Lovely tribute to The Lady Killers but what's striking is how much better almost everything looks today. www.bfi.org.uk/features/70-...

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Donald Trump won the FIFA peace prize, but they never said who won the FIFA physics or literature prizes

Lots of detail here, down to the level of which models are used more for programming (Anthropic) or for roleplay (DeepSeek).

Maybe asking for an image in a manga style wasn't the best idea...

Christmas Dinners Around The World. UK: Sage and onion turkey, sips mulled wine. Australia: Thymey kangaroo, downs port.

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”

Nano Banana Pro is the “ChatGPT Moment” for Visual Communication - Jakob Nielsen jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/nano-banana-… (lots of details and ideas about use of these types of images) #AI #UX #NanoBanana #images #VisualCommunication

Podcast 163: Discovering what different users think of your documentation www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/podc...

There once was a woman called Di Who liked to use AI She committed a crime Through a prompt with a rhyme futurism.com/artificial-i...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

A client is looking for a UK contract Technical Author. See www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/vaca...

"And if your OSS contributions do lead to your dream job, like they did for me, remember to balance the scales one last time. Pass on your knowledge to new contributors and especially to new tech writers. Pay it forward." Tiffany Hrabusa at @writethedocs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqry...

We've added a short guide to our website: A plan for improving outdated help documentation. www.cherryleaf.com/useful-resou...

Cherryleaf runs a monthly survey that tracks hiring demand for Technical Authors across the UK. November 2025. Employers in the UK continued to hire technical communicators in November. However, the strength of demand differed across job boards. See: www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/cher...

Thing I found out today: if you're on Universal Credit (or other means-tested benefits) you can get into Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, or the Tower of London for £1 (and 50% off at one cafe per site too). Because poor people deserve days out too www.hrp.org.uk/one-pound-ti...

Evaluating policies and procedures with AI personas www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/eval...

Snow. We'll be trapped, trapped, I tell you TW15

Snow! TW15

Testing documentation with AI: The reader simulator www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/test...

Here are some of the AI apps and agents we've developed for technical writing www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/here...

Strawberry Hill House

Oh my

crazy IG em_clarkson

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Freepik just shipped Camera Angles in Spaces and Image Editor. It lets creators reframe shots post‑gen: tilt, orbit, parallax, and preserve textures—think “virtual dolly/craning” for AI images. Powered by Qwen Image Edit, auto-switching with Nano Banana in some modes.

🌟 Google Docs Gets Smarter wondertools.substack.com/p/google-docs-… #AI #GoogleDocs #features

Getting the most from AI when creating policies and procedures www.cherryleaf.com/2025/11/gett...

"Here is the tipping forecast, issued by the local government association at 2230 hours: Bournemouth, North Somerset, Herefordshire, East Sussex, Newcastle - recycling only..."

Currently discussing potential candidates for next year's #traitors #celebritytraitors We have: Sir Ian McKellen Boris Johnson Theresa May Mel Giedroyc Sue Perkins Both Brian Cox's Richard Ayoade Sandi Toksvig Graham Norton Jack Dee Phil Tufnell

OK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.

Oh Nick, oh David #traitors #celebritytraitors

This could change the course of personal agent development. It also feels like a dumb move from Amazon. Shopify is leaning into the curve. Amazon could end up scrambling to catch up to AgentCommerce like Walmart did after eCommerce took off. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

We ran the pilot of our Managing docs with AI course yesterday. Main lesson from the pilot was, let them build agents and apps and see what each other has created. www.cherryleaf.com/training-cou...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

New: The dates for our next instructor-led policies and procedures writing training course 2 x three hour sessions: 15/16 December 2025 See www.cherryleaf.com/training-cou...

Coming in 2026 #coverreveal & yes it is fiction

I wrote up some notes on two new papers on prompt injection: Agents Rule of Two (from Meta AI) and The Attacker Moves Second (from Anthropic + OpenAI = DeepMind + others) simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/n...

The Game of Wool has a fundamental problem: the time needed to knit well means the show has to make compromises - huge needles, chunky yarn. It's the same time problem that All That Glitters had with gold-smithing. #GameofWool

Happy Moinween! 🎃

New: The dates for our next Managing and mastering documentation projects with AI training course Don’t delay: There are four places remaining. 2 x three hour sessions: 8/9 December 2025 See www.cherryleaf.com/training-cou...

#5

Tried out Google Pomelli - an AI app for generating social media ads. It looks good.

Documentation product management: Does the AI era demand a new discipline? www.cherryleaf.com/2025/10/docu...