In today's episode of #FixTheForms, I've finished writing up the workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality that I ran #SDinGOV Extra thanks to @pixlz.com for help with prep - sadly, she couldn't make it due to a family emergency www.effortmark.co.uk/garbage-in-g...

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

A country of racists who don't care about honoring a contract. That's before we get to the small minded ignorance of the impact removing these people would have on provision of services they rely on like healthcare. I am ashamed to be British.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

One for the energy (electricity) enthusiasts. Nice real time visualisation of the UK generation sources by _individual site_ 🤓 www.energydashboard.co.uk/map

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Yet again wondering when the FCDO will update the travel advice for the USA given the "political situation is volatile, which may include situations involving authoritarian regimes or instability." AKA Fascism

There's no other way to put that. If you build something medical related, you can't just go "I'm probably smarter than the professionals, let me have a crack at it! Should be done by lunchtime." Quick and wrong is almost always more dangerous than slow and right.

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Here's a playlist of some of my Must Watch video recommendations - essential for understanding the technical, clinical, and (possibly most importantly) the political background to Digital Health. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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An interesting challenge for anyone who thinks LLMs have true general intelligence (nb they can still be really useful, just make sure you understand what they're actually good at!) www.extremetech.com/computing/ch...

America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

LA looks like a version of Andor S2E8 from here. Instigating protesters and inflaming the situation with deployment of troops. Once again wondering when UK FCDO will update travel advice for the USA.

LA looks like a version of Andor S2E8 from here. Instigating protesters and inflaming the situation with deployment of troops. Once again wondering when UK FCDO will update travel advice for the USA.

Andor 💔 absolutely brilliant finale. Firmly places Rouge One as the "feature length" final episode of the series. A spectacular show that without a doubt is the single best thing in the Star Wars universe by a clear margin.

"The EHRC is currently working on producing statutory guidance, which would make its proposed policies legally binding – this involves a two-week consultation period in May, which is a crucial time to intervene. “One of the most useful things that cis people can do is write to the EHRC""

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

So when is the FCDO going to update this page? www.gov.uk/foreign-trav... It appears to be missing a travel warning about state sponsored kidnapping and deportation without due process to - I'm struggling for words here - a 3rd country where you will face human rights abuse.

This is very good by @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy (who knows what he's talking about) on creating the conditions for innovation in government blog.mattedgar.com/2025/03/29/b...

This is so incredibly wholesome. Absolutely love it!

"..travelling with “burner” phones or have minimalist laptops running browsers and not much else. In other words, they are equipped with the same kind of kit that security-conscious people used to bring 15 years ago when travelling to China." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump Logic #signalscandal #trump

Intelligent transparency shouldn’t mean putting a spreadsheet several layers into gov.uk. It should mean making data on how the government is doing available AND understandable to the general public.

"See it, say it, sorted."

WTF?! Merseyrail. Clear perjury by your staff - who should be prosecuted by their own admission - and you facilitating it. Also shame on the magistrate. What escalator was being misused at Rock Ferry station? Please point it out on the map www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/roc...

Can't tell if sitting back with 🍿 to watch the USA burn is the right thing to be doing. What else is there that I can do 🤷? I don't think my mental health can take it if I let this escape the "it's a problem I can't do anything about" box.

I had forgotten what a North American statesman looks like.

Pang of guilt/ sadness/ remembrance just now as I did a quick sanity check on the data download from Twitter and the tweet I randomly landed on was a conversation with @henryhammerbeck from 2019. 🌳🌳🌳

I would have been using Twitter for 16 years next month 🤯 Finally logged back in and made my account private (as a step to deactivation & deletion) and did one last data download to use with github.com/marcomaroni-...

Nope. Nope. Nope. To think 4 years ago there was hope, yes the blond thing was still the UK PM but there light was at the end of the tunnel. We are lost.

Deep and meaningful sigh. 😔

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Wending it's way to the Indie Compliance mailing list right now, the world's least snappily titled listicle: Five things you need if you run a small, low-risk user-to-user service Also, date still tbc, but there'll be an Ofcom webinar in mid-Feb buttondown.com/indie-and-co...

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One of my own political "single-point-of-departure" sliding-doors fantasies.

Apropos nothing but... I have been reflecting today on cases from the last few weeks and how long 90 seconds actually is. One fairly reminiscent of the QT. Another supervising a novice where experience and me intervening early denied them the opportunity to work through 3-6 in the QRH.

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Got to love a bit of #dataviz to explore a dataset and help communicate the "numbers" in a meaningful way that others will hopefully intuitively understand. Got to ❤️ Pandas, Matplotlib, and Jupyter notebooks. Yes Python > R...

The generation that has experienced the most "once in a lifetime" events multiple times in their lives.

Today we all discovered at work that "to table an item for the agenda" means two opposite things depending on which English you speak. Nobody on either side of the pond knew this distinction it seems... For US, postpone. For UK, to add/bring it forward. 🤯 #TIL

Lots of discussion about digital health records in the NHS today. Modernisation, and privacy. But here’s the thing — we DON’T need a massive new database. Here’s how we do it. 1/

A bit of longer writing by me fleshing out something that I posted about on the old place: The GMC - A Regulator Afraid of Transparency? blu3id.uk/posts/gmc-a-...

A bit of longer writing by me fleshing out something that I posted about on the old place: The GMC - A Regulator Afraid of Transparency? blu3id.uk/posts/gmc-a-...

Just had a scroll through some archived work Whatsapp groups from 2020. This was a mistake. (was looking for something specific that just happened to be in the groups that also had 2020 in them)

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #669,522!

It then doesn't pick on the "shiny new toy" toxic habit of the NHS buying stuff and then going "what can we use this to do?" Oh, and the over-reliance on non-professional being sold those shiny new toys by snake oil sales folk. See the vast majority of AI tools. /25