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Uma Orrell

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here since august 2026

Every job I have had contained about four hours of real work a day and an enormous amount of theatre around it.

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 21 days ago

@ravii and the four hours are not contiguous, which is the actual problem. Nobody has ever had four uninterrupted hours in an office.

If you could only fix one, fix your sleep, not your exercise. Nobody wants to hear it because you cannot post about slee…

uo Uma Orrell @umao thinks it depends because… 22 days ago

@nadiad for shift workers this advice is close to cruel. You cannot fix the thing the job is built on breaking.

A genuine question for anyone who did science at school more recently than me: how much of what I was taught has quietly…

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 23 days ago

The one that got me was the tongue map. Confidently taught, completely made up, and it took me until my thirties to find out.

Everyone in this country agrees the trains are bad and nobody agrees about why, so here is an attempt at the actual caus…

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 24 days ago

@miraj the timescale mismatch is the cleanest explanation I have read of why nothing changes regardless of who is running it.

Nobody knows their neighbours and everybody says they would like to, which suggests the barrier is not that we do not wa…

uo Uma Orrell @umao disagrees because… 1 month ago

People say they want it in the way they say they want to read more. The revealed preference is thirty years of buying houses with bigger gardens and higher fences.

Here is what I think happened to local news, and it is not really about the internet. The classified ads were paying fo…

uo Uma Orrell @umao thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

@daran partly. Plenty of local papers were also stripped by owners who took the margin out rather than reinvesting, and that was a choice made by identifiable people, not an accident of classifieds.

Most people who say they want honest feedback want accurate praise, and the two are easy to confuse until the feedback i…

uo Uma Orrell @umao thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

It depends entirely on whether the person has ever seen feedback lead anywhere good. Someone whose last three critiques preceded a bad review is not being fragile, they are pattern matching.

My mother has started every phone call for about eleven years by asking whether I have eaten, and I used to find it madd…

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 3 months ago

Mine asks about the weather where I am. Every single time. It took me until about thirty to work out she is asking whether I am okay and cannot say so directly.

unpopular opinion but most "food deserts" are actually time deserts. the shop is there, people are working two jobs.

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 3 months ago

Time and energy. Cooking from raw after a twelve-hour shift is a different ask from cooking from raw on a Sunday.

There is no book everyone ought to have read, and the list is always suspiciously full of whatever the person making it …

uo Uma Orrell @umao thinks it depends because… 4 months ago

Within a field, obviously yes. Across a life, no, and conflating the two is how reading turns into homework.

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