Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)
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I help software teams navigate capitalism & ensure both sides eat their greens. Regulated sectors specialist. 🇬🇧➡️🇵🇹🇪🇺 Personal/nerd account.
This is cute when they ask about school years or line drying clothes but 2016 to 2024 was agony with my Irish relatives.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10h agojust got interviewed by a foreign outlet about a Westminster thing and I always enjoy it so much when someone goes "so, the British [pause] please explain"
just got interviewed by a foreign outlet about a Westminster thing and I always enjoy it so much when someone goes "so, the British [pause] please explain"
Posted a brief write up of the Museum of Manky Tea Towels. It has been a really fun and very weird project, and it was fantastic to share it with everyone at #emfcamp ben.kirman.org/projects/mus...
Found another rare and cool remote tech for good job! Tor project is hiring a UX lead - 7+ years of UX/Product design exp - People and team management experience - $110,000 - $121,275 USD - Global remote -Cool privacy preserving tech
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An interesting bit of history at GOV.UK - to begin with content design was mostly about long form guidance. When we started designing services we found that there are some differences in how you approach content design for interfaces: www.gov.uk/service-manu...
Writing for user interfaces
Doing content design for user interfaces, including style, tone and how to write questions.
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Hello Bluesky. Just locked myself in my mums garden. Got stuff to leave, grabbed keys from pouch that has home keys, office keys, mum keys. Locked windows and back door Shut the front door. Looked at the keys in my hand. Then at the security gate that needs a key too. 💀😂
However reckless you get you're not going to fill the house with induction
i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My Apple News blocks tend to save me from bigotry but ever so occasionally they save me from myself 😅
To add to my fun today, I am on the same plane for both flights. But I could still miss the second flight because they landed late and at a non-Schengen gate so I’m now on a bus to get to the Schengen part of the terminal and then go through passport control and then back to the gate I just left 😁
So if I tell the AI-pillers that I can’t use LLMs due to no Wi-Fi on the plane will the AI-pillers throw money at plane Wi-Fi? 😅
Someone floated the concept that the uk already has a well administered wealth tax right now it’s just used to charge for social care. There are gaps in the idea, but hmm 🧐
While I have your attention, due to the portrait of Turing on them, I have been trying to nickname £50 notes 'an Alan' for a while now. Please help me to get this to catch on. 'They're £20 each,' you could say, 'or, special offer, I can do you three for an Alan.' Thanks in advance.
The most complicated things about working with public opinion are the facts that two things can be true at once and people are allowed to dislike things that they have benefitted from.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
Suddenly terrified that Matthew Wills already did this joke at some point. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sword-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
I am constantly in a tug of war between sunburn and vitamin D deficiency. Today, despite multiple applications of spf 50, I’ve mildly burnt half my face by sitting on a *covered shaded* terrace for 2 hours 🙄. All the locals are greeting me in English again 😅
Hahaha I posted about neurodivergence with a dalek analogy today and someone blocked me, with a profile line of “if I blocked you, it’s because you’re annoying”. Yes I am. 😁 I will get your startup product going by hook or by crook. Being not annoying is how people can continue to ignore reality.
Forcing the room to stop and think about what notes or actions to take is a great technique to get people actively thinking again, or get out of a topic rut. I will say I do use these tools - but I used the pre-AI versions too, and I used a tape recorder for lectures at uni. The AI ones don’t work
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d agoSo a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.
All neurodevelopmental disorders are social constructs. They were invented because we’re obsessed with assuming everyone can learn, develop and can be assessed identically, and that deviating from that so they might need some grace or tablets must mean the person is “taking advantage”.
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
dont tell anyone, only the cool kids embracing intellectual curiosity at the crux of overlapping disciplines get it
Ana Hevesi@anthrocypher.bsky.social · 5d agoHumans make tools and tell stories. Those are our core competencies and the joke of it is these aren’t even distinct activities
Humans make tools and tell stories. Those are our core competencies and the joke of it is these aren’t even distinct activities
The most middle-class littering I have ever seen: Someone abandoned a book about Picasso on our front gate.
The next time you consider making a flier with AI, please also consider that the most intriguing ad I’ve seen this week is a garage sale sign made of particle board with spray painted writing that reads, “GOOD SHIT —>”
