Anyone else been told that shifting your view (proportionately) when new data/info appears means you aren't considered as much leadership material as someone who doesn't bother? Because I have, and I bet others have too.

Might I suggest a new industrial strategy for the UK, transition our economy to become world leaders in tabletop.

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The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004 #WebDesignHistory

I tried an online spelling test and then started arguing with one of the explanations. 🤦‍♀️

I’m coming up to about my 70th flight since the start of 2024. Mix of budget and regular airlines. Not once have I worn velour or cashmere “travel separates” or the colour oatmeal. Never had a sleep pillow. Nor yoga pants. What are those magazine article writers *on*?!

It is now 0 days since I last saw a business document refer to people as resources. People's time? A resource. People themselves? Unless you're chopping them up and cooking them, not a resource.

on.ft.com/47xX4Uw Tech moguls turned away as Lisbon airport hits private jet limit - now this has might have finally annoyed some billionaires, can we get the hell on with expanding Lisbon’s airport capacity? Would be lovely for a normal flight to leave on time occasionally.

Much like ChatGPT cannot think, Jira also does not do the work for you when you click on those buttons and drop downs. It just creates more to do alongside the work.

I have occasionally out manoeuvred colleagues used to one part of gov policy in one area by having had exposure to other sectors. So… anywaysssss what has social care policy got to do with rail nationalisation? Weirdly, a lot.

Draft uk Railways Bill is out to have a gander www.gov.uk/government/p...

Fantastic look at the economics of England’s care sector by Georgina:

New to BlueSky: I'm making an effort here, sharing my art/ book/ cute pet pic/ etc. and not a click?🤔 Friend, Many won't like OR share posts unless YOU click tiny "ALT" & add a description (alt-text) of image. It's for visually impared folks who use screen readers or who struggle reading tiny text.

Hob died about 3 months ago while in warranty. After about a month of threatening legal action, someone arrived, took it away and gave us a temporary hob. Then 2 months later, after threatening yet again, someone arrives to install a replacement. This is fairly normal for doing business here.

Heading home with two multipacks of taytos - been very nice in Ireland the past 5ish days.

I finally gave up and bought a new phone and oh god setting up everything again, even with an encrypted peer to peer transfer as a starting point is deeply annoying.

I always forget about my complete archive of UK government source code until I receive panicked emails asking me to delete things from it. This time it was password hashes. A lot of password hashes.

Cupcake does arts and crafts. #art #watercolor #scissors #bananapeel

I believe there is a historical reason why this has happened in the uk & Ireland - I think it might have been to do with these sorts of restaurants in the 70s or 80s offering fish and chips as an alternative, but I might be making this up…

This is broadly why I started opening stuff in new tabs by default - I do not trust websites anymore to take me back correctly.

We had a whole second summer of love in the uk in the late 80s with new genres of music generated after and a fantastic alternative comedy scene that we reaped the rewards through the 90s and 00s and beyond in popular culture because the dole could cover rent.

🥪 It’s Crispmas Eve! Tomorrow, make sure you tag any posts with #CrispSandwichDay and give us a prod vole.wtf/crisp-sandwi...

That said I could count on the good company to take pics of my friend’s cat

Galway is lovely but no pics because my phone was out of use yesterday - not true for today!

Me booking a hotel in advance : “yeahhhh I can save 30eu with a normal room it all looks lovely” Me at hotel: “where is your finest room give me an actual bath tub”

a perfect CVSS 10 😍

Why is Thor’s hammer next to my plane?

I didn’t realise my pound shop runs to stock up my husband with fruit pastilles in Portugal made such an impact…

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

Well this was a scary topic to write about! ashley.rolfmore.com/business-is-...

Used to work with a PM in my local gov vendor days who cleared the air by whacking a sock of change on the table. I did not realise this was a real turn of phrase now(!) Years later, I told a colleague about the PM. When they asked, PM said, 'Don't remember, but sounds like something I'd do.'

If you feel like you've ever messed up at work, watch the latest Slow Horses episode (s5e4). I guarantee you will feel competent afterwards.

I’m not off the plane yet love calm down

its really unfortunate the "accidentally became important at work" tweet is the realest shit of all time

A system designed to help people get better at making software would treat the user and the developer as a continuum instead of a binary. If you just want to use it, great. If you want to understand more about how something works, it should unfold that context and let you change some things

I’m just a girl Waiting for a bus Oh wait it’s diverted. 🤦‍♀️

wait wait... they turned the party game werewolves into a reality tv series?

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Fitzgerald said: “I thought that childhood was a game that I had to win, so I’ve been doggedly copying everyone around me. Now, everyone thinks I’m normal, except they all still seem to hate me a little bit, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.”

A primer on Taxonomies, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs without any maths in it. I have tried to make this understandable for as wide an audience as feasible. (Mainly written as an excuse to use my cats as an example for something yet again) - ashley.rolfmore.com/taxonomies-o...

Reminds me of this classic: bash.rip?190832

All of these subjects are extremely useful to society. (And honestly, we’re naff at predicting future useful, study it for the pursuit of knowledge anyway.) Do I really have to bring back my “drama taught me more about working in modern tech than my IT lessons” again?

If you are ND in some way, notably if you have those traits often associated with autistic peeps, often something "clicks" in your brain between the age of 26 and 33. It can make life a LOT less stressful.

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

As someone who looked after software that covered about 1/3 of this cost for most of the 2010s, I watched this decline in real time. The below is not understood by the general public at all and honestly I come across unhinged trying to make this point to anyone not a politics nerd.

It’s easy to laugh but I’m inside on a beautiful sunny island on a Sunday to play Civ VII’s new update 💀

I wrote a thing defending Microsoft Teams. Probably my most controversial tech opinion 😅 It's a fascinating case study in understanding your market positioning and how it doesn't matter what the majority of the industry believes about you if you are right... ashley.rolfmore.com/in-defence-o...

my dad does phone systems, not IT (all blurred these days). he recently got a support call from a nuclear power plant. halfway through, the transcription notes switched to planning a murder and hiding the body. after some panic - the host had just forgotten to hang up and was watching a crime drama

There's a reason we all lived on irc or usenet then.