AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock Office workers find that they are being flooded by AI generated workslop that's paradoxically making them less productive.

Looks like AI is not the magical tool that CEOs make it out to be.

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Scrabble board with words (vaguely) associated with the Scilly Isles!

Scilly scrabble…

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.

Could these be the real culprits?

The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.

This thread explains! 🧵

Signed for a variety of reasons, but one of which is that this would bring much upland land into public ownership (ideally for nature restoration).

Study: 'Default Nudge' to Oat Milk Reduces Carbon Footprint of Cafe Drinks UK study finds making oat milk the default at campus cafes boosts plant-based orders, cutting milk carbon footprints per drink.

Gosh, our research has made it into ‘Daily Coffee News’! Success at last 😆 dailycoffeenews.com/2026/04/10/s...

I love a good STP review! Had one recently from the Turk’s Head on St Agnes, Scilly Isles. Strong recommend - plenty of sauce and a huge scoop of clotted cream.

Does Oxford University have a problem with Sticky Toffee Pudding?

Trump's followers on Truth Social are calling him the Antichrist after his post of an image depicting himself as Jesus

Green fruit dove with energetic scribbles, mostly ink

Pink dove with big blousy brown flower, aggressively mixed media

Expressive owl with textures and redness

Many coloured fruit dove, very watery watercolour ish ink drawing

I’ve got some nice bird drawings. Things have all slowed down and shares on these posts helps, if you like the pictures and their existence. #supportartists and all that www.chloecumming.com/birds

This has to be a joke

I wish there was.

Streeting has taken the most in donations from private health firms of any MP.

It’s a conflict of interest big enough to be seen from space.

It’s extremely worrying that Starmer is happy with this.

Can only think Labour does not want a publicly funded, publicly delivered NHS.

It’s a brilliant blog. Thank you for doing it. I think people have very little idea what cancer can be (often is) like. Sending love xx

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?

The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.

Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

15th April?

Article Link: The Blockade Is the Message, How a fuel price spike became a fascist audition

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism

🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d

But we also replaced one Khamenei with another; empowered the IRGC; did nothing for the protesters, killed over a thousand civilians, including hundreds of children and lost at least 13 US service members, alongside over 500 wounded); left Iran with enough highly enriched uranium to make 10-12 nuclear weapons; gave it greater incentive to try to build them; irreparably tarnished America's reputation; did lasting damage to the US and world economies; depleted our arsenal of scarce missile-defence interceptors; diverted valuable military assets from other regions; empowered Russia with an oil price windfall; triggered further conflict in Lebanon; further eroded domestic and international law; and may have left Iran in control of the most valuable waterway in the world, in a position to earn tens of billions of dollars in revenue per year through tolls, while holding the world economy hostage.

So @jderbyshire.ft.com asked @philgordondc.bsky.social if the Iran war is the US’s Suez moment. He said no, but then pithily and pitilessly sums up how it has been a comprehensive strategic failure. Oof!
www.ft.com/content/0cbc...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

"Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real.
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reform UK's Matt Goodwin caught out using AI in new book REFORM UK's Matt Goodwin has been left red-faced after he was found to have used AI in his new book.

I rather like that he's resorted to self publishing. I did not expect this to happen so quickly. I thought the fall would happen later, after a more dramatic rise. www.thenational.scot/news/2595986...

US to pay Total $1bn to switch from wind to oil and gas development Deal comes as Donald Trump faces pressure to limit energy price increases triggered by Iran war

Madness

ME: Swansea man was active but now he can't walk or talk at 28 Tomos is one of thousands with ME in Wales, with services described as “a desert” for those most affected.

"It's just devastating. It sounds dramatic, but it's life-changing."

"It's like a grieving process."

💔

No-one who hasn't been through something like this can really understand that grief.

Could some airsafety wonks weigh in on when the US's capacity degrades so much that it's below international standards?

Pretty much everyone I know is now avoiding the US, even as a stopover point to change planes…

Email etiquette, a timeline

2015: Scrupulously edit all emails, FULL punctuation

2017: Don't use too many exclamation marks! People will think you are a small girl!

2021: Occasionally leave out full-stops as a power move

2026: One typo per email to show an AI didn't write it

15 years ago, the UK government said that the horticulture industry should voluntarily phase out peat in gardening products, & that if it didn't, legislation would be introduced so as to end peat use in retail compost for amateur gardeners by 2020... In 2022 came "an intention to ban by 2024"... ☹️

A Sierra Club-Ballantine Book 95¢ THE POPULATION BOMB: POPULATION CONTROL OR RACE TO OBLIVION? WHILE YOU ARE READING THESE WORDS FOUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE DIED FROM STARVATION. MOST OF THEM CHILDREN. DR. PAUL R. EHRLICH POPULATION BOMB KEEPS TICKING Foreword by David Brower— Executive Director, Sierra Club

CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM I have understood the population explosion intellectually for a long time. I came to understand it emotionally one stinking hot night in Delhi a couple of years ago. My wife and daughter and I were returning to our hotel in an ancient taxi. The seats were hopping with fleas. The only functional gear was third. As we crawled through the city, we entered a crowded slum area. The temperature was well over 100, and the air was a haze of dust and smoke. The streets seemed alive with people. People eating, people washing, people sleeping. People visiting, arguing, and screaming. People thrusting their hands through the taxi win-dow, begging. People defecating and urinating. People clinging to buses. People herding animals. People, people, people, people. As we moved slowly through the mob, hand horn squawking, the dust, noise, heat, and cooking fires gave the scene a hellish aspect. Would we ever get to our hotel? All three of us were, frankly, frightened. It seemed that anything could happen-but, of course, nothing did. Old India hands will laugh

Yes his rhetoric was alarmist, and turned out not to be true. But it was also racist? The population bomb was about gross Other people not controlling their animal fertility. All paths of birth rates talk lead to one place.

ANALYSIS: Badenoch and Farage might not want to admit it, but Conservative and Reform plans to scrap net zero whilst boosting the North Sea would actually make the UK even more reliant on gas imports 🤔

www.carbonbrief.org/...

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

You can either have the VCs agitating to end the REF so that they can decrease the proportion of research time in staff contracts or the ones reifying REF-ability as the only marker of a genuine academic. Tying pension access to REF status is a new low:

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...