Martha Henson
@marthasadie.bsky.social
Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight Biosphere. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
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Workshops offered on user research, implementing user insight, creating a digital brief, demystifying digital, iterative or game design.
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Periodic reminder that I run all sorts of digital training workshops including game design sessions that can help you make your own training and products more fun www.techworksforus.com/training/ the latter great for team building and away days too.
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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Did some work on my #FungiJournal the other day. A work in progress. I’ll finish it one day. Music: Detectorists - Johnny Flynn. #FungiFriends
January 5, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Never seen a mushroom growing on a cordyline before. Can't tell you what it is, sort of past-it's-best oysterish #fungi #fungiidentification
January 2, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Never seen a mushroom growing on a cordyline before. Can't tell you what it is, sort of past-it's-best oysterish #fungi #fungiidentification
Finally sharing my Knepp photos, starting with the storks, one of my favourite things from 2025 www.instagram.com/p/DS9qr2ACLP...
Martha Henson on Instagram: "One of my 2025 highlights was spending two nights camping at @kneppwilding and going on one of their safaris to see the impact of their years of rewilding work. Reading @i...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Finally sharing my Knepp photos, starting with the storks, one of my favourite things from 2025 www.instagram.com/p/DS9qr2ACLP...
Forget lemon pigs, I am prepping my black eyed peas and ham (seitan). My mother insists upon it.
December 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Forget lemon pigs, I am prepping my black eyed peas and ham (seitan). My mother insists upon it.
So proud of our Encounter Nature app, 1200 species logged by users in the first year! Some you'd expect but some surprises too www.encounter-nature.com/features/qde... (we missed plants off this one, will have to do another)
A Year In (nature) Numbers — Encounter Nature
It’s nearly the end of 2025 and here at Encounter HQ we’ve been digging into the data to explore which animals you’ve been spotting this year. As you know, your journal entries and photos are entirel...
www.encounter-nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
So proud of our Encounter Nature app, 1200 species logged by users in the first year! Some you'd expect but some surprises too www.encounter-nature.com/features/qde... (we missed plants off this one, will have to do another)
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And with regards to all this AI business, probably the same as last year: FOMO is STILL not a strategy. (Buy your laptop stickers here 👉 carefulindustries.teemill.com/collection/j...)
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
And with regards to all this AI business, probably the same as last year: FOMO is STILL not a strategy. (Buy your laptop stickers here 👉 carefulindustries.teemill.com/collection/j...)
In my lovely old local pub, about to shut for the... 5th? 6th?.. time in just a few years because nobody can make it pay thanks to the costs of the brewery tie and their negligent maintenance. What a time to be alive, hurray for capitalism, a free market naturally leads to progress etc etc 🙄
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In my lovely old local pub, about to shut for the... 5th? 6th?.. time in just a few years because nobody can make it pay thanks to the costs of the brewery tie and their negligent maintenance. What a time to be alive, hurray for capitalism, a free market naturally leads to progress etc etc 🙄
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Haven’t got a book deal at the moment. Hoping I’ll get one next year, but even if I never get another one, at least this book exists. I’d love you to read it. So much so that I’ll happily send you a link to a FREE Kindle edition if you want one:
Book lovers! If you’re looking for an easy read to brush up on your knowledge of science, I have a few FREE Kindle editions of this to give away. Just drop me a line and I’ll send you a link alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...
Why Don’t Things Fall Up?
Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…
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December 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Haven’t got a book deal at the moment. Hoping I’ll get one next year, but even if I never get another one, at least this book exists. I’d love you to read it. So much so that I’ll happily send you a link to a FREE Kindle edition if you want one:
Read both Careless People (META) and (most of) Empire of AI (OpenAI) recently and this is very clear from both. Major safety issues are repeatedly disregarded to put profit or internal politics ahead.
I think people underestimate how much of this is intentional. We see the internal docs leaked constantly showing the legal team will review something absolutely heinous and just go "ok ship it." Like internally these companies are aware of the massive risk, and just don't care.
December 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Read both Careless People (META) and (most of) Empire of AI (OpenAI) recently and this is very clear from both. Major safety issues are repeatedly disregarded to put profit or internal politics ahead.
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this!
I think people underestimate how much of this is intentional. We see the internal docs leaked constantly showing the legal team will review something absolutely heinous and just go "ok ship it." Like internally these companies are aware of the massive risk, and just don't care.
December 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
this!
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Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...
I was this year's undefeated Christmas Day Dobble Champion, I'll have you know.
December 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I was this year's undefeated Christmas Day Dobble Champion, I'll have you know.
I think I'm going to need to get off the internet until local Facebook groups WhatsApp groups and newspapers stop freaking out about Hemlock Water Dropwort roots washing up on a single beach as if it's some sort of monster. I thought we were saving HWD panic for spring at least.
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I think I'm going to need to get off the internet until local Facebook groups WhatsApp groups and newspapers stop freaking out about Hemlock Water Dropwort roots washing up on a single beach as if it's some sort of monster. I thought we were saving HWD panic for spring at least.
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Where's the best place to find legit information about various companies or product's market share, general trends etc? Especially tech/digital?
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Where's the best place to find legit information about various companies or product's market share, general trends etc? Especially tech/digital?
I honestly don't know if I can bear to follow the rest of this test or series. This has been quite a depressing way to way up the last two days #theashes
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I honestly don't know if I can bear to follow the rest of this test or series. This has been quite a depressing way to way up the last two days #theashes
Where's the best place to find legit information about various companies or product's market share, general trends etc? Especially tech/digital?
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Where's the best place to find legit information about various companies or product's market share, general trends etc? Especially tech/digital?
Anyone got experience, as creator or user, of working with Bloomberg Connects? www.bloombergconnects.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Anyone got experience, as creator or user, of working with Bloomberg Connects? www.bloombergconnects.org
Showing my Aussie partner Ghostwatch last night and trying to explain the fallout was quite a nostalgia trip. What a bizarre moment in time. There is a fascinating episode of viewer feedback show "Bite Back" where audience members are furious about the "hoax" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyh...
Bite Back on Ghostwatch (Part 1)
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December 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Showing my Aussie partner Ghostwatch last night and trying to explain the fallout was quite a nostalgia trip. What a bizarre moment in time. There is a fascinating episode of viewer feedback show "Bite Back" where audience members are furious about the "hoax" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyh...
Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar knows the way to my heart: runner ducks today! I love them so much.
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar knows the way to my heart: runner ducks today! I love them so much.
I do think/hope that there will be a point at which AI literacy will improve enough that people will be aware of its limitations for things like this? I mean, how many failed library trips getting the same response before it sinks in?
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I do think/hope that there will be a point at which AI literacy will improve enough that people will be aware of its limitations for things like this? I mean, how many failed library trips getting the same response before it sinks in?
My favourite Christmas album (possibly, Emmylou Harris Light of the Stable and either of Sufjan Steven's are up there with a soft spot for some George Winston's Winter melancholy)
Happy 60th birthday to A Charlie Brown Christmas. As tradition dictates, the listening starts today. tidal.com/album/776751...
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
My favourite Christmas album (possibly, Emmylou Harris Light of the Stable and either of Sufjan Steven's are up there with a soft spot for some George Winston's Winter melancholy)
Tickled this morning to be on the west of the Isle of Wight in a grisly storm whilst friends on the east side have clear and calm skies. The West/East Wight divide is real.
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Tickled this morning to be on the west of the Isle of Wight in a grisly storm whilst friends on the east side have clear and calm skies. The West/East Wight divide is real.