FlyTheNest

Morning all.

Jeez, it's cold this morning.

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

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 .

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 ...

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

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

Frog222 wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 5:31 pm 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.

-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.

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