Nick de Voil

@nickdevoil

People oriented systems - service design, user experience, business analysis. Group construct analysis - how people think collectively. #GreenParty candidate for Hounslow West on May 7. #FBPE #THFC

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Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Jan 24

Sorry, have a date

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Jan 24

Bruges/Brugge (the name means „bridge” I believe)

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Jan 10

Drinks machine. If you place your cup according to the markings cut into the metal tray, the coffee misses the cup #ux #affordance #humanfactors

Coffee machine with cardboard cup standing ready underneath, but not aligned with the guide pattern cut into the metal tray

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Dec 18

This account is impersonating me - I'd be very grateful if you could block & report it

Two Bluesky profiles - the first is Nick de Voil's genuine account, the second is an impersonator with a zero subsitututed for the "o" in the handle

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Dec 3

From "Language of the Third Reich" by Victor Klemperer

Which brings us to the word that National Socialism used from
beginning to end with inordinate profligacy. It takes itself so seriously,
it is so convinced of the permanence of its institutions, or at least
is so keen to persuade others of that permanence, that every trifle,
however insignificant, and everything that it comes into contact with,
has a historical significance. Every speech delivered by the Fuhrer is
historical {historisch}, even if he says the same thing a hundred times
over, every meeting the Fuhrer has with the Duce is historical, even if it
doesn't make the slightest difference to the existing state of things; the
victory of a German racing car is historical, as is the official opening of a
new motorway, and every single road, and every single section of every
single road, is officially inaugurated; every harvest festival is historical,
every Party Rally, every feast day of any kind; and since the Third Reich
seems to know nothing but feast days - you could say that it suffered,
indeed was mortally ill, from a lack of the everyday, just as the human
body can be mortally ill from a lack of salt - it views every single day of
its life as historical.

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Nov 25

Stop violence against women and girls #ItStartsWithMen #WhiteRibbonDay

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Nov 22

Post you from a different era. Leningrad, 1984

A student ID card indicating that in April 1984 Nicholas De Voil from Great Britain was a visiting student in the Russian Language faculty of the AA Zhdanov State University of Leningrad (Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour)

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Nov 21

Name a more qualified doctor than Doctor Oz

The cover of "Malpractice", an album by UK band Dr. Feelgood, showing the band's name and four disreputable-looking men standing on the street in Canvey Island

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Oct 27

Local bookshops are fantastic. Was only walking the dog but accidentally came back with Vladimir & Michel

Books “Morphology of the folktale” and “A Foucault Primer” on top of a carrier bag advertising Osterley Bookshop

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Oct 4

Thanks @richardpope.org - loving the book

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Oct 3

I wonder how many other people are looking at this, especially the last column, and thinking about Tufte's "no wasted ink" principle or the third normal form of data

The squad announcement for England's football team, presented as a table of information

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Oct 3

OK, I'm changing one, not removing one

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Sep 26

No-one told me how good this was going to feel. Such a relief 😊 #Goodbye indeed.

The "X" Settings page showing the message "Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Sep 7

I’m happy for you, @lppbooks.bsky.social, that you think my order is fulfilled. I just wonder what your understanding of “fulfilled” is, since I haven’t actually received the item yet?

Nick de Voil@nickdevoil· Aug 15

Lola says no... (but she doesn't really mean it)