Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 23hThis would be so much cooler if participants actually got killed though 020
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No Web Curios today due to my having taken the week off the internet (lol, like that is even possible), so why not spend this afternoon enjoying the WINNER of the Tiny Awards 2026, Cursor Camp by Neal Agarwal (this is just a great way to spend an hour online, I promise you): neal.fun/cursor-camp/neal.funCursor CampA campground for your cursor 144
Reposted by Matt Muir Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Would you like an antidote to All The Politics? Would you like to know who has won the 2026 Tiny Award for the best small, non-commercial website of the past 12 months (and a small, handmade trophy)? YES YOU WOULD! Thanks to everyone who voted (thousands!), and see you in 2027: tinyawards.net/2026/ 0138
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Would you like an antidote to All The Politics? Would you like to know who has won the 2026 Tiny Award for the best small, non-commercial website of the past 12 months (and a small, handmade trophy)? YES YOU WOULD! Thanks to everyone who voted (thousands!), and see you in 2027: tinyawards.net/2026/ 0138
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's astonishing how much of the past 20 years of UK government have essentially boiled down to 'get Lou Casey to work out exactly how to fix this' - the track record perhaps suggests that we might want to give someone else a go at this sort of Big Thinking 0132
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham doing his speech reminds me that he radicalised me into leaving lobbying in the early-00s. I was at Labour and attending the Young Fabians Disco, drunk, alone and very much Not Having Fun. At a certain point, a bunch of Hip Young Labour MPs got onstage to do karaoke... 130
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026AI generated poster? Disgusting, I will refuse to keep an eye out for the cat in question, owner has no morals and should have employed a real artist, how dare they burn the planet for Tiddles 141
Reposted by Matt Muir HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can you imagine being a son of “good” immigrants, learned to talk, walk and act like an elite, distance yourself from any semblance of ethnic and religious heritage, and reached the highest office in the country, only for a bunch of podcasters to do phrenology on you for YouTube bucks 914114
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@katebevan.com Saw this, thought it might be Your Sort Of Thing (apologies if you have already seen it) github.com/arnegiacomo/... xgithub.comGitHub - arnegiacomo/fugleramme: Bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. On an e-ink panel, a TV, or any s...Bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. On an e-ink panel, a TV, or any screen. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme 240
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wrote this a fortnight ago, but oddly relevant today given Fairford news: www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-ho...thenewworld.co.ukHow to recruit a modern day secret agentIn the old days it was a tap on the shoulder and an invitation to a clandestine meeting. Nowadays, all you need is social media and a little crypto 211
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can one of you who's at Labour Party Conference ensure you wave this headline (and the whole piece, frankly) under the noses of every Minister you come across? Thanks www.normaltech.ai/p/p-doom 000
Reposted by Matt Muir Matt Round @mattround.com · 28/09/2026Today I’m working on content for ButtyStock, won’t get it anywhere near the ultimate target of 1,000 items but maybe I’ll reach that one day vole.wtf/buttystock/vole.wtfButtyStock 🥪 free crisp sandwich stock photosPhotos, illustrations, videos and 3D models featuring varied crisp (potato chip) sandwiches, all under a CC0 public domain license. 3145
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The UK politics section of this is an interesting way of mapping the particular contours of the bluesky filter bubble - neatly explains why so much of this place has such appalling #fbpe energy 000
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I was having too nice a time yesterday to remember to post a link to Web Curios, so you can have it today instead. Click all the links, it is definitely God's preferred form of worship webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-25... 171
Reposted by Matt Muir Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Web Curios is 3 hours early today because I am going to a wedding, giving you all the time you need to click EVERY SINGLE URL. The week's best internet - EAT MY LINKS! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-25... 0116
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Web Curios is 3 hours early today because I am going to a wedding, giving you all the time you need to click EVERY SINGLE URL. The week's best internet - EAT MY LINKS! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-25... 0116
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@dandouglas.bsky.social duke smoochem is still better 000
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@hcndashwood.bsky.social Hi Henry! Came across Magpie and think it's a great idea; is it on the Actual App Store yet by any chance? thanks!x 100
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There have been many baffling things about the past decade or so, but the continued platforming of this company as a 'success story' by media is one of the most confusing 020
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There are only 3 days left to vote in this year's Tiny Awards, so if you are yet to explore the nominations then this is the perfect time to remind yourself that the internet is still good (and to pick your favourite website of the year to win a small prize & handmade trophy): tinyawards.net/vote/ 002
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Private Eye has been reporting on this pretty regularly for ~4-5 years now, fwiw 241
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@ewacat.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com I seem to remember both of you expressing an interest in the World Nomad Games - this is a nice writeup www.chinatalk.media/p/i-went-to-...chinatalk.mediaI Went to Kyrgyzstan to Find China’s Silent NomadsRepresenting Inner Mongolia in Kyrgyzstan 250
Reposted by Matt Muir Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation 78627139
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hill I will die on - none of the people involved in promoting the bullshit narrative around Cambridge Analytica, which meant that lots of very real Bad Stuff that Meta was up to at the same time got totally ignored, are anywhere near as contrite as they should be about it 220
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As it happens I attended one of Samuel Leeds' 'property workshops' last year and wrote this (which no fucker wanted at the time, so you can have it all for free - it's not totally shit imho) docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comWho is Samuel LeedsWho is Samuel Leeds? Samuel Leeds, per the hypeman hammering-home the sell-lines ahead of the Samuel Leeds (it’s important to use his full name at all times - branding matters) Crash Course in Prope... 143
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@ewacat.bsky.social Apologies if this is very much old news to you, but just stumbled across it and it felt like Your Sort Of Thing, potentially skybrary.aeroskybrary.aeroSuperJS check 111
Reposted by Matt Muir Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026can you feel it in the air? 25959222
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Quite incredible campaign to get all the racists to move to Northern Ireland going on here: securebritishfuture.com 130
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's Saturday, so why not put down the discourse and instead pick up a stuffed grab-bag of the week's best links and longreads? No, sorry, that's not a good enough reason. CLICK THE WEB CURIOS LINK: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-18... 152
Reposted by Matt Muir Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Friday! Lunchtime! A pleasing break from the 'will The Machine kill us all?' chat! SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR! A reminder of when computers were sources of fun and delight rather than existential terror - enjoy this week's Web Curios before we're reduced to meaty paperclips: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-18... 1111
Reposted by Matt Muir John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026So Oxford United just launched, and then quickly withdrew, a new American football-style shirt collection. This was the launch image: 54614135
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Friday! Lunchtime! A pleasing break from the 'will The Machine kill us all?' chat! SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR! A reminder of when computers were sources of fun and delight rather than existential terror - enjoy this week's Web Curios before we're reduced to meaty paperclips: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-18... 1111
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We are now in what feels like day 3987 of the news agenda being dogwalked by the baseless assertions of a bunch of motivated businesscunts/AI cultists (delete per your own prejudices) and noone in media actually having anything meaningful to say, and it...is...very...tiring. 0204
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good thread on the tedious, bullshit headline leading the BBC this morning 051
Reposted by Matt Muir Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026With Sydney Sweeney and Ed Sheeran getting cancelled in one week its never been a tougher time to be the most generic man you’ve ever met in your life 1798
Reposted by Matt Muir Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Worth noting that aside from her appeasement of the Piddington Racists this morning, Lisa Nandy also confirmed that Ofcom has entirely failed in securing any fines from tech companies under the OSA (from 2:28:40 here) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukToday - 16/09/2026 - BBC SoundsNews and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 031
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rishi is not only a friend but a supremely talented poet, and both of these books are funny, moving and smart - highly recommended, and I don't even like poetry that much 042
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Worth noting that aside from her appeasement of the Piddington Racists this morning, Lisa Nandy also confirmed that Ofcom has entirely failed in securing any fines from tech companies under the OSA (from 2:28:40 here) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukToday - 16/09/2026 - BBC SoundsNews and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 031
Reposted by Matt Muir e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/09/2026the whole "I can't be political because my fanbase includes kids" bit really hits different if you've had to watch an acquaintance's 9 year old daughter lip-syncing "I'm in love with your body" for TikTok 1221724
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The real horror is not the killer AI of the future but the incredibly fucking annoying AI of the now 130
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New Ofcom data on UK news consumption shows 20% of people getting it from AI, mostly GPT; FB and YT biggest social media sources, with social media also the biggest single source of news and info for under-15s: www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r... 010
Reposted by Matt Muir HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/09/2026"You know that bit in The Odyssey where Matt Damon warned the people of Troy how he was going to sneak in in a giant horse, unlock the gates and destroy their city and begged them not let that happen. It's a bit to me like a bit like that" 45912
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a brilliant piece of profile writing, one of the best of the year so far imho, by Jeremy Stern on Mark Zuckerberg: colossus.com/article/mark... 100
Reposted by Matt Muir Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026please enjoy new tingler about the last summer days. THESE DELICIOUS S’MORES CAMP OUT BISEXUALLY IN MY BUTT is out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJNYD2KX and true buckaroo tier patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/... 729035
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@hkesvani.bsky.social If you've not seen this I feel it will be right up your street, thematically-speaking www.isdglobal.org/digital-disp...isdglobal.orgGeneration ‘Slop Jihad:’ The decentralized ‘media jihad’ gets sloppy - Institute for Strategic DialogueJihadist propaganda is evolving as younger supporters embrace AI-generated ‘Slop Jihad’ content, reshaping online communities and extremist aesthetics 110
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@jonnelledge.bsky.social Hello man, in case you were still curious about all the AI botspam this is a good explainer of the current wave of the phenomenon (I have had 23 of these emails since Friday): tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...tedium.coThe Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent HustleiLands, a new AI agent-centric startup, is spamming creatives like me numerous times a day. What do its agents want? My job. Why? They need to buy more tokens. 3115
Reposted by Matt Muir Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Loose end tonight in London? Sod the Antiques Roadshow and come to this: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/for-t...cafeoto.co.ukCafe OTO → For the Lost - Fundraiser for Nepal: Myth Memory & Hauntology: John Hegley + Rishi Dastidar + Sarah Sparkes + Harmeet Rahal + Letrix + Peregrine Kelly + Martin Williams + Dee Sada + Massimo...Following the devastating events in Nepal, For the Lost Vol. II: Myth, Memory & Hauntology will now be a fundraiser for Nepal. We’ll be directing donations to the Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund, ... 101
Reposted by Matt Muir b3ta @b3ta.com · 12/09/202625 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of. 6639064
