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Alexandra D-S

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Another cost of solo living tax: vouchers for on-street parking for various trades to come do repairs/upgrades (today it's a smart meter install followed by an emergency electrician). In 2020 it was £4.90 a voucher, today it's £11.50. 🫥

06.03.2026 09:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All the cute little AI experiments people are building remind me of apps but where is the app store and how can they be found when search is so completely broken?

05.03.2026 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need someone to start an AI government radio station where I get cliff notes of policy announcements and consultation drops.

04.03.2026 21:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Week one of struggling to find my words occasionally. I knew this was coming but it's mighty sneaky. #perimenopause

04.03.2026 13:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I strongly believe DT wouldn’t be in power/politics if Brexit hadn’t happened. 10 years ago and what havoc it has wreaked.

03.03.2026 20:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Apparently size 14 is XL now. Well done big pharma. #bodyshaming

03.03.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sunday Scraps #115 I have friends in both Israel and Lebanon and I grew up in both Kuwait and Saudi so I’m trying not to stare at CNN like it’s 1990 / The Tracey Emin show is about so many things, you sho…

Dancing around the issue. 💃

www.designswarm.com/blog/2026/03...

03.03.2026 09:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I lived in Kuwait in 1987-89 and 1995-7. I also lived in Jeddah for half a year in the 90s. I played on beaches with tar in the sand and the sound of bombs in the air. Are we really doing this again?

02.03.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it makes you feel better, Alexander Graham Bell didn’t have a phone in his office because he found it too disruptive.

02.03.2026 12:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Making a project history / decision log. Happy Monday.

02.03.2026 11:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

how did i not know this about Calder!

02.03.2026 07:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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The Body Keeps The Score AudioBooks

'All research is me-search' is such a great insight.

(Listening to The Body Keeps The Score, how's your weekend going?)

open.spotify.com/playlist/4SO...

28.02.2026 23:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing!

27.02.2026 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The UK Repair & Reuse Declaration - The Restart Project The Repair & Reuse Declaration calls on UK politicians to make it easier for everyone to repair and reuse the products we rely on every day.

Just wrote to @helenhayes.bsky.social to invite her to the March repair event in Parliament organised by @therestartproject.org If you care about e-waste and unrepairable electronics, consider writing to your MP.

therestartproject.org/campaigns/re...

27.02.2026 10:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

AI but for letting brands you really don't want to hear about Mothers/Father's day promotions for the rest of your life.

26.02.2026 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is not the AI we were promised | The Royal Society YouTube video by The Royal Society

I thought this was really good:

www.youtube.com/live/CyyL0yD...

26.02.2026 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My pet theory is AI hallucinations are engineered in to keep us curious/engaged/talking about it/paying. Like Easter eggs.

26.02.2026 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We have a very big e-waste problem but tonight someone at #iotlondon talked about Claude prompting their way to a PCB design in an afternoon. Can we please accelerate those compostable PCB projects?

24.02.2026 22:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OH in a café: ‘You should call 111, or maybe ask ChatGPT’ #letscallthewholethingoff

24.02.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Madam, you seem to be suffering from second hand AI. 🚬

23.02.2026 16:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i might ask you about that later. #writingabook

21.02.2026 09:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One day, Salesforce is going to sell AI agents to help people avoid using their crappy interface and people will pay good money for that.

18.02.2026 14:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sunday Scraps #114 So glad I went to catch some sun by the sea over the weekend as this rain is getting so boring. We should also rename it dreich. My scraps are going to veer into the smart homes domain as I start w…

A little night music.

www.designswarm.com/blog/2026/02...

17.02.2026 21:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m surprised you don’t have a podcast/Youtube series about this yet.

17.02.2026 19:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Free idea: @c20society.bsky.social but for websites. I would submit Ze Frank's dancing invitation (2001) and thingsmagazine.net (since 1994) for long term protection.

16.02.2026 17:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I get it when it’s a worker i’m interacting with but this is a scheduling chatbot 😂

16.02.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food

It's 2025, we have AI bots 'everywhere', but EE uses random mobile numbers to schedule their home fibre installations.

16.02.2026 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He lost me at McDonald's maple syrup.

13.02.2026 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The year after Tomorrow, mum’s house will change hands. A year to the day since she died. My brothers and their family have valiantly been dealing with all of that while I check-in from abroad. We talk abou…

It's been a long year.

www.designswarm.com/blog/2026/02...

12.02.2026 23:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly.

12.02.2026 12:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0