The Sun is a thing. It’s also light. And warmth. When I say “I love the Sun on my face” I don’t mean the actual Sun.

When you use all caps you make the content harder to read, people think you're shouting at them, and you end up promising to provide more access to GPS when people really want more GPs

Well, this is a good start to Tuesday morning

I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it. "I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times." 'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do' I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled. "Thanks."

My New Agony Uncle Column. Question 1 from Paul in Wilmslow: Is it OK to wear a coat in bed? Answer: Yes it is OK to wear a coat in bed. I have just tried it and it's nice. #AMA #AgonyUncle

"I did not put you here to suffer, I did not put you here to whine..."

And they're only adding all kinds of extra data gathering to find new ways to keep us parting with our money

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop. It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!). I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

These things generate value for communities - as long as they aren’t imposed from above or done out of ego Good fortune to you Wedge

AI artwork that's more HP Lovecraft via Grinch than Hallmark happy holidays

Finally caught up with this. It’s always good to see internal communication being discussed as part of M365 community activities youtu.be/2c3tSHdf0cg?...

"We're sorry" is an abusive form of email marketing. It's an abuse of the relationship between customer and seller. If I see "we're sorry" in an email subject, my expectation is the seller has made a mistake that might require my attention. That breach of trust is an instant unsubscribe.

The second frame!

Is that running Pindos?

Honestly, I leave lots of space for my characters to think and talk about what's going on in their lives. People (including fictional people) will always identify patterns in their own experience, even if those patterns can be a mite imaginary. I let my characters tell me what patterns they're in.

The thread you need on a Sunday morning

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???) These are all the same! As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.

Never mind theology. In these hard times of algorithms, AI, franchises and merch, I would dutifully take scripts notes from His Holiness. In fact, I want him to run a studio. bsky.app/profile/mark...

And when you tell kids that was prime-time entertainment in your childhood…

An arms race ending in “just…one…more…agent…!”

This is a cheap shot, and I can only apologise to everyone outside of the UK staring at this looking confused.

Right. This is serious. 🌼🐝 Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust‬ by donating to my campaign to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours) If more than £1000 is raised, I'll draw #bees to match the amount. www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...

Which brings me to the first law of form design: → Nobody wants to use your form Because JIRA, like most digital products, is full of forms. • Creating a ticket is a form • Updating a ticket is a form • Finding a ticket is a form The truth is:

So the point here is Your customer service is shit, your products are shit, your banking is shit, TV is shit, well, everything is shit because as long as the share price increases, the company doesn't actually gives a fuck if the product or service is shit Because they're making money 16/n

Blue Riband, the choccy biccie of disappointment

This is Perplexity's attempt (I nearly needed oxygen after seeing this)

So many wonderful photos in response to this post - I haven’t yet seen one disagreeing with Lynda yet

I like this. Perhaps it is familiar and comforting, but it feels like an approach that can get the right people and skills in the right place, while supporting organisational thinking and governance.

Sharing this because it makes my heart sing

Nice to see a lot of my grandmother’s Bristol mentioned in anything other than crime reporting

Churchill: we shall *prove* ourselves once again able to defend our Island home

Time to retrain, everyone! #webomics #comicsky

I was reminded today that I don’t need to know how, where, or if I will share whatever it is that I create, in order to create it. I thought I did, and it stopped me creating.

On the bus. There’s a lot to unpick here. Starts quite upbeat but then ends on a hollow sort of note.

I just think it’s a lost opportunity in not calling this corporate centipede.

Waterloo

Put the pedalo to the metal! Apparently, I searched for this phrase last year. I still think it’s good, but have no idea how to use it.

Apparently it's 8 years ago today that Facebook made me a beautiful video of memories consisting entirely of screenshots of Bullseye.

Let your nature blossom. #art #comic #rose #flower #capybaras #green

Still our favourite

My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day... - The Focaccia in the Rye - Yeast of Eden - Flours for Algernon - The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons - Pannetonement - The Naan in the High Castle - Leaven Las Vegas - Pitta Rabbit

Really useful to know, I just hope that this kind of information can find its way (through comms, training, etc.) to people who can make this work for their orgs

Big fan of clunky copy, sorry, chunky knitwear?

The only reason I know this isn’t specifically for me is I don’t use Adobe Illustrator

Not one of the harder decisions I'm going to make today

Truncation is not a content strategy (picture edition)

Don’t forget to register #M365UK 🇬🇧 happening this week on Wednesday! www.meetup.com/m365uk/event...

I want to believe I could make a worse date picker than some I’ve encountered (the University of York one that made you click back through months from the present day to DoB comes to mind) Check out the binary search example - which is actually rather efficient, if you concentrate

Yesterday evening's power-walk massively interrupted by this gorgeous view of #maspalomas dunes in full moon ... Whoaaah!😳🤯 I am just *so* lucky! 🥰👍🏻 https://gram.social/p/elsua/881130545709815834

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.