Jo Berry

Wow.

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture.

Hey, it works!

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

A black cat with three white whiskers is lying on a reading chair, draped across a narrow blue cushion and her fish and mouse toys, looking contented with the world

I re-fluffed her favourite pillow 💙

Which is HILARIOUS because Feanor asked Galadriel for her hair back in Valinor and she told him to go pound sand. (Gal also refused to have any truck with Sauron in his “Gift-giver” form.)

Gimli, however, passed the Galadriel sniff test.

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Awww yeah!

That looks like nothing short of heaven

It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

Dragonposting

A case of heart-shaped cakes at a patisserie. Some have smooth raspberry glaze on top with white chocolate love letters; on the right are pastries with pistachio and raspberry and a dark chocolate heart on top

Cute 💕 cakes at Premiere Moisson 😋

The rebuttal to this is that Star Trek is not a show about how the future could be but how the present should be. To eradicate disability, rather than accept and accommodate it, is a eugenicist ideal.

A case of casting shaping rewrites, I wonder

A white trumpeter swan drifts across the glass surface of a pond peppered with lilly pads. Stacks of submerged deadfall lie undisturbed.

Here’s one from a wayzzz back, “Slow Drift,” oil on linen, 30”x24”.

I heard a lot of good buzz about this script before it went into production, and the whole time I was imagining it was written from Aurora’s POV starting with her waking up. At no point did I imagine it would have Jim as anything but the slow-reveal antagonist 😰

I triple dog dare @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to make a speech saying, "Neither will we bail the US out after it commits unmanaged hegemonic suicide."

A woman sat alone in a restaurant full of couples. A waiter stands by her table saying “WE'RE GOING TO RELOCATE YOU TO THE BAR. YOUR CONTENTMENT IS UNNERVING THE COUPLES.”

And here’s a cartoon which takes us full circle

Such a wonderful thread

An old book shaped like a heart, with hand-written poems inside.

Next up for #ValentinesDay and #HistoricalHearts: The so-called “Heart Book" (c.1550) is a collection of 83 Danish love ballads. It's the oldest known Danish manuscript of its kind, and an early example of the heart being used to signify romantic love.

Love Poems for Our Friends     Where are the poems for those who know us?   Not for star-crossed loves, for agonies of desire, but words for those who go with us the whole road.   How would they start, I wonder? You let me crash when I was new to ruin. You came to me though visiting hours were over. You held me when my loves were done, were flames. Yes, we will lose a few in the changes. But these are the ones who save us: not the charmers, not the comets of wild passion, not the ups-and-downs of love's unlucky hungers,   but the ones who stand by our shoulder at the funeral and lead us back to the city of the living and put our favorite record on the player and go away, and come back, always come back,   with bread and wine and one word, one word: stay. —Joseph Fasano

A day that celebrates Love doesn't have to be about Eros. Here's something for those other great loves in our lives.

The Men In The Turnip Field: an old Somerset story collected in Kevin Crossley-Holland's Folk Tales Of The British Isles.

The best one page ghost story ever put to paper.

I’m assuming this is a recent superfan creation and not something that was created for the initial marketing back at launch? But maybe it was the latter, that was a weird marketing campaign…anyway, super cool to see!

Get the heck on this folks if you haven't seen it before. Classic.

Side note, but Trek's longeivity as a franchise makes it a great example of the Douglas Adams maxim about tech: anything invented before you were born is just part of how the world works, anything invented when you're young is novel and exciting, and anything invented when you're over 30 is heresy.

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)