Adam Banks
@adambanks.bsky.social
Designer of User Labs, former @uxpauk, former UX Researcher @Google, Former @ux_study, Fellow @theRSAorg
It's a commitment once you go in... but Revolutions by @mikeduncan.bsky.social is an amazing overview of the French revolutions and associated history...
open.spotify.com/episode/6ICv...
open.spotify.com/episode/6ICv...
0.0- Introduction
open.spotify.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's a commitment once you go in... but Revolutions by @mikeduncan.bsky.social is an amazing overview of the French revolutions and associated history...
open.spotify.com/episode/6ICv...
open.spotify.com/episode/6ICv...
One of the funniest things I ever saw was a train manager rushing to get all the cards out as passengers were boarding at Euston.
Small child followed him, removed every card for at least a couple of carriages, then presented them back to him in a neat pile with a really proud look of "I'm helping".
Small child followed him, removed every card for at least a couple of carriages, then presented them back to him in a neat pile with a really proud look of "I'm helping".
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
One of the funniest things I ever saw was a train manager rushing to get all the cards out as passengers were boarding at Euston.
Small child followed him, removed every card for at least a couple of carriages, then presented them back to him in a neat pile with a really proud look of "I'm helping".
Small child followed him, removed every card for at least a couple of carriages, then presented them back to him in a neat pile with a really proud look of "I'm helping".
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Pretty sure I was also drinking in that pirate ship that night.
It was my 21st Birthday. Someone bout me a Mogwai shirt. I still have it.
Absolutely lovely day and a great weekend.
It was my 21st Birthday. Someone bout me a Mogwai shirt. I still have it.
Absolutely lovely day and a great weekend.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pretty sure I was also drinking in that pirate ship that night.
It was my 21st Birthday. Someone bout me a Mogwai shirt. I still have it.
Absolutely lovely day and a great weekend.
It was my 21st Birthday. Someone bout me a Mogwai shirt. I still have it.
Absolutely lovely day and a great weekend.
They completely fail to think even a little about the reality: amongst the many salient points is that there is a car park ON THE ROAD, less than 100yds away, on the same side.
But, no... bad council. Bad parking rules. Bad bad bad.
But, no... bad council. Bad parking rules. Bad bad bad.
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They completely fail to think even a little about the reality: amongst the many salient points is that there is a car park ON THE ROAD, less than 100yds away, on the same side.
But, no... bad council. Bad parking rules. Bad bad bad.
But, no... bad council. Bad parking rules. Bad bad bad.
...anyone who knew the shop and knew him was well aware why it really closed: it wasn't because of parking restrictions.
Yet that's the story he told, and that's the story that stuck.
Even now people occasionally mention it, and talk about the evil council and the awful parking restrictions.
Yet that's the story he told, and that's the story that stuck.
Even now people occasionally mention it, and talk about the evil council and the awful parking restrictions.
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
...anyone who knew the shop and knew him was well aware why it really closed: it wasn't because of parking restrictions.
Yet that's the story he told, and that's the story that stuck.
Even now people occasionally mention it, and talk about the evil council and the awful parking restrictions.
Yet that's the story he told, and that's the story that stuck.
Even now people occasionally mention it, and talk about the evil council and the awful parking restrictions.
Gary Arber who ran it was a nice old fella, if a little grumpy at times.
He had let his business slowly fade away... hadn't kept up with the times, and hadn't even kept the once lovely shop looking nice.
It wasn't surprising that it closed... but...
He had let his business slowly fade away... hadn't kept up with the times, and hadn't even kept the once lovely shop looking nice.
It wasn't surprising that it closed... but...
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Gary Arber who ran it was a nice old fella, if a little grumpy at times.
He had let his business slowly fade away... hadn't kept up with the times, and hadn't even kept the once lovely shop looking nice.
It wasn't surprising that it closed... but...
He had let his business slowly fade away... hadn't kept up with the times, and hadn't even kept the once lovely shop looking nice.
It wasn't surprising that it closed... but...
At the time, I lived around the corner and would walk past the shop most days.
It was a complete mess, and had been for years. You couldn't even tell if it was still trading, nor most of the time whether it was open that day.
It was a complete mess, and had been for years. You couldn't even tell if it was still trading, nor most of the time whether it was open that day.
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
At the time, I lived around the corner and would walk past the shop most days.
It was a complete mess, and had been for years. You couldn't even tell if it was still trading, nor most of the time whether it was open that day.
It was a complete mess, and had been for years. You couldn't even tell if it was still trading, nor most of the time whether it was open that day.
This was the first of that classic genre I remember seeing... all the way back in 2014...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
'Parking rules killed my business' says East End printer whose firm
www.standard.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This was the first of that classic genre I remember seeing... all the way back in 2014...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
I tell this to anyone about to have a baby...
"When you feel ready to go home, go home. Don't wait a day for some paperwork".
"When you feel ready to go home, go home. Don't wait a day for some paperwork".
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I tell this to anyone about to have a baby...
"When you feel ready to go home, go home. Don't wait a day for some paperwork".
"When you feel ready to go home, go home. Don't wait a day for some paperwork".
Hollywood had run out of Alistair MacLean novels to turn into films, so he started writing scripts and books concurrently.
Where Eagles Dare was the first, and stands up as an adventure / thriller novel as much as his others.
Where Eagles Dare was the first, and stands up as an adventure / thriller novel as much as his others.
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Hollywood had run out of Alistair MacLean novels to turn into films, so he started writing scripts and books concurrently.
Where Eagles Dare was the first, and stands up as an adventure / thriller novel as much as his others.
Where Eagles Dare was the first, and stands up as an adventure / thriller novel as much as his others.
Having spent most of my career working with and for those people, this is almost certainly correct.
"Why give users a real choice, when we can just pretend they have one and force our ideas on them anyway?"
"Why give users a real choice, when we can just pretend they have one and force our ideas on them anyway?"
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Having spent most of my career working with and for those people, this is almost certainly correct.
"Why give users a real choice, when we can just pretend they have one and force our ideas on them anyway?"
"Why give users a real choice, when we can just pretend they have one and force our ideas on them anyway?"
That's grim.
But at least it's a good signal to the listener. Silver lining, of sorts.
But at least it's a good signal to the listener. Silver lining, of sorts.
September 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
That's grim.
But at least it's a good signal to the listener. Silver lining, of sorts.
But at least it's a good signal to the listener. Silver lining, of sorts.
I've often wondered what measure of control you do have... is there any system comparable to investment, where you get to select "levels or morality" and hope to avoid investing in arms firms?
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've often wondered what measure of control you do have... is there any system comparable to investment, where you get to select "levels or morality" and hope to avoid investing in arms firms?
This is absolute, peak internet! I LOVE this so much.
You deleted your silly reply, reposted a new version of it, then replied to my reply to your original reply, being unnecessarily offensive to a total stranger.
I am in awe of the internet-ness of this exchange. It's fabulous.
A+. No notes.
You deleted your silly reply, reposted a new version of it, then replied to my reply to your original reply, being unnecessarily offensive to a total stranger.
I am in awe of the internet-ness of this exchange. It's fabulous.
A+. No notes.
September 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is absolute, peak internet! I LOVE this so much.
You deleted your silly reply, reposted a new version of it, then replied to my reply to your original reply, being unnecessarily offensive to a total stranger.
I am in awe of the internet-ness of this exchange. It's fabulous.
A+. No notes.
You deleted your silly reply, reposted a new version of it, then replied to my reply to your original reply, being unnecessarily offensive to a total stranger.
I am in awe of the internet-ness of this exchange. It's fabulous.
A+. No notes.
Wonderful!
Thanks for this.
Great community service 👍
Thanks for this.
Great community service 👍
September 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Wonderful!
Thanks for this.
Great community service 👍
Thanks for this.
Great community service 👍
YES! This is beautiful. It's poetry.
It's like the perfect Internet reply.
I agree! There ARE bigger problems in the world! So go deal with them and don't send meaningless (although admittedly hilarious) replies to strangers on the internet 😅
It's like the perfect Internet reply.
I agree! There ARE bigger problems in the world! So go deal with them and don't send meaningless (although admittedly hilarious) replies to strangers on the internet 😅
September 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
YES! This is beautiful. It's poetry.
It's like the perfect Internet reply.
I agree! There ARE bigger problems in the world! So go deal with them and don't send meaningless (although admittedly hilarious) replies to strangers on the internet 😅
It's like the perfect Internet reply.
I agree! There ARE bigger problems in the world! So go deal with them and don't send meaningless (although admittedly hilarious) replies to strangers on the internet 😅
But that's the point... there's no such thing as an "obvious lie"*, just "this doesn't fit my experience of the world" and what makes those people so boring and tedious is that they have no comprehension of the world outside of their own narrow frame.
*excepting things that defy physical laws 😅
*excepting things that defy physical laws 😅
September 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
But that's the point... there's no such thing as an "obvious lie"*, just "this doesn't fit my experience of the world" and what makes those people so boring and tedious is that they have no comprehension of the world outside of their own narrow frame.
*excepting things that defy physical laws 😅
*excepting things that defy physical laws 😅
At least they self-identify as "definitely someone to mute" so I suppose we can find that silver lining.
September 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
At least they self-identify as "definitely someone to mute" so I suppose we can find that silver lining.
There was a great time in the earlier days of Bsky when the most tedious people on the internet - the "didn't happen" crowd - were still on Twitter and not here, and it was nice.
Sadly, that time has passed. As we see above.
Sadly, that time has passed. As we see above.
September 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There was a great time in the earlier days of Bsky when the most tedious people on the internet - the "didn't happen" crowd - were still on Twitter and not here, and it was nice.
Sadly, that time has passed. As we see above.
Sadly, that time has passed. As we see above.
You just prompted me to look up the setlist from probably my favourite time I've seen them...
It's a good 'un...
www.setlist.fm/setlist/mogw...
It's a good 'un...
www.setlist.fm/setlist/mogw...
Mogwai Setlist at All Tomorrow's Parties 2004 #1
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August 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
You just prompted me to look up the setlist from probably my favourite time I've seen them...
It's a good 'un...
www.setlist.fm/setlist/mogw...
It's a good 'un...
www.setlist.fm/setlist/mogw...