I get one of them delivered every time I look at my phone.

If only Liza Tarbuck still had her radio show, she’d’ve loved that.

Not sure, but if anyone knows it, @sharonodea.com will.

What would be really nice is a clear set of rights-respecting, well-designed principles for digital wellbeing for young people in educational contexts and some inclusive, offline ways to do homework that don't necessitate poking around in an app.

At our secondary school:

✅ School bus tickets? App.
✅ Pay for canteen food? App.
✅ Maths homework? App.
✅ Science? A different app.

So when (at times) I’ve had to threaten a week’s phone ban at home, the triumphant retort was “well how will I get to school, then?”

Good policy should always begin by considering the needs of the most vulnerable and excluded people. I'm also interested in how this plays with tentative proposals in the digital ID consultation to introduce digital ID from either
birth or at the age of 13.

That must be a dream for him. I remember him banging on about From Software games way back in the early days of twitter.

Bloody Nora, Akira at the IMAX was sensational.

Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”

🛎️🛎️🛎️

90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’ Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late

Interview with Sugar, ahead of their UK tour. I double-took at the end part referring to the age of their drummer, and had to look it up on Wikipedia. He’s SEVENTY THREE.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Oooh, I could throw away a majority

Just yesterday, I looked up train times to Edinburgh so I could tell my partner which one to book for her and our son.

Like 2 hours later The Trainline email me asking “did you still want to go to Edinburgh?” No you pricks, I never did. Jesus Christ.

It’s the fucking *neediness*, man. I bought an LP off eBay and Royal Mail delivered it, like normal. Then I get an email saying “how did we do?”. Netflix emailed me to say “don’t forget to finish Brooklyn Nine Nine!” Lads there’s 9 seasons and we pop a random episode on occasionally for an easy laff

BBC to cut almost one in 10 staff in £500m savings The BBC's interim director general says the cuts will require

You can't keep on just slashing and burning everything that makes it worthwhile living and creates a sense of place and belonging. In the end you have nothing real left.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A brown dachshund lying on a blanket, with a Camp Digital logo sticker placed on its chest, looking towards the camera.

Otis takes his role as #CampDigital ambassador extremely seriously, and wants to remind everyone that standard tickets are still available till the end of the month.

📍7th May, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital...

#UX #Design #Digital #Accessibility

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

This article resonates. I ramped down my social media presence a couple of years ago & my work as a digital writer/producer quickly dried up. I don’t miss feeling the need to post stuff. But it was scary how quickly I disappeared from view professionally.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I was attacked by members of the PayPal Mafia, Auerenheimer, Yiannopoulos, Breitbart, 4/8 Chan in 2014-2015, after I criticized Marc Andreessen in the MIT tech review, ultimately resulting in me closing one of the only independent tech critical magazines that existed at this time.

A slightly stylised view of the Castle rising up through trees with distant hills, a blue sky and fluffy clouds, rosy in the evening light

A vibrant proof copy of SR Badmin‘s Ludlow Castle travel poster

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

The first independent review of Mythos cyber capabilities I've seen. The UK's AI Security Institute - an independent government body - appears to have got their hands on Mythos and published their findings.

1/7 🧵

old ice lolly cinema ad for 'A Love Supreme'

Heathen that I am, for some reason I've always thought that 'A Love Supreme' sounds like the name of an ice cream or lolly.
"Two Cornettos, an Orange Maid, a choc ice, and a Love Supreme, please"

Genuinely thought that picture was Rolf Harris at first.

What being self-employed in content really looks like | Lauren Pope: La Pope Ltd What I earn, what I spend, how I find work, and what I’ve learnt from 8 years as a freelance content strategist.

It's 8 years since I started my business, so I wrote about what I earn, what I spend, how I find work, and what I’ve learnt from 8 years as a self-employed content strategist lapope.com/2026/04/06/w...

Flyer for the Birmingham nightclub Snobs, for a night called Melt. It shows a pic of Ewan McGregor from Trainspotting. Room 1 has indie, new wave and britpop, while room 2 has house, dance and groove.

Brummies of a certain vintage may appreciate this flyer I just found in with a box of old computer games from the 90s.

Considerations: • Shelf Life: Without preservatives, homemade butter will go rancid faster. • Pasteurization: Making butter from raw cream is the healthiest option, as harsh, industrial high-heat pasteurization can destroy valuable enzymes in commercial products. • "Processed" Definition: While some store- bought brands use additives, basic store- bought butter is still simply churned cream And not ultra processed food (source Bon Appetit)

I was googling homemade butter (don’t ask) and Google AI suggested it’s healthier if I use raw cream. This tech is just so intensely, dangerously broken already. Allow me to illustrate

You can use alt text just because it helps disabled people. What’s so wrong about that?

Perhaps you could use some software to summarise it for you

Brewing was girly, medicine was girly, working in factories was girly, typing was girly, computer coding was girly - men get over this stuff when they realise they're all better jobs.

The problem is what men also do is drive women out of these jobs and rewrite history so they're not girly jobs 1/2

Scouts and Explorers and that seem to be as popular as ever. Our local chapters are super oversubscribed, and once you get to kids in their mid-teens, it’s no longer just down to well-meaning/anxious parents, it’s by choice. So mucking about with maps and that will always be a thrill, I think.

See also: digital transformation™

I’ve had a similar linguistic quandary recently when browsing the metal section of an online record store. I found a band called Worm Shepherd, and I can’t decide if it’s:

- Someone who herds worms (in which case it should be Wormherd)

- A worm with the Sisyphean task of trying to herd sheep