Love traksy.uk My train was supposed to be here 5 mins ago but thanks to the live map can see it’s still in Gloucester

I mean, who needs vaccinations? Astonishing data and story in reality. Wonderful to see.

@rachelandrew.co.uk Guess you might be travelling but looks like the SSL cert for Notist expired yesterday

Now there’s something I’ve not seen before… someone reading a book in the treadmill at the gym

Good morning early risers (yes, this is "early" to me - I know, I know you've been awake for hours…). Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release. Also, please share 🙏❣️ ffconf.org/cfp

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

How good is Palantir's NHS platform? Important story from Laura Hughes and Amy Borrett - www.ft.com/content/a3e9...

This is a really well-written explainer on the UK social media ban, written by @sachajudd.com, who’s been studying this topic for a long time. Take a few minutes and read it, because this goes beyond the UK, and beyond “protecting the kids.”

Unexpected things you find hiding behind your front door… No idea where it came from (live 1/2 mile from the canal) and no sign of any parents

The duty of care issues around younger people are real, serious and should be treated as such, but issues of radicalisation and misinformation among older and more tech illiterate people is all but ignored in this discourse.

how about we just create a better environment for the children instead of locking them out of opportunity and exploration and information as a result we’ll have a better environment for everyone it’s not that ridiculous a concept is it?

"But sending sexually explicit pictures to and from children – that’s not free speech, that’s basic protection." Says the man who has taken zero action on a social media platform producing a distributing child sex images for a year. Tough on teens, laisser faire on white supremacist billionaires.

I would trust a Gen Alpha over a Boomer to see through harmful slop on the internet, and it’s not even close.

Perhaps we should start teaching the kids how to build their own websites and create #WebRings and how to connect to each other through #RSS and the #indieWeb

The Brexit disaster in charts. National Bureau of Economic Research paper shows UK GDP per capita is today 6% to 8% lower than it would have been if Britain had remained in the EU. @rjpartington.bsky.social

TIL Picasso was arrested and tried under the suspicion that he stole the Mona Lisa! www.artsy.net/article/arts...

Tolerance makes us stronger. Immigration and freedom of movement are foundational to a vibrant, growing, modern economy. Stop fucking pandering to racists.

i think about this article from @apenwarr.ca all the time apenwarr.ca/log/20250711

Just letting you know: There are less than 100 tickets left for #SotB2027 Tickets go back on sale 19 Jun 2026 09:00. In the meantime buy tickets for @pixelpioneers.co, @webdevconf.com, & @fronteers.bsky.social

The Transition

Almost like its not about immigration at all

2026 is likely to see the lowest level of immigration since Blair took office, this has in no way influenced the idea the government has "lost control of immigration."

It is quite strange to listen to political coverage currently, even from mainstream sources, and remember that net migration has quartered since its peak, and is likely to fall to Cameron's tens of thousands target next year and this has made no difference to the discourse.

Let's talk about the new UK child safety stuff, why black and white privacy/surveillance arguments aren't that helpful, and what it means for the rest of us: newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/a-bo...

Folks this is so exciting. We seem to have beaten the algorithm on TikTok and Instagram and the petition has gained nearly 2k signatures today and climbing We might at least get that Government response, which is a good starting point for our apology and surfacing of evidence.

I wrote an automated accessibility audit that checks if elements have a focus indicator. As far as I know, no other commercial a11y tools automate this due to the computational overhead. It will be source-available soon, but for now I have written about it here: www.a11ypulse.com/blog/how-to-...

When is an "extinct" volcano not actually extinct? More often than you might expect 🧪 #volcanology #geology www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.

And yet people still buy Teslas or starlink in the UK. Why?

This is a great event, you should apply.

The @ffconf.org CFP is open - if you're UK based (or near UK) especially, FFConf wants to hear your voice. I updated the "Most recent ideas" with more of my wishlist, and added an extra point to our speaker promise: we won't AI-ify your photos. ffconf.org/articles/cfp/

I wrote a post about accessibility at @pixelpioneers.co. The main points: 👉 fully wheelchair accessible venue 👉 live captioning & induction loop system 👉 quiet spaces 👉 diversity scholarships 👉 reduced ticket price for unemployed & laid-off people, apprentices, charities, etc. 📍 Bristol 📅 June 19

So...the originators of the nudity detection software which UK gov mandated today say this is all God's doing, so it's a good thing there isn't a Christofascist regime anywhere looking for technology partners or anything like that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkPm... h/t @owenboswarva.bsky.social

Know we’re running short on clean mugs when the Underscore Christmas Party mug comes out Underscore was (still is?) an email list for webby people around Bristol… many years ago some folks (can’t remember who) decided to organise a Christmas Party so we could get together IRL

The same people who supported the removal of rights for trans women are now starting on the removal of rights of all women.

Majority of people in The UK believe 20% of population is black IT'S (3%); 15% is Muslim IT'S (4%); 5% transgender IT'S (0.6%); 15% gay and lesbian IT'S (1.8%); 20% of the country is vegan or vegetarian IT'S (4%) The far right MS Media want us to hate the smallest weakest groups in the UK

Outstanding blogging.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Hello friends I’m on the lookout for my next client I’m looking for part-time/full-time projects and I can help you with - front-end development / architecture - design systems consultancy & development - design tokens integrations, set-ups, tooling - front-end archeology www.alwaystwisted.com

Wrote this on Southampton and the 'creator economy', in case you're interested www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-th...

In Katie's words: Please share if you think Greens should be doing better 💚 @bhgreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I'm looking to line up my next job! If you need a frontend platform girlie, let me know! I particularly like making complex web apps faster! Could an app you work on, use, or know of benefit from that? LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zeigenvec... LeadDev Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-B2... ✨

fuck absolutely everyone involved in getting us to this point, trans women are women, trans men are men, non binary identities are valid and sex and gender can both be changed "biologically" if any such meaning can be usefully attributed to that phrase

The Gender Recognition map of Europe. This is how bad the UK is now. 43rd out of 49. Down with Russia, Hungary, Albania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Worse than Turkey, Serbia and Belarus. A lot worse than Ukraine, and Ukraine has been at war for four years.

Both of which happen to be the same positions as Reform UK's. Why would anyone who doesn't care about either the living planet or distributional fairness vote for Streeting, rather than Farage? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory > But there’s a difference between an observation about the past and a law of nature, and the optimists consistently confuse the two Some people need this phrase tattooed in reverse on their foreheads so they read it in the mirror every morning

Pedro Pascal at the Fantastic Four: First Steps premiere in Berlin was asked why he stands up for the trans community. His answer: “It’s important to stand up for those who are simply asking for the right to exist.” Powerful moment. #PedroPascal #TransRights #LGBTQIA