📂 As @tomcw.xyz and I bring @dataforaction.bsky.social to a close, we thought we'd try and find a place to archive the project work we've done over the past three years, as well as curate some of the different tools we've made along the way. 🔗 So, here it is: dataforaction.notion.site

Lunchtime re-share hopeful.technology 💕

I wonder. Have we forgotten what a revolution looks like?

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You know what is my favourite type of form field? It is the checkbox that says "don't select this" but can't be removed because it'll probably break the form on a local gov site

Everything ends eventually, but that doesn't mean everything needs to be lost. As we close down Data For Action I wanted to reflect on some of the things we did and what I learned. tomcw.xyz/the-end-of-d...

Early new year's walk. Oof it were windy and cold

Have you ever wondered if you can just use pizza dough to make focaccia? Well wonder no longer! You can, although the quality is questionable. You cannot however make pizza from focaccia dough. Brought to by Tom's lack of caffeine this morning

Copenhagen Decided to give all up and become a Run Influencer of bluesky

In Copenhagen and you know there just like one toilet and everyone uses them and it's all chill and people are happy and maybe we could just learn from that.

Last night in Tromso and finally got the northern lights show 🤘

December dip done. Never quite expected when I started this challenge that my last dip of the year would be in the arctic circle on solstice day!

Orcas. Wow.

Oh hello again Microsoft. "So I can share this thing with people outside my organisation right?" "Oh yes, of course, super simple, anyone can access it!" Ha, just joking

It's another #weeknote tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee...

Decided to actually map where I've been cold/open water dipping this year (and therefore give me an excuse to some some updates on Map My Patch!) www.mapmypatch.co.uk/survey/29OGT...

November dip ✅ Touch chilly but bloody look at it. Loch Venachar

Start the day as you mean to go on. Umm, cold, with wet feet, avoiding Christmas songs? 💯

Modes of Problem solving docs.google.com/presentation...

tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee... Modes of problem solving, the great unsettling, a bit of crap situation, rants about microsoft, some interesting things.

Ah, memories of font. Must go back next year.

Pitched 😊

What about Oracle? "Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. " We shall not name them. But we shall continue to pay them, for eternity.

Instead of all these evals on AI productivity in the public sector I want evals on how simple Microsoft stuff kills productivity. Like the inability to move something from one place to another. "Ah yes there is a work around..." "It's recreating it in the other place isn't it?" "😉"

Homemade potato waffles with eggs, cheese and chives 👌

Maybe I could pizza AND coffee if I give it all up work wise? And long walks in the mountains. Wait, this sounds increasingly like a lonely hearts ad. Just look at the coffee, it's not shit yeah?

Autumn in the forest

Pizza, muffins and bake off... Muffins need work, first time. Pizza, well, it is my fall back plan for work 👌

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

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No, you were gargling whiskey at 2am because it was the only thing you could think of or find to sooth your throat full of razor blades

Mushroom season in the forest. Some for dinner, some for party, some for umm death? Choose your own adventure

Me clinging onto summer when everyone starts talking about Christmas

Chicago

It's a note about a week tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee...

You know that thing where instead of test you the word tw*t and send it? Oh, you've never done this? Umm, no, me either...

A classic of the genre

Ah, yes, so this is a much more eloquently put and researched way of putting it. My very simple version is "Stop pandering to the right, you'll never appease f*cking fascists" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

I know what you are thinking, all 3 of you...where have your weeknotes gone Tom? Well fear not, this has actually been a week when I vaguely know what day it is. And so, I present to you, a weeknote tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee...

You know they say practice makes perfect? Well I reckon I've done my daughter's hair like 3000 odd times and it's still meh Thankfully she's not bothered and it's very forgiving of my shit abilities Maybe I'll nail it just in time for her to never ask me again.

Ok look, I've just made a sardines and chilli flaked pizza for lunch and I don't know where I've just gone too far

Just named chatgpt "the giant bullshit machine" and I feel my work here is done.