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Zoe Rose

@zoerose

Service designer at University of Canberra, Mandarin columnist, trainer. Never not banging on about a) design for usability and b) design for usability for disability. Ask me for facts about ancient China, I dare you.

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Friend can I invite you to invite Kid to look up ‘bone maceration’ and then compel kid to do it in the garage?

Smells abominable but end product is scentless.

07.03.2026 05:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And it was just alive enough to spear him right through the thumb. The only actual injury of the whole drama.

I was not wearing a life jacket! Always ALWAYS wear life jackets.

05.03.2026 06:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We just managed to kick it to an uninhabited island before it went under completely. We slept there that night. In the morning my dad and his friend fixed the outboard (which was bust to start with) with hibiscus vine and coconut palm fronds.

Also we got the stingray and my dads friend punched it

05.03.2026 06:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was eight, living in the Cook Islands. We were out in a leaky tinny, bringing in fishing nets. There’s a long complex story about a stingray caught in the nets but to summarise, the boat capsized, and because it was leaky the air under the hull started escaping real quick > it started to sink

05.03.2026 06:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I have been shipwrecked.

05.03.2026 02:27 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Today is a good day to be extremely cool to your Iranian colleagues.

Related, I have never regretted doing lifeline accidental counsellor training. Didn’t today that’s for damn sure.

02.03.2026 02:25 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Guess what I speak Spanish

It says some scientists have worked out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (the vinegar bit of vinegar)

Which is dope

O sea, maravilloso!

01.03.2026 21:04 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wife here, can confirm suspiciously unrenovated 1970s house background is exactly what it looks like.

We bought those chairs off fb marketplace though. And fwiw that’s my grandma’s table, most likely from the 80s?

01.03.2026 10:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*final scene of Fight Club gif*

27.02.2026 05:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

26.02.2026 02:54 👍 2685 🔁 988 💬 10 📌 0

…don’t think you two will agree about LLMs though, fair dues.

25.02.2026 22:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Because you have both liked this post - @folletto.bsky.social meet @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social , Tamsin, Erin. You are in different disciplines (international law in Aus and product development in UK) but you both have a very similar approach to sociology and research.

25.02.2026 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone iirc. If you’re above a certain age it’s free but shingles hurts at any age. There is a $$ and a $$$ private shot, the $$$ one lasts forever.

25.02.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me too I am vaccinated to the hilt!

Jabs are like pokemon to me

25.02.2026 21:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Genuinely don’t understand why people are buying cars that have $$$$$$$ fuel when cars that have $ fuel are available

Even if the ev doesn’t suit you perfectly they are *so cheap
to run* it’s insane

25.02.2026 21:11 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Way to go!

No cancer no shingles, this is the ursine way 🐻

25.02.2026 21:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Australia! It will cost you about $600 to get the shot as an adult. That’s for ‘shringix’, which is $$$ but will last you the rest of your life.

As my pharmacist said when he handed me the powder, ‘are you brave of heart?’

Be brave of heart, get the shot!

25.02.2026 20:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

We’re talking about different things. And I won’t be managing your feelings for you today.

That’s all from me, have a great day.

25.02.2026 20:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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25.02.2026 06:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not following you. Can you clarify?

25.02.2026 05:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

^ bingo

25.02.2026 00:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh me too, it was not remotely fun to write *however* I also think that's actually a really real thing.

25.02.2026 00:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.02.2026 22:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And mining!! The water use in mining is astronomical! Never gets mentioned!

24.02.2026 22:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

3/ nullified too.

If I was trying to pull a full Machiavelli on trying to get social licence for data centres in Australia, I would spend every cent of budget on convincing activists that the biggest problem with data centres was water. Every single cent.

24.02.2026 11:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

2/ potential of large scale cooling systems, the idea that invention and improvement will stop where it began - water - seems shortsighted. Tbh it also seems like a way of making objections look a bit silly: if the objection to data centres is based in water and that gets nullified, the objection is

24.02.2026 11:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Oh absolutely, I don’t think any thoughtful person would or should be surprised by a world-eating corporation trying to keep doing a profitable thing that shifts damage away from them onto the social & environmental context they operate in. Given the maturity and growth /1

24.02.2026 11:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Somewhere extremely deep in my mentions there’s a guy…

24.02.2026 07:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s pretty clear that no Australian political party capable of forming government wants to fund universities at baseline let alone above it, so no I do not think Australia will be innovating in this space or any other area of design &/or engineering any time soon.

24.02.2026 07:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nah

24.02.2026 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0