The new Peter F. Hamilton book Exodus was great, if you like a bit of the ol’ space opera.

He only wants it for marketplace. I can sympathise, that’s where all the really good awful car deals are, and cheap tools that I don’t need, but really want

What/where is that?

Fuck yeah, that looks right up my street

Speaking from personal experience, knowing that there’s a reason I behave a certain way has been pretty liberating. I spent my whole adult life up to my late thirties thinking I’d broken my brain or was just lazy and couldn’t concentrate. Knowing that that’s just how my brain is wired has made me feel a lot better about myself, and be less harsh to myself when I fuck up, and then being able to learn coping strategies of others in a similar situation has also really helped.

If you can give up on a new hobby or whatever BEFORE you’ve bought all the things and made your life even more messy isn’t a bad thing at all. If you’ve lent into it and bought all the stuff and nonsense, try to cycle through past hobbies rather than pick up new ones constantly. Find hobbies that complement each other, or use stuff that you already own, and ones that have low cost to try out. If you’re not making yourself skint or your life more messy by trying them out, then trying and quitting doesn’t matter at all, it just increases the chance of you finding something you really enjoy doing.

As if filling the centre of the city with shit student housing isn’t enough of a disruption, let’s bung in a massive car park, as opposed to encouraging out of town parking.

But it’s open source, doesn’t it have to be good? Now I’m terribly confused

And comes all over it’s back?

That laser pointing in an entirely different direction from the gun barrel bothered me back then, and I have to say it still bothers me now

That looks awesome, and it’s a great idea to use brilliant sci-fi writing as the bones of a game, I’m excited to play it

No Such Thing As A Fish podcast

I’m not sure what being almost 10yrs post robocop makes me feel, but I don’t like it. This future isn’t what I was promised in the 80s, and while no killer robots is nice, I still feel a bit cheated

Aren’t Mildly Anxious Minnows playing Glastonbury this year?

Father of the gulag, founder of the Beatles

James Acaster has entered the chat

I was kinda being facetious, more of an F U finger than a serious suggestion.

In all honesty, I can’t see how this would be useful - either you’d have to use a finger that wouldn’t look natural, and give the game away, or use a thumb or index finger and constantly have to re-load your phone due to accidentally wiping it!

I’ve never used one, though a mate uses chat gtp constantly so I make him ask it things fairly often. However, I’ve just bookmarked DDG, that seems useful. If there’s a similarly private voice assistant for iOS (that works better than Siri) then I’d probably use that in preference to a traditional search engine a lot of the time

The print of the middle finger, one might suggest

I reckon watching the video by the civil-engineering-focused YouTube channel would be a good way to find out

Much like Israel used US missiles to kill people in Palestine, no?