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Dave Hounslow

@Thinkfoo

148 Followers

191 Following

541 Posts

I have two fediverse accounts this one where mostly I'll bore you with my thoughts on woke liberal lefty politics

if you'd rather be bored with my musings on software development follow me at @thinkfoo @sw-development-is.social

of course if you are a sucker for punishment you can always files both accounts!

semi-retired

he/him

all opinions my own etc.

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Software Engineering	#tdd #continuousdelivery #softwareDevelopment #softwareEngineering #agile
Politics	#politics #brexit #libdems #ukpolitics
Activities	#caving #skiing #hillwalking

Dave Hounslow Oct 7, 2023

Anyone got a blue sky invite going spare?

Dave Hounslow Oct 4, 2023

Nothing says long term decisions like overriding a long term decision made by cross party consensus for perceived short term political gain at a party conference

#ShortTermDecisionsForAShiiterFuture

Dave Hounslow Jul 29, 2023

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Erin Kissane Jul 28, 2023

The tl;dr (because TL! it's TL) is that, for this group:

- people feel stressed and anxious when they get yelled at for breaking rules and norms they didn't know about

- it's hard to find people and conversations, and specifically hard to follow people across instances

- people want better organic and algorithmic ways to connect with each other

- instance-picking stresses people out, and a lot of the sign-up and settling-in processes are confusing and/or too much work for unknown returns

Dave Hounslow Jul 18, 2023

The choice at the next UK general election increasingly seems to be between a Tory party you know is lying to you and a Labour party you hope is lying to you.

Dave Hounslow Jul 7, 2023

Political Cartoon Gallery Jul 6, 2023

Ben Jennings on the UK’s out of touch prime minister #RishiSunak - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Dave Hounslow Jul 6, 2023

Kim Crayton ~ Her/She Jul 5, 2023

OMG THIS

My ability to get folx, who’d normally dismiss me as just another “angry Black woman”, to start paying attention to the harm they’re inflicted at scale is 100% the result of how this platform used to work

I’ve been on others for years and they don’t come close

Dave Hounslow Jul 6, 2023

Ok think I've done threads. Same handle as here, but first impressions are maybe I'll look back in a few months. Pretty basic. No where near as advanced as Mastodon at the moment. No lists, no separate timelines, just the global feed and some kind of algo to show followed accounts with higher priority. Not very impressed tbh.
#threads

Dave Hounslow Jul 4, 2023

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