous semi-final! Another one that could have been a final. I'm predicting a Higgins v Wu Yize final, which would be quite the generation gap #TheSnooker

For someone with a nostalgia based act, I'm not actually particularly nostalgic. The thing I am paradoxically nostalgic for is a country that looked to the future.

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

335 MPs were elected to the House of Commons in 2024 who had never been MPs before. Not sure I remember any of them making a point about the drinking culture. Hannah Spencer gets elected and within weeks we're having a debate - at least - about this issue. Whether it's OK, what its impacts are...

Whew, John Higgins eh! #TheSnooker

Last week, I gave a keynote at appliedml.us/2026/ on machine learning and engineering. Like a lot of us, I've had questions and anxiety around software development today. The talk covers why good engineering is still important (and 🌷). vickiboykis.com/2026/04/20/b...

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

Cities don’t thrive when space is owned by cars, they thrive when it’s shared by people. From superblocks to school streets, this is what's possible when cities place care, empathy, and inclusion at their core—and why leadership matters more than ever. Our piece in @theguardian.com: bit.ly/4sYZlzy

This year’s line-up has just landed and she's a beauty! We’re going to let it all go one more time at Boughton, so we hope you’re as hungry for this summer’s festival smorgasbord as we are.

I spent a week glued to the Artemis 2 livestream and wrote some words about THE MOON, OUR MOON, and what happens to language at the edges of human experience. open.substack.com/pub/nothingb...

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

As a former corporate lawyer who shoe horned my way into a big firm in Sydney by taking a job as a PA, asking to work on discovery, proving myself worthy of the firm paying for cross qualification to work there - AI has totally shut that route down. AI needs mitigating before embracing

British big cities have less dense urban cores than similarly sized cities abroad. British cities can look large on a 13km ring. But within 4.5km of the centre, they have far fewer homes than similar French and Japanese cities👇 buff.ly/SNJZkFs

I've been using gh pr-review to help with claude assisted PR review. Workflow: - I provide detailed comments in GH PR review - Have claude review them - Claude gets everything entirely wrong - I do it myself. Still extremely useful! github.com/agynio/gh-pr... #claude

This is a point well made. I do feel the effects of grief at Liverpool FC have been underconsidered.

Were Were those the only two options

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

Marco Rubio exits, with commentary from One Man and his Dog.

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

Coding is thinking too! So often I'll start coding up a solution, only to realise something in the process that changes how I'm solving the problem

🎶 WHEN THE MOON HAS A MARK THAT IS LAVA AND DARK THAT'S A MARE 🎶

Way to make several million people cry at the same time there #Artemis #Integrity #Carroll ❤️

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

Hey space fans. 6pm UK on Netflix and YouTube

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

This is so, so well-articulated.

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial