Matt Round

Spaghetti with large burnt squares that look like lumps of shit on a white plate with a hand putting parmesan on top

It is with great sadness and regret that I report Brooklyn Beckham is posting his cooking of this and calling it carbonara

Love the way this is getting a slow trickle of Likes as more people watch it then search to see if everyone else was just as baffled/disappointed

A film trend I’m not enjoying: having a massive exposition dump at the start rather than risking baffling some viewers for a while
Seems like half the new films I see are doing that

“Weapons” is good fun, it’s not mysterious or artistic enough to become a rewatchable classic, everything gets clearly shown or explained, but it’s one of the better horror films of recent years and there were dark chuckles around the cinema at the ending

Indie Retro News: Cubix - The first 3D platformer of its kind for the ZX Spectrum! www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/cubi... #retrogaming #gaming #games

A blue and yellow box with a large image of Tony Soprano, with other characters from The Sopranos standing behind him. At the bottom of the box it reads "Tony's Macaroni" with the HBO logo flanked by stalks of wheat

Tony’s Macaroni (1999-2000): Little macaroni shaped like the "HBO" logo, in a box covered with images of the cast of "The Sopranos". It was released as a promotional item to the media and collectible outlets for the series premiere

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DayBrix 🧱 daily falling-blocks minigame Can you beat today’s challenge? Featuring: Sloth Sunday, Blue Monday, Top-Heavy Tuesday, Wavy Wednesday, Thor’s Day, Faster Friday and Savage Saturday.

🧱 #DayBrix for Faster Friday, 8 Aug 2025: 🌟100% in 45.0 seconds
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And finally I have a full 30-day streak!

🎉

Thought I'd try Chat GTP 5 as they're bigging up how it's more accurate. A simple question, no tricks, with an easily checkable answer and it gets it wrong. If you're relying on this stuff you're cooked. Don't do it kids.

rough sketches showing various poses of a wyrm and maiden. Inspired by the "Bride of the Lindworm" fairytale

would you still love me if I was a wyrm 🐉

The bit where you have to smile constantly as people single to you is genius (enable webcam when it asks)

Newspaper clipping from Post newspapers in Perth. Flange rage as lube runs dry Residents are angry that railway workers have not kept their promise to lubricate railway tracks to prevent screeching.

Meanwhile in Perth, WA, a journalist who knew exactly what he was doing.

Most people’s reaction to my first 10 years of being online: “Putting so much time & enthusiasm into that seems stupid/insane"
The next 20 years: “Hey that’s pretty cool!"
The last 5 years: "Putting so much time & enthusiasm into that seems stupid/insane"

If this happens - and why shouldn’t it? - a reminder that the UK will quietly adopt a position which makes US ‘bathroom bans’ seem reasonable and will leave organisations like the Women’s Institute - which welcomes trans women - from accepting trans members … and all this under Labour …

I don’t want to think about how much money I’ve lost as an indirect result, ugh

it does remain enraging that we had a perfectly decent social media platform - not without its faults! but is anything? - which helped sustain the careers of tons of creatives and one guy, LITERALLY THIS ONE GUY, decided to ruin it for all of us

Also strange: Growing up in a world where the Internet didn't exist at all, watching it expand from a seed into an incredible resource, then watching it collapse into utter shit in less time than it took to arrive.

I refuse to believe that any of this is real. We all died like 10 years ago and this is some sort of simulation. That's the best I've got.

having to skim my work emails for emergency stuff and whoooo boy the random man who is emailing me about the use of nanochips to give people involuntary orgasms (???) has chosen the wrong week for their crank mails.

Birthday Simulator Remember your last birthday? Time to relive it.

channel.jaryddiamond.com/birthday-sim...

BBC headline: National Coal Mining Museum workers set for strike action

You can’t say that they’re not fully committed to a sense of authenticity.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

Find me something more British than this:

you guys are making my life hard because you guys made my project blow up!! and i love you all for it #bluesky #code #linguistics #words #dictionary

Discovered by the Large Hardon Collider

A kawaii-style rendering of Count Orlok from FW Murnau’s unofficial 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He is tapping his index fingers together bashfully and his eyes and mouth look like the letters U, w and U. Caption reads “Nosferatuwu”

NosferatUwU
#art #vampires #UwU

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

So bad no one wanted it even when there was a worldwide shortage of new films