Reading this blog-post by Robin Sloane about YouTube checkpoint videos. Fascinating. One thing that stood out for me... “If I had to summarize, I’d say we are looking at an archipelago of social spaces where some “missing” features have created pleasant lacunae — their very absence supporting something new and interesting. Tell that to...

I’m enjoying being able to see people more often but i’m not looking forward to working in an office again. The roads are full of traffic again and drivers seem to have forgotten what a miserable experience driving in London is and are taking out their frustration on all and sundry. Combining those two themes: I was cycling to meet som...

I’m getting quite into Warhammer again having given up the hobby around age 14/15 because a) too expensive an b) not “cool”. I have no big interest in playing the game but i’m really enjoying painting some models for a friend (Nighthaunts and Stormcast eternals if you must know) and diving back into the lore of it is interesting and a ...

I feel like there’s something missing in the commentary and analysis surrounding Labour consistent failure at the ballot box. Against my instinct the reality of UK politics is that it can perhaps most fruitfully be seen as the old voting against the young. The pandemic might be viewed as an example of the young making economic sacrific...

I was vaccinated today, the Moderna flavour. The Business Design Center in islington was the venue for the inoculation. I don’t think i’m going to have any side effects but i might drink a few beers tonight and pretend to have side effects tomorrow morning to avoid getting out of bed.

Susan Kare circa mid 80s is my fashion north star

Apart from reading a few books? I’m both cautiously excited and slightly wary about stuff getting back to normal, it feels like we’re on the downslope of the pandemic but I personally am not feeling so confident about mass social gatherings and people’s desire to go crazy when they’re allowed back out in the world. This could be my nat...

• A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine (2019) I enjoyed this story of an ambassador to a galactic empire. The basic form is a detective story which is always a good way to do sci-fi world building, our protagonist gets an excuse to poke around at various levels of society and ask plenty of questions about how things work, and the wh...

• Exhalation — Ted Chiang (2019) I'd read about half the stories in Exhalation before picking up the collection having seen them scattered across the internet over the last 10 years or so, that put me off for a bit but in the event I enjoyed reading it all again. Anyway, in case you hadn't heard Ted Chiang is really good. The opening s...

• The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol IV): The Tempest — Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil (2020) Do I like the League books? I mean I buy and read them all, there’s definitely something compelling about them on the whole, but do I like them? I’m not sure that I do, but then there’ll always be some flash of brilliance in there. I think p...

2 > 4 > 1 > 3 > 5 (I was going to say 2 then 1 but I thought that promoting 4 might make me feel younger)

• Slaughterhouse 5 (comic book adaptation) — Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, Albert Monteys (2020) • Economic Science Fictions — AUDINT, Khairani Barokka, Carina Brand, Ha-Joon Chang, Miriam Cherry, William Davies, Mark Fisher, Dan Gavshon-Brady, James Pockson, Owen Hatherley, Laura Horn, Tim Jackson, Mark Johnson, Bastien Kerspern, Nora O ...

Morning! Evening! The last couple of posts I’ve made have been composed in and sent from my email account before being transformed into a blog-post on my website via a couple of free technologies (my motivation for doing this, 1. save the content 2. make it easier for me to update that blog). It’s the kind of process which would have b...

Testing how it deals with images. Edit: nicely!

Apparently by using my hey.com email address and sending a message to world@hey.com it turns it into a newsletter/ blog type thing? Interesting.