One of my most popular tweets.

if you're the type of person who folds under pressure then competitive origami is perfect for you

MURDER, SHE WROTE SHOWRUNNER: Our new show needs a theme song, it's about a widow who constantly stumbles onto corpses whose murders she has to solve COMPOSER: So you want something heavy & somber to reflect all the death? MSWS: I want—look at me—I want the jauntiest little ditty anyone's ever heard

Councillors who don't like immigrants won't be any better at organising your bin collection or filling in potholes.

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

The struggle of being the chronically online person in all your relationships: when somebody sends you some breaking news, you are (internally) like, “Yes, I know. Indeed, I’ve reacted, I’ve processed, and I’ve already read about 5000 words on this, as this was 20 minutes ago.”

Officials announce new AI Data Centres to calculate why heat dome happening

Early days of Jean Michel Jarre - Recording Oxygène in his kitchen (1976) https://imgur.com/gallery/early-days-of-jean-michel-jarre-his-kitchen-plGc7b4 #photography #photo #retro #vintage #history #legends #music #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ok this is hilarious

We've been singing sea shanties

On sale: Metaverse book. Never read.

A libellous sham or a monstrous truth that the worst of humanity rush to deny. A cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Are they concerned that it will be a white elephant that nobody wants or needs?

Blade Runner was released 44 years ago today.

If you haven't checked your Zoom settings for a little while, it is worth a look. There are pages of AI options - 15-20 by my rough count - which all need to be changed individually. (Obvs the default is on). You may need to go to [yourinstitution].zoom.us

Join us for #LTHEchat with @abbis.bsky.social at 8 pm BST today. lthechat.com/2026/06/21/c...

Police have released a sketch of the main suspect accused of defacing the reflecting pool.

£20 million and 200 jobs, 'saying it has to go further because of the “scale of the challenge” it faces'. Cuts across technical, professional and academic staff during academic 2026-27. 1/2

every stupid screwup in this admin is either 30 Rock-coded, Veep-coded, Curb Your Enthusiasm-coded or Always Sunny-coded. Algaegate is all four at once. Very powerful.

Look, was Keir Starmer perfect? No. Did he at least try to improve the lives of the people of the UK? No. Did he at least have good intentions? Well, no.

I’m 39. These seem like a best case scenario.

Constructing the professional identity of Digital Education Specialists in UK higher education: perceptions, networks, and the value of CPD Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 24th June at 8pm BST with guest Abbi Shaw (@abbis.bsky.social) to discuss professional identity, recognition,…

Murder in the law building! (Technically on)

The overall vibe of this clip feels about right after the last two weeks youtu.be/SlA9hmrC8DU?...

BOTH of the proposed Deakin restructures have been canned! Just got an email from the acting VC.

Icy mountains of PLUTO captured by NASA’s New Horizons probe after 9 years and a 3-billion-mile journey

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

basketball’s all like gimme that pumpkin i need it and tennis is all like fuck this lemon you take it.

Nobody in the history of the world has ever eaten a trillionaire #goals

this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

So the field is widely called Learning Design but Peter Goodyear points out we can't design learning because learning is entirely up to the learner. We design for learning. So what do we actually design? Teaching (or maybe learning opportunities). So is Teaching Design more accurate?

Listening to old Hunters and Collectors and wondering why horns fell so out of favour in modern music. (Other than the Seven Ups)

So the Deakin Uni VC just quit, effective immediately. WTAF is going on here?

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Finally got around to watching On the waterfront and noted snitch Elia Kazan can suck it.

I found a list of slang from the 30s. A rich/important guy was called "a big butter and egg man" and I'm going to start saying that immediately

All web designers should be forced to use their design on a tiny laptop instead of their massive monitor for a minimum of one month before they're allowed to ship it.

Stray thoughts - did the band Noiseworks base their name on Kraftwerk?

Melburnians of a certain age know the one true God

Vale Giles

This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

Middle-aged guys want only one thing and it's fucking disgusting

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Me explaining to anyone who will listen how I just really like Keith David and everything he’s ever been in, even the bad stuff, because he just seems to always be having a good time and I’m glad he’s getting a star on the Walk of Fame because good for him.

The tech equivalent of the Left Behind books