I think that "design" as a discipline, rather than eg product-, interior-, clothes- etc, is just the most tiresome discipline. It's just this kind of clickbait form-making with no interest in context or purpose. I blame Dezeen, Wallpaper* and social media.

Wanted to buy one of these but they didn’t have my size. They only come in a Little L.

Sean Coleman@colemandesign.bsky.social · 3w ago

Primark is a deeply weird place.

🎹 I was into apolcalyptic doom grind before it was cool 🎹 Top tracks: • Conan - Hawk As Weapon • Pig Destroyer - Trojan Whore • Sleep - From Beyond • Weekend Nachos - Hometown Hero • Pig Destroyer - Gravedancer Generate yours: https://www.musicgenre.site/apolcalyptic-doom-grind

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🎺 I was into apolcalyptic doom grind 🎺 Before it was cool https://www.musicgenre.site/apolcalyptic-doom-grind

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What did the Normans ever do for us?

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.

What I love about the people answering “negative” is they are basically saying “the last thousand years? I don’t care for them”.

NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...

Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements

On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.

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No matter what’s going on in your life there is a form of potato that will make it better

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live Autechre Boards of Canada Coil This is not This Heat Blurt Vladislav Delay Crescent Miss Kittin and The Hacker Oren Ambarchi Celine Dion

tonypoland 🇵🇸@tonypoland.bsky.social · last mo.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live Beau Wanzer Daft Punk Fever Ray Teresa Winter Karen Gwyer Loidis HTRK Model 500 Tricky Laurel Halo

Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️

Think this is it: www.gov.uk/alerts/past-... - dunno if it’s manual or backed by something though cc @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

There should also be a web based archive of all the messages, so you could verify if a message was legit. Maybe you even access that through an app if you wished.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As in, every alert should include a canonical gov URL that is then the single source of truth for official messages, which informs every other source. If you are, say, using ChatGPT to get your news, then you absolutely do not stand a chance if there's not an accurate Web page (even then it's dicey)

I don’t know about you, but I like to ad-lib my own vocals to Moments In Love by Art of Noise. There’s a rap verse in there too.

Sounds like something a bug would say tbh.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham

Bloody hell I thought that was my fire alarm. I’m not sure that sort of information should be shared on a communications method that is about urgent emergency action Surely that’s more of a government briefing on the telly?

I got 2 emergency alerts. Do I get a special prize?

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

🎧 Fresh from the generator: gangsta acid 🎧 Top tracks: • Hardfloor - Acperience 1 • Luke Vibert - I Love Acid • Dr. Dre - Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat • South Central Cartel - All Day Everyday • Aphex Twin - Green Calx Generate yours: https://www.musicgenre.site/gangsta-acid

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My new favourite genre is 🎷 gangsta acid 🎷 Generate your own: https://www.musicgenre.site/gangsta-acid

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www.theguardian.com/environment/... I knew it

‘It makes you feel you’ve got a really dirty house’: what’s behind the UK’s plagues of flies?

From Leicestershire to Carmarthenshire, neighbourhoods are struggling with wave after wave of houseflies. Why are they suffering while others are spared? And is there no alternative to nets and zapper...

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Alex Torrance@alextorrance.co.uk · 3mo ago

Anyone noticed an influx of green bottle flies in London this summer? Can’t eat outside without a swarm descending. Leave the windows open and the room fills up. Might need to get @londoncentric.media on the case.

Anyone noticed an influx of green bottle flies in London this summer? Can’t eat outside without a swarm descending. Leave the windows open and the room fills up. Might need to get @londoncentric.media on the case.

I’ve found something I see as a safety concern with Google Gemini / AI search. Last night I was able to find the personal instagram accounts of people through searching a car reg on Google. In some cases it was reading the reg plate from a reel. It often brought back the owners name too.

Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious. loosemore.com/2026/07/18/d...

Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious

The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (D…

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Liberté, égalité, cup of tea!

English Settlement — XTC, 1982

Bob Fry@bobfry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today’s socks are White Horse of Uffington socks

Today’s socks are White Horse of Uffington socks

It’s a shame France got knocked out of the World Cup because I came up with a great headline if England played them… Égalité, Fraternité, Cup of Tea

Can hear the Biffy Clyro gig from my garden

Government should set up its own official fediverse server, the posts could then be syndicated to other platforms. It’s not about social media, it’s about making official announcements.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In addition, unless your business is “links” (which Bluesky is great for), Bluesky isn’t worth the candle, and the devolved moderation system just is never going to work for most people, sadly.

Here’s an idea…speed up the process, and allow asylum seekers to work, then maybe it wouldn’t be so fucking costly. Slapping someone with a £10k debt when they’re trying to rebuild their life after holding them for months is just shitty and cruel. apple.news/A0NfEPMiiR6O...

Asylum seekers to pay up to £10,000 towards cost of their accommodation and support — ITV News

The Home Secretary has announced a new policy where asylum seekers will be made to pay up to £10,000 towards the cost of their accommodation and support, once they start earning.

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What’s it like inside your head?

Martin Wright@mynameismartin.co.uk · 4mo ago

What's it like inside your head?

Is it though?

That's Bolt Court on the right, where I did my art foundation at City Lit in 1999 when I first moved to London.

Rob Baker@robnitm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fleet Street in February, 1971. What sort of food did an Old Kentucky restaurant sell?