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  Ed Povey’s murals were the most prominent art of my childhood One was just up the road, another round the corner, another on the side of the chippy near my gran’s house, etc https://edwardpovey.com/selected-early-murals

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  oof https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/

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  Random internet content is now almost worthless for training LLMs, which is why they’re spending millions on buying/scanning/destroying LLM-free physical books What happens when hardly anyone’s writing new, uncontaminated non-fiction? I suppose we’re going to find out

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  Imagine trusting GROK with all your data, FFS

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  Didn’t stay up for the football but I’m a big fan of anything that temporarily harms productivity, there’s not enough slacking off nowadays

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  Already had someone complain that this is “promoting AI”, fucking hell https://datacenter.fm

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  Get warmed up before heading to the polling station https://mattround.hatch.one/uk-voting

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  When worlds collide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD52OK8HEGA

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  It’s hugely important that people understand how these things actually work, we’re facing a potential epidemic of AI-provoked mental illness, but instead of public health campaigns & classes in schools we have a govt that’s eagerly promoting the tech https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o

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  Bizarre thing for a premium brand to do, an artist wouldn’t have been expensive (especially for this kind of style) and would’ve also given them a name, a story, someone to help push the products, etc https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/

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  Argos in town has become a church, hope they make people write prayer/hymn requests on slips of paper using tiny pencils then show their numbers queued up on a screen

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  Thanks to Ruffle, so much Flash stuff has been resurrected, eg the huge collection at Orisinal https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ (what's Ferry Halim up to nowadays..?)

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  Love this. Yes, post is a huge faff, but it can make an impact https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth

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  This is clever https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html

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  oof that was hard work 🧱 #DayBrix for Top-Heavy Tuesday, 14 Apr 2026: 🌟100% in 109.7 seconds https://vole.wtf/daybrix/

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  25 million visitors already, blimey https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5776842/ai-chatbot-comedy-ben-palmer-chatgpt

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  OK, who’s great at low(ish)-poly 3D modelling? Just lining up possible candidates for a chunk of work that should arrive in next month or two, going to have a polished, fairly minimalist style with restrained texturing (rather than messy, organic, etc)

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  Looks like Apple’s loosened its requirements for using account age to verify you’re an adult (didn’t work for me previously, possibly because I’d never used a credit card with Apple)

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  Today’s coding has mostly consisted of deleting code, which is always the best coding (realised a whole load of temporary variables weren’t actually needed)

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  Hmm is that good..?

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  Something I’m doing for the first time with current project & liking a lot: there’s a ‘changelog’ Google Doc where I put a date subheading then list what I’ve done/discovered, including occasional demo links. Client can dip in when feeling curious

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  @quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk I wrote an engine for SAM that was like a single-player MUD, the other characters moved around, decided if they liked/disliked you, could give them weapons, team up in combat, help them heal, etc Worked great, easy to create/load different adventures & keep your character… but it got clobbered by SAMBASIC's corruption bugs, I literally retyped the whole thing before giving up

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  Just made part of current project render 500-1000 times faster, hoping to do the same for two other areas but the maths/coding is going to be brutal

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  Just checked on sales numbers for this (Lulu doesn’t do anything helpful like showing you graphs/stats, have to download a CSV), it’s at 456 copies sold https://vole.wtf/doctype/ There won’t be a second issue, but there may be something related, and I’ve got another print project planned for autumn

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  Decent campaign idea & pretty lucrative for the winner (10-day Iceland trip + $50K) https://www.icelandair.com/flights/campaign/really-bad-photographer/

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  April Fools from The Phoenix and Warhammer show how it’s done - you don’t just lie about doing a silly thing, you actually do a silly thing https://bsky.app/profile/willardfoxton.bsky.social/post/3mig64n6tes2q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NORGNnWlQ

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  My views on WordPress summarised: - Gutenberg had good aims but is terrible to use - Making a new theme is now a ludicrous slog - Should’ve fixed file structure & DB long ago (full URLs & file paths should only be in config!) - Popular plugins should’ve been replaced with built-in features

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  Noticed Reign of Fire is on TV, underrated film that features an absolutely wonderful bit of post-apocalyptic culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCBA1wii70o

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  OK, that’s a decent topical game idea https://sweepthestrait.com

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  slooowwww games https://pippinbarr.com/as-slow-as-possible/