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: If you drive a plug-in hybrid car (PHEV), it looks like you’ll have the worst deal under the new car tax plan. Clearly BEVs are the best choice, but …
: Concentrating politically right-wing mainstream print media in the UK under single ownership. Will Ofcom and the government approve it? …
: Ok, I succumbed to the Black Friday temptation - I bought a Kindle Colorsoft 2025 edition on a great Amazon offer, enhanced by trading in my current …
: “In reality, the FCC will likely come up empty. If the programme wasn’t broadcast in America, that’s fatal to Trump’s claim and to the FCC …
: LinkedIn really is a place for great engagement when you share something there that captures imaginations. The blog post I wrote about em dashes and …
: We’re just past mid-November. Christmas Day is still five weeks away. Yet all I hear on the radio is Christmas songs. Some neighbours have already put …
: Cloudflare error trying to load ChatGPT. Could it be connected with the reported “massive Cloudflare outage”? www.itpro.com/infrastru…
: We’re intermingling two very different dramas: alternating between the first season of Poirot from 1989 on ITVX, and The Beast In Me that premiered on …
: This is crazy. I have #Chrome running on #Windows11 with four tabs open on a handful of news and social websites - and Chrome is consuming just over 5 …
: “Last week, an environmental disaster took place on Camber Sands beach, on what could turn out to be an unprecedented scale…” …
: Er… Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak? youtu.be/_lwf_MA4M…
: The revelations in the 20,000 pages of Epstein info released in the US yesterday are astonishing. Politico has done a good job with what they call …
: This letter in @thetimes today is the most credible comment about the latest #BBC crisis from anyone I’ve seen so far.
: “Quite simply, we’re creating AIs that are always working in service of the human” – Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/0…
: Really not sure what to make of “ghost posts” on Threads - posts that disappear after 24 hours. Either a super-convenient way to share casual, …
: We watched “The House of Dynamite on Netflix. A gripping tale with a dystopian taste although I thought it was a credible story of what might be. A …
: King Charles needs to move rapidly on this now to demonstrate his ability to resolve this crisis. Stripping his brother of all his privileges would be …
: Trump’s White House just joined Bluesky 😱 There goes the neighbourhood!
: Well, that didn’t last long… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…
: Call Inspector Clouseau! news.sky.com/story/lou…
: This 👉 “King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in …
: Many examples of what you can do with Sora to create high-quality video are truly extraordinary. Yet most I see are too perfect, too unnaturally good, …
: The #OpenSea pivot from #NFT to crypto: “the battle-worn startup has expanded from NFTs to become a one-stop shop for trading all cryptocurrencies …
: One of the great things about autumn is a 4 o’clock cup of tea and two toasted crumpets with melted butter and strawberry jam 😍
: One thing ChatGPT-5 isn’t very good at is creating what it described as “a neat 2026 checklist” graphic for a post I asked it to review before I …
: Labour promised in their manifesto at last year’s general election that they would not increase income tax, national insurance or VAT. So, with all …
: A lot has been said about digital art NFTs, which hardly anyone knew how to explain. The Telegraph has a keen assessment of the rise and fall, noting …
: Whatever you think of Donald Trump, you have to admire his drive and stamina. Extraordinary for a 79 year-old.
: A new word to get used to: “co-bots”, meaning robots that collaborate with humans www.wsj.com/business/…
: "The Art of Less" A good friend recommended a new business book to me: “The Art of Less: How to Focus on What Really Matters at Work.” A couple of years ago, at the …
: One pleasing thing today is that Trump hasn’t been the focus of attention in the mainstream media re the Nobel Peace Prize. After clickbait headlines …
: Read the achievements of this worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. And read about her character, her values, and her struggles. My respect goes to …
: Noticing that Micro.blog posts I’ve written on mobile devices have more typos or syntax errors than those I write via the website. Could be the …
: Clickbait is a “degrading” part of journalism, says Pope Leo, adding that news agencies deliver a service which “requires competence, courage and a …
: With all the fuss and concern about whether the girl who says she’s Madeleine McCann, surely a DNA test would determine whether that’s true or not?
: Slight teething issue with Micro.blog where cross-posting from there to Bluesky suddenly didn’t work. Threads is ok. Something disconnected the …
: Reading that Zelenskyy said he will lobby for Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize if he sends Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine and helps broker a ceasefire …
: If your Windows 11 PC is running 25H2, this useful guide that explains in detail the changes or new functions in 18 core settings is very handy - …
: Installed the micro.blog Android app. I imagine using this more than going to the website.
: I see that my new micro.blog is already populated with the content - posts from my Bluesky and Threads accounts. The power of the fediverse! This post …
: Just signed up for micro.blog. Aiming to publish short posts that are too short for my main blog that will serve as a kind of bookmarking service for …