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Nick de Voil
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People oriented systems - service design, user experience, business analysis. Group construct analysis - how people think collectively. #GreenParty #FBPE #THFC
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Sorry, have a date
Schnauzer with ginger cat toy
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Bruges/Brugge (the name means „bridge” I believe)
January 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Drinks machine. If you place your cup according to the markings cut into the metal tray, the coffee misses the cup #ux #affordance #humanfactors
Coffee machine with cardboard cup standing ready underneath, but not aligned with the guide pattern cut into the metal tray
January 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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This account is impersonating me - I'd be very grateful if you could block & report it
Two Bluesky profiles - the first is Nick de Voil's genuine account, the second is an impersonator with a zero subsitututed for the "o" in the handle
December 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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From "Language of the Third Reich" by Victor Klemperer
Which brings us to the word that National Socialism used from beginning to end with inordinate profligacy. It takes itself so seriously, it is so convinced of the permanence of its institutions, or at least is so keen to persuade others of that permanence, that every trifle, however insignificant, and everything that it comes into contact with, has a historical significance. Every speech delivered by the Fuhrer is historical {historisch}, even if he says the same thing a hundred times over, every meeting the Fuhrer has with the Duce is historical, even if it doesn't make the slightest difference to the existing state of things; the victory of a German racing car is historical, as is the official opening of a new motorway, and every single road, and every single section of every single road, is officially inaugurated; every harvest festival is historical, every Party Rally, every feast day of any kind; and since the Third Reich seems to know nothing but feast days - you could say that it suffered, indeed was mortally ill, from a lack of the everyday, just as the human body can be mortally ill from a lack of salt - it views every single day of its life as historical.
December 3, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Stop violence against women and girls #ItStartsWithMen #WhiteRibbonDay
a white ribbon
November 25, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Post you from a different era.
Leningrad, 1984
A student ID card indicating that in April 1984 Nicholas De Voil from Great Britain was a visiting student in the Russian Language faculty of the AA Zhdanov State University of Leningrad (Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
November 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Name a more qualified doctor than Doctor Oz
The cover of "Malpractice", an album by UK band Dr. Feelgood, showing the band's name and four disreputable-looking men standing on the street in Canvey Island
November 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Local bookshops are fantastic. Was only walking the dog but accidentally came back with Vladimir & Michel
Books “Morphology of the folktale” and “A Foucault Primer” on top of a carrier bag advertising Osterley Bookshop
October 27, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Thanks @richardpope.org - loving the book
October 4, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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I wonder how many other people are looking at this, especially the last column, and thinking about Tufte's "no wasted ink" principle or the third normal form of data
The squad announcement for England's football team, presented as a table of information
October 3, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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OK, I'm changing one, not removing one
The control panel in a lift, bearing the logo of its manufacturer, Schindler
October 3, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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No-one told me how good this was going to feel. Such a relief 😊 #Goodbye indeed.
The "X" Settings page showing the message "Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"
September 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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I’m happy for you, @lppbooks.bsky.social, that you think my order is fulfilled. I just wonder what your understanding of “fulfilled” is, since I haven’t actually received the item yet?
September 7, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Lola says no... (but she doesn't really mean it)
Black Miniature Schnauzer dog guarding an open gate
August 15, 2024 at 4:16 PM