J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

R.I.P. the great J.H. Prynne 🖤

i read a novel and it was good (and particularly amusing for those who have been in or around the TLS over the years)

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Prince

has anyone in our very serious press corps addressed the question of whether Mandelson was a good or bad ambassador

‘Same Player Shoots Again’ Review: The Arc of the Silver Ball Pinball was once considered immoral, a countercultural pursuit to be played in seedy spaces.

here i am in the WSJ on PINBALL www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

"yes of course he's rubbish but have you seen the absolute state of literally anyone else who could become prime minister soon" is exactly my brand of Starmtrooperism

it does seem a little steep but of course such good books are still excellent value at the price. your latest is a steal at £30!

The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos

here i am in the Graun on THE BLACK DEATH www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

very kind, thank you!

Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of Iranians

Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran
Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Onion, 2003, evergreen

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch

For

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i'm sorry but what is Microsoft Outlook doing on a spaceship

haha the last line of this report is brilliant

so, since the Iran war started, have any leftist westerners been spotted chanting "Death to the USAF"?

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.

My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.

acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

French General Richoux being frank about Trump

i can't believe we are already memory-holing Jamie Foxx's absolutely definitive Tubbs from (checks notes, fuck me) 20 years ago

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war.
This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

I just noticed there's a giant fusion reactor in the sky. We could probably get some energy from that if oil is a problem

RIP the great Jenni Murray: I once got to pimp a book on Woman's Hour and she was every bit as warm.and welcoming as a poor scribbler might hope

look! the government did an unambiguously good thing!!

hahahahaha

thank you for the confirmation that "ultraprocessed food" is a completely bullshit category: if you're eating NINE SERVINGS of doughnuts and chips every day then of course you're going to be unhealthy

RIP Len Deighton: the Samson nonalogy is superb and every bit as good as Le Carré

Sinners is a far better movie than One Battle After Another but ok