nickdevoil.bsky.social
People oriented systems - service design, user experience, business analysis. Group construct analysis - how people think collectively. #GreenParty #FBPE #THFC
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Stood next to John Peel in the gents.
(Not completely unexpected at the time - he was judging a talent contest I was taking part in)
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The whole process seems to have regressed 20 years.
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I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now
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Isn’t it in the nature of shared realities that they fracture? - Gregory Bateson and schismogenesis
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Magic solutions like portals and one stop shops puts me in mind of some of @spavel.bsky.social’s things about dashboards
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An owl flapping through the twilight (not sure if owls do flap tbh)
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That certainly fits in with abolishing universities
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Isn’t X great?
/ditto
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Someone made a lot of money with that story
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He was one of the drummers I tried to emulate as a 15-yr-old, starting off with polythene boxes & a pair of chopsticks
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This is a disgrace.
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The ambiguity & redundancy of the English language are surely its greatest glories
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Not so much a useful idiot as a useless idiot
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No I don’t remember ever seeing people walking around with it on display…
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On the forehead is normal in the UK
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A horribly retrograde step - but not too surprising after Making Tax Digital forced businesses to use 3rd party s/w to submit their VAT returns instead of doing it online
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This is probably the best one-liner I’ve read on social media
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There were two - Trump and Vance
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Genius
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I see, so you never read anything on the internet or watch TV any more
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I was thinking something like, when you’re duly executed for treason, would you prefer hanging or beheading?
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WIsh I could find the "submit your questions" page
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There's always a contest going on in social discourse - which values are OK and agreed upon? Right-wing people know their best chance of winning is not by explicit argument but by moving the goalposts & crude ad-hominem rubbishing of their opponents, hoping to appeal to bystanders' worst instincts.
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WTF is wrong with you @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? Do you really think the electorate voted you in so that you would demonise migrants, destroy environmental safeguards and continue with anti-European policies? If people want Reform or the Tories, they will vote for them, not you.
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Can just imagine Jim Morrison declaiming
...You Cannot Petition The Lord With Prayer!
...Your Billions Will Not Grant You An Exemption From The Indignity Of Death!
(Lulworth Cove also 👍)
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@support.bsky.team @moderation.bsky.app
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I mean, Billy the Fish, the Pathetic Sharks and Buster Gonad aren't exactly realistic in the narrow sense of the term... but they speak to deeper truths
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Oh no, maybe the Gulf of mXico was the right name after all
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Yes, your point 1 is exactly the general problem with a lot of "AI will transform your productivity" pitches, i.e. the assumption that the important/difficult part of a job is producing some kind of output, when in fact that's only a small part of it.