This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.
Of *course* everything's going to shit: we're running roughshod over 6,000+ years of good advice! We've collectively strapped on the wings and waved away Daedalus's warnings about the melting point of wax.
Not just me whos tried and failed to watch the game then
Hopefully fans of rival clubs can take some solace from the fact that we also aren't enjoying a second of this.
In all three we stopped playing at 1-0. And in all three it went badly
It’s beyond insane that the BBC World Service might end in 7 weeks when its funding runs out. A beacon of information, education and UK soft power - Ministers would be crazy not to find money to support it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Made me laugh this morning
we did a podcast again, have a listen
We're back with a mid-season review pod, with a healthy dose of "what the fuck was that at the weekend" thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!
💥MID-SEASON MINI-CRISIS?💥
#136: Fix The Roof While The Sun's Shining
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🔴 Another mid-season slump
⚪️ What's up with the forwards?
🟡 Eze, 6 months in
🔵 Are Arsenal bottlejobs?
Listen 👇
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My favourite thing about cow tools being real is this image being a real image from an academic paper
Text: sometimes I'm late just because I stay like this for a long time Image: bedroom from pokemon ruby sapphire emerald games with pokemon rumble spheal stood next to the bed
🎵 Have you ever seen a haddock win the league?
Have you ever seen a haddock win the league?
Have you ever seen a haddock,
Ever seen a haddock,
Ever seen a haddock win the league? 🎵
Idk if we're capable of making a short one!
We'll be back soon-ish, dont you worry. Planning a mid(ish)-season review late Jan/early Feb
We'll do another Pot Shot episode eventually but until such time just take these two messages and extrapolate them into an hour-long conversation in your head
Screenshot of a whatsapp group chat talking about Nottingham Forest 0 - 0 Arsenal. Manas said: "Felt we did enough today, that was a disgusting defensive show from Forest". Jake said: "We're unwatchable bollocks. I can't stand this season"
The two possible states of the Arsenal fan
it's crazy how much sheer feeling Arsenal generated over the past three years and now, when we're in our best-ever position, it's all gone so emotionally flat
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
Unreal
Xabi Alonso. Arrived, tried to do tactics, players told him to fuck off, fucked off
Your team pummels lower league opposition because of the quality gap in open play.
My team pummels lower league opposition because of the quality gap from corners.
We are not the same
Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Warra plurrrrrr
Its me, I made it across the bridge. Whatever that means
Hello
I'd like to apologise for the lack of 20th century philosophy references in this episode, but on the bright side we do talk about an advent calendar of model trains, so its still worth a listen I reckon
People have been wondering when Manuel Neuer will retire and the answer is about 30 seconds ago
Part 1/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where robots / ai take over more and more of humans jobs, but cannot be legally liable in case of issues. So, gradually, more and more humans are hired to place their hands on a server bank and take the blame for what the AI inside it does. After a time, only one job remained, that of "blame-boys." The robots keep the humans on as a kind of spiritual residue and the humans don't revolt. In the final panel, someone remarks that all hope is dead, and that humans aren't even a cog. They have become a shadow of the grease of a cog. Any humans responds "Still I don't miss my job in customer service" while another answers "no one is arguing that".
Part 2/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where robots / ai take over more and more of humans jobs, but cannot be legally liable in case of issues. So, gradually, more and more humans are hired to place their hands on a server bank and take the blame for what the AI inside it does. After a time, only one job remained, that of "blame-boys." The robots keep the humans on as a kind of spiritual residue and the humans don't revolt. In the final panel, someone remarks that all hope is dead, and that humans aren't even a cog. They have become a shadow of the grease of a cog. Any humans responds "Still I don't miss my job in customer service" while another answers "no one is arguing that".
Part 3/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where robots / ai take over more and more of humans jobs, but cannot be legally liable in case of issues. So, gradually, more and more humans are hired to place their hands on a server bank and take the blame for what the AI inside it does. After a time, only one job remained, that of "blame-boys." The robots keep the humans on as a kind of spiritual residue and the humans don't revolt. In the final panel, someone remarks that all hope is dead, and that humans aren't even a cog. They have become a shadow of the grease of a cog. Any humans responds "Still I don't miss my job in customer service" while another answers "no one is arguing that".
The important thing is that net happiness goes up.
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