Matt Muir
@mattmuir.bsky.social
Huge pupils, tiny value
webcurios.co.uk
webcurios.co.uk
There is a horrible inevitability to the 'answer' to this being AI
The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox.
For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role
For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role
Casework Crisis: Increase In Constituency Caseload Takes Its Toll
The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...
www.politicshome.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM
There is a horrible inevitability to the 'answer' to this being AI
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Andrew: The Net Tightens
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
February 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Someone's spun up a version of Civ that basically runs in the background, in a tab, and GOD this is potentially productivity-ruining. Click at your peril (via @arnicas.bsky.social): bitmagic.ai/games/idle-c...
Idle Civ
**Idle Civ** is a voxel-based civilization builder where you expand your empire through strategic research and gradual progression. Manage workers to construct improvements, build harbors and ships to...
bitmagic.ai
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Someone's spun up a version of Civ that basically runs in the background, in a tab, and GOD this is potentially productivity-ruining. Click at your peril (via @arnicas.bsky.social): bitmagic.ai/games/idle-c...
Absolutely not joking when I say this text is a foundational piece of Modern Britain
If you’ve been lucky enough to have never seen Corned Beef of my Childhood, your luck has just run out. And don’t think you’ve escaped, ALT text users, you’re getting it too.
February 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Absolutely not joking when I say this text is a foundational piece of Modern Britain
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Ernest Hemingway once bet his colleagues $10 that he could write a perfect short story in only six words. His colleagues took the best, and Hemingway wrote these six words on a napkin:
February 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Ernest Hemingway once bet his colleagues $10 that he could write a perfect short story in only six words. His colleagues took the best, and Hemingway wrote these six words on a napkin:
This is a good essay about how and why the current attitudes towards AI espoused by many people on here are fundamentally unhelpful and self-defeating, and why failure to engage with the actual technology rather than an 'idea' of it cedes ground to the right: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
This is a good essay about how and why the current attitudes towards AI espoused by many people on here are fundamentally unhelpful and self-defeating, and why failure to engage with the actual technology rather than an 'idea' of it cedes ground to the right: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
Seeing as we're doing this again www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-do...
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Seeing as we're doing this again www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-do...
Get outside, it's lovely, do not click this link (but save it for later, there is loads of good stuff in here). Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...
February 14, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Get outside, it's lovely, do not click this link (but save it for later, there is loads of good stuff in here). Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...
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Friday! Lunchtime! I have battled through illness to bring you words, links, pictures and sounds (ok, fine, I didn't make any of said words, links, pictures or sounds, but wevs, they are still good). CLICK AND SHARE AND ENJOY! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...
February 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Friday! Lunchtime! I have battled through illness to bring you words, links, pictures and sounds (ok, fine, I didn't make any of said words, links, pictures or sounds, but wevs, they are still good). CLICK AND SHARE AND ENJOY! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...
Friday! Lunchtime! I have battled through illness to bring you words, links, pictures and sounds (ok, fine, I didn't make any of said words, links, pictures or sounds, but wevs, they are still good). CLICK AND SHARE AND ENJOY! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...
February 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Friday! Lunchtime! I have battled through illness to bring you words, links, pictures and sounds (ok, fine, I didn't make any of said words, links, pictures or sounds, but wevs, they are still good). CLICK AND SHARE AND ENJOY! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...
Truest thing I have heard all year
weird phenomenon: pubs in decline, but pub bores on the rise
February 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Truest thing I have heard all year
Morning everyone, new Rubicon in 'oh dear, noone knows what is real anymore' has just been crossed (new model from Bytedance)
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Morning everyone, new Rubicon in 'oh dear, noone knows what is real anymore' has just been crossed (new model from Bytedance)
Fwiw, Private Eye did this exact story in August/September 2025
February 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Fwiw, Private Eye did this exact story in August/September 2025
This week's edition of Web Curios contains half a dozen EXCELLENT games to enjoy on yet another damp Saturday, and approximately 94 other links which you can click while you watch gravity do its thing in Milano/Cortina - ENJOY IT: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...
February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
This week's edition of Web Curios contains half a dozen EXCELLENT games to enjoy on yet another damp Saturday, and approximately 94 other links which you can click while you watch gravity do its thing in Milano/Cortina - ENJOY IT: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...
When I did work experience at BBC Radio Manchester I was convinced all the journalists were on coke due to the very conspicuous razorblades they kept on their desks
When I was a student radio reporter we still used reel to reel machines to produce our material - to select a quote or section of the recording, you had to use a razor blade to cut the tape. Then you stuck it all together.
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
When I did work experience at BBC Radio Manchester I was convinced all the journalists were on coke due to the very conspicuous razorblades they kept on their desks
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Friday! Lunchtime! Everything is objectively horrible and everyone running the world is a moron or a criminal or both, so why not bury your head in some Good Internet and CLICK TO FORGET? Web Curios! Read by literally NOONE named in the Epstein Files! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Friday! Lunchtime! Everything is objectively horrible and everyone running the world is a moron or a criminal or both, so why not bury your head in some Good Internet and CLICK TO FORGET? Web Curios! Read by literally NOONE named in the Epstein Files! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...
Friday! Lunchtime! Everything is objectively horrible and everyone running the world is a moron or a criminal or both, so why not bury your head in some Good Internet and CLICK TO FORGET? Web Curios! Read by literally NOONE named in the Epstein Files! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Friday! Lunchtime! Everything is objectively horrible and everyone running the world is a moron or a criminal or both, so why not bury your head in some Good Internet and CLICK TO FORGET? Web Curios! Read by literally NOONE named in the Epstein Files! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-06...
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Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.
February 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.
@ewacat.bsky.social read this, etc etc default.blog/p/ai-generat...
AI-Generated Cryptids Are More Real Than Real
thought digest, 02.04.2026
default.blog
February 5, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Lord Mandelson in disgrace
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
February 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Further to this, Ofcom's update on its own investigation neatly illustrates what a fucking mess the OSA is: www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
February 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Further to this, Ofcom's update on its own investigation neatly illustrates what a fucking mess the OSA is: www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
There's a Minecraft experience that recreates storied civil rights protests, and while I am sure it's well-meaning it feels...quite weird to see this stuff reduced to blocks in a videogame: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1T...
Lessons in Good Trouble - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Minecraft Education
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM
There's a Minecraft experience that recreates storied civil rights protests, and while I am sure it's well-meaning it feels...quite weird to see this stuff reduced to blocks in a videogame: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1T...
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Don't spend the day thinking about how seemingly everyone who runs the world is implicated in an increasingly-horrifying paedophile murder island conspiracy! Instead, enjoy the fact that someone's made Quake playable in-browser - this is ACE: mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/ (via @arnicas.bsky.social)
February 2, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Don't spend the day thinking about how seemingly everyone who runs the world is implicated in an increasingly-horrifying paedophile murder island conspiracy! Instead, enjoy the fact that someone's made Quake playable in-browser - this is ACE: mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/ (via @arnicas.bsky.social)
This essay is about LBJ and power, but also feels spectacularly relevant to the whole Epstein network: www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/fracking-f...
February 2, 2026 at 11:45 AM
This essay is about LBJ and power, but also feels spectacularly relevant to the whole Epstein network: www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/fracking-f...
Jay is reliably smart and curious, and this is a good perspective on the social simulacrum that is moltbook
All week I've been thinking to myself 'I'm not going to write about Moltbook, I'm not going to write about Moltbook'.
Prompted to Panic | Weeknotes #424
All week I've been thinking to myself 'I'm not going to write about Moltbook, I'm not going to write about Moltbook'. But I've found a work around! I'm going to talk about peoples reactions to Moltbook. lol
thejaymo.net
February 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Jay is reliably smart and curious, and this is a good perspective on the social simulacrum that is moltbook