tfw you're a sheeprabbit who's fooled your owners into believing you're a dog

Partner decided there were "too many boys" in this house. So now there's this girl dog that lives with us?

I grew up with two old, grumpy cats, so I'm naturally suspicious of any animal that *wants* to spend time with me. A sign of poor taste, imho.

Anyway everyone say hello to Cookie I guess

'Jay you have big hands' 'Jonty your hands are massive' 'Yo what's going on with them meat shovels' no shut up these are normal appendages

Sorry I missed the team call this afternoon, I was re-reading the emails I sent yesterday to make sure I sounded cool and easygoing and didn't use any exclamation marks

Looks like it's a washing day tomorrow! There's four hours of free electricity from 1030 in the morning, amidst 16.5 hours of prices below 4p/kWh. (This is on the Octopus Agile tariff, South Scotland.)

Why so cheap? Just the right amount of windy, and the grid needs to offload all that energy.

It's one of those things they never tell you about parenting. You're probably going to make a tiny person who's:

a) vulnerable to the *exact* same brand of misery you are, and - as a result -

b) going to need help with issues you're *uniquely unqualified* to help with.

Our 7yo gets pretty anxious about stuff. We're trying to help him talk about it, but he often gets the words 'anxious' and 'conscious' mixed up.

It kills me every time it happens, because I know there might be some truth in his mix ups. If he's like me, being conscious probably *means* being anxious.

It's awful to watch your kid wrestling with the same shit you do.

I rode my big yellow Manc Velodrome parts-bin special into work yesterday, and I'm still buzzing off the endorphins 24hr later.

Hilariously unsuitable machinery for Scottish winters and Edinburgh cobbles, but I love it. Cannot wait for summer.

"I can’t help it; the intuitive, designerly bit of me sucks air through my teeth and exhales with a ‘naaaaaah."

A well-grounded and wide-ranging exploration of tech entrepreneurs recurrent habit of "putting the new thing in a box and seeing what happens" by Tobias Revell.

Grab a cuppa and have a read. It's worth your time.

https://blog.tobiasrevell.com/2024/01/24/box107-ai-in-a-box-wont-end-smartphones/

My "THE UK REMAINS AN OPEN AND TOLERANT COUNTRY" graphic has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my graphic.

I found out 'architect' was a job really late in life. Like, age 10 or something.

I remember being horrified to learn that *people?!* were allowed to *make up?!* buildings?. Seems like a bad system. I live in those.

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My 6yo is already following in his dad's footsteps; making poor life choices from an early age 🥲

Team: you'll be glad to hear I only talked about surveillance capitalism once. Very restrained, I thought.

Today, I am on a panel about #AI. I will be expressing #Opinions.

In case it comes up: any #Marxist / #anarchist / neo-luddite views expressed are mine alone, and not representative of @NileHQ's position (yet...)

Sometimes, when I get angry at work, I'll write a mean email and save it in my drafts.

Then I'll go for a run amidst the hills and streams. I'll reflect, calm down, and think clearly once more.

When I'm back at my desk I pause, breathe, and go to town on that shitty first draft, rewriting it into a devastating, cold-blooded, scorched-earth career assassination.

And then I smash send while flipping the bird.

Give yourself space to think today 🙏

#MentalHealtg

Good writing by @ryanbroderick in Garbage Day this week;

"Fact-checkers... still think of “misinformation” and “disinformation” as the content equivalent of toxic runoff polluting a river. There’s an unspoken assumption that a journalist can hold up a glass of glowing green water and embarrass a company or political institution enough to make them clean it up... but I wonder more and more if that was ever true"

https://open.substack.com/pub/garbageday/p/a-moment-of-uncanny-valley-befuddlement?r=5b5ss&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Me, as a junior designer: I wish I was doing the hard, meaningful work those seniors do.

Me, as a senior designer: I wish I could rediscover that wide-eyed wonder I felt as a junior.

Me, as a principal designer: *googles off-grid Hebridean smallholdings*

Love it when when companies try bold new brand identities. Don't listen to the haters. Aocia have done something brave here, in the spirit of the KN car team last year.

#correct #design #opinions

@ferricoxide our design may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of departments hit q1 revenue targets, so, it's impossible to say if it;s bad or not,.