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Vic Kostrzewski (cost-CHEF-ski, he/him/his)
@wokecyborg.bsky.social
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Digital Producer at The Open University. Learning Designer, Project Manager and Translator elsewhere. Coffee geek. Cyberpunk. Black cat daddy. If you can say charcuterie, you can say my surname.
https://cost-chef.ski
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A quote from Neal Ascherson: "The way a state treats its aliens is the way it would treat its own subjects if it dared."
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Posting this now so I can smugly link to this when everyone on here suddenly becomes a quantum computing expert.
Distracted boyfriend meme. Boyfriend is "literally everyone in 2026", neglected girl is "AI", new girl is "quantum computing".
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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The cells that glopped together to form Simon Jenkins in 2016 are long dead now in 2025, and never a brain cell among them all these years
Headline from today's piece by Simon Jenkins: "We all know Brexit's to blame for the crisis facing UK steel - it's time for politicians to be honest and reverse it." Headline from Simon Jenkins' article from 2016: "Ignore the prophets of doom. Brexit will be good for Britain"
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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My Agile mentor and overseer Callie is delighted to update you all on this important milestone. "Getting on top of the material in 'Agile PM Handbook' was so rewarding. Now it can serve as a perfect foundation for what's ahead. Daily stand-ups, though... keep 'em."
Photo of a black cat sleeping with her head on top of an "Agile PM" handbook.
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Am about to start my second year of study with The Open University. The materials arrived today, looking and feeling good. Three cheers for good quality paper sketchbooks.
A top-down view of a pack of materials I got from The Open University. There's a workbook, a sketchbook, a poster, some postcards, and a paper pack. It's all designed with white, dark gray, red and blue colours.
August 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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POV: there is a spider
Ghibli mode: ON
#cat #cats
Photo of a small black cat. She is sitting, motionless, focused on something above her. The fact that she is black means that we can pretty much just see her outline and her eyes.
August 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Year 1 done with The Open University :) #HumbleBrag #ResultsDay
Overall module result: Pass Overall score: 75
July 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Tell me #accessibility guys are not on your product team without telling me accessibility guys are not on your product team.

#a11y #LiquidAss #Apple
Screenshot of the new Apple Liquid Glass interface, checked for color contrast. It fails the accessibility requirements for contrast check.
June 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
Headline: Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would 'kill' the AI industry Gif from dumb and dumber: "so you're telling me there's a chance."
May 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Required reading / required scritching
Black cat sitting next to a pile of books: "Slow Down" by Kohei Saito, "Thinking Again" and "Contact!" by Jan Morris, and "Cynicism and the Evolution of the American Dream" by Wilber W. Caldwell.
May 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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She came on over, Valerie
Screenshot from a news report: Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island Valerie, a black and brown dachshund, on a beach, looking positively dope
April 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Digital painting. Imagine a car on a drive on a forest road. You see trees and greenery zooming by. The view is to a rear view mirror, to, where you see a clearer version of the landscape. There are red letters on the rear view mirror: "I'm not about to give thanks or apologize." The scene is my interpretation of the song "Rearviewmirror" by Pearl Jam.
April 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Digital painting. A person sitting cross-legged on a green cliff. There's a beach below, and the sea, and a cloudy day. The clouds part, and rays of sun streak through the clouds, and there's a message spelled out on the rays: "Please review your recent experience."
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Messing about with Krita and my Wacom. Name that tune?
A digital drawing. Dark starry night. Two bright car headlights with yellow beams of light, heading towards the viewer. A quote appears in the headlight beams: "that what you fear the most could meet you halfway".
March 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#Caturday
A small black cat curled up in its square "house", on a red blanket. The cat is a bit sleepy and looking at the camera. She is looking very cosy.
March 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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An accurate #OpenAI #Ghibli filter would turn any prompt / artwork into the giant, gruesome, unfinished, decomposing, slop-spitting, energy-hungry, life-destroying, unthinking quasi-fascist warmonger minion from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
#ChatGPT #StudioGhibli #ArtificialIntelligence
Scene from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. A female leader commands a melting giant warrior.
March 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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New month, new #introduction
Hi everyone, I'm Vic :)
My work involves #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #Agile PM and #Translation. I mainly work with #EdTech for #LifelongLearning now.
My play is #running, #MagicTheGathering and coffee.
Based in #Wales / #Cymru.
How are you?
Stefon from Saturday Night Live, waving hello.
March 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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#SilentSunday
Background: Swansea Bay and Clyne Gardens. Foreground: one jumping jabroni (me).
March 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#Caturday
I promise there's a black cat in this blanket somewhere, a whole one and not just his eyes
March 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Working on a board game for my Design Thinking course assignment. This is fun :)
Work in progress: a board game layout. Basically lots of squares and rectangles in a geometric arrangement.
March 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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#goals
A small black cat on a bookshelf.
February 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales + Ryan Bancroft played Gavin Higgins' "A Monstrous Suite", Weinberg's Trumpet Concerto with Håkan Hardenberger and Shostakovich 6.
The next time BBC NOW are in Brangwyn Hall is 21 March, and they're playing in other places, too. Go see & hear them if you can.
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales warming up.
February 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Making kin & getting schooled
Photo: a small black cat, a book cover of "What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition" by Emma Dabiri, some UCU union merchandise.
February 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Those who believe that the price they pay to be left in peace is but a small concession will also be the ones to learn that the price of this peace keeps increasing; those who pay with a seemingly innocent dose of flattery will be made to buy the same goods tomorrow by becoming informers; those who acquire their privilege at the cost of silence in the face of nastiness they could be reacting to, will soon have to pay for the same privilege by having to take part in the nastiness. Despotism, by its nature, exhibits a moral inflation which leads those who distribute the goods to exert an ever higher price, unless society pressures them into reducing it. This may not be a cheerful view, but it is no fantasy - unlike the perspectives that would have use rely on miracles, on outside help or on automatic self-repair of a creaking machine left to its own inertia. The vital thing is this: the means of exerting social pressure are at hand, available to almost everyone. Their essence consists merely of drawing conclusions from basic principles which forbid us from being silent in the face of nastiness, from doffing our hats to lords, from begging alms in exchange for our lowliness or other such behaviours." Leszek Kołakowski, Theses on Hope And Despair (1971)
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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TFW illustrators make you blush before your first coffee
Comment from freelancer: Good morning Vic, That is one of the most professional and thorough briefs I've ever read - thank you!
January 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM