Sophie Dennis

I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design.

You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".

A Modern Typographic Scale Rob Weychert reaches for the top notes to sing us a song of typographic scale. A little attention to scale and to the mathematics will help you to hit a high note with your designs this Christmas and ...

It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale.

24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales

Moorland grass and hills

Moorland near Princetown last week. Of course because I can’t walk very far (a few metres at at time) the wild moors aren’t accessible to me, (also can’t sit in my wheelchair very long).
All my photos are taken by a road I frame them with a zoom lens or very tightly #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

Yup: turns out 100% that’s what it was bsky.app/profile/jomi...

This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever

New Sunderland-made Nissan LEAF qualifies for £3,750 discount under government’s EV grant in a boost for North East manufacturing Vs Rachel Reeves to curb high-end bike purchases in Cycle to Work scheme

Compare and contrast the Government language.

£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.

Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.

And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...

Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Hope you had a great time

‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: cannabis users on their psychosis – and the clinic trying to help them Katie hears voices and has been sectioned 50 times. Isiah became paranoid and tried to kill himself. Both link their illness to cannabis – and the drug is getting more and more potent. Is a tiny London clinic showing the way forward?

‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: cannabis users on their psychosis – and the clinic trying to help them

Most likely. It will also get harder for people with anything other than perfect references or a family guarantor - ie great credit score, stable employment - to rent, as landlords become more risk averse cos they don’t trust the “fault” eviction process to work.

I’m so sorry. Don’t be hard on yourself. You wanted to be well enough to do this. You’ve missed out on so much already this year. And you probably don’t know until you try right?

It might be worth thinking about, if you can only manage 1 gig, which would it be?

Yay you got there!!
Hope you can rest and the gig is fun

This sounds a good plan. Def get off arse and book assistance esp at Euston for changing trains. You don’t want to be stressing about missing connections.

Do you know anyone locally who can mount a rescue if you need it?

I think this is one of those times to deep breath, embrace the “I have a disability”, and ask everyone involved for help

Book assistance at the stations? Someone to help with bags etc… Do you have a sunflower lanyard?

Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.

Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets

Count Dracula was 412 when he moved to England in search of new blood. Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged The One Ring. Cthulhu had seen galaxies flare into life and fade to darkness before he put madness in the minds of men. It's never too late to follow your dreams!

Never forget

A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n

Labour at the Margin... ...of survival

"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t."
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I proudly present the internet's nerdiest and prettiest tax calculator.

Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.

Promotional banner for Camp Digital event. Text reads: ‘Early bird tickets are now available! 7th May 2026 · Manchester · Royal Northern College of Music. Brought to you by Nexer.’ The design features a stylized campfire made of geometric shapes in orange, yellow, and white on a purple background.

🔥 Exciting news...early bird tickets for #CampDigital 2026 are now available!

We're back at the RNCM on Thurs 7th May, and we've already confirmed some fantastic speakers and workshops (with more TBA)!

Check out our lineup so far, and book early birds at:

www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital...

Just finished Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and just have to say how wonderful it is - funny, touching, surreal, sad in places, laugh out loud in others. Obsessive record collecting and long walks invoked happy childhood memories.
Highly recommend 😻
#BookSky

“an AI “arms race” developing” in planning - gov promotes use of AI to speed up planning, others build AI tools to automate the process of objecting to applications…

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Everything Will Swallow You, by Tom Cox (Swift Press, 2025), (cover illustration uncredited, but probably Jo Cox)

Bloody hell! It’s been a long time since a book has brought me to tears. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you so very much for writing Everything Will Swallow You. Book of the year. #BookSky #TheStorygraph

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile.


🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

Not everything is shit and people - in a broad, collective sense - are basically decent and heroic. In case you needed cheering up. Says science

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My individually handmade recycled silver jewellery including intricate casts of real flowers (snowdrop, bluebell etc), casts of dragonfly Wongs & jay feathers & my tiny wearable sculptures of much-loved British bird species

One of my best-selling mounted art prints of flowers I grew & bought from an honesty florist

Victorian ink bottles that form part of my tiny posy-making mental health kits-they make great gifts

The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendar-each image is designed to improve mental health

Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...