Nick de Voil

@nickdevoil.bsky.social

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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

Schnauzer with ginger cat toy
Coffee machine with cardboard cup standing ready underneath, but not aligned with the guide pattern cut into the metal tray
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
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.
a white ribbon
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)
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
Books “Morphology of the folktale” and “A Foucault Primer” on top of a carrier bag advertising Osterley Bookshop
The squad announcement for England's football team, presented as a table of information
The control panel in a lift, bearing the logo of its manufacturer, Schindler
The "X" Settings page showing the message "Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"
Black Miniature Schnauzer dog guarding an open gate