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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 6h

A history of flapjacks! bsky.app/profile/cait...

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

We are realizing that we have no idea what British people think a “flapjack” is.

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 17h

(Also, I now have Alas Agnes by the Mystery Jets stuck in my head.)

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 17h

I think he's my favourite. He seems to be having a nice time!

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 17h

Hello, Agnes! You're lovely.

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 22h

Love this for them.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

elissa dot org is one of the rare sites still online and the Elissas even have reunions on a boat called the ELISSA!!! elissa.org/index.shtml

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 22h

Mentioned this at work and a colleague said she hadn't known Wikipedia had a front page with that sort of thing on it. We exist in such different worlds. You mean you don't excitedly check it every 1st April to see the fun stuff the editors have done with it?

Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 22h

Oh wow, the dream.

Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

Hastings, please, save your pointed metaphors for a less stressful time.

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

She's lovely! Congratulations.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

happy 20th birthday to the internets

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

Lusophone world!

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

All of the protected characteristics ennumerated in the Equality Act 2010 are innate from birth. For example, *checks notes*, "marriage or civil partnership".

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

No! No!!

Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, delighted that this event commemorating Ursula K. Le Guin will feature a communal pickle barrel. www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

AA School

Architectural Association School of Architecture's website homepage is the online entrance into the AA; to its courses from Foundation to PhD for undergraduate and postgraduate students; its open publ...

www.aaschool.ac.uk

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure we're all familiar with the communal pickle barrels that didn't make it into The Dispossessed. (See screenshot from an interview with Le Guin. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...)

Question in bold: "If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?"

Answer: "In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book."

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 1d

Proofreading something at work (a guide to some of our portraits) and removing all instances of the phrase "gifted by". "Given" is a perfectly good word that doesn't fill me with rage.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 2d

It's still used in British English! You could say "that was a real ding-dong" when describing an argument. (Typing it out is making me realise how stupid this sounds. WE HAVE A NORMAL LANGUAGE.)

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched an episode of 30 Rock which revealed that Tracy Jordan is allergic to allergy medicine.

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 3d

We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker!

See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol

#baduxworldcup

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 3d

I think because the world is terrible.

Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 3d

"In fact, he had pointed out, if the CCTV footage stretched back to the dawn of humanity it would probably have only taken an hour to find the moment of theft. This argument didn’t go down well."

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 3d

"You don’t watch the whole thing, he said. You use a binary search. You fast forward to halfway, see if the bike is there and, if it is, zoom to three quarters of the way through. But if it wasn’t there at the halfway mark, you rewind to a quarter of the way through. It’s very quick."

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 3d

"Afterwards I found a chatroom thread among Cambridge computer scientists, one of whom had also been told that unless he could pin down the moment of theft no one would look at the footage. He said he had tried to explain sorting algorithms to police — he was a computer scientist, after all."

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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social · 3d

From the original Times article: "Triumphantly I went to the police. “Look!” I said. “You will be able to see them.” They refused to look at the footage unless I could narrow it down to a window shorter than a few hours. This is, I discovered, a common response."

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