When you think about it, it's actually pretty cool that the UK government has a button they can press to make everyone with a phone immediately shit their pants.

Cool, an emergency alert. That's the climate sorted then.

Are you tired of having to double take everything you see online because it might be fake AI slop? Get ready to double take your own photos because they may be fake AI slop.

Farage is such a mini-Trump that he has the same damn weird impulse to leak out the truth between the lies. Lies about a threat, lies about police advice, but also blurts: "I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory... and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies,"

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

- Resigned the second Leave won the referendum - Fled Caerphilly vote count once exit poles were in - Stayed away from supposedly crucial by-/mayoral elections that weren't a 100% guaranteed wins - Made up threats to avoid needless by-election he called Nigel Farage is, fundamentally, a coward

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · yesterday

Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"

Brain hurt reading. I not exercise or improve brain, I get robot to spoon feed brain. Brain remains soft and sloppy and useless but brain happy no longer hurty. I GOOD READER. I GROWN MAN.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

The best thing about this, though, is the presence of one person with a decent sound system and ability to curate a good playlist prevents wankers inflecting tinny speakers and poor tunes on the rest of us. The best way to stop a bad guy with a tinny speaker is a tasteful guy with a good one.

THIS. Read THIS. It's just about perfect. @drdeanburnett.bsky.social has excelled himself. But I do still think of him as garwboy. 🤓 Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/some-quest...

Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’

Channel 4 have announced a new documentary exploring the ‘myth’ of ADHD. There are so many questions they need to answer about this incredibly reckless endeavour.

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com

National Lighthouse Day, you say? Well then… pseudopod.org/2014/08/30/p...

PseudoPod 401: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife | PseudoPod

“You’re too early,” said the owner. “No one drinks until eleven.” The oiler pointed to William, leaning over a dram of rye whiskey. “What about him? He has a drink in his hand.” “He’s a special case.

pseudopod.org

Out now! Download for free at worm.net Thanks to @stinkyox.bsky.social for letting us do a Llamasoft level. It’s been an honour, and my favourite level in the game!

Now is a great time to make the switch from Audible to Libro.fm Why? Because Libro will be adding e-books to their offerings & one of the features will be "LibroSync: When you own both formats, you can toggle between the ebook and the audiobook, or follow the text while you listen."

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

libro.fm

This Tim G (RIP) mashup of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Sonic Boom Six is still an absolute CRANKER. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrqo...

Sonic Boom Six Mighty Mighty Boom

YouTube video by TheRhythmandMelody

youtube.com

Welcome to the great Tech Pause. It could be worse. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Embrace the great Tech Pause

It's a great time to enjoy the stuff we already have.

pcgamer.com

I hope when his columnist pals eulogise about his greatest hits they remember to include all his "you know what's brilliant? Noncing" work

Paul Haine@paulhaine.bsky.social · 2w ago

He also wrote this 23 years ago and somehow his career remained unaffected www.theguardian.com/society/2003...

New blog post: "July games"

July Games

Nothing completed this month, and I've only really played two games. Pretty quiet one. Games played during July Silksong - Nintendo Switch 2 Firmly back into this now, made quite a bit of progress, but I am currently at a wall where a lot of people seem to have dropped off. "The Last Judge" which is the final boss of Act 1.

liberaljoon.com

I am 2,000 years old

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

Tempest 2000

lexaloffle.com

erotic thriller is such a great genre concept. like youre naked but you have to save the president

This is beautiful Charlie 💋👌 this is going to mess with their heads so badly 😂

Fuck, marry, kill: - em dashes - it's not x, it's y - lists of three

thank u, hexed@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 2w ago

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

I forgot to share this when it went live last week, but that's okay, because it's a great weekend read! I really enjoyed copy editing this piece. I've definitely played The Addams Family before, but I didn't realize how much of a phenomenon it was. Great quotes in here, as always!

Design Room@designroom.site · 3w ago

For our latest big story, @duncanfyfe.net dives deep the bestselling pinball game of all-time, The Addams Family.

1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...

AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel

That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.

deadline.com

One of the many problems of us being a society that rewards performative complaining is that when we complain about everything it all becomes white noise. As loud as people rightly get about this, I don’t think PlayStation is going to pay attention.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w ago

PlayStation is not backing down from its plan to end physical game disc production in 2028 🎮 "We put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we're going to cautiously move this forward"

Yet another reason to abolish private schools and rewild / build on the excessive number of golf courses in the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans

As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays

theguardian.com

looks dope as fuck, sure hope it's not a thinly veiled smokescreen to distract us from the thousands of devs they just laid off

Bethesda@bethesda.net · 2w ago

40 years of adventures. Here's to the worlds we've built together... and those still to come. We're marking the occasion with a logo inspired by our roots.

PCGamer headlines continue to spit hot fire. This one is perfect. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well

That's an $8 million hike over 2025.

pcgamer.com

Money laundromat's stock fell due to "money laundering" concerns after reports that it may launder money

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nvidia’s stock fell due to “circular financing” concerns after reports that it may finance OpenAI’s purchase of $350B in Nvidia chips (vendor paying customer to buy its product) & may separately guarantee financing 4 the construction & lease of a new OpenAI data center that wld use Nvidia chips. 1/

I’ve seen peers completely ignore BDS while championing the “power of the PlayStation Boycott” in the same breath recently. Frankly, I’ve just so little respect for these people. Why is it a race to be the most unserious person imaginable lately?