FT has the juice.

Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, 2008 election night. History watching history made.

Can I suggest that everyone disgusted by Farage’s shameful treatment of @annasophiegross.bsky.social follows her en masse? Let’s show her our support, solidarity and that we stand with her, and every other journalist, who is doing their job and holding all politicians to account.

Going savoury today.

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

Wait, maybe Google Analytics 4 was created by a future AI so we had to use AI to navigate it's UI 🤔

agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with

Wow. Sounds scary….the new system will be in place by 2030. Oh. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I wanted a comprehensive UK-wide Benefits Calculator API to feed my OpenClaw agent. I emailed one of the existing web calculators over the weekend to ask if they'd give me access to one, but I'm inpatient so I made one myself over the weekend. See MissingBenefit.com Crazy times.

Many years ago, I built a website for the BBC World Service. It opened my eyes to the enormous impact it has on people around the world. The World Service is a hugely important cultural asset and the idea it might run out of funding in just seven weeks is awful. www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice...

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Got a new service charge estimate from Housing Association - which seemed much higher than last year. Lucky kept a few of the previous year's figures, so photo'd them. Decided to get Claude to analyse it. Was a bit meh about the skills.md but decided to give the PDF and XLSX a spin. Was impressed.

Donate here to the RNLI rnli.org

Quite love how everyone in Britain appears to be performing the opening scene of Sound of Music now the sun has poked through the clouds.

A certain campaign website launched last week was a bit security-broken, in a way that has wider lessons for AI-coded stuff. Writing 👇 blog.harrym.com/p/hold-the-s...

Oh no. I’m reading about 1536th dimensional space.

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#FF3EAC

Billionaires. Not even once.

Maybe pay some tax before opening your racist mouth.

Resurrecting all my old IoT projects.

Just back from the launch of the LPP. Great to hear @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social and Ed Miliband extolling the virtues of community energy. Particularly pleased that Ed emphasised that "this is the glimpse of a new economy". And a government asserting that ownership matters.

Finally getting round to migrating to `@use` and `@forward` in Sass. Once I got my head around it was fine, but was a lot of errors at first.

We already live on a planet where we could house and feed everyone with 30% of resource produced. Assuming true, of course any new tech that makes us more productive would NOT make anyone work less.

Apparently Cabinet members have been posting about supporting the PM. Not seen anything here. Oh wait sorry it’s on the site currently being investigated by OFCOM for breaching the Online Safety Act. Says a lot doesn’t it.

As a Chelsea Fan, this looks like stable leadership. The UK will probably go on to win the Champions League now with Ed Miliband.

Sigur Rós enters the chat.

Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days

Sunset was 5pm today. 🥲

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

Bezos could retrieve something from the disaster of his ownership of the @washingtonpost.com by emulating the Scott family in 1932. Give the paper away and endow it with, say, $1.5 bn. And have an independent trust run it in the public interest.

Why not....attack the left for not representing British values. That'll fix it.

The decision to proceed with the handover of Civic Service Pensions to Capita was and is, an unforgivable failure of leadership.

After the SpaceX merger. It’s 2028. Armageddon - but instead of oil drillers, it’s seven DevOps engineers and a Linux distro on a thumb drive.

Sort of feels there are like three Bluesky topics today all interconnected but separate scandals.

Look out, link rot! We’ve proudly teamed up with @archive.org to help preserve and restore links across the web. 🖥️ Introducing the Wayback Machine Link Fixer, a free @wordpress.org plugin that scans, detects, and fixes broken links ⛓️‍💥 using @waybackmachine.bsky.social!

I’ll never get used to sharing posts like this, but if you follow me here, I did this interview in December, and it might interest you

🚨 NEW: Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby

iBeer app for iPhone in 2010 #MobileAppHistory

Gordon Brown’s vengeance needs to be measured in eons.

Looking at the recent Anthropic move into legal services, and noticed this skill, Front-end design github.com/anthropics/s... Surprised how opinionated it was and somewhat anti Bauhaus / Swiss School philosophy that I would argue is more aligned with modern principles: www.gov.uk/guidance/gov...

Excellent critique of Teaching with AI "adoption too easily morphs into acquiescence" read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

I appear to have falling very deeply into a Semantic web hole: We're not in Kansas | State | Administrative Territory anymore www.w3.org/TR/shacl/

I've written a piece for the @econ-observatory.bsky.social on the history of GDS. Notably, why you need change both top down and bottom up incentives if you're aiming to help a large, federated organisation adopt radical change.

I appear to be learning more through development with AI... currently deep diving on a python package called librosa for audio analysis to place every song in my local machine on a 2D map: librosa.org/doc/main/gen...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

We have a perfect Rectangular February coming up, first time we’ve had one since 2015 Maybe this is what finally closes the loop and fixes the world

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

A rather lovely thing about modern tech is the ability to rebuild some of the classics. Last year I rebuilt one of my favourite websites lost to the sands of time donniedarkowebsite.com and today I rebuilt Musicovery for myself based on my own local music library.

I just confirmed a passport application for a friend on the excellent gov.uk site. From the photo being taken, application, confirmation and approval was around 1 hour. It’s a travesty the current government is waisting an incredible department like GDS on outsourced, expensive crap.