Angus Main
@angusmain.bsky.social
Technology / Creativity / Experience - Lecturer and Researcher - Cambridge and London, UK
Half way up a mountain in Wales, among thousands of bits of slate, I happened to spot this. Good work, kid.
OUT NOW! COMFORT BLANKET’s sci fi movie rundown reaches No 5… George Pal’s planet-smashing protopocalypse WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Everyone! To the rocket train! Listen on Substack or Patreon. (Preview episode on The Thing available free on the usual Comfort Blanket feed.)
Watch out. Wenger only illuminates his antenna like that when he’s really angry
Really wish people would stop reposting Captain AI crap. Come on. Even if you find the premise funny, it’s just lazy, ugly stuff.
What’s the obsession with making all social spaces ‘balanced’. That’s not how they work “All the members of this birdwatching society have a terrible bias towards ornithology. We will be encouraging more quad bike racers to join in the interest of balance”. Just let people enjoy their tribes?
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
This is demanding money with menaces. It’s clearly a racket that has nothing to do with littering, and it’s infuriating the advice is ‘just pay the fine’
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoI was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin
TIL that Prince William assumes the name of a Scottish lord when he’s not in England.
To bring an end to the drought, Andy Burnham should announce a series of new bank holidays throughout August. That usually does the trick.
There must be a “That’s Amore” joke in this, but I can’t work it out. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon
Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday
theguardian.com
I wonder how I’ve managed to escape ever listening to record breaking chart hit ‘Rein Me In’.. Oh I see.
More adventures in ill-advisedly quick cooling beer in the freezer. This was in there for 45mins - still normal and liquidy. Then I popped the lid and the whole thing froze slowly from top to bottom like a special effect.
I don’t think anyone could have predicted that the big companies of the Information Age, who built billion dollar industries on providing people with useful information, would pivot their whole business to “lying, and providing tools to make all information indistinguishable from lies”
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Apropos of nothing, a line from Wodehouse came unbidden into my mind.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5d agoCitadel’s swoop for the bulk of Situational Awareness’s public stock holdings, which were once estimated at $16bn, beat out rivals Millennium Management and Jane Street and marks one of the largest and most sudden stock transactions in Wall Street history. ft.trib.al/cwk9bpK
This is an impressively dramatic name for turning bits of the autopilot off.
The whole clip on YouTube is fantastically awkward youtu.be/Q94RilviBbk?...
John Rain🥇@johnrain.co.uk · 6d agoBest back up dancer in the world revealed at the end. This used to be a proper country.
Best back up dancer in the world revealed at the end. This used to be a proper country.
"Been thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far,"
At last, our national nightmare of not winning world cups is over.
“Welcome to Day 13 of The Odyssey discourse! Today’s theme is…” [spins wheel] *dnkdnkdnkdnkdnk…dnk…..dnk* “Facial Hair!”