Problem: the simultaneously cutesy and jargonistic ‘hallucinations’ has become the standard descriptor. It is a word that’s opaque to the lay user in a software context, and implies not just thought but deep and complex artistic thought. I prefer ‘false outputs’ as per quote below, or ‘errors’.

Would you eat this

Zuckerberg has secured a corrupt court order imposing a fine of $50k on Wynn-Williams every time she criticizes Metaa. It's a perfect demonstration of the techbros complete corruption and subversion of legal process to shield their dealings from public scrutiny. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Man just asked if I wanted my toastie “on some sort of plate instead of in a bag”. Can’t wait to see what arrives.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

This free live event for schools explores migration (Irish, Jewish and Caribbean) to Whitechapel in the 19th century, linked to GCSE curriculum migration, crime and punishment and empires modules. My dream of being a history teacher is ALMOST a reality: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/se...

Fantastic and very funny piece about how retirement villages are nothing like Thursday Murder Club. Had no idea the financials were so iffy. unherd.com/2025/09/the-...

This is it, the clickbait winner for 2025, no chance of this being beaten. Absolute must to click this - brilliant, world class, if only there were clickbait awards. 🏆

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Aleister Crowley, Practicing summoning Satan while out on the beers, Santa appears

Pit country against country, no politics

My theory is that these are the people who cheated/used essay mills/otherwise faked their way into a career

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

This is exemplary journalism, do read

‘On Sade’ by Roger Robinson (from A Portable Paradise)

Woman in the cafe just said “I went from four kids and three dogs to no kids and one dog”. What happened to the dogs??!

That she left the gas on?

I must inform you that I have got into the Sharpe novels

He can’t even follow his own logic. If the rich are the ones whipping up anti-migrant hate then the rich are anti-migrant.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

It is okay and normal to have mixed feelings. You don’t have to pick a take.

Someone earlier helpfully pointed out that you can go to settings and turn off autoplay for videos and GIFs.

It's wild how many entries in the Epstein birthday book are basically "felicitations Jeffrey, you big sleazeball, here's to many more years of questionable relationships with girls!!!" Kudos to @cwarzel.bsky.social for wading through it. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is a masterclass in narrative tension

Corner shop Haribo jackpot

The question over dinner is, who would you cast in today’s version of Bob Hoskins’ “it’s good to talk” BT adverts? I proposed Eddie Marsan, Dan countered with Stephen Graham.

I miss when a Bounty had a cardboard bed that smelled of coconut

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Scene: working on next book proposal

Fair play to Polanski for saying “anecdotes aren’t evidence” to Widdecombe in response to her un-evidenced blather about benefit fraud. He’s going to need all the critical thinking he can get when he butts heads with the anti-vax woo arm of the Green base.

I wonder if there’s anyone out there who stills says “w00t”

A brilliant little essay on Mr. Magoo, a cartoon character about whom (it's fair to say) many of us have never thought very deeply, and John Hubley and UPA, whence he came. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-oscar-f...

Just rooting around in the freezer and found some vol au vent cases left over from Christmas. There’s a tin of baked beans in the cupboard. I’m just saying, that could be something.

They don’t come up sealed very often, someone is selling the Storm signed special edition (bit pricey but they’re getting more valuable) ebay.us/m/mjhrxA

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

Well I was napping. Was.

We don’t talking about The Egg. Not since The Eggcident.

Hopefully the BBC will follow up on this story to cover the fact the venue mentioned in it had all of its windows put out on Friday night by someone with a hammer. Seems somewhat relevant. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Square beans please”

Never clicked a link so fast in my life

On Angela Rayner and the impossible dichotomy of class unherd.com/2025/09/the-...

@aglasgowgirl.bsky.social YO

Maru has gone back to his home planet :(