This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.

How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web You give up more privacy than you might think each time you open an email.

In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

What do you mean “a moment”? Those trains will be there for 20 minutes waiting for the track to clear, and then change their destination anyway.

The Dalpol Coal Hill School Remembrance of the Daleks action figure set, featuring Ace holding a bazookaa.

Waaait a minute…

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Stranger Things.

For “reckless” read “Oh, of course!”

Hugh from the Armando Iannucci Show

“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”

Could lead to a diplomatic incident if the Ambassador’s involved.

Daily Mail Labour is accused of Brexit betrayal after plotting to deny MPs a vote Ministers are set to introduce legislation to align Britain with future single-mark...

Brexit was the betrayal.

“Sending abrasive dickhead to negotiate with Iran has backfired”

Once I found a hidden pocket on my coat. 'I can put my banana in that' I thought, only to discover there was already a banana in it, dating from the last time I found this pocket.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to find a month-old banana in their pocket

Not contractual - the producers were surprised he was interested and asked “You do realise your face will be covered the entire time, right?” And he replied “I wouldn’t have taken this meeting if it wasn’t”. Legend.

Yeah, but who needs DDOSes when you’ve got Cloudflare semi-regularly taking your services offline on a whim?

Or Jools McHolland on bagpipes.

If you haven't checked these out yet they are arguably the most fun bits of Lovecraftian cosmic horror around. Great characters, top performances by proper actors and none of the daft racism and xenophobia that makes actual Lovecraft such a slog

The Telegraph is merely one of many obvious (barely) crypto-fascist propaganda sheets on the market. The interesting question is why the mainstream consensus seems to be that it’s a respected journalistic journal.

I see the Artemis crew came back okay.

Er...

A fart rune: a weird mark on a bit of paper. It looks a bit like someone standing behind a table, or an alien spaceship, or a large T shape behind/in front of a horizontal line, and two diagonal downward strokes at either end, like table legs

It’s April 10, and that can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 370th anniversary of Jón Jónsson and his son Jón Jónsson being burnt at the stake in Iceland for attacking a priest (called Jón, obviously) with witchcraft and for casting fart spells on a girl using fart runes 🧵

This is so well done. 👌

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

Letters to the Guardian 8/4/26 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/the-life-changing-magic-of-wearing-smartglasses?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Every reason to call out the techbros and their terrible ways, but please think twice before throwing out the #smartglasses baby with the #bigtech water.

"this seems like a legitimate misunderstanding"

If the Naomi is Klein,
Everything's fine.
If the Naomi is Wolf,
Jesus God what an absolute freakshow.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal