Darren
@wibbletron.bsky.social
Eclectic tastes include but are not limited to: theme parks, cinema, food, architecture, transport infrastructure, roller coasters, board games
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user research in a nutshell
November 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM
user research in a nutshell
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Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.
May 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.
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you may laugh but this is excellent inclusive UX for post-living users
February 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM
you may laugh but this is excellent inclusive UX for post-living users
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user experience design is my passion
July 17, 2024 at 1:23 PM
user experience design is my passion
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Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
July 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons.
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
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"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons.
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
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The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another
November 21, 2024 at 1:42 PM
The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I keep thinking I should watch the new Tron, more out of morbid curiosity than any actual want to see it.
This review somehow makes me want to both see the movie all the more, yet also avoid it at all costs.
This review somehow makes me want to both see the movie all the more, yet also avoid it at all costs.
the holiday spirit is all about giving the gift of suffering
December 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I keep thinking I should watch the new Tron, more out of morbid curiosity than any actual want to see it.
This review somehow makes me want to both see the movie all the more, yet also avoid it at all costs.
This review somehow makes me want to both see the movie all the more, yet also avoid it at all costs.
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how all youtube ads sound to me
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
how all youtube ads sound to me
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If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.
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Baby on board. She’s the youngest director in our company’s history, and she is ruthless
October 9, 2023 at 12:21 PM
Baby on board. She’s the youngest director in our company’s history, and she is ruthless
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There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
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I am trying, really trying, not to get angry but it is genuinely unbelievable how much of our current woes you can put down to "the Conservative party thinks only in a 2 day media cycle and acts accordingly." A party gleefully smashing up the hotel room then asking whose room it is.
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
December 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I am trying, really trying, not to get angry but it is genuinely unbelievable how much of our current woes you can put down to "the Conservative party thinks only in a 2 day media cycle and acts accordingly." A party gleefully smashing up the hotel room then asking whose room it is.
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I see various people posting this up. Here’s me from 2001 talking about AI. Dunno how accurate it is. I hope it isn’t. youtu.be/6mvUqM2Ty5c?...
Conference "A.I." from the Armando Iannucci Show
YouTube video by Simon Kidd
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December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I see various people posting this up. Here’s me from 2001 talking about AI. Dunno how accurate it is. I hope it isn’t. youtu.be/6mvUqM2Ty5c?...
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Exactly this. The insanity of banging on about free speech half the time, and bleating "Look at this tweet! Deport him!" the other half, is never pointed out - and never EVER challenged, in softball interviews intended to elicit maximum heat and minimum light.
It is utterly exhausting.
It is utterly exhausting.
We need a Ken Clarke type figure to tell people to stop being so ridiculous, if we stripped citizenship every time somebody said appalling things, we’d be expelling an awfully large number of people
December 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Exactly this. The insanity of banging on about free speech half the time, and bleating "Look at this tweet! Deport him!" the other half, is never pointed out - and never EVER challenged, in softball interviews intended to elicit maximum heat and minimum light.
It is utterly exhausting.
It is utterly exhausting.
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In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
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but perhaps we should be asking: *when* is updog?
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
but perhaps we should be asking: *when* is updog?
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By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
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Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
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Setting aside the obvious here, the reason Russia supplies low cost energy to neighbours is to prevent the emergence of alternatives and to create dependencies they can later exploit.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Setting aside the obvious here, the reason Russia supplies low cost energy to neighbours is to prevent the emergence of alternatives and to create dependencies they can later exploit.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
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Contrast this with every single British newspaper
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Contrast this with every single British newspaper