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Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they’re happier too. Employers are perfecting their flexible work arrangements. They’re making in-person time strategic and ensuring new employees don’t feel isolated.

"Employers who’ve mandated a return to the office have paid a price… S&P 500 companies had abnormally high turnover following [RTO mandates,] especially high among women, senior staff and more skilled staff." Mandates also made vacancies take longer to fill. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/t...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Everyone in the UK that has had to use this service should be phoning up their MP office to demand an explanation why a law set out (OSA) did not have adequate protections of said data.

Phone calls
Emails
Actual visits to their office.

I wonder what this means for IT/Network Infra/Security outsourcing. If it becomes a business continuity risk are firms going to in-house the expertise or just ramp up the governance, audit and control measures?

I picked up both 😅 It took me a little while to get to them but once I did I absolutely could not put them down!

Unfortunately the discount on these 2 ended, but Glynn has others on sale!

This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.

PBS and NPR have been defunded by law passed by Congress, not just an executive order. The government agency that funds them will wind down in a few weeks.

It’s crazy all of this was mapped out in Project 2025 and is being executed like clockwork. A well oiled machine of societal sabotage.

That's it. That's Gen AI in one sentence.

Hi! If you care deeply about the open web, I hope you’ll consider joining my team. We get to support projects like Watch Duty, Mastodon & many more. We’ve committed nearly $100M to making the Internet better. And we haven’t wavered one bit in inclusive hiring policies. www.fastly.com/about/jobs/a...

I'm increasingly pissed off at men in leadership positions posting here that companies backsliding on DEI etc is inevitable, and treating people who are angry about it as naive children. All you are showing is that you are a leader who either a) doesn't care or b) lacks the guts to fight against it.

LGBT pride themed Space Marines "The gate Crushers"

Group picture of "The Gate Crushers", my LGBT themed series of Space Marine mini painted using pride flags as color schemes.

Time to re-up this one

One of instagators of the far right riots has just been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison

Thanks go to @hopenothate.org.uk 🙏🏼

Meta making it so your uncle doesn't even need to have one real black friend anymore, so that he can claim he isn't racist. Can just friend an AI one on Facebook.

Welcome to BaaS. Blackface as a Service.

How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad?

a guy wanted to get richer

What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer

Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer

Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer

Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer

Brilliant podcast from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Explains the whole murky, disgraceful, sale of this country (and others) via the greed-ridden right wing Tories
⏬️

Hogfather million to one chance search Hi everyone, this is a huge longshot but wondering if any of you lovely folk might be able to help. My partner just told me that her dad (who sadly died more than 20 years ago) gave her a hardback copy of Hogfather, but it got lost in one of her moves not long after he died. I doubt we'd ever find it, but it would be an amazing New Year miracle if we could discover it and I could buy it back if it's still out there. It's signed in the front cover "To Anthea" and probably says from Dad or similar. Like I say, it's a million to one chance... Thanks for reading.

Copied (with permission) from a discworld group I’m in if anyone can help even if it’s just a share

Costco did better than every tech company, university and most of your favorite podcasts

Stop accepting crumbs and stop thinking the only point is the fight

Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is say

“I will be keeping people in humane and safe environs “

fight the wall

a group of sheep are decorating a christmas tree ALT: a group of sheep are decorating a christmas tree

For 13 years, Sarah Millican’s #JoinIn brought comfort to many on #ChristmasDay. Though she no longer hosts it, the spirit continues as a group effort with no one person hosting.

If you're free to chat, or lonely, alone on Christmas Day, join the chat on X & Bluesky.

I'll Join In 🎄 Will you? 😊💬

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion

Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion

Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

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An absolute must-read from @mipsytipsy.bsky.social, with the single most important piece of founder wisdom that you will ever hear (and most will forget/ignore/be talked out of): "You should ALWAYS have as few employees as possible. Always."

gonna be hiring for compiler stuff in the near year. shout if you want to work with me, i can make it happen. i gots the questionable commercial codebases, you gots the typey fingers

The hardest part about the Murderbot Diaries? Putting them down #BookSky💙📚🪐

Major water company uses accounting trick to inflate balance sheet by £1.68bn A substantial Severn Trent Water investment is based on IOU notes - BBC Panorama finds.

allows them to pretend they have plenty of cash on hand, so they can pay out shareholder dividends.

Shocked face.

This is so clever. I’ve never looked at someone’s posting patterns like this.

three giftcards that say in large font across the front: Her, Him, and Online

the three genders

Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2022 (°C)
science.nasa.gov/resource/vid... 🧪