Been trying to find actual articles about this viral "AI is reading your gmail" thing and best I can understand: Google rolled out an OPT-IN feature that allows Gemini to scan your email. The settings instructions in the viral posts WILL prevent you from opting in but ISN'T necessary for opting out

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

Seal cam is here! Watch the daily lives of England's largest grey seal colony as pupping season takes place this winter. Thousands of pups will be born over the coming weeks and you can see it all unfold LIVE on YouTube. Tune in now: buff.ly/MF2t3OS Photo: Rob Coleman

I have always imagined this #1920s Callot Soeurs gown as some beautiful ornament or a piece of stained glass, the jewelled colours framed in gold feel like a precious stone rather than a woven garment @drexeluniversity.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The trail camera footage is in, and we are close to finishing our counts for 2025. While we wait for the final population numbers for the critically endangered Vancouver Island marmot, please enjoy this highlight from the footage we reviewed.

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.

Otters are just beavers who don't give a dam.

Here is a picture of a baby otter for no good reason.

enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted IG community_clothing and campaignforwool

Picturing a Victorian e-fit: "No, the hat was much wider, and it had roses on it."

A still sky, with very little movement in the clouds, and for a moment I wondered if they had forgotten to switch on the simulation.

Cloudfare outage causes surge in national power use, as everyone sticks the kettle on.

Manchester Central Library is appealing for missing Piccadilly Radio tapes to help complete its digital archive of historic shows

If a picture paints a thousand words...

I like the Me who washes the dishes and does the laundry. She makes life a little less aarrggghhhhh for all the other Mes. Good job, Me 🤗🏆

I don't see these 'this person wouldn't have been a British hero under the proposed asylum rules' pieces as being positive. They're less 'Gotcha, racists!', than 'Here, racists, target these ones!'. If people want to tell their own story, fair enough, but maybe don't shine the spotlight on them.

American artist Georgia O'Keeffe was born #OnThisDay in 1887. She owned this black cotton wrap dress with a white rolled collar. It was during her time in New Mexico that she created a wrap dress that would become a staple of her style. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum #WomensArt #fashionhistory

Listening to the Kim Wilde megamix on Sounds of the Eighties, and emoting into my hairbrush.

I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme. #CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky

@atcherleyons.bsky.social Have you stopped crackling yet?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born #OnThisDay 👩‍🎨 Though best known as a painter, drawing was central to her practice. Read about her surreal drawings 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-surreal-drawings-of-georgia-okeeffe#OnThisDay 'Georgia O'Keeffe' by Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) 📷 Wikimedia Commons

Not the greatest pic of a family of moorhens, but the magnificent feet are on full display! I love the Ulster-Scots name for a moorhen - sheugh duck. #CootsAndMoorhens #BirdOfTheDay

Working from home #wfh

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

👀 Irish data centres are now using 22% of all electricity generated in Ireland, more than all urban homes combined & drawing an unquantified amount (lots) of Ireland’s water capacity Could AI demands be related to recent push to fast-track infrastructure, side-step safeguards & reduce court access?

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A number of my family were baptised here, including my 3xg-grandmother (in 1831) and my 2xg-grandfather (in 1855). Some of them were also christened in their local Church of England parish church, just to cover their options. #IrishGenealogy

This is a swan, honest. Taken at Barnes WWT Centre. #swans #BirdOfTheDay

Sometime in the late 80’s a pair of Mute Swans nested in the garden (next to the greenhouse). We couldn’t hang washing out because the cob would rip it off the line, but generally they were pretty chill and it was a real treat to witness. #BirdOfTheDay #Swans

After a programme to eradicate rats on the Isle of Muck, Co Antrim, the puffins have returned.

This is one of the most endangered mammals in the world – there are fewer than 400 alive in the wild right now – so it is pretty special to watch this mom and her two pups emerge from their burrow. Kids will be kids, no matter how rare your species! P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots

A marshmallow with wings: one of two beautiful white-headed 'Northern' Long-tailed Tits in Scalloway, Shetland today. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

Have seen a few #DucksOutOfWater photos today, and I'm never one to duck out of a trend. Taken at Barnes WWT Centre in 2007 1/2.

#DucksOutOfWater from a day at Big Pool Woods #BirdOfTheDay #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin #photography

Just watched a presentation on the revamped 'Irish Newspaper Archives' (launching later this week), and it looks really good. Hopefully I'll find *something* to complain about when I try it out, else I won't know myself 😉 #IrishGenealogy

When you're cleaning our your cupboards and find that old sea otter you thought you'd lost years ago.

Limiting access to customer's genetic information is fair enough, but limiting access to public records doesn't really make sense. Gate-keeping such information in this way is also a worrying precedent. #Genealogy

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

Otterbiography

Well what an unexpected opportunity I had this morning, this poor Goldcrest flew into the office window so I kept it warm until it recovered a need flew away. A very special encounter #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #photography

Thinking about the 130 or so British librarians killed in WW1. Their colleagues raised funds to create a lasting memorial to their sacrifice. Sadly, the tablet they commissioned is now displayed behind the scenes at the British Library, visible only to staff. #fwwhist #PubLibs 💙📚

I love the call of the eider ducks, it always sounds like there's some good gossip 😄

everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?

I enjoyed 'Mr Burton' (the first half more than the second), but the scenery was a bit Uncanny Valley - or possibly Uncanny Valleys, in this case.

As Francis Crick put it, ‘I’m afraid we always used to adopt – let’s say, a patronizing attitude towards her.’ I wrote about DNA pioneer Dr Rosalind Franklin, and how she was deliberately excluded from her male colleagues' conversations.

Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

Juat discovered via @whenisbirths.bsky.social that Sesame Street debuted on this day in 1969. This came to mind, pretty much instantly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_tr... #Muppets

Teaching a baby otter to swim:

Late on #SuperSeabirdSunday and early for #BlueSkyMonday, but I know that any time is good for the #Puffin appreciation crowd! From my 2024 visit to Skomer Island. #Birds #UKWildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin 🌿