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Here is my comprehensive web app exploring John Peel's Festive 50, along with the Festive 50 years broadcast by Dandelion Radio. I've also added masses of metadata, playable links and my own personal ratings. John Peel's Festive Fifty Explorer festive50-report.vercel.app#/ #JohnPeel #datavis

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

We need to be way angrier than we are. I'm all for adopting the framing from the End Times Fascism book, namely that these people - the techbros - are traitors to the human race.

Happy 50th birthday to the UK's first punk record youtu.be/TUxFQ5QBiYk

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” 🦆 This is the biggest #DuckDB feature release ever, and it's shipping a polished version of the Quack protocol for DuckDB-as-a-server, async I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible SQL parser and more – read on for details.

"No, you hang up first." "No. YOU hang up first." "No, You..." ...

Someone has just sent me the 14 page, 40 question “self-assessment” form they have been sent to stay on the NHS waiting list they have been on *for five years.* What the fuck. This looks worse than the stupidly named Access to Work (for working people), and that was so insane it made me cry.

Hearing Human Fly by The Cramps instantly transports me back to the Alternative Discos at Birmingham's Powerhouse - the only place to be on Wednesday nights in the early 80s. This is a playlist of what we danced to... 🦇▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/1HS...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Here's an Impure Pop cassette that I made in 1992, featuring the aforementioned Bodines, plus The Fall, Fire Engines, Mekons, Wire, Young Marble Giants, Nips, Orange Juice, Felt, Television, East Village, Mazzy Star, Rockingbirds etc. It's recreated here ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/1b2...

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Most people don't realize dumb is spelled with a B

Here's the best website you'll open today. You're welcome! 🫣 destroy.spritefusion.com

Gig #124 The Lovely Eggs tonight. Their only gig of 2026 in the unusual venue of St Marys Parish Church, Stockport

@manmademoon.bsky.social I admire you for this

In which I offer absurdly overpowered solutions to tiny playlist problems on Reddit... www.reddit.com/r/truespotif...

Around 5% of electricity in the United States is used for data centers — far more than the global average. Around 1.5% of the world’s electricity was used for data centers in 2025. People are often surprised by how low this number is.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Interview: Mark Whitby on 20 Years of Dandelion Radio and John Peel's Legacy | The J-Card Podcast tapeclub.substack.com/p/mark-whitb... / youtu.be/kzQw_D6W_FQ?... @dandelionradio.bsky.social @markw01.bsky.social

This 4 second crowd scene from Studio Ghibli took 1 year and 3 months to complete

Quack, quack! A DuckDB v2.0 preview is here! 🦆 In this post, #DuckDB co-creators Mark Raasveldt + @hannes.muehleisen.org preview the headline features of DuckDB v2.0 (expected to land this autumn): • DuckDB as a server • Triggers • async I/O • + more Dive into the deets: duckdb.org/2026/08/17/d...

I'm creating a list of free browser-based tools to design specific types of charts. For now I have: Sankeymatic sankeymatic.com Random dots generator: vsueiro.com/random-dots-... Go-Cart go-cart.io Tilegrams pitchinteractiveinc.github.io/tilegrams/ I'm sure I'm missing many others. Suggestions?

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

Linux will save your computer

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

Turns out humans are still important. Those with domain knowledge even more so.

Trump dropped Lindsey Graham's phone number AGAIN during his eulogy. Who wants to give it a shot?

There's also this - the complete tape on YouTube youtu.be/FVhfpK7nMq8

Wait… is there a Trump body double?

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

Imagine declassifying documents to prove your claims, only for them to do the exact opposite. Everything Trump does is half-assed. You just know this dude cheated his way through school. The best analysis I’ve seen so far. 🧵

More people could stand to react like Matt Damon upon hearing someone else's lived experience with cinema (or any media for that matter) didn't occur at the same time as their own. youtube.com/shorts/Zg0Sj...

This political cartoon by American artist Ron Cobb in 1975 is still relevant today 51 years later.

Thank you #norway🇳🇴 you rowed 🚣 your way into our hearts. You showed us what was possible. You have made us yearn for a kinder America. Thank you for sharing your joy and sportsmanship. You have inspired a whole new generation of young athletes. America loves you. ❤️

Lmao Belgium team trolling Trump with his stupid dance 👏🇧🇪👏🤣👏🇧🇪👏 Congratulations BTW 😎

Fanmogged. We’re being fanmogged.

He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1: