Bill Thompson

@billt
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130 Following
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Hack, pundit, broadcaster (Digital Planet, BBC World Service), BBC R&D. he/him
@medialator all also on portable media :-)
Freed up 50G by moving stuff to cloud. And my desktop is pristine.
Saturday morning here and I have realised it's time to sort out the crap on my hard drive and do some filing and filleting... repaying clerical debt,. I suppose.
@Phico these days we are all polynetworkly perverse :-)
@emilymbender i agree with you. It’s like the arguments that technical standards constrain ‘innovation’, privileging the (often financial) motives of one group over those of wider society or competing points of view.
@drkatedevlin I will have it written into our guidelines at once!
One thing that was super common on Mastodon / Fediverse prior to this mass migration was adding image descriptions to help be accessible to our many blind and partially sighted users here. Many people won't boost posts without them.
Please consider adding alt text to your images when you can. 
Any #Wittgenstein researchers know if there is a list of jokes that Wittgenstein either enjoyed, mentioned, or otherwise referenced anywhere? For research purposes. Thanks! @philosophy #philosophy #academia #research
@nevali a deep nap. Aka sleeping :-)
I've seen a lot of people asking about DMs here. I wrote an article about this today, but thought it'd be more useful to just say it in a post: Privacy is not the purpose of DMs. DMs are a courtesy to your followers. You’re communicating with another user directly because the information is of no value to anyone else, and there’s no reason to flood other people’s timelines with irrelevancies. Do not use DMs to discuss personal or sensitive information. (Use Signal).