Matt Button

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.

love to see more people pushing back on goals of being “frictionless”. friction is a part of how we make meaning and build things that are worth building. messy, slow, human conflict has value

Oh my God. This could save so many lives. Read the article and the thread!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

I finally understand boomers avocado meme. "Boomers bought houses at a time when saving a couple of pounds per day taking a packed lunch to work would give you a house deposit in eight years. For a millennial this would take two centuries." martinrobbins.substack.com/p/waspinomic...

NEW BLOGPOST: Why did the jury acquit Ricky Jones? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/16/w...

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint

I have (hopefully, maybe) vanquished my CI woes (for now) and released otel-desktop-viewer 0.2.0, now with DuckDB 🦆 - Today we tackle log ingestion. 🪵 - Then we ingest the metrics. 📏 - Then we rewrite the whole-ass front end. 🍑 github.com/CtrlSpice/ot... PS: Please excuse the mangled change log.

"capture all of Gaza and remain there indefinitely" is, by another name, forcible annexation and displacement/destruction of the people living there

See also: Ok, ladies, now let's get in formation

Basically yes

It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Entirely predictable. Forming policies to chase Reform voters, such as anti-immigration, increased anti-trans and attacks on the disabled, not only don't go far enough for those who actually support such moves, so don't pick up Reform votes, they also lose left wing and progressive support.

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

@lewisgoodall.com was listening to your recent newsagent episodes about the tariffs, would be interested to hear your take on this angle bsky.app/profile/matt...

@dlectronique.bsky.social you still at the karaoke?

Looking at the media response to the Rivers of Blood speech for a thing and this was the start of the first comment piece in the Telegraph a week later (by Peregrine Worsthorne). The arguments never change...

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@newsagents.bsky.social seems like there’ve been a few episodes of yours where ads at the end of the episode kick in halfway through someone’s sentence. Is this a known issue?

1. Incomes have gone up over the last few years, but this has all been eaten up by rising costs. People we help with debt are now £13 in the red every month after paying for basics. Pre-covid most people were about breaking even.

i love uks take on FOIA because we dont really know when the piccadilly line is getting the new trains exactly (i think EOY 🥲) but they are very open about the exact position of every tree at the new depot in cockfosters

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

Well this is grim

Does HS2 have a future? And why does that question hinge on an unseen government document and a sugar mill in Nottinghamshire?

i guess the moral of the story is it only counts as over-engineering if you actually implement things, otherwise it's just sparkling thinking through the consequences of your choices

Folks often think of Brexit impacts as abstract. But they’re concrete (or steel) as this story from this weeks @financialtimes.com State of Britain newsletter illustrates “It’s time for the UK to make some radical choices” on.ft.com/4i3eDPd

Today is day 404 of a genocide of Palestinians. The forced evacuation of Northern Gaza, after its siege and starvation, is a horror we will all have to account for when future generations ask us where we were and how we let this happen.

This should be the first metric of success for the new government on criminal justice. Not officer numbers. Not crime rates. Not prisons. Just this: Can you do better than a criminal trial - a living nightmare for complainant, witnesses and defendants - being listed in *2028*?