Hmm. Thought I'd seen that image somewhere before: www.theguardian.com/science/vide...

Ebenezer Hedgehog T Cringebottom

England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Oh YES

I still remember this one and giggle occasionally

Amazingly comprehensive thread. Estimated reading time: 30 mins.

So then, am I going to stay up for the launch? Be like 1969 all over again.

Also coding. Even when there's something new that I have to do and I end up finding an example on Stack Overflow or whatever, I rephrase it to suit my own style, because that way I can maintain and extend it in future.

100% this. I have no desire to do this whatsoever. So much of the pleasure of writing is working out how to express something in your own bloody words.

A series of buttons for different levels. The bottom level is labeled "Earth" and the top level is called "Space"

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

I even think the coding thing might be oversold imo

You need to validate the output, an understanding the code helps considerably - so I may as well write it, skip the duplication?

Inheriting a vibe-coded black box where ‘A->?->B’ with no concept of what ‘?’ is is a maintenance/support nightmare

Nicely done.

BBC News - (Report Resurrected Dinosaur) -  April 1st 1980 Revel Biochemicals YouTube video by SoaringEgret1985

This is so well done. A little bit Alternative 3. Straight down the lens.

Nationwide’s 1980 April Fool.

Love everything about this.

youtu.be/66nHyNnJpOk?...

"Critics have called the ‘Let Them Cook’ initiative “cynical”, “moronic” and “borderline incomprehensible”, making it the venue’s most controversial youth-oriented programming since its ill-received Happy Slapping event in 2004."

From ZigZag, June/July 1970, two ads for/about King Crimson's In The Wake Of Poseidon... Colouring pencils out 😉 @sidsmith.bsky.social

The book content on Bluesky is worth the admission price alone.

Brian Eno - Put a Straw Under Baby YouTube video by moonlitknight009

BTW My introduction to the Portsmouths was their 100% perfect contribution to Put a Straw Under Baby on Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Just wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVaj...

Finally got round to listening to this and it's excellent - Portsmouth Sinfonia! Julian and Sandy! Nancy Banks-Smith! What more could you ask for?

Look how useful Bluesky is. Personal flight boarding announcements

Glen Baxter obituary: absurdist illustrator Yorkshire-born artist and writer known for his quirky and original cartoons of cowboys, gangsters, schoolchildren and explorers dies aged 82

This is such sad news. I only met Glen Baxter once, at a literary festival in Montpellier. (He was hugely popular in France.) I can only say he was one of the funniest, warmest, most charming geniuses I've ever met.

Oh that’s sad. Love his stuff.

Obviously World in Ferment. I mean, just look at that cast: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_i...

Bloody hell. These are gorgeous.

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

Got a mixture of TP-Link Deco M5s bouncing the signal around our very peculiar house (DM for details) and Powerline out to the garage etc.. Decos work great, although needed an additional one or two to act as relays. Powerline also pretty good, but you do lose a fair bit of speed.

You do know that the pop-up Kama sutra is a thing?

Doesn't it sometimes just come down to "can we do without their work?" So we can probably pass on eg Jonathan King these days, but not Phil Spector, who actually killed someone.

Excellent thread on perceptions of age

8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com