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Voted today. Taking joy in the idea of free and fair elections, and the smiles of people handing out and receiving ballots. How democracy should feel.

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I have just been introduced to John Gall's Systemantics (first edition available from the open library archive.org/details/syst...) Highly recommend it, especially if you wish to cry and laugh simultaneously. My favourite rule so far is that "All systems operate in a state of failure".

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poets.org/poem/shield-.... Been thinking that ekphrasis is all computers can ever do, describe something created in a different form by someone else. And then I reread Auden and note it's sad relevance today.

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Today, Saturday 15 February, is World Pangolin Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pangoli... Also World Hippo Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/hippo-d... And Support an Independent Pub Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/support...

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Roses are thorny Violets smell sweet Without clichéd romance My day was complete

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And It has been a hard harsh day, and I am reminded of Yeats second coming www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/.... And then i remember Sheenagh Pugh pwrites.princeton.edu/poem/a-poem-... and hope that gentle kindness will win against despair.

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Recommend Margaret Heffernans piece on wilful blindness. Looking back to the days of Greenham Common mentioned in the article, i will never know which actions worked. substack.com/app-link/pos...

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Currently despairing at an attempt to consolidate five different sets of research into what needs to be in place to enable automation of boring processes. Unless you know what you do and why you do it, it is difficult to improve.

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Stumbled upon this from yonks ago. Owl identification made easy

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The richness of using a medium in which it is impossible to correct your mistakes ensures that you have to think up new approaches and workarounds. If you have unlimited options to correct your behaviour you have unlimited options to avoid rethinking your approach

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Thinking about the acoustics of river bridges. As a pedestrian, would you prefer to hear cars, bicycles or water? How much does bridge traffic encourage you to linger and chat?

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The innate hostility of inanimate objects beautifully describes the phenomenon whereby vital items disappear, computers crash and coffee cups leak over your most important papers.

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With the start of wet February, I am considering whether any of the habits around not drinking that I formed in January are going to be transferred to the rest of the year.

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There comes a point during “One Man Went To Mow” where you think: we may have over-resourced this meadow mowing.

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I am now followed by a number of what i have been unreliably informed are sex bots. Context really is everything.

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Do you model the system encourage desired behaviour? You have the choice of a long or short lavatory flush. Ideally, the short flush should be used by default. Do you match the large control to the short flush, to encourage people to use it? Or to the long flush, to match expected behaviour?

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Every profession defines itself by its chosen language. The right to name something (or have something named after you) is one of the clearest expressions of power. Inspect the history of the names of elements for a clear view of this, including the names chosen.

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Asked my husband what it is that he can't not see. The layout of the plumbing in lavatories and bathrooms

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Going to a restaurant with an MEP engineer (mechanical electrical plumbing) and talking about how she always notices lights and ventilation systems and I always notice signage and accessibility. You can't switch off the knowledge you have. You need to remember that this is NOT other people's normal.

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I am always made slightly happier by the crowds of people at blockbuster exhibitions who are staring at a picture that is normally in the same museum's permanent collection (and often in a nearly empty room).

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Just a reminder that cashew nuts look like they've been forced to wear a woolly hat by their mum when they really don't want to

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Why can't we build software like people. Solid Interiors with a limited number of input output devices. And with a basic support system of almost every other human being.

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Letsencrypt immediately made me think of Frankenstein.

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Analysing workshop results and noting there is a significant difference between Western (north America and Europe) and Eastern (Asia and Australasia) behaviours and responses. Obvious, of course, but how do you balance cultural requirements with easily maintained software?

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