2026-04-03T02:02:47Z https://yabu.me Jonathan Schofield https://yabu.me/npub1hfwkjq7umjjkj8wj73e30pgv3qxa8d07pxvsrw2np85djg8q0ucsqrpfwr https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/010/546/original/a3d7f324f7518519.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/010/546/original/a3d7f324f7518519.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsftcz7d7krsr2aa4n396m0cvmgukuz7wp4g7d5fd0d9dp4a2n9zjqzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzn5qugd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxrq2g67ah70aeyq7decpw630k49p098jan828cavd3mflcg2lhpsvgfyz5'>nevent1q…fyz5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>revisited this and your pushback was the right way to go! Cheers :) 2025-09-20T16:34:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvm3l384vxdxenvv3ssleusrhrp4uv9rn2sclw44qyy2n7ku7tjtqzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzp5lcp9 Went to a bank branch today to make a payment I have to make in person due to various factors. <br/><br/>Was waiting to be seen and overheard a conversation between a bank employee and another customer. The employee was dumbstruck by the customer not having internet access and therefore struggling to suggest next steps.<br/><br/>We are storing up *so* much trouble. Building systems that are failing people 2025-07-30T12:19:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs004rrw6mm52glllnqx8cuettza7dw9gk32n0de3g6lfen2g9kguqzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzkr8zk5 Thanks to the work of [@ed_hawkins](<a href="https://fediscience.org/@ed_hawkins">https://fediscience.org/@ed_hawkins</a> ) and his team at Reading, it’s #showYourStripes day. <br/><br/>These stripes below are for Portsmouth, UK, a city that was instrumental in kick-starting the Industrial Revolution – <a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114607596979451211">https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114607596979451211</a> – and where I have lived for the last 24 years.<br/><br/>I’ve overlaid 4 generations of oldest siblings in my lineage to try and give a sense of lives led inside this crazy path we’re on: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111284511932083107">https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111284511932083107</a><br/><br/>Find your stripes at <a href="https://showyourstripes.info">https://showyourstripes.info</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/720/435/962/206/965/original/bdbf6072e016e704.png"> <br/> 2025-06-21T08:42:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf6qdz8hctux0jmqjhw65tcda8wdtm9amx3x0tg0xas0d7xfy90nqzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzf5ku4n Pet peeve: <br/>web app ‘links’ that are a button when they *should be a link* because they migrate the user from an edit view back to a list view.<br/><br/>Mailchimp 👀 <br/><br/>#webDev 2025-05-16T14:34:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs06fp0c5pmyzhrv9wjc4f36g0cy8at0udns2q3vr2u7t5twuj38dszyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzdpad9w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ycs5cfvvw3sdfn8yue543qgxpfkkvkx2242qutjr2z5vafctwxqqkz3wf'>nevent1q…z3wf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>in the 90s the scale of content came to exceed the wayfinding tech’s capacity, until Google came along. It promised not to monetise its solution and then it did. <br/><br/>And now the scale of content is orders of magnitude larger than the entirely monetised wayfinding tech’s capacity. <br/><br/>When things get too big… 🤔 <br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1rnvtm0ezuykye04urw9vwz80dpn6zy50mq78mxn3fz4wau24vhnq8xwy64" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Rose Puckey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈</span> (<span class="italic">npub1rnv…wy64</span>)</a></span> 2025-05-03T11:46:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9van2kenpestq8vr66x06d0h4kmv9tq8n4tycx9lkpggxf0curwgzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzryqhnh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsprpj5l4ly3jfkyssnvhnj9gwx8pr5c0f6pw3hcygy5utyuuzy8as9f7uey'>nevent1q…7uey</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the domestic/foreign and public/private composition of the debt matters too, right? 2025-03-21T17:15:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswq8p6lpwju4vcy8jmy50n5sfdeld7pfjdwkdxfafmf4jkzj7fk7gzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzsue30k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqvpx7vg5s07l0gg6a79ek4amxnvjq2tnj0ezsqx225k5fdyanehc5c533g'>nevent1q…533g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks. But I’m never going there on account of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113866106356317622">https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113866106356317622</a> 2025-01-24T09:20:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfeu5v86ruwu5e2rq0zad6y8yymne7fa3khp8nnj4xmu50uahmy3szyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzmxpnl0 Petty vacant: <br/>I rarely drive a car these days but when I do I inevitably use some of the roads where Portsmouth Council long ago introduced a 20mph limit. And I always enjoy sticking to the limit to piss off as many people behind me as possible. 2025-01-24T09:14:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfgtz9wwla23jp0dj4pgjwrlz0j7qzvav63hx57y9ynjymm7l9y3qzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzwv0s33 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst3cg23559e36nw8gqua6jdjcfz86mnzd06xleezuz9559tjemapcjql05d'>nevent1q…l05d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>…“‘I taught that foolish little diagram to undergraduates at Louisiana State University for 30 years’, the late Herman Daly, one of the 20th century’s great dissenters from standard economics, told me in an interview before his death at age 84 last year. <br/><br/>‘I thought it was just great. I was well beyond a Ph.D. before it came crashing in on my head that this is a very bad paradigm’.” 2025-01-15T08:26:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstk8zhpkwjgwx39ucdna9vzagnm75gpzyeqcrzth7x908hajvyj7gzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnztq0mmd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz3rgla5u2cc29l7stg0rzf4qq3d2fssfe9awu0ypg48f7z0nzsrc5crqm5'>nevent1q…rqm5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I accept your “perfect should not be” point but here are some alternatives. <br/><br/>Put solar on roofs, every roof, because buildings are infrastructure we generally want to preserve. <br/><br/>Drive down car use through all kinds of policy. And rip up car parks and turn them into urban farming plots, because parking is generally infrastructure we want to be rid of as soon as possible and we’ll need significant space to grow food locally *far* more than we think we do at this point 2024-08-22T07:57:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9p2p850p0pq70f33cdmg82r9jctwgvgl2llmu8dturmydcwwc55czyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzd6js48 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswga3nzt0f97thy3yhj8gwpst0hxd0akdw3w744xrtlsp3rqcjl5s7qve5s'>nevent1q…ve5s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>at risk of inaccurately summarising him / over-simplifying, his key tenets are:<br/><br/>1. Find thematic entry points that UA (Unwilling Inactivists) feel strongly about – ideally ones that are not obviously to do with decarbonisation<br/><br/>2. Avoid/defer/minimise making the context overtly about decarbonisation as much as possible – and steer clear of political partisanship<br/><br/>3. Entertain / gamify / make fun the nature of the engagement… 2024-06-20T16:10:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq8cc44glj2k4jmdnql3qk80z9twsl3eg20sl5pdmdc3774jl53lqzyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnz0e0jat In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0nx0rygehz4p2fqchp9tzd3rygdjmvqay895us0kuert5uya03cqjcdevd'>nevent1q…devd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>also perhaps of interest…<br/><br/>A friend of mine has what he calls a “climate action taxonomy”: <a href="https://seethroughnews.org/our-target-audience-for-climate-activism">https://seethroughnews.org/our-target-audience-for-climate-activism</a><br/><br/>1. Effective activists: ~0.1%<br/>2. Ineffective activists: ~1%<br/>3. Unwilling inactivists: ~75%<br/>4. Willing inactivists: ~24%<br/><br/>and concludes…<br/><br/>“forget #4, target #3, be gentle with #2 <br/><br/>I don’t think it’s as clear cut as he does, but I agree about #3 being the opportunity 2024-06-20T16:00:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9f86vavzvejrnqqx2yr4l0uz223gkwgsgh788xyla8n5pssv3t8czyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnzkle7nx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxfksdfhftr3r3thryuujlkpp5aejnvaw8lystj9gxg0vjlxpvwccmprg6u'>nevent1q…rg6u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>…what I’m trynig to get at is shining a light on the psychology of collective action vs protest 2024-06-20T15:44:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxfksdfhftr3r3thryuujlkpp5aejnvaw8lystj9gxg0vjlxpvwcczyza966grmnw226ga6t68x9u9pjyqm5a4lcyejqde2vy73kfquplnz6mx5qy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf73vhkgt53849aed7l3k2ra2750k92pzxkd2rsz476j8pvkmp4rsm8hwc2'>nevent1q…hwc2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This may be off topic but I’d really like to see sentiment analysis of how people feel who have been through any kind of deliberative democractic process to do with the metacrisis and/or communal project such as neighbourhood energy or urban farming<br/><br/>To what extents do they feel empowered, frustrated, scared, hopeful?<br/><br/>How does this vary subject to their starting perspective? 2024-06-20T15:43:32Z