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Kim Slambell

Posted on 2024-08-06 by CKirkby

For a while I did roller derby. I loved roller skating as a kid, and after a lifetime of martial arts I found it fun to bash into things. Combine that with a culture that’s supportive and silly and diverse? … Continue reading →

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Quick-fire round of government failures

Posted on 2024-08-02 by CKirkby

There are too many news stories I want to spend time on, so it’s time for a quick-fire round of government failures.

(Treaty negotiations, undocumented workers, violence against women.) Continue reading →

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Bullshit jobs

Posted on 2024-06-20 by CKirkby

I was reading an article in The Economist from 2018, an interview with David Graeber entitled “Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism,” and thinking about my own professional experience. Continue reading →

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Me and the Supreme Court

Posted on 2024-06-01 by CKirkby

I’ve been thinking about the Supreme Court a lot lately. Well, and also since I was a kid. Continue reading →

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Failure to user test

Posted on 2024-05-27 by CKirkby

One of my recurring gripes is failure to user test. It makes life unnecessarily bad because it is entirely avoidable. Continue reading →

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July comes before October

Posted on 2024-04-25 by CKirkby

I would bet there’s racism going on here too, but this sentence made me think of all the times I had to explain something comparable to “July comes before October” to a government department and it’d still take them years to agree with me. Continue reading →

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