Wednesday 19th November 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Jeez, it's cold this morning.

[notnowsonny]

Snow in Sonning and the A4 ground to a halt. Only in England (deliberate) eh?

[Frog222]

I spent the morning in bed, while it rained ! ( I was more tired than I thought, many thanks to non-expert hospital docs who thought they knew better than me )

Now cooling to around freezing for the rest of the week with dry northerlies and no bloody rain, so should do a little woodcutting before it rains again, all too soon.

Seriously not-bothering with this --



McSweeney, Labour Together, many lies and £750,000 of Dark Money took care of his selection and election .

[Frog222]

Every day I get calls from convincing 'people' wanting to help me access FREE solar panels, except they are not people and just keep talking while I ask them if they are human .

Doesn't last long !

Youtube thumbnails are an outsourced artform of their own , which do help some legit people to get more coverage, but now link more and more to completely AI conversational productions which are FAKES .

Careful What You Watch - A Tale of NotebookLM Vs NotebookLM |
Ukraine War Update Extra

With some tweaking Jonathan's techie mate produced another audio stream with the same 'voices' actually making a sensible commentary on the Pokrovsk battle .



Video Deepfakes have been used in elections for some time now, a very recent example --

6 days ago — Andrew Cuomo, who lost to Zohran Mamdani in last week's election, took particular interest in sharing deepfake videos of his opponent ...

[Frog222]

BRRRRRRRRR !

Down to 1° already, so off to buy something to eat tomorrow, and then bring in some wood too.

I put out a shopping bag and of course Boy the cat hid himself inside it

[refitman]

It's reassuring to know there are good people out there.

[refitman]

BRRRRRRRRR !

Down to 1° already, so off to buy something to eat tomorrow, and then bring in some wood too.

I put out a shopping bag and of course Boy the cat hid himself inside it

Same temp here in Yorkshire, possibly going negative tonight.

[gilsey]

-3 here, couple of inches of snow and a lot more promised/threatened tomorrow.

The foot of the North York Moors is less than quarter of a mile away and weather-wise, what happens up there usually happens down here as well.

It hasn't been above 7C since last Thursday, this is one of the reasons why I'm moving house.

[Frog222]

Just started to freeze here too, in Lower Normandy , NN !