She of the red pen

All of 2026's hard drives sold out by... mid-February, cool, cool.

And the price of RAM doubled in the last six weeks alone, great, that seems fine.

And AI is behind all of it? Awesome, that's brilliant, just cool and groovy.

The world is pretty crap right now, but I just discovered that wholphins exist and they totally look like xenomorphs, so that's cheering me up.

I don't even know what to say about this. I'm horrified.

I took my theory test last year and I had to put all of my stuff in a locker, then before I went into the test room I had to roll up my sleeves and trousers to prove I wasn't hiding any notes. The practical was less intimidating!

I just saw the trailer for the Deus Ex remaster and went from "OMG are they really remaking it!?" to "What. Is. That?" in two seconds flat. I wanted orange, not lemon-lime.

Did he completely miss the point of Superman?

So the UK has a petition website which, if a petition gets 100,000 signatures, the Government has to officially respond to it.

And over the years it's become clear that - especially if the topic is absolutely vital - the response will ALWAYS be
"No, and for the most evil reasons".

I got sunburn. In northeast Scotland. While sitting under an umbrella. I have ALL the aloe Vera on me now.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I realised I wasn't reading as much as I used to, so I decided not to do any reading challenges this year. I'm starting to enjoy losing myself in a book again. I guess it was just one too many metrics for me. ##BookSky

YouTube video by Michael Sean Brown Real Genius "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said 'I Drank What???'"

Real Genius is one of my all-time favourite films. RIP Val Kilmer. Excellent in every film, but this one holds a special place in my heart. youtu.be/lmK5dftQ0_Q?...

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

It's also the day for my favorite meme!

If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Designers say plans for UK copyright law risk ‘running roughshod’ over sector Leading figures including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran add voices to criticism of government’s AI opt-out proposal A proposed overhaul of copyright law risks “running roughshod” over a British design industry that has created such memorable products as the red phone box, the London underground map and the iPhone, according to a group of leading UK designers. In a letter to the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, 35 UK-based designers have urged the government to change cours on its plans to let artificial intelligence (AI) companies train their models on copyrighted work without permission. The proposal has already prompted fierce criticism from the worlds of publishing, music, film, TV and the performing arts, with leading creative figures including Sir Paul McCartney, Richard Osman and Kate Bush voicing their opposition. Continue reading...

Designers say plans for UK copyright law risk ‘running roughshod’ over sector

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I'm the chair of disability charity Scope and I may be asked to step down for this Last week, despite the strong objections of over 80 Labour backbench MPs, the government announced its decision to press ahead with £6 billion in savings by adjusting Personal Independence Payments. T...

I'm the chair of disability charity Scope and I may be asked to step down for what I'm about to say | The Standard www.standard.co.uk/comment/pers...?

YouTube video by Electric Entertainment The Librarians: The Next Chapter - Coming soon to TNT (2025)

So this spring/summer there will be a new season of a show I co-created in 2008 and the premiere of a reboot of another show I co-created in 2012 and this is all due to the mad genius of @deandevlin.bsky.social , and this has got to be the weirdest career timeline.

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I can't agree more: see below for DVDs I scrambled to buy before my VHS tapes failed.

My favourite clickbait headline of the night "ITV Martin Lewis falls to the floor on air moments before show ends after sudden illness"

Translation: I said I had lurgy and a sore throat at end of the show I joked I needed a lie down and did so on the floor.

I can't help thinking the world is now participating in an Eddie Izzard sketch.
"Cake or death?"
"Cake please."
"We're all out of cake."
So my choices are ...or death?"
Best case scenario - massive recession - worst case...

Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine Haltbakk Bunkers will cease supplying fuel to U.S. forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’ Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government’s plans to loosen…

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

It is! I've read them all so far and the story just keeps getting better.

Yes! Michael Biehn losing it is utterly compelling.

I found #TheAbyss streaming. This film is as good as it was when I was a kid. "Jesus Christ. It's World War Three in a can."

Two of them, actually.

Book cover for A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

20/20 Challenge completed!

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

I was getting fed up with Goodreads for a few reasons, so I think I'll check this out: 'Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
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Book cover for The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

19/20

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