Jonathan Schofield

Cyclist, ex Ultimate player. Socialist, conservative designer who wishes England had a Welsh government. Born 98ppm ago.

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2024-10-02 15:10:51

Seeing one of my carefully considered, accessible designs come back from a round of client input that I’m not involved in… with a major accessibility failing :/
…and wishing I had the opportunity to ask the client the key accessibility framing question:
“Who would you like your website to exclude?”
#a11y

2024-09-11 15:31:11

“One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question:
‘How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?’
There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.”
https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi/113119624244980479

2024-09-09 09:45:49

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@npub16u7…uend I’m reminded of this from Doctorow https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112190330203911898

2024-08-20 06:44:33

I hear that Biden’s speech went like this:
me,
me,
me,
me,
me,
me,
me,
me,
Kamala
#dnc

2024-08-06 09:38:19

“Stop the boats” they say.
“Stop the people coming in” says Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones.
“Something something borders” says centre-right OpEd.
But NEVER…
“Stop extracting trillions of dollars every year from people whose lands we are turning into dust and broadcasting to them exactly how we are using the wealth we stole from them to turn our own prospects into dust just a bit slower”
#climateDiary

2024-07-31 07:30:43

I love how podcasts bring interesting people to my awareness. When I was on Twitter I developed a rewarding habit:
1. Listen to a podcast episode
2. Look up all the people on it and referenced in it
3. Find and follow many of them on Twitter
4. Learn more from them and sometimes converse with them
Step 3 on Mastodon tends to be a big ZERO, so step 4 doesn’t happen :(

2024-07-07 09:39:28

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 it’s ok, I understood that.
My concern is when consolidating business ownership is just a subset of consolidating problematic notions of sustainability

2024-07-07 09:29:47

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 we used to put reasonably high proportions of nickel in our coinage because it’s a semi-precious metal.
Now we put 50 kg of the stuff in a Tesla battery.
Not sure where consolidating that leads

2024-07-03 09:25:27

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@npub1vz5…qdta Depletion is the game. I’m sure that’ll go fine.
And now that the North Sea cod is almost gone, there’s still a lot of pollocks to be talked up https://www.openseas.org.uk/news/on-thin-ices-north-sea-cod/

2024-06-26 16:29:44

#css
designers:
text-wrap: balance = ♥️
clients:
but impossibly long line lengths with orphans are normal aren’t they, so can we have that 😒
designers 💔

2024-06-18 06:30:54

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@npub1v5a…5yax treating the atmosphere like an unmanaged garbage dump because we cannot see what we’re belching into it https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112082795688787867

2024-06-16 11:18:51

TIL that “Besides the default old-style numerals, Playfair 2.0 also includes *lining numerals*, scientific inferiors, numerators, denominators, pre-composed fractions, and arbitrary fractions” – https://forthehearts.net/playfair2_0/#g902vx3tojo099zz63mf5c36 –
but that neither Google fonts nor Adobe fonts has updated their sources of Playfair to incoporate these glyphs :/
#typography #fonts
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/626/019/661/283/288/original/29bfe3f1d2bab139.png

2024-05-24 07:53:27

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 A thread from a different perspective https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112494924497364826

2024-05-16 08:02:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 regardless of sentencing… https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112449699397790762

2024-05-08 22:29:01

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@npub16uk…pv7k @kateraworth@bird.makeup
Thanks Dave. But I couldn’t find her earlier, and that username goes nowhere for me.

2024-04-23 11:04:41

“I, and other Holocaust survivor descendants, have been regularly attending these London protests with placards showing that we are ‘openly Jewish’. We have, so far, not experienced any antisemitism at all. Many others on the regular Jewish bloc have had similar experiences.”
—Mark Etkind
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/palestine-march-antisemitism-london-gideon-falter-b2532585.html

2024-04-07 08:16:23

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@npub15zu…s7lx I was bitten by a tick while on holiday in Wales. We were having a picnic in a campsite field that had been grazed by sheep some days before.
Had to go to hospital to have it professionally removed

2024-03-31 09:07:11

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I saw this article, right alongside another one, and noted the disparity https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112189333722481886

2024-03-24 08:59:18

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I don’t think it’s capitalism per se. People have an evolved propensity to conform.
The dilemma is that we are conforming to ideas and behaviours (some centuries old) which are unbounded by ecology, and now we’re running up against that.
William Rees sets out the wider perspective https://overcast.fm/+2tlV8H-6U

2024-03-19 10:52:04

My thanks to @npub1g0t…tvm4 yesterday for citing:
“That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours.”
I found this 2017 Aditya Chakrabortty article reporting it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/10/blunt-heckler-economists-failing-us-booming-britain-gdp-london
It’s a pretty damn near perfect 6-word summation of our predicament:
- Growth within countries that breeds social bitterness
- Growth between countries that breeds geopolitical hostility
- Growth that feeds biophysical destruction.
What do we do about it?

2024-03-18 08:42:57

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 here’s a handy map https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111714181758426662

2024-01-30 08:40:50

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@npub148l…wh97 in 2022, Portsmouth swallowed the cruise ship pill. For jobs. Every political party pumped bilge welcoming them.
No political party is interested in resilience or longevity so instead we choose jobs with no future. Madness

2024-01-22 16:33:01

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Hey Chris. I done some more maths 🧵
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111800541993966049

2024-01-22 09:58:15

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 in that article, arguing for a 1.7% tax is absurdly unambitious.
Here’s a better ambition https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/21/how-much-personal-wealth-is-enough-ingrid-robeyns-limitarianism

2024-01-22 09:03:35

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 but what constitutes ‘progressive’ in an era wedded to a fundamentally unsustainable culture?

2024-01-05 11:19:10

Repost from 2021 Twitter:
“Any political project that is not actively educating and incentivising boomers (I’m one) and gen X-ers to be better ancestors is a failed project”
From this thread: https://nitter.net/schofeld/status/1392094313090269187#m
#climateDiary

2023-12-27 09:26:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 A few days ago I heard Saul Griffith say something like “If you’re not rewriting the tax code, you’re not addressing climate change”. I think that’s probably true of most of our chronic structural problems and is certainly true of housing.
But getting an electoral mandate to do that is … 😬😬
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/110968135112555910

2023-12-01 07:31:34

“So when we encounter a tech company boss who takes in a nationwide movement of organized protest against police brutalization and systemic racism, led by black activists, and amplifies the rare incidents of violence, much of it instigated by the police or right-wing counter protestors, using the mendacious language of extremists to refer to it as ‘riots,’ we have a good idea what we’re looking at.”
Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

2023-11-18 09:57:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 nice to have found you Chris.
In 15 years I was fortunate enough to never have been targeted on Twitter but the absence of malign noise here is great. I wish I had committed to it much sooner but happy to have found a home

2023-11-14 06:14:23

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 “progress on curbing emissions”
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111249656173865933

2023-11-10 09:12:44

Gravel road ahead
#energyTransition
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/385/480/995/783/833/original/358cc43c07afaeb9.jpeg

2023-08-19 06:07:29

The thing that no-one wants to face is that the #energytransition we need to make is to much lower levels of primary energy.
Given that GDP is energy, that means smaller economies, less wealth, much more work (different from jobs) and less retirement.
How the hell we do that peacefully I have no idea

2023-08-18 07:40:24

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@npub1wln…ew3j @npub1t5m…9guy I’ve had this account for 7 years.
One of the things that has stopped me from investing here (apart from inertia) is search.
Twitter search is flawed but *incredibly* useful, for people and content. Mastodon search I have found to be bordering on useless. (I appreciate that may change once one has built enough of a network.)
But Twitter is now like swimming in shit. And I’m breaking through my inertia