“Focus groups of children have given mixed feedback but the AI-generated musical numbers set to be included were a favourite feature” we’re in hell

The great thing about being a transit nerd is that I’ve never respected Elon Musk

Gotta block them all! Block early, block often! bsky.app/profile/did:...

We’re heading for colours and shapes… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Glasgow City Centre felt just right without traffic today

"Cumbernauld didn’t fail because modernism was doomed. It failed because they let it rot, and then told us it was inevitable." My thoughts on the town of tomorrow, today! open.substack.com/pub/smixsam/...

The £10 Return Fare – and Everything Else that Went Wrong with Cumbernauld open.substack.com/pub/smixsam/...

This government is such a cataclysmic disappointment in every way

Any plans here MUST take account of the future cross-Clyde rail tunnel and the main station linking Queen Street and Central. It's an inevitability and a necessity and the fact that Glasgow hasn't yet developed safeguarded plans means opportunities like this will be wasted.

Discovery+ is to watching live sports what PE in high school is to taking part in live sports

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

music is so relatable!

I just find it interesting how many British centrists can see the issue when billionaire Elon Musk uses his money and power to influence American law and Government policy to operate how he wants it to, but don’t see the problem when JK Rowling does the same in Britain.

I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

Are we at the “sacking Kwasi Kwarteng” stage yet?

Finally, something light to distract us from the news

Digging out the old Simpsons DVDs to bring some new life into a vintage iMac

Before Pixar was making movies like Toy Story, they made software and its whole purpose was 3D text on some very basic Windows PCs.

…what?

Val d'Oro Chip shop in Glasgow has nailed its colours to the mast. How you react is up to you, but you do have a right to take that into consideration in making your choice of who to give your business.

TEAM COCO!

What a lovely day!

These days you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail for praying in your own home. Sky box, PlayStation, the lot.

Truly shocked that anyone thought this wouldn’t happen

Apple News+ has a right wing rag problem. The two major paywalled newspapers it provides free access to in the UK are The Telegraph and The Times.

countering all my anxieties by getting back into Websites. I'm on the web. I've got a backwards hat on. I'm surfing on a mouse. I'm typing https:// . I'm telling everyone I meet: "it's wild, they have everything on there too, whatever you're interested in, there's a website for it". I'm alive.

Low effort icon :(

I don’t miss Twitter one bit, but due to the fantastic decisions made by its current leadership, not having an account means you can’t see tweets in chronological order. Which is a problem when it’s still the “public square” and I just want to get updates on when my water will be back on 🥲

this is truly despicable.

Eh, you're alright

We need more slides that look like this

The BBC gets a lot of stick but their achievements should be praised. 20+ million for two shows is a staggering achievement, especially for two different shows airing on the same day.

There’s a bit during Miley’s set at Glastonbury 2019 where she brings out Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Nas X to perform Old Town Road, & Billy Ray very obviously misses his cue because his “vocals” can be heard clearly before he’s anywhere near the mic. Good to know things could’ve been much, much worse

trump 2.0 is so much grimmer. one of the leading newspapers in america is getting disemboweled by its craven billionaire owner, the other has set fire to its credibility by backing the democratic administration's bizarre obsession with caping for human rights violations

He doesn’t get nearly enough shit for how embarrassing this rebrand is

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Every time I go to a fast food restaurant, I come home with a lot of extra salt sachets #anticapitalism

I am back on this platform to declare that monkey CGI was perfected for Planet of the Apes, slept on, and then triumphantly re-applied for the Robbie Williams film. Good!

in case you weren't familiar with why elon musk has a longstanding grudge against Wikipedia he hates what he cannot control slate.com/technology/2...

this feels like it should be a bigger scandal than it is

Did you know that after London, Glasgow has the best suburban rail network in the UK? But it's not without its issues. So today we’ve got rail expert @garethdennis.bsky.social to give us the good, bad, and ugly of the current system – and then redesign it. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-...

100% - after the US election I asked myself why I was choosing to subject myself to so much toxicity. turns out you can just… not do that – and i’m so much happier for it!

apple - you own the service. you own the app. you own the operating system. MAKE APPLE MUSIC REPLAY NATIVE!

high res screenshot of iMovie for iOS circa 2012 in case anyone needs it 👍

I can forgive Glasgow’s litter problem, this bin is only learning

Haigh resignation is depressing. The first resignation of this government should’ve been Streeting, later today, after the assisted dying vote.

Spot on. Comprehensive pedestrianisation should be far higher up the agenda in our cities than it is. Nearly wherever cars go, cities get worse. Nearly wherever they’re removed, those urban spaces flourish.