James Chaldecott

August 7th sees the release of the official Expansion Pack for Worms: The Director’s Cut on the Amiga: Over 40 new custom levels Over 50 sample sets 10 new landscape types Massive thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project. Stay tuned for more details! 🪱

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

The release of Jurassic Park is now closer to the assassination of JFK than to today. More reminders of mortality at profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

"Oh," the emperor of the galaxy said, "what happened to that monkey world?" "Our agents infiltrated them some eight thousand years ago." "Have they taken over the world?" "Not yet." The emperor licked a paw and started washing his ears. "I'll still count it as one of mine," he purred.

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Wow. The F1 launch event is really terrible. Really long-winded and the sound is so awful you can’t hear what any of the dramatic voices are actually saying. Turned off. I’ll wait for some actual track action.

Seen in Padua, Italy 👀

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

@davegorman.bsky.social My wife started reading me the replies to an “Is anyone else confused by the John Lewis Xmas ad?” thread on FB. It was getting into full “found poem“ territory. Especially with talk of heroin addicts!