@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hi Rachel! Wondering if you've read this and if you think, based on your knowledge and understanding, it presents a fair picture of IT transformation in govt (and legacy systems in place) (also, obvs, appreciate you mightn't have had time): re-state.co.uk/wp-content/u...

and yet one of these does not appear on the guardians 100 best novels of all time list. INTERESTING

Presuming you're not marching for Palestine this afternoon (I am going to charitably assume that none of you are marching for gak and racism), why not read Web Curios? It won't make the world a better place, but it will provide you with about 100 excellent links: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-15...

I've read 32 of the Mr Men and Little Miss books. How many have you read? mrmenbooks.lovable.app

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Fun to see where the polymarket bets are coming in from right now

"Man of the PayPal"

@robpalk.bsky.social This is...quite odd, but I have a vague sense that you might find it interesting/appealing (based on, er, nothing more than your Posts): www.jonknowles.eu/xfer/consequ...

From crumbling aerated concrete homes to the truth behind The Salt Path... The shortlist for the 2026 Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism has been announced! The winner, who will receive a prize of £8,000, will be announced on June 1. ➡️ Shortlist: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

Now tell us how many of these fines have actually been paid

an excellent list from Rishi “LLMs as a narrow pedestrian expression of humanity, and who likes to be reminded that as a species we are this dull?”

Don't ordinarily link to work, but I quite enjoyed writing this piece about Jeff Bezos and the shameless plute class www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-to...

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You *could* spend the day watching tedious Westminster psychodrama (fail to) play out, or you could tune into the Wallace & Gromit 24/7 livestream on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxb...

One of the many reasons Sunak can get fucked into the sun is that all the 'AI is going to do terrible things to white collar employment' stuff was pretty much obvious as soon as GPT3 came out, but he let himself get distracted by terminator wank and wasted 18 months on bullshit

Harriet Harman apparently mixing up DMs with tweets this morning (now deleted).

Am increasingly of the belief that politics in this country would immediately become 15% less shit if the existing crop of lobby hacks were fired into the sun and replaced with, I don't know, goats.

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Suggest noone feeling a bit miserable about the political direction of the UK, the whole racism and islamophobia thing, etc, looks at the Great Yarmouth result

It’s nice, isn’t it? The aaaaaaargh, fuck, fucking hell, shit, fuck

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For anyone who wants to read something long and a bit chewy on How We Have Gotten Here, this recent LRB piece on 'hyperpolitics' is very good imho: web.archive.org/web/20260428...

koko: koko not vote for this koko want them out but no. koko says no not like this koko want criminals away handler: now koko, what did you think mass deportation meant?

Wish there was a mode of politics in this country that wasn’t “slow and easily preventable car crash you can see is going to happen from miles away but can do nothing to stop”

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Some very Of Our Times patchnotes from The Sims

Some very Of Our Times patchnotes from The Sims

"PLEASE don't confuse us for an official sponsor 😉" season looms. Do share with me any examples you see of legally cautious advertising/copywriting that hints at - but crucially does not name - the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It's my favourite.

Amazing @neal.fun job opportunity for any New York-based web/game devs

In case you're in the market for an entertaining end-of-day longread, this piece (from the new @nplusonemag.com) about a cruise for ageing celebrity lookalikes is an absolute treat: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Us, sobbing: please grandad, stop telling everyone that you believe you brought your imaginary girlfriend to life Richard Dawkins: INFLATABLE INGRID AND I ARE VERY MUCH IN LOVE, SHE WANTS YOU TO CALL HER "INFLATABLE NANNA"

One for the Guardian Blind Date enjoyers here - someone's done the data-led deep dive into the dates over the years that you never knew you needed: blinddates.rory.codes (cc @theguyliner.bsky.social)

@ewacat.bsky.social Apologies if you're already all over this stuff, but a Curios reader sent me this frankly insane archive of IF genrefiction 'quests' (sort of like collaborative CYOA fanfics) and I thought it felt very much like it might be your vibe suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.h...

Oh wow www.vaskange.world

From drug-smuggling SEND bosses and killer kitchen worktops to AI “experts” duping the media, the Paul Foot Award longlist shows the strength and range of journalism in 2026. ➡️ Find out who made the list: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

@katebevan.com icymi, about fucking time too www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-bigges...

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This is because AI DETECTION SOFTWARE FOR COPY DOESN'T FUCKING WORK

This week's Web Curios is brought to you by sunshine and the toilet-themed sculptures/seats in Vauxhall next to MI6: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-24...

more and more each day

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An online London phantasm - You can still wander around empty Earls Court exhibition centre on Google Street View even though it was demolished years ago.

This is where AI is eventually headed imho, and why even if a couple of the big companies die the tech won't

Can anyone explain why the people either side of Starmer in his St George's Day post have gulls on their shoulders

This is about Chelsea but feels like a potentially-evergreen post for 2026 and beyond

Picked up a copy of this incredible artefact; while the authors may fear the establishment and the control of the globalist machine, they have no qualms whatsoever about using AI to write all the articles in it ("this isn't progress - it's a subtle form of control")

This, by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social on the 'everything is shortform video now' bubble, is excellent and more fodder for my personal 'transmetroplitan is the best predictor of the medium-term future' thesis which has inexplicably failed to catch on: www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe...