Some say it's always Pub Day @deserterblog.bsky.social. If so, its' Double Pub Day today as our baby migrates to bookshops and bathrooms throughout the land. Trebles all round!

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Yay, late friday, major release. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 It might be scary if this project had any users 😂 github.com/InfantLab/Vi...

Entertaining myself while coding robots do my real work for me. I half wrote a thing and am quite proud of coaxing gpt5 into making this image of Anne Hathaway. ⚠️~40%🤖 onemonkey.org/the-best-wil...

Mein Flakturm hat ein Gartenhut!

Your annual reminder that the traditional naming of the Rider-Waite tarot deck erases the female artist who did most of the work - Pamela Colman-Smith www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...

Given the season, I don't want to NOT scare you. But ... Millennials killed serial killing ...and cults! Courtesy of Adam Mastroianni @mastroianni.bsky.social www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

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As a Yorkshireman I can't abide Lancastrians. But 40 extra FREE brews? By 'eck, I'm conflicted.

This is still at an early stage, of course, but it shows promise that remotely operated heat pumps could be part of a consumer-friendly, bill-saving service. Big credit to @nestauk.bsky.social colleagues Max Woollard and Oli Berry, plus the team at OVO for their work on this!

Some scary stories about #Obsidian PKM for your nerdy #halloween enjoyment 🤓👻🤖 onemonkey.org/the-haunting...

In 18 years living in the wonderful Barrier Block in Brixton, I've had hundreds of letters from estate agents telling me they have clients eager to buy my flat. Not once have they suggested where I should live instead.

It's out! And it is a thing of disconcerting beauty. Should be available from all proper book emporiums today. Read and enjoy and spread the word.

Elon Musk says he's not a Nazi. But he is also calling his newest rocket the V2... arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

When I was a lad watching snooker with my gran, Ray Reardon looked like a complete fossil. (Fossil Dracula, ah-ha-ha!) Now Mark Williams is older than that and I'm older than Mark Williams. 😭😭😭😭🤯 www.skysports.com/more-sports/...

I genuinely think footnotes are almost always more fun than endnotes. If I have to flip to the back every time, I just won’t. Let me stay in the moment with the author. But curious to hear if others feel differently? #Booksky

No sharps

Just how did this building suddenly appear opposite Kings Cross? I'd swear it wasn't there last week. It has lab space for a biomedical company who've pulled out because of regulation changes. No alternative tenants yet. I love it.

It is always worth reading the biographies of MacArthur fellows. Amazing humans from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

Mystery solved!! For many years this textbook cover haunted me. No molecules look like, do they? (The book doesn't offer any explanation, i checked.) But, maybe was trying to teach us about the intrinsic structure of metal organic frameworks. Thanks #NobelPrize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Excellent use of ellipses... "blind"? I'm guessing it's "blind"

Seriously, Igorrr is the Heston Blumenthal of black metal. youtu.be/9P7K3sdg6s4?...

One thing I had never appreciated until now is how wonderful and perfect is the "Wow!" next to the Wow! signal. Just look at it.. Wow! Thank you, Jerry R. Ehman for your expressive penmanship. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_si...

Kids often ask me for advice on joining the SEAL Teams. Now I tell them they shouldn't. Nobody should sign up to die for a bunch of rich fucks using your blood to steal more wealth and power. You're better than that. Don't become a stormtrooper like I did. Have imagination.

Energy abundance isn’t #scifi. It’s landing via solar+batteries+EVs+heat pumps+smart grids. I wrote how to turn cheap electrons into cheap living NHS-style commons → a Star-Trek-ish, post-money vibe. 🎓 to @ember-energy.org & @brettscott.bsky.social for the core ideas. 🔗 onemonkey.org/to-boldly-gr...

I can highly recommend the new Shitstorm weather app for Android. Ad-free, swearful. 🤬⛈️ play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Wow, Gideon the Ninth is best audiobook I've heard. Swashbuckling lesbian necromancers fight ghosts in a haunted space mansion. Inventively foul language, superb sarcasm and weird gore and weirder lore. Amazing performance by narrator Moira Quirk. open.spotify.com/show/30ISyqD...

I created a ChatGSV persona. It's much less funny than I thought it would be 🙄🤣 chatgpt.com/g/g-68de8c71...

"Initial observations of J0529 […] indicated it is […] 200 trillion times brighter than the Sun. It was also thought to have a mass about 17 billion times that of the Sun." #shiny www.iflscience.com/brightest-ob...

first thing I do whenever I get my book in a new language is I check how the title of chapter 13 has been translated

There are so many *free* talks happening RIGHT NOW on #ID24. Check out the schedule - inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ #Accessibility #inclusivity #WebDev #WebDesign

Can’t believe I FINALLY have an occasion to wear my velocirapture T-shirt tomorrow

Scientists just uncovered how chants from seven global sacred traditions share a universal calm-inducing sound signature—flat/slowing pitch, sustained voice, simple vowels, & a gentle ~60 bpm groove. 🎶 So I made a Spotify playlist and I'm amazed it... it works! (N=1) onemonkey.org/scientists-f...

Press release for this major study of decision-making mentions that mice in the experiments decide by "operating a tiny steering wheel". But they don't include a picture, let alone a video 😔 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

A nice article that let's you see tax from a wider perspective. The Five Faces of the Taxman by @brettscott.bsky.social www.asomo.co/p/the-five-f...

This was my local Catholic church on Pride 2022. It gives me hope to see the Vatican finally openly welcome the LGBTQ+ community, as individual progressive parishes have been doing for years now.

By contrast @karenhao.bsky.social suggests it is wiser to think that AIs are like conquistadors.

Warton prof @emollick.bsky.social thinks AI has advanced sufficiently... open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

My best advice for aspiring authors. Leave your writing group. Unsubscribe from all those forums and online chats. Get sent to prison and do some real hard time.

I reviewed If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, a new book with an old argument for why AI will kill us all. To put it mildly, I didn't like it www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

There are only two hard problems in computer science. Asking the LLM exactly what you want. And checking if actually did it.

Getting ready to Laaaunch! after a busy tech week at Lyra 👩‍🚀 We cannot wait to welcome babies and their parents in #Craigmillar #Edinburgh tomorrow for our first performances of the tour! 🎟️ starcatchers.org.uk/work/laaaunch #TheatreForYoungAudiences #TheatreForBabies @dirliebane.bsky.social

Have you ever had a psychedelic experience with your eyes closed? If so, please consider participating in a brief study - the 'Closed-Eye Psychedelic Experience Survey' - led by @SussexCentre PhD student Trevor Hewitt. Find out more at closed-eyes.com

Judging by the cover, this book is going to be freaking awesome... 🚀🦕🌌

There's a reason gemini-cli is free. It doesn't know its arse from its elbow. github.com/google-gemin...

I always liked android dev's monkey mode. Now @psychopy.org has now too.

Disappointed to discover, only now I get it home, that there are, in fact, no crisps in my side salad. 😔

My doctor also struggles when I ask “is it none of the above,” so what’s your point.

Billionaires think they will sit out the apocalypse in bunkers. The highly trained killers they hope will guard them find this unlikely.. medium.com/the-panoptic...