There's one recruiter on LinkedIn that a) proudly boasts about using AI to screen applications and b) has a horrid bright little HDR profile icon, and honestly I've never longed more for a block button for LinkedIn's jobs board

sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over

People don’t talk about it much, but in the final years before the fall of the Roman Empire people got REALLY into collecting giant novelty popcorn buckets

look, I just think it's weird that we don't spell it "super dooper"

there is simply no love purer than the little nod shared between two bus drivers passing each other on the street

Are other tote bag designs even available in London or has Daunt Books pushed them all out?

I’m not kidding when I say that all work in the office just ground to a halt for a full minute while we all watched The Blimp fly by

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An Oxford classics graduate has won cross-party endorsements in the upcoming Clacton by-election. Count Binface, who studied at Corpus Christi, was described as “maybe the people[’s candidate]” by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, while defence secretary Dan Jarvis said “good luck to him”.

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Not a single soul on this earth: r/bicycling: What if I filmed myself cycling from the point of view of my penis?

Random question for the Kojima-heads out there: what are the best books/articles/video essays/reviews/talks/anything you've encountered about his work and career?

My most problematic take? Great question. I’d have to say “candy, from a baby.”

Not to make everything about house prices but it feels like in a normal economy you’d be more likely to sell up and move if you found yourself living in a nightlife district when you have no interest in nightlife (1/2)

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 3mo ago

The Soho Society is objecting to *every* new bar/restaurant licence in what is supposed to be the centre of London’s nightlife. More licensing insanity. I asked them to come on my Sunday show: "We will absolutely not be taking questions from journalists". Ofc not. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Excited for the new Promise Mascot Agency DLC

Bassano@bassano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Me [squinting at the AMF Lager taps with my slightly-too-weak contacts in]: Uh hi could I get an… uh… Alf Lager?

Sick to death of people who claim a journalist must have used AI to write an article when they spot a small mistake. Famously journalists never made factual errors before the invention of ChatGPT.

One of my most sincerely held beliefs is that a lot of culture war nonsense is the direct result of underfunded newsrooms scraping the barrel for column inches every week

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

"It's so refreshing to be cutting about with a boot-full of hammers, battering guys for money" got a good belly-laugh out of me

Jim Trinca@jimtrinca.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Get this dealt wi I've done some jokes www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvz...

When I was 27 a woman on the tube asked me about the mobile game I was playing and I earnestly explained the rules of Hitman GO for 10 minutes until she excused herself and went to wait by the door for her stop

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com · 5mo ago

When I was 19 I talked for an entire flight with a woman and she invited me to lunch and I told her no thanks

The Criterion Collection? What, like all the Burnout games plus the experimental first person shooter "Black"?

Fuck man this is so good

Sameer Vasta@sameervasta.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

I think this is the correct move by Google. I also think there’s a certain irony in Google penalising AI-generated content whilst its own AI overviews decimate the traffic it sends to sites across the web.

TheGamer@thegamerweb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

VideoGamer has been completely de-indexed from Google following a pivot to AI-generated articles with fake editors.

Just completed my move to Eurosky, complete with custom domain handle, and the whole process was amazingly quick, painless, and with (as yet) no change BlueSky’s usability. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Would migrate again

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 8mo ago

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

@waldosgift.bsky.social yooo what happened???

Got told I was “unusual” by an absolutely massive man wearing dungarees in a pub bathroom after he saw me wash my hands prior to using the urinal. Context: I had just eaten a very greasy burger and wanted to clean my hands before touching my penis and yes, I washed them a second time afterwards.

Rhodri Marsden@rhodri.biz · 8mo ago

Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’

nytimes.com

The cutscenes in MGS1 remake The Twin Snakes were originally far more faithful to the original. But after Kojima saw an early version he fed back that they should be punched up, leading to the Matrix-y bullet time cinematics in the final game

marina ⬡@m4rina.bsky.social · last yr.

i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?