Panhard have to be the prettiest car ever made. How could you not smile?

#weirdcarmastodon

I did some Amiga intros and 3D graphics in the 90's, but nothing much since then. This spring I started looking into modern GPU programming and modeling with Blender.

The result is a one minute demo, released at Assembly Summer 2026: https://youtu.be/s89fBmYWlAY?is=sFFC98y5I9qR_qYQ

I used SDL3's GPU subsystem and liked it.

#demoscene

This needs to be said in a loop until it sticks.

"What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

- Stefan Rahmstorf, Climatologist.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer

#climate

As a business that's had employees (we're Director run currently), reading the drinking culture report of MPs is insane (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/01/mps-stomachs-pumped-uk-parliament-alcohol-culture-report)

Any place of work providing any alcohol is bad idea imo but a few lines stick out:

"some MPs have had their stomachs pumped" - disciplinary, some paid time off, seek help, employer support

"drinking up to 200 units of alcohol a week" - as above

"suggested that parliament should draw up its first formal workplace policy on alcohol" - the "FIRST" policy? How do you have an institution hundreds of years old and you've never got round to writing a policy yet?

"Any changes to parliament’s provision of alcohol would ultimately be a matter for members to decide on" - wtf? You ask the alcoholics how much alcohol they should be allowed?

I'm generally against drug & alcohol testing at work but it does make me reconsider that stance. Just ban it at work, it's not like there are no other pubs in London which I'm sure will be happy for the business.

It’s easy to forget, but back in January, the US invaded Venezuela, murdered some people, kidnapped the Venezuelan president, and declared that it was now “running” the country.

Although the US has never clarified what that means, it apparently includes collecting all the revenues from the sale of Venezuelan oil. For a while, that money was being directed to an account in Qatar, of all shady places, but is now collected in an account at the US Treasury.

Some of this money has allegedly been dispersed to the Venezuelan government, but no one will publicly say how much. It doesn’t seem like anyone except Donald Trump and his Secretary of State / consiglieri, Marco Rubio, has any oversight of this money.

https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-took-over-venezuelas-oil-industry-where-has-all-the-money-gone

"George Cottrell, the convicted money launderer whose donations to Reform are now the subject of a police investigation, previously worked for Roman Abramovich, the now-sanctioned Russian oligarch close to Putin"

Of course he did...

#Farage #ReformUK #Russia #Oligarchs #UKPolitics

Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich
https://www.thenerve.news/p/george-cottrell-arkadiy-abramovich-roman-farage-reform-russia-putin

What's wrong with the snippet below from the Guardian's Business section?

Rising house prices are not 'growth' it is asset price inflation... to be fair the Guardian is certainly not the only media organisation miss-representing inflation in house prices, but I've not mentioned it for a while...

House price inflation should be presented as a problem (given the housing crisis) not as 'growth', as if it was a good thing.

RISING HOUSING PRICES ARE INFLATION!

#housing #politics #media

46 years ago
🫅🏻 London, August 1980

Top
Debbie Harry of Blondie , Viv Albertine of The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie And The Banshees

Bottom
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, Pauline Black of The Selecter

📸 Michael Putland

#womenofpunk #punkrockhistory

Well that was most enjoyable. Even the 2000 episodes were tolerable. 1983 = excellent! Thank you #totp peeps for the snark and general tomfoolery.

Is it Siobhan that's not even bothering to mime? 😂 #totp

OMG, they did the skipping live in the studio! #totp

Oh, 80's emo! ❤️ {sigh} #totp

Siouxsie is totally magnetic, isn't she? #totp

Guy miming bass looks like Lawrence out of Felt! #totp

I have this on 7" vinyl! #totp

6-year-old-me listening to the #totp simulcast on Radio 2 FM *stereo* on some giant headphones.
Utterly lost in music. ❤️

Just *EVERYTHING*. The alternating panned bass line. The vocal distortion. Sublime. 😍

This blew my mind the first time I heard it. Still does. Genius! #totp

Frank Farian was a pop genius.
I WILL die on this hill! #totp

Oh yes. Farian-tastic! 😍 #totp