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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Playing phone tag with 2 recruiters today (1 internal, 1 external). Between this and the AI ATS no wonder hiring is broken

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just saw a job posting call hybrid "part time remote working" 😑

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Job posting that aligns really well with my skillset. 😁 4 days in office. ☹️

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Officially over 100 jobs applied for as of today. I've been actively looking since February 2025. Thankfully not unemployed but haven't been happy at work for almost 2 years now. I'm exhausted

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UK UXR people, How is the contracting market at the moment? I know the regular market is not great, is contracting the same?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will explain this whole story in plain English for you: OpenAI did not fully isolate their experimental environment from the internet, accidentally leaving in place a software program that could access the open internet for updates. Agents exploited it, which is what they are structured to do.

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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Starmer would rather book eating psychopath Matt Goodwin get a seat in parliament than another Green MP. They're cowards, and they're enabling the hard right.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Not everything in my life is going great right now But at this current moment in time my husband is playing video games on the couch while I flip flop between reading, Tiktok and idle games and both my cats are resting on the couch with us. I couldn't have created a better moment.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 07/02/2026

I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

WELL WELL WELL WELL

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'm decent with my money and earn a generally good wage, but nothing but new JSA payments since November left me especially keen this month

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Reminder they've partnered with ICE before (in 2020) and fired the internal whistleblower who released it to the press

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Stumbled onto a Industrial playlist. Have now spent a better half of today reaching flow state that I haven't achieved since text based RPG writing in high school.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 12/01/2026

🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. 🙋We asked its customers what should happen next. 54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector. Read the full results here.

weownit.org.uk

New polling: majority of Thames Water customers want Ofwat to reject creditors’ proposal for the utility

New polling has revealed that 54% of Thames Water customers think Ofwat should reject a deal proposed by Thames Water's creditors, and put it into special administration.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

An annoying thing I am noticing in job listings. Remote role, unless you live in London (I do), then we're hybrid and you need to come in 2 days a week. I pay a ton of money for my home in London, don't make me leave it.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Behind but major flaw in ST5 Holly would be a product of stranger danger. She would have had NEVER EVER EVER EVER talk to a stranger drilled into her brain from birth. Strange man approaching her in the library? She would have never made friends.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Honestly 2025 was downhill after my honeymoon in May. I was SO dissatisfied with my job that I never got back into things after I took 3 weeks off. Probably early stages of burnout. If I wasn't so bitter about the drop in salary I've had to take, and the lack of settlement money I would be grateful

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I didn't even attempt this. I am not a dancer.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I did not do this but I did get to the boss battle once.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Final day of unemployment tomorrow, so let's review if I achieved anything. 1 - Sort of. Finished 2, DNF'd 1. Still reading last. 2 - 9/30 hour course. I want to get back into this. 3 - 1 time. There's nothing I want to see. 4- ✅ 5 - Sort of. I find it hard when it's cold, and it has been.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Went to see My Neighbour Totoro on the West End last night. Dare I say, more magical than the original film because of the puppets.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The popularity of Heated Rivalry is very interesting to me, as a hockey hating Canadian. It is SO fictionalised. Hockey players are a bunch of rich white boys, which leads to exactly the type of behaviour you'd expect. Hockey Canada has an internal fund to pay off sexual assault victims . . .

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Funemployment (yes I found a job, I start in January) means going full in on the Christmas cooking and baking. ✅ Crispy Crunch (cereal treats) ✅ Cinnamon swirl snickerdoodles Sugar cookie bars Scottish Shortbread ✅ Homemade Cranberry Sauce ✅ Get ahead gravy Do I add another cookie to the list? 🤔

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I understand that teams are busy right now and things are stressful. But gosh the mistakes, and then incompetence leading to confusion I've received from customer support when trying to correct. Just let me spend my money and provide the thing I've purchased, can't believe it's so difficult.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Everyone freaking out about Friends leaving Netflix... BUY THE DVD GET A DVD PLAYER Physical media is the only (legal) way to ensure you always have access to your favourite media

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

As opposed to extremely serious parties who base themselves wholly on real issues like, say, Reform who claim that all of the country's ills are caused by a few thousand refugees and want to solve this by deporting every Brown person in the country.

Am article in the Times, with a picture of Green Leader Zack Polanski: 'Zack Polanski's Greens are surging by ignoring reality' ; 'The self described eco-populisy is wooing the disaffected with his genial media persona but his policies are based on a fiction'

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#A11yShow Podcast | Making _____ Accessible @a11yshow.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"Alt text is the gateway drug to accessibility. And I'd like to get everybody hooked." - Stacy Kess #Quotable from our upcoming #A11yShow episode, Making News Accessible. Coming to your podcast player December 15!

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

'Chat GBT' 'Chap GPT' If you can't even say or spell it correctly you shouldn't be using it

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

When your old, cheapskate company makes a tiktok and with AI and you get to relish in all the comments being 'Ew, AI'

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Just learned I'll probably be furloughed from work for the last two weeks of the year so here's to starting the new year with none monies if u know any copywriter jobs especially in UX hit your girl up I'm very good and I'm dying here

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Not loving the current 'marketing via apology' trend going on right now. Especially since these companies do have things they probably should be apologising for

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Royal mail checkout doesn't use Cloudflare but Mastercard 3D Secure does 🤦

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Final day of work tomorrow. My goals for unemployment (besides find employment again of course) Finish the books I have started Find a Data Analysis course to take, and take it Go to the cinema Do the annual Christmas deep clean of the house Workout

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Interesting how in the CS I was brought forward for an interview at a G7 role, but only scored 2.33/5 for a HEO role. Application process for the 2.33 was very different from standard, it was through a system called "Applied" and did not follow the usual CS format.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I've noticed speaking with other UXers lately that, like myself a few weeks ago, there were plenty of people who haven't been interviewing in several years now. I've started interviewing this week after not doing so seriously since 2023, so here's my experience 🧵

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Reminding myself of previously effective job applications things from other times in my life. For example, sending a thank you note to the interviewers after the interview, just making yourself available for more conversations and maybe reminding them of your existence has worked well for me before

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

You know, maybe I CAN kind of understand why people might think that birds aren't real.

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just came across a research spec where one of the requirements for the participants was continuous speaking for the full 45 minute session with gaps in speaking of only 2 seconds or less allowed. WTF, awful companies running unethical garbage. But we don't need UX Researchers anymore . . . 🙄

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Another week of job applications. Postings have slowed, hit the "red" in my applications numbers today. I do have another civil service job to apply for but the applications take longer and they don't have the "rush to get first" thankfully so I'll tackle it after my Interview on Monday. #uxjobs

Google sheets section.

Applied in 7 day period, 14, highlighted in red.
Total 53
Rejected 14
In-flight 34

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Had an awful introductory call with a UX Career Coach last night. Can't believe their course sells for $3000. And they kept pushing it could be financed! Lots of respect lost for the individual running it.

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Colin Wheelock @satchamobob.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hey folks. I was impacted by the layoffs at Amazon today. If you or someone you know is in need of a UX Researcher with multiple years of experience leading or supporting research initiatives, games or otherwise, please DM me or reach out to me on LinkedIIn. www.linkedin.com/in/cdwheelock

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Welp it only took 2 weeks but I seem to have maxed out on the backlog of jobs to apply to. Thankfully it looks like there's some junior roles available which is a good thing for the market and a positive sign for the UX Research industry in general.

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