🚨 Exciting jobs klaxon! 🚨 We’re hiring 2x Heads of Delivery, one will be working with me in HFU 🇺🇦😁 26-27 is going to be a really exciting year for us as we mature our system and explore growth opportunities, and I need someone great by my side! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

It’s part of France’s open source collaboration software suite that other governments can adopt and run.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

I've just discovered this is part of a whole season of BBC Ibsen adaptations and they're all on iPlayer.

You won’t want to miss this, @mattwoodhill.bsky.social has been doing the hard yards on market-shaping in planning.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Wrote about my first 7 months transforming the technology underpinning the national breast screening programme: lizlutgendorff.substack.com/p/lessons-le...

looked at my work emails

A message for you all to carry through the year

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration IG roodabeguh

Feeling this so hard this past several weeks

I'd missed this piece from @edent.tel on image manipulation. He quotes some excellent references! shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04...

Finally found the perfect tree topper!

Always happy to talk about this, it's something everyone recognises as a problem but very few design for at the start. Lisa Moretti did an ace overview of our work mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2022/05/06/d... (some links won't work due to MoJ losing Google) and Services Week 2022 youtu.be/5JmM9ZOkMW8?...

“Where are all the good guys?” “You could be looking at them.” “What a very depressing thought.”

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

We're also looking for some perm Senior Delivery Managers in an exciting range of locations www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Can anyone recommend someone looking for contract work in January who can do a mix of Product and Delivery? Going to CC @jukes.ie as it's for the team you just left! But open to good people from anywhere

Omg. I thought "oh that's nice, you can read it." But no, not just that, you can WATCH the stuff. You can click on the programmes and watch them. Flaming hell

When it was announced that Shane Black was doing Iron Man 3, some people were like "haha is he going to set it at Christmas then" and then it came out and he had done exactly that.

During my time at MHCLG I did a series of opinionated* sessions on agile/digital ways of working I think of as the [IMHO] series. This is the 1st of 4 posts based on those presentations. [IMHO] The Art of Effective Agile digitalbydefault.com/2025/12/15/i... *i.e. there is much to disagree with!

Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow. I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

Alongside *cough* several different kinds of advent calendar, we also have an advent candle this year. But are really behind on burning it already and struggling to catch up 😅 it hasn’t even got to day 1 of candle yet - burn faster!

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

I love this so much b/c the original guy strikes the pose & okay yeah, he does indeed look hot & sharp-dressed (ZZ Top told us who's crazy 'bout that) but then melts w/ unabashed delight at a moment of connection & just lights up with this surprised happy smile & gets EVEN HOTTER b/c it's real joy.

libro.fm/audiobooks/9... With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)

Astonished ‘ troll’ the ancient Yuletide carol seems to be correct

No.447 is a bit of a DM special --> newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...

For the past 11 years I've been keeping an index of posts about #localGDS / #GDSLocal. I've just added the first for 2025, which is probably most significant. "People across UK to benefit from easier access to local services as councils get digital boost" github.com/LocalGovDigi... #localgov

First cold days in new house. Heating not cutting it. Cant work out without some professionals whether it’s a problem with our set up or the insulation - but the house is so cold! Despite the heating being on. Plumber next week :/

Had a v nice time in Paris - saw a friend I haven’t seen irl in 5+ years, went to Xmas market and enjoyed touristy boat ride. Plus lots and lots of butter and cheese 👌 Eurostar is such a pleasure if you already have a fast train to st Pancras from your neighbourhood

Arrived in Paris and… connected to gov WiFi 🤔

Forced to take car to garage - my least favourite most humbling experience. Today I have also managed to leave my house keys in the car itself - Apple tag alerted me, thank you Apple tag. But I am not feeling like an adult who should be allowed to drive a car

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of launching the ONS website in 2026 (the highlight of my career) I'm going to have one last swing at a Gov big data initiative (but not 'Big Data!') and will return to the Civil Service as Head of Products & Services for the National Data Library in January!

What does 7 Wonders plus Just one equal??? Answer 8! That's how old The Ludoquist is today! We have our wonderful owners to thank for making this place exist and be special for everyone! #theludoquistcroydon #Croydon #ThisIsCroydon #happybirthday❤️ #boardgames #boardgamesoftiktok

This is fantastic and we should do much more of it. However, the IT side of this should be the very easiest part. Yet, expecting not only every organisation but every *part* of every organisation to source their own systems makes cross-team working almost impossible. medium.com/@changebydes...

I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside). I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice. Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good. Thx :)

Any questions from a developer can be answered with just 6 words.

I'm doing my best @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social impression thanks to the Root pumpkin template provided by @leder.games @patrickleder.bsky.social Happy Halloween! 🎃

Won't lie - it has been a bit of a lifelong dream to work on the release of Indice of Deprivations interactive offer... ...very proud of what the team has delivered today. Check it out - deprivation.communities.gov.uk

Tech corps succeeded in telling people art and media should be free. People happily shell out $$$ for electronics, but hate spending any $ on "content" for them. Even with books--where costs are low and there are libraries everywhere--people regularly claim it is horrible how much books cost.

Booking marking this case study of GOV.UK Notify by Hannah White & @eaves.ca to wheel out next time there’s a bit of reductive technical solutionism about common platforms: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publications/2025/oct/scaling-digital-infrastructure-siloed-state

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. We need a venue: 1️⃣ for 250 people, 2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms, 3️⃣ wheelchair accessible. @imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search. Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This YouTube comment probably deserves more than three favs www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzL8...