Adam

The resemblance is remarkable!

A bargain!

Torally agree! I'm suffering major analysis paralysis. Far too many tough decisions right now!

Joy or isolation? The reality of the school holidays for many children in poverty The school summer holidays should be a joyful time for children and parents. Every child deserves to laugh, play and have fun over the summer, and parents too should have the chance to enjoy making me...

Joy or isolation? The reality of the school holidays for many children in poverty
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Writer – Dune: Awakening - Funcom . We like to think of ourselves as more than just developers. We're a friendly group of around 500 people with plenty of casual and hardcore gamers, tech heads and creative masterminds, organiz...

We’re hiring! We’re looking for a mid-level writer to join our narrative team in Oslo.
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This is exactly what that Vegan guy would say!

Wow, can't believe the Trivago guy has a back story!

Total Lunar Eclipse on September 7–8, 2025 – Where and When to See Total lunar eclipse on September 7–8, 2025: Where and when is the Blood Moon visible and what will it look like? Visibility map, animation, and local times.

Mark diaries: 1 mo from today!

7th Sept: total lunar eclipse (Moon-Earth-Sun alignment) for Europe, Africa, Asia & Australasia 🥳🔭🧪

A total lunar eclipse is faint red because it's reflecting the sliver of light from all sunrises & sunsets across the globe 🥰

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‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Just came across this guy on tiktok who plays connect4 with random people on the street and I know it’s a joke, yet this person is doing more to ground himself in his environment, connect (ha) with the people around him, while getting the people he plays with to take a micro break in their day 🥲

It's an amazing classic!

photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos meme guy

Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.

Isn't our major issue that our upper echelons worldwide are filled with people who are very much shameless. We need effective mechanisms of accountability for them. Or it just leads to more and more shameless people in these positions

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Totally agree, what a lesson in playing to your strengths and minimising perceived weaknesses. Is this the future of political communication or an outlier? It feels politics has a selective evolution that removes the necessary charm and self awareness needed for this approach

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

An elf saying hi

A stairway to heaven

A red worm in a forest

This Sunday, a stream you'll never see anywhere else (and for good reason). A rich plate of Italian adventures from the early years of home computers: ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amiga. Naturally, I'll live translate everything.
Andiamo! Come at 6 PM and have some fun. www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...

Today in 1184 Henry VI of Germany was having a strategy meeting when the wooden second storey floor collapsed. Most of the courtiers fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where more than 50 drowned in liquid excrement.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

A selection of photos of families enjoying the outdoors at a leafy green Jodrell Bank, captioned: 'Summer at Jodrell... 19 July - 31 August.'

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Blast off with hands-on rocket-building, get up close with the Lovell in ‘Discover the Dish’, and embark on a journey across the Solar System with a bear named Ted...

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I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Who is accountable in privatised Britain? From unadopted housing estates to a road no one seems to own – hollowed-out local government can no longer cope.

Imagine buying a new-build and paying full council tax, only to find you must pay a private company to fix the road and streetlights - and the fees can rise at any point with no explanation.

Also, you live by road full of potholes that apparently nobody owns

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Poirot is definitely the next tier down to Columbo!

😆 This is going to help me a lot!

Getting excited for the Best Demo comp!

#bigevent2025

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Print and "Print without ads"

this is a wild set of options for printing your boarding pass from an airline website

Right - the book is about the gig economy, and the way we largely don't think about the people who deliver our food/goods/everything. So the competition is simple: before the end of Friday, tip someone. A delivery driver/rider. Anyone in the service industry. Someone who deserves it. (1/2)

Shortly I will announce a snap competition in which you can win the novel, hand-delivered to your house or other dwelling by me, as a nod to the protagonist.