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Paul Pod

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Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 website: Neuromantics.net 📨 signal: paulpod.404

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 6h

English water companies will be partying hard. What a joke

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Dr Emily Skeletonpain @limeyemily.bsky.social · 15h

Trying not to be a doomer but the doom is pretty noticeable

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16h

Go Scout the pom!

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16h

no! things are looking up...

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16h

Even when there is no Nigel, there is a Nigel. Amazing.

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16h

A skim of the news, and everything looks really bad except a) the pubs thing and b) the gold thing. Otherwise: Ugh

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 17h

Buttony buttons? *faints*

Colin @htmlandbacon.com · 17h

Always great seeing the thinking around potential design changes on govuk frontend github.com/alphagov/gov...

[Experiment] Added 4px corner radius to all buttons by mia-allers-gds · Pull Request #6315 · alphagov/govuk-frontend

ImportantJust an experiment/ do not merge As part of Scope brand related design work the team has decided to explore the idea of adding rounded corners to buttons. Design considerations I've ...

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 18h

none of that sounds good, Dan

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 18h

Which do you think this is? I'm leaning Donkey

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

You must stop

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Wanted to see what quicktime player v1 from 1993 was like, so booted a virtual mac but it didn't have a movie file handy, so rendering an infini-D raytraced swimming pool animation i recreated on it.

Realising that, like i did in 1993, this is not a fast process.

Screengrab of infini-D rendering a raytraced swimming pool on a virtual Mac LC iii in a browser.

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Addicted to number go up vibes tho

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Lord Hræfn, esq. @xneardark.bsky.social · 1d

As an aside:

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, this is amazing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Nice

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 2d

It is a very particular set of skills

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 3d

Reshooting something at 120 frames per second on a phone, when timing is everything ... I mean, that’s nice to be able to do such a thing? Pretty neat

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 5d

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

on.ft.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Michelle Mone's £60m megayacht she bought with the money she stole.

It's time to stop this 'small' boat, and sell it.

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