Tim Ostler
@timostler.com
Architect, educator, journalist, cognitive scientist, AI programmer, information architect, user experience architect ... now I find it was all because of ADHD!
Brexit refusenik now retired to Beaulieu-lès-Loches, France
Brexit refusenik now retired to Beaulieu-lès-Loches, France
A rather convincing bit of contrarianism…
Happy Independence Day! Here's your annual reminder that the US would be better off if it had never split from Britain:
3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake
Happy Fourth!
www.vox.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A rather convincing bit of contrarianism…
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Since Kemi Badenoch has announced a review of our membership of the European Convention on Human Rights, it's time to share this. What have human rights ever done for us?
youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
youtu.be
June 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Since Kemi Badenoch has announced a review of our membership of the European Convention on Human Rights, it's time to share this. What have human rights ever done for us?
youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
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Excellent timing from the Beeb.
Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'
The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.
www.bbc.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Excellent timing from the Beeb.
There will come a time shortly where every single product choice is made on the basis of the manufacturer's credentials according to whichever values system you choose. Product performance will be considered a minor criterion. 1/2
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
There will come a time shortly where every single product choice is made on the basis of the manufacturer's credentials according to whichever values system you choose. Product performance will be considered a minor criterion. 1/2
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Starmer wrote in the Express that he is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
March 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Starmer wrote in the Express that he is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Another lodestar of my youth gone.
Jesse Colin Young, Singer Who Urged Us to ‘Get Together,’ Dies at 83
As the leader of the Youngbloods, he sang an enduring anthem of the peace-and-love era, with the chorus, “Come on people now, smile on your brother.”
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Another lodestar of my youth gone.
Planet of the Apes: astronauts took off from a democracy, will return to a dictatorship. www.space.com/space-explor...
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at International Space Station to relieve Starliner astronauts (video)
Crew-10 docked with the station on Sunday (March 16) at 12:04 a.m. ET.
www.space.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Planet of the Apes: astronauts took off from a democracy, will return to a dictatorship. www.space.com/space-explor...
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"Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you..." - Michael Rosen
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you..." - Michael Rosen
The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams
The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you..." - Michael Rosen
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you..." - Michael Rosen
Given Trump's behaviour on 6 January 2021 I can understand Democrats' hesitancy to cry foul this time around. However there is convincing evidence that Jim Crow tactics cost Harris 3.56 million votes — and the election. youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?...
DID TRUMP LOSE? Shocking Proof Trump Rigged 2024 Election w/ Greg Palast
YouTube video by Thom Hartmann Program
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Given Trump's behaviour on 6 January 2021 I can understand Democrats' hesitancy to cry foul this time around. However there is convincing evidence that Jim Crow tactics cost Harris 3.56 million votes — and the election. youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?...
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Now that Musk has shouted out his suport for Adolf Hitlers heirs, the AFD, British universities, Institutions, govt departments and political parties should leave X.
Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.
January 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Now that Musk has shouted out his suport for Adolf Hitlers heirs, the AFD, British universities, Institutions, govt departments and political parties should leave X.
Elizabeth the Lettuce
Challenge accepted!
🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy
I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli
I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology
From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy
🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy
I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli
I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology
From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy
When you put it like that, it sounds like a Gilbert and Sullivan plot
January 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Elizabeth the Lettuce
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You’d think #Meta might have consulted its oversight board *before* announcing these changes. But as the board is a Nick Clegg innovation, I wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerberg simply disbands it after Clegg has gone. #Facebook #SocialMedia #TechEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huge problems with axing fact checkers, Meta oversight board says
The body's co-chair says moving to community notes could have a big impact on gender rights and minority groups.
www.bbc.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
You’d think #Meta might have consulted its oversight board *before* announcing these changes. But as the board is a Nick Clegg innovation, I wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerberg simply disbands it after Clegg has gone. #Facebook #SocialMedia #TechEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
An important and convincing observation that at a stroke explodes the premise on which the UK government's policy rests. Given that there is a limit to how many goods we can own the only scope for economic growth is in the quality of services.
Economic growth? Forget it. youtu.be/dRfNWh_95MM?... Politicians in developed countries are still obsessed with growth without realising that growth is history. The question is, when will politics begin to reflect this new reality?
Economic growth? Forget it.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
An important and convincing observation that at a stroke explodes the premise on which the UK government's policy rests. Given that there is a limit to how many goods we can own the only scope for economic growth is in the quality of services.
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Visualising the world's landmass: Illustration ranking countries by size, showing Earth's total land area of 143.8 million km². #Geography #Maps
November 21, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Visualising the world's landmass: Illustration ranking countries by size, showing Earth's total land area of 143.8 million km². #Geography #Maps
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Drones returning after a show😍
#skylovers #architecture #ig #winter #cloud #autumn #green #photographer #sunrise #water #spring #tree #ocean #nofilter #sunny #travelgram #art #flowers #naturelover #skyporn #summervibes #hiking #like #happy #explore #lake #holiday #adventure #snow #beauty
#skylovers #architecture #ig #winter #cloud #autumn #green #photographer #sunrise #water #spring #tree #ocean #nofilter #sunny #travelgram #art #flowers #naturelover #skyporn #summervibes #hiking #like #happy #explore #lake #holiday #adventure #snow #beauty
November 21, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Drones returning after a show😍
#skylovers #architecture #ig #winter #cloud #autumn #green #photographer #sunrise #water #spring #tree #ocean #nofilter #sunny #travelgram #art #flowers #naturelover #skyporn #summervibes #hiking #like #happy #explore #lake #holiday #adventure #snow #beauty
#skylovers #architecture #ig #winter #cloud #autumn #green #photographer #sunrise #water #spring #tree #ocean #nofilter #sunny #travelgram #art #flowers #naturelover #skyporn #summervibes #hiking #like #happy #explore #lake #holiday #adventure #snow #beauty
Dazzled by the effectiveness of blueark.app in exporting my entire 16-year Twitter history into BlueSky
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November 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Dazzled by the effectiveness of blueark.app in exporting my entire 16-year Twitter history into BlueSky
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton 1887) So what does being the most powerful man in the world do to someone who is already absolutely corrupt?
November 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton 1887) So what does being the most powerful man in the world do to someone who is already absolutely corrupt?
Call off your monkeys..!
Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
Australian mathematicians call into question the ‘infinite monkey theorem’ in new research on old adage
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Call off your monkeys..!
Waiting for the Tour de France
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Waiting for the Tour de France
Only on a French car ferry would passenger announcements be preceded by riffs sounding suspiciously like Cannonball Adderley. #coolofficialdom
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Only on a French car ferry would passenger announcements be preceded by riffs sounding suspiciously like Cannonball Adderley. #coolofficialdom
“The insistence by Brexiters that Britain should visibly increase planning for ‘no deal’.. has had the curious effect that they are now complicit in articulating what they simultaneously dismiss as ‘Project Fear’." @chrisgreybrexit...
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
“The insistence by Brexiters that Britain should visibly increase planning for ‘no deal’.. has had the curious effect that they are now complicit in articulating what they simultaneously dismiss as ‘Project Fear’." @chrisgreybrexit...
Toyota, who already produce a car called #iA, have gone one better and have just announced the Lexus #UX <a href="http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/lexus/ux/96966/new-2018-lexus-ux-suv-specs-revealed-at-geneva" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/lexus/ux/96966/new-2018-lexus-ux-suv-specs-revealed-at-geneva
Lexus UX hybrid SUV updated for 2020 | Auto Express
Safety and design options added to the Lexus UX hybrid SU...
www.autoexpress.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Toyota, who already produce a car called #iA, have gone one better and have just announced the Lexus #UX <a href="http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/lexus/ux/96966/new-2018-lexus-ux-suv-specs-revealed-at-geneva" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/lexus/ux/96966/new-2018-lexus-ux-suv-specs-revealed-at-geneva
What happens if you run a card sort on the Dewey Decimal System? #IA #UX https://blog.optimalworkshop.com/the-information-architecture-of-libraries-part-1-dewey-decimal-classification
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blog.optimalworkshop.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
What happens if you run a card sort on the Dewey Decimal System? #IA #UX https://blog.optimalworkshop.com/the-information-architecture-of-libraries-part-1-dewey-decimal-classification
