Properly lovely to catch up with my friend (and my former boss) @andysc.bsky.social

In need of a hearty breakfast, so I’ve dipped some crumpets in some egg and popped them in the air fryer. French crumpets.

2500 BC: Beaker folk 43 AD: Romans 5th C: Anglo-Saxons 9th–11th C: Vikings 1066: Normans All immigrants who colonised Britain. Sir Jim Ratcliffe makes good cars but he is sadly both racist and thick.

Building a simple midi drums rhythm game in TouchDesigner. Using those particular lanes for kick, snare and hihat was not a coincidence; they match the sheet music notation for drums.

Good: McSweeney resigns. Bad: McSweeney somehow thinks he was in the government.

I got a DF Audio Minibay v2 today. I think it’s the perfect patchbay for a Eurorack setup. Next job: wiring up the 12x ins, 12x outs and 8x effects. And after that: creativity!

To bed. For tomorrow we ride.. to Reading.

I just spent 20 minutes helping my 90 year old neighbour buy three things he wanted on Temu. He needed a fair bit of help to make it to the end of the transaction without being trapped. Anyone at that company involved in product, design, user research or bloody ‘growth’ should be thoroughly ashamed.

Happy self assessment tax payment to all who celebrate

Here’s what I got up to last weekend with Adaptive Grand Slam www.adaptivegrandslam.com

“She looks like a Victorian queen.” “You mean like Queen Victoria?”

I’ve made some small upgrades to my motorbike recently: a radiator guard and two pannier rails. Now shopping for black leather pannier bags.

Before my time with The Pensions Regulator is done, I'd love to figure out how I could get paid to organise all the cross-gov things. Not fussed what combination of people or organisations fund me (public, private, voluntary sector, etc) within reason. #PublicSector #community #events

This won’t be a surprise to anyone who knows him, but that @harrym.com remains as interested and interesting about tech, data, security and business as ever. Lovely to catch up with him, and came away buzzing with positivity.

Realising that while everything from 3D printing technology to screen pixel resolution has been improving over the past few years, my eyesight has simultaneously been deteriorating. I don’t know what to trust.

Devil’s Tunnel

Fan y Big

Waiting for my petition to be reviewed

I had the nicest conversation today with @lesteph.com who remains a totally lovely man

Something that unsettled me following a tooth extraction: it’s not uncommon afterwards to undergo a mildly uncomfortable process of ‘spicule sequestration’. Good news: not leftover bits of tooth coming to the surface. Bad news: spiky bits of jawbone. Sheesh. Dentistry continues to horrify me.

ChatGPT loves telling me that things are non-negotiable and meaningful. Even very negotiable and meaningless things. The more I use it as a buddy/rubber duck/developer journal for coding projects the more excruciatingly irritating I find its random reversion to chipper thought-leadership bullshit.

Does Steve Lamaq always ride the fader this harshly when talking over a track on 6 Music? I love him to bits but that was a painful couple of minutes.

Contemplating a rewatch of Industry in advance of the new series. I remember it being amazing (gripping, jaw dropping) but also a pretty tough watch (gritty, grotty) in parts though.

How many citizens were killed by police in each country between 2010-2019: Canada: 305 France: 233 Germany: 100 Australia: 53 United Kingdom: 22 United States: 15,008

Here’s a link to the original mind blowing post (rather than a screenshot!) bsky.app/profile/fhp....

Think I’ve found the right repos to propose these for removal: github.com/alphagov/gov... github.com/alphagov/fro... github.com/alphagov/e-p...

“The guys feel pretty silly. We had our well regulated militia stocked up and ready to go, just waiting for the moment when the Government would turn on its own people.” theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/n...

The Apple appstore has some interesting options like reporting illegal and abusive content.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

In 2026 we are reinstating the regular One Team Gov breakfast club in London and also running a virtual one for anybody who doesn't have a meetup near them. If you're interested you can sign up for both using the link (and please retweet/skeet!) www.linkedin.com/posts/onetea...

If you or someone you know might be interested in helping us build a more diverse set of GovCamp trustees please get in touch.

Leaders who have condemned Trump's capture of Maduro: 🇧🇷 Lula (Brazil) 🇲🇽 Sheinbaum (Mexico) 🇨🇱 Boric (Chile) 🇨🇴 Petro (Colombia) 🇨🇺 Díaz-Canel (Cuba) 🇫🇷 France (FM Barrot) 🇮🇷 Iran 🇷🇺 Russia (!) UK PM Keir Starmer just says “The UK was not involved in any way”. Defensive, with zero condemnation.

“We currently have a very large number of petitions to check, so it may take a number of weeks to check your petition. Thank you for your patience.” Let’s hope that the number of weeks is a small number of weeks.

The real divide in America (and indeed most of the world) is no longer left vs right. It has become about democracy against authoritarianism.

@disappointment.bsky.social Roger?!

@metoffice.gov.uk I’m sure you’re aware that your website is very Twitter-heavy. Embedding your own tweets in news stories etc. I hope you are working out how to extricate yourselves from it? You should. Giving it this much prominence looks weird and intentional in 2026.

2025 was good to me. I stepped away from the world of work, spent a lot more time with family (including a huge French camping trip) and started some volunteering. I also learnt to ride a motorbike. Excited for 2026.

This is important

Friends introduced us to a fun board game today: Hues and Clues. This round started with someone saying ‘primrose’ which created a really wide range of guesses.

Turkey and gravy puff pastry pie. Oh yes.

Turkey and gravy sandwiches. Oh yes.

Christmas Eve toothache. Thankful that my local dentist can see me this afternoon.

Happy shortest day, northern hemispherites.

It's time for a new episode of Shift Run Stop! We are joined by geeky comedian Heidi Regan, deviser of clever, creative and hilarious live shows, radio shows and more. Did Friends predict The Matrix? How often is too often to think about Robin Hood? open.spotify.com/episode/1luq...

A pony? For some crackers? Is there a miniature Claudia in each one?

My review of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate (Beige and Starlight editions) is live on Tom's Hardware. Simply put, I love it. It brings back all the retro memories while offering new features. www.tomshardware.com/video-games/...

A little trip down the coast to Poole. Hard to get bored of that view.

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Good afternoon