I wonder precisely how much of an average lifetime is invested in the packing and unpacking of boxes and bags? Related: back from @deershed.bsky.social 2026. Awesome time. I made a butter knife!

ICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...

'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source

The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.

latimes.com

"Could you wear this latex glove, then put that hand in this rubber glove full of lard?" "Why not just put my hand in the lard glove?" "Well…" "Oh, let's get on with it." – Our new chancellor, John Healey, 20 years ago. True story. Fair play, he saw what was needed and did it.

Our jokes, much like our hacked breadmakers, are on fire.

Nobody does a clipsreel like BBC Sport.

Also: @pimoroni.com - any chance of an Atom feed for learn.pimoroni.com? Some great content there now (waves at @biglesp.bsky.social), but too easy to miss.

Ooh, lovely sound-reactive Pico jellyfish project for #EMFCamp, by @pimoroni.com shipmates: learn.pimoroni.com/article/buil... Awesome. Looking forward to EMF when the kids are a bit older.

“Good morning. Do you want to know the football result?” “Go for it.” “England one, three to Mexico.” “Ah, shit.” “What do you mean?” “Well, that’s it then.” “?? England won. Three-two Mexico.” “That is *not* how you quote a football score.”

This is brilliantly written. Bravo! nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i... (Assuming, of course, that it’s not a real report accidentally transferred with `scp —future`)

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

A series of unfortunate agents.

nesbitt.io

Housegawp: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom detached house for sale in The Control Tower, Airfield Road, Tholthorpe, York, YO61 for £900,000. Marketed by Chestnut Solutions Property Specialists, York

rightmove.co.uk

Watching Rivals, finally. Spotted a DigiBeta deck in the back of shot. Ruined for me now.

Claude: This timeout issue we’ve been chasing… Me: yeah? Claude: you’ve taught PHP, right? Me: yeah, we still use it for some… Claude: Whatever. You’ll never guess what the bug is. Me: Oh no. Claude: Yep. Me: No! It’s not one of _those_! Claude: it’s one of those. Me: Nooooo! empty(0) == true. FFS

As a special treat, I get to go to the supermarket for the weekly shop _with_ my kids! Happy Father’s Day.

"Hmm… I wonder what a node-based audio engine would feel like if it was driven by sensor outputs from a loose network of Micro:Bits?" [an hour passes, during which I bake a cake] "Thanks, Claude." (wasn't quite that simple, but… almost)

Alternative: crossover with Celebrity Traitors. Everyone’s playing a part, in the grammar of the show the murders are real, but one of them is playing The Doctor.

Tom Coates@tomcoates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wild version: BBC should announce a commitment to new genre drama, and advertise a new show that is a tense four parter murder mystery in a house where time moves differently in different rooms. You don’t know who the murderer is, until the reveal at the end.

“There are literal cheers for unified window radii.” — @reckless.bsky.social

The Dragons' Den dragons haven't a clue what a good invention is. They even turned down my talking measuring jug. That speaks volumes.

From the late 90s to the mid 10s there was a sofabed in Stoke Newington that was occupied constantly by a rotating roster of MacBook-wielding freeloaders. We all watched a kid called Tycho grow up. He was cool. His band just dropped a single. It's great, & he's still cool. youtu.be/Hazbekrofsc?...

myohmy - berlin

YouTube video by myohmy

youtu.be

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... There’s an obvious use case of confession-as-a-service, where Claude watches what you’re doing and tallies indulgences. Pay through your Anthropic account, they take a cut, pass the rest to the Vatican.

Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder

The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican says

theguardian.com

This looks to me to be full of excellent advice. Universities differ, so this perspective from multiple admissions tutors is valuable. Thanks for doing the legwork, Joe!

Joe Rowing@jrowing.com · 3mo ago

Ok #ITeachPhysics - something different, this is one for all of you that advise students on the #UCAS process - especially entries in #maths #physics and #ComputerScience thesciencelab.substack.com/p/what-fifty...

Oof.

Susannah Walker@susannahwalker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yesterday I was talking to groups of fourteen year old girls. The starting point was about how they used spaces, inside school and outside, and what would help them be more active. But they quickly concluded that boys had most of the space and then it got unexpectedly dark 1/n

Been doing some image-to-text analysis recently, with proprietary datasets I’m not allowed to upload to a cloud service. So, running local models. In most cases I’m finding a 7b-parameter model is adequate. While I can run a 32b model on my hardware, the execution time difference isn’t worth it.

All these breathless newspaper articles about how ‘the Spitfire’ ‘could return to production,’ and (a) they all seem to have the same wording. So: regurgitated press release, huh? Also (b) not a single reporter thought to ask what engine they had in mind? That’s… that’s just a little important, no?

Fun fact: I used to be able to judge the refresh rate of CRTs by humming while looking at them, and judging the beat frequency between the refresh ripple and my vibrating eyeball. Got quite good at it; was an occasionally useful skill in TV studios. And yes, 75Hz+ FTW.

Daryl@zolbatar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some TVs used to drive me crazy with the high frequency buzzing. My hearing is probably bad enough now I wouldn’t notice. Not as bad as 60Hz CRT displays, especially in an office with fluorescent lighting. The flicker was so off-putting and gave me headaches. 75Hz+ was fine, thank you Diamondtron…

For a moment there, I feared my Swedish bookshelves weren’t going to fit in my Swedish estate car. This was disquieting. Turns out they do fit, if one foregoes space for one’s Swedish wife. Luckily, my wife is Welsh.

Such mixed feelings about this. Moof! 512pixels.net/2026/05/clar...

Clarus Can Walk - 512 Pixels

I am freaking out.

512pixels.net

This is fascinating. Do read the notes at the link.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You really can’t overstate the significance of this diagram in understanding the U.K.’s political paroxysm. Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet. Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.

Important nuances here which I suspect will be absent from much of the commentary we'll see in coming hours/days/weeks.

Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Me, several years ago: “PlatformIO looks complicated, I’ll stick with the Arduino IDE.” Me, today: “I’m an idiot.”