Hallucinations, misunderstandings and some other frequently found accessibility issues amongst other issues with using AI for comms; check out what else my brill co-author @matissenelis.com has to say on using AI in @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/sallyp...

"My doorbell won't work because a website is broken" is not the glorious frictionless future technology promised us, is it?

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Hallucinations, misunderstandings and some other frequently found accessibility issues amongst other issues with using AI for comms; check out what else my brill co-author @matissenelis.com has to say on using AI in @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/sallyp...

I've been doing talks on state of UK news industry for organisations* and they keep saying it's so hard to get a message distributed, let alone talked about? Mass audience gone to video, old media won't carry stuff, Twitter decaying without an equivalent replacement. *If you want to book me, email!

I upgraded my Beauchamp to a Beaufort and it fits both my laptop AND a massive sequinned kaftan in it so I have that indoor-to-outdoor gathering nailed. Thanks for helping me with my research 🤩

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees. Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

I have been through all my notifications settings and I cannot for the life of me find out how to turn off the stupid "so and so completed a year / 10 years" whatever job update on LinkedIn can anyone help please I can't keep telling it "this is rubbish less please"

None of this would be happening if pogs were still a thing.

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"But there's no budget."

The depth of colour on the leaves of this Acer “Okagami” is truly stunning.

regret to inform you all that we have another one www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

“All Fired Up” oil painting 16”x16” Coming soon to Montana Trails Gallery in Bozeman. #oilpainting #sunset #painting #canadianart #montana #art #landscape

Bought some off-brand filters for my V60 dripper and saw the water and coffee grinds rush through a hole into the mug. Added a spoonful of honey and turned it into the sort of coffee my Latvian granddad used to make. How do you drink your coffee (or tea, I suppose, if we must)

The book is now available too #AccessibleComms

Omg try this one weird tip @northernwrites.bsky.social

It's International Week of Happiness at Work (I know) and I contributed to this article on what orgs can do. When I think about what individuals can do, it involves getting out to talk to people more - in person if that's a possibility, or on social sessions online www.linkedin.com/posts/lisari...

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

"You have to know how to use A.I. for getting any kind of job in the future" has me pondering the fact that we are actually terrible at knowing what we're going to need to know to do in the future.

Looking to get a new work rucksack. Current Knomo Beauchamp 5 years on gas developed a knack for unzipping if I have to get a wriggle on. Needs to have the back strap that can sit on a mini suitcase, pockets for moderate size laptop and look tidy. Any suggestions / should I just replace it?

I can't take all the credit this is written with @matissenelis.com #a11y #ai

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

this is actually extraordinary and a lot of it's been done just by asking people to drive basically any car produced since 2007. almost no cars later than that (and some earlier) comply with ULEZ - it's not forcing everyone into a Tesla, it's incredibly basic improvements

Does AI help or hinder accessibility? That's what @matissenelis.com and I were asked by Business Reporter and beyond "it's complicated" here's what we had to say on the matter 👇 www.business-reporter.co.uk/management/d... #AI #a11y #accessibility

It's definitely a divide tho not necessarily agebased 😅

Over the weekend, I was reminded of an observation someone shared that books by women about leadership get placed in the self-help section of bookstores while books written by men about leadership get put in the business section. This was a Barnes & Noble 🙄🤬🤨

Urgh that Gemini advert "Which of these flowers would make the most unexpected arrangement" Why not ask the human florist who works in the shop? It's a scenario where there's literally a professional *right there* who'd be delighted to share their expertise.

“I’m trying to find a monastery where all the monks are over six foot five” “That’s a tall order”

POOO OORK

Has anyone been working or traveling through Nine Elms London Underground Station recently? During the day the sun shines nicely through the roundel, I'm just curious what time of the day the light is hitting this position at the moment. I'm planning a revisit next week maybe.

I think @wedge.black might be the first person in the world who isn't our editor to receive a hard copy - I know @matissenelis.com and I haven't had ours yet! If you'd like to be like Wedge (who wouldn't) use PUBMON30 for 30% off til 4 Oct at www.koganpage.com/marketing-co... #AccessibleComms #a11y

For those of us with family with Huntington's, this is immensely good news. There's a long way to go until this is a widespread treatment, but fingers crossed that it leads to other positive developments.

Raptcha: select all boxes with people ascending to Heaven

£55k to be the CEO of bees. The BEO. Sign me up!

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

Made two phone calls already today (audio only, unscheduled) and no-one imploded, and we were able to resolve some things that would've been really fiddly to email about and we need better memes to help us in these trying times please

waow

Just the right amount of Wicker Man-ishness for me.

That conflicted feeling about 9am being too early for a meeting on a Monday and yet not having to hover in a "not focused" state before the 10am call it's replaced

Feeling Witchy #AccidentalShard

It might feel a bit early, but I’ve had so many requests already… My 2025 Christmas Cards are now available to pre-order www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

"Deaffy Drag Queens: Glitter, Gags and GSV" > A flamboyant version of British Sign Language, developed by the deaf LGBT community, Mary first learned it when she moved from Ireland in the 1980s and joined the London-based Brothers and Sisters Club. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.