cw: suicide Yesterday I went to my friend's funeral. Her husband is sick and they have a little girl. She decided to leave because she thought that no one was ever going to help, and that it was the only way to get support for her daughter. She was desperate. The system is broken.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Spent the day at an event on substance use research / harm reduction. Shout out to the one person who was bold enough to stand up and ask why so many interventions are focused on the point of overdose, but not before then.

Can't think of a single use for the giant plush skeleton but I WANT the giant plush skeleton.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Come work with me! New post open for a Design Associate to work on digital support for people with mental health and substance use issues, combining research from Scotland, Ireland, and N Ireland 👇 findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/1715...

Living in a Scottish tenement flat means that every builder is like: "Your walls are too old to repair without causing more damage. Don't plaster, paint, breathe, or look at them. I will put new walls over the old walls. I will put in a drop ceiling. I will build you a tiny house inside your house."

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Absolutely crushing it, winning at life, remembering to order my mooncakes more than a week before Mid-Autumn Festival.

the predator in animated movies: thread

Welcome to Pride On Parade! This is a solidarity & fundraising project in support of young transgender people, initially in the UK because that's where I live :) If you'd like to get involved in any way, or if you'd just like to show off your Pride-themed minis, that'd be awesome! Outline here:

Could it really be evil if it's convenient for me personally?

Is your child also an agent of darkness? I've been making a stuffed toy family of skeletons and zombies for 3yo, who lives for the spooky life. 💀

Deploying my zine making skills in a professional context.

UX dsigners claim to be "solving user problems" and "creating value" and "building with empathy" — and yet this feature still doesn't exist.

Just for fun: I redrew 7yo's drawing of his sky castle. Feel pretty pleased with it, although 7yo just came in to tell me the rock golem is supposed to be holding a helicopter, not a hammer. "Can't you tell?"

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

I asked ChatGPT and it said that I was a credulous rube who would believe anything if the message was delivered with a sufficient degree of fawning subservience

I finished reading SPOCK’S WORLD by @diane.dianeduane.com last night with my Star Trek book club and the line that knocked us all flat on our asses was when a smug Vulcan logic bro says “the data speaks for itself,” and Bones replies “NO data speaks for itself. data just lies there. PEOPLE speak.”

The Water of Leith - a beautiful bit of art made for us by Andrea Heins from Jangling Space. #scotland

"The children in attendance at our screening of Smurfs watched in the sort of solemn silence one might expect out of overly-respectful tourists observing kabuki."

This is the best essay ever written on American gun violence www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...

I was sick of all our half-used activity books that I can't bear to throw out because they are too expensive, so I have turned 5 of them into 1 new book for 3yo. I find these things too prescriptive so I've just cut out the pictures I liked best and removed most of the instructions.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

7yo said to me, "If snails had legs, they could run as fast as humans." If this thought has to live in my head, then I think it should be in everyone else's, too.

Making tiny models of Sonic the Hedgehog with 7yo today, but I think I accidentally made Blue Badger instead.

Making dried sweet potatoes and I love the way they look like a cross between steak, amethysts, and alien space food. Also they taste good.

Making something for a kid who's been having a tough time recently. I might have gotten carried away. The toy has its own toy.

Enjoying a quiet moment in my cosy new @yukfunwow.bsky.social tracksuit…! It lifts my spirits just to look at it.

Did an interview with phonetime news on my studio. www.phonetime.news/p/design-as-...

A bit of East Lothian, doing some painting for my stepmother. #watercolour #scotland

while chatgpt is offline i will happily step in to make up some unhinged bullshit for you

lowkey looks like we were filmed at gunpoint 💀 WISHLIST NOW!!! play the demo today! and please leave us a review 🫶 😀 store.steampowered.com/app/3438190/... 😀

Expanding my egg carton hanging garden 🌷

Doing some painting - a bit of everyday surrealism. #painting #glasgow

6yo's school: "We are putting on a fun 70s themed show! Your kid can wear any kooky costume like hippy or punk!" 6yo, browsing Google Image search with me: "I want to look like this guy."

My latest sock pal Ronin Rabbit just rolled into town, ready to fight on the behalf of justice. Toshiro Mifune's eyebrows were my main inspiration here.

Sometimes I'm doing stuff like sawing a chopstick in half in the stairwell and I'm just relieved the neighbours don't come out to see what I'm doing.

Librarian referred to scanning my books as "tooting" (I assume because it beeps when you do it). I love it.

Time for cardamom pancaaaakes…! 🎶

I am working on this rabbit samurai guy and THIS FACE. 😍😍😍

If anyone is working in this area and/or wants to learn more, our colleagues at SCVO have developed a framework for digital inclusion: scvo.scot/p/61043/2023...

So close to 310k! Do your one minute of Clickens for mental health: clickens.chicken.pics And also wish a very happy birthday to Jeff, the Clickens engineering lead @at.wishnie.org!

Spite-constructing a massive cardboard edifice out of the 27 toilet roll tubes 6yo insisted that we save because he was going to use them for crafts.

A photo of the action in Glasgow. If you are in the area. They urgently need support as the police have arrived.

I believe design can be more than smooth. It can be thoughtful, discerning and alive. The Philosophy of Intentionally Inconvenient Design: Essay #2 from my Future Archive Newsletter. substack.com/@futurearchi...

THIS. ❤️ And no a good assisted digital model isn’t ’we have a telephone number they can ring’

I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.

One of our biggest dilemmas as a research group working on digital health is that the people who are most affected by health inequality also tend to have the lowest digital literacy and access. One gentlemen was trying to apply for benefits using an Xbox, because he didn't have a phone.