Rain, Portland Street crossing Oxford Road, Manchester, painting by Rob Pointon.

My solemn vow to you is that I will never use just the indicated amount of fresh garlic, ginger, or citrus zest when making any recipe.

Doubled, at minimum.

I mean at one level it’s weird that people are surprised that a company that named itself after a compromised surveillance device corrupted by evil might be the bad guy.

Apple at 50: Gonna be, gonna be golden The author, slightly more than half of Apple’s lifetime ago. A 50th anniversary is a good time to reflect on your relationships, and it seems lots of people have thoughts about their time wit…

I'm not the only person to have thoughts about Apple's 50th anniversary today, but these are mine:

sixcolors.com/post/2026/04...

So, about those Eid prayers in London...

"What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?"

"Nelson's column, innit?"

"And the highest thing on the column?"

"Nelson."

"And on Nelson?"

"His hat."

"And the highest thing on his hat?"

"That bit that sticks up."

1/8

Best thing I ever ate? My first In-N-Out burger in LA Why the Double-Double is ‘the near perfect expression of burger-ness’

Your first time is always the best.

Mine was 1230am, after a night of drinking and dancing my first trip to San Diego.

Jack Dorsey Is A Pointless Dipshit Jack Dorsey continually demonstrates he is, at best, oblivious to his role in enabling the authoritarian dismantling of democracy and informed consensus. Ethical tech publications should stop mytholog...

over at the newsletter I wrote about how Jack Dorsey is a pointless dipshit:

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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.

Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords Upper chamber accepts final draft of bill, which offers life peerages to some of those who would otherwise be removed

Good. Now remove the bishops.

The simplest way to win any war… give up and declare victory.

“If you want to look at the economics, then look at all of it. For example, I've never seen a calculation of how much capacity, how much GDP, a poorly-paid immigrant working in a care home frees up for the family and relatives of all the people there, by taking on their caring responsibilities.”

Not available on the UK.

‘Mystic Mountain’ captured by Hubble in the Carina Nebula

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Photo of a mural depicting three dinosaurs, wearing running shoes and red neck kerchiefs.

Run!

Tram No. 21, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). #NorthernArt

Greens.

A Cricket Match, 1938, painting by L.S. Lowry. Scene in Salford.

My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you By Alex Andreou

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.

bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

Liverpool to Manchester railway, world's first inter-city passenger service. opened on this day 1830. Tragedy struck when politician William Huskisson stepped down on to the parallel track and was hit by a locomotive. Taken to nearest place on the line, Eccles, but died later that day.

Apple rolls out the Brit to say “ aluminium”.

Channelling Jony.

RMT will launch rolling strike action over pay, conditions and broken agreements on London Underground Tube union RMT, today announced rolling strike action across the network beginning on Friday 5th September for seven days, with different grades taking industrial action at differing times.

RMT says pay, fatigue management, extreme shift patterns, and a reduction in working week, among other things.

www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-wil...

A photo oof a Macintosh SE on a Macintosh Table, a wooden stylised kind of 80s looking table, with a glass vase of blue purple (irises?), external drive, mousepad and a pen & writing folder next to it, and an actual clock. to the lower left is a cabinet attached to the inside of the desk with books, probably real manuals, standing up in it. The whole scene is in front of a stonewashed denim looking photographic backdrop.

This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.

Zack Polanski tells voters there is no ‘time to wait around’ for Corbyn party New leader urges left-leaning voters to ‘join the Green Party right now’.

People are struggling.

Our NHS is collapsing.

Reform are organising.

There’s no time to waste.

Join @greenparty.org.uk Now.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Time to go on a space odyssey.

Enjoy.

#scifi #scifiart

Photos. Music. Books. My whole media world is Apple. Trying to manage photos from an Android device would be annoying. (Not impossible, just annoying.)

Messages. Being able to message with family from anywhere without worrying about SMS or WhatsApp is worth it.

There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr