Andy

A lovely educational thread. If I could justify a duffle or pea coat out here I would, but there's only so many winter layers I need. I guess my Mcnair mountain shirt (mcnairshirts.com) is a fitting alternative.

As someone who's last job was running a hospitality business and is now works doing digital things, this hits hard. www.noemamag.com/why-is-every...

Measuring the impact of this extremely hot summer in lost GDP rather than human costs like restless nights, runs cut short, amount of brown grass trodden on, panic inducing headlines read etc is a real bummer.

Video podcasts aren't podcasts

Hey @developer.chrome.com. Fuck all the way off into the sea with your 4gb AI file that comes with the new version of Chrome. css-tricks.com/googles-prom...

Web devs of Bluesky. The Green Web Foundation has just published a report on "The State of the Fossil-Free Internet" that is well worth reading. Qudos to @sustainable-dev.bsky.social for his dev work on the project. fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/

Even if I've grown up on t'internet, it's never not weird and slightly thrilling when you randomly find something you've done being posted about by someone else.

Bit rich to spend weeks after the Gorton and Denton byelection bashing the Greens talking points and then claiming some of them as your own. I agree with what he's saying here but it would ring more true if he'd been saying this before the attacks on Iran...

@jamesjgill.bsky.social This from @bcmerchant.bsky.social is the counterpoint to the Matt Shumer piece you posted the other week. It's long but well worth it, bring a cuppa. Lots of further reading from it too! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...

"Take search as an example. Using #Google search in a certain way can sometimes yield more useful results than #DuckDuckGo or #Ecosia, but that doesn’t mean it should be the default choice." FULL INTERVIEW >

"That said, we can and should exercise agency and choice in how and where we spend our time online. Just because something is tricky or time-consuming doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. Companies like #Google rely on us choosing ease over friction to maintain their position..."

🧵 Snippet from our latest interview with Andy "We might have chosen default platforms for email, search & browsing without much thought, & the ethos of the companies running them has probably changed over time. Moving away from them can be time-consuming and tricky..."

"I don't think you understand how many puppies might die if someone doesn't do a something." Chucky Hagan - CEO of Decapa-leash www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hugely impressed with my first @ifixit.com experience. Just replaces the battery on my son's second hand Pixel 6a. Great quality tool kit and clear instructions. 10/10 would fix it again.

Hire Dave for beautiful, performant sites built with the planet in mind.

"Put down your phone and knit something" My neo-luddite call to arms for 2026

Winter is improved if you put your veg trimmings and herb stalks in a bag in the freezer and when it's full you make it into a stock for a banging minestrone. Omnivores can and should add chicken bones & parmesan rinds to the bag too. Extract value & nutrition from what seems like waste.

While kneeling by a lake to take a photo, the man stood next to me said "are you going to have a drink?" to his dog. I looked up and told him I wasn't thirsty and he took a beat and told me he was talking to his dog.

Me - Highlight text and turn into a heading Google Docs - Turn the highlighted text & the previous, paragraph into a heading. Got it Me - What? No, just the highlighted text. GD - Maybe if you add an extra line break? Me - Ok, try now. GD - Nope, that wasn't it either. Maybe try Gemini, IDK.

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Slow hand clap www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Does anyone know of any agencies or small to mid sized businesses that moved from Gsuite or Microsoft365 to more ethical or EU based alternatives?

Google quietly replaces it's Operating Sustainably page with an operations page on it's sustainability website. Ghouls gonna ghoul. Old web.archive.org/web/20250626... New sustainability.google/operations/

This article from @bell.bz on AI usage in companies and agencies is fascinating reading. Really, really good. piccalil.li/blog/are-peo...

This sucks. I often find myself sharing @hf.co articles and initiatives when looking for more balanced take than the usual AI hype. Deeply disappointed to see this happening and their silence in the face of questions from @404media.co. Do better.

Really enjoyed chatting with SEO oracle @davepeiris.bsky.social from @propellernet.co.uk for this article on how AI is effecting SEO, SERPs and discoverability. TLDR: AI changes everything and nothing. www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/how-sho...

Surfacing from a rabbit hole marked: "SEO, GEO, AI Overviews and declining organic click through rates". Hard to know why site traffic from Google might be falling I guess.

Yer da is trying to print the internet again... ...and it looks gooooood. Feeling slightly mindblown by this Picallili article about controlling how your site looks when printed. Fascinating stuff from @vale.rocks via @bell.bz's excellent Index newsletter and site. piccalil.li/blog/printin...

Hugely important report on AI's current energy usage, AI companies' lack of transparency and what future energy demands might look like from @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Luckily all this is offset the societal damage caused by the joy generated by the fact we can create Ghibli inspired action figure avatars of ourselves.

"This is the whey" Mandalorian power lifting club motto

Loved this snarkily accessible puncturing of the AI bubble. The rest of JD's writing on ESC KEY .CO is well worth your time too.

Published an article about why 66% of the online population using Chrome is a bad thing for people and the planet... www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/can-bro...

I've realised that all the time I'd usually spend listening to podcasts about tech bros and cos being awful has been high jacked by binging @realmsunknown.bsky.social. My inner geek is a lot happier than normal as a result. Humble request for a touch more Culture/Iain M Banks content please.

Can anyone recommend a none google online translation platform?

Today on the International Transgender Day of Visibility I celebrate all trans people and wish that they could all just exist, live and love as themselves. Trans rights are human rights. www.hrc.org/campaigns/in... I see you. You're all safe with me and I feel safe with you.

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Can anyone help Sam?

TIL about browser fingerprinting and it made me want to live like Gene Hackman (RIP) in Enemy of the State. www.techradar.com/features/bro...

Roses are red Their stems are deep green The environmental impact of training and running US built LLMs Is truly obscene

👀 Public think Heathrow expansion ‘wrong priority’. Just 6% said expanding airports should be an investment priority, found polling of more than 2,000 people by @yougov.co.uk we commissioned with Possible. Find out more: www.independent.co.uk/business/pub...

AI Needs Your Help Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive. Every sip of water you take and every light you turn on could be sustaining the AI systems that uphold your digital conveniences. savethe.ai