The Garden

Before we start: in the time since the last roundup, i’ve also added ten new links to the linkroll, all of which are just as good as any you’ll find here.

the Yongle Emperor /ˈjɒŋgəl/

“Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view” Play around with some dudes in boxes Charles Ross’s Star Axis, a colossal land-art observatory in New Mexico, is almost ready Vibe Genomics: “Have…

Just noticed this site’s font’s manicule (☞) character has six fingers… Starting to get suspicious of this Claude Garamond fellow 🤔🤔🤔

Hello!

The Amish are not a people known for their love of the newfangled.

“Song from the perspective of a ransomware virus” has to be up there with “Song from the perspective of a child’s bedroom nightlight” in terms of the great musical points of view, right?

Worried we’re going to run out of good, reliable Future Years. 2000 was a big blow, and we just lost 2019, 2020, and 2025 in rapid succession. 2050 and 2070 are in reach in our lifetimes.

Oops!

IT'S COMING H[15 July Messi incident, thousands dead]

“I probably had a weirder referendum week than you”, or, the recollections of the creator of a Change.org petition for London independence, ten years on Skumsoft.ltd “Tamatou was a wooden doll which, according to oral tradition, ruled as the 13th Tuʻi Ton…

Apologies for any recent downtime — the repairman had to turn off the power for a bit and my server-laptop’s been a bit finnicky as always in trying to get back up.

it’s too late. i’ve already depicted you as the screeching, dangerous, overengineered trans-Atlantic hyperloop and myself as the cool, collected, romantic maglev gliding serenely over the Bering Strait

Welcome back!

Got into an argument with someone on the internet and we both deëscalated to a reasoned conclusion where we agreed to disagree.

Coming Home Status: It’s

It is the position of His Majesty’s Government that sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds are old enough to vote, old enough to join the military, old enough to drink, old enough to have sex, and old enough to pay income tax, but not old enough to go on the co…

When/if i die, my tombstone is going to read “Thought for 2,682,000,000s”

There’s something disturbing about modern McDonald’s marketing where Grimace, Hamburglar, and the rest of the McDCU cast are there, but Ronald McDonald is absent.

Weird Britain: The Guardian’s list of ten great British oddities you should visit I don’t know what this is.

Forget Victorian children or mediæval peasants; “The American pope closes his manifesto on artificial intelligence by quoting Gandalf” is a sentence that would instantly kill a 2003-era forum user

Say what you will about coronavirus disease 2019, but it did give us some great music.

Whenever i hear the phrase “separating the art from the artist” it makes me imagine something like the anti-dæmon guillotine doohickey from His Dark Materials.

The Tyne and Wear Metro is a marvel of the British railway network: the only true metro system outside of London and Glasgow1, with fully accessible stations, beautiful typographic design, and only the occasional closure because someone stole all the copp…

It’s 2026 and, somehow, the most convenient way of getting an image from my phone to my desktop (or vice versa) is still “posting it in a private Discord server with me as the only member”.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) Absolute queer cinema.

Before we start — i always feel a little awkward about publishing two link roundups in a row, and three especially is pushing it, so i wanted to assure everyone that i do have some more stuff in the pipe!

Getting a “Claude is AI and can make mistakes.” tramp stamp

In Europe we call him/them 22.86 Centimetre Nails

Tickle Me Elmo vs. a particle accelerator The Artemis II launch, but with “Free Bird” playing RavensBlight’s paper toy shop: Dozens of free papercraft you can make at home!

The New Statesman interviews Thomas Heatherwick, Britain’s most divisive designer Bajini: “It has been argued that the account of the Baijini in the Aboriginal folklore are in fact a mythological reflection of the experiences of some Aboriginals who have…

Ryan Gosling has entered that pantheon of actors where i will happily go see literally anything he is in1, but it’s always nice when i wouldn’t have needed convincing in the first place, and as it stands, i probably would have watched Project Hail Mary ev…

Genuinely quite honoured to see the Forest on the FMHY list… that site has helped my cheapskate ass out more times than i can count.

Canadian place names be like: Rhodesville Sainte-Marie-du-Saguenay Bull Penis, Alberta Kitchenpissing Xɬθʷəyëm Gitzâa (formerly Adolf Hitler Island)

🫵️ YOU should go watch Project Hail Mary in Imax right now.

Two arcades both claim to be the “world’s largest”.

I actually thought some of the Nvidia DLSS examples everyone is butt-mad about looked kinda neat, IDK.

AI by fax.

Marty Supreme (2025) So many insane fucking things happen in this film, i almost forgot that the opening credits sequence is Timothée Chalamet’s sperm racing to inseminate Odessa A’Zion’s egg, which then turns into a ping-pong ball, which he hits.

Pleased to see that ——— Mountbatten-Windsor has been stripped of the title of “Andrew”, and is now simply “a man in his sixties from Norfolk”.

Okay, i know it’s gauche to begin a link roundup with an image file just after i forced your computer to load a Youtube embed, but i need to confirm that you’re seeing the same thing i am on your screens.

Please ignore the smear of utility pole blocking the view.

Claude is learning to garden.

Yes, it’s true.

I spent so much time as a little kid listening to They Might Be Giants’ Here Comes Science, and as my brain’s synapses reminded me recently, it turns out that “Why Does the Sun Shine?”

BOTTOM TEXT For a long time, i’ve proudly put all of my creative outputs (including this site) into the public domain, free from the shackles of copyright.

Oh, cripes, i’ve waited far too long.

Sorry to lead with a depressing one, but sometimes we live in a depressing world and it can’t be helped: Rest of World covers the bombing and rebuilding of a Gazan tech hub.

Spilt my hot chocolate all over the table on the ferry · Seen tonnes of posters for the recent election · Hugged my oma and papa for the first time in six years · Visited her in her new flat · Bought a bami kroket… thing from a vending machine · Eaten bru…