UKRI policy is to use Microsoft for everything: Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Forms, and of course Windows. *As advised by the MI5*, was the reply when asked why. I kid you not. What could possibly go wrong.
Meanwhile, also UKRI wants to concoct a strategy for (catching up on) "AI", understood as a magic wand that cuts costs and advances science. The realization that they are the product and are being made to pay for it hasn't yet downed on them.
Why we need to put people before profit Right now, there are millions of people all over the world being forced to work to produce goods that we use every single day. But we can help change this by requiring big businesses and governments to act.ren (FreedomUnited)
Check out Friendly Soap for all your palm oil free personal washing needs. Also plastic packaging free and great products, to boot.
#Soap #Shampoo #Vegan #PalmOilFree #UK
Discover our wide range of eco friendly soap, natural shampoo bars and more, all in plastic free soap packaging, here at Friendly Soap.Friendly Soap
#News: 🇬🇧🤮 #UK bank #HSBC, #fossilfuel giant #BP, and #Unilever are profiting from #ecocide in #WestPapua for #palmoil #mining. It's a long story of #colonial #exploitation and #humanrights abuses. Demand justice! #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect 🌴☠️🚫
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Take action for indigenous rights! Research reveals UK banks, energy giants, and arms exporters are profiting from palm oil and mining ecocide in West Papua.Palm Oil Detectives
Subtlety Is Here Again.... Irony? Not A Big Enough Word... Inconceivable? I don't think that word means what you think it means....
Someone Is Sending Them A Message
#OurModernTimes #UK #Hacked #DarkWeb
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.CYBER WAFFLE (YouTube)
Guess What Ellison AI Gamble Is Killing Paramount
#OurModernTimes #LarryEllison #AI #AIDebt #Paramount #WarnerBothers #Streaming #Movies #AGCalifornia #FilmReleases #Lawsuit #NotLegallyBinding #FCC #CorruptionAndInfluence #WarnerBrothers-Discovery #WritersGuildOfAmerica #UK #EverythingTrumpTouchesCorrupts #EverythingCorruptTouchesTrump
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.Good Revenue (YouTube)
Here's A Scary Rabbit Hole of Corruption & Crime That has NOT ended
#OurModernTimes #Crime #Corruption #MoneyLaudering #ShellCompanies #UK #Scotland #RabbitHole #Moldova #Belize #BankRobbery #CompaniesHouse #SLPs #PSC #LawEnforcementInvolvemnet #SpyGames
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.keeping tabs (YouTube)
Sun Bear Biofuture scales low-cost production model for sustainable oilsFood & Drink International
The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-…
#UK
Britain’s national security thinking has traditionally been shaped by familiar concerns: hostile states, terrorism, energy supply, and, more recently, cyber threats. A new assessment from the U.K. government adds a different category to that list.Rhett Butler (Mongabay Environmental News)
#Computers #Privacy #Mac #Windows #Chrome #AI #CrimesAgainstTheEnvironment #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CrimesAgainstTheFuture #ePrivacy #Law #Gemini #DirtyGoogleSecret #GeminiNano #CSRD #Windows #MacOS #EEA #UK #CCPA
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy!)
Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, EFF and others release statement urging UK policymakers to keep the web open gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/stop…
#PCGaming #Gaming #UK #EFF #Mozilla #StopKillingGames
The fightback against regulations to lock down the internet in the UK is heating up, with multiple big groups joining together with a firm statement.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Interesting News from the Telegraph Explained
#OurModernTimes #News #UK #KeirStamer #AgeIDLaws #SocialMediaBan
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.CYBER WAFFLE (YouTube)
If Zarah Sultana MP had not entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026, today it would be illegal to print this in any UK media.
UK authorities have severely restricted the right to protest, in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in a …Human Rights Watch
UK authorities have severely restricted the right to protest, in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in a …Human Rights Watch
Campaigners speak out on the need to hold UK companies to account for abuses.The Ecologist
UK authorities have severely restricted the right to protest, in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in a …Human Rights Watch
An image from some of Scotland's most remote mountains. It's no small feat to get out here, but it's worth it every time.
Made last year when me and Benjamin Maze took a group of awesome clients hiking and wild camping here; we were treated to all manner of brilliant conditions from hail to blue skies. (Join us in September 2026 for the second iteration of our Northwest Highlands photography adventure!)
#LandscapePhotography #uk #scotland #photography #nature #NaturePhotography
I'm slowly starting to share more images from my multi-year project "This Land Remembers", an odyssey into the last remaining ancient native woodlands of Scotland (like this one from a brilliant Autumn morning in 2025). I also have an upcoming exhibition at Gallery Photiq this April/May featuring 12 prints from the project, including this image.
#News: #UK court holds #BHP liable for #Brazil’s catastrophic Mariana #dam disaster: 19 dead, whole villages destroyed. A collapse completely attributed to BHP's greedy business 🧐🚨 #EndFossilFuels #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect abc.net.au/news/2025-11-15/bhp…
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Mazoe Ford (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
At the footy today and saw a Peregrine Falcon in the rafters. Sorry for the dodgy image, only had my phone with me.
#birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
Samhain [sow-wen]: the ancient Celtic festival that marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter — the moment when Beira the Cailleach, Queen of Winter, regains control over the landscape from the Queen of Summer, Brigid. It also marks the moment when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest and the origins of Halloween. Mountain spirits come to the fore at this time of year.
#nature #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #uk #bnw #scotland #folklore #mountains
"The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Deforestation #Trees #Environment
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UK banks, energy giants and arms exporters are at the heart of one of the world's least-known human rights and environmental crises, our research has revealed.Samira Homerang Saunders (Phys.org)
The sky and the Earth, two eyelids closing, the dwindling light now a mere slit of fiery colours. Nightfall.
Steam UK users will now need a credit card to access mature content due to the Online Safety Act gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/stea…
Valve recently put up a new support page, detailing the steps they've taken to comply with the UK Online Safety Act.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nexus Mods announce age verification for UK users gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nexu…
#Modding #NexusMods #OnlineSafetyAct #UK #Gaming
The Nexus Mods team have announced they're adding an age verification requirement for certain mods, and it sounds like eventually for the EU too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Happy #WorldPhotographyDay !
This is one of my favourite images from last autumn in Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest. In the dark of morning, I hiked up this pathless steep sided hill to gain a view over the magnificent glen beyond and was treated to an exceptional sunrise. Amazing to see all these regenerating pine saplings growing on the higher slopes.
#photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #scotland #uk
#MapMen #Maps #UK #OrdnanceMaps #Technology #LightHumorToo
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
Meanwhile In the UK The Battle Over Trans-Rights Continues
#OurModernTimes #HumanRights #UK #Trans-Rights #Law #Westminster
Hundreds of people showed up at Westminster to lobby their MP in what could be a "record breaking" day of action for trans rights.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
It's been a minute since I posted... Here's an overlooked image I've just found while looking back at photos from the Isle of Harris for an upcoming article about long-term projects.
#LandscapePhotography #uk #UnitedKingdom #scotland #ocean #nature #NaturePhotography
No More Pandering To Political Parties That Are False Allies
#UK #News #PinkNews #LabourBetrayalHasAPrice #TransphobesGoAway
Political parties, including Labour, the Conservatives, the Greens and the Lib Dems, have been banned from four major Pride events in the UK.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Thank you, BBC, for a story that’s a delight to read:
A man is walking 53 miles (85km) in a homemade bird costume to raise awareness and funds for conservation projects.
Mr Trevelyan said: "Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew.”
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h/t @sarahdalgulls @BathNature
#birds #uk
Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.Grace Wood and Kat Cowan (BBC News)
This Spring I'm documenting the awakening of Pembroke College gardens in Cambridge, UK. Posts will touch on flowering plants, bushes and trees, and their visitors – largely bees, wasps, flies and butterflies, but also all other critters I happen to stumble upon. Aiming at one post per week.
Posts will appear here:
pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/all
First post: "The return of the queens" pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/ret… (March 13th, 2025).
Second post, today: "Magnificent magnolia" pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/mag…
#Pembroke1347 #UK #CambridgeUK
Pembroke gardens are once again full of flowers, signalling the arrival of a new season: Spring. While our calendars tell us that the equinox lays still 8 days away, the days have grown longer and, at this latitude, altitude, and very peculiar geogra…www.pem.cam.ac.uk
The company said it was "gravely disappointed" to no longer be able to offer Advanced Data Protection to iPhone users in the UK.
And So the Next Round Of Lost Privacy in the UK Begins
#News #Computing #Apple #Iphone #Encryption #Privacy #UK #EU #USA
The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service. Currently only the Apple account holder can access data stored in this way - the tech giant itself cannot view it. The demand has been served by the Home Office under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which compels firms to provide information to law enforcement agencies.
#News #UK #Apple #DataEncryption #PrivacyLaws #IPA #BigBrotherWatch #FascismRising #BBC
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
