the original sin of all 'transformation' projects 👇 you will get the behaviours that you reward

Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 11h ago

One thing I will note is that as a middle manager, which will I be both more keen on and more able to make happen: a glitzy transformation initiative (with my name on it) to speed up some work, or a meaningful analysis of whether a bunch of that work needed doing in the first place?

Happy 12th anniversary of the day Kim Jong Un visited the lube factory.

i have written tickets you people wouldn't believe

confluence may have a 'barely working' search but it sure beats the dungarees off the 'not working' search on microslop products

sometimes I wish this place had bird-site-style soft blocks

Litany for content designers - grant me the serenity to accept the problems I cannot solve with content, the courage to meet the ones that can and the wisdom to tell the difference #ContentDesign

watching courgettes rot in the fridge, but as a service

Went camping - at night I got up to help release what sounded like a sheep trapped in a fence. Turned out it was my child snoring.

Child 2 also likes Frozen, but pays more attention to the impact of the story on the Nordic ice harvesting industry

Someone more astute than me once pointed out that all is best work had at least one kinder, gentler person also holding the wheel. Hard to see that as a coincidence now. But crikey mate, how far you done fall.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Despite only watching the games industry for some time, other parents sometimes ask me about how to keep their kids safe. My elder millennial answer is "get a used switch or Wii for offline play - it's hard to keep kids safe otherwise and the industry is so predatory now"

Toast? Frivolous. Eggs? Juvenile. The true breakfast of champions is eating an entire chicken in one gulp like a mature anaconda

shout out to my dad's law firm - now charging extra to answer AI generated questions

I am just a consumer, crushed under late stage capitalism, asking it to deliver a large milkshake that is worth the calories

just had a gentle man scrape the dead skin off my feet with a knife and medical dremel and it was just the best

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

Things I say from The Wire while parenting - a non-exhaustive thread

Slack having a different keyboard shortcut for creating links than every other program on the planet is still pure trash and I just cannot

All plans are future plans. All chaps are assless. All Rubicon drinks are delicious.

I am "if I ever have to get information from another one of those scrolly animated things again I am going to freeze a pork gammon joint and throw it through the plate glass window of the nearest Tesco metro" years old

bros don't let bros doomscroll 👍

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

Overheard from a group of four guys on the subway: “Yo, why are you doomscrolling? You’re with the bros”

Bring back the humble seeded bun

come on tim

the job interview I had at a charity, many moons ago, where the head of comms complained that her design agency had backstabbed them by not making it clear enough that the a redesign package for their website didn't include a mobile view lives rent free in my mind

asking "is this a condition of work or a constraint?" but as a service

In 2009 I spent hours looking for a CSS bug - an apostrophe - that I thought was a spec of dirt

Pandy Fackler@thatbrenna.bsky.social · 3w ago

I tried to get a tiny spot off my monitor for 15 min. Y'all it was a comma

LLM for search can use vectors to calculate the context of search terms better than synonyms with older search models

fear can be a rational response and confident people can cause expensive damage - more lukewarm takes coming soon 🌈

Same, automatic doors at Hitchin station. Same.