Look I feel like the torment nexus didn't even

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 4h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

The Hank Green AI shenanigans is how I discover @kotaku.com has article comments again, I suppose.

Musician Flawlessly Shreds a Slap-Style Cover of Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Purple Haze’ on a Chinese Pipa laughingsquid.com/purple-haze-...

Musician Flawlessly Shreds a Slap-Style Cover of Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze' on a Chinese Pipa

Jiaju Shen flawlessly shredded a slap-style cover of the inimitable Jimi Hendrix song "Purple Haze" on a traditional Chinese pipa.

laughingsquid.com

Cricut machines are fucking magic. Wrote a python program to generate SVG dials, given some radii, symbols, angles, and temperatures. It spat out files ready to be cut in the Cricut and make vinyl labels.

I mean, I know *I* do! Currently 227 Southeastern trains zooming about Kent and London

Paul@mrnotmoro.bsky.social · 3d ago

@ewacat.bsky.social do you want flightradar but for trains? www.map.signalbox.io

I’m bored of waking up and seeing a picture of a demonstrably shit golfer say the same old bollocks next to a tied back curtain by an aeroplane toilet

I’m a middle-aged cis guy, and the only skin I have in this game is the fact that I believe with my whole damn self that if you’re making people miserable (and far worse) just for existing, you’re *wrong*. What the hell, @amnestyuk.bsky.social? What ‘amnesty’ can trans people find in you?

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d ago

A dark day for human rights.

Have any more benevolent <m|b>illionaires (as if there’re any… ok, any who just want to fuck with other rich arseholse) tried bribing Trump to do something good? I mean, if money is his weakness, go after it. (joking, of course, but it’d be an interesting experiment)

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d ago

😕🤷🏼

Becoming awfully mentally scarred along with my identical twin brother fighting in Burma in WW2. Writing books of poetry that nobody will ever see. Becoming a London black cab driver then working on the railways, then many odd jobs, carrying crippling alcoholism with me my entire post-war life.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I clicked this expecting some wobbly-magnetosphere action, or something about another failing ocean current. Instead I sat and wept through the whole thing. Feeling about 30 simultaneous emotions, only some of which I know the name of. Damn you (in the best way possible), @hankgreen.bsky.social

This Planet is...Up to Something

YouTube video by Hank Green

youtu.be

Marketing: what shall we put in the subject like of our email campaign? Marketing2: how about “The warm touch of summer” Marketing: Do it! The entire country, rolling around in just its pants with 5 fans aimed at its gross, sticky body: “Oh, fuck off”

Me, live-Teamsing my typographical thoughts during an all-hands meeting.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Liking dogs is my entire personality yeah

We gotta kick Palmer Luckey outta retro gaming I’m sick of seeing him throwing his loser ass government contract money around in my hobby

Ooof.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

Good grief, this hits home.

Is… is that a card swiping machine? What in the 1980s is going on here?

Borzoibot@borzbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Everyone, no matter how historically well-liked or beautiful or charismatic, faces ineliminable uncertainty that can only be bridged by choosing to pay attention to the possibility that love might work out instead of the possibility that it won’t.” Ok, but some of us are just off-putting ugggos. 🤷‍♂️

My first relationship just ended. How can I expect to find someone else when it took 15 years to find her? | Leading questions

To stay open-hearted and optimistic, you need hope, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. That’s not the same as expectation

theguardian.com

Modifying parliamentarian’s CLAUDE-dot-md files would be a wonderful new jape for hackers of a certain variety. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/c...

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

arstechnica.com

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Spent an evening in a beer garden with the South’s best Arctic Monkeys tribute band… Gravesend’s own Artificial Monkeys.

For the love of all that’s holy, can Americans PLEASE stop saying “double fisting” to mean “holding two of something”. What in the absolute fuck is wrong with you people.

Mark Hill@mehill.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obviously just parallel thought but I'm proud to be working along the same lines as America's finest cartoonist

This Englishman stayed up all night here in the UK watching the election results come in by county full of joy and optimism, watching this man become President Elect. I’m certain there were many, many other non-Americans doing the same. God, i just want hope again, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social style

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 2w ago

Got the chance to see these talented players in action today! It was great having the @wnba.com at Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center for All-Star Weekend. 🏀

Sabian, symbian, sybian. It’s amazing the difference a phoneme makes.

I know it’s a bit of a trite thing to say, but what in the everloving fuck is *wrong* with these people? Can they not hear themselves? Don’t they ever have a moment of self-awareness and think, “actually that’s kinda dickish of me?” I mean… no. No they don’t. Of course not.

Elaine Crory@elainecrory.bsky.social · 2w ago

So Andy Burnham's wife is getting endless nasty comments for having a body. I bet the "women's rights movement" that is heavily made up of trans-exclusive columnists who claim to be defending women are right on that. Yeah?

GIVE THE DOG WHATEVER IT WANTS.

Borzoibot@borzbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Whenever you think you might’ve asked a stupid question, just remember: after his return from space as the first man to do so, somebody asked Yuri Gagarin, “Was it hazardous?”. To which he replied, “Yes, it was.” (yeah, I’ve been listening to this on loop this morning: youtu.be/gaowtEx4hns?...)

Gagarin (Extended Version) - Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton

YouTube video by PSBHQ

youtu.be

Any noun really can be used as an insult over here, you absolute fuckin’ stepladder.

Got the dog staying with me overnight. Love this handsome bastard to bits. He’s just so fucking sweet that he’ll make your chest ache. Sadly he’s only ever lived in a bungalow or a maisonette, so he’s got no idea about ‘going upstairs to bed’. So I remain cuddle-less.