I guess those we were urns we lifted in May.

Flying back to Glasgow Airport is as embarrassing as can be expected. Massive queues at passport control. Only TWO desks open at Border Control. And FIVE e-gates operational for EVERY arriving flight.

Congratulations on the team that finished third signing a player from the team that finished second. I do wonder what Tony Bloom's #JamestownAnalytics saw in #lawrenceShankland that made him want to get him off the books before the transfer window even started? #Rangers #Hearts

Tell us your season ticket uptake is slow without telling us your season ticket uptake is slow.

Still not deleted this tweet, Gerry?

Managed to pause this right on the exact moment. SOURCE is @CelticFC's unique angle footage. Clear as day it's a handball. How is this even in dispute? #Celtic #CelticFc #MotherwellFC

The consequence of the thuggery and pitch invasion at Cup semifinal match coming home to roost.

Let me explain the #Omnibus as it relates to #darkpatterns. #Simplification #DeceptiveDesign

I'm definitely going to read the book. After taking a course taught by you, you changed the way I think about privacy, data, and online activity. It's a bit of a dystopian awakening, but a necessary one. Cheers!

Rethinking ‘Personal Data’: A Tale of Two Visions in EU Data Protection Law Unpopular take: the narrative on the EU’s Simplification Omnibus is wrong. If you analyse it through a systems lens, the reforms don’t weaken data protection—they strengthen it. A clearer personal data boundary restores coherence, sharpens rights, and stops the GDPR from collapsing under its own weight. #GDPR #DataProtection #DigitalOmnibus #EURegulation #PrivacyLaw #InfoLaw #DigitalPolicy #TechRegulation #PersonalData #EUDataGovernance open.substack.com/pub/digida…

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By ensuring @Scotgov takes steps to ensure Douglas Ross never referees another match again?!!?

We’re now facing the very real possibility that former @CelticFC manager Brendan Rodgers actively sabotaged the team — whether by ego, stubbornness, or strategy. Look back at his final year and it’s hard to ignore the pattern: 1️⃣ He imposed a dull, risk-averse system that stripped the team of its energy, identity, and attacking flair. 2️⃣ He repeatedly picked lineups that didn’t fit that system, leaving technically gifted or high-value players on the bench. 3️⃣ He demanded that those on the pitch only play within rigid tactical confines — suppressing instinct, spontaneity, and creativity. 4️⃣ He sidelined the players who could make a difference, frustrating the squad and alienating the dressing room. The outcome of all that? Rodgers created a perfect shield for himself. By engineering a style of play that was guaranteed to fail with the personnel available, he could later turn around and blame the Board for “not giving him the right players.” It’s a textbook case of self-preservation dressed up as tactical purity. Dermot Desmond’s remark about BR being “self-serving” starts to make perfect sense when you see it through this lens. The fans were bored, the players were shackled, and the club’s momentum evaporated — all while BR positioned himself to walk away claiming he wasn’t supported. In the end, only one person came out ahead: Brendan Rodgers. Everyone else — the club, the players, the supporters — paid the price for his ego. #CelticFC #BrendanRodgers #Celtic #SPFL #ScottishFootball #CelticFans #FootballAnalysis #CelticSupport #FootballPolitics #DermotDesmond #COYBIG #Paradise #HailHail

Sometimes the most powerful manipulations are invisible. Defaults. Pre-selections. Small bits of friction placed in just the right spot. In “Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law,” I argue that defaults are silent governors of behaviour. They frame what looks normal, what looks optional, and what looks impossible. For UX professionals, this is a reminder that the most ethical design decision may be the one the user never notices. Is the default set to share or to protect? To retain data or to delete it? To trap users or to let them go freely? The book urges us to treat defaults as ethical commitments, not technical conveniences. Because every default encodes a value. And if we don’t choose them consciously, business incentives will choose them for us. 👉 bloomsbury.com/uk/dark-patte… @hartpublishing @BloomsburyBooks #DeceptiveDesign #DarkPatterns #UXDesign #Defaults #DesignEthics #DesignSystems #UIDesign

Many in UX say, “It’s just business goals.” But “Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law,” shows how that shrug corrodes our craft. If we design simply to meet KPIs, we risk turning design into a tool of manipulation. If we accept deceptive flows as normal, we train both ourselves and our users to see UX as adversarial. The book argues for a different vision: UX as stewardship. We don’t just deliver business goals; we mediate between those goals and user dignity. That’s what makes us professionals, not just technicians. For designers, this is an identity question. Are we optimisers of clicks, or guardians of trust? The answer will define the future of UX as a profession. 👉 bloomsbury.com/uk/dark-patte… @hartpublishing @BloomsburyBooks #DeceptiveDesign #DarkPatterns #UXDesign #DesignLeadership #EthicalDesign #ProductDesign #DesignSystems

Deceptive design doesn’t just harm individuals. It amplifies inequalities. In “Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law,” I show how manipulative systems disproportionately affect vulnerable groups: children, the elderly, the less digitally literate, those under financial pressure. For UX, this is a justice issue. If we design flows that trap, exploit, or confuse, it is these users who pay the highest cost. That makes deceptive design not just unethical but discriminatory. The book argues for a shift toward design justice: systems that account for differences in power, literacy, and vulnerability. Ethical design is not enough. We must design with equity in mind. 👉 bloomsbury.com/uk/dark-patte… @hartpublishing @BloomsburyBooks #DeceptiveDesign #DarkPatterns #UXDesign #DesignJustice #EthicalDesign #ProductDesign #UXResearch

So much of legal scholarship in top law reviews is basically recapitulation of prior work and case law, assembled into an attractive product by talented writers—but no original ideas.

The closing message of “Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law,” is one of urgency and optimism. The urgency: deceptive design is systemic, evolving, and corrosive. The optimism: it is still possible to build differently. For UX and system architects, this is both challenge and opportunity. We are the ones who decide whether manipulative defaults become standard or unthinkable. Whether system design optimises for engagement at any cost or for trust as a long-term asset. The book’s blueprint is clear: build user-protection into design systems, reframe KPIs around fairness, and reclaim UX as a discipline of empowerment rather than coercion. The frightening future of Chapter 1 isn’t inevitable. But changing course requires courage — the courage to say no to bad incentives and yes to fairness-by-design. 👉 bloomsbury.com/uk/dark-patte… @hartpublishing @BloomsburyBooks #DeceptiveDesign #DarkPatterns #UXDesign #UserProtection #DesignEthics #SystemDesign #DesignJustice