I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

@fryrsquared.bsky.social @vsauce.bsky.social loved episode 1 of The Rest Is Science, can’t wait for the rest of the series!

youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg
Lovely, the last functioning DEC PDP-1 from the 50’s playing Boards of Canada’s Olson from punched tape!
#BOC #VintageComputing

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...

LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.

Pls share

Absolutely delighted to hear Robert Kubica (and teammates) won Le Mans.

Everything about this is absolutely wonderful!
(YMMV – it absolutely will!)

The NSA Selector – a eurorack module that converts network traffic to a sound signal.

I love the name
I love the idea
But most of all I love the nostalgia of hearing the internet screaming at me!

youtu.be/vfgySTaM1TI

🚨 New Adam Curtis Klaxon 🚨

Shifty

“Shifty shows how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance”

Coming in June on BBC iPlayer

youtu.be/AQc8625Y03g

Aphex Twin’s playlist “mostly mellow” for supreme looks interesting:

open.spotify.com/playlist/3jf...

In the UK delivery drivers should be allowed to use blue lights if they are delivering a replacement kettle.

#UkProductivityPuzzleSolved

Making sure I enjoy a “damn fine coffee” today.

Happy Winter Solstice northern hemisphere folk.

Happy Summer Solstice southern hemisphere folk!

@wallpaper.com a good while back you published an amazing gingerbread house recipe. I don’t suppose you have it to hand do you?

Ooo James Hoffmann's doing another international #coffee cupping. This time it's different methods of decaffeination.
Explanation video here:
youtu.be/2t7Ba8Vr9HY

The Decaf Project website here:
www.thedecafproject.com

#TheDecafProject

Final plug for this free album, give us a share if you can to help spread the word.
https://buff.ly/3zLpvQv

Ooo new EP from ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ (Kieran Hebden) sounding really nice:

00000ooooo.bandcamp.com/album/v

Unexpected

Nice little feature:
If you go to search & hit cancel
you get a list of accounts that the people you follow follow
(If that makes any sense!)

Really nice way to discover new people.