plus ça change

Scrolling through an old school annual found scanned on the web to find out what model of computer we used (it was a PDP11/24), passing by the middle pages and "oh yeah, that's the year the school play did blackface."

Tangentially reminded of trying to get a clear answer on how long a product I was working on would continue to be supported, because the value of anything we might add to it was directly proportional to the remaining time it would be used.

Wondering why Amber is so special she gets personal weather alerts.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

If you don't like the origins of this term, is this not the exact situation where the concept of death of the author would be useful?

I think the time to learn Trump so often steals objects from his wife's bedroom that staff have to take photos of everything she owns to replace them before she finds out & also check the president of the United States' bedroom trash cuz he throws out the sliver is when journos first heard about it

Starmer refusing to resign is a little like being left in a room with a glass of whisky, a service revolver and one bullet to do the honourable thing and when they come back being like hey guys I got really good at russian roulette while you were gone

All these people naming literary classics are cowards. Give me FEAR AND LOATHING IN MUPPET LAS VEGAS. Give me MUPPET HOUSE OF LEAVES. MUPPET VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. FLOWERS IN THE MUPPET ATTIC. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY FELT

I made something a bit... spicy So it's only on Nebula, but here's a sneak peek. youtu.be/PxF2kTfGy_M?...

The remake of just one of the movies she starred in made over a billion dollars last year alone, and she still died in poverty from an extremely preventable infection. We need universal healthcare or we don’t have basic human rights.

Absolutely this. Two kinds of people talk about IQ scores like they're meaningful -- very dumb people and very racist people, and they're usually both.

Full credits and landscape-oriented version here. Before anyone asks, not AI. Allegedly. “Of Ice Skating and Drumsticks: KFC Australia Launches ‘Go Full Chicken’ Brand Platform” www.brandinginasia.com/of-ice-skati...

Got to love British election declarations. A Prime Minister-in-waiting launching his bid for the leadership of the country from between a man with a bin on his head and a man in a fox costume.

The casting in this season of The Actual USA is top quality.

can't argue with this.

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Point blank in broad daylight

I found a description of a Natalism session in my records. You're talking about the "obvious policies". They don't want to think about those.

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I'd add to this that these supporters exist in an information environment where "simple solutions" from the right (blame immigrants!) are allowed, even required to be taken seriously, while simple solutions from the left (tax rich people more!) MUST be dismissed out of hand.

Okay, what's the reddit post you want to see adapted into a movie? I'd pick one of these three classics.

Somewhere, some piece of code I wrote 20 years ago, added the comment "// This is a terrible hack, but it was the only practical way to fix TRIVIALBUG-123", then moved on and forgot about entirely, is about to break.

Remember how up until almost the end of Trump's first term we had the endless flow of "Today, he showed he was truly the President" every time he managed to get through an event without explicitly saying a slur? Now we get to do it in Australia.

OMG it's like nobody has ever heard of this thing that Qantas has 'announced' twice a year for a decade.

my patriotism overfloweth

The moment anyone goes from saying they're using AI, to saying they're collaborating with the AI, I kind of assume they've lost the plot.

tl;dr everyone who deals with Unicode eventually runs into the Turkish upper-case dotted i. mattryall.net/blog/the-inf...

It is incredible how every few months people with zero experience in trust & safety come up with the exact same list of bad ideas that have already been proven not only to not work, but that make things way worse. Listen to experts like @rahaeli.bsky.social who have been there.

I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.

Suzy Izzard's Hamlet: an engaging and technically impressive performance, but the only character that really stood out as a human being, and not just a loving recitation of the text, was Ophelia. (to be fair, she deserves the spotlight). Well worth seeing, though.

They paved it, the motherfuckers.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos with Doug Mulray

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

I can understand “they couldn’t make British The Office today because everyone thinks Ricky Gervais is a tosspot”, but… the American one?

I often wonder how much better software we could have if our industry had just decided to tell shitty men to pull their heads in.

Reverse Gallipoli where the Turks can’t get past the Beach

Hell yes!!! #socceroos

Guys, the “stop hiring humans” ads are bait. They’re designed to be angrily shared on social media to get them in front of as many eyeballs as possible. You can play a part in helping this strategy be less effective, by ignoring it

As great as New York's win was, the way it ended in a quarter of an hour of ad breaks punctuated by occasional free-throws just further reminded me why teenage Charles stopped watching basketball.

Greek god, fallen on hard times, gets job at small company. "Explain to me... why are the file-servers named after us?"

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother