If they ever want someone to spend a year pretending theyre a mermaid then I have a four year-old who is ready to sign up. www.vice.com/en/article/n...

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

When Starmer goes will we all get emailed a Feefo link to review his performance?

It’s so British. And Farage must be cursing a lot because he didn’t expect that all the other parties would pull out leaving him battling against a joke character with a British electorate that just loves taking the piss (we tried to get a £200m research ship named Boaty McBoatface). He’s in trouble

The events of the past 48 hours might may have tarnished President Trump’s FIFA Peace Prize

A gentle reminder: “Reading to children, even before they can understand words, teaches them to associate books with love and affection.” (Princeton Book Review)

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

There are far too many people in the world who ignore both facts and science as well as having terrible values.

And Wix don’t respond to bug reports.

Please Use AI

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Rather than the Dunning-Kruger effect, I want climate change deniers to disappear overnight - the Freddie-Kruger effect.

Wix needs to sort out their testing if their sign in page in their app shows this:

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

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What a surprise. You train a system to be as good as the current system and all the biases come through again.

I’m guessing that affiliate links aren’t very profitable otherwise websites would actually make an effort to show links from the country you’re in.

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

Walked to the 'office' and now sat wiping my forehead like Mike McShane halfway through the props round

I’d hoped my generation would have done better than this with the world they inherited. Instead, here we are.

Of all the parenting skills I anticipated gaining, the ability to chop a cherry tomato in 18 pieces wasn’t one of them. I can do grapes too.

“Mother, I've weighed the risks - which I prefer to living in a world dominated by Nazis. Bill" Thank god for Bill and so many more like him (Pic from @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social on X)

Does Claude code not do tab complete like Cursor? That’s my favourite part, just being able to start a block of code or function and it just does the next two minutes of work in a second. Or writing a comment describing a function and it does it. I’d have to set up an LLM to do that if I switched.

You can see the value hitting oil infrastructure from a military and economic point of view. But the genius is that the smoke means every civilian can see what’s happening.

Trillion sounds like a child’s made up number, like bazillion. I’m finding trying to imagine that amount of money impossible. What *can’t* you buy with that amount? Other than respect, integrity, morality, and so on. Anything physical would barely dent it.

Sometimes I idly fantasise about how I’d spend £10m if I had it (mostly about who I’d give it away to simply because I’d not need that much). If I had $1000000000000 I have no idea what I’d do with it - of all the things I could do, relive 1930’s Hitler would not be one of them.

Crap. Need to find an alternative.

Peanuts. Nuts in general, but even the smell of anything peanutty turns my stomach. I’d rather change a nappy.

Is it just my feed, or does every developer on LinkedIn just get reams of ill-informed takes on AI? It’s like panning for gold in a sewer.

the Bluesky design research team wants to talk with people who are interested in building communities. if that's you, submit this form! your voice will help shape what we build. docs.google.com/forms/d/1ej6...

This is what happens when you try and set the white balance based on Trump’s skin tone being human.

My internet connection would be a lot better if I used Starlink. It’s the only alternative I have right now but there’s no way in hell I’m giving any money to that company.

I can’t believe that any man can be masked, in a group of masked men, with no women in the group, attacking people who can’t fight back (including women and children), and think that they’re in any way the ‘good guys’ doing the ’right thing’

Trump: "A lot of people don't know 'dumb' has a B"

I don’t think that the user experience of technology has improved much since the first iPhone came out. I’m not saying that was the peak, but nothing much seems to have improved since. Everything seems to work okay-ish with lots of little irritations at best.

Merge two films: GhostBuster - four men misuse their ghost hunting equipment to rob a train and move to Acapulco.

The occasional contented sigh coming from the back of my office suggests the cat is I here somewhere.

It feels quite amazing how quickly the press and politicians are worrying about our famously anti racist police , I presume next is “do the police spend too much time worrying about women at the cost of being too aggressive towards wife beaters ?”

Did no one at the BBC have the wit to read the Judge's judgment in this case?

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

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If you’ve not won the game by the time it gets to penalties, you’ve not won anyway - either call it a draw or toss a coin.

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

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...

The only bug I see in @bsky.app at the moment is that if you go into a post and then come out it scrolls to the top and you lose your place. On ios at least.