Why not spend some time this afternoon ingesting the very best* of the past week's internet? THERE IS NO REASON. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03... *Ok, fine, maybe not the 'best' but certainly a massive amount of it

Why not spend some time this afternoon ingesting the very best* of the past week's internet? THERE IS NO REASON. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03... *Ok, fine, maybe not the 'best' but certainly a massive amount of it

Friday! Lunchtime! Enough links to keep you going til you start having to queue for the pub c.5pm on Sunday evening! Web Curios! All of the best links stuffed clumsily into the world's least-wieldy newsletter! Share! Enjoy! BE CAREFUL ON SUNDAY DON'T DIE OF BOOZE! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03...

Friday! Lunchtime! Enough links to keep you going til you start having to queue for the pub c.5pm on Sunday evening! Web Curios! All of the best links stuffed clumsily into the world's least-wieldy newsletter! Share! Enjoy! BE CAREFUL ON SUNDAY DON'T DIE OF BOOZE! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03...

Data centres, foot-the-ball Algae at the national mall, Pope to bishops: "on your bike" Minions didn't serve the Reich WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

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

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Hi everyone, hope you're ok. Look, I'm sure you are all very busy today, but STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND READ ONE THE GREATEST WIKIPEDIA ENTRIES YOU'LL EVER SEE!

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@tomusher.bsky.social hello man, saw this and thought you might find it of interest gnet-research.org/2026/06/04/r... x

Sharing this again, as I think a number of you need to be reminded of it: betarish.medium.com/hill-climbin...

Notable, I thought, that the Home Office's press release made no mention at all of how much money they forecast this policy would raise. Or of course how much it costs to implement.

All those sexy prime ministers will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Had to pop to X briefly, learned that Hollywood cannibal Armie Hammer's comeback film is a fascist fever dream called 'citizen vigilante' all about a man shooting lots of very arab-coded immigrant criminals, directed by Uwe Boll. Elon is, unsurprisingly, a fan. That'll sort the image problems!

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"Put The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith on our bank notes" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771894

What's 'funny' about this is that I know for an actual fact that the current Labour govt, cabinet level, spend an awful lot of time hanging out here having drinks parties. HOW LOVELY

Friday! Lunchtime! COOLING LINKS TO SOOTHE AND DISTRACT! Shut the curtains and hide from the sun in the company of the very best the web has to offer - seriously, these are GOLDEN this week and might help you forget about why exactly we're all so sweaty. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-26...

Friday! Lunchtime! COOLING LINKS TO SOOTHE AND DISTRACT! Shut the curtains and hide from the sun in the company of the very best the web has to offer - seriously, these are GOLDEN this week and might help you forget about why exactly we're all so sweaty. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-26...

Sneak preview of the best link from today's newsletter - did you know that you can play Half-Life 2, the FULL GAME, in your browser, for free? Well now you can. This is ASTONISHING, and is the best thing you can do with your Friday, hands-down (better than doing your job, at least) hl2.slqnt.dev

Super Smash TV tried to warn us about marc andreessen

This is SO much fun - while you're hiding from the horrororb, why not make GLORIOUS SQUELCHY MUSIC with this collection of Roland synth models in your browser? roland50.studio

The most thinking my brain will manage today

Buy the Eye

A decade+ since I was inadvertently invited to a Downing Street room with Facebook/Google/etc and Cameron walked in and asked everyone what they'd do to boost youth referendum turnout and a grand woman shouted "WE NEED GRIME ARTISTES, DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY GRIME ARTISTES" and I began to doubt Remain.

Keir Starmer is… Chelsea?

100% Elon is going to go hard on Burnham's 'coverup' of grooming gangs as that's the prevailing narrative on X right now, so we can look foward to that being a Reform/Restore attack line

Updated theory of British political decision making

Can we now please put a forever moratorium on the fucking moronic term 'grownups in the room', by the way?

Happy "we're going to keep making exactly the same mistakes but with a slightly different face" day to the UK gvt again

Nice of him to do it just *before* Private Eye's print deadline

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I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

Should have made a video for this. One of my fav things I've ever done, notionally a "remix" of Kunt's Prince Andrew Is A Sweaty Nonce but it's an entirely new track where I riffed off every late 80s/90s rave/dance track I could remember and twisted references in. No samples, just guessed the tracks

I still have to look at X for work, and, very rarely, it still throws up some absolute gems

Friday! Lunchtime! Something to read to distract you from all the very, very boring chat about What The Burnham Win Means! Web Curios! So many links, so little Tedious Westminster Psychodrama! Click! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

Friday! Lunchtime! Something to read to distract you from all the very, very boring chat about What The Burnham Win Means! Web Curios! So many links, so little Tedious Westminster Psychodrama! Click! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

Just fyi, Private Eye has this story in its current edition, published last week

Amusingly the Natural History Museum hosted Shell's Christmas party ~6y ago

I don't normally endorse middle-class flytipping, but someone on my street left this out earlier and THANKYOU ANONYMOUS PERVERT CONNOISSEUR!

Anyone curious about Palantir's way into UK govt might be interested in Tom Tugenhadt's appearance on this list

As Nick says, you really need to click the link and read the synopses here, they are MAJESTIC

Social media is shit, the kids should all get on this firewood splitting simulator instead (words cannot express how immensely-satisfying this is, you will be humming the lumberjack song in seconds): screen.toys/firewood/

See also: Rumble not being on the list despite being a hotbed of crap. Anyone would think this whole thing is poorly-conceived and rushed through at the behest of people who don't know the first fucking thing about the modern social media landscape and the role it fulfils in society

Elon Musk is a TRILLIONAIRE 😍

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I wrote something about the proposed blocks on teens taking naked photos, the slightly-odd company behind it and how the tech would *actually* work, should you be interested (but, also, it's nice out, so maybe just get into the sun tbh) www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-th...

Friday! Lunchtime! An immense quantity of really fun and interesting links! ALL OF THE WEB THAT'S FIT TO CONSUME (and a few bits that, on balance, maybe aren't). Web Curios! Share, enjoy, click, marvel, FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WEB AGAIN! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...