Ed Chester
@chwarae.bsky.social
Chartered engineer (space systems are my jam); team, process and comms facilitator (Lego SeriousPlay is my other jam); chair of school governors (education is my other other jam). Tri-jammed. Erdös number is 5. Does not suffer fools gladly.
Serious question - how does anybody achieve professional level work using Google docs, or anything else in that "ecosystem" (festering quagmire). No automatic numbering, no split views, no cross references, layout control actually worse than Word, and profoundly slow. Really. How the hell.
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Serious question - how does anybody achieve professional level work using Google docs, or anything else in that "ecosystem" (festering quagmire). No automatic numbering, no split views, no cross references, layout control actually worse than Word, and profoundly slow. Really. How the hell.
Looking across the bay to the lighthouse in the village of my childhood, my back to the industrial scars behind. The view towards this point was punctuated by the flares from the burning stacks, their own kind of lighthouse.
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Looking across the bay to the lighthouse in the village of my childhood, my back to the industrial scars behind. The view towards this point was punctuated by the flares from the burning stacks, their own kind of lighthouse.
Hope everyone gets to do something they like this weekend, and get outside, and not get any wetter or colder than they prefer. Massive weekend of sand dune complex #orienteering coming up...
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hope everyone gets to do something they like this weekend, and get outside, and not get any wetter or colder than they prefer. Massive weekend of sand dune complex #orienteering coming up...
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This. A thousand times this.
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This. A thousand times this.
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
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First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!
Be more playful at work! I've just opened bookings for an online, asynchronous (with optional timetabled sharing session at the end), "Being more playful in the workplace" course spread over 7 weeks. As cheap as possible, including some "pay what you can tickets". #Play playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Being Playful in the Workplace
An online, asynchronous, course on being more playful in the workplace. Materials will be released once a week with a final sharing session.
playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!
If anybody feels like writing the model answers for an exam I set but forgot to write the answers for, that the students are taking in (checks clock) 14 hours from now, feel free - DMs welcome!
#academiclife
#academiclife
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If anybody feels like writing the model answers for an exam I set but forgot to write the answers for, that the students are taking in (checks clock) 14 hours from now, feel free - DMs welcome!
#academiclife
#academiclife
People are all people, and we're all the same.
Somebody please explain to me what's hard to understand about this.
#stillfurious
Somebody please explain to me what's hard to understand about this.
#stillfurious
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
People are all people, and we're all the same.
Somebody please explain to me what's hard to understand about this.
#stillfurious
Somebody please explain to me what's hard to understand about this.
#stillfurious
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MAGA keeps saying Trump is “saving taxpayers money” and “paying down the national debt.” If that were true, why did the U.S. national debt just surpass $38 trillion, a record high in American history?
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
MAGA keeps saying Trump is “saving taxpayers money” and “paying down the national debt.” If that were true, why did the U.S. national debt just surpass $38 trillion, a record high in American history?
Always enjoy getting errors from systems that should handle errors better. Here's Eventbrite right now for me. At least it's vague and doesn't leak many insights.
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Always enjoy getting errors from systems that should handle errors better. Here's Eventbrite right now for me. At least it's vague and doesn't leak many insights.
Day off. Heading to the horizon and beyond Luossavaara via the straightest route through controls (little orange flags). Here's one that lives near a boulder. #orienteering #naturpasset It's cold and kinda bleak but beautiful in its own empty way.
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Day off. Heading to the horizon and beyond Luossavaara via the straightest route through controls (little orange flags). Here's one that lives near a boulder. #orienteering #naturpasset It's cold and kinda bleak but beautiful in its own empty way.
Well that was fun, but it was also the slowest and hardest #orienteering I've done in a _long_ time. Everything white here is a boulder field, mapped boulders are a bit of a lottery, and everything yellow that isn't farmland is a boulder field you can see before you trip. Speaking of long times...
October 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Well that was fun, but it was also the slowest and hardest #orienteering I've done in a _long_ time. Everything white here is a boulder field, mapped boulders are a bit of a lottery, and everything yellow that isn't farmland is a boulder field you can see before you trip. Speaking of long times...
idag jag åker till ett orienteringslopp i
sverige, som om det vore min pilgrimsfärd... j vaknade kl.4 som ett barn vid jul...
sverige, som om det vore min pilgrimsfärd... j vaknade kl.4 som ett barn vid jul...
October 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
idag jag åker till ett orienteringslopp i
sverige, som om det vore min pilgrimsfärd... j vaknade kl.4 som ett barn vid jul...
sverige, som om det vore min pilgrimsfärd... j vaknade kl.4 som ett barn vid jul...
Almost nobody i work with knows what i do, or what I've done before. Mid-chat i said "I am half of a hat worn by the monkey who has been put in charge of trying to distil roadmaps from the moodmusic" ... and I think nothing else summarises my career better.
This doesn't help with understanding.
This doesn't help with understanding.
October 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Almost nobody i work with knows what i do, or what I've done before. Mid-chat i said "I am half of a hat worn by the monkey who has been put in charge of trying to distil roadmaps from the moodmusic" ... and I think nothing else summarises my career better.
This doesn't help with understanding.
This doesn't help with understanding.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 9:
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 9:
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A Trumper asked me today if I was one of those nutjobs trying to save polar bears.
My reply I think shocked him: No. The polar bears are already dead bears walking/swimming. We can't save them. They will go extinct in the wild. At this point, we're just trying to keep agriculture from collapsing.
My reply I think shocked him: No. The polar bears are already dead bears walking/swimming. We can't save them. They will go extinct in the wild. At this point, we're just trying to keep agriculture from collapsing.
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A Trumper asked me today if I was one of those nutjobs trying to save polar bears.
My reply I think shocked him: No. The polar bears are already dead bears walking/swimming. We can't save them. They will go extinct in the wild. At this point, we're just trying to keep agriculture from collapsing.
My reply I think shocked him: No. The polar bears are already dead bears walking/swimming. We can't save them. They will go extinct in the wild. At this point, we're just trying to keep agriculture from collapsing.
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Today, two years on from the illegal felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, we're announcing a new, major creative commission.
We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY
Photo: John Millar
We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY
Photo: John Millar
September 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Today, two years on from the illegal felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, we're announcing a new, major creative commission.
We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY
Photo: John Millar
We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY
Photo: John Millar
In my defence, there is _nothing_ on the bag of the cinnamon bagels that says you can't use them for fishfinger and pea sandwiches. I've checked, twice. So there.
September 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In my defence, there is _nothing_ on the bag of the cinnamon bagels that says you can't use them for fishfinger and pea sandwiches. I've checked, twice. So there.
Outside the Institut för Rymdfysik (IRF, Institute of space physics), there is a bird feeder/house which is also the Institut för Rymdfysik. Inside there are small people looking at their own IRF feeder. Its Institutes all the way down...
#kiruna
#kiruna
September 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Outside the Institut för Rymdfysik (IRF, Institute of space physics), there is a bird feeder/house which is also the Institut för Rymdfysik. Inside there are small people looking at their own IRF feeder. Its Institutes all the way down...
#kiruna
#kiruna
sveriges skogar är så snabba att genom springa på... j älskar det här. jag känner mig som 18 år gammal igen. #orienteering
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
sveriges skogar är så snabba att genom springa på... j älskar det här. jag känner mig som 18 år gammal igen. #orienteering
I'm staying on this rock until this scene is black and starry. There are no humanlights in this field of view. If I don't return to civilisation, someone can tell my kids to leave my bones here.
September 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm staying on this rock until this scene is black and starry. There are no humanlights in this field of view. If I don't return to civilisation, someone can tell my kids to leave my bones here.
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The closer you get, the more beautiful the earth becomes until the ugliness of humanity is revealed.
September 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The closer you get, the more beautiful the earth becomes until the ugliness of humanity is revealed.
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Disappointed to miss #Myrsyran by 1 day; the logical conflux of my passion for stupid races, #orienteering, wet and cold, mud, the far north, breaking myself, nature. What is this? Sweden's slowest half marathon: 21km of rocks, marsh, rough forest, and water. Absolutely Love It.
www.myrsyran.com
www.myrsyran.com
Ett riktigt terränglopp i Kiruna – Utmana dig själv!
www.myrsyran.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Disappointed to miss #Myrsyran by 1 day; the logical conflux of my passion for stupid races, #orienteering, wet and cold, mud, the far north, breaking myself, nature. What is this? Sweden's slowest half marathon: 21km of rocks, marsh, rough forest, and water. Absolutely Love It.
www.myrsyran.com
www.myrsyran.com
Had an interesting nightmare last night. Clearly stress dream but not one of my usual ones. Trapped in an industrial unit (in Sheffield for reasons unknown) decorated as offices. Fake everything. Think of the bookshelves in The Game.
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Had an interesting nightmare last night. Clearly stress dream but not one of my usual ones. Trapped in an industrial unit (in Sheffield for reasons unknown) decorated as offices. Fake everything. Think of the bookshelves in The Game.