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samueljohnson

@samueljohnson@mstdn.social

Scientist, MBA, ex IT professional, Irish & European
Lived 30+ years on 4 continents, now back in Ireland.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

samueljohnson,
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@Holberg @RickiTarr The machine was like something out of Dr Who. The girls were from a nearby model agency. Mortifying doesn't begin to cover it. Lol.

samueljohnson,
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@Holberg @RickiTarr Hah hah. I think I can top this. I put too much soap in a washing machine on first visit to London as a teenager. Machine burst open disgorging bubbles (didn't notice at first, had my back to it, wet noises underfoot alerted me). I dared disturb old lady in the back who didn't want to be interrupted doing her ironing. GET OUT! But...! Come back at 5.

5PM

Place full of gorgeous girls.

"It's him"
"First time away from home love?"

😊

It wasn't, just first washing machine.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Well, don't hold back! 🐧

samueljohnson,
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@itsfoss Works for me.

samueljohnson, to random
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The endless tedium of Brexiters wanting not just cake, but a discount

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-weighs-value-for-money-of-returning-to-eu-science-after-brexit-hiatus/

samueljohnson, to random
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Sammy Wilson, the man who publicly advocated ethnic cleansing of Irish people from NI, is having a fit of the vapours because Joe Biden said he visited NI to make sure "the Brits didn't screw around" (ie, to ensure they upheld their commitments, which they had already repeatedly broken, and have been breaking in Ireland since the Treaty of Limerick in 1691).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/12/unionists-angry-as-joe-biden-says-he-visited-northern-ireland-to-make-sure-the-brits-didnt-screw-around

Show some respect he demands, red faced (fury is his default setting).

It's a two-way street Sam. Always was.

samueljohnson, to random
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A new Brexit disbenefit: more Scabies

https://www.wired.com/story/scabies-outbreak-uk-europe-treatment-shortages-drug-resistance-permethrin-ivermectin

samueljohnson, to random
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Started watching thinking @ottocrat should see this, he's got a got a Doppelganger who even sounds a bit like him

https://youtu.be/1VxzZha2h1M

Then realised it was a slightly greyer original 😂👏

We're a step behind. One EV and no batteries yet, but on the same journey. 💪

If we don't who will?

Good to see those responsible for 🇪🇺 social policy 👣👣 the 🗣️, helping save 🌍. Contrast with the "Common Sense" Tories or climate change denying 🤡🤡 in the Reform limited company.🤦‍♂️

aaron.rupar, to random

Hillary Clinton on Trump: "The world has been here before. People did not take the kind of threats that we saw in the 1930s as seriously as they should, including American journalists ... a determined demagogue unfortunately supported by members of his political party, people who care more about a future tax cut than the sanctity of the Constitution, are falling in line behind him. And I don't think the press has done enough."

samueljohnson,
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@eribosot @aaron.rupar She didn't give advice on how to beat Trump. She addressed the consequences of not doing so.

dajb, to random
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A post relating to my MSc in #SystemsThinking which can be safely ignored by anyone coming here for the Friday shitposts

https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/05/10/tb871-four-perspectives-on-systems-thinking/

samueljohnson,
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@dajb Mintzberg is very good. My favourite demolition of a lot of purported excellence and genius of people who attribute success to strategy is Fooled by Randomness by Nicholas Nassim Taleb. Highly entertaining, opinionated and right, even if he also has a monstrous ego.

samueljohnson, to random
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Brexit: More irreparable damage - to the London stock market, and with it to the economy & tax revenues. 🤦

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/17/brexit-ruined-the-stock-market-and-not-even-rejoining-the-eu-will-fix-it/

Note: Many Americans who worked in the City of London did so on Irish passports. Quite a few have gone to Frankfurt, Paris & Dublin, cities in which employers can recruit from the entire EU (and in Ireland's case the UK as well).

BrideOfLinux, to random
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Actually, just the act of using Windows should be enough to woo you away from Windows: These cool KDE Plasma features could woo you from Windows https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-cool-kde-plasma-features-could-woo-you-from-windows/

samueljohnson,
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@BrideOfLinux Have you ever tried going back to it? I mean just to solve a problem for someone? 7 was the last tolerable version imo. After that 🤦.

Funnily enough, by chance, my main laptop for the last few years belonged to Microsoft's IT manager in Ireland. He did a clean install of Windows 10 and talked it up. He was surprised when I said I'd be wiping it. 😁

samueljohnson,
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@BrideOfLinux I have a box w a Windows 10 SSD in it that has had one use, approximately annually: updating my Garmin satnav which came with lifetime update of maps of Europe, real-time traffic data news, reading of text messages, hands-free Bluetooth w phone and more.

Haven't used it since Covid and am now trying in-car (EV) navigation in France as an alternative to Android Auto. I think the satnav is about to be redundant & Windows w it. Here (🇪🇺) govts provide online tax forms. 😋

samueljohnson, to random
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Excellent Observer editorial on the creek the UK has found itself in with no hope of a paddle this side of an election

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/13/the-observer-view-on-brexit-tories-are-paying-the-price-for-their-dishonesty

Meanwhile, the Conservatives continue to implode

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/13/tory-anarchy-breaks-out-as-revolt-looms-on-brexit-laws

The centre will not hold.

samueljohnson, to random
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Puzzled by the Guardian/Observer headline asserting that Trump "soundly defeated" Nikki Haley in South Carolina. A 60/40 win is not a sound defeat. Biden's margin in the last Democrat primary in SC was about 90%. THAT is a sound defeat for the losers.

Trump's inability to do better with registered Republicans suggests he doesn't really have much of a hope with the electorate as a whole.

White supremacy is on the way out with Donald Trump and America and the world will be better for it.

samueljohnson, to random
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https://terikanefield.com/sex-lies-and-falsified-documents/

An American counterpart, of sorts, to David Allen Green, albeit with a very different style. Worth reading every week.

samueljohnson, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

Dear oh dear. Anyone favouring Irish reunification is now an extremist.

samueljohnson, to random
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👇
https://macaw.social/@yoyoel/110969824773409796

dajb, to random
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A post about my current relative strengths and weaknesses when it comes to #SystemsThinking competencies: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/05/11/tb871-systems-practice-competencies/

samueljohnson,
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@dajb Many connections between this and the practice of knowledge management (bringing smart people together and letting them talk is one take - - Larry Prusak, maybe the best storyteller I ever met). So many organisations have no idea what they know. Pausing to assess and to take stock and learn after actions is not the norm. The KM business became a bit of a fad like AI now but has many Arie de Geuss type stories of significant payoffs as result of such iterations.

dajb, to random
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More MSc stuff, because why wouldn't you be in a library studying on a lovely sunny day? https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/05/11/tb871-three-purposeful-orientations-and-five-different-systems-approaches/

samueljohnson,
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@dajb Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision Making by Sam Kaner et al. is worthwhile if you can find it. Training in person even better. (I have had some good fortune).

On a rainy day I'm going to look up some of these. 😋

andrewducker, to random
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Link Post: What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789554549272850452.html

samueljohnson,
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@andrewducker I highly recommend the recent 3 part series "The State We're In" by Darren McGarvey shown on BBC TV. One of the programmes compared education in UK and Finland.

samueljohnson, to random
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I'm looking forward to Michael Lewis' book on this lunacy. It should be funny.

Meanwhile, the swindler's sidekick Ms Ellison seems to have been (is?) quite a piece of work (a racist bigot among other things)

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-alameda-ftx-sbf-controversial-online-quotes-2022-11

samueljohnson, (edited ) to random
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/23/the-future-of-ghosts/

@lisagrimm CO poisoning 👻

Edit: Your future as a ghost

https://spectrum.ieee.org/datafication-and-digital-reanimation

samueljohnson, (edited ) to random
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As the Tories conduct an auction among themselves for how many EU derived regulations will be gone by year end*, spare a thought for the people of NI listening to plans for further divergence from GB & a bigger sea border.

Clearly, as has always been the case, the union has never been anything but camouflage for the tyranny of an entitled English establishment.

*One wonders which ones adversely affected their lives:

https://twitter.com/mac_puck/status/1087360379691380736?t=Zo0ALFHW-yj3P2RuHSAnsw&s=19

samueljohnson, to random
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How to alienate neighbours

The right wing London "think tank" Policy Exchange has published a paper "Closing the Back Door" accusing Ireland of being a threat to the UK's security*, bc weak on defence, allegedly. And of suffering from Anglophobia.**

GB closed the "back door" of the open British border in Ireland w passport controls during WW2 and they persisted until 1953. Pending the obvious solution this option remains available.

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

**ie, a dislike of imperialism

samueljohnson, to random
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This is a superb article by a disillusioned British unionist whose journey exactly matches that of Scottish friends of mine in Ireland, all of whom voted No to independence in 2014, and every one of whom is now strongly in favour of ending the union. Most, and most of their children, now have Irish citizenship.

https://bylines.scot/democracy/the-challenge-for-labour-in-scotland/

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