Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

In 1982 Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and possibly the best of the 'witness' writers said "Everyone is somebody's Jew, and the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis."

‘A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street’, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

How was my weekend? Well, let me tell you, it was a *little* bit stressful...

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Not so much a 'let them eat cake' moment and more of a 'YOU guys are gonna have to cut down on cake. times are tough' moment

I have gone for a run a couple of hours before bed for the last few days, and I am devastated to report that I have slept extremely well as a result. Disgusting.

Oh god the presenter is showing us recorded clips of her roleplaying a disclosure of the issue and how she deals with it and its just...wow. Okay. 🫣

Argh the Presenter has just said that they've been in private practice for more than a decade and never had to deal with the more extreme parts of this client issue. JFK. I already have. Someone pay me to give this CPD.

Its a CPD morning. 4hrs on a tough client issue, given by an extremely flat speaker, which so far has very little info on actually how to work with the issue in the room but lots of talk about local government policy. Absolutely dying here.

I have deep experience in C#, Typescript/Javascript, SQL of many dialects, Go, Ruby, PHP, in fact pretty much any mainstream language except Python, Rust and the Cs. Lots of AWS and Azure knowledge; everything you would expect from someone who has been doing this work for 25 years.

The brass neck of telling me to use less water and then letting billionaires build data centres. We believed this shit decades ago when you told us to take less flights; turns out that's meaningless against billionaires' activity. This is just the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How the fuck are these things in my country and I don't even get a vote on them? I don't want this!

In related news, I met my MP for the first time and will not be voting for him again. I wish I has been less angry and could have expressed myself better. I am so tired of being told that voting for something better, and having hope, is 'a wasted vote'.

Have been making props, but they are unmentionable things that get you put on a terrorist watch list if you post pictures of them, so no posting pictures. I guess in a few months time I won't even want to *take* any photos of them, as the uk gov forces photo scanning software into all our phones :/

Labour need to realise that if you're going to come door knocking, you need to have actual positive policies you can speak about. Simply voters by telling them their vote for Green is going to be a waste and Reform will get in if you don't vote Labour is insulting, vacuous, and miserable

People, in every field, are watching their careers get burned into ash in favor of a machine that is *allowed* to make vastly bigger mistakes than they would ever be allowed to. The machine can't even get the company's name right, but *you* are hounded over the color of a single pixel, etc.

Visited a friend moving into their own flat for the first time. I'm pretty sure the flat has either no electrical safety certificate, or a dodgy one, because there's a bloody *plug socket* right next to the bath. My friend is pregnant and disabled and I feel like a shit pointing this out to them.

Magpies panting in the big chestnut tree. Doesn't stop there squawking, noisy buggers. But there's something horrifying about seeing the wildlife suffer.

Hot weather is so stifling in so many way. I am very lucky to have a room at home that is cool enough to live in comfortably but it is starting to feel really boring.

Just saw a photo where someone was venting their portable air con unit into and through their wood-burning stove and chimney. 10/10, no notes, 100% British activity.

France recorded a high of 44.6°C today. That’s so far beyond anything seen in the historical record, a 4.2 sigma deviation from the norm that it gives a return period of 87 thousand years. It’s really difficult to convey just how utterly extreme this is.

Burnham looks like he'll be a northern version of Tony Blair which, could be worse, but spoiler - is not likely to bring back us leftie/socialists, particularly not when we've can see the spectacular Mamdani over in NY making doing actual socialist stuff look easy.

On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:

Buying extra fans and stocking up on ice. Moving as many clients as possible online, and trying to move in person sessions into the morning, as we stare down the week of unprecedented temperatures. This is going to be a tough few days.

Keir Starmer presumably expected to go back to life as a human rights lawyer eventually and wanted to make his work easier by removing as many human rights as possible.

A lot going on in my life right now, but two seperate inflatable mattresses have failed me this weekend and despite being in my 40s it turns out I can still sleep on the floor with a only bit of padding, and not end up broken. Holding in to those silver linings right now!

Its just this meme over and over again. STOP BUYING STUDIOS TO CLOSE THEM

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

EXCLUSIVE: The two Ukrainian men found guilty of firebombing Keir Starmer’s house were recruited on and paid by a Telegram channel working out of Russia. Our research, revealed by BBC Panorama this week, shows this was not an isolated plot. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/06/15/t...

A reminder that this moral panic about the internetz will be used to deliver digital ID. That's the story. Illiberalism in action when good thinking could have developed policies to challenge large tech platforms and the damage they're deliberately doing to our society Instead we get digital ID

I mean, sure it's an unworkable system that will disrupt children's lives, make it impossible for them to legally access such dangerous materials as mathematics videos on YouTube, and fails to deal with the actual problem, but have you considered it might stop some of them realising they're trans?

Turns out "cattle catch TB from other cattle **15 times** more often than from badgers." Yet the slaughter of innocent badger families goes on. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The world continues despite our own minor devastations so today in Art Studio world I hired a Rug Doctor and Will gamely dragged it around my office and banished the stains. Somehow I am the one who ended up with a back ache despite the fact that he did all the lifting and work?

Spoke to the solicitor about managing the estate of a deceased person. And god we had a good chat and laughed and made jokes about how awful HMRC are and after 18mins I would employ this woman to do anything because she's been the only person not to pretend sadness when I have plenty of my own.

Imagine a world where proper journalism didn't exist and no one was shining a light on this stuff. As if you needed a reason to better understand why big tech has been sidling with the right in recent years. It's not like AI is going to do this kind of reporting.

Trans or Non Binary? Want to join us for next EsseCamp in Oban? essehouse.co.uk/about-essecamp

The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)

Blessings upon the county council who automatically issued us with a council tax exemption on a deceased person's property, without me even having to message them directly. In a sea of death admin at least this one organization has made it easy.

Finally the Guardian picks up this story. This makes it even more important that everyone consider getting a lasting power of attorney for health, so someone is empowered to advocate for you and your safety. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Some of our bus drivers seem to take righteous delight in any excuse to refuse to stop and pick you up. But today, the bus driver saw me running for the bus, and stopped, and we shared a smile.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of consent: ⬇️ "If a vulnerable person appears passive or does not actively protest their arrangements, the law may recognise this as "consent" — even if they are subjected to routine physical restraint or chemical sedation..." Horrific.

This is absolutely regressive and disgusting. It positions some disabled people as basically sub-human. Deprivation of liberty is an objective thing. Just because someone doesn't understand or isn't vocalising their objection doesn't mean it is okay to do to them without heavy safeguarding.

The UK is now in a position where if your drug a disabled person enough you can turn of their human rights as the silence becomes consent. You can then shove them in a closet to rot. This cannot be shouted about loud enough. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

A guy dies because the police don't believe he's been stabbed ("I don't think you have"), and just handcuff him and watch him dying, and the story here is about needing to remove religious exemptions for knife carrying?!! What the f*** Guardian? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Spent the whole day doing death admin and in a surprise to no one, the TV Licensing organisation were probably the most annoying to deal with.

Someone asked me if I was supporting Andy Burnham and you know, 2yrs ago I would have said yes. But Burnham looks pretty mediocre when compared to the real socialism Mamdani is doing in NY. The bar might be on the floor in the UK but I am done with lowering my standards to meet it.

Serendipitously, a box of prescription cat food that I ordered in *November last year* has arrived at just the point the boys need some wet food.

Everything Mamdani has done in New York has made me a lot less sanguine about what state systems are doing. Because he's showing us that organizational obfuscation, and lack of humanity, aren't a requirement of government bodies. He'd change this.