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People oriented systems - service design, user experience, business analysis. Group construct analysis - how people think collectively. #GreenParty #FBPE #THFC
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British football lads would be really good at this. Come on England.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Wondering whether Keir Starmer realises how hilarious 95% of the world will find it, him complaining foreigners don’t make enough effort to learn English

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

In case you missed it ... Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!

submitted 79 days ago • 65 comments

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

submitted 85 days ago • 101 comments

America in 1776:"No taxation without representation". Well, with the State Department telling Ofcom how to manage free speech and Tony Blair saying US data thieves should be left alone, America has lots of representation here. So, let's start taxing them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Is Greenland to the US as Ukraine is to Russia? Is this the pre-invasion phase? Is Putin advising Trump?

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re outraged by Trump & Vance and want to *do* something… Join European Movement UK. The UK needs to get back to being a full member state asap - as Europe needs to unite hard.

submitted 119 days ago • 26 comments

Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

submitted 118 days ago • 1196 comments

Morning Bluesky. Apparently “long-term shareholder value” is important. More important than the planet, our children, our children’s children and the human race in its entirety. Who knew?

submitted 121 days ago • 64 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 128 days ago • 115 comments

Trump's executive order is the direct equivalent of the Nazis' Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933, though that was a law passed by the Nazi-dominated parliament rather than a presidential decree. If US lawmakers accept this, they are accepting fascist tyranny & everything that follows.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language. —Joseph Brodsky

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments

Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. Not necessarily in line with our own interest. This plan must be prepared now. There’s no time to lose.

submitted 132 days ago • 114 comments

Would obviously be terrible if any of these vulnerabilities were exploited

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

New band name: The Exploding Paper Straws

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

For a UK person, however horrific the Trump regime in the US may be, the behaviour of the Labour government is surely even more disappointing, depressing and disgusting

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

This is brilliant - bookshop.org are selling e-books, now, too. Every purchase financially supports local, independent bookstores. Buy on the site, and read in their app... bookshop.org/info/ebooks

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

The big question for me is - how do you say Kurt Lewin's surname? I prefer LEVin because I'm sure that's how he'd have said it originally. But some US ppl say levEEN. And most UK ppl seem to say LOOwin as if it was an English name.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Tfw you update iOS and the Mail app starts behaving like a moron again

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

"the study concluded that reCAPTCHA has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of human time valued at $6.1 billion in wages while generating massive profits for Google through its tracking capabilities and data collection"

submitted 139 days ago • 3 comments

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments