At this rate, the US will be slapping yet more tariffs on the UK due to the government’s smoking ban that impacts everyone born after 2008.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3h ago

it's a death cult, and if the only ones they were killing were themselves, that would be fine.

Not bad. A good top two thirds. But a bit of a missed opportunity with the pledges, which could have been much more barbed attacks on Farage vs obvious nonsense that will put some people off. (And, yes, yes, I know: comedy candidate. But there is an opportunity here, albeit a very slim one.) >>>

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 8h ago

53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface

EA bought by a combination of Trump family and Saudi money. As if people didn’t love EA enough already! it was downhill all the way after Archon. Tsk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3p...

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Under the guidance of my dietician, I bought some fancy spelt bread at the weekend, with the aim of trialling a gluten reintroduction after years and years of major issues. I still haven’t eaten any on the basis of being mildly terrified at the prospect. Sigh. :(

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Water just fell from the sky for an entire minute. That… doesn’t seem enough. (Last time it properly rained here was in June.)

Meanwhile, in the bone-dry south, I’m currently melting in my home office.

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · yesterday

The latest satellite image shows a fair amount of cloud across the UK, and that's giving some rain, especially in the north and west 🛰️

My copy of the second Zzap!64 Legacy book – background on the mag combined with full-page restored scans of every cover – just arrived. It’s a thing of beauty but there’s something special within from a personal standpoint. 1/2

Column! Why Lego should be paying close attention to this upstart company lighting up the block-building world www.stuff.tv/features/why...

Why Lego should be paying close attention to this upstart company lighting up the block-building world | Stuff

I just bought my first Lumibricks set. If they’re all this good, it definitely won’t be my last

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By the way, if you’ve never heard of Pico-8 – or have but don’t know how to get started – read my column for Stuff: www.stuff.tv/features/pic...

Pico-8 is the best retro-gaming console you’ve never heard of | Stuff

16,000 free games. Bite-sized retro challenges. Demakes. Weirdness. Experiments. FUN! Well, what are you waiting for?

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Craig Grannell@craiggrannell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Someone did a demake of Tempest 2000 by @stinkyox.bsky.social on *Pico-8*. Mad. www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

Mine has just arrived!! So I started buying this brand around a year ago, I’ve progressively build a cyberpunk street but I’ve also integrated Lego sets. But you are right, Lego really should be paying attention!!

By the way, if you’ve never heard of Pico-8 – or have but don’t know how to get started – read my column for Stuff: www.stuff.tv/features/pic...

Pico-8 is the best retro-gaming console you’ve never heard of | Stuff

16,000 free games. Bite-sized retro challenges. Demakes. Weirdness. Experiments. FUN! Well, what are you waiting for?

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Craig Grannell@craiggrannell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Someone did a demake of Tempest 2000 by @stinkyox.bsky.social on *Pico-8*. Mad. www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

I largely agree with this thread. But. There is increasing evidence that once individuals get deep into GenAI, they end up relying on it. Usage erodes developed skills. On that basis, consumer-level AI isn’t so much an accelerator as a crutch.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

Someone did a demake of Tempest 2000 by @stinkyox.bsky.social on *Pico-8*. Mad. www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

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Weeknote: 💡 Why Lego should pay attention to a brick toy company lighting up the world 🔗 Quick Browser deep dive 💰 My thoughts on the US and UK iPhone Upgrade Program(me) replacements 🧠 Journalists don’t know everything 👾 Another retro doodad is here reverttosaved.com/2026/08/01/w...

Column! Why Lego should be paying close attention to this upstart company lighting up the block-building world www.stuff.tv/features/why...

Why Lego should be paying close attention to this upstart company lighting up the block-building world | Stuff

I just bought my first Lumibricks set. If they’re all this good, it definitely won’t be my last

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I’d really love to spread the word about my comic book website Shelfdust. If you could please follow @shelfdust.bsky.social on Bluesky I’d really appreciate it - and I think you’ll enjoy it too!

This is why good journalists ask people who know what they are talking about rather than assume they know everything themselves. The News Agents are usually good. This one was a big misstep. (Pagel’s piece is excellent, as you’d expect.)

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

It’s not ‘just summer’, part 15,062.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

OK, that was the most rubbish rain possible. It went all dramatic and dark and gloomy. You could smell the moisture in the air. THIS IS THE BIG ONE, the sky threatened. And then it kind of went pfffft for about two minutes. Is that it? Good grief. It has to rain eventually, right?

Carrot Weather just sent me an alert saying there would be this thing called ‘precipitation’ in my local area. Excited to see what that is. In possibly related news, the scorching sky orb seems to have disappeared behind a blanket of grey.

Says something when someone pretending to be an alien with a bin for a head has more specific and meaningful policies for the seat than Farage.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last wk.

New campaign leaflet from Reform UK in Clacton. Weirdly, Farage's 'promises to Clacton' don't appear to contain any, umm, actual promises...

area man who constantly predicts ai will take all the jobs predicts that he is the Most Special Boy and hence the only one who is immune

I can’t imagine Burnham/Badenoch will lead to much. But Burnham/Davey has potential to reset the “constructive opposition” thing the Libs wanted to do that was mostly rebuffed by Starmer. Given Davey’s experiences and position on social care, it’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last wk.

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has invited Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey to meet with him tomorrow to discuss how to reform social care "I’m serious about fixing this issue and to do that, we have to find common ground and listen to others"

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

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Good grief, the UX for the new financing on Apple’s UK site is a shitshow. It turns out that 0% *is* available for Macs, but the option only finally appears when you are several pages deep into checkout. That seems like… not a good thing. People will see the default and assume 0% isn’t available.

Weeknote! (Late, I know…) 🎧 Return of the iPod – why Apple’s music player is making a comeback 📱 Is Apple’s Upgrade Program(me) really an upgrade? 👾 Atari games as movies? Pfft. Put these retro classics on the big screen instead 🧱 Lego Star Trek and X-Files reverttosaved.com/2026/07/28/w...

Apparently, Readly has now decided I am French and won’t take no (or non) as an answer.

@hiulit.bsky.social That bundle you just reposted is now only discounted by 2% :D

Also, the argument against proportional representation is ultimately that people *should not be represented*. So in 2015, UKIP got 12.6% of the vote and no seats at all. The SNP got 4.7% of the vote and 59 seats. That’s broken democracy in action. >>>

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 2w ago

The argument against proportional representation is that'd it would let extremists into parliament. If we're not careful, first past the post will give extremists a majority with maybe one quarter of the national voting share