Fwiw, Private Eye did this exact story in August/September 2025

This week's edition of Web Curios contains half a dozen EXCELLENT games to enjoy on yet another damp Saturday, and approximately 94 other links which you can click while you watch gravity do its thing in Milano/Cortina - ENJOY IT: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...

When I did work experience at BBC Radio Manchester I was convinced all the journalists were on coke due to the very conspicuous razorblades they kept on their desks

Friday! Lunchtime! Everything is objectively horrible and everyone running the world is a moron or a criminal or both, so why not bury your head in some Good Internet and CLICK TO FORGET? Web Curios! Read by literally NOONE named in the Epstein Files! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...

Friday! Lunchtime! Everything is objectively horrible and everyone running the world is a moron or a criminal or both, so why not bury your head in some Good Internet and CLICK TO FORGET? Web Curios! Read by literally NOONE named in the Epstein Files! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...

Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.

@ewacat.bsky.social read this, etc etc default.blog/p/ai-generat...

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Further to this, Ofcom's update on its own investigation neatly illustrates what a fucking mess the OSA is: www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

There's a Minecraft experience that recreates storied civil rights protests, and while I am sure it's well-meaning it feels...quite weird to see this stuff reduced to blocks in a videogame: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1T...

Don't spend the day thinking about how seemingly everyone who runs the world is implicated in an increasingly-horrifying paedophile murder island conspiracy! Instead, enjoy the fact that someone's made Quake playable in-browser - this is ACE: mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/ (via @arnicas.bsky.social)

This essay is about LBJ and power, but also feels spectacularly relevant to the whole Epstein network: www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/fracking-f...

Jay is reliably smart and curious, and this is a good perspective on the social simulacrum that is moltbook

A colleague of mine at my first ever job was once in a student flatshare with Peter Mandelson and David Aaronovich. Always wondered what that must have been like.

Don't spend the day thinking about how seemingly everyone who runs the world is implicated in an increasingly-horrifying paedophile murder island conspiracy! Instead, enjoy the fact that someone's made Quake playable in-browser - this is ACE: mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/ (via @arnicas.bsky.social)

"Man denied access to paedophile island due to being a terminally bad hang demands prosecution of those allowed in"

From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Cain From The Bible Date: March 7th, 3000BC Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀 go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)

This week's Web Curios (packed full of great things to click, read and play) is brought to you by these staggering busts of Batman and Superman for sale at a shop in Dubai on Thames (Battersea power station) for a mere £3k each: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-30...

Moot in the Epstein Files

Friday! Lunchtime! No slop! ALL GUNK! Stop looking at the news, it is HORRIBLE - look at some lovely internet instead. The internet loves you. The internet cares. Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! Click! Marvel! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-30...

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@robmanuel.b3ta.com this feels like Something You'd Like and might find vaguely-inspiring michael-klamerus.itch.io/british-game...

ICYMI, I wrote about this very thing www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-do...

The (most) creepy thing about this deal is all the stuff in it about granting them access to make AI videos of him; granted, it's a lot of money but also that feels like a Bad Rubicon

In the unlikely event anyone wants to read some words on a topic adjacent to the below, here are some (by me, sorry) www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-do...

I’ll be storing mine in this

Genuinely fascinated to see where everyone ends up getting their bongo from as of next week

For everyone confused as to where Leila Cunningham got her 'penguin' graphical inspiration from, this is the meme it all stems from (first referenced by Trump in a post about Greenland a few days ago). Doesn't make it any less fucking moronic, but at least now you know - google 'nihilist penguin'

HERE IS THE LINK TO BROWSER-BASED SUPER MONKEY BALL monkeyball-online.pages.dev This is *superb* (via @mtrc.bsky.social)

I've had 2 guests die in their rooms at hotels I've worked in. Not only do we not get paid but it costs us a lot and that impact our bonus. People should be more careful and not check-in to a hotel if they're likely to die on their trip. Please, arrange to die at home.

Thank you to the Telegraph for validating exactly why I made @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social

Not 100% certain that a business that 'helps companies create interactive training videos' should reach a valuation of $4bn

If you like 90s Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, then maybe give Hourly Spaced a follow. A screenshot from a random Spaced episode, on the hour, every hour!

It's a glorious afternoon in London so why not ignore this link and go and enjoy it; Web Curios will be waiting for you (watching, judging) when you get back: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-23...

Friday! Lunchtime! Look, you've all had quite enough news for the week, drown out the noise by immersing yourself in High-Quality Internet - it will, I promise, quiet the yelling and the shouting (although not the voices in your head). Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-23...

Friday! Lunchtime! Look, you've all had quite enough news for the week, drown out the noise by immersing yourself in High-Quality Internet - it will, I promise, quiet the yelling and the shouting (although not the voices in your head). Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-23...

Researchers found reporting AI-generated nudes on X as in violation of copyright “resulted in successful image removal in <25 hours for all images (100% removal rate), while non-consensual nudity reports resulted in no image removal for over three weeks (0% removal rate).” arxiv.org/abs/2409.12138

Not sure why but have a vague sense that a few of you might be qualified for/interested in this job (which is in NYC, f your i) hinge.co/careers/jobs...

Went to see this last night and it was incredible, don't think I have ever been to a play where the audience was audibly sobbing in unison. Er, that's a recommendation, I promise, if you can get tickets you should, it is astonishing: royalcourttheatre.com/events/guess...

I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but Clavicular just cracked the code: JESTERMAXXING at the club is officially the new meta.

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Literally 10 years ago this is what Davos was about.

Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron? A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.

Currently undecided whether the world would be a better place if Harry Potter had never been written or Lord of the Rings. Personally wish both of them had never been penned, but pick your favourite!

Just checking in on the official TikTok account of the Chinese embassy in the US www.tiktok.com/@chineseemba...

At this point I am convinced that what3words has kompromat on people, the only possible explanation as to how it is *still* a thing

You *could* spend another day glued to the news, but, look, there's fuck all you can do about any of this so you may as well click this link (POSTING DOESN'T COUNT) and watch two horrifying rejects from Jim Henson's Creature Workshop play realtime chess in your browser: oculart.com?art=possessi...

@robmanuel.b3ta.com Saw this, thought you might be able to use it for...something, maybe huggingface.co/small-models... x