JoJo

The culture of your workplace is not something you write down on a wall and recite at quarterly meetings. It’s either part of what you believe and you make decisions that embody it, or it isn’t and you don’t. How you treat people matters.

I get so confused when people are happy to make the same mistake repeatedly. Why wouldn’t you try and improve your process? The only logical answer I can find is that the person doesn’t consider the consequence sufficient.

“Oh, the parts have come in, we’re working on your car today and it will be ready by EOP tomorrow.” Do they forget that modern cars tell owners where they are parked and how long they’ve been there?

This marmot was super curious, coming close and scampering away, passing behind rocks, and back again. It’s the first time I’ve been able to get this close, and I think it’s because it was mutual curiosity. Did you know marmots hibernate up to 8 months of the year? #photography

I hate the way that the UK is so comfortable leaving people behind. Older people, disabled people, vulnerable people, all treated like an inconvenience.

When did people get so comfortable having private conversations on speakerphone? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Another day and more political bike shedding from politicians that will do anything but acknowledge that phones, tablets and games consoles have had parental controls for years and that wayyy too many parents just can’t be arsed.

I find it incredibly frustrating when fully grown adults feign the inability to do things just because they can’t be arsed. The kind of person who always finds the time/money/energy when it’s something they care about, but suddenly becomes incapable when it suits them.

I hate the cliquey shit. It’s so painfully obvious when you’re not one of the cool kids and four decades in, I just don’t have time for it.

Everyone has time, it’s just about priorities. When people aren’t interested in you until they need or want something, you just gotta remember that you can close door on your side.

I see stickers on lampposts

it's remarkable how widespread .webp files are on the internet while also being so loathed (by me) and insufficiently supported (by all my software)

Masking. It pleases me that I am so good at it that I am able to succeed. It makes me sad that I learned it by going through so much.

Life is too short to either be, or be around, people who are perpetually butt hurt about something. Not everything is that deep.

How empty must your life be to create a Finsta?

I feel like I’m starting another chapter of my life. I have [another] new job. I’m starting to come to terms with not working with my friends. There is a massive opportunity in front of me to learn and grow, scary, but exciting. Uncomfortable and also necessary.

If you have nothing nice to say, shut the fuck up.

I can’t verbalise fully the grief I feel for the lost years where I didn’t know I was autistic & wasn’t on tablets to help with depression/anxiety/looping thoughts. But I am grateful for the time I have got left, with my happier brain and some ability to work my way around things I find difficult

Anyone who think Junior Doctors should strike when it’s convenient for the government doesn’t really understand how collective bargaining works.

I find it bizarre that Streaming Services learned nothing from the extinction of Cable TV. They have recreated the same business model, with the same greedy, taken-for-granted attitude towards their customers and the same alarm bells (piracy).

Reminder that if you’re uncomfortable being called out for your shitty behaviour, you have the option to not behave that way. (And that’s a far more likely route to success than you trying to convince me not to call you out on said shitty behaviour).

I come from a world where _quite literally_ the show must go on. You do your absolute best to ensure the software keeps running, as well as it can. In your world it might be fine to throw an exception, but in mine it absolutely isn’t and so that’s just not how my brain works when coding.

This week I learned a new metaphor from my colleagues in Finland. “It’s like climbing a tree, butt first.”

Met my wife on Twitter.

Did a thing. It was cathartic. Nothing big, just deleting an old thread of messages but… kinda big.

*fossil fuel company throwing their hat in the ring* I think autism is caused by electric cars

Sometimes all of your options feel like losing ones, but there is quiet victory in just doing your best.

Worked out where I want to be. Just got to start tidying up the universe to get back there.

“Thinnest iPhone ever” feels like a challenge for @unboxtherapy.bsky.social. 🙈