Easily the tiniest, most rewarding change I’ve made to get off US tech is installing Vivaldi AND THEN updating my phone’s default browser settings. 🍎 I can’t yet bring myself to cut Chrome completely, but now random, unimportant links I click open in an ethical browser! 💙 vivaldi.com

Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

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This Sept join us at Open UX for a REALLY exciting chat about #futuresdesign: designing in complex regulated environments + turning policy ideas into design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony 🙌 #uxdesign #uxui

#23: Futures Design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony | Open UX Design

In our next Open UX Design meetup we’ll be meeting and hearing from Fionn Tynan O'Mahony. Fionn and his colleageus at Studio AndThen design for the long term. They work with governments, the National...

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Moving off Google part 2 (and a nice mental hump to get over): deleting all my files on Google Drive and uploading them to Proton ✅ Next stop, the emails 😬😬😬

Interesting! We get asked about Gantt charts for Nook - typically when a “case” is a potential project (eg when cases relate to assessing potential sites for solar generations). One to check out methinks!

CiviCRM@civicrm.org · 2d ago

Tables are a terrible way to view time! 📊 Lauren built CiviGantt—a new extension that brings live Gantt charts for Cases & Grants directly into CiviCRM. No more spreadsheet exports! Check out the story & download it today: tinyurl.com/3vycbs6d #CiviCRM #OpenSource #DataVisualization #GanttChart

Love the vibe of this keyboard #accessibility. Also, support your local library!! ✊

This has to be my new favourite argument to people who fret about taxing the hyper rich! 🥳

Andrew Cherry@kolektiv.xyncro.com · 2w ago

As an aside on this, the whole "if the hyper-rich leave, you're losing job creators!" seems like a weird thing to say for a (presumed) capitalist, right? Surely if there are profitable jobs to be created, and an incumbent leaves, the market would correct for that with new job creators?

Since when did the iPhone Chrome app have sponsored ads in the Discover feed? Did I miss that?? 😱 11 ads in there since yesterday. What?

So… did you see that ludicrous display last night?

#civictech is ✊✊✊

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 3w ago

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

Weaning myself off Google services…

Just wrapped up a very fun game of #CommunityEnergy Data Dilemmas! Thank you to all our adventurous #LondonDataWeek players. 🍌🎲🥳 I’m going to port this into a standalone game/workshop activity for anyone making tech products. Hit me up if you’re interested!

On Thursday I’m hosting THIS game-based workshop for London Data Week: Community Energy Data Dilemmas! 🥳😳 It’s sold out but if you’d like another chance to take part (maybe you work in this field / want an inspirational team activity) DM me. It’d be amazing to run it again. #communityenergy

Community Energy Data Dilemmas · Luma

Imagine with us radical creative ideas and doomsday scenarios around data, tech and approaches for community energy. Using gameplay and creative activities,…

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Hello fellow Friday folk. Come join me at July’s #LondonDataWeek event: Community Energy Data Dilemmas! 🎉 Come for creative fun, doomsday scenarios and tech discussion aplenty! luma.com/lgswwidv #communityenergy #data #productdesign

Community Energy Data Dilemmas · Luma

Imagine with us radical creative ideas and doomsday scenarios around data, tech and approaches for community energy. Using gameplay and creative activities,…

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It doesn’t make things better today. But #OmarElAkkad is one of the few people brave enough to talk sense about the current abhorrent world situation #Gaza Essential reading - searing account of how we have got here

At the Connected Places Summit today. Lots of talk about AI, SMEs and data infrastructure. Should be interesting!

Next week I’ll be chatting to awesome designer Fran Cook about what it means to be a freelance #ux designer PLUS what it’s like to start a collective / studio. Come hang with us on Thursday ☺️ #uxuidesign #uxdesign

From freelance to studio UX, with Fran Cook, Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup

In **[our next Open UX Design meetup](https://community.openux.design/c/events/21-from-freelance-to-studio-ux-with-fran-cook)** we’ll be meeting and hearing from **Fran Coo

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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius: “There will be no military participation.. We have a situation which we did not provoke.. This war started without any consultations.. What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates in Strait of Hormuz that the mighty US Navy can't manage alone?"

Excuse me for reposting this thread but, frankly, it took me a while to write and I quite like my little rant 🥸☺️ #genAI #AI #uxdesign

Richard Edwards@richardedwards.me · 5mo ago

Jakob's Nielsen's UX newsletter has dropped in my inbox. Let's see if I can gird my loins and board his techno-optimist #AI train! Hot takes ahead! What’s this? A comic. We'll begin with its rousing cover! 1/

A really good thread! Thank you! I should use this with our clients 😅 🧵

Simon Whatley@simonwhatley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A jet engine is complicated. A healthcare system is complex. The difference matters more than you'd think.

My US Big Tech iPhone keeps trying to autocorrect “sociocracy” to “sociopath”. Figures 😅

I'm really rooting for this 👉 TechFreedom, a short course for social purpose orgs who want to understand their tech risks and DO SOMETHING about it. Importantly you leave with a plan for reducing your dependency on US Big Tech 🙌🙌🙌 techfreedom.eu via @dougbelshaw.com @tomcw.xyz #digitalsovereignty

TechFreedom — A clearer forecast for your organisation's digital future

TechFreedom helps organisations understand their technology dependencies and start making deliberate choices.

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Have you heard me banging on about tech sovereignty, adaptability, big tech and resiliency? About how your tech is an organisational cultural choice? If not, how? If you have...well, would you like some more? tomcw.xyz/why-we-creat...

Why we created TechFreedom, and why we think it's important

Launching TechFreedom a cohort based programme to help you make choices about your tech. Why we created it, why we think it's important, what it's all about and an invite to join us!

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Jakob's Nielsen's UX newsletter has dropped in my inbox. Let's see if I can gird my loins and board his techno-optimist #AI train! Hot takes ahead! What’s this? A comic. We'll begin with its rousing cover! 1/

Ugh.

I took a ride on an AI train to the future. And it definitely was NOT dystopian, contradictory and colonial at all! #genAI #UXdesign #data

Rejecting Jakob Nielsen’s AI train to the future. Toot toot!

Oh Jakob Nielsen! Oh one-time champion of the human within human-centred interaction! It’s the 9th of Feb 2026 and your latest UX newsletter has thudded into my inbox. Now I say “UX newsletter”. but ...

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Happily exhausted after a day of coding workshops with @repoweringlondon.bsky.social London + @bhesco.bsky.social ☺️🎨🧑‍💻✊ #retrofit

Just seen an announcement that the BBC is now partnering with YouTube, going all in on producing dedicated homegrown content. The benefits of its revenue model are being touted in a time when its current license fee is being so questioned. 1/

🌞 We’re hiring a part-time CEO to help Croydon Community Energy turn Croydon rooftops into community-owned solar power! Apply via CharityJob below (Closes Fri 27 Feb 2026, 5pm) ⬇️ www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/croydon... #CommunityEnergy #Recruitment

This live skeeted thread has been the funniest / most depressing (funnessing?) things I’ve read in ages! #AI

Andrew Cherry@kolektiv.xyncro.com · 6mo ago

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis