Matt Muir
@mattmuir.bsky.social
Huge pupils, tiny value webcurios.co.uk
Genuinely astonishing to me that this stuff isn't common knowledge, 15 years into the smartphone era. The piece is ok, but the first para is scaremongering bollocks - to be clear, your phone is *not* eavesdropping on you to target you with ads (it doesn't need to)
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 3h agoFrankly astonishing piece by @alexisconran.com on all the data our phones keep on us and what they do with it (it's not good). open.substack.com/pub/scamproo...
Private Eye, reporting on this guy and his channel back in February
Hughster@hughster.bsky.social · 9h agoBonehill-Paine runs the "Crewkerne Gazette" YouTube channel (nope, me neither), publishing cringey mostly anti-Labour AI slop videos. But he did post this very odd "explainer" video where, essentially talking to himself (an AI "interviewer"), he bigs himself up in a strangely immodest way
I wrote about the weird and vaguely-psychotic test you're asked to take when being recruited by Steven Bartlett - this is quite fun, even if I do say so myself: www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-ap...
Applying for a job with Steven Bartlett – very odd and very revealing
The podcaster and digital marketing man has an unusual hiring style, during which a candidate will learn just as much about him as he does about them
thenewworld.co.uk
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I know it's not the main point here, but when I was looking into and corresponding with him for a story at the beginning of the year it became clear that this is a very, very stupid man, which makes his selection doubly baffling
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · yesterdayRather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
I appreciate that the description I am about to give you might sound a *bit* like aural cancer, but someone has arranged a bunch of classic music from Zelda games as jazz and, honestly, this *slaps* (and I have no interest in Zelda at all): casimirliberski.bandcamp.com/album/the-z-...
The Z Suites, by Casimir Liberski ReTrio
13 track album
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If you're after a sunshine banger, this track by Luci Gang is genuinely ACE and has very strong 212 vibes about it (except I don't think she's singing about, er, that): www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyth...
Luci Gang - HEADLOCK (Official Video)
YouTube video by Luci Gang
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@ewacat.bsky.social This is an *insanely* long read, but I have a feeling it might be of interest to you admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-... x
Reaping the Whirlwind | Inside the Potomac River Midair Collision
How America’s golden age of aviation safety came to an end
admiralcloudberg.medium.com
At the start of 2026 there were two print outlets at Brixton tube. The kiosk inside the station closed in January due to tfl rent rises. Now what was WH Smith’s is going. Yes ‘old man shakes fist at clouds’ vibe. But also it’s sad. Buys sub to @privateeyenews.bsky.social and @thefence.bsky.social
It is the first Saturday in August. You have been sweating for a month. What better to cool you down than, er, a chance to spend an hour or two with the best links of the past week (an entirely subjective point of view). Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-31...
Friday! Lunchtime! Some genuinely fantastic links for you to click while I sit on a bus to Catford! Pray for me! Share and enjoy! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-31...
Friday! Lunchtime! Some genuinely fantastic links for you to click while I sit on a bus to Catford! Pray for me! Share and enjoy! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-31...
my mole at the Tel once told me that Heath writes his headlines himself and delights in "triggering the woke", or words to that effect, so yeah, you're all being played like fiddles I'm afraid
just missed the 20 year anniversary of one of the best achewood strips
Amidst the wide-ranging social media panic of the past couple of years, the complete failure of govt to do anything to prevent the 'get paid for being massively racist on X' grift bandwagon feels like a particularly dumb and craven omission
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.The phrase "first the traitors then the invaders" is being used endemically on X to socialise violence ("The future you want will require an unfathomable amount of violence") + to highlight specific targets for intimidation, abuse or murder + to tell people it means they should be targeted.
this is why it's important to add "for a screenplay i might write" to the end of every google search query. they can't punish you for dreaming big
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 5mo agoAny time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.
Someone I know worked on Springwatch with Bill Oddie bitd; between takes they were chatting and someone asked him who his favourite director was, to which Oddie replied 'Me'. May you all carry that confidence with you today (and also, ideally, not die)
Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · last wk.oh nooooooooooooooooooooo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What are you doing this afternoon? NO STOP DON'T DO THAT! Instead,play this adorable 8-bit demake of Lemmings - all the levels you remember! just as incredibly cute and frustrating! - in your browser. This is SO GOOD (and they do the 'oh no!' sfx when you blow them up): buzzard1337.itch.io/lemmings
Wrote about this very thing a few weeks ago as it happens www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-if...
If Andy Burnham wants to talk to Britain, he needs to go online
It’s time to forget Chris Mason, Robert Peston and all the others – people aren’t paying attention to them any more. They haven’t for some time
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Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w agoThe world moves on. Burnham is reaching far bigger numbers on Tiktok and elsewhere than he ever would on Sky News. Why wouldn't he use that?
I went to see the Odyssey yesterday and my main thought was 'why have they cast Jack Dorsey in the lead role?'. Anyway, here's Web Curios which contains literally NOTHING about Christopher Nolan or Homer, but does contain loads of amazing links and so is BETTER: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...
Friday! Lunchtime! A special, commemorative Burnham Bounce edition of Web Curios! Share, enjoy, CLICK THE PAIN OF DEFEAT AWAY! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...
Friday! Lunchtime! A special, commemorative Burnham Bounce edition of Web Curios! Share, enjoy, CLICK THE PAIN OF DEFEAT AWAY! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...
this christina aguilera x strokes mash up still hits 25 years later youtu.be/Ewiv9O1GyT4?...
The Freelance Hellraiser - A Stroke Of Genius (2001).
YouTube video by visualvinyldiscs
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The volume of entirely-AI-generated inbound emails I am receiving has tipped into 'incredibly annoying' territory, so I am now using this boilerplate response which I encourage you to adapt for your own purposes
Nice bit of PR for Big AI from Amol Rajan on Today just now, on AI-assisted entrepreneurship and vibecoding sites and tools for small businesses: "Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT...and you can get them for free, those tools, they can build things for free." Dear Christ, save us from this shit. IT'S NOT TRUE
England haven't won.a football match since Burnham's team started briefing Shabana Mahmood for Chancellor, is all I'm saying
