"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

I keep rediscovering the most non-typical boards in my Trello: the UX burn book, Story ideas, and my freelancer collaboration values board - so potential collaborators can decide if we align or not.

Happy Fountain Pen Day to all who celebrate. Enjoy your local stationary shop and all of the great indie retailers online, many of which are having some great sales! Don’t give Amazon your money. 💙

What your favourite writing tool? Does it change depending on your objective? I find the way writing apps are designed vastly changed my output for daily writing: Flowstate- honest, intuitive, surprising writing. IA writer- > web content and more structured content. Obsidian- linking research

Designing a card game similar to Pokemon, but for kids to “collect” cards if they eat fruit or veggies and then you can battle your cards. I’m not sure if this is the dietician approved way, but the idea is to put new foods on my picky eaters radar in an opt-in, low pressure way.

Obsessed with this 3d printing store, because this chess set is so well thought out and cute www.etsy.com/listing/4341...

I think a lot about unintended consequences. A while ago, there was an article describing how productivity culture had the knock-on effect that many kids didn't see a value to reading except to get information or plot summaries. 1/3

“.. ‘The world hasn't been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years,’ CEO Carol Tome said on the company's earnings call.” @reuters.com $UPS www.reuters.com/markets/us/u...

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social just in case your podcast TBR pile isn’t long enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

The weather for Saturday is looking better than ever 😅. If you’ve been thinking about joining a #TeslaTakedown protest but haven’t, this Saturday’s Global Day of Action is the day to do it. There are at least nine events happening across the UK. Please share if you’re interested. 🧵 1/11

So pretty! Sunset from Oxfordshire just now.

@joshtpm.bsky.social I wrote a long piece in Lucid about this need for new language today: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

Taxing the rich more is difficult but it's necessary

There are a lot of free hobbies (travel costs excluded), but a LOT of people are afraid to be cringe, start a meetup no one attends, etc. There's this expectation your hobby needs to "impress".

As I said in 2020, the internet is an essential service. When an emotionally immature billionaire Reddit troll is the single point of failure for the internet, the world is not safe. mor10.com/the-internet...

AI leaders bemoaning that "information is still written for humans" and recommending turning all information into Markdown documents for easy LLM ingestion is bordering on disordered thinking.

There is a lot of apprehension and anxiety in the higher education sector now. Understandably. ➡️ Folks, JOIN A UNION! There is a reason they are there. They got you a lot of what we have today. They will be amongst the only ones who will stand with you in the coming period. End of message.

Visited centro Juan xxiii yesterday in Madrid. It was everything you would hope for from a community support center. Warm atmosphere. Well organised. Lovely people. There is no “pull yourself up” advice that replaces having properly funded government and community support. #yosoyjuan

The “productivity influencer to MAGA” pipeline is real. Nearly bought a book with a title I LOVED but thought to check who the people endorsing it on the cover were following on X. NOPE. You are who you are platforming.

Ann Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist with The Washington Post since 2008, announced this evening she's quitting the paper after this cartoon was killed. It depicts media and tech billionaires, including WaPo owner Jeff Bezos. Her full statement here: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

I did give up on making ribs, but my build-a-basilosaurus was overall a huge hit with the participants at our kids STEAM event “Whale Tales”! My favorite was the kid who said he’d be “quality control” and called out directions on what vertebrae they needed next! 🐳🐋🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴

Adorable www.yankodesign.com/2025/02/04/d...

No one talking about the amount of internalised ableism in fourth wing. “How will I know I’m good enough” is the reason she gives for not joining the scribes- the order she wanted to originally join. Because having disability doesn’t mean having dismantled internalised ableism.

www.cnet.com/news/social-... I had to pick the server with imports switched off 🤦🏽‍♀️ . But honestly, I think it’s ok to rethink how we share info.

Yo no voy a formar parte de una red social que fomenta el odio.

Guys it wasn't a Nazi salute. Does he retweet a bunch of Nazis all the time? Yes. Is he currently serving under a President who openly courts Nazis? Sure. Were there Nazis in the crowd? There were. Did the physical movement exactly replicate the Nazi salute? Of course it did! But what you don't unde

Forest tattoos. 2018/2019ish

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

"A prince who is not himself wise can never be well-advised" — Niccolò Machiavelli* on LLMs. *The Prince, ch.23: 'How to avoid flatterers'

every tech company in 2025

It's wild to me that apparently it's been memory-holed that Bezos scored a 600M CIA defense contract about three weeks before he bought the WaPo for 300M. It's obvious to me that there's been a concerted effort to trash every effective media outlet that exists in this country. It's working, too.

Old pic with my Jaan hoops from blingistan . Sadly, they didn’t survive a grabby toddler.

1. Please read this thread. It could make a difference to your health. Before I went away, I had a strange, persistent tingling in the soles of my feet. When I looked it up, there were some benign explanations, and some alarming ones. I resolved to see the doctor when I returned. 🧵

Finding this news story funny as I update my barely used pixlefed account www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

Pixlefed has a testflight Ios app! pixelfed.org/mobile-apps It's beta testing stories :D

Elon's algorithm in progress... and political consultants still think they can use these rigged (yes I say rigged) far right platforms to push mainstream candidates

Instant follow for the humour. But also, the photos in this blog is a whole ✨ VIBE ✨ . dieworkwear.com

In our Dec 2024 Scientific American piece, @cbo.bsky.social and I anticipated a world where your internet activity is tracked and used to generate bespoke podcasts tailored to capture your attention. A month later.... www.perplexity.ai/page/google-...

A Little Gay Natural History by @joshlukedavis.bsky.social is a brilliant exploration of #LGBTQIA+ stories in nature, showing how biological sex is truly a spectrum, and how the institution of "science" has unscientifically tried to hide how common same-sex sexual behaviour is the natural world. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🐧

These crocheted nudibranchs at Bear Valley visitor center were so cool.

the policy here really is wild. the entire concept is functionally to declare that gender and sexuality are not protected classes, that their legitimacy is a valid question

In an effort to ignore the hideous reality we are all facing, here's a picture of me as a cowboy for no apparent reason. 🤠

You utter spanner. Your government quashed my free speech (and admitted it in writing to me) and you didn't lift a finger to help. I had to threaten judicial review.

Remember how a year ago there was fatigue about migrating from X like "What to choose: Threads? Bluesky?Mastodon? There are just too many platforms" Well, now there's one less.

Saw this on FB. #starwars

A helpful little guide to composition for baby #illustrators, found on a delightful blog www.workovereasy.com/2019/06/13/a...