An unexpectedly keenly fought contest was for the seasonal cupcake championship. Obviously I'm mostly going to show you the stuff that made me smile, but there's some serious talent lurking in Lincolnshire.

Enjoying all the moaning about Number 10 North and all the _how much people will have to travel to get there_ and _the cost of it_ and _oh the time on trains_. 🍿

I think there should be a Minister for Intelligence with three deputy-Ministers: Genuine, Artificial, and Military.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

Minister for AI to sit in Cabinet 👀 www.thetimes.com/article/c10e...

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social re your latest great episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, let me introduce you to @kyracloudy.bsky.social who writes outstanding articles about plane crashes (admiralcloudberg.medium.com) and also a podcast (www.youtube.com/@ControlledP...). Happy reading

Admiral Cloudberg – Medium

Read writing from Admiral Cloudberg on Medium. Kyra Dempsey, analyzer of plane crashes. Mentour Pilot script writer. @Admiral_Cloudberg on Reddit, @KyraCloudy on Bluesky. Email me at kyracloudy97@gmai...

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What's the modern-day equivalent of DeviantArt when you're looking for things like fan art *cough* LOTR emoji sets *cough* ?

Just read John Harris in the Guardian on the collapse of the UK high street - and why Reform is feeding on the wreckage. It reads like a crime story. So let’s analyse it like TV detectives do: Means. Motive. Opportunity. 🧵

John Harris@johnharris1969.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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AJ Jefferies@moonjam.com · 7mo ago

If you see this reblog with a robot 🤖

Remember the site Second Life? It was partly defeated because people could build online fantasy worlds separate from reality just by using social media. There, they could become cleverer or more popular than reality. They could even build phantom crises in which they were expert. And so here we are

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What all out assault on Christmas?

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

I've just done this with 3 sides of our badly installed UPVC lounge bay window and it's made a big difference to comfort. We had 56mph gusts this afternoon and only minor draughts inside. Plus it's so much quieter indoors now!

John Butler@jbsustbuild.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I can feel the draught coming in around the outside of my window frames. This house is only five years old. To fix this properly I'd need to hack into the plaster all around each window and remove the cills. Such invasive work shouldn't be needed in new houses, but frequently is.

“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more.”

I want an interview about his ornaments. It's such an eclectic collection.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 9mo ago

Was a true pleasure to go to Nottingham to interview Ken Clarke, truly the archetypal big political beast. In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next. Listen 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

In all seriousness, this is an appalling way to make policy. A small group of people rushing through decisions they can’t possibly have thought through, just to make the numbers on a spreadsheet add up

A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n

The Three Kings One of the options in my Christmas Charity Print fundraiser. 12 to choose from, only £15 per print, 3 for £40 or 4 for £50 and every penny to the great causes I am supporting. circa35mm.com/art-store/p/... #charityprint #christmascharityprint

My friend @designthinking.lol made this amazing illustration back in 2009 to make a point when I would argue with him about flash vs HTML. Seeing it again now and thinking how tailwind had been used to homogenise the aesthetic of so many sites and now it is in my head rent free.

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians buff.ly/rTfNmFC

Anyone I know who is on lobste.rs? I seek an invite...

Yesterday we kicked off #useR2025 with eight fantastic tutorials, a poster session, and Hadley Wickham's keynote, which you can watch at www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3... #rstats

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Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

100% this. New HTML elements are the way forward.

Sara Soueidan@sarasoueidan.com · last yr.

[New blog post] Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car... In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec. #a11y

Letter from DSIT SoS Peter Kyle to @laylamoran.bsky.social about impact of #OnlineSafetyAct on small community forum sites. b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2025/04/resp...

How British people register their dissatisfaction when eating out. #comicsky #webcomics

Trying to propagate bougainvilleas today. According to the web I have a 0% chance of succeeding...

The politics of local government is already not in a very good way and one reason for that - among others - is that it’s often a bunch of bald men squabbling over a comb. Local politicians often have no ability to make choices: because there’s *no money*. So you end up in a spiral

New blog post: I need a new challenge heatherburns.tech/2025/04/11/i...