It would be wrong to speculate about the political leanings of those men in black shirts.

I made a pinball game in 1k of #Pico8 code for the #Pico1k jam andrew-t.itch.io/1k-pinball It's small and janky but I'm surprised how complete a pinball game I was able to cram into 1024 bytes. (That's compressed, it's 1968 characters of Lua code with no assets.)

I love Stickman Communications cards, they're really well designed and cover a range of things. This is a great thread about why disabled people of all kinds may need time/support/other to deal with unexpected changes; cos we have to revamp our impairment management plans.

Stickman Communications@stickmancomms.bsky.social · yesterday

🧵 1/6 The concept of finding unexpected change challenging is often talked about as a 'controlling behaviour'. My experience of it is not about wanting control at all - it's about needing to manage my health, and disability related access.

Even if he was right, chess isn't meant to be 'solved': games are for entertainment and companionship. It's a similar situation to AI-generated novels, or paintings - these people are constantly pitching machine-led 'solutions' to things which aren't problems in the first place.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterday

lol

@doctorow.pluralistic.net: Amazon's logistics and cloud computing – its two largest cost centers, converted into profit centers substantially generated by extracting payments from its competitors – are extraordinary, but they are eclipsed by the company's most profitable line of business: payola.

Also this which I'm always quite pleased I tagged Irvine Welsh in

Gorgeous

Tom Jenks@tomjenksuk.bsky.social · yesterday

Another bundle of daily Substack sentences. Substack at substack.com/@tomjenks.

Marx's "first time as tragedy, second time as farce" quote was originally written as a comparison of Bonaparte and Napoleon III who was a sort of idiot nepo baby cum populist authoritarian proto Mussolini. Seems like an apt hero for Reformers.

Sam Wilson@samwilson.bsky.social · yesterday

Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy

No. Data shows the true hazard. 61 people were killed by motorists while walking on London’s roads in 2024. Here's the TfL data: tfl.gov.uk/corporate/pu...

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@missusvee.bsky.social · 2d ago

I like this anecdote. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I wonder if there's a way to make these things fall under fair use/dealing. "'And after all,' sang Liam Gallagher from the car stereo, 'you're my wonderwall.' And I found myself thinking, what a shit line that was."

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Not just my favourite film that came out *when I was 20* - both book and film are among my favourites in their respective media of all time. Listened to the audiobook last week (read by Dominic West - great casting) and was reminded once again how utterly pitch perfect it is in every way

Karl-on-Sea@karlonsea.bsky.social · 4d ago

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Extra cheering, somehow, to see a library copy. The book switches register and genre so brazenly that I think a reader is bound to like some parts better than others. I hope you find good things, and enjoy the journey.

Widdersbel@widdersbel.bsky.social · 5d ago

Been intrigued by this since seeing @davidcollard.bsky.social mention it, picked it up from the library the other day and started this morning. Can tell I’m going to like it from the first page - this is a *great* opening… Hope the remaining 746 pages are as good as this! #NowReading

Social media often feels like you're at a loud party talking about zebras and someone wanders up drunk going 'I couldn't help overhearing you were talking about zebras, have you seen that film' and after 8 minutes it turns out they mean The Lion King and they're thinking of hyenas.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don’t mentally understand why people say stuff like that. Your sentence does not follow from my post. Why did you post this? What is wrong with you? Emotionally. WHY DO PEOPLE SAY STUFF LIKE THIS? YOU ARE ILLITERATE

Absolutely superb conditions today for saying ‘it doesn’t feel like a Tuesday.’ Say it early, say it often and just have fun with it. It’s a small talk goldmine and you’d be a fool not to get involved.

Been intrigued by this since seeing @davidcollard.bsky.social mention it, picked it up from the library the other day and started this morning. Can tell I’m going to like it from the first page - this is a *great* opening… Hope the remaining 746 pages are as good as this! #NowReading

Young hacker gets led astray by a bunch of conspiracy theory nutcases. Learns kung fu. Has beef with an FBI agent

Mitz@mitzcrosswords.bsky.social · last wk.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Apes learn about tools. Millions of years later, a computer goes wrong.

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last wk.

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

Timeline literally 100% united, many not even having to say her name. What a brilliant way to live your life. RIP

The Standard article which highlighted the issue included a video to demonstrate the problem. It featured a shot with 1 Lime Bike and 5 cars on the pavement.

Em-dash watch update: now on another novel by a Brit author that seems to favour US dash style. Published last year by Hachette. I was over a third of the way in before the first use of dashes, so not as glaring as the previous book, which used them liberally. But is this enough to call it a trend?

Widdersbel@widdersbel.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m currently reading a novel that is a) by a British author, b) set in trendy Hackney (I recognise the locations), c) from a British publisher (Faber & Faber)… it uses em dashes AND IT REALLY JARS! Sign of AI use or just creeping Americanisation? Really not sure…

Someone designed this. Then someone approved it for production. Then someone printed it. Then someone bought it and attached it to their car.

Miss Grit opening for Nation of Language at Village Underground. Never heard of her before but really enjoying this – reminds me of some of the shoegazy stuff I was listening to a lot in the early 90s (anyone remember a band from back then called Bleach?)

A.I. cannot understand people from Yorkshire, a chilling presentiment of its emergent sentience.

Matt Cross@matt-cx.bsky.social · 2w ago

In other "digital technology and AI is the answer" news....🙄

But.. but what about the rights of some out of town diesel driving idiot to pollute London with their dirty old car www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why? Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub. In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to […]

‘For King, the importance of translated fiction is self-evident. “The beauty of reading is that you’re being transported to a reality that is not your own, and learning about it, and that is epitomised by translated literature,” #WomeninTranslationMonth

The Asian Feminist@theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ The author of historical novel Taiwan Travelogue, and its translator Lin King, discuss the threat from Beijing, LGBTQ+ rights and the island’s culinary delicacies

Apparently, it’s #WomenInTranslationMonth so here are a few I’d recommend: Taiwan Travelogue - Yáng Shuāng-zí tr. Lin King Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead - Olga Tokarczuk tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones The Vegetarian - Han Kang tr. Deborah Smith Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck tr. Michael Hoffman