Design vs. Users.

My brother made tulumbe last week, and I scored a heap on the weekend 😁

"They are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge”

-- Kimberly Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY&t=1905

I went for a walk through Annandale and Stanmore on the way to the market today, and stumbled across this

#justGNOMEthings

"Moving the mouse no longer involves JavaScript"

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gnome-shell-performance-improvements-in-ubuntu-20-04/15972

In better news, this exists

@pzmyers I went looking for some replacement blades yesterday and was told these are un-Australian. That's alright, so am I.

The sun through the leaves on a lovely Autumn afternoon

@bestthingsbot first day at the new job with interesting new challenges

I may not have cycled as much in the last year or so as usual, but I still call myself a cyclist since I ride bikes in my dreams ☺

@bestthingsbot last day at the old job before starting something new on Monday. That does involve heading into the city for a few hours in the morning and meeting strange people 😷

I just started watching Charade for the first time in ages. Audrey is still my favourite Hepburn and the writing is en-point

"I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else"

I just found a new pet peeve. Software developers claiming that they're "force multipliers" can get in the bin unless they're military adjacent

@daedalus happy birthday

I just read a fascinating excerpt on Bird Site about the deeply misogynist roots of the term Stockholm Syndrome. It's from the book "See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence"... There was a psychologist used by the police who apparently decided to blame the women for his failures in negotiating the hostage crisis by pathologising them

https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

@twiddlekins 😦

https://xkcd.com/2293/

xkcd's obituary for John Conway is extremely clever

@Andrea 😢 The Goodies was my favourite show, growing up.

@twiddlekins Thanks. All of us with pets know how shitty it can be as they get sick, and/or old, and leave us. It's now the first time we've been a household without pets in 20 years (and lost 3 cats and 2 dogs in that time). Once the scars heal a bit and we're allowed to get out and about, we'll probably find ourselves a new furry friend of some description.