If you are paying for Microsoft 365 and don't want all the AI, CoPilot and Cloud shite then enter chat with them and tell them you want the basic version. It isn't available directly from the web site - you have to go and hassle them and it is £50 a year cheaper. You are paying the extra £50 for AI

It's Friday. And I want you to enjoy these fabulous eels from a 19th C. children's reader, printed on cloth. Also note the resplendent goat. That's a goat you could take home to meet your mother. Or...is it? Have a eely good weekend, 'y'all! 🗃️🧪

Everyone! You can HEAR the sharks in the audio links in this article!!! Crackly sharks! Thank you @whysharksmatter.bsky.social 😊

The Springer Nature offices in London have rooms and spaces named for remarkable scientists including Gladys Mae West. This wonderful woman more than deserves an obituary.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

What was thw first ever sci-fi novel? I’ve seen discussion of the first horror and first detective fiction but not the sci-fi. Thoughts?

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

#MedNews - Two-year findings from the Early Surveillance for Autoimmune Diabetes (ELSA) study demonstrate that screening for type 1 diabetes in children is feasible in the UK. Full story 👉 buff.ly/R94Gw1F #T1D

🚨KINDLE MONTHLY DEAL ALERT🚨 The #LIFEAFFIRMING SCIENCE FICTION SPECTACULAR #TheSpaceBetweenUs by one of Scotland’s most REVERED authors @dougjohnstone.bsky.social is ON SALE NOW on #kindle in the UK for the month of February!❄️ 🔗https://shorturl.at/txwfR #TeamOrenda #SciFi #EbookDeals

If you haven’t read this, you totally should read this ❤️

The thing I love about UK Scouts is that sometimes it’s very outdoorsy and practical skills and sometimes it’s… walking round town testing chila to see which shop’s chips taste best. Looking forward to hearing my Explorer Scout’a opinion on this as she is a fussy creature!

#OtD 2 Feb 1988 4 lesbians abseiled into the UK House of Lords in protest at the homophobic section 28. In 2017, 4 other lesbians climbed onto the Houses of Parliament in order to put up a blue plaque commemorating the 1988 action stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9181...

This podcast will kill me. But it's worth it. You know what to do.

Desert Island Discs today was the boss of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The STFC is a multimillion pound science organisation with 3000 staff. It wasn't mentioned once. A weird omission. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Pitstop at the East Midlands Aeropark on the way home turned into a great visit - always amazing to see a Vulcan and chat to a Vulcan pilot and we had a walk through a Nimrod. Well worth a visit!

The UK must understand the full extent of Russian interference and influence, before the next General Election. Nothing less than a full statutory public inquiry, will adequately inform the public.

This is very bad news

One thing that is true in this age of "AI" is that authenticity is going to be prized more than ever before. A single hand-scrawled sign is going have more impact than the smoothest "AI" image because the people seeing it knows it comes from someone's brain, not a tuned algorithm.

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?

This hit so fucking hard today.

ANYWHO, back to Prometheus. Season 2 of Podyssey starts this Saturday!

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

Sunday afternoon snow drops and time spent patting a friend’s pony and not looking at the news.

Burns’ night and again I’m left thinking the words of “Ye Jacobites by name” are as relevant to now as ever. Just change the Jacobites to MAGAs or Russians or or or…. www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertb...

📒 NEW STUDY finds “Adults with episodic migraine experienced more migraine days and reduced deep sleep after spring Standard Time–to–Daylight Saving Time transition.”

Why don’t polar bears eat penguins? They can’t get the wrappers off 😂

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

The Oscars.

Makes more sense

In my last job, I was part of a Copilot working group which had participants from across the whole (large) company. Our conclusion was that it was useful for summarising meetings or parsing through email threads but otherwise it made everything worse. We recommended it for “senior managers only”.

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

Yesterday we talked about how cervical screening is a really important tool in helping us to eliminate cervical cancer. Today we'd like to share a few tips about how to make your cervical screening experience as comfortable for you as possible...

By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party, a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their elected official. #ukpol

The viral campaign for @alexpodyssey.bsky.social Season 2 has got a little out of hand. Doing the final edit of the first two episodes at the moment. Prometheus and Pandora. They are GOOD and could not be more timely. But then again every story I look at is timely.

Shark1: What is it we can smell from a quarter of a mile away? Shark2: Blood. Shark1: Not Toast? Shark2: No. Shark1: Eugene, I think I’m having a stroke.

Look up if you are in GL52 - we have visible-to-the-naked-eye aura!

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

So much popcorn, kernels popping everywhere.

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Swim baby North American right whale! Swim! What an image of nature’s fight to survive.

Sailing Rigs xkcd.com/3193/

ICE shot out a young trans man's eyes for the crime of caring about his neighbors.