"This video is sponsored by Plaud" oh FFS

Also, somebody, somewhere, is maintaining a massive car lot full of 80s motors

Watching the Lockerbie show on #NetFlix. It's weird when the Historical Dramas are about things from your lifetime. I can recall *exactly* where I was and who I was with when this happened

Monty, next door's #cat

"I went to the Nazi bar and I didn't see any politics" says more about you than you maybe realise

"I didn't like this church so I had to find another church to attend" you didn't, you really didn't, there's a way out of this

Fans of the "American Churches (and Churchy Americans) are Fucking Weird" genre will dig this

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81989322

"Being British is very bad for your wellbeing"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/08/covid-brexit-liz-truss-mini-budget-lasting-decline-mental-health-uk-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Tweed season is back, lads

Oh shit that's my friend Jamie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx55qy1qjo?app-referrer=deep-link

#FuckPadel

#BBC #5live giving untold uncritical free coverage to fucking #Padel here

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/06/campaigners-pay-to-play-padel-courts-london

Serious allegations against JC here

Fifty years of fanatical "there is no such thing as society" neoliberal bullshit might have some systemic consequences

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck4glnl2v9p5o

Just found out that my band's cover of 4'33" is in the Suno training data

So much of our current fuckery feels downstream of People Thinking LinkedIn Is Important

New blogpost!

I have written about animating some run-length encoded Lemmings in JavaScript

https://sam.pikesley.org/blog/2026/09/27/javascript-lemmings/

we must separate the art from the artist. into the centrifuge you go

"Local Models! Open Weights! Plastics Recycling Is Real!"

"Oh no but I can envision a future where it no longer poops out the Slop and we can use it for useful work"

Have you forgotten who owns all of these fucking things?

The purpose of a system (LLM) is what it does (churn out toxic slop)