#professionalism — Public Fediverse posts

An interaction in Chapter 2 of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day inspired me to write a Substack article on metaphors we may not consider to be metaphors. I focus on #professionalism and #honour.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-metaphors-we-argue-with?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

Check it out, and pick up a copy of the book. I hear the movie isn't half bad. In fact, I borrowed the image asset from Amazon.

#philosophy #metaphor #language #britain #france #germany #americans #versailles #books #reading #writing #substack #blog #podcast

"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

Based on a sample of 243 people, and in an experimental setting, people who use emojis in professional settings are judged to be less competent than those who do not. There were some differences between positive and negative emojis, and men and women.

Summary: https://nautil.us/this-is-how-people-who-use-emojis-at-work-are-perceived-1279685

Original paper: https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/12/1/147309/217078/Emojis-at-Work-The-Effects-of-Emoji-Use-on

#Psychology #Emojis #Competence #Professionalism #Communication

Second in revising my long-referenced #grammar guide - but easily most confused and confusing - #commas!

Sing it with me - comma, comma, comma, chameleoooon
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/commas/

#writing #amwriting #writingtip #revising #editing #publishing #professionalism!

Second in revising my long-referenced #grammar guide - but easily most confused and confusing - #commas!

Sing it with me - comma, comma, comma, chameleoooon
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/commas/

#writing #amwriting #writingtip #revising #editing #publishing #professionalism!

@dvk I’ve just had a major realization about professional standards. 🚨

Let’s be real: this is fundamentally unacceptable. We need to do better as a community. It’s time to pivot towards excellence and re-evaluate our core values. 📈

Agree? 👇

#Leadership #GrowthMindset #Professionalism #LessonsLearned

Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes. “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]

Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes. “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]

Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes. “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]

Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes. “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]

Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes. “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]

Behold, a "curated list" of remote jobs, because nothing screams #professionalism like a #GitHub repo of links someone else found 🔍. Next up: how to automate GitHub Copilot to write your resignation letter. 🚀
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job #remotejobs #automation #resignationletter #jobsearch #HackerNews #ngated

I just watched the talk "Expecting Professionalism" by "Uncle Bob Martin." Weirdly enough, the video starts with him talking randomly about climate change: https://youtu.be/HD0L3lQ9cms?si=4w-QrligmAiujHia

And while he did not really state it, it sounded a little bit like he is denying the fact that our climate changes too fast and that that's human-made.

Am I paranoid, or is he actually a climate change denier?

#UncleBob #Flow #Talk #Professionalism #ClimateChange

I just watched the talk "Expecting Professionalism" by "Uncle Bob Martin." Weirdly enough, the video starts with him talking randomly about climate change: https://youtu.be/HD0L3lQ9cms?si=4w-QrligmAiujHia

And while he did not really state it, it sounded a little bit like he is denying the fact that our climate changes too fast and that that's human-made.

Am I paranoid, or is he actually a climate change denier?

#UncleBob #Flow #Talk #Professionalism #ClimateChange

I just watched the talk "Expecting Professionalism" by "Uncle Bob Martin." Weirdly enough, the video starts with him talking randomly about climate change: https://youtu.be/HD0L3lQ9cms?si=4w-QrligmAiujHia

And while he did not really state it, it sounded a little bit like he is denying the fact that our climate changes too fast and that that's human-made.

Am I paranoid, or is he actually a climate change denier?

#UncleBob #Flow #Talk #Professionalism #ClimateChange

I just watched the talk "Expecting Professionalism" by "Uncle Bob Martin." Weirdly enough, the video starts with him talking randomly about climate change: https://youtu.be/HD0L3lQ9cms?si=4w-QrligmAiujHia

And while he did not really state it, it sounded a little bit like he is denying the fact that our climate changes too fast and that that's human-made.

Am I paranoid, or is he actually a climate change denier?

#UncleBob #Flow #Talk #Professionalism #ClimateChange

I just watched the talk "Expecting Professionalism" by "Uncle Bob Martin." Weirdly enough, the video starts with him talking randomly about climate change: https://youtu.be/HD0L3lQ9cms?si=4w-QrligmAiujHia

And while he did not really state it, it sounded a little bit like he is denying the fact that our climate changes too fast and that that's human-made.

Am I paranoid, or is he actually a climate change denier?

#UncleBob #Flow #Talk #Professionalism #ClimateChange

https://johntinker.substack.com/p/the-necktie-and-its-discontents #sociology #psychology #professionalism #necktie

We've been conditioned to police tone over substance, to value the appearance of decorum over actual #competence or #character. We've let the people with power redefine #professionalism to protect themselves while weaponizing it against everyone else.

#WorkplaceCulture #DoubleStandards #Leadership #Accountability

https://open.substack.com/pub/differsense/p/the-quiet-piggy-standard-of-leadership?r=5h4wg0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/

HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World, by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:

https://meiert.com/blog/the-most-difficult-programming-language/

#programming #html #conformance #professionalism

What’s framed as a “professional network” is often just an online extension of our worst professional realities…white supremacy and anti-Blackness, coded to scale.

#AntiRacism #WorkplaceEquity #WhiteSupremacyCulture #PlatformAccountability #RacialEquity #DigitalSpaces #Professionalism #BlackWomenAtWork #EquityInAction #TechAccountability #BiasInTech #SystemicRacism #JusticeOverComfort #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton

A recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation has highlighted a concerning trend in early childhood education facilities, indicating a potential shift towards a... https://news.osna.fm/?p=17450 | #news #concerns #professionalism #shortages #staffing

In today’s installment of "British Humor 101," a tribunal has ruled that calling your boss a "dickhead" is just another day at the office 🎉. Apparently, #professionalism now includes playground insults, and your HR department is just a suggestion box for your best banter 🤪.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules #BritishHumor #OfficePolitics #WorkplaceBanter #TribunalRuling #HackerNews #ngated

#angry #bosses having #tantrums at #work

Work is usually a place where people are expected to control their emotions. That doesn’t mean you turn off your #feelings, obviously — but #professionalism involves maintaining a pretty even outward keel. We’re not supposed to give someone the #silenttreatment, cry in every #meeting, or yell at our #colleagues.
And yet, for some reason, in some #offices, people yell.

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/06/angry-bosses-having-tantrums-at-work.html

2/2 The explosion wasn't meant to happen, that is. There was something wrong with the pyros, they are mentioning it in this article in English.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20162047

#ErikaVikman #Vikman #Eurovision #ESC #Eurovision2025 #ESC25 #Eurovision25 #ESC2025 #music #artistry #professionalism #artist

1/2 This you didn't see on the telly.

You did see Erika Vikman's expression but not, what caused it.

Just think about it - you'd be 7 meters high, and all in a sudden there'd be an explosion next to you.

And you would be singing a long note on a tv show watched by 200 millions people.

Gosh, what a professional she is!

Video from X via Nitter:

https://xcancel.com/eurovisionkat/status/1923169172088926597#m

#ErikaVikman #Vikman #Eurovision #ESC #Eurovision2025 #ESC25 #Eurovision25 #ESC2025 #music #artistry #professionalism

"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.

"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/how-to-sell-a-massacre by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 🧶

#storyTelling #counterterrorism #victimBlaming #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #Signal #postFactual #bias #news #media #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #war #Yemen #Houthis #warCrimes #allies #PeteHegseth #Hegseth #MikeWaltz #Waltz #OMulrooney #mediaStudy #bombing #narrative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuI5dmQDkpE

#Law and the #EthicsOfMediaReporting

#Journalism #Professionalism #Defamation

#BadFaithReporting #SuperRichBULLIES

#Sensationalism #Media

One thing I learned is I never ever mix music with pleasure. No matter how nice or attractive you are if we do music together we will only be friends nothing more.. #Professional #professionalism #music #pleasures #business #collab

Today, I had another one of these moments. Two weeks ago I had a unfriendly, essentially #passiveaggressive exchange with a #colleague & felt annoyed. I couldn't catch her, so the #conflict lingered. Exhausting. Then I see her #office door open today. But: the feeling that I don't want to deal with the conflict, just want to duck away. Alas, I take the step and knock on her door. We have a chat & clear the air. It's always worth it, so why is it #scary every time? #professionalism #astrodon

Impressive how some people make broad generalizations for an entire discipline based only on their experience in specific application domains within the discipline.

#generalizations #professionalism #science #engineering

MP Mark Menzies loses Tory whip as party investigates claims he misused funds | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mark-menzies-tory-mp-funds-b2530658.html

#Menzies
#Tories
#Whip
#MisuseOfMoney
#CampaignFunds
#MisuseOfCampaignFunds
#PayOffBadPeople
#MedicalExpenses
#InternationalEnvoy
#Labour
#Rayner
#DoubleStandards
#Dodds
#Holden
#Sunak
#Professionalism
#Integrity
#Accountability
#CCHQ
#FlydeWestminsterGroup
#Shapps
#Cooper
#LibDems

Between 2023, October 7 and November 24, the New York Times had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and those of Palestinians just once.
In November 2023, the journalists were distributed directives to avoid the terms “genocide”, “ethnic cleansing”, “occupied territory”. The memo instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

#mediaStudy #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #postFactual #bias #news #media #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #OngoingNakba #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #Hamas #allies

'It takes a critical eye to understand how reporting can be used to frame events, especially in the Middle East. As most pieces of journalism don’t receive as much scrutiny as “Screams Without Words,” it is our hope that the detailed analysis here offers the reader some tools they can apply to any media they consume.'

Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine, 2023: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-helps-israel-weaponize-rape-allegations-against-palestinians @palestine

#mediaStudy #deflection #credibility #authority #manipulation #whiteness #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #Gettleman #warRape #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #israelism #foreignCorrespondents #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #Hamas #allies

Ben Smith writes about journalism and NYT:
"The Times turned over crucial elements of its reporting on one of the most difficult and sensitive stories it has ever published to amateurs, one of whose social media posts would make reasonable people question her ability to be fair.
"That sounds insane when you say it out loud. Why would you do that?"

"Institutions of all sorts are struggling to win trust in this kaleidoscopic, networked world. If you can’t do the painstaking work of presenting an incontestable truth with absolute confidence, the alternative is humility and an openness to multiple points of view."

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/03/2024/how-the-times-stumbled-on-a-sensitive-israel-story

#NYT #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #integrity #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Gettleman #warRape #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #foreignCorrespondents

"Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and militaristic discourse, with Oct. 7 marking their apex."

Eyal Lurie-Pardes: https://www.972mag.com/israeli-tv-hasbara-media-gaza/ @israel

#October7 #JewishState #patriotism #nationalism #sociology #reputation #agnotology #TV #journalists #Israeli #media #investigations #journalism #professionalism #propaganda #manipulation #news #media #israelGaza #GazaWar #israelWars #warOnGaza #israelGazaWar #bias #newspapers #information #coverage #Hasbara #violence #stateViolence #war #WestBank #Gaza #israelPalestine #972mag #press #occupation #settlements #IDF #israelApartheid

We get articles like this because we live in a world inescapably tied to neoliberalism and hierarchical ways of organising work. I’m sure the advice to “not make friends at work” is stellar survival advice in a large company, but it’s not the best way to ensure human flourishing.
I’ve definitely been burned by relationships at work, […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/11/14/there-are-better-approaches-than-just-having-no-friends-at-work/

Chronic lateness hurts us all. Being on time shows respect, discipline, and care for people. Learn how punctuality nurtures relationships and success.

https://abeautifulmess.substack.com/p/respecting-time-respecting-people

Being on time shows
Care and respect for others
Tardiness harms all

#Punctuality #TimeManagement #Respect #Responsibility #Reliability #Relationships #Reputation #Professionalism #Integrity #ABeautifulMess

🌈 👩‍⚖️ 👨‍💼 ‍💼 🌈 Very pleased to see this in print! The outcome of research by Steven Vaughan, Ben Weil and I on the experiences of LGBT+/Queer barristers within the heteronormative and masculinist environment of the Bar of England and Wales. What seems to be at stake in being an 'out' professional, how that gets navigated, and what it might cost. The possible forms of Professionalism: Credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12408

#lgbt #queer #lawyers #barristers #professionalism #lgbthistorymonth #sociolegal #slsa

Rashik Parmar MBE, the chief executive of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, discusses a 40-year career in IT, his new role as CEO of the UK’s leading accreditation body, the BCS mission to drive IT professionalism and tech for good, and how the industry can finally move the dial on diversity, equity and inclusion.
#professionalism #ethics #DEI #techforgood #bcs #RITTech

https://www.cio.com/video/457228/why-it-professionalism-matters-to-bcs-ceo-rashik-parmar.html