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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his)

@wokecyborg.bsky.social

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Digital Producer at The Open University. Learning Designer, Project Manager and Translator elsewhere. Coffee geek. Cyberpunk. Black cat daddy. If you can say charcuterie, you can say my surname. https://cost-chef.ski

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

British.

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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · 14d

The cells that glopped together to form Simon Jenkins in 2016 are long dead now in 2025, and never a brain cell among them all these years

Headline from today's piece by Simon Jenkins: "We all know Brexit's to blame for the crisis facing UK steel - it's time for politicians to be honest and reverse it." Headline from Simon Jenkins' article from 2016: "Ignore the prophets of doom. Brexit will be good for Britain"

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · 28d

The difference between Mr Politician telling you that you won't be required to carry your Britcard & Mr Roundabout Painter walking up to you with a broken beer bottle wanting to see your Britcard is that one of them is in front of you with a broken beer bottle wanting to see your Britcard

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 22

Friends don't let friends design inaccessible web content that could land someone in jail.

It's 2025, y'all. Get these contrast checkers out. It's okay, you'll still have plenty of colours to play with.

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 19

"Too often people go to university to 'explore research and knowledge'"

Basically, at this point, a spiffing life philosophy is to listen to Peter Kyle and do the exact opposite of what he suggests

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

British students lack ‘drive’ of their American peers, says Business Secretary | LBC

The Business Secretary has defended comments he made at a meeting with investors where he said British students lack the ‘drive’ and ‘vigour’ of their American peers.

www.lbc.co.uk

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 19

Reposted in rage as I know getting your bike nicked sucks. Then clicked through to read the happy ending. YAY

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · Sep 19

Anyone out in Bath today. If you spot this bike and tell me where it is I will pay you fuckin handsomely. Pop a lock on it I’ll literally give you £500.

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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Trying to play Eve Vanguard.
The real Nemesis in the Operation Nemesis is the installer that doesn't care all your games are on an external SSD, it wants to install 50 Gigabytes to the hard drive and won't give you a choice.
FFS, @ccpgames.com

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Just had a mattress (re)delivered and saw one of the lads single-handedly lift the whole-ass king-size bells-and-whistles mattress onto his shoulder and yeet it onto the truck.

When apocalypse unfolds, I plan to ride with the Bensons guys. Kind, gentle, and strong AF.

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 15

Been using a Win10 Ameliorated on my gaming desktop for years now. Pros: no bloatware, no Microsoft spyware, no unwanted programs, and wasn't a pain to install. Cons: you don't get system updates. Will be curious to see if it keeps working after the Win10 cutoff, I'm betting yes.

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 4

My Agile mentor and overseer Callie is delighted to update you all on this important milestone. "Getting on top of the material in 'Agile PM Handbook' was so rewarding. Now it can serve as a perfect foundation for what's ahead. Daily stand-ups, though... keep 'em."

Photo of a black cat sleeping with her head on top of an "Agile PM" handbook.

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh hey, those look interesting (proceeds to scour library catalog)

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Aug 29

Let them cook

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Am about to start my second year of study with The Open University. The materials arrived today, looking and feeling good. Three cheers for good quality paper sketchbooks.

A top-down view of a pack of materials I got from The Open University. There's a workbook, a sketchbook, a poster, some postcards, and a paper pack. It's all designed with white, dark gray, red and blue colours.

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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Do I still know anyone on here who's in #London and wants to meet for coffee sometime?

About to start visiting a lot more regularly, for learning / culture / meetups. Would be nice to see a Bluesky face every now and then :)

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · Aug 15

Grangetown (Cardiff) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 24.0% (+5.5)*
🌹 LAB: 22.7% (-24.8)
🌼 PLC: 18.7% (+0.2)*
➡️ RFM: 14.5% (New)
🐉 PRO: 9.6% (+0.1)
🙋 Ind: 4.6% (-2.1)
🌳 CON: 4.1% (-8.4)
🔶 LDM: 1.8% (-2.1)

No Ind (-1.4) as previous.
*joint cand. in 2024.

Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.

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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Aug 14

POV: there is a spider
Ghibli mode: ON
#cat #cats

Photo of a small black cat. She is sitting, motionless, focused on something above her. The fact that she is black means that we can pretty much just see her outline and her eyes.

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Aug 13

Four questions I just asked my cat, that I never knew I'd ask: what is this thing? where did you get this from? how much of it did you eat already? what happens to you now?
This whole cat enrichment thing goes both ways. Am frightfully enrich'd.

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Aug 12

#Translator anxiety dream: you sit on a train next to someone reading the book whose #translation you just (IRL) submitted. "I translated, this," you tell them. They ignore you. Then you notice paragraphs on the page that you never saw before, and sure as sh*t never translated. Wake up screaming.😱

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Interested in learning and training ✅
Motivated by food ✅
Where do I sign up? :)

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Jul 22

Year 1 done with The Open University :) #HumbleBrag #ResultsDay

Overall module result: Pass Overall score: 75

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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Jul 21

Such a great bunch of creative designers at this year's OU Design Show. I was proud to study with some of them, and definitely submitting my designs next year!

www.oudesignshow.org

The Open University Annual Design Show | design course

The Open University Annual Design Show is an exhibition of student design projects.

www.oudesignshow.org

Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Jul 20

Am translating a whodunnit-like bit where several poisons, sedatives and toxins are mentioned, alongside some ways for the main characters to procure them

All I'm saying is, maybe get you a search engine that forgets your search history

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his) @wokecyborg.bsky.social · Jul 9

I have an urgent #translation job to finish so of course I'm writing blog posts about #translators and #AI
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10 things a translator can do about the prospect of AI translation – Vic Kostrzewski – Learning Designer, Translator, Project Manager, Publisher.

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