Well, that was a delightfully fine few hours with the family.

It’s a friendly neighbourhood round here.

Daughters messing about in boats.

“It’s almost like I had a serious blow to the head recently” is my new catch-all excuse for anything stupid I do. Milking it while I still can.

Also Ed Zitron: "I believe that we are on course for a truly horrible crash, the likes of which may rewrite the venture capital industry and mortally wound one or more hyperscalers, as well as fundamentally divide society on so many levels into those that fell for this and those that did not." https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/?ref=adders-blog

Ed Zitron: "One of the greatest mistakes we can make in our lives is to assume that the rich and powerful have any idea what the future holds, or that they have any grand plan or strategy." https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/?ref=adders-blog

Here’s some juvenilia of mine from the early 1990s. A piece of semi-autobiographical fiction of what bored students did to keep themselves occupied during the summer months in the early 90s recession. I’ve been cleaning through some old stuff lurking in our garage, before work started in there this week.... adders.blog https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/london-in-the-summertime/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=juvenilia+ https://adders.blog/2026/05/26/heres-some-juvenilia-of-mine.html

Louis Elton: "Most agree we should reject the Slopbeast. Humanity is built for greater things than amusing itself to death in TikTok pleasure palaces. However, few agree on how we move forward." https://unherd.com/2026/05/how-to-end-the-age-of-slop/

Oh, here’s something from a long time ago: TTRPG writing I did about 25 years ago, from White Wolf’s Hunter: the Reckoning. It’s been so long since I wrote fiction and game advice /rules that I’d pretty much forgotten I wasn’t bad at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wolf_Publishing

I’m not saying that my girls have a “losing things” problem - but this is what the Guides camp leaders have called the lost property bucket: