Quiet Bat People.

curing the male loneliness epidemic - then storing it in a cool dry place so I can have a thin slice of it every now and then - it's quite salty and very bitter

Predictably, Matt Goodwin's GB News debate was a disaster. He opens with defending the idea "everyone" uses AI tools for research now, and it's entirely legitimate. So the book is undeniably a product of using LLMs on some level. 1/

I made an app for beginners to watercolour. It helps you understand how to mix the colours you want with the paints you have. I’m looking for beta testers on iOS devices. undertint.stach.ltd

Sneak peek of a personal project that’s been in my brain for a while, and all about water, places and how we use it. www.waterdictionary.net

This was great, and a real primer on something I’d just blanked out as marketing shite.

The UK is a high trust society! 82% of us regard our fellow citizens as good. "Will there be a civil war?" Is not a debate anyone normal is having, it exists solely within a media bubble that can't process 2024. bsky.app/profile/jose...

Companies House has put out a statement confirming that, for five months, every company in the UK was vulnerable to the simple exploit we identified on Friday. It enabled anyone in the world to view and change their company details.

A lot of the commentary on Australia’s social media ban for kids seems to be ignorant of how just how pervasive under-16s with smoking habits used to be.

Reminds me that sharks existed on earth before Saturn had its rings.

Narrative in the gulf is turning against the US and the war on Iran. Translations in alt text, but general gist is resentment against being pulled into a war which is a distraction for what is happening in Gaza.

We spent a lovely few hours at the NPG’s exhibition on the drawings of Lucien Freud who, if he wasn’t one of our greatest artists would undoubtedly have been a serial killer.

OK so reading this, he thought that the people on stage couldn't hear him from forty rows back, until one of them looked up after the n-word, and he didn't realise the BBC would be broadcasting his slurs.

brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

Looking for folks learning #watercolor to help me test an app I'm working on to help with colour mixing. Drop me a line if you're early in your path to becoming a watercolourist, I'd love to ask you a few questions and if you're up for it, share the beta for the app with you for some feedback.

I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

Finally they convinced Suella. Dream team. Said nobody.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s Blue Monday so how about an act of kindness to others and giving blood.

It’s funny, but I can’t see any of the tedious cranks who all *knew* last week that Starmer was happy to allow (and in many cases actually help) America invade Greenland admitting they were wrong. Perhaps they’re having a lie in this morning?

We experienced a truly incredible moment at the aquarium when this octopus decided to be a total jerk to its tankmate.

The Great British Firewall can’t come soon enough. We don’t need to be this porous, we do need some leverage.

This thread takes a bit of a turn a couple of posts down.

@steveportigal.bsky.social Have you seen this? You’re now part of the Borg. github.com/GBSOSS/skill...

I just can’t decide who to stick in there. Maybe I’ll just have them all queing up. Also, I’ll draw whoever you like in there for £20 (as long as they either deserve it or won’t mind).

Imagine pulling a Compo face over this perfectly reasonable proposal. There’s something so fucked up with men who love cars.

This was a fascinating read, heartbreaking but fascinating. Made me ask many questions of my own struggle with sound and finding some places difficult to listen in. medium.com/the-parentin...

Three years ago.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Just waiting on my GP to send me a ‘your year wrapped’. Hope the devs were allowed to put some digital confetti in there.

A friend of mine wanted to sell some of my pottery in his shop, and so I gave him a few pieces. They have nearly all sold, and I’m overjoyed on one hand. On the other hand my desire to keep doing the day job is now at an all time low.

Be really handy if the Bluesky team implemented this feature to mute retweets from specific accounts. github.com/bluesky-soci...

This is such a joy of a book for Beatles fans. Obsessively deep analysis of their work. It occupies a similar place in my heart as @andrewhickey.500songs.com’s work.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

Testing a thing I’ve made. My blue for ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ by Them. colourgame.jackanapes.org/share/k573qv...

It’s for a thing… Songs with colours in their title/chorus (extra points if they’re songs you have a particularly strong opinion about the colour involved). Eg. Is your golden brown deep and brassy, or bright and lustrous?

My initial reaction to this take was a knee jerk ‘Oh really? Not, perhaps the walled gardens of BigTech’s social media?’ But @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com helpfully clarifies further in-thread that she meant the entire fucking internet took us further from God. No notes.

Pluribus seems to be heading straight into the category of things that for me are fine enough and engaging during the watching but occupy next to no serious thought outside of it. FWIW I had the same issue with Better Call Saul.

have we all seen Noah Smith managing to book a flight from Dublin to Paris with a 90 minute layover in London and concluding this demonstrates Britain is doomed

Bit obsessed with the idea that big tech is trading software’s asset-light advantage for utility-like capital intensity. Massive GPU spending will hit hard as depreciation whilst AI productivity gains prove illusory and are really just induced demand for low-value features.

In my experience, the people who adore new tech very rarely understand other humans. And even more rarely have any developed sense of taste.

One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.

Fresh from the oven, and still crackling.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...

If you don’t know how to behave in a pub, you don’t know how to behave in society. Be the punter who takes the empties back to the bar.

Stunning. Then read what it took to create it.

On this day in 1981, I was taking photos of Depeche Mode at the Locarno in Birmingham. Here are some from the soundcheck, backstage and the show (THREAD)

Was thinking this seems pertinent to UK politics too. Too much political energy has been caught by marketing-brain people who fell in love with advertising/social platforms.