Batter bits, scraps, dubs, scrumps

13.30, Friday 27 Jun 2025

When I was a kid when you went to a proper chippie - fish and chips traditionally on a Friday - you could ask for “batter bits” (regional naming statistics) which were the wonderful leftover deep-fried scraps of fish batter, and you’d get them free.

Anyway apparently if the scraps build up too much in the fryer they can cause chip shop fires. So always clear them out.


What does my head in about this astounding beatboxing is that it’s all done with the human mouth and the Pleistocene was 2 MILLION YEARS so odds are some pre-historic proto-human was banging rocks and spitting weird synth beats under the Milky Way on the African savannah, and we will never hear it.

Who was the Lennon of the BCE 500,560s, who was the Mozart of the -12,392nd century?


Global Hypercolor was such a great brand name for t-shirts. Bad concept though, garments which change colour based on body heat, look I’m sweating right here, hey I’m suddenly more nervous right now.

I remember playing a video game called Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure, same energy, name-stacking-wise.

There is a company registered in the UK named THIS IS THE COMPANY WITH THE LONGEST NAME SO FAR INCORPORATED AT THE REGISTRY OF COMPANIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND ENCOMPASSING THE REGISTRIES BASED IN SCOTLAN


Coding with Cursor is so weird. You just loop one minute composing a thoughtful paragraph to the AI agent telling it what to do, and then three minutes you wait for it to be done, gazing out the window contemplating the gentle breeze on the leaves, the distant hum of traffic, the slow steady unrelenting approach of that which comes for us all.


The Netflix Originals red N is such an anti-signal, I immediately assume it’s minute-by-minute-honed attention-farming prestige slop.


Hold me closer, tiny shader. Not sure where this is going but this is my first time implementing a shader so dunno.


Some food names where it’s the same thing twice:

  • couscous
  • bonbon
  • piri piri
  • biang biang
  • tartar
  • agar-agar

That TikTok from 2020 of the guy on the longboard lip-syncing Fleetwood Mac was such a vibe you know, an invisible secret sadness at 4s, a whole emotional arc, a flash of sunrise ahead at 21s, I can’t think of anything that so precisely targets coordinates in vibe latent space, with such quick efficiency.

Sean Willis on Bluesky shared the music video for Gold by Chet Faker and it’s a good job I never saw it when I was 18 or I would have moved immediately to LA and burnt the next decade night driving freeways at 4am.

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