I can't turn my back on that inner 10 year old girl who carried a giant DK Science Encyclopaedia in her rucksack every day. Just in case she needed emergency science information to hand.

Poor book disintegrated over time, lost the front and back cover...

I missed out on Real Genius because I confused it for a clone of Weird Science and wasn’t keen on Weird Science.

Turns out it’s a belter of a movie.

A photo of a heavily zoomed in image of a cat overlaid with semi transparent clock numbers on a large tv

A photo of a longhaired calico cat looking at multiple overlaid numbers with different times on a large tv.

Most of the auto chosen arrangements on the AppleTV are cute. Occasionally… they are unhinged.

Not to make anyone feel old but I've just seen that covid is on the twins' history GCSE spec.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

This is why marketing is being rebranded as Growth Engineering fwiw

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I thought I had been mistakenly handed an ikea chair leg box in the pharmacist today, but no, for some reason IUD boxes are 80cm long?

The call for papers is out!
www.show.org.uk/2021civilwar...

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

i like to arrange my mac os dock so that frequently-used, low-memory apps like notes and calculator are right next to an app called Globohension Extracticrash Agnostify Compression Engine Mk. XIX that takes 45 minutes to load, five hours to close, and can only be used outdoors

(Not commenting on the merits of Marshall Aid itself here, mainly its soft power intent).

I would argue the US planted this into the world’s imagination and deliberately encouraged it via Marshall Aid. This to that era, was what the vision of victory over Communism looked like. To win, but to look like the good guys and have all cheer them on via soft power too.

Probably a good thing I don't have a temu account.

I am meant to be asleep but thanks to well *hand gesture* all of this... I am instead unable to sleep and watching videos of a man use his bald head as a hydraulic press on food, with humming based sound effects.

Pete in a cardboard box with his tyre

One of Pete’s favourite toys is a tyre. He stole one from the little boy next door so I had to buy a toy truck in a charity shop and take the tyres off for him.

I very much enjoy this category of post. See also: Alan Turing.

How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism Cédric Durand

Then, *finally* getting round to this…

Anyhoo, I’m reading my ancient copy of The Age of Unreason next! I think it needs a re-read.

This is caused a mixture of events. The EU ruling against Apple and app stores. Apple implementing it in a malicious compliance way by *also* resetting all my app download prefs to default doing this. This happening silently. No idea until I am offline, on a plane.

In a marginally poetic moment, I got excited on the plane after finishing The Unaccountability Machine and tried to check the chapter on VSM in another book I have… only for the kindle app to have been offloaded by iOS 😅

Due to a malfunctioning escalator at Porto airport, you are forced through Duty Free retail 3 times before being permitted to get to the gates...

Steam screenshot. Text: "You've played for 426 hours, Would you recommend this game to other players?"

What do *you* think, Steam?

(Apologies, didn’t realise you had replied when I deleted the original message)

Oh god yes - but I did just confuse reading for bhm there (bhm had retail designed to be built in, Reading was more of an after exercise a couple years after it went live)

Wow - I’m going to have to dig on the architect. It doesn’t feel like a modern airport until you get closer to the gates

Gatwick et al seem to race all the budget airlines to the gate asap.

I’d say the closest to a budget airline at LHR is BA 😅

Ah! I didn’t mean T5, apologies

If you want the novel experience of what it was meant to be like, City Thameslink as a station is one to visit.

And the same thing happened with train stations in the uk - 1994 onwards tonnes of space sold to retail, crowding platforms and waiting/transit spaces.