Dave Rutt
@rutty.bsky.social
Tall. Tester. Teller of terrible jokes
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It's been a very quiet week.
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.
So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.
Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.
So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.
Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It's been a very quiet week.
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.
So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.
Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.
So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.
Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
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I keep two glasses on my bedside table at night: a glass of water and an empty one, because sometimes, when I wake up, I'm not thirsty.
July 29, 2023 at 8:32 AM
I keep two glasses on my bedside table at night: a glass of water and an empty one, because sometimes, when I wake up, I'm not thirsty.
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I want to live in a world where people are more Maya and less MAGA.
October 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I want to live in a world where people are more Maya and less MAGA.
I’d signed up for the Robin Hood Half but had to drop out after my cancer diagnosis. However, I’m bloody well going to run it in my own time because I really want to raise money for this incredible charity (CRY). I’m delayed but not deterred
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Dave''s fundraiser for Cardiac Risk in the Young
Help David Rutt raise money to support Cardiac Risk in the Young
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’d signed up for the Robin Hood Half but had to drop out after my cancer diagnosis. However, I’m bloody well going to run it in my own time because I really want to raise money for this incredible charity (CRY). I’m delayed but not deterred
www.justgiving.com/page/david-r...
www.justgiving.com/page/david-r...
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The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
I’ve chucked a small contribution towards this old Metal Warrior’s cancer support. Jason is a legend of Metal journalism & needs our help. Best of luck with your recovery old chap gofund.me/6d610ef4bb
Donate to Help Jason beat cancer & stay sane, organized by Jason Arnopp
Hi, I’m Jason, a single dad to amazing six-year-old twin boys. I was diagnosed in June… Jason Arnopp needs your support for Help Jason beat cancer & stay sane
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October 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I’ve chucked a small contribution towards this old Metal Warrior’s cancer support. Jason is a legend of Metal journalism & needs our help. Best of luck with your recovery old chap gofund.me/6d610ef4bb
Loving the new Cardiacs album.
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Loving the new Cardiacs album.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.
Off work for a while, so someone has to be a wage slave.
September 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Off work for a while, so someone has to be a wage slave.
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We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.
February 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.
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Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.
Understanding how people work together is hard. Ordering them to use ChatGPT is easy. So managers do the latter, and then express shock when productivity plummets.
That's because problem framing is a social task. If you skip it, your solution will be wrong for ever; "build to learn" won't save you.
That's because problem framing is a social task. If you skip it, your solution will be wrong for ever; "build to learn" won't save you.
Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.
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September 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.
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this is insanity and the speed with which 'sensible people' have decided this is normal discourse is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’
Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform’s immigration plans as too weak
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
this is insanity and the speed with which 'sensible people' have decided this is normal discourse is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Just imagine being the sort of person that chooses the angry emoji for RNLI Facebook posts.
One of our truly great, brilliant volunteer organisations.
One of our truly great, brilliant volunteer organisations.
August 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Just imagine being the sort of person that chooses the angry emoji for RNLI Facebook posts.
One of our truly great, brilliant volunteer organisations.
One of our truly great, brilliant volunteer organisations.
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I’m wondering if it was a mistake to let a thin-skinned, anti-science nepo baby lead the nation’s health and medical agencies
I guess if I was a member of Congress I would be pretty unhappy that an agency leader talk to me informally would be considered a fireable offense.
August 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I’m wondering if it was a mistake to let a thin-skinned, anti-science nepo baby lead the nation’s health and medical agencies
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A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
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JASON⁵⁰⁰⁰. It is only 10am. Close the door.
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
August 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
JASON⁵⁰⁰⁰. It is only 10am. Close the door.
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
Sometime, I guess, there just aren’t enough rocks.
Forrest Gump really is a perfect film
Forrest Gump really is a perfect film
July 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sometime, I guess, there just aren’t enough rocks.
Forrest Gump really is a perfect film
Forrest Gump really is a perfect film
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Dear breathless, gullible types in the UK eager to jump on the populist RW bandwagon:
It’s illegal in the UK to hire anyone on any grounds other than merit.
And it’s EDI, not DEI.
HTH
It’s illegal in the UK to hire anyone on any grounds other than merit.
And it’s EDI, not DEI.
HTH
June 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Dear breathless, gullible types in the UK eager to jump on the populist RW bandwagon:
It’s illegal in the UK to hire anyone on any grounds other than merit.
And it’s EDI, not DEI.
HTH
It’s illegal in the UK to hire anyone on any grounds other than merit.
And it’s EDI, not DEI.
HTH
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If you’re wondering what the Pet Shop Boys use to wash their hands, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a….
it’s a sink.
it’s a sink.
May 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
If you’re wondering what the Pet Shop Boys use to wash their hands, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a….
it’s a sink.
it’s a sink.
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fair play, that’s a decent signing
May 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
fair play, that’s a decent signing
Oooooh! My local library (Beeston in Nottingham). During my work day, but this would count as ‘personal development’, right?
Next week I am in Chorley, Chorlton, Nottingham, Stroud, Hook, Beeston, Bishops Castle
Robinince.com
Robinince.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Oooooh! My local library (Beeston in Nottingham). During my work day, but this would count as ‘personal development’, right?
My alarm woke me up this morning while I was dreaming about being in the queue to maintain my little owl. I do hope someone else got to bathe the little cutie
May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My alarm woke me up this morning while I was dreaming about being in the queue to maintain my little owl. I do hope someone else got to bathe the little cutie
I want that Telos t-shirt from the last (Brilliant!) Doctor Who episode ‘Lux’
April 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I want that Telos t-shirt from the last (Brilliant!) Doctor Who episode ‘Lux’