RIP Jane Goodall, one of my first heroes as a kid.

The artist behind literally every single one of your and my favorite movie posters has died.

Okay that was a really fun football game

Silksong is a perfect game to play while watching football. The time between plays is juuuust long enough for me to try and fail to beat a boss.

Overheard my child talking to my partner: “dad’s old job — you know, the verge? — loved Twitter so much they had a funeral with a little fake blue jay” I don’t remember showing her this or discussing it at home in any way.

Found an unexpected defense of public programs and infrastructure in one of those random advertising circulars from a small town.

Side note, the brain that does this also refuses to remember to have a plate ready, and so the very end of egg-cooking is always an emergency, a race against time

I wonder if someday my kid will have internalized me growl-singing “COME AND EAT THIS EGG” (or whatever the food I just cooked is), and repeat it without ever realizing it’s from something. youtu.be/856v3nioKtY?...

The rage I’m feeling right now.

Just heard a woman of advanced middle age at the oral surgeon’s office use the word “unalive,” why is TikTok here

Incredible. Love the youths for this.

Robot vacuums are so good.

I’m sitting in an oral surgeon’s office because my last wisdom tooth got raptured on friday and the blood clot didn’t properly form

There was a time when this was all I cared about. youtu.be/r7WI4A8N8dA?...

What will people think if they hear that I’m an oatmilk freak

Nature’s potato chips on a sandwich

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I’m pretty convinced though that this game’s main purpose is to remind you that Nintendo is weirdly bad at making d-pads now.

Silksong is fun.

My kid has real homework for the first time and I didn’t really internalize, until now, how much that means I effectively now have homework. spent all evening helping with math and a collage project and hoo boy that familiar trapped feeling i left behind 24 years ago came rushing right back.

waking up to find a good chunk of our art is on its way to potentially be labeled as terrorist symbology is pretty wild

@davidpierce.xyz important: arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

What about Charlie Perk can I use that

Switched my ISP yesterday and the installer showed me a screenshot he took of a network he’d set up earlier that had “so many” devices. It was like 12 things, and I chose to say “oh yeah that’s a lot huh,” instead of “ha ha child’s play.” It’s important to celebrate personal growth.

Liquid Glass looks exquisite on my HomePods

Why isn’t it called nano banano

Sorry I’m so late to this, but I wanted to confirm that Apple’s most compatible product has done it again: the $19 Apple Polishing Cloth works with the iPhone 17 line (and the iPhone Air).

Self-deprecation. I look at the most online and think, “ah, I could never be that online. I should leave it to the pros.”

This world’d be nicer if everyone listened to a little more KD Lang and Cindy Walker.

It’s incredibly stupid that you can’t reconfigure just the flying controls in Star Wars: Outlaws, while leaving on-foot and speeder bike controls as-is.

NINTENDO YOU’VE ALREADY GOT ALL OF MY MONEY WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

Whoa, SW Outlaws really does look surprisingly nice on the switch 2.

My city’s LGBTQ+ center may have to shut down after it lost federal funding. I couldn’t afford to donate much, but i guess I have a few followers here, so i figure I can at least help by spreading the word. If this resonates with you, please consider donating. secure.everyaction.com/MZ9IqyUmMU6x...

Just showed my wife a QR code so she could download and use the app to control a robot vacuum I’m testing, and she just resignedly sighed and scanned it. I’m sorry to all who are married to tech writers.

Watching the iPhone 17 presentation and why does Apple's new fitness coach voice sound like Matt Berry? (I'm not mad about it)

While waiting for my final connecting flight home, Delta announced it had overbooked a couple of flights and wanted ppl to volunteer for a later flight. In exchange, they’d get a $400 gift card. No one bit, and the amount rose to $500. Then $600. The first flight succeeded. 🧵

I got home to a child who has Covid, as a little treat. Hooray for back to school! (You would never know she has it; this kid is full of energy.) So… I’ll be living in my basement with my video games for a few days, with my fingers crossed.

Also, as for why I was here, I was covering IFA, Europe’s biggest tech convention. My first time doing something like that! You can see my coverage here, last several stories are from it. gizmodo.com/author/wes-d...

I’m coming to the end of several days in Berlin and man I forgot how fun this city is to bike in. Just the right mix of chaos, danger, and good cycling infrastructure.

It's a Roborock Washer/Dryer, It's a Roborock Robot Vacuum/Mop, It's a Combination Roborock Washer/Dryer/Robot Vacuum/Mop gizmodo.com/roborocks-wa...

GET ON THE BOT BANANA BOT

I’ve been doing this, too. Libraries are great.

I used to have this on a double sided poster that I’m pretty sure I got in EGM.

Hey look at this petey piranha my 8-yr-old drew for me.

Rumors are a little back and forth on whether the next Vision Pro will have an M4 or M5 chip. Whichever it is, I doubt there’d be a tangible difference for buyers. I’m more interested in this supposed new strap Apple is making so it’s more comfy to wear. Comfort is really all that will matter.

Can anyone who has one explain to me why you like those lights that you stick behind your tv to make the wall behind it glow similar colors to the ones on the screen?

500 hertz, don't it? www.ign.com/articles/sam...

I really love that Nintendo is trotting out games that were panned or ignored at first. As someone who was technically an adult when this came out and had like two people to talk to about it, it’s wild that chibi robo is the fifth GameCube game coming to NSO on the switch 2.

CHIBI ROBO youtu.be/BjP6uQflzMU?...

My child has discovered Italian brain rot songs that sound like cocomelon, the worst of all worlds