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

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“Severance is Moonlighting” just zapped into my brain and now it won’t go away.

This week so far www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wL...

One year ago today I experienced and filmed my first total solar eclipse in Mexico.

There’s a real link between AI writing and Silicon Valley meal replacement drinks and the entire fuckin swath of maximizing the human experience and it’s that they view pleasure as being unhelpful to life. I don’t want a drink that replaces a meal, I don’t want a book summary, I want to savor things

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

Join us online or in Edinburgh at EFI next Thursday evening for this vital conversation about AI and Creative Labour. Our Technomoral Conversations fireside chats are always 🔥

The problem is we’ve made every day April Fools Day

Pretty sure no-one in a Ghibli movie ever wore a padded gilet.

"The problem was the testing engine. It was never actually testing any code or part of the system. It was instead just responding to my need for tests with failure/success rates on a fairly random but low basis and creating authentic looking messages." Vibecoding LLM as Graeberian employee

@bruces.bsky.social any plans for 20th anniversary of "Shaping Things" this year?

The last episode was good but I'm so retroactively mad at how long I had to wait for THINGS TO HAPPN. Also good bleak 70s sci-fi grainy zoom freezeframe end...

🚨 Attn: Bunting/Minutiae enthusiasts!!! Get a ticket to Interesting 2025, while ye may! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interestin...

Calling it. Best Picture 2026.

John Cale was born on March 9, 1942 #HappyBirthday

This is really clever. www.dbreunig.com/2025/02/24/b...

Thank you @andrewhickey.500songs.com and your latest (excellent) bonus episode for installing "Alex Chilton" by The Replacements on loop in my head...

Only thing to disagree with here really is the spelling of "nob". Has the guardian always spelled it with a k?

Everything is awful apart from binge-watching "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" with two 12yr olds open.spotify.com/album/30qd0n...

Political pals, psephology students, dweebs: I looked up what you'd have to pay for these books if you bought them now and it comes to A LOT OF MONEY. So, if you feel the need, you can now buy the whole lot for £150 and save a fortune here: bit.ly/4389SPk

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After these first months of 2025, it feels good to have just given £500 to @humanists.uk as a result of selling my screen prints at magpieprint.works So far, John Cage has sold best with Le Guin and Feynman close behind. Now I've added Simone to the mix.