Jess Bowie
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Co-editor of
@civilserviceworld.bsky.social
. Civil servants are my bag.
I would like to launch a formal complaint against Gen Z. I am increasingly noticing members of this generation writing things like âSureeee no problemâ or âOMG I would dieeeeâ. They are extending the wrong vowel sound and frankly I haaaaate it
5 months ago
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Day after the solstice and oh boy the nights are really drawing in arenât they
5 months ago
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Joel Morris
6 months ago
Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop. If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.
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Can you imagine emailing someone and actually receiving this as their out of office? Lol
6 months ago
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It's what Tony Benn would have wanted...
#ai
6 months ago
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This is what they tell meâŚ
6 months ago
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Thrilled that the Civil Service World podcast is back, after the briefest of (5-year) hiatuses! Ep1 of the revamped series features DSIT innovation guru Claire Donaldson. Have a listen & add us to your feed - there'll be lots more episodes over the next few weeks!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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Changemakers: Fostering innovation in government
Podcast Episode ¡ The Civil Service World Podcast ¡ 12/05/2025 ¡ 32m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/changemakers-fostering-innovation-in-government/id1484473951?i=1000708082871
7 months ago
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FáŞá˘ áŠáŞNá áŞáF
7 months ago
[Youth Pastor voice] You know who else had a man cave?
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The placement of these googly eyes on this poster has brought me so much joy
7 months ago
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Something has happened to French restaurant names since I last came here⌠a đ§ľ
8 months ago
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There is a Simpsons moment for everything â¤ď¸
8 months ago
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Isaac Fitzgerald
9 months ago
Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
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I am so sick of things âhitting differentâ. I just saw an ad for a fruity shower gel on the back of a bus with the words âNATURE HITS DIFFERENTâ emblazoned in massive letters. Fuck that!
9 months ago
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This would be almost funny if it werenât so serious
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers - BBC News
It is having problems contacting people who were fired in Trump's blitz to shrink the federal workforce.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o.amp
9 months ago
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Empowering, humble, candid, sweary (!) & v witty opening keynote speech from Baroness Louise at CSWâs inaugural Collaboration Conference
#CSWcollab25
10 months ago
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Great interview by my colleague
@tevyemarkson.bsky.social
with the ex-perm sec of DfID Mark Lowcock. Lowcock does not pull his punches when talking about his former department's decline...
www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...
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Arrested development: Interview with former DFID perm sec Mark Lowcock
CSW speaks to Mark Lowcock, the longest-serving perm sec of the Department for International Development, about the rise and fall of the department...
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/article/mark-lowcock-interview
10 months ago
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Traitors: peacock shriek overdone. Discuss.
10 months ago
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Ciaran Martin
10 months ago
Still obsessed with this: after all the DOGE guff literally the first thing that Trump has said he will do is establish a new arm of the federal bureaucracy on Day One
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âŹď¸ this is deeply alarming and upsetting. (Also, an account by the name of dominiccummings is replying to all the replies with emojis. If it is the man himself, it would appear that spreading misinformation and undermining our democracy is all just a game to him)
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11 months ago
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Jess Phillips
11 months ago
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
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We are just sending the final pages of the new issue of CSW to press and I think this - from a feature about machinery of government changes and defunct departments - might be my favourite bit
11 months ago
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4yo daughter took pic of me on the loo with her sub-polaroid camera and waved the pic in my face saying âyou can only have this if you stay in your bed all night!â Parroting my words back at me, yes, but she came up with the sextortion part all on her own. Impressive.
11 months ago
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Keith Edwards
11 months ago
This is insane?
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@alexolorenshaw.bsky.social
will you lurk, or treat us to your thoughts?
11 months ago
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To me this screams non-story. If, for example, each of the DWPâs c.90,000 officials â after years of austerity/pay restraint/inflation â has taken home a shopping voucher worth ÂŁ68 as their bonus, good for them. Richly deserved I say.
11 months ago
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Peter Foster
11 months ago
There are more than 10m children in school in the UKâŚbut, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT riseâŚso Whitehall is âbracedâ đ˛đ˛đ˛ Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported. You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
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11 months ago
Despite popular demand, I am once again thrusting horrifying Victorian Christmas cards under your noses. First: Frog on Frog violence
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The remake of Youâve Got Mail looks shit
11 months ago
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Just falling asleep when you remember you didnât move the effing elf on the shelf. I never wanted to be an elf on the shelf family, damnit!
11 months ago
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Gabby HC's books make ideal festive presents
12 months ago
He's hiring a ship He's packing his cloak He's moving to England To follow some bloke Dracula is coming to town
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Me: youâre not getting a drone for Christmas 7yo: Ok fine. How do you spell lip balm? 7yo: Actually I already know
12 months ago
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Dave Lee
12 months ago
As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.
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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno
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Strong âwrong-kind-of-snowâ vibes from Southeastern this morning as my train is delayed because of âslippery railsâ. Ummm we live in a permanently damp country??!
12 months ago
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Our first reaction piece to the new cabinet secretary's appointment (there'll be a more in-depth one coming in the next couple of weeks)
www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...
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Meet the new boss: Positive reaction to Chris Wormald's appointment as cab sec
PM's top civil servant pick 'suggests willingness to take public sector reform seriously' but unions warn of need for pay reform
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/article/meet-the-new-boss-positive-reaction-to-chris-wormalds-appointment-as-cab-sec
12 months ago
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Jill Rutter
12 months ago
Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour: 1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
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Geoff Norcott
12 months ago
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Teenage babysitter to me and husband just now: âYou and your lime bikes. Youâre like millennials!â Me and husband: âWe ARE millennialsâ Her: âOh! I thought you were boomersâ đđđđđđ
12 months ago
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George Eaton
12 months ago
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexanderâs appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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Matt is always at his best when he brings together two topical stories. Tomorrowâs cartoon is just đđđ
12 months ago
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In memory of Jim Abrahams, spoofer extraordinaire, here is one of my favourite scenes from Airplane 2
12 months ago
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PSA: For anyone wondering whatâs in Snoopâs red wine, this is what it says on the back of the bottle đ§
about 1 year ago
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Zoe Kleinman
about 1 year ago
A classic example of AI being put to good use, doing what it does well IE classifying and pattern spotting - and helping the red squirrel population in the process
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Conservationists turn to AI in battle to save red squirrels
The tech is being used to automatically control the creatures' access to feeders at sites across the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6vwy30pv8o
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Government press office, sharing literally the most anodyne information imaginable, which is also already in the public domain: âźď¸ PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS STRICTLY ON BACKGROUND AND NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION âźď¸
about 1 year ago
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CSW is now on Bluesky! Sign up for all your civil-service-related news, comment and gossip
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about 1 year ago
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Get with the programme, Keir (and departments)!
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Starmer not joining the Bluesky social media platform âat the momentâ
The Prime Minister said there are no plans to establish official Government accounts yet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-government-prime-minister-jack-dorsey-jim-mcmahon-b2650119.html
about 1 year ago
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He follows me on there too! Since back in 2009. I donât think his team understood how it worked - think they felt they HAD to follow anyone who was following his account
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about 1 year ago
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Uncle Duke
about 1 year ago
tragically malicious
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Jana Javornik
about 1 year ago
âThe global AI demand may (âŚ) require 4.2â6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal in 2027, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of 4â6 Denmark or half of the UK.
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How much water does AI consume? The public deserves to know
Air pollution and carbon emissions are well-known environmental costs of AI. But water consumption is also an issue.
https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume
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When I met the Fiscal Crumpet at an IfG event i told him it was like meeting a celebrity. He told me - not in so many words - that that made me a bit of a loser. But I stand by it!
about 1 year ago
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