Val's Sky

Yeah then I could be like, “there goes old clawsy. Clawin’ away, and raggedly so”

They’re just clouds Jackson

Some book passages barge back into your life completely out of the blue. In my case, Jekyll and Hyde's 'flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture'

Huge kudos to @johnnyrodgers.is and @alirayl.bsky.social for the Building Slack blog — absolute gold in every post.

Finally watched Kpop Demon Hunters and indeed it is great. Not for the songs (catchy), nor the story (moving), nor the blue tiger (🥺) but because it's ONLY 90 MINUTES LONG

All afternoon some cgi penguins have been dancing to "Jive Talkin'" in my brain and all I've wanted is potato chips 🐧 🐧 🐧

Great discussion of product language on the recent Acquired ACQ2. The web had 'sites', mobile had 'apps', and AI has… 'agents'? (tbc)

A Google search results page showing results for "Cursor AI", where a sponsored listing has Claude as the top ad.

Anthropic buying the top AdWord slot for “Cursor AI” is ice cold

even nonstick cookware photos getting in on the ragebait

Big bank stocks have a week from hell as CBA slide nears 10pc Is the gloss finally coming off? Fund managers have long expected a gravity-defying rally to reverse but do not expect shares to fall too far, investors warn.

lol called it

www.afr.com/markets/equi...

Merlin Sheldrake is always the final boss

sat through the nonsensical new Doubt Never Did movie trailer ad from Commonwealth Bank and immediately thought, “their stock price is way too high”

Excited to hear on The Town pod that the frontrunners for this year’s Best Drama Emmy are Severance and The Pitt. Apple vs. HBO. Flashback vs. Real-time. ‘Slow burn’ vs. ‘So frenetic the main character can’t even stop to pee.’ Truly an epic match-up. You’re both winners 🫶

@bencollins.bsky.social thank you for your service 🎁

Box wrapped in an edition of The Onion, showing a fake Tesla ad

Another view of the box, showing an article headline about Robert Kennedy Jr

The interior of the box, with a fake ad from OpenAI. It reads “we’ve stolen every moment of your life”

Used @theonion.com as wrapping paper for @jjw.wtf’s birthday present — this subscription is truly the gift that keeps on giving 💚🧅

2023 is not far enough away for this to be reminiscence-worthy

While I found that OpenAI announcement video mostly unwatchable, mega kudos for using ‘Making Water’ from The Martian soundtrack

when your friend mentions a “trailer with a cage” and your 90s brain instantly autocompletes it with “despite all my rage”

shocking development: Spotify has recommended me a Chumbawamba banger and it’s NOT Tubthumping

watching LOTR with my partner

Her: who’s your favourite member of the Fellowship?

Me: the ring

Really enjoying Parker Ortolani’s new micro blog

Less posting more reading (read it last week)

Wow Lumon really does make everything

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Severance S2 is a beautifully-made, infuriating finger trap

do you like alternative rock I mean pspspsps

Oh no! I’ll check if this is a known issue on our end 💜

“antediluvian” is a very good word

“Scabrous” is a very good word

Just typed ‘LinkedIn Park’ into Spotify happy Friday