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Assistive Technology Lead for Natspec TechAbility. Aspiring double Bassist and lover of many musical genres. News and opinions about Assistive Tech, music, outdoors and random other stuff.
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How AI and new technologies can revolutionise work and study www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Choose 10 music books that have influenced you, changed your life or blown your mind. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky 💙📚 #MusicSky #MusicBooks #Books #BookChallenge 3/10

Do you forget to use alt-text when you post images? I'm forgetful, too. Fortunately, you can turn on reminders! Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text. Done! Easy accessibility.

Choose 10 music books that have influenced you, changed your life or blown your mind. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky 💙📚 #MusicSky #MusicBooks #Books #BookChallenge 2/2

Meanwhile in Norfolk... students haven't discovered ChatGPT yet and are still paying to cheat.

A suitably Max Tundra remix by @maxtundra.com Headphones/earbuds a must. Stereo separation going on like it's 1965.

Mid morning snacks greatly improved when you're Working from in-laws and they've been out to the Friday market.

Choose 10 music books that have influenced you, changed your life or blown your mind. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky 💙📚 #MusicSky #MusicBooks #Books #BookChallenge 1/2

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...? This is useful and worth reading but I am always amused to see “phishing” in such well written documents. I cannot wait for the day we just say “scam email/text” . I think cyber people are so used to made up words they forget how they turn the public off

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Successful second homes crackdown means homes are £30k cheaper for Cymry, who actually need them.

Power cut! Luckily I'd already poured a beer. Unluckily I'd just put a pizza in the oven...

Micromanagement level: Expert

I will be celebrating Eastenders' 40th anniversary by starting a fight in my local launderette.

Last time I "had Covid" I didn't. I wasn't skiving either, I just forgot how the tests worked. Missed a concert I'd been planning for a year and a night out with a mate who'd flown from overseas before I realised. By then it was too late to admit so I spent 3 more days indoors.

Some gleanings from two leadership sessions at #ATIA2025 which bookended my conference experience. www.linkedin.com/posts/filmci...

Several others have already recommended this piece by @lewisgoodall.com, but it really is worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

A year after the DSA changes and everything is going exactly as (we) predicted 🙄 BBC News - Northampton University student criticises DSA support - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

News is overwhelming. People offline don't understand what's happening. Their rights are being pulled out from under them. Print out these flyers and take it to the streets. Featuring a QR cosd that links to explainer and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...

“I went around the corner to see if spring was there.” “Did you find it?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”

Baiting AI bots when they ring the landline about "free loft health checks" is much less fun than baiting real humans. Today's was quite clever, but seemed to not understand the posh accent I adopted and my request to "speak to your superior".

“There is dust on your chairs.” “Tomorrow,” said Toad. “Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.” “Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

Thought for the day.

As someone who loves sound and skateboarding I really love this paper thinking and listening carefully about how skateboarders use and feel about sound and skateboarding phys.org/news/2025-01...

The standing stones at Callenish.

If you like trad music but also value ingenuity and originality I'd highly recommend watching pianist Noah Scott. Finalist in the Young Traditional Musician. Jump to 23.50 for his set www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0027phr

Well done Berghaus 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This free service is going to bring the outdoors to so many more people.

The boy and me about to watch Cocaine Bear. Turns out it features drug misuse. Whoda thought it?

Cruise ships - not only enormously environmentally destructive, but carefully designed for the maximum benefit of infectious diseases #PublicHealth #OneHealth www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

RSVPed to a wedding invite. They asked for song requests, presumably for the evening. I was remarkably restrained.

New blog post: endless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/endless-downward-spiral-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-what3words/ Long-time readers know that I am not a fan of What Three Words. I think it is a closed, proprietary, …

35,000 people have now complained to Ofcom about GB News' contemptible homophobia. Please, join them. action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Well, I'm surprised that some bullshit nonsense has been proven to be bullshit nonsense. Obviously I have bias cos of the whole learning technologist thing, but maybe look a bit closer at the obviously creaking education system as a whole? But sure, banning phones is cheaper.

Back in Blighty and good to see the sun. This one seems colder than the sun they have in Florida though...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

"I really don't know what all the fuss is about," says Lynn. Until she gets hit by a car whose driver doesn't know leaves = zebra. These things are standardised for a reason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...