Myspace is back, owned by Viant Technology, 'a pioneer in people-based digital advertising'. This is their homepage. Just what we don't need, no thanks

I think I am psychologically allergic to plastic plants

when parasocial goes bad

Woman at massage shop: You stressed? Me: Always! Woman: Why? (Before I can answer…) Overthinker. Me: Yep. Woman: Stop it!

Bit different

OH: And look, here’s one for $7.50. If you don’t like it, we can throw it out.

POOL'S CLOSED short story by Max Lavergne infinitegossip.ghost.io/pools-closed/

POOL'S CLOSED

I got down to the pool after a hell of a drive and it was closed. After all that. I won’t get into it but you can imagine what that would be like, to get to the pool and find it closed. You wouldn’t b...

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The universe, knowing I’m browsing Diaryland again, puts Neutral Milk Hotel on the home music speakers

“Ask for More Time” no, YOU ask for more time

Hope that alert didn’t cause any car crashes 😓

ever since I was a little boy I always wanted to produce training data for large language models ❤️

Boss: did you finish that memo? Me [just read about multiverse theory, where everything that's possible has happened in some reality]: yes

Meanwhile I have almost finished Never Let Me Go and am not enjoying it, so have also started a nonfiction, Tiny Experiments

The kid was looking for something to read after Project Hail Mary and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy so I offered - All Systems Red - Dark Matter - Dungeon Crawler Carl - Several People Are Typing and he went with the last one and is now giggling his head off 👍

My kid is loving this

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2w ago

A digital museum of video game levels…you can move freely around each level using your keyboard. Heavy on Nintendo games (Mario Kart 64, Wii Sports, etc.) but also includes Portal, Halo, Katamari Damacy, GTA III, and World of Warcraft. [noclip.website]

I want to be extremely clear on this: billionaires are killing us.

A decade or so ago I spent a year trying to avoid any cultural product that depicted male violence against women. The sheer bulk of books, movies, TV shows etc that ruled out was frankly unhinged. The killing of women is the constant background hum of our culture www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered

Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’

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Thanks I hate it

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3w ago

The PM today said he will allow government data to be consumed by US AI companies which raises real questions of consent, privacy and surveillance risk for every Australian. It's hard to see how that's in the public interest.

Gloria’s memoir —> so many Wikipedia rabbit holes (Americans probably know all this stuff but it’s new to me)

if you are free this saturday night... come and join me at a live podcast recording in Camberwell with @toiletpaperaus.bsky.social ! tix at greens.org.au/vic/hopenothate

Can you believe Diaryland is still going!

Alas the school hols are ending :( it’s been fun having Wednesdays off and visiting pools with waterslides and Rye and Werribee Zoo

Kids deeply into neal.fun

bsky.app/profile/did:... indieweb feed 😍

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

Trying to find/borrow the weirdest books at the library

Rainbow Town

Maybe we need govt grants for people to make cool shit on the internet / oh lordy are we about to get a bunch of generated book covers

Didn’t realise I was for-some-weird-reason signed out of YouTube; did think it was weird one of my top recommendations was a Bryan Johnson video

Werribee zoo safari tour - beautiful