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Friday! Lunchtime! Wash the taste of That State Visit out of your mouth with some lovely fresh links! Web Curios! SO MUCH INTERNET WITH WHICH TO ATTEMPT TO FILL THE VOID! Share, enjoy, click, numb: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

Friday! Lunchtime! Wash the taste of That State Visit out of your mouth with some lovely fresh links! Web Curios! SO MUCH INTERNET WITH WHICH TO ATTEMPT TO FILL THE VOID! Share, enjoy, click, numb: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

@sundersays.bsky.social fyi, new private eye

This is an underappreciated masterpiece, very much worth reading

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Welcome to the UK President Trump!

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

You would shit yourself if you knew which company held its Christmas party at the NHM in 2021

This man is the Adrian Chiles of book titles (compliment)

Happy Saturday! Presuming you are not marching to, er, 'unite' the country, why not spend your afternoon with some internet (the good, non-radicalising sort)? Web Curios! The semi-acceptable face of 'too online'! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

The final line of this short 'I knew the shooter' clip really, really needs to be memed and sampled - "This 'internet' shit is seriously no joke" ought to be the defining line of, well, the past three decades really: www.tiktok.com/@1brxnn/vide...

A new edition of this has been published for anyone who wants to own something both physical AND internetty. It sold out in under 24h last time, so if you want one then get in early: livingweb.metalabel.com/internetphon...

Friday! Lunchtime! A distraction from all the shouting (well, most of it at least)! Web Curios! Share, enjoy and at the very least please click on the album with the greatest song titles of the decade so far, hands down: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

Friday! Lunchtime! A distraction from all the shouting (well, most of it at least)! Web Curios! Share, enjoy and at the very least please click on the album with the greatest song titles of the decade so far, hands down: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

They just mentioned Mandelson's 'fighter, not a quitter' speech on the World at One, so here's a short anecodote about that night exhumed from Elon's Racist Misery Factory

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR THE 2025 TINY AWARDS! Congratulations to 'Fifty Thousand Names', which wins a small cash prize and a hand-made trophy, and thanks to all of you who shared the link, submitted sites or voted: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tin... / tinyawards.net/2025/

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR THE 2025 TINY AWARDS! Congratulations to 'Fifty Thousand Names', which wins a small cash prize and a hand-made trophy, and thanks to all of you who shared the link, submitted sites or voted: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tin... / tinyawards.net/2025/

wish they wouldn’t talk about bluesky this way, by lunchtime the whole TL will be filled by an annoying quote tweet prompt where you share photos of your twee hobby captioned with ”dangerous bluesky extremists“

I think this might be my favourite ever Tingler

Did Trump just Fabrizio Romano a war?

My alternative proposal is that you should be able to earn as much as you can, but, above £1bn, you also forfeit the right to protection under the law and the rest of us can therefore hunt you for sport

There is some (horrible) gold in these, in particular this video whose final bit I did not see coming AT ALL www.tiktok.com/@alphaclubtc...

I wrote this

Google's AI mode is set to become the default landing page for search, which feels like more bad news from anyone still hoping that 'website traffic' is a viable way to earn a living: the-decoder.com/googles-ai-m...

I am going to a wedding and wearing a suit for the first time in four years. Make yourself feel as awkward and uncomfortable as I currently do by reading Web Curios!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

Friday! Lunchtimeish! Slightly later than usual, back after a few weeks off and REPLETE WITH LINKS! Web Curios! A rare distraction from racism, politics and the general horror! Share, enjoy, click, forget! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

Friday! Lunchtimeish! Slightly later than usual, back after a few weeks off and REPLETE WITH LINKS! Web Curios! A rare distraction from racism, politics and the general horror! Share, enjoy, click, forget! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

🔄 NEW THING 🔄 We set out to make the daftest browser game ever; did we succeed? The final upgrade is where the FULL HORROR becomes apparent vole.wtf/reload-click...

If you're sad about Bragg, Matt made a brilliant In Our Time thing which you should totally explore

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7 hours now!

Luke is right about this, but I now really want to read a Sunday supplement longread on the growing trend for dad-on-dad handjobs

This is a great resource, but it will also make LinkedIn (even more) unreadable for those of you masochistic enough to hang out there. There is one particular 'strategy thought leader' whose posts consistently exhibit half-a-dozen of these tells, it's sort-of amazing really

This has immediately made me feel better about the world.

There are just under 12 hours left to vote in this year's Tiny Awards! Small, fun, beautiful and occasionally-pointless websites, and a pleasing rebuttal to anyone who thinks everything online is rubbish in 2025: tinyawards.net/vote/

Am on the train and the two young men sharing the seats with me are agreeing that booking a room at the O2 Intercontinental is the best way of guaranteeing a 'successful' tinder date fyi. Modern dating mores are fucking WEIRD

A final plug for the 2025 Tiny Awards - voting closes on 1 September, so you have a week left to pick your favourite lovely little website from the past 12 months to win a VERY SMALL prize. Great webstuff made by real people, celebrate it while you still can: tinyawards.net/vote/

Not the point I know, and I am not a designer, but these are some fucking *ugly* posters and I am finding some of the spacing...upsetting. Also, Anduril is a fucking horrible company, look forward to it becoming even more embedded into the fabric of government!

This is a great piece and I will read anything Clive writes, but it could equally have been a two-word article that simply read 'cheap gak'

On which note, if anyone anywhere can find the multiple pages of (I think) The Mirror devoted to readers' Diana memorial poetry in the immediate aftermath of her death then I will love you forever, it was some ASTONISHING content

‪René's music roundups are always worth a look (and imho a subscribe)

For professional reasons I am having to check in on the alternate vision of Britain which currently maintains on X - stunned that the 'MSM' isn't reporting this! We really do live in a succession of parallel realities which barely intersect anymore

This is definitely not going to pose any problems at all for our shared understanding of what is real *cries in epistemology*

We're doing it again!

@direthoughts.com HI HENRY! What's a good email address (not your work one) to ask you a question on, if you have a moment?x