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screenshot of a popup on Google Sheets with two buttons "Learn more" and "Got it"

header reads "Gemini can now do more for you in Sheets" with "for" scribbled out in red, and the word AS above it, so it says "Gemini can now do more AS you in Sheets"

below that:
Gemini can now make requested changes and insert content directly into your files. 

HIGHLIGHTED TEXT: All inserted content will be attributed to you in version history.

For inline features like =Al), Gemini will insert content directly. For the side panel, Gemini will provide a preview first unless it understands your goal is a direct edit, such as making a pivot table or adding conditional formatting.
Gemini in Workspace can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check responses.

screenshot of a popup on Google Sheets with two buttons "Learn more" and "Got it" header reads "Gemini can now do more for you in Sheets" with "for" scribbled out in red, and the word AS above it, so it says "Gemini can now do more AS you in Sheets" below that: Gemini can now make requested changes and insert content directly into your files. HIGHLIGHTED TEXT: All inserted content will be attributed to you in version history. For inline features like =Al), Gemini will insert content directly. For the side panel, Gemini will provide a preview first unless it understands your goal is a direct edit, such as making a pivot table or adding conditional formatting. Gemini in Workspace can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check responses.

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

07.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 105    🔁 47    💬 4    📌 1
The Vaselines - I Hate The 80's (2010)
YouTube video by ENT Rider The Vaselines - I Hate The 80's (2010)

The warning signs of toxic mediocrity were when people started obsessing about the 80’s as if it wasn’t an awful cultural nightmare.

The best bands of the 80’s were the counter culture ones; just as now bands that reject the norms are the best.

youtu.be/i1zMx4Eltbo?...

07.10.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only Zack Polanski calls it what it is. Lammy pussyfoots around as usual, scared of offending anyone who can affect his career. Stride's just launching his own leadership bid

07.10.2025 16:25 — 👍 76    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

All Billionaires are scum.

07.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Toxic bigot who likes posts insulting Welsh people. Give this idiot a block.

@coatesmatthew.bsky.social

07.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What’s your ethnicity so we can use the appropriate ethnic slur for you pork chop?

07.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nope YOU were talking specifically about Wales.

Nice try you clueless bigot.

bsky.app/profile/plan...

07.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brexit still going marvellously well for Wales then?

07.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really cannot stress enough how little I care whether Keir Starmer regards my general or specific attitudes as un-British or not.

07.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

07.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 29    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 7

So what personal sacrifice are you willing to make to fight this Fascism?

Quit Labour?

07.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@alt-text.bsky.social

07.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Preferred fix for this is to charge anyone with more than one home 2000% Council tax (even if empty) for each property; that then gets given to people as UBI.

Let the landlords fund UBI 😉

07.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Majority of U.S. Jews Think Israel Has Committed War Crimes Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

A Majority of U.S. Jews Think Israel Has Committed War Crimes www.splinter.com/a-majority-o...

06.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

It's laughably easy to remove the watermark from Sora 2 generated videos. 404 Media found dozens of websites and pieces of software that will do it.

07.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 129    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 5

To be fair the pathetic loser can’t even spell “fuck”.

07.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whilst not a perfect solution; more off grid energy, builds resilience against weather related outages like this.

07.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thousands of homes face fourth night without power in wake of Storm Amy Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said “challenging” network faults were still being addressed in parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Mull.

Thousands of homes face fourth night without power in wake of Storm Amy

SSE Networks said “challenging” network faults were still being addressed in parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Mull as nearly 5,000 homes faced a fourth night without power in the wake of Storm Amy on Friday.

07.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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They say it’s to protect children, but this new EU law would let AI scan every message we send.
That means our private moments; photos, chats, confessions, could be monitored forever.

action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

#speirgorm

07.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 4    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

As a simple cost saving and resource management exercise @rcn.org.uk @unison.org.uk & @bmj.com need to refuse all medical care (including emergencies) for all members of @houseofcommons.parliament.uk

Let them experience consequences.

07.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

The NHS and social care would cease to function under UK govt’s new rules on foreign staff.

Workers will have to wait – from 5 to 10 years – before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain, claim any benefit, childcare, or housing support, despite paying taxes

Govt appeasing Reform.

07.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 84    🔁 33    💬 8    📌 2
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Energy bills to rise in UK as price cap increases. Here's how to get help

This is everything you need to know about how much energy bills are going up along with Ofgem's energy price cap – and where to get help.

07.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Starmer likes Coldplay and Taylor Swift which perfectly reflect the Milquetoast mediocrity of his personality and his politics.

Idolising Billionaires and privilege. Tedious narcissistic bullshit from musicians who ooze a ubiquitous worship of the boring cultural Middle.

07.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One positive thing we can say about Stsrmer is that he is honest about the art he chooses to reflect his identify.

Johnson claimed to like the Clash despite them despising everything he stood for.

Badenoch claims to like Pratchett despite him being antithetical to her politics.

Starmer however…

07.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

07.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 4995    🔁 1342    💬 106    📌 23

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

07.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 1300    🔁 218    💬 13    📌 2

Almost as if the American is exhibiting the ignorance they are globally famous for?

There’s a reason they ended up with Trump.

07.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You screenshot one section, but conveniently ignored the overwhelming evidence against your point.

07.10.2025 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Reform and Plaid now neck and neck in Senedd voting intention | YouGov Nigel Farage’s party also takes the lead in Westminster voting intention in Wales for the first time

Odd because your screenshot doesn’t match the Yougov website?

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

07.10.2025 13:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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