Bannatyne shuts down in Manchester, if only all the spas in gyms in the Manchester area would get in touch with their best offers.

Join #freeourfeeds and @eurosky.social on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin as European leaders, policymakers, developers, and investors explore what's already being built and chart the path forward for Europe’s open social web. We are so pleased that @alexandrageese.bsky.social will be joining us!

Our European-focused work, under the brand of @eurosky.social is taking off. Our first in-person event happens in Berlin on November 19, to discuss and share opportunities for European open social #atrproto infrastructure operated in Europe. We're announcing our speakers here!

With the UK's steps into the age gated internet and digital ID back again like the renegade master, the #techgrumps have plenty to be grumpy about in this month's podcast.

Fancy handing over all your data to Oracle or Palantair? Lets make that easy with the new Digital ID cards! Join the campaign: Say No to Digital IDs action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaig... #idcards

#Techgrumps 3.32 is now live Your illegal, racially motivated stops will go more smoothly rss.com/podcasts/tec... This time with Me, @wendyg.bsky.social @eastmad.bsky.social @rnalexander.bsky.social Coming to techgrumps.wordpress.com soon.

Lawmakers are using kids as pawns to push these age-gating bills. But limiting access to information and mandating intrusive data collection doesn’t help kids—it makes them even less safe. Tell lawmakers: online ID checks will ruin the internet. www.stoponlineidchecks.org stoponlineidchecks.org

My Financial Times interview got reprinted on the front page of the newspaper The Australian Financial Review with an incredible illustration of the contents of my mind and the big handle I turn when I blog www.afr.com/technology/t...

Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Oct 2025) We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing AI attempting to rewrite history, Agentic AI browsers fooled and Rabbit R1 is back? To quote Buckminster Fuller "You never change things by…

Fascinating workshop on death and digital legacy by @cubicgarden.com at #mydata2025.. letters of wishes can be machine readable and even automated according to #mydata principles - but you have to keep a human in the process as an approver.

How many non-fiction female authors have you listened to? Asks the deep dive while looking beyond the male crisis.

Good morning! If you’re on mastodon.social (or another server running nightly builds) you can begin quoting posts in your posts (quooting?) starting today. Remember, you control whether you can be quoted, and call always retract your post from a specific quote. And you can quote me on that!

Blog changes and self-hosting

Meet the Mozfest wranglers this November

Motorcycling lane filtering is a must! Like it or not car drivers

Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Sept 2025) We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing how we are being watched, wishing people will stop sharing pictures with ChatGPT and people in the UK told to delete emails In order to…

#Mydata 2025: Machine readable letter of wishes, the workshop Death is inevitable, yet most of us are woefully unprepared. Fear and lack of time often prevent us from putting our affairs in any order, leaving our loved ones to pick up the pieces of a difficult period compounded by uncertainty.…

My Sourdough experiments so far... This is not going to be a baking and sourdough blog, this is one time thing.

I present the "Terminal velocity unhindered by dark clouds" #pacemakerdevice mix Recorded and mixed live on a KLM flight back to #Manchester

What happened to hobbies? Hobbies remain one of the last apparently legitimate areas of ridicule. Perhaps that’s also why they’ve faded away? But they can also help you be more interesting and confident as a person

A lesson in separation of concerns: Google’s gemini hijacked The news Google's Gemini AI was hijacked via a hidden prompt in a calendar invite. Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home. For likely the first time ever, security researchers have…

Could you recreate Google OPAL using XPROC? Pipelines and AI apis

My latest #pacemakerdevice mix A Storm in a french grapevine Something for the headphones on your Monday morning commute. Just don't sing it out loud 😅.

Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Aug 2025) We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing browsers extensions turned into scraper bots, bodies used to fingerprint you with wifi and Mozilla under more pressure. To quote…

An update on where I have been recently (post R&D) Its been around 4 months since I officially left BBC R&D. Its been a while since I did a catch up of where I am and a lot has happened...

Interested in the #fediforum especially the notion of a #fediforumeurope ? Well your dreams have been answered! fediforum.org/news/2025-07... Shame its at the same weekend as #mozfest mas.to/@cubicgarden...

Finally, in her beautiful closing keynote on Rewilding the Internet, @mariafarrell.bsky.social described how we can move from an Internet dominated by “highways” (massive scale, dangerous, centralised) to “hedgerows” (spread-out, smaller, diverse connections) 🌱

Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (July 2025) We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing how how much time we are spending on our smartphones. whats happening with GDPR and the low-background steel problem of the AI contaminated…

Watch Ian Forrester talk about the Public Service Internet and the Fediverse in his keynote at FediForum June 2025. PeerTube: spectra.video/w/tvmX... YouTube: youtu.be/11fHSb_GT48 #FediForum /cc @[email protected] @cubicgarden.com

@cubicgarden.com presented the new BBC R&D report on The Social Internet. My favourite quote, on metrics: “if one message gets someone up on their feet to go out into the world & do something for the betterment of society, that’s more powerful than a billion likes” 👍

I present the Aerodynamic connection #pacemakerdevice mix. Fresh from Amsterdam and Brussels last week.

There is a real need for designers to embrace HDI (Human Data Interaction) over the tired notion of HCI (Human Computer Interaction). This isn't going to come from Apple & Google...

Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media - The video by @[email protected] First shown at the #fediforum

I long for the day when Bluesky finally gets around to implementing being able to check who's in the thread and removing individuals if they're not taking part, and also being able to untag yourself from a conversation.

Delirium and encounter at the Berlin watergate mix Another #pacemakerdevice mix from Germany

I present the Deutschland industrial fly over mix. Fresh from Breman, Germany. A mix which reflects the city maybe?

Lets talk about the future of social media at PublicSpaces 2025 #MakeSocialsSocialAgain #pubconf2025

Six Feet Under a Data Centre: Talking about digital legacy online at #re:publica 25 #rp25

Another quick turnaround on the podcast. However the Techgrumps those perpetually displeased connoisseurs of digital disappointment—are still finding things to grumble about from last month. Apparently, the revolutionary AI is just a rehash of something from a by gone era.

We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed reading how [expensive NFTs were replaced with errors](https://www.404media.co/nfts-that-cost-millions-replaced-with-error-message-after-project-downgraded-to-free-cloudflare-plan/), [Meta adding facial…

The countdown-to-FediForum counter is back on https://fediforum.org A week from right now, FediForum Day 1 will be in full swing. We will have heard the keynote by @cubicgarden, seen some amazing demos and will be in the middle making the agenda for the unconference sessions for the day.

The Fedi-Public service internet? Keynoting at the Fediforum 2025 on June 5-7th.

The #Techgrumps are after a quick turn around, however there is plenty more to be grumpy about!.

Techgrumps 3.26 – Its like being in a whirlpool of apps We are back after a quick turn around and there is plenty to be grumpy about!. Leading the grumpiness this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Hannah Field and Ryan Alexander. Techgrumps 3.26 audio Enjoy the mp3 audio…

Techgrumps 3.25.r3 – When the bed is moving at 2am After a back and forth over recording dates and times, the techgrumps get their act together for a another hour of grumpness. Leading the grumpiness this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Wendy Grossman, Hannah Field and…

Love #TDC25 …the knitter is @hurdygurdygal.bsky.social and the person on the laptop is @cubicgarden.com #Knitting

Pondering what to take to #TDC25 tomorrow. I'm hoping the chatter here will start to look like it used to on the other place. Let me know if you are going. thinkingdigital.co.uk

My Advisory position, conferences and status changes... And I'm just getting started

I'm joining the Fediforum as an advisor

I was going to self publish my book but this looks worth while... i0.wp.com/cubicgarden.... Who knows...?