ding dong the week is dead

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

The well-groomed backlog. The inner peace it brings me. This is a haiku?

HT to The Reg

From the @fesshole.bsky.social book: 'I have been training my children to interrupt tedious Zoom meetings with colleagues to allow me to get on with some actual work. They get £1 a go, and will interrupt upon receiving a WhatsApp.'

'Also, thieves are notably indifferent to laws.' :D

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

Michael Marshall Smith on 'Prose Content Producers' (edited): 'Having ideas is what makes you creative. Research is fun, [actual] writing should be why you exist. Getting AI to do these creative stages for you is like handing the actual sex over to a robot and just having the cigarette afterwards.'

I keep hearing the Greens saying that two party politics is dead; it's now them versus Reform. 1. No. 2. Duh.

John 3:16 "Aw, man. I just shot Marvin in the face"

Report from council elections in Barnet on BBC: "Issues on the doorstep were potholes, planting trees and genocide."

I’m sure I didn’t used to have to open unscheduled phone calls to friends with the words ‘don’t panic, nothing’s wrong’

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

So cute.

Say it, Shawn Fain! Say it loud!

'what in the actual small-batch artisanal fuck' 😂 (From @jefftiedrich.bsky.social's weekend roundup.)

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Keep it clean.

Circle to erase at its finest.

da faq?

🤣

So this is the 'uncensored' Labour attack on reform, which is valid and turns my stomach, but we're losing votes on the left more than the right. If this was a Tory ad it would make more sense (but then they'd piss off too many of their own voters).

Simon Bisley

Hump Day tune for those who celebrate

Browsed a whole wikipedia page going back to the 60s (gave up after the millenium) but the best i could do is 🥁 Minke and the Mechanics #WhaleSupergroups

A useful graphic of what definitely not to do with said armband www.reddit.com/r/meirl/s/O7...

Heart of Darkness vibe from Windows today 🛥️

"I never wrote a picture in my life"

'Wuthering Heights' as a power ballad :D

Perfectly normal beginning to every great Dartmoor love story, in my experience.

I see your mum has a delivery, etc.

Get ready for Sunday gaming. Missile Command ftw

HT b3ta.com

You don't have to have had the ambition beaten out of you by life to work here, but it helps.

___/\____\o/___ Suck it sharks

Link to Ofcom report at the end of the article.

I feel like now is a good time to share this again

I'll tell you who else is under the “lunar sphere of influence”

A ROAST IN A BEEF GIANT YORKSHIRE PORK PUDDING TURKEY