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Rob Maslin
@robmaslin.bsky.social
Design Lead in service of people and planet. Works with satellites by day, hero to hedgehogs by night. Dyslexic, mostly spells things wrong, usually insightful if you can work out what they mean. He / him
Disappointed and slightly confused as to why my yoga studio have decided to go with a fake grass in the hallway. Considering the environmental impact seems at odds with the yoga vibe.
August 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
@kateraworth.bsky.social dressed as rational economic man, using her usual excellent immersive style of communication to explain to indigenous people the ‘wisdom’ (such an inappropriate word in this company) of western economics.
July 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Omg how have I never paid attention to Nick Drake.
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reposted by Rob Maslin
Over at Medium (unlocked) I go through a bit of the backstory to the recent paper I wrote with Mariana Mazzucato on 'common good' housing—with an aside on the diagrams drawn (see below) and the emphasis on sustainability via retrofit, renovation, re-use + regeneration medium.com/dark-matter-...
December 12, 2024 at 6:30 AM
November 26, 2024 at 9:21 PM
A bus with a table, usbs, and a wireless charging port.
November 7, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Always good to spend time on the river. When it’s cleanish of course.
September 1, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Hugely thankful to the kindness of the guy who stopped me, gave me my phone through a closing door, after I left it on the seat and I walked the train carriage. So absent minded.
September 1, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Bizzar #ux. Sainsbury’s why on earth would you offer categorise items by letters, but not arrange the letters in alphabetical order? And why is it always so hard to find ginger? surely it’s popular?
August 31, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Not often a billboard makes me smile
August 31, 2024 at 4:53 PM
#gsj #london here at stby office.
March 1, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Good to be back at a service jam in person for the first time in 6-7 years. #gsj #london
March 1, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Rob Maslin
BOSTON! Work in tech? Curious about unions? Let’s have another meetup!

On 18 December at 7pm, join me and labor organizer Rand Wilson at Aeronaut Brewing. It’ll be an evening for us to connect, and discuss the role of organizing (and unionizing) in tech.

✨ RSVP here!

tinyurl.com/ydatu-aero
December 8, 2023 at 2:19 PM
@jenniparker.bsky.social welcome to the better place 😊
December 6, 2023 at 8:09 AM
[????] are to bluesky, what tweets were to twitter.
November 23, 2023 at 7:23 PM
I love doing a desktop walkthrough. Consistently one of the most loved but under utilised workshops I run on projects and teach to designers. Yesterday we were using to think through and co-create the user experience for people visiting our (sat apps catapult) westcott site.
November 23, 2023 at 8:55 AM
Was that a bad dream? Let’s not make the same mistakes this time please.
November 21, 2023 at 12:15 AM