Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

[rubs temples] Do I need to explain depleted uranium again? I don’t wanna explain depleted uranium again. Dammit @dankaszeta.bsky.social.

PSA: I just lost. That is all.

Let’s take a quick look at LOTR from Sauron’s perspective, where it resembles nothing so much as a counter-espionage spy thriller.

EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

IF YOUR PASSWORD HAS A NUMBER IN IT YOU ARE NOT A MAN. YOU ARE A LEDGER. MY PASSWORD IS THE SOUND I MAKE WHEN I LIFT SOMETHING HEAVY. NO ONE CAN TYPE IT. NO ONE CAN STEAL IT. THE BANK HAS BEGUN TO FEAR ME

I'm just going to leave this here. "Spotify said it expected revenue to grow at a “mid-teens” annual rate with gross profit margins between 35 and 40 per cent through 2030" Hmmm. Spotify targets high-spending superfans with AI-generated music - www.ft.com/content/016f... via @financialtimes.com

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

This. This is why Starmer is better than Truss (calamitous) and Johnson (corrupt). Starmer might have *disappointed you* more than the others, because you had actual expectations for Starmer, but he's not actually worse than them, not by some distance.

On the tube

What did they do, bathe in them?

Betteridge's Law strikes again. No, no it can't, and messing about with ocean currents is *really* likely to have side effects you aren't going to like. #climatechange #geoengineering www.ft.com/content/e36f...

We're relaxing sanctions on Russia but we won't say (and apparently don't know) why, nor will we admit who made the decision. Moral courage from Labour here, folks. Really taking and owning the hard choices. Cowards.

Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster ‘Made Up’ Temperature Data Exclusive: Broadcast regulator censures now-sacked Mike Graham's show for unfairness to Met Office in landmark case

General reminder, as Google continues its lurch to search awfulness, that Kagi is legit brilliant. Its own AI features can be turned off. You can customise your datasets and weightings. Also SlopStop allows you to downweight, or filter out entirely, AI slop results. Legit worth the $10 a month.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

How's this for conditioning? I'm reading Fearless by Allen Stroud (good book, you read!). The Captain is both a woman and has no legs. When this is not mentioned in the text, my brain reads the Captain as an able-bodied man, and I am jolted again every time I am reminded. Must do better. #booksky

Hi hello we are Kagi and we do not do this 👇

Google unveils an even worse Search aftermath.site/google-search-...

i always feel so sorry for the French after that one. They do absolutely nothing wrong tactically. But Hawke and the Royal Navy are just pulling off all kinds of stupid, near-impossible shit around them. You can listen to my Untitled History pod episode on it via your app of choice, or watch here:

OK, I'm pretty sure some of these are just competitive creative writing, but even so, I'm actually crying with laughter. (18-rated!)

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

Yes, this. I will actively avoid your video, I will do everything I can to avoid watching it, up to and including trial and error myself. I do not want to watch you, listen to you, subscribe to your YouTube channel or hear anything about your sponsors.

Right - you all thought that quiz was too US-centric. So I've vibe-coded something far more British. Specifically British, because I am *not* making a Northern Irish Political Compass. From taxes to the monarchy, answer the questions and see where you sit. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

1/ Ukraine's massive penetration of Moscow's air defences is sparking a great deal of gloomy and angry commentary from Russian warbloggers. The military-technical Telegram channel 'Atomic Cherry' warns of an escalating trend of Ukrainian capabilities. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...

The pattern people in the progressive space must break (I include myself): I support Leader A; all teams except A are evil. A has disappointed me. I am transfering wholesale huge expectations overnight to B. I support Leader B; all teams except B, especially A, are evil. B has disappointed me, etc.

One of those "Wait, what?" headlines. 😂 Sponsor reviews crypto conference partnership over pole-dancing party - www.ft.com/content/ea06... via @financialtimes.com

Tell me again how we need to drop renewables and go back to gas, Kemi and Nigel?

Had a bottle of Brains' Rev James last night. Says on the cap "Indie Beer". Ok, it's a nice beer and Brains aren't part of Diageo or AB InBev AFAIK, but do they really count as "Indie"? #Beer

Dune Cat Budget Version

Mars - Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express HRSC Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2sdpsHP 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-07-24 South is up HR211_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3

An old family friend has taken advantage of assisted dying today (in Canada). I have always supported the right to choose your own death, she has had advanced Parkinson's for a long time and decided she had had enough. But it was very strange this morning thinking by this afternoon she would be dead

It’s the 51st anniversary today of one of the most marvellous examples on record of life (almost) imitating art, when #OTD in 1975, far-right wanker Colin Jordan, former chairman of the ‘British Movement’, was up in court for nicking ladies’ underwear from Tesco 🧵

My grandfather was in command of one of the assisting vessels mentioned in this podcast (HMT Strephon, a minesweeping trawler). Very weird listening and thinking of him being there, he never spoke about his time in the navy. Thanks to Rich for bringing it to life! #WW2 #navalhistory

If lemonade is made from lemons and orangeade is made from oranges, what is gatorade made from?

Today on the website, for those who’ve read Children of Strife - bonus content. A whole extra chapter that didn’t quite make it into the finished book, essentially a self-contained short story. adriantchaikovsky.com

Golden sunrise here in Glastonbury today, looks like it will be a lovely day here. I hope your day is golden and bright where you are...

126 damage, uninterruptible, hits every square. What exactly am I supposed to do with this one @pinix-games.bsky.social? I don't mind having a run ended by bad planning, but losing to the final boss because he's got an uninterruptible hit-everything insta-kill seems a tad unfair. #games

Thanks to Katie Carr on Threads, I just learned: in 1996, the cast of the newly-launched “Star Trek: Voyager” got together to do a feature for Parade magazine about the power of late-’90s technology. Behold its fabulously unhinged glory. 1/

This is an application that I had not considered and should not be lost. I bet before too long they'll talk to my Dad's hearing aid. Regulating these things should not be beyond the wit of man.

🧵1/10 Astronomers recently revealed a giant cosmic structure that had been hiding behind the stars and dust of our own Milky Way. 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ Press release: www.sarao.ac.za/news/vela-th... #cosmology #universe #MilkyWay

1/ The Russian government's claims that it isn't blocking GitHub are widely disbelieved by Russian commentators, who continue to protest about the severe impact that the apparent restrictions on accessing it will have on military-industrial software development. ⬇️

Speaking as a software engineer, this should be required reading for anyone in tech (AI bros in particular) and anyone in an executive role at any company. It also explains much better than I have been able to why I am relaxed about AI coming for my job.

What is the point of mathematics? And does the emergence of AI-math-proofs change that point? ananyo.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

attempting to appease these folks is like buying heroin for an addict: "It is true that many voters do see immigrants as the source of all economic woes, but they are wrong and it matters that they are wrong. If we continue to try and appease them we will simply make the country poorer."

Beneath one of the harshest landscapes on Earth, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a forgotten world — and the scale of it is staggering. theconversation.com/we-found-hun... #ScienceAndTech

I worked for a guy who ran a bunch of shady businesses in Phoenix. Among the *most* legitimate of them was bussing in a bunch of retirees to sit in the seats of a small auditorium for late night TV ads, collect their information, cater their lunch, and then...

Was Vance trying to do one of those lame tourist photos where someone stands in front of a monument and pretends to be holding it up, but can't get the angle right?

<in Number 10> STARMER: Okay. So how are things looking? ALAKESON: Great. Great boss. CUTHBERTSON: Yeah absolutely smoking it chief. GREAT speech yesterday. Nothing to worry about everything is- ED MILIBAND <sticking his head through the door>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS! WOOOO