Rolling up to my first day at the brain gym like

Puffins at sunset #Shetland

RIP the great Micheal Keating. The heart and soul of Blake's 7, he played cowardly con-man Vila Restal (my favourite character) with a beautifully world-weary charm, and perfect comic timing. He and Paul Darrow's Avon made one of the all-time great double acts.

Title of the album please. (With thanks to @scribblerrob.bsky.social for the heads-up)

you never really see white people in adverts any more

Of course I drew the whistling potato. #art #potato

Exclusive @theathleticfc.bsky.social NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani secures 1,000 World Cup tickets at $50 to be balloted for New Yorkers (the cheapest at the WC) Inside the meeting with Infantino (& Wenger on FaceTime) & how Mamdani negotiated a rare FIFA concession. www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

Less than a decade ago

Raising a glass of space Vimto to Michael Keating RIP.

*glub*

Times are difficult but I feel we should take inspiration from this plucky spud

SpaceX isn't the financial juggernaut many were expecting, according to its IPO prospectus filed yesterday. It shows just how much the IPO depends on expectations for future growth and investor servility to Musk — not the current underlying business.

You cannot realise how it feels to be able to forget Manchester & the recession if only for a few days.

Thank you so much, @bloody-disgusting.com , you have always been so good to me 🙏🏻❤️

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

There a kind of welcome oblivion that comes from not having even the faintest sliver of hope that the next Labour leader will fight for a better, fairer, more just and more inclusive nation. Thank you, Andy Burnham, for sparing me the pain of disappointment.

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

Going to a restaurant is a form of being a landlord. Oh, I'll give you money (housing), and in exchange, you have to give me food (rent).

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

All I'm seeing is a BBQ Beef Hula Hoop and maybe goatse

the pattern is from the excellent book: Aquatic Amigurumi by Natasha Tishchenko www.amigurumi.com/books/Aquati...

Avast, Matey!

how computers work

Apparently 20% of us are smart enough to never get sick once and just ascend into heaven peacefully when we’re ready to be in the arms Looksmax Jesus.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

TELL SCHRÖDINGER I FUCKING LIVED!

really hungover so can't express this well but something about being at the emirates last night with everyone celebrating just felt like the complete antithesis of everything the right has tried to imagine london is. people want to get along, they just need a reason to be happy and have purpose

Just sat here wondering whether Kylie Minogue has ever had a corned beef and brown sauce sandwich x

Made a croque Madame, delicious mad sandwich. How do the French make it to retirement age with this food?

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

wrote about it in Escape in 2022 but being online right now really is like living in a flat owned by a shitty landlord; you have to make a home, somehow, and live your everyday life while trying to block out the knowledge that you have no rights and anything may change in your home at any moment

That Streeting resignation speech...

We are a nation run by cowards. In almost every respect.

Salford, 1964, photo by Shirley Baker.

Congrats Arsenal and all that but … Southampton could now face a legal claim from their own players for loss of earnings

Being a humanities guy in IT has its quirks, like finding narratives in the past to explain the present. Recently, I've been seeing managers and executives going wild over AI because it lets them build stuff which impresses them, and I realized I was having a Henri III in Venice moment. 🧵

He’s (genuinely) sitting his GCSEs.

Me at every office holiday party after 5 nogs