Andy
@andy.sitegeistwebservices.com
Work in digital sustainability
Rest with a good book
Play in the forests, mountains, lakes and my kitchen
Rest with a good book
Play in the forests, mountains, lakes and my kitchen
"I don't think you understand how many puppies might die if someone doesn't do a something."
Chucky Hagan - CEO of Decapa-leash
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Chucky Hagan - CEO of Decapa-leash
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns
Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"I don't think you understand how many puppies might die if someone doesn't do a something."
Chucky Hagan - CEO of Decapa-leash
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Chucky Hagan - CEO of Decapa-leash
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hugely impressed with my first @ifixit.com experience. Just replaces the battery on my son's second hand Pixel 6a.
Great quality tool kit and clear instructions.
10/10 would fix it again.
Great quality tool kit and clear instructions.
10/10 would fix it again.
January 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Hugely impressed with my first @ifixit.com experience. Just replaces the battery on my son's second hand Pixel 6a.
Great quality tool kit and clear instructions.
10/10 would fix it again.
Great quality tool kit and clear instructions.
10/10 would fix it again.
Hire Dave for beautiful, performant sites built with the planet in mind.
I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work.
I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok.
I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞
I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok.
I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞
January 15, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Hire Dave for beautiful, performant sites built with the planet in mind.
"Put down your phone and knit something"
My neo-luddite call to arms for 2026
My neo-luddite call to arms for 2026
January 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM
"Put down your phone and knit something"
My neo-luddite call to arms for 2026
My neo-luddite call to arms for 2026
Winter is improved if you put your veg trimmings and herb stalks in a bag in the freezer and when it's full you make it into a stock for a banging minestrone.
Omnivores can and should add chicken bones & parmesan rinds to the bag too.
Extract value & nutrition from what seems like waste.
Omnivores can and should add chicken bones & parmesan rinds to the bag too.
Extract value & nutrition from what seems like waste.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Winter is improved if you put your veg trimmings and herb stalks in a bag in the freezer and when it's full you make it into a stock for a banging minestrone.
Omnivores can and should add chicken bones & parmesan rinds to the bag too.
Extract value & nutrition from what seems like waste.
Omnivores can and should add chicken bones & parmesan rinds to the bag too.
Extract value & nutrition from what seems like waste.
While kneeling by a lake to take a photo, the man stood next to me said "are you going to have a drink?" to his dog.
I looked up and told him I wasn't thirsty and he took a beat and told me he was talking to his dog.
I looked up and told him I wasn't thirsty and he took a beat and told me he was talking to his dog.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
While kneeling by a lake to take a photo, the man stood next to me said "are you going to have a drink?" to his dog.
I looked up and told him I wasn't thirsty and he took a beat and told me he was talking to his dog.
I looked up and told him I wasn't thirsty and he took a beat and told me he was talking to his dog.
Me - Highlight text and turn into a heading
Google Docs - Turn the highlighted text & the previous, paragraph into a heading. Got it
Me - What? No, just the highlighted text.
GD - Maybe if you add an extra line break?
Me - Ok, try now.
GD - Nope, that wasn't it either. Maybe try Gemini, IDK.
Google Docs - Turn the highlighted text & the previous, paragraph into a heading. Got it
Me - What? No, just the highlighted text.
GD - Maybe if you add an extra line break?
Me - Ok, try now.
GD - Nope, that wasn't it either. Maybe try Gemini, IDK.
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Me - Highlight text and turn into a heading
Google Docs - Turn the highlighted text & the previous, paragraph into a heading. Got it
Me - What? No, just the highlighted text.
GD - Maybe if you add an extra line break?
Me - Ok, try now.
GD - Nope, that wasn't it either. Maybe try Gemini, IDK.
Google Docs - Turn the highlighted text & the previous, paragraph into a heading. Got it
Me - What? No, just the highlighted text.
GD - Maybe if you add an extra line break?
Me - Ok, try now.
GD - Nope, that wasn't it either. Maybe try Gemini, IDK.
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Does anyone know of any agencies or small to mid sized businesses that moved from Gsuite or Microsoft365 to more ethical or EU based alternatives?
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Does anyone know of any agencies or small to mid sized businesses that moved from Gsuite or Microsoft365 to more ethical or EU based alternatives?
Google quietly replaces it's Operating Sustainably page with an operations page on it's sustainability website. Ghouls gonna ghoul.
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Our Goals for Sustainable Operations - Google Sustainability
At Google, we’re implementing sustainable business practices to achieve more sustainable operations. Explore our goals and track our progress.
web.archive.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Google quietly replaces it's Operating Sustainably page with an operations page on it's sustainability website. Ghouls gonna ghoul.
Old
web.archive.org/web/20250626...
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sustainability.google/operations/
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This article from @bell.bz on AI usage in companies and agencies is fascinating reading.
Really, really good.
piccalil.li/blog/are-peo...
Really, really good.
piccalil.li/blog/are-peo...
Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.
piccalil.li
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This article from @bell.bz on AI usage in companies and agencies is fascinating reading.
Really, really good.
piccalil.li/blog/are-peo...
Really, really good.
piccalil.li/blog/are-peo...
This sucks.
I often find myself sharing @hf.co articles and initiatives when looking for more balanced take than the usual AI hype. Deeply disappointed to see this happening and their silence in the face of questions from @404media.co.
Do better.
I often find myself sharing @hf.co articles and initiatives when looking for more balanced take than the usual AI hype. Deeply disappointed to see this happening and their silence in the face of questions from @404media.co.
Do better.
Hugging Face is now hosting 5,000 AI image generation models of real people that were banned from Civitai due to pressure from payment processors. The company is not responding to requests for comment or showing interest in seeing this data. www.404media.co/hugging-face...
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.
www.404media.co
July 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This sucks.
I often find myself sharing @hf.co articles and initiatives when looking for more balanced take than the usual AI hype. Deeply disappointed to see this happening and their silence in the face of questions from @404media.co.
Do better.
I often find myself sharing @hf.co articles and initiatives when looking for more balanced take than the usual AI hype. Deeply disappointed to see this happening and their silence in the face of questions from @404media.co.
Do better.
I am slightly floored by this article. I've read and listened to a lot of reporting about GenAI platforms aiming for engagement over accuracy and speed running the issues social media platforms have.
The latest @techwontsave.us covers the topic nicely and is a great chaser to the article.
The latest @techwontsave.us covers the topic nicely and is a great chaser to the article.
Check this out from yesterday, by @guinz.bsky.social. It takes awhile for the payoff to arrive, but when it does... amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I am slightly floored by this article. I've read and listened to a lot of reporting about GenAI platforms aiming for engagement over accuracy and speed running the issues social media platforms have.
The latest @techwontsave.us covers the topic nicely and is a great chaser to the article.
The latest @techwontsave.us covers the topic nicely and is a great chaser to the article.
Really enjoyed chatting with SEO oracle @davepeiris.bsky.social from @propellernet.co.uk for this article on how AI is effecting SEO, SERPs and discoverability.
TLDR: AI changes everything and nothing.
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/how-sho...
TLDR: AI changes everything and nothing.
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/how-sho...
How should purpose led organisations think about SEO and AI Summaries in 2025? - Wholegrain Digital
The way people search online and the way the platforms they use work are changing. It's starting to have an impact of site traffic across the web. What's going on and what can we do about it?
www.wholegraindigital.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Really enjoyed chatting with SEO oracle @davepeiris.bsky.social from @propellernet.co.uk for this article on how AI is effecting SEO, SERPs and discoverability.
TLDR: AI changes everything and nothing.
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/how-sho...
TLDR: AI changes everything and nothing.
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/how-sho...
Surfacing from a rabbit hole marked:
"SEO, GEO, AI Overviews and declining organic click through rates".
Hard to know why site traffic from Google might be falling I guess.
"SEO, GEO, AI Overviews and declining organic click through rates".
Hard to know why site traffic from Google might be falling I guess.
June 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Surfacing from a rabbit hole marked:
"SEO, GEO, AI Overviews and declining organic click through rates".
Hard to know why site traffic from Google might be falling I guess.
"SEO, GEO, AI Overviews and declining organic click through rates".
Hard to know why site traffic from Google might be falling I guess.
Yer da is trying to print the internet again...
...and it looks gooooood.
Feeling slightly mindblown by this Picallili article about controlling how your site looks when printed. Fascinating stuff from @vale.rocks via @bell.bz's excellent Index newsletter and site.
piccalil.li/blog/printin...
...and it looks gooooood.
Feeling slightly mindblown by this Picallili article about controlling how your site looks when printed. Fascinating stuff from @vale.rocks via @bell.bz's excellent Index newsletter and site.
piccalil.li/blog/printin...
Printing the web: making webpages look good on paper
Declan Chidlow takes us on a really interesting tour of the often, under-reported world of print stylesheets, how to use them and also how to debug them.
piccalil.li
June 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yer da is trying to print the internet again...
...and it looks gooooood.
Feeling slightly mindblown by this Picallili article about controlling how your site looks when printed. Fascinating stuff from @vale.rocks via @bell.bz's excellent Index newsletter and site.
piccalil.li/blog/printin...
...and it looks gooooood.
Feeling slightly mindblown by this Picallili article about controlling how your site looks when printed. Fascinating stuff from @vale.rocks via @bell.bz's excellent Index newsletter and site.
piccalil.li/blog/printin...
Hugely important report on AI's current energy usage, AI companies' lack of transparency and what future energy demands might look like from @technologyreview.com
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hugely important report on AI's current energy usage, AI companies' lack of transparency and what future energy demands might look like from @technologyreview.com
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
Luckily all this is offset the societal damage caused by the joy generated by the fact we can create Ghibli inspired action figure avatars of ourselves.
New from 404 Media: Civitai, the AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is allowing users to AI generate nonconsensual porn of real people, despite the site’s policies against this type of content www.404media.co/configuratio...
'Configuration Issue' Allows Civitai Users to AI Generate Nonconsensual Porn Videos
404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price.
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Luckily all this is offset the societal damage caused by the joy generated by the fact we can create Ghibli inspired action figure avatars of ourselves.
"This is the whey"
Mandalorian power lifting club motto
Mandalorian power lifting club motto
May 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"This is the whey"
Mandalorian power lifting club motto
Mandalorian power lifting club motto
Loved this snarkily accessible puncturing of the AI bubble.
The rest of JD's writing on ESC KEY .CO is well worth your time too.
The rest of JD's writing on ESC KEY .CO is well worth your time too.
“If they couldn’t be bothered to write this, why should we be bothered to read it?” ‼️
In their cathartic, broligarchy-rattling new book, “The AI Con,” @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social are handing out needles so you, too, can burst the hype bubble.
www.esckey.co/do-you-belie...
In their cathartic, broligarchy-rattling new book, “The AI Con,” @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social are handing out needles so you, too, can burst the hype bubble.
www.esckey.co/do-you-belie...
Do you believe in hope after “AI” hype? Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna make the case
In this extended briefing, “TL;DR” = “Totally Legit; Def. Read” because we review “The AI Con,” the spicy new book ready to rattle the broligarchy. Plus, the authors answer ESC KEY .CO’s questions abo...
www.esckey.co
May 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Loved this snarkily accessible puncturing of the AI bubble.
The rest of JD's writing on ESC KEY .CO is well worth your time too.
The rest of JD's writing on ESC KEY .CO is well worth your time too.
Published an article about why 66% of the online population using Chrome is a bad thing for people and the planet...
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/can-bro...
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/can-bro...
Can browser choice help digital sustainability? - Wholegrain Digital
Your browser choice might have a bigger impact on your digital footprint than you imagine...
www.wholegraindigital.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Published an article about why 66% of the online population using Chrome is a bad thing for people and the planet...
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/can-bro...
www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/can-bro...
I've realised that all the time I'd usually spend listening to podcasts about tech bros and cos being awful has been high jacked by binging @realmsunknown.bsky.social. My inner geek is a lot happier than normal as a result.
Humble request for a touch more Culture/Iain M Banks content please.
Humble request for a touch more Culture/Iain M Banks content please.
April 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I've realised that all the time I'd usually spend listening to podcasts about tech bros and cos being awful has been high jacked by binging @realmsunknown.bsky.social. My inner geek is a lot happier than normal as a result.
Humble request for a touch more Culture/Iain M Banks content please.
Humble request for a touch more Culture/Iain M Banks content please.
Can anyone recommend a none google online translation platform?
April 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Can anyone recommend a none google online translation platform?
Reposted by Andy
Today on the International Transgender Day of Visibility I celebrate all trans people and wish that they could all just exist, live and love as themselves.
Trans rights are human rights.
www.hrc.org/campaigns/in...
I see you. You're all safe with me and I feel safe with you.
Trans rights are human rights.
www.hrc.org/campaigns/in...
I see you. You're all safe with me and I feel safe with you.
Trans Day of Visibility
This TDOV, we celebrate the joy and resilience of transgender and non-binary people everywhere through elevating the voices and experiences of the trans…
www.hrc.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today on the International Transgender Day of Visibility I celebrate all trans people and wish that they could all just exist, live and love as themselves.
Trans rights are human rights.
www.hrc.org/campaigns/in...
I see you. You're all safe with me and I feel safe with you.
Trans rights are human rights.
www.hrc.org/campaigns/in...
I see you. You're all safe with me and I feel safe with you.