Notes in 2022

  • Alpha males is not a thing.

  • What do I owe to my future self?

  • Dismantle the Commonwealth and repay that which You’ve extracted.

  • I’ve decided that my Space Marines vary in their chromosomal compositions, from XX, XY, to XYY, and XXYY.

  • Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back Carl Sagan

  • Designer too often create high-fidelty visual artefacts that only considered the problem on a superficial level.

  • Based on my current understanding of how CGI works, I have to assume that Dance Monsters has a guy in a green Spandex suit holding a tennis ball on a stick for the audience and judges to look at.

  • Alright, #accessibility smallest meaningful action-time! You ready?! Check that your website has the document language set in your HTML. For me, this is lang="en"

  • You never fail by appealing to someone’s self-interest. Erika Hall (@mulegirl), Just Enough Research - UX Salon 2016

  • Seek simplicity, but distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead

  • Can someone mash-up the songs Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend with Friend Like Me?

  • ChatGPT sounds like white men explaining things: A lot of words with little meaning and context. And often flat-out wrong.

  • Disability Day, innit?

  • There is no such thing as a good billionaire.

  • Oh, so by “everyone”, you didn’t actually mean everyone, you just meant abled people. I guess Disabled people can go fuck themselves as usual then. You Post-founding asshole.

  • If your MVP doesn’t meet basic accessibility, guess what, it’s actually a Minimum Unviable Product (MUP).

  • We’re now fractured again, our activism spread across multiple unmanaged platforms. THAT was always the method, with everything else being collateral damage.

  • It seems to me, that running Twitter into the ground with a “divide and conquer” approach is exactly what a billionaire white supremacist would do.

  • It seems to me that many organisations like to do biased group-thinking and call it collaboration.

  • “Muscular Christianity strikes again,” I think as I read Raquel S. Benedict’s (@benedict_rs) phenomenal Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny

  • Repeat after me (I say to myself), “I cannot self-care out of systemic mental health crises.”

  • Effective altruism is exactly the kind of ignorant and privileged shit I expect from white guys.

  • This links from Twitter to my website, where you can find me. There’s 14 years of nonsense here so you’re bound to find something.

  • Rewatching, because The Cloverfield Paradox is by far my favourite of the trilogy. Honestly the other two are a bit meh.

  • Hot take: The only reason Twitter lets you write alt texts nowadays is so that Twitter can still get your screenshots of accounts you’re trying to not retweet.

  • Trombone Champ with Linkin Park brings me oodles of joy: https://youtu.be/xk6O2a8SrDU

  • I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the UK is not, and has never been an actual democracy.

  • Science is driven by a scepticism about first principles, not by first-principles thinking. Playacting genius: the performative logic of reasoning from first principles

  • I hate that every time I see amazing images of the universe nowadays, I can’t help but think, “Yeah, or is it chorizo?”. That’s your legacy, dickhead Etienne Klein.

  • “Redesign in the open” is the new “Under construction” for websites that aren’t going to work particularly well for quite a while.

    Looks at own website.

  • Velma was always gay, you just missed it.

  • Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time. Streaming it from a pirate site, whilst bedridden with a nasty cold and mindlessly scrolling on my phone—just like Stanley Kubrick would have wanted it.

  • Decolonise, decolonise, decolonise.

  • Now that the old matriarchal arshole is dead, shall we tax the rest of the poshos properly?

  • Looks at list of muted words that includes “elon musk” and “nft”.

    Adds “queen”.

  • Yes, it’s sad that an 96-years-old woman died today. Probably a bit more sad that ~54 other people died today, of the pandemic we’re still very much in.

  • Being a landlord should be both illegal, and unethical.

  • #ThisMorning can we just fucking revolt already?

  • The reality is that your actions whether you intend them to be or not are indicative of an implied belief system. @Imani_Barbarin

  • Sometimes I wonder why I’m not usually seeing all the nonsense that brands post on Twitter. Until I remember that I’ve blocked 686 of them.

  • Congratulations to Amazon for doing the seemingly impossible and managing to actually make their TV UI experience, EVEN FUCKING WORSE!

  • Never doubt the power of deplatforming stochastic terrorists from the platforms that amplify them.

  • Fucking love everything about the #SunSpider by Tee Franklin. Do I need to get into comics again?

  • Ah, I see Mr. Zuckerberg is still trying to escape accountability, regulation, and respecting basic rights to privacy.

  • Not sure what to call Souls-like games? How about “Deathcore”?

  • Britney Spears’ Toxic on devices like an epilator, is the Thursday cheer-up I needed. https://youtu.be/6jSGqVtudgI

  • Does anyone else out there who also doesn’t put stickers on their laptop, or is it just me?

  • Game idea: The Sims, expects it’s the year 1798

  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought and not accept it. Not Aristotle

  • Liz Truss: I am determined to double down on levelling up…

    White Men on Twitter being called out on their ignorance: I am determined to level up on doubling down…

  • The consistency in my work is me. Krista Awad

  • DALL-E was always a scam.

  • Ask not what you can do for your organisation but what your organisation can do for you.

  • Will 2-year old ice in the freezer be old and have gone off? Asking for a friend, who is me. Who already ate all the ice.

  • Can I have a movie where @jackblack and Owen Wilson exchange catch phrases called Kung Fiat Panda?

  • It’s the year 2033, Disney releases a new Marvel movie every two weeks and every line of dialogue is a callback to every Marvel movie that came before it. There’s now six separate post credit scenes.

  • Proposal to rename fertilised eggs which end up in the wrong place to: Ectopic Zygocyst.

  • You can’t run naked after a mad man in the street after he has taken your clothes away from you because the public will not know who is the mad person between the two of you. Nigerian proverb

  • Automated text descriptions (alt text) for images is a technical solution to a problem which isn’t technical.

  • All people who can become pregnant, should also get to decide if that’s something they want to be. If they don’t, abortions should be free and readily available.

  • Warning: If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you.

  • Because there are infinite ways for a fledgling business to fail, but there’s only one way to succeed: Make enough sales to cover costs. Amy Hoy, The Pizza Crust Problem

  • Week note will be later tonight because I’m away from keyboard (AFK) and haven’t added the blog system to the new makeshift-cms yet.

  • How glaringly White am I? I can trace my 11th great grandfather back to the year 1605.

  • Some people have had to work long and hard for their serving of shit.

  • Life is brief, so I would like to savour every moment of it.

  • “I really want that fucker to suffer, but I don’t want a society run by my worst impulses” is a great moral principle to stumble onto on an Instagram screenshot of a Tumblr post. Except, I don’t want that fucker to suffer.

  • Yeah sure, but what if I don’t actually want to “boost my productivity”?

  • Never copy the ritual without understanding the mechanism.

  • Man’s search for meaning is way shorter when he understands he is the son, the father and the grandpa. @alexwolfco, https://alexwolf.substack.com/p/no-such-thing-as-an-individual

  • “Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” by Carmel Therese Harrington et al. EBioMedicine.

  • Failure is an early attempt at success.

  • I am Disabled.

  • Whilst I applaud GoodReads for giving me 47! different email update options, I actually want none. Please give me the button that says, “Unsubscribe to everything”

  • Pull-to-refresh is the same addictive mechanism as slot machines but the problem is unregulated companies and industries.

  • White cis neurotypical men are very rarely expected to and consequently used to building and nurturing any form of a shared reality.

  • If you think your departure from Twitter will have such an impact on it, perhaps you should stay and fix it instead?

  • What would be the type of evidence that would make you review your position? Is there any kind of test?

  • I ask myself often, how well am I able to imagine the reality of something I will never understand.

  • Looking at the origins of facial recognition technology (Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe), I’m inclined to think that it’s just phrenology 2.0.

  • You don’t have to know how to finish the project, you just have to know what the next step is —Adam Savage

  • I’ve been told we’d care a lot less about what others thoughts about us, if we realised how little they did.

  • Having spent an inordinate amount of time analysing every possible interpretation of every question in The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), I can safely say, the Quotient is garbage.

  • Is it just me or is Simon Baron-Cohen’s work in the field of autism really fucking shit?

  • Finally getting around to watching The Social Dilemma and their past and present ignorance is hard to stomach.

  • Cold take: Neurotypicals are so privileged and ignorant of how much people mold themselves to fit their narrow understanding of the world.

  • Chromosome broken. Awaits sounds of strands pairing. Preserving the life’s thread. J. Haber

  • Eventually, will everyone be a meme?

  • Here’s to the 2-year anniversary of the world learning that the reason there’s a queue for the women’s bathroom is because they were already washing their hands.

  • Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red. –Kait Rokowski, The October Revolution

  • Unpopular opinion: I don’t think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it’s okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die. –@ambernoelle

  • Find out who you are and, then do it on purpose. –Dolly Parton

  • As a CIS man I think it’s important you all hear my opinions on trans rights: their human rights. Also, I think people should get to transition however much and often as they want.

  • It’s possible to both admire the Ukrainian authorities’ resistance to being invaded by Russia and hold them accountable to hindering Africans from fleeing for safety.

  • The plurality of truths.

  • Is the next form of the current internet culture a place where I am surrounded by only versions of my literal self?

  • In the future, every person will be running their own version of a knowledge management tool that is uniquely suited to the way they work.

  • You have more in common with every homeless person than with any billionaire. @YooperDSA)

  • I’ve been writing a 2000-word satire about the bullshit that is cryptocurrency and NFTs, only to discover it already exists in the form of Axie Infinity.

  • Consider the flowers, they don’t try to look right. They just open their petals and turn to the light. Phantom Regret by Jim, The Weeknd, Dawn FM