One danger of Restore Britain/Rupert Lowe is a much more efficient bait and switch of local resentments into national fascism than Farage. Local disappointments & confusions focussed into resentments of named Others then swapped into fascism.

Last TDD workshop for self-funders is on Tuesday 18:45 BST. £99 + UK VAT. Details at -> www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

The article is freely available on www.army.mil/article/1098...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

We still remember the London Blitz, which lasted eight months. Ukraine has been under attack for fifty-one months. You can help defend Ukrainians from missiles and drones. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

* Driving design in vertical slices outside-in from customer tests * Commit-on-green version control discipline * Continuous Integration & trunk-based development * Continuous code review with pair programming and static analysis * Continuous refactoring Way more than just red-green-refactor!

Here’s @claragt.bsky.social offering to answer your questions. If you’re too shy to ask, try this by her (and me) www.effortmark.co.uk/how-to-alloc... And sign up for one of the courses she’s running this year.

Giles Turnbull – Working in the open ≠ comms: Comms seeks to bring about positive opinions of the work. Those opinions might be confined to a small group of relevant stakeholders, or they mi... https://ift.tt/Bpmr4fk

Not so good in Winter but there are advantages to working in the coolest room in the flat at times like this.

Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Today on the 23rd May 1988, Section 28 was passed into law In 2026, we are witnessing an increase of copycat laws internationally + increasing censorship of the trans community in the UK This law impacted me Sign my petition for a public inquiry into the law petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Newly elected Reform UK councillor Andy Arnold has a swastika tattooed on his arm, but his wife claims the tattoo has been ”misunderstood” and is actually a Buddhist peace symbol. 🧐🙄

The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.

uh, this is not cool. someone called "vxera" has put together a "site template" you can buy and customise for a conference that does not actually exist, and is advertising myself and @honeycomb.io as speaker and sponsor respectively. Not cool, not cool. vxera.app/t/conference...

And, same sentiments from today's #DeliverCon in York.

Join me on July 7-9 for an intensive online 3-day Code Craft training workshop. Learn foundational technical practices that accelerate feedback loops, shrink lead times and improve release reliability - with and without AI. codemanship.co.uk/codecraft.html

Important explanation that these headlines were not based on any science but are essentially the opinions of well connected people. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

UK folks who don’t want American politics to take hold here - check out how much money from US right wing groups funds the voices in the UK spreading trans panic. And yes they are absolutely coming for gay rights next and women’s rights after that. I wish it was just conspiracy thinking too.

“The weirdos. The misfits. The losers. The mostly elderly desperados who cling to the certainty they were right all along. Untroubled by all the evidence to the contrary. Unaware that many of their arguments contradict one another” The Brexit bells have a reunion… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Our NHS nurses give everything to save lives. Facing racist abuse in return is not part of the job. Anyone who cares for Londoners deserves dignity and respect at work, and anything less diminishes us all as a city and society.

3 weeks to go until this year's @uxscotland.bsky.social in Edinburgh: uxscotland.net Keynotes: Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Jeroen van Geel & Michael Kibedi - uxscotland.net/keynotes Programme: uxscotland.net/programme-2026 1&2 day tickets available. Discounts for Freelancers: uxscotland.net/tickets

Kudos to whoever made this.

I'm Sam Aaron & I've worked on free music coding software for ~20 years. I've had meaningful impacts in both education and research. However, I'm independent & self-funding is harder than ever. Please enable me to continue by supporting on Patreon. patreon.com/samaaron

York friends. I'm in town this Thursday afternoon if anyone fancies a coffee...

For various reasons - Bank Holiday weekend, half-term etc - May 23rd is proving difficult for folks, so I'm adding a final TDD workshop for self-funding learners on Tues June 2nd - 18:45 BST. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

Under a mechanism known as the Dublin Convention, the British government could previously ask fellow EU nations to take people back if they had passed through safe countries en route to the UK -that ended with Brexit & no alternative was agreed making it far more difficult to return any new arrivals

Lean Agile Scotland returns to Edinburgh in October. Programme: leanagile.scot/programme-2026 Keynotes: Dave Farley, Cat Swetel + Dan Vacanti - leanagile.scot/keynotes Tickets: leanagile.scot/tickets (discounted for freelancers). Sponsorship: leanagile.scot/sponsors

Tommy Robinson is marching through London again today. He presents himself as a patriot, a journalist, and a victim of the establishment. But in reality he is a serial criminal with a rap sheet two decades long. Here’s the record he’d rather you didn’t read. 🧵

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

#TypoOfTheDay my draftys folder.

Two weeks in at the Crown Prosecution Service. Great people, proper mission, great design led thinking. Oh and this is the view from the kitchen…We are going to be hiring a lot of people in the coming months, starting with senior product and delivery roles.

#TypoOfTheDay Vin Diesely

Agile Cambridge returns on 30th September. Event programme emerging here: agilecambridge.net/programme-2026

Full event programme now available for @sdingov.bsky.social - govservicedesign.net/programme-2026 - the event will take place in Edinburgh in September. Tickets selling very fast!

🚨 Reform UK councillors must be held accountable. "More than 30 other new Reform councillors who face allegations of wrongdoing, hypocrisy, sharing hateful social media material and more." https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/the-more-than-30-scandal-hit-reform-candidates-elected-last-week/

🚨 "If we want to stop Reform then we need to speak up – to hold its figureheads accountable for their rhetoric and their decisions; to challenge those who pander to Reform’s agenda; to demand politicians across the board serve our interests and not only those of the powerful..."

Make a band out of two others: Hawkwind and Fire

It’s called a Cordon Sanitaire, and it is precisely how all parties committed to liberal democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights should treat far-right, fascist, anti-democratic parties. A media committed to a democratic state should do the same. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trigger warning: this article is full of success, hope and positivity. Lovely interview with the inspiring @london.gov.uk ♥️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last chance for this year's Agile Manchester event (Wed 13th/Thu 14th). agilemanchester.net/programme-2026 1&2 day tickets available. DM me for a last minute discount code.

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I spent way too long this weekend correlating 81 census variables with local election results, so you don't have to. Enjoy! datawrapper.dwcdn.net/QQQ3D/7/

Being evicted from the garages because they’re going to build flats there. This is my last ditch attempt to find a home for this G-Plan headboard. Anyone in London want this?

We’re recruiting a Senior User Researcher at Public Health Wales. This is an opportunity to help embed user research as a core part of how we design and deliver healthcare services, not an afterthought. Reach out if you'd like to know more about the role www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cardi...

Londoners, have your say. Join the State of London Debate 2026 on 3 June, 7:30–9pm to ask questions and hear from Deputy Mayors on issues from transport to housing, safety and the environment. Free to attend - register now:

Like this from Stephen Mounsey: medium.com/@mounseystep...

It’s arrived / @chanda.blacksky.app

Stop what you're doing and tune into this puffin livestream!

God, he's so missed.