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Steve O'Connor

@steveoconnor.bsky.social

Ex Principal UX Designer @ Nexer Digital, co-organiser of CamCreatives CIC in Cambridge, UK - looking for roles! Neurospicy with neurospicy kids. Yikes. Big heart, bad memory.

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Beaker Street Science Photography prize – in pictures Finalists for 2025 will be exhibited at Hobart’s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 6 to 31 August as part of the Beaker Street festival and will include the first-ever image of a wild eastern quol...

Beautiful nature photography in the Beaker Street Science finals

www.beakerstreet.com.au/photography-...

14.07.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Data Feminism

Anyone listening to the AI talks who wants to know what an ethical, accountable, inclusive and responsible framework for AI might look like, I highly recommend this book which you can read for free in it’s entirety data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu #CampDigital

03.07.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I heard you owned it. Nice job!

04.07.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Login β€’ Instagram Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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18.03.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The CamCreatives Art Exhibition. It's our time to shine. 10-19 February 2025 at Grand Arcade, Cambridge. Part of the Cambridge Arts Festival delivered by Cambridge BID. For more details visit love-cambridge.com/arts-festival.

The CamCreatives Art Exhibition. It's our time to shine. 10-19 February 2025 at Grand Arcade, Cambridge. Part of the Cambridge Arts Festival delivered by Cambridge BID. For more details visit love-cambridge.com/arts-festival.

If you're somewhere in or around Cambridge 10-19th Feb, come along to the @camcreatives.bsky.social art exhibition.

Painting, sculpture, animation, illustration, jewellery, photography - all kinds on display.

Free workshops too!

www.love-cambridge.com/arts-festival/

30.01.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with curly hair is making a funny face while wearing a suit and tie . Alt: John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule, a comedy character. As he removes his glasses the camera zooms in for a close-up on his stunned face.

www.404media.co/openai-furio...

29.01.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My daughter just called me a nerd.

I walked into her classroom and said "Ooh, they've got a pack of transparent geosolids!"

I am a nerd, aren't I.

13.12.2024 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the petition: Britain is not for sale: don't let the likes of Elon Musk meddle in our democracy 🚨 WORLD’S RICHEST MAN BUYING OUR DEMOCRACY 🚨 Elon Musk is set to pump Β£78m into Nigel Farage’s partyβ€”a sum that would allow Reform to flood our politics with targeted ads. Maybe other countries allow ...

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/britain-...

04.12.2024 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land

A useful, concise article on the inheritance tax "issue" (thanks @simonrjones.net )

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

29.11.2024 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This. I found it so bizarre to see positive reporting of this instead of mocking. What problem is this solving? People not having enough books to read? There are already too many!

27.11.2024 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
F-T-W

🀣 but also πŸ˜“

*NSFW* www.f-t-w.store

27.11.2024 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely, APCA is already very advanced in the research.

19.11.2024 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

100% and I love APCA.

It is infuriating though having WCAG 2.2 colour contrast being the standard with it not being based in research and essentially being a "best guess".

19.11.2024 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

British person who says "Aitch" here. Is it a North/South thing? I know "Haitch" used to be upper class but it switched because the "bloody commoners" started using it πŸ˜…

19.11.2024 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Camp Digital 2024 speaker Julian Thompson onstage at the RNCM Manchester

Camp Digital 2024 speaker Julian Thompson onstage at the RNCM Manchester

Fancy ending your week with some inspiration?

Our #CampDigital archive features all our talks from the past 4 years, spanning topics incl. accessibility and inclusion, service design, design for planet, ethical data, and so much more!

Explore our archive at:

www.nexerdigital.com/campdigital/...

06.09.2024 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Anyone know of any animals wandering UK gardens that might move things? It's not windy at all but a plastic table in our garden has been moved twice in the last hour.

Options are:
- Tripping teen
- Garden based poltergeist
- Unknown mammal

πŸ€”

05.01.2024 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It will always be the roast spuds!

23.12.2023 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How's your creativity? A new test that will let you know... supposedly.

www.datcreativity.com/task

23.12.2023 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A black and white ink drawing by artist Ian Gibson featuring the characters Robo-Hunter, Halp Jones, and robot assistant Hoagy.

A black and white ink drawing by artist Ian Gibson featuring the characters Robo-Hunter, Halp Jones, and robot assistant Hoagy.

RIP Ian Gibson. One of the great artists that lured me into 2000 A.D. as a kid and could handle humour and drama so well.

13.12.2023 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel seen! πŸ˜†

One of them has to work at some point, I can only hope it's this one ... πŸ˜“

16.11.2023 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it something you could use a pegleg crutch for? People I know who tried them loved that it freed up their hands.

13.11.2023 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Minimal right now Andy and our Dev model is a little twisty right now, but I'll share.

30.10.2023 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100% for using it as a pause to avoid correcting mistakes later. I've used that justification recently for an internal DfE process. Yet to test.

28.10.2023 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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