enjoyed this video on how hotel bathrooms often don't have doors any more youtu.be/QFPGUTyo9Yk?...

that AO3 study which indicated that the stuff people looked for was like the stuff they'd seen before, but the stuff they liked the most was stuff that was at least a bit different

Arcadia.

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

imagine trying to explain quantum mechanics to a 11th century monk. it sounds really difficult! not particularly because of a cultural barrier, but because first you have to understand quantum mechanics. and also learn Old English. and also persuade the monk that he should care about it.

just saw City The Animation episode 5. I'm glad there are people making incredibly over the top things for no particular reason.

it's notable, in one of those ironic turns i hear you find in history, that the FYAD folks got so big as "Weird Twitter" and defined so much of that platform, since the entire bit of FYAD and its children was "the forum where where you you post like people who barely know how to use a forum"

funny how a grilled cheese sandwich feels so much less healthy than a regular cheese sandwich.

they're not even replacing lowly-paid gig economy contractors, they're just offshoring those jobs & hiding them behind a pretence of AI.

what a dream scenario

"The main difference between Ja'far and later fictional detectives, such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, is that Ja'far has no actual desire to solve the case."

seeing a load of Downpours ping in through the admin backend, and wondering where in the world someone is running a workshop or a class with it

escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator

My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy? Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy Nephew: How??? Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine Nephew: … Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor

chat, is it good if people no longer want to live in the country you're governing?

this morning show has played the Portal song and is now doing a dance remix of Aqua's Dr Jones. god bless NTS.

A series of questions and demands seen in one corridor on campus

great one two punch of a incredible shitpost headline & a genuinely touching article

Godot question: how do i make the play window not fill the screen every time it starts? the target resolution is bigger than my native resolution, i want it to scale down & it does. is this a "use a second monitor" situation?

Yeah! There's something sticky there, where like... you can't get like, basic Pirate Lego any more, only One Piece? What happens if you don't want relationships to Characters but to people, etc

made my first ever jewellery! look at these! porcelain & lavafleck clay, with a little transparent glaze, on sterling silver findings. I would take a nicer picture but it's midnight & I literally just made these.

contemplating making the thing i have been working on less interesting in the interests of actually getting it released

bought a small container of honey and now I have the phrase "rule-bound dundridges" on loop within my head

I liked this post cares about the three things that can happen after a crisis www.todepond.com/sky/crisis/

I think the topic of pirating books is the one where there is the strongest disagreement on my feed here. Lots of people very strident on both sides. I'm not going to repost opinions on either side because it would make people angry for no reason.

unsurprisingly, i agree with Zack Polanski about taxation. here's what he's saying, as I understand it:

Looking at polling averages, Reform has dipped a little recently but it's largely because of Labour 24 voters who had been saying "don't know" now saying Green. As DKs they were excluded but as Greens they are not, so Reform drop even though they have the same number of people supporting them.

interesting (upsetting, but interesting) thread

cat arrives on Friday

played the demo of this at AdvX this weekend, I'm looking forward to playing the full thing!

have been thinking this for a while, but every time i see someone doing this it feels like it would be pretty rude & unhelpful to point it out

excited for my friend Sophie's new Patreon on fashion advice. and when I say fashion I mean really practical stuff. here's a post on how to buy a nice wool jumper: www.patreon.com/posts/143335...

I know that a lot of people I know don't play many games so you probably haven't played Mutazione. You should! It's a trippy summer vacation travelogue with a really cool vibe and a musical gardening minigame store.steampowered.com/app/1080750/...

did you ever support any of those itch.io charity bundles? you probably have wide ocean big jacket in your itch library. if you don't it's like 8 dollars. wide ocean big jacket is great. it's like if a walking simulator was just funny and charming and you could see all of it in 90 minutes. play it

The evolution of the algorithms for recommended content on social media means that all artists are more likely than ever to be confronted with unsolicited criticisms of their work. What matters now is how an artist can manage it. 🎁 defector.com/how-normal-i...

I had a dream which lead to me concluding that a person for whom time flowed forward and a person for whom time flowed backwards *could* have sex but *couldn't* establish that the other person had consented to it.

this clip is a very good example of why you should give your interviewee space and not jump in with a new comment or question. it would be so easy not to hear that final line, and it's a good final line.

Normal fairy

New boot goof

Fivefold Daily Puzzle #11 (Nov 21, 2025) solved in 4:25 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of "understanding what's happening" around. "Add AI to the reviews" seems to be the end goal here.

Was researching an old theatre (boxing venue) in Hull. Someone on a FB heritage page, under a photo: 'Think I used to go to pantomimes there as a kid!' A wit replies: 'Oh no you didn't!' The original poster: 'Is it a different building then?'

note to self to write a blog post connecting this comment to the bit in @adamatomic.bsky.social's recent Corgispace talk about "noticing" as one of the core things you need to do as a designer

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.

good list of games: cdrom.ca/games/2025/1... I can say that I am also excited to talk about the final (secret) game. But also half the other games here are ones I have my eye on and mean to get round to playing.