Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 10hIt's an unseasonably lovely Saturday afternoon in London, so why not waste it by spending it in the company of loads of excellent links? Web Curios!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-16... 032 3
Reposted by Matt Muir Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Friday! Lunchtime! All of the best links and then a load more for good measure, and a bonus anecdote about my unexpected visit to a US courtroom - Web Curios! Click yourself to freedom!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-16... 554 5
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Friday! Lunchtime! All of the best links and then a load more for good measure, and a bonus anecdote about my unexpected visit to a US courtroom - Web Curios! Click yourself to freedom!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-16... 554 5
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I genuinely adore this, thankyou for explaining it to me x 010 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026HELLO RAY NEWMAN! Hope you don't mind me using it in Curios - I have credited and linked to your website in the newsletter, but obvs can remove if you'd prefer me not to have done x 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Absolutely ANYONE (with enough free time and a loose enough approach to other nations' courtroom protocols) 000 0
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Are you still friends with any of them? Has RobManuelStock ever happened? 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026You are your own namewang! This is genuinely impressive 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I have a weird personal fascination with Other Matt Muirs; went through a brief phase of emailing all the variants I could think of in the hope of sparking some sort of international Matt Muir groupchat which, weirdly, NONE of the other cunts seemed into 110 1
Reposted by Matt Muir Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater? 1335338757 5.3K
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Possibly because they were presented/written in such a way that they did not in fact comply with the reporting restrictions or made connections/implications that might have done? No desire to defend anyone, I am just very, very tired of everything being a right-wing conspiracy 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I just think presenting this as a multi-post conspiracy-baiting thread, in the knowledge that that is a good way to do numbers, is an unhelpful way of presenting the facts, namely 'this is a criminal investigation with reporting restrictions' and 'the right wing press obvs won't cover it bec. Gove' 100 1
Reposted by Matt Muir Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 15/10/2026My finest ever work. I wrote it on a treadmill in a gym, recording each title, as I thought of them, into the notes app. 27314104 314
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Going to keep on tapping this fucking sign. I know that it's easy to do numbers on here by simply doing a thread saying 'OTHER SIDE EVIL, BIG MEDIA COLLUDES' but it's not always that simple ffs brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...brokenbottleboy.substack.comMichael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silenceWhy did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? 110 1
Reposted by Matt Muir Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 15/10/2026His co-defendant, a Mr S. Doo, entered a plea of “Ruh-roh!” 342053420 2.1K
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Good explanation as to why this might be happening here brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...brokenbottleboy.substack.comMichael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silenceWhy did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? 043 4
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/10/2026getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics, page layout, interface design, word processing, audio, presentations, CAD and spreadsheets: thirteen native, open-source ... 110 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Honestly, were it not for professional necessity I would give up bluesky, it is becoming increasingly insufferable for this sort of thing 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Exactly; that article compares engagement on a Zia Yusuf post from last week with one from Monday - like, do you understand that engagement is cumulative over time ffs? Annoys me every time people let personal wish fulfilment get in the way of things being actually proven 220 2
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The analysis on which this is based is, politely, less-than-robust: www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...thelondoneconomic.comReform figures see social media engagement drop as bot accounts 'fall silent'The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres. 221 2
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A flavour for how serious the current gov AI conversation is: Liam Byrne just kicked off the BIST cttee hearing with Anthropic et al by asking "can you guarantee that today your models cannot be used to cause harm to businesses and people in this country." It's almost like they're seeking headlines! 010 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026wrote about this exact phenomenon 9 months ago, as it happens www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-tw...thenewworld.co.ukTwitter: the website that makes you sickX has been terminally polluted by Elon Musk to the point of making us nauseous 020 2
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's the small details later in the conversational thread which make this perfect 141 4
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Note I didn't say this was a positive, just that it was incredible 110 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The videogames stuff from the past fortnight has been WILD as a result of this; someone cracked GTAV and got it to play in-browser, which is Actual Witchcraft 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A week ago, five Cheetah cubs were born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. You can watch a webcam of them here if you like (currently sleeping, though one of them may be having a snack): nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...nationalzoo.si.eduCheetah Cub CamThe Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. 1102 10
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If I explain the reasoning to you I fear it will upset you 000 0
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Amusingly, this is exactly the same calculation that Patrick Bateman makes in the novel American Psycho 161 6
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026ooh, ta, yes, that is a link I was thinking of but couldn't find x 010 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I mean, read the piece and make up your own mind? (no, it isn't) 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yep! If you still have an X account you can see the OP's link here x.com/anabology/st... - if you believe their explanation that was a one-shotted output based on a few character models and giving Claude access to Midjourney, etc. People might not like AI, but saying 'it's all shit' is wrong 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Useful piece to remind you of why sometimes it's not A BIG CONSPIRACY COVER-UP, however much your (and my) politics might make you want to believe it is 1104 10
Reposted by Matt Muir Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026please enjoy brand new tingler just in time for the season of scares. RESIDENT ANAL: POUNDED BY THE D-VIRUS is out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMP9JZBB/ or all patreon tiers www.patreon.com/chucktingle/... 11721203 721
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It exists on YouTube as an idea more than a real thing; its owner is currently more focused on squeezing his brief Traitors stint for all it's worth in Old Media columns... 010 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Thanks man! As it happens I had not seen this, very much appreciate you sharing it x 110 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I know you all reflexively HATE AI, but, also, if you can't see that this has *something* genuinely quite interesting about it then you're not thinking hard enough imho 5212 21
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Goalhanger will give runway and help with marketing, and take profit-share in exchange; their operation is REMARKABLY light 100 1
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026On which note, 'why the creator economy is bollocks' www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-th...thenewworld.co.ukThe “creator economy” doesn’t actually existThere’s a huge global industry that’s grown up around the idea that anyone can make money out of “content”. But it’s a total fiction 061 6
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026No beef with this specific journalist, but I really hope this fails and these people stop believing that they can sustain one-person media brands because a) they can't; and b) the belief that they can is harming media of all stripes 3100 10
Reposted by Matt Muir Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Okay so we're reaching a time of year where I think you could broadly set British discourse on fire with this: 11562126 562
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What better way to spend a few hours on a Saturday than enjoying the best digital art, webtoys, browser games and longreads of the past week? Well, yes, ok, but that is illegal, so just read Web Curios instead: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-09... 040 4
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Boring-but-important link - Google's made its SynthID AI detection platform open to the public, allowing you to check whether images, video and audio are AI-generated. It won't catch everything, but if it's made with Google or OpenAI models then it should know: synthid.comsynthid.comSynthID Detector 064 6
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Lol, no, 'always on' means no seasonal breaks and a consistent schedule (eg, say, the 6pm news (always on) Vs Strictly (seasonal) 110 1
Reposted by Matt Muir Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played 10752191146 5.2K
