Andy
@andy.sitegeistwebservices.com
Work in digital sustainability Rest with a good book Play in the forests, mountains, lakes and my kitchen
Are you sitting comfortably? You might not be after reading what information Google can glean from a single photo of you and how they use that for ad targetting… theyseeyourphotos.com #luxurysurveillance #degoogle
They See Your Photos
Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.
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Hey @developer.chrome.com. Fuck all the way off into the sea with your 4gb AI file that comes with the new version of Chrome. css-tricks.com/googles-prom...
Google’s Prompt API | CSS-Tricks
Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:
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Web devs of Bluesky. The Green Web Foundation has just published a report on "The State of the Fossil-Free Internet" that is well worth reading. Qudos to @sustainable-dev.bsky.social for his dev work on the project. fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/
State of the Fossil-Free Internet Report
In this first annual briefing by Green Web Foundation, we examine the biggest obstacles to a fossil-free internet. This year’s focus: the rise of too many dirty data centres.
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Even if I've grown up on t'internet, it's never not weird and slightly thrilling when you randomly find something you've done being posted about by someone else.
Spite Village@spitevillage.bsky.social · 3mo agoData centres, sustainability and Microsoft removing the 'AI button': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/28/data-centres-sustainability-and-microsoft.html
Frustrating wrinkle with @ifixit.com. Need to replace a swollen battery on my phone and found that buying the battery and adhesive is more expensive than buying the kit which includes those items plus a tool kit which I've already got from a previous order.
Bit rich to spend weeks after the Gorton and Denton byelection bashing the Greens talking points and then claiming some of them as your own. I agree with what he's saying here but it would ring more true if he'd been saying this before the attacks on Iran...
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 5mo agoKier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’s get control of our own energy…so we don’t have to keep worrying that our bills are going to go up"
@jamesjgill.bsky.social This from @bcmerchant.bsky.social is the counterpoint to the Matt Shumer piece you posted the other week. It's long but well worth it, bring a cuppa. Lots of further reading from it too! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...
Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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"Take search as an example. Using #Google search in a certain way can sometimes yield more useful results than #DuckDuckGo or #Ecosia, but that doesn’t mean it should be the default choice." FULL INTERVIEW >
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Interview: How to Break Free From Google’s Browser Monopoly
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"That said, we can and should exercise agency and choice in how and where we spend our time online. Just because something is tricky or time-consuming doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. Companies like #Google rely on us choosing ease over friction to maintain their position..."
🧵 Snippet from our latest interview with Andy "We might have chosen default platforms for email, search & browsing without much thought, & the ethos of the companies running them has probably changed over time. Moving away from them can be time-consuming and tricky..."
"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...
‘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’
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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.
Hire Dave for beautiful, performant sites built with the planet in mind.
Dave Cartledge@davecartledge.com · 7mo agoI’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 🤞
"Put down your phone and knit something" 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.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 7mo agoThis place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
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.
Rhodri Marsden@rhodri.biz · 7mo agoPlease 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”
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.
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. Old web.archive.org/web/20250626... New sustainability.google/operations/
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.
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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...
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.
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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.
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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.
Rebecca Brite@rebeccab.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
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?
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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.
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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last yr.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...
