Matt Fozard

Meon Valley Land Appeal | Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust You have an opportunity to protect a vital part of the Meon Valley

We are fundraising to secure a vital section of the River Meon - please donate if you can 🙏💚

www.hiwwt.org.uk/meon

Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025

ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Not sure if it's just me but LinkedIn seems to have a new influx of bots (all "website designer" with similar style profile pics) who want to connect with me from half way around the world 🤖

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"

Status dashboard:

Highlights of my morning with Copilot:

You're absolutely right - I apologize.
Actually, wait - the real issue is more subtle.
Sorry, your request failed.
You're absolutely right.
You're right - I was wrong about that.
Let me think about this differently.
Wait, that should still work the same way.

Welcome back to Eruptions So, it has been awhile, right? Over the past few years, there have been a lot of changes to my volcano communication world. Scientists moved from Twitter to Bluesky. People decided they wanted podc…

Like a latter-day Dr. Frankenstein, I have revived my Eruptions blog from beyond the grave. My hope is that it doesn't wreak havoc, but instead returns me to writing about volcanoes regularly. You should check it out! eruptions.site/2026/01/28/w...

Oil painting of a towering cumulonimbus cloud over western plains

Currently on the easel. Thankful for a job that keeps me on the search for the most beautiful, moving sights I can find in nature. It’s too easy to forget we live in a world of wonders.

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

Everyone should read this: www.gov.uk/government/p...

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”

* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

discovered a pretty critical coding error in The Human Body where sometimes the way to feel better when you feel too bad to work out is to work out. this is suboptimal for user experience of The Human Body

A winding path through a green field with the sun low on the horizon

Dark trees loom overhead with a patchy blue sky behind the branches

Sheep grazing with an orange sky above

Sunset sky with swooping clouds illuminated from below and a streak of orange in the far distance

Run report: a fine end to the day in Hampshire. 9km, 8C. #ukweather

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

I do hope everyone in tech is subscribed to @quinnypig.com

"I construct the MIME message manually. It's fine. Everything is fine. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" 😂

www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-hope-...

Honestly this works for everything

“I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅

“Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌

Receiving no requests to GitHub Copilot GitHub's Status Page - Receiving no requests to GitHub Copilot.

GitHub Copilot is down, looks like I'll have to go back to using my old fashioned brain today www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1l...

Bright orange clouds illuminated by the rising sun, the South Downs hills in the far distance

The River Itchen with frosty ground and wintry clouds overhead

Winchester with its best winter coat on this morning -7C #ukweather

A weather map showing 5 weather warnings for: ice, snow, snow & ice. 4 of the warning labels overlap.

Who is it at @metoffice.gov.uk that thinks this is useful? 3 different categories of warning for essentially the same weather and 4 overlapping warning areas 🙄❄️

Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years Wildlife trust is raising funds to buy largest piece of land in single ownership to come up for sale in England for a generation

Got a few quid spare? You could do some good here...

Unfortunately for me, this does not sound fun 😕

swords

Today is winter solstice ❄️

A perfect day to align with Earth’s rhythms and find peace in winter’s beauty.

📸: Ian Brierley

Absolutely shocking.

We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.

We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

The "Is this a butterfly?" meme but with a Creme Egg and he's saying "Is this Christmas?"

This little gem is tucked away in the release notes for VS Code 1.107 🙌

On macOS you can now navigate between editors using 3-finger swipe gesture with the trackpad. Enable this with the workbench.editor.swipeToNavigate setting.

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo “Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.

The group plans to launch a social network under the name "Twitter.new," possibly as early as late next year.

Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...

Can relate, but I will settle for just the part where no one was driving and we could all walk around without a constant barrage of SUVs choking up the place

The underneath of a small mushroom on a dead beech branch

A field of brown grass with blue skies above

This is way better

Has a look at my feed - ***dooooooom*** - turns off and goes for a walk in the sunshine

Mrs Doyle from Father Ted. Tea maker saleman: it really takes the misery out of making tea. Mrs Doyle (disgruntled): maybe I like the misery!

Spec driven development + agentic AI to generate code seems like a good idea on the surface, but what does it leave for me to do? Gather requirements, write specs, press some buttons, review the AI's code, perform manual testing. Writing my own code was the fun part...