Adam Banks
@adambanks.bsky.social
Designer of User Labs, former @uxpauk, former UX Researcher @Google, Former @ux_study, Fellow @theRSAorg
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Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.
Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show
Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.
www.ok.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
Saw @robinince.bsky.social in Edinburgh earlier.... now on my way home sitting next to one of his favourite train station walls
August 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Saw @robinince.bsky.social in Edinburgh earlier.... now on my way home sitting next to one of his favourite train station walls
This is silly and lovely and very British...
The FUNNIEST and SILLIEST thing happened tonight. Sadly it doesn't fit in one post. So:🧵
(feat Italian Oasis fans, and Manc joy)
(feat Italian Oasis fans, and Manc joy)
July 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is silly and lovely and very British...
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The future of a precious football club is hanging in the balance. Unless something changes, it could simply vanish at any time in the next week.
Please share the piece as widely as possible.
theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
Please share the piece as widely as possible.
theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
“We have only days left, literally days.”
With Morecambe caught in an ever-worsening financial and ownership crisis, two members of the board who resigned last week have broken their silence to talk about the madness of recent months and t…
theuglygame.wordpress.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The future of a precious football club is hanging in the balance. Unless something changes, it could simply vanish at any time in the next week.
Please share the piece as widely as possible.
theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
Please share the piece as widely as possible.
theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
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Listening to some old Lynn Conway talks and they really highlight how the most visionary people in tech just see things at a slight angle to everyone else around them.
And that angle makes everything suddenly fall into place.
For her, it was seeing chip design as painting. As art. Not drafting.
And that angle makes everything suddenly fall into place.
For her, it was seeing chip design as painting. As art. Not drafting.
June 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Listening to some old Lynn Conway talks and they really highlight how the most visionary people in tech just see things at a slight angle to everyone else around them.
And that angle makes everything suddenly fall into place.
For her, it was seeing chip design as painting. As art. Not drafting.
And that angle makes everything suddenly fall into place.
For her, it was seeing chip design as painting. As art. Not drafting.
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What an honour!
June 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
What an honour!
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The TLDR as I understand - the company expected an incoming investment for a magazine project, took money out the author royalties account to pre spend the investment, the investment fell through, author money can't be repaid by investment.
That's my good faith understanding of those events.
That's my good faith understanding of those events.
May 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The TLDR as I understand - the company expected an incoming investment for a magazine project, took money out the author royalties account to pre spend the investment, the investment fell through, author money can't be repaid by investment.
That's my good faith understanding of those events.
That's my good faith understanding of those events.
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It's publication day! What a surreal, amazing feeling this is.
I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May!
It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
May 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It's publication day! What a surreal, amazing feeling this is.
"What do they know of England, who only England know?"
Saying 'the majority have never even visited' is an odd one for America, when less than half of Americans even have a passport.
Saying 'the majority have never even visited' is an odd one for America, when less than half of Americans even have a passport.
Sorry America, you've got to live with this, we live downwind of your politics, so therefore we have every right to comment on it.
May 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"What do they know of England, who only England know?"
Saying 'the majority have never even visited' is an odd one for America, when less than half of Americans even have a passport.
Saying 'the majority have never even visited' is an odd one for America, when less than half of Americans even have a passport.
Joined-up sinking
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Joined-up sinking
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Shot down in her Typhoon while providing ground support post-D Day. Held in Stalag Luft I. Double attempted escapee.
Was also a Grand Prix driver. Transitioning cost her that racing career as well.
Roberta Cowell lived a life. A fascinating and complicated person.
Was also a Grand Prix driver. Transitioning cost her that racing career as well.
Roberta Cowell lived a life. A fascinating and complicated person.
In Men At War I wrote how techniques developed by Archibald McIndoe & Harold Gillies to reconstruct the bodies of seriously wounded servicemen were used in the first operations on trans men and women, such as Roberta Cowell, Spitfire & Typhoon pilot, who transitioned in 1951 (1/2)
March 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Shot down in her Typhoon while providing ground support post-D Day. Held in Stalag Luft I. Double attempted escapee.
Was also a Grand Prix driver. Transitioning cost her that racing career as well.
Roberta Cowell lived a life. A fascinating and complicated person.
Was also a Grand Prix driver. Transitioning cost her that racing career as well.
Roberta Cowell lived a life. A fascinating and complicated person.
Pat Sharp
watched the American Gladiators documentary on Netflix
I'm convinced Malibu is a lost Von Erich
I'm convinced Malibu is a lost Von Erich
March 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Pat Sharp
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How journalism works (and why while I’m less fussed than I used to be about being ripped off).
If you pick up the print Daily Mail today, or look at the top of MailOnline right now, you’ll find a an exclusive special investigation into London’s Harry Potter shops and the couple who “own” them.
If you pick up the print Daily Mail today, or look at the top of MailOnline right now, you’ll find a an exclusive special investigation into London’s Harry Potter shops and the couple who “own” them.
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
How journalism works (and why while I’m less fussed than I used to be about being ripped off).
If you pick up the print Daily Mail today, or look at the top of MailOnline right now, you’ll find a an exclusive special investigation into London’s Harry Potter shops and the couple who “own” them.
If you pick up the print Daily Mail today, or look at the top of MailOnline right now, you’ll find a an exclusive special investigation into London’s Harry Potter shops and the couple who “own” them.
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Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
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For #IWD, a tribute to Rosalind Paget (left) and Rosabella Fynes-Clinton, founders of the Royal College of Midwives and part of a network of brilliant women between the wars who worked tirelessly for women's health. They're buried together in Brompton cemetery, in Rosalind's family grave.
March 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
For #IWD, a tribute to Rosalind Paget (left) and Rosabella Fynes-Clinton, founders of the Royal College of Midwives and part of a network of brilliant women between the wars who worked tirelessly for women's health. They're buried together in Brompton cemetery, in Rosalind's family grave.
I've lived in London for over 20yrs, and this part of Liverpool Street station has been refurbished at least twice in that time.
Yet this same leak has still not been fixed.
It's like an old friend.
Reliable, unstoppable, drip drip drip.
Perpetual buckets.
Yet this same leak has still not been fixed.
It's like an old friend.
Reliable, unstoppable, drip drip drip.
Perpetual buckets.
October 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
I've lived in London for over 20yrs, and this part of Liverpool Street station has been refurbished at least twice in that time.
Yet this same leak has still not been fixed.
It's like an old friend.
Reliable, unstoppable, drip drip drip.
Perpetual buckets.
Yet this same leak has still not been fixed.
It's like an old friend.
Reliable, unstoppable, drip drip drip.
Perpetual buckets.
This being recommended to me by YouTube says bad things about both me the internet
August 27, 2024 at 10:52 AM
This being recommended to me by YouTube says bad things about both me the internet
January 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM