Sharon Dale (she/they)
@pixlz.com
Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
The temp really did drop today. 4 degrees when I was out with the dog this morning. We moved on Saturday and managed to get the heating working at about 11am today so brrrrr
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The temp really did drop today. 4 degrees when I was out with the dog this morning. We moved on Saturday and managed to get the heating working at about 11am today so brrrrr
Successes today:
Found the nail clippers, M’s tablets, the dog’s treats and food bin bags (M’s packing notwithstanding)
Plumbed in the Washing Machine
Took rubbish to the tip
Emptied the car
Replaced M’s Jaffa cakes which I snaffled yesterday
Put the shower curtain up
Unpacked various kitchen bits
Found the nail clippers, M’s tablets, the dog’s treats and food bin bags (M’s packing notwithstanding)
Plumbed in the Washing Machine
Took rubbish to the tip
Emptied the car
Replaced M’s Jaffa cakes which I snaffled yesterday
Put the shower curtain up
Unpacked various kitchen bits
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Successes today:
Found the nail clippers, M’s tablets, the dog’s treats and food bin bags (M’s packing notwithstanding)
Plumbed in the Washing Machine
Took rubbish to the tip
Emptied the car
Replaced M’s Jaffa cakes which I snaffled yesterday
Put the shower curtain up
Unpacked various kitchen bits
Found the nail clippers, M’s tablets, the dog’s treats and food bin bags (M’s packing notwithstanding)
Plumbed in the Washing Machine
Took rubbish to the tip
Emptied the car
Replaced M’s Jaffa cakes which I snaffled yesterday
Put the shower curtain up
Unpacked various kitchen bits
- Chaos, Couture, and Cosmically Important Cab Rides
- Motown Dreams, Dublin Reality
- The Outback Wasn’t Ready for This Much Fabulous
- Fixing the Orphanage, Ruining Everything Else
- Bureaucracy, Backstabbing, and Bad Decisions
- Motown Dreams, Dublin Reality
- The Outback Wasn’t Ready for This Much Fabulous
- Fixing the Orphanage, Ruining Everything Else
- Bureaucracy, Backstabbing, and Bad Decisions
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
- Chaos, Couture, and Cosmically Important Cab Rides
- Motown Dreams, Dublin Reality
- The Outback Wasn’t Ready for This Much Fabulous
- Fixing the Orphanage, Ruining Everything Else
- Bureaucracy, Backstabbing, and Bad Decisions
- Motown Dreams, Dublin Reality
- The Outback Wasn’t Ready for This Much Fabulous
- Fixing the Orphanage, Ruining Everything Else
- Bureaucracy, Backstabbing, and Bad Decisions
Tomorrow is moving day, although I don’t expect to get to bed early so it is likely to be today by then iykwim 📦📦📦
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Tomorrow is moving day, although I don’t expect to get to bed early so it is likely to be today by then iykwim 📦📦📦
Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order)
1. Most of the music
2.The sea
3. Dogs
4. Cats
5. Naps
6. Stationary
7. Blue Skies
8. Cruise control
9. Peonies
10. Chocolate Angel Delight
1. Most of the music
2.The sea
3. Dogs
4. Cats
5. Naps
6. Stationary
7. Blue Skies
8. Cruise control
9. Peonies
10. Chocolate Angel Delight
Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order)
1. Thunderstorms
2. Sci-fi and fantasy
3. Etymology
4. A perfect cup of tea
5. Walking through woods
6. Olive oil soap
7. Expertise shared
8. Bees buzzing in lavender
9. The smell of bread baking
10. All the music
1. Thunderstorms
2. Sci-fi and fantasy
3. Etymology
4. A perfect cup of tea
5. Walking through woods
6. Olive oil soap
7. Expertise shared
8. Bees buzzing in lavender
9. The smell of bread baking
10. All the music
Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order)
1. Dark nights
2. Frost
3. Stroopwafels
4. Old fashioned tea roses
5. Naps on sunny afternoons
6. Synthwave
7. Architecture
8. Stationery
9. Art supplies of any kind
10. Schlocky 80s horror movies
1. Dark nights
2. Frost
3. Stroopwafels
4. Old fashioned tea roses
5. Naps on sunny afternoons
6. Synthwave
7. Architecture
8. Stationery
9. Art supplies of any kind
10. Schlocky 80s horror movies
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order)
1. Most of the music
2.The sea
3. Dogs
4. Cats
5. Naps
6. Stationary
7. Blue Skies
8. Cruise control
9. Peonies
10. Chocolate Angel Delight
1. Most of the music
2.The sea
3. Dogs
4. Cats
5. Naps
6. Stationary
7. Blue Skies
8. Cruise control
9. Peonies
10. Chocolate Angel Delight
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Interested in the value of #design abduction in exploring #complexproblems, especially when operating in the realm of the #unknown, #unknowable or unimaginable? Revisit this great 2022 i2Insights contribution by Mariana Zafeirakopoulos at i2insights.org/2022/11/01/a...
Why complex problems need abductive reasoning
By Mariana Zafeirakopoulos How does the way we approach complex problems differ from how we approach problems that are familiar or obvious? In this i2Insights contribution, I explore four kinds of …
i2insights.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Interested in the value of #design abduction in exploring #complexproblems, especially when operating in the realm of the #unknown, #unknowable or unimaginable? Revisit this great 2022 i2Insights contribution by Mariana Zafeirakopoulos at i2insights.org/2022/11/01/a...
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Gang?
I’m nipping to Shanghai for a few days next week to give the opening keynote at Chinese DiGRAs Videogames in museums conference
If folks have tips for good things to be seeing, doing or eating whilst I’m there then please whisper them in my ear
chinesedigra.org/cdigra-2025/...
If folks have tips for good things to be seeing, doing or eating whilst I’m there then please whisper them in my ear
chinesedigra.org/cdigra-2025/...
Chinese DiGRA 2025
chinesedigra.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Gang?
Today has mostly been packing, negotiating with removal people and cooking garlic & mozzarella gnocchi for my parents who fancied it but now realise it is not for them.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today has mostly been packing, negotiating with removal people and cooking garlic & mozzarella gnocchi for my parents who fancied it but now realise it is not for them.
I got my mum to knit me one of these for the office phone in 2012 #aheadOfTheCurve
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I got my mum to knit me one of these for the office phone in 2012 #aheadOfTheCurve
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Long shot, but does anyone know anyone in Leeds/ W. Yorks more generally who could fix an old hifi amp for me? DMs open....
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Long shot, but does anyone know anyone in Leeds/ W. Yorks more generally who could fix an old hifi amp for me? DMs open....
My life rn 👵🏻👨🏻🦳📦
a man in a suit is holding a squirrel in his lap
Alt: a man in a suit is holding a squirrel in his lap
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
My life rn 👵🏻👨🏻🦳📦
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Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
Please add tracks to my packing playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/04A...
Packing playlist
Playlist · pixlz · 1 items
open.spotify.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Please add tracks to my packing playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/04A...
We are moving on Saturday next week, We have used Zen Internet for the last two years and have been happy with it. I want better uload. Choice - unknown provider for less money for the first 12 months or Zen for £42 per month 18 month contract.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We are moving on Saturday next week, We have used Zen Internet for the last two years and have been happy with it. I want better uload. Choice - unknown provider for less money for the first 12 months or Zen for £42 per month 18 month contract.
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The ADHD Taskforce report is finally out.
We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership.
First look: some movement, still too many gaps.
Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does.
Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership.
First look: some movement, still too many gaps.
Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does.
Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce
www.england.nhs.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The ADHD Taskforce report is finally out.
We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership.
First look: some movement, still too many gaps.
Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does.
Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership.
First look: some movement, still too many gaps.
Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does.
Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
Reposted by Sharon Dale (she/they)
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
Any DfE people able to help me find my old school. I have called the Ormiston Park Academy and they say they do not hold any records. "In 1976 the Aveley School, located in Love Lane, relocated to the former Aveley Technical site.[2] By 2004 it was called the Aveley Secondary School[4] 1/2
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Any DfE people able to help me find my old school. I have called the Ormiston Park Academy and they say they do not hold any records. "In 1976 the Aveley School, located in Love Lane, relocated to the former Aveley Technical site.[2] By 2004 it was called the Aveley Secondary School[4] 1/2
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Art and design weirdos: have you come across a really good book covering graphic musical scores, or similar? Can't quite find much, i'm imagining a big old tome running from Kandinsky to Eno and beyond
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Art and design weirdos: have you come across a really good book covering graphic musical scores, or similar? Can't quite find much, i'm imagining a big old tome running from Kandinsky to Eno and beyond
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I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside).
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside).
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
“Alpha is all about velocity of learning, not velocity of delivery, and the sooner you can get to insights, the better” 🤩
More notes on kicking off the alpha phase of one of the Prime Minister’s AI Exemplar projects. Plus some cultural bits and pieces. #weeknotes visitmy.website/2025/11/02/t...
The Building Up of Steam: Weeknotes S21E05
Alpha ain’t about holding back, it’s about getting out of the building and learning as fast as possible.
visitmy.website
November 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“Alpha is all about velocity of learning, not velocity of delivery, and the sooner you can get to insights, the better” 🤩
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When we launched A Community Guide to a Happy Neurodivergent Christmas for FREE last year, 1000s signed up to get a copy.
Social media reach is now so suppressed, it's proving really hard to reach people.
Enter your email at jadefarrington.substack.com and you'll receive the 2nd edition on Nov 6!
Social media reach is now so suppressed, it's proving really hard to reach people.
Enter your email at jadefarrington.substack.com and you'll receive the 2nd edition on Nov 6!
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When we launched A Community Guide to a Happy Neurodivergent Christmas for FREE last year, 1000s signed up to get a copy.
Social media reach is now so suppressed, it's proving really hard to reach people.
Enter your email at jadefarrington.substack.com and you'll receive the 2nd edition on Nov 6!
Social media reach is now so suppressed, it's proving really hard to reach people.
Enter your email at jadefarrington.substack.com and you'll receive the 2nd edition on Nov 6!
30 minutes left of my 56th year
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
30 minutes left of my 56th year
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Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.