Why is this wretched icon back @microsoft.com? I deliberately switched to a classic plan so I wouldn’t have your AI nonsense forced upon me. How do I get rid of this?

I wrote about why emotional readiness matters to co-parenting for The Divorce Magazine #TDM. Give it a read here: www.thedivorcemagazine.co.uk/emotional-re...

The most fun part of listening to a new album is trying to predict which track will have Sampha on it

Public service announcement: if you were previously following the vice president on Instagram, you are still following the vice president on Instagram

I’m now downloading an older version of Word in the hope that it doesn’t have #copilot. Let’s hope it works. What a waste of a day.

Exactly this. It’s not just that @microsoft.com have made Word annoying to use. They have actually changed the product from “place where you generate words” to “place where your words are generated for you”.

Anyway I guess I’m Bluesky now. Time to start following some people…

How dare @microsoft.com take it upon themselves to put an AI widget on my Word files. How do turn this off?
#copilot

Started one of these to promote some recent work/news. First up — & seeing as it's out today — I wrote this about Bob Dylan's on-screen life, to tie in with #ACompleteUnknown . Thanks to @hannahstrong.co.uk for greenlighting this dream piece @lwlies.com lwlies.com/articles/dyl...