How insulted will a potential customer be if I have a dung beetle moving a big ball and compare it to a line of ants moving stuff for how to change the way they migrate the system by tackling some of the big ball of mud (ddd) issues they're facing to break it down to smaller chunks? 🪲 Vs 🐜

You can still love what harry potter meant to you without giving more money to fund trans-hate lawfare like jkrwf.org Buy second hand if you have to but don't buy new, get the new audiobook, or play the games new.

ZoLo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇳🇴@zoelocke.bsky.social · 5d ago

Had an idea, but my graphic design brain is on strike today, so this is the best I could come up with. Boycott Harry Potter; JK Rowling's money is her power. Nerf her wealth, and she won't be able to hurt us anymore. #NerfTheTERF #transphobia #transRightsAreHumanRights #art

The idea that there'll be bin inspectors checking we've correctly sorted stuff is annoying me. It's so complicated that I even saw someone build an ai sol'n to help get it right. Can I get on the course they're gonna go through to learn the plastics rules and when is paper too greasy to be ♻️ pls!

A major thank you to @sqlclause.no for the tip of spritzing the top bed sheets with water to help provide evaporative cooling to make sleeping easier because I'd be especially cranky without that lifesaver right about now. Thanks Johan 🙏🤩

You know what America needs - some planes to fly and release chemicals to change the colour of the sky. We'll call them Con Trails because they'll implement conservative values.

Ned Pyle@nedpyle.com · 2mo ago

Once you notice bisexual lighting being used, you cannot unsee it. This is intentional. I will not be gaslit.

Lol. Reform accuse plaid of being the devil, Labour say they're making stuff up, and, bizarrely, the Welsh Tories agree with plaid? 🫣 We absolutely need to invest in digital skills, transport, and energy in Wales to enable better productivity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Raising productivity key to higher Welsh wages, says minister

Adam Price wants to halve the productivity gap between Wales and the rest of the UK within 10 years.

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Wow: > The Court implies that individuals with profound cognitive disabilities cannot be "deprived" of liberty because their condition limits their ability to experience it That's a scary stance to take and an utterly slippery slope into solipsistic brutality.

#art help wanted- Please help a gal out with her distressed artist of a wife looking for advice and recommendations!

ZoLo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇳🇴@zoelocke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey #art folks: Got any tips, favourite tutorials/guides, book recommendations, etc... for digital coloring and rendering? I've got lines and flats down, but as soon as I get to rendering/detailed colour it all falls apart. I guess because I'm no longer just colouring inside lines 😅 #DigitalArt

Still reading the new draft guidance from the EHRC but my points from last year are still valid from what I can tell. I imagine it's firmly in the "too hard" bucket but we need to re-tool all our laws to de-gender many things and allow for intersex and nonbinary existence medium.com/@stephlocke/...

The Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC interim guidance — key issues and recommendations

Initially aimed at politicians in the UK, but provides key information, advocacy actions, & arguments for why trans rights are human…

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Great seeing so many lovely peeps at #sqlbits yday!

Oh Microsoft support, how you continue to lower my expectations of you every ticket is astonishing 🤦‍♀️

I'm turning my personal website into a second mind. Read about the why and the how at stephlocke.com/blog/second-...

I've just started using Google keep. How long til Google kills it? Place your bets now 😄

A quick post on implementing #webMCP and an equivalent of #markdownForAgents on #goHugo and #netlify www.linkedin.com/posts/stepha...

Getting our Hugo+Netlify site agent compatible | Steph Locke

A very quick post on some of the work done by Copilot whilst I was on the train this weekend. It focuses on #WebMCP and #CloudFlare #MarkdownForAgents comparable functionality in #GoHugo and #Netlify....

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No to Grok. No to Tesla. No to xai. No to spacex. No to Musk. I'm not spending my money there and I'm trying not to give my money to Musk-enablers either. Not that they'll hear it here but businesses only on twitter are insta nope for me.

Here's Obi with his fren Bol.

Did ya know that Gu ramekins make perfect stands for your v60 during the bloom and for when you're letting it cool before disposing of the coffee grinds? #MiddleClassUKHipsterTip

Every time I see someone partnering or using palantir, I wonder if they ask "are we the baddies?"

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

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I talked about a thing with a fab local journalist - cyber security, ai, and governance www.isms.online/cyber-securi...

The Compliance Era: How Regulation, Technology and Risk Are Rewriting Business Norms - ISMS.online

As regulatory pressure increases and threat actors increasingly exploit vulnerabilities, compliance and governance must now be an ongoing exercise for businesses.

isms.online

Used the ladies at a service station today and noticed a sign on the way in: "Male cleaner on duty." A man can access the ladies to clean it and nobody cares. Opposition to trans women using the ladies is, as we all know, about nothing other than making us suffer. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Sad to see Hugh Laurie and kit Harrington having done a recent harry potter audiobook. Don't fund the anti-trans movement. Buy your books second hand if you've got to get your hands on the story.

Confectionery cannibalism? Or is it ok because a gingerbread man isn't a doughnut variant?

This supposed war on Christmas still seems to be losing. Shocking, almost like there was never a group actually attacking Christmas.

Posted over on linkedin - it's ok to stop Linkedin.com/pulse/its-ok-stop-steph-locke-ytgme

It's ok to stop

You may need this post as you reflect coming into a new year. This is your permission to stop (or slow down) on your community work, your startup, your terrible job, the hobby you think you ought to b...

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All those republicans living up to their values

Steph Locke@stephlocke.bsky.social · last yr.

This has been in my mind as a meme for a while

Have I mentioned recently that I hate Auth? I will be getting @zoelocke.bsky.social to make me a t-shirt to that effect and they will go on sale too 😂

Astonishing and incredibly sad that the thousands of deaths of children due to guns doesn't trigger a ban on guns but 10 child deaths supposedly due to vaccines means a govt effort to basically ban vaccines in the US😞

A good boy and a bad owner (imo) - well worth watching this film www.imdb.com/title/tt3552...

Good Boy (2025) ⭐ 6.2 | Horror, Thriller

1h 12m | PG-13

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New local coffee shop at the train station in Caerphilly - about to test out the nommy looking almond croissant and my first ever pumpkin latte (made with actual pumpkin puree). Wish me luck on this attempt at being a snooty basic bitch!

> I give this House my solemn commitment, and that of the Government, that we will not rest until humanitarian aid is entering Gaza in the volumes required to try to meet the staggering level of human suffering [...]. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : 'Gaza: Humanitarian Obligations' on Monday 24 November 2025.

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