I just really hope there’s 5 pages on Count Binface in the next LRB

I whipped up a handy indicator.

Shitty news about friends coincidentally as I finish (re)reading The Player of Games. Their bravery & Gurgeh’s (spoiler!) defeat of Azad via play gives me hope that the cruelty mind virus can be fought. hard to believe the former trillionaire has read the books he names his robot barges after.

Scraps of infoviz-solace from @genmon.fyi new weather app

Your Telegraph columnist name is your first name backwards, your birthstone, and then whatever you had for breakfast. Sugna Topaz-Marmalade

I haven’t seen it, and wasn’t planning to - but now thanks to @tomcoates.bsky.social I’m inordinately excited that Disclosure Day is *actually* “DR & Quinch Have Fun On Earth” told from pov of puny humans. Please let it be so.

Probably bad taste but I would love to read Steven Toast’s tribute to fellow Colonial Club member David Hockney

The world’s first trillionaire is a mass murderer who spends his days trying to foment a race war. He has no friends and people won’t laugh at his jokes. Also nobody is ever going to live on Mars.

Just checking on how we’re doing today: lose Hockney, and a chunk of ice the size of france but gain a drug-addled fascist trillionaire? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I remember watching this in 1987 and suddenly my little world made sense. Thanks David youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro?...

And now the epic 65daysofstatic Silent Running soundtrack

That new trailer has just reminded me how much I loved the reznor/ross social network soundtrack

“For the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026.” [ember-energy.org]

Got this stuck in my head and had to get it out. Just in case someone needs it.

The design profession is sort of in the position that newspapers were around the end of the aughts. Reeling from the end of a good run. Not in the right mindset to confront the structural changes, even though the work remains as necessary as ever.

Feels very on national brand that our Prime Minister is defending himself against an intervention nobody wanted from a former PM nobody asked, as part of a campaign nobody has actually clearly stated is happening, for a role he already has, and will probably not be asked to reapply for.

Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914

New D&D playable species just dropped.

open.spotify.com/track/0iYNsh... momentarily effective anti-jackpot inoculate, ymmv of course

Robert Fripp was born on May 16, 1946 #HappyBirthday

Oh this is fantastic. OR SO THEY THOUGHT

Delia Derbyshire was born on May 5, 1937

Amazing solarpunk display at Dog Eared Books on Valencia St. Includes books by @andrecarrington.bsky.social, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @r-emrys.bsky.social, Becky Chambers, Phoebe Wagner and tons more.

rewatch this every so often just to remember the old timeline with a tear in my eye youtu.be/KfmpxaLl6c4?...

A very good list. I’d probably nick it and just sub out a few for Toast, Legion and The Boosh

Spring hath sprung in Helsinki

I'm sure he's a very nice person but can't help thinking my life would be measurably better if "Lenny's podcast" didn't exist.

I collected a bunch of phone-sized wallpapers from the Artemis II mission: gorgeous photos of the Moon, Earthrise, the solar eclipse, and more that are perfect for your lock screen. I even made a few of my own — check them out! [kottke.org]

Robert Fripp and Deborah Harry New York City, 1978 by Chris Stein #Blondie #KingCrimson #Alphaville

Well then. Time to reset the betty crocker 'add-the-egg' product manager aphorism timer I guess.

Impeccable timing from @ppfideas.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social‬ about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Ouch.

Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914

The persistent myth that Steve Jobs just had genius ideas emerge out of his genius brain without incrementally building on prior work or observing humans or learning from huge mistakes continues to make people stupid.

It’s not an island of strangers. It’s an island estranged from its politicians. Inevitably, because the contempt in which they hold their own supporters is breathtaking.

Imagining Sir Keir standing shyly in front of his bedroom mirror, wondering if he can get away with Union Jack socks

Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ garbage is a capitulation to Reform and the voters he’s trying to attract will always prefer Farage’s full-chested xenophobia to the timid Labour knock-off

Oh good grief

When we look back at this period in history, the fact that a handful of men made a load of money on the early Web and then everyone allowed them to do whatever the liked forever is going to make us seem really very credulous.

you can probably delete 'schools' too