As a Northerner who also went to Leeds uni & then moved to London, I don't recognise all the suffering expressed here. That said the North/South divide is significant in many aspects of UK life: social, cultural, political etc. Therefore, I'm going to start using this article to justify all my tears

The Memes Are the Point - The Atlantic

My 2026 Bluesky feed is starting to get spicy

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

AI (slop) will kill the attention economy in 2026, or at least force it to mutate into something else. It's going to be like Facebook's BuzzFeed Clickbait moment, circa 2015ish.

That Christopher Anderson photoshoot is one of the best art projects of the 21st century. Just stunningly brilliant

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I forgot everything about the 1st Avatar movie 18 seconds after I walked out of the theatre, and I don't intend to change that

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Thank god we can now express ourselves with these emojis 🪊🫈

This DVD box set just gave me a heart palpatation Mandela Effect moment

The Render Ender

This bot is having a totally normal one in my DMS

You will be visited by three spirits

Year in Review 2025: Hari Kunzru on AI slop and censorship

Wow, there is a lot of spam / bots/ slop on @bsky.app

What were the best books you read/listened to in 2025? All genres open, fiction and non. I have a bunch of #Audible credits I need to spend.

I think this might be an entirely new genre of clickbait

LOL The Spectator. The album never ever went away

My 12 months (2025+) of music #Wrapped! (no Sp0tify in my life) This is how last.fm tracked my plays through #Roon > #Tidal. What have you been listening to?

The AI #Slopularity is upon us! Check out this AI generated 'article', with an AI generated author, about using poetry to jailbreak gen AI bots. The slop has seeped through the internet pipes, glooping out of the abandoned 'nunneryplumbingandheating.co.uk' in a haunted text citing the hauntological

The drama surrounding 'Your Party' says something fundamental about 'the Left' in the UK, especially during the Corbyn era: every ideal espoused of a collective Left is actually underpinned by a series of blinkered, singular visions. There can be no true plurality without compromise.

We don't talk enough about Chytrid fungus

So #Plur1bus had an absolutely amazing opening episode, but since then had slowed to a crawl. It feels like a Twilight Zone episode stretched out over 9 episodes. Anyone else feeling cheated?

Oh dear oh dear oh dear

This. This. This. This.

My earworm riddled brain kept mixing up #Bjork's refrain from her collaboration with #Rosalia - #Berghain - with the theme from British TV show #Casualty. So I used an Al to make this. I am so so sorry.

this is art

I've put around 15 hours into #BabySteps so far. It's a work of utter genius. Anyone who has ever truly loved a videogame should play it. Anyone who has never played a game before should start here

Hmmmm. The growing call to leave Shitify needs to grow a bit more.

That’s it. I’m out.

Nooooooooo! Absolutely devastating news. RIP Lô Borges

I just learnt the term #Fursona and I am hoping that researching it totally f*cks with my algorithmic filter bubble.

A long article about #Aphantasia... In fact, this piece covers many related phenomena, such as hyperphantasia, and SDAM, and goes to the absolute edges of the phenomenon (I don't like calling it a syndrome)

The new Rosalía is all kinds of bonkers. Absolutely love it.

Absolutely loving these behind-the-scenes slides from the original #Gremlins

Absolutely iconic

What a time to be alive...

And the whole show and its "experiments" were laughable

In Defense of Generative Video Accelerationism

"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology."

I’m 43, but otherwise this entirely checks out

I like to think that the answer to most things is far more mundane than we (can) suppose

Are you running Windows 10, and worried about the end of official support from Microsoft? Then this guide is for you... extend that support to 2032.

Absolutely devastated. What a loss. Rumours were, earlier this year, that he had been back in the studio, but was taking a break because of some health issues. Now we know what those were 😢

Are you running Windows 10, and worried about the end of official support from Microsoft? Then this guide is for you... extend that support to 2032.