2 huge stories tonight - Kwarteng went for victory drinks with hedge fund managers after his budget, promising to “double down” - Truss has banned Charles from speaking on climate change, & he’s briefing against her. Relations between them have broken down after just 2 weeks

Meta AI revealed last week a new tech that can generate a video from a text prompt: makeavideo.studio How does it work? This 🧵 to explain it!

The modern world in old Ladybird books. "Carriages get very dirty inside from all the tobacco ash" (1972) #JohnBerry

"This has become a distraction and I would like to move on and talk about growth."

The petition for safer cycling in Bristol is live! Sign now, please: bit.ly/bristolcycling…

"Nobody voted for fracking, nobody voted to cut benefits, nobody voted to trash nature, nobody voted to scrap workers' rights." "There's a whole host of things that the Conservatives were elected to do in 2019, that they are simply not doing." #WhoVotedForThis #CPC22

Here's something I've always enjoyed about the original WipEout logo: it's made of the chopped up (and slightly modified) Eurostile letterform for the number 8. (The slight modifications are straightening out things like the tops of the u and the i.) #WipEout #typography

Designing for “delight” is dead #productdesign #ux bit.ly/3ege1Kj

A historic failure

Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this. Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.

Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November.

TYRE EXTINGUISHERS HIT TARGET OF 10,000 SUVS DISARMED WORLDWIDE! 🎉🥳🪩🍾 We're celebrating a major milestone after hitting the target of 10,000 SUVs deflated since March. This milestone came earlier than expected - we had expected to hit it by Christmas!

Nothing is as scary as this #HappyHalloween

Twitter 2.0: Extremely Hardcore Engineers #RIPTwitter #GoodByeTwitter #probablystillgonnabearoundforawhileinnit

The delusions of the Brexiteers remind me of the old Philip K. Dick quote: 'Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.'

"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." - Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

in the early 15th century, edward, 2nd duke of york, wrote a list of 1,126 names he considered to be suitable for dogs. highlights from the list: -nosewise -garlik -pretyman -gaylarde -norman -filthe

How am I supposed to sleep tonight knowing this interchange in China exists?

I'm busy building my cool website😉

The UK Government has announced a devastating £200m cut to the active travel budget in England. Add your name to @Sustrans letter to the transport secretary appealing against this daft decision sustrans.org.uk/campaigns/join…