Traditional Fortune of War lunch at #brightonseo Some lovely big waves out at sea today!

Some of you have been asking whether or not Vivaldi is affected by Chrome’s #AI API, which some websites are using for tracking purposes. The answer is straight-forward: no. ✌️ We disable all the Gemini-related code bundled in Chromium, effectively preventing websites from using this API in Vivaldi.

Great talk by @dii.je today on Advanced Technical SEO! #brightonseo

Ticket purchased for BrightonSEO April 2027. Sorted. #seo

Small update today to my Schema Extensions - improved understanding of page content and shema suggestions. www.simoncox.com/simons-schema/

never the wrong time for this classic

Science Magazine@science.org · 5d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

On Friday I was multi-tasking. I volunteered for @searchnstuff.co.uk by helping with the socials while also supporting @simoncox.com, @goodsignals.com, Gareth and Lianne on #SEOofficeHours 💚

for some reason wordpress decided not to make the chart the featured image, so here it is

Andy Bell@bell.bz · last wk.

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A very long shot! 2027 #seocharity conference @johnmu.com @crestodina.bsky.social @fajela.bsky.social Do you want to speak, sponsor, or attend? Let me know!

I have been introduced to a new tool that is going to make me very very happy, and make many many designers scream out in terror. bastardica.mitpit.com

Bastardica

A type foundry for bastard web fonts.

bastardica.mitpit.com

I'm seeing multimodal searches in GSC. Not many of course, but it's alive!

#JEV I’m waiting for the first JEVangelical JEVangelists to appear. Can’t be long now.

Depending on what side of LinkedIn you're on, you're going to run across JEV, hyped as the new shit of LLMs. It is not. It's the marketing hype of discriminative models, induced by some folks discovering that frontier LLMs really shouldn't be used for classification tasks (for a bunch of reasons)

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

The nerve is great. If you don’t read it then you should. Hey @thenerve.news want me to print some paper copies for you with my Riso?

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3w ago

Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇

What on earth is happening?

Nicola Kelly@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

OSX27 is better then 26 so far though you know all those warnings about universal apps not working in future versions of OSX - thats hit home now. Had to reinstall Git, and 4 other apps, Divvy isn't working and I really liked the keyboard shortcuts in Divvy. so far - good.

If you want to know a bit more about SEO from a set of professionals not selling stuff and giving their time and experience for free, then please sign up for this free webinar. It's for a really good cause. www.seocharity.com/upcoming-con... More here: www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-for-paws...

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a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Peter Capaldi implies the existence of Peter Caplidl

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

@sejournal.bsky.social just wrote about #seocharity @rustybrick.com @glenngabe.bsky.social @lisapaasche.bsky.social @techseovitals.com @zachchahalis.bsky.social @anaprecup.bsky.social @louisafrahm.bsky.social @fajela.bsky.social Michał Suski www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-for-paws...

SEO For Paws Live Stream Conference: Free Tickets & Big Names For A Good Cause

Barry Schwartz and Glenn Gabe headline SEO For Paws on Sept. 23. A free live stream on the state of search, raising money for pet shelters in Ukraine.

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Matt Mullenweg is now on a leave of absence from Automattic. About time! www.404media.co/wordpress-au... #wordpress

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

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At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

Claude was down for me an hour ago - I got loads done.

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

How I created a 1:76th scale model Shepherds hut from photographs. And then had to recreate it again. www.simoncox.com/post/2026-08...

Creating a model of a Shepherds hut

How I created a 1:76th scale Shepherds hut from photographs.

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What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb? As several have shared before me: * own your domain and publish some content on it That’s the foundation. If you have a personal website on a domain you own and control, you’re on the indieweb or part of the indieweb or however you would […]

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

Use Speedlify2 to Continuously Measure Website Performance (and run automated accessibility checks) https://www.zachleat.com/web/speedlify2/