I’m really honoured to guest the inimitable @robbowen.digital on Strangers by Spring this morning. It’s been such a joy to make this project with people who are so perceptive, and creative and thoughtful. It might be my favourite yet. strangersbyspring.com/2026-01-20

A thing that felt inspiring today: henry.codes/writing/a-we... . Maybe we can take back the web? h/t @whitep4nth3r.com whose actual website and human writings I highly recommend!

Ooft! This needs to come to the UK 🥵

Metal Fans Unlikely To Cheat, Jazz Fans Are Boning Everyone According To A Study metalinjection.net/news/metal-s...

Gaspar Noé’s ENTER THE VOID is an out-of-body neon hallucination set in the underbelly of Tokyo, it rattled Cannes on release, split critics, and has since gathered a fervent cult following. Shows next Wed at 8:45pm. 🎟️: buff.ly/FFzf2b4

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1977 by Elliott Erwitt

prime exhibit of websites as art

the last 10 years has hardly been a shining example of diplomacy and statecraft but this davos speech is some of the most absolutely insane dog shit i have ever seen

"I write to you haunted. Or, perhaps, I am doing the haunting. These days I'm scarcely able to tell the difference" I've been so taken with this project that I was truly moved when @likethecolour.red & @strange.website asked if I might like to contribute. An absolute pleasure to write with them

I’m really honoured to guest the inimitable @robbowen.digital on Strangers by Spring this morning. It’s been such a joy to make this project with people who are so perceptive, and creative and thoughtful. It might be my favourite yet. strangersbyspring.com/2026-01-20

whenever I accidentally open threads from instagram it looks like the fake social media app they put into a city builder. "Wow, I love the mayor's new policy!" sims-ass website

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

When I was your age we had this thing called The Computer. It was quite good

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

Austere text-only Internet 2 with mandatory protocol-level human certification on every single post/commit/etc

maybe let's all go back to posting to newsgroups

Serious moment: given instability and possible conflict between US and EU is anybody seriously considering moving their digital life to European companies? Can’t work out if this is worth doing cause it there’s a war between NATO members my Gmail is probably the last of my concerns lmao.

The sun itself was hidden, but there was a glitter on the horizon, almost like the dazzle of the crystal walls of the Undertomb, a kind of joyous shimmering off on the edge of the world. “What is that?” the girl said, and he: “The sea.”

reads like a movie scene specifically written to establish completely unbelievable, ontological evil

christ it's so hard to get away from the idea that geopolitics is in the disastrous shape it currently is because every politician on earth is addicted to social media. like so much of this collapse is visibly because they have fucking fried their own brains with memes and disinformation

fxllas is it good when you threaten to forcibly invade an ally so they immediately decide stop lending your government money

cool name why’s it called that

I made a new thing! Introducing DRUMSAUCE. DRUMSAUCE is catalogue of free PDF drum transcriptions, created by my own human ears and hands.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Look for the helpers

There were some nice blue skies out there this weekend

Saul Leiter

it’s totally infuriating how over the last six years or so, every single tech company decided for some fucking stupid, evil reason that they didn’t need user interface designers anymore

Shootinglocation of Perfect Days by Wim Wenders shot on Film Leica M6 Kodak Portra 400 #streetphotography #analogphotography #leicam6 #tokyostreet #candidphotography #perfectdays #filmlocations

Went walking in the woods, it was atmospheric. I met a black dog.

"I went to the DMV and couldn't remember what car I own" is a non problem. we're building colossal data centres so that the world's richest people don't have to remember even the names of their own family members

it’s really clear to me that having solved most of the first world’s easiest most luxury problems (just: apps that summon people on minimum wage) they’ve moved onto the second order of this philosophy: problems that do not exist

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

good morning i think we’ll do slow coffee and murakami

I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

Creative writing will survive humanity's greatest crisis. The robots can never replicate my need for attention

someone phoned me in the middle of another call today and this UI made my brain go into The Cool Zone. like. what is this

aspirational

I sure was reading a lot of Carver while writing this one. Two of my favorites.

uk politics is too stupid to even think about. it is just one constant vortex of hypocrisy and performance. reform, the 'anti-establishment' party, for example, that exist as a reaction to immigration under the conservatives, now filling their party with *checks notes* parliamentary conservatives

new out today from Humanity’s Last Breath outrageous stuff. nuclear stank face tidal.com/track/482658...

I actually cannot get over how good this is www.midlife.engineering

insane crossover content for me personally. 10/10

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Tories and Reform starting to look like that brief period where there were two competing line ups of the Sugarbabes operating at the same time.

These new Lamb Of God singles are leading me to believe this will be their best record since Wrath. Honestly, I haven't been this excited about a Lamb Of God record in a LONG time.

rip salvador dali you'd have loved the Salesforce Trust Heroku EU Status Dashboard formerly known as the Heroku Status Dashboard

I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just another one of the many unfair things about posting and fascism. orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...