Voted in the Democratic primary (in NYC). 🗳️ I even got a sticker!

Woke up to people asking me why I just invited to them an event in 2019. Of course I didn’t. The service I once used, mixily, seems to have sent out an errant invite for a past event? Oy the cloud. Deleted account.

So long, Minneapolis! It’s been real.

Gave my talk at @openssf.org Community Day on SWAG w3c-cg.github.io/swag/docs/sw... and the findings of our developer survey on security features github.com/w3c-cg/swag/.... sched.co/2I45f <-- slides downloadable. 🎉

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Gave my talk at OSS North America on Human Rights and Standards. Well attended and good questions! Slides uploaded here: sched.co/2JQxk

New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

Ok! Here we go. Heading to Minneapolis for @linuxfoundation.org Open Source Summit (where I will be speaking about Human Rights and Standards) and @openssf.org community day (where I will be speaking about making the web more secure)!

“Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds” Colour me surprised... www.bbc.com/news/article...

About to give a talk to the scariest audience imaginable: teenagers.

In about one week, I will be traveling to Minneapolis. I've never been, but I hear it's a lovely city. I will be speaking about Human Rights and Technical Standards sched.co/2JQxk – because if I'm gonna go to Minneapolis, then I'm gonna talk about human rights.

Reminder : if you live in England and you’re planning to vote in the local elections today, take an acceptable form of ID. www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/... 🗳️

Heading out to vote Green! 🗳️💚

I really like the new Banksy. I know it’s unlikely, but I hope they keep it there.

Back in London after a trip to Hangzhou for W3C’s Advisory Committee meeting and a side-quest to Tokyo on my way home. Exhausted, but left with a sense of optimism.

So my BlueSky account is now on EuroSky.social but it's not clear to me that there's any visual indication of this… Feels like this should be shown in the Profile?

Migrated this account to EuroSky.Social.

Good luck with your election today, Hungary! 🇭🇺 (And please don’t re-elect the fascist. 🙏)

If AI is so great, why does it always seem to be on the side of fascism? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

use Signal for your day to day stuff. Make your grocery list in it. Text your partne. Have a group chat about organising a surprise party. Privacy should be an expectation in life. Even for things which don’t need secrecy. When everyone normalises maintaining privacy it can’t be used against us.

Have found my new fav pizza in London - for take-away, anyway. Yard Sale Pizza opened near us. I walked over to collect, but they do delivery in-house (no delivery apps). Ordering and payment through the web – again, no app. And most importantly, the pizza is good! 🍕 yardsalepizza.com

🆕 blog! “How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?” When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK […]

An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine https://www.moryan.com/an-open-letter-to-grammarly-and-other-plagiarists-thieves-and-slop-merchants/ "I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that Grammarly is doing. I'm fucking […]

Looking forward to Web Day Out webdayout.com on Thursday!

I filled out this UK Government consultation on the future of BBC. www.gov.uk/government/c... Some of my feedback: do continue the license fee, don't run ads, do be impartial, don't become a booster for AI, do support BBC Verify, don't engage in other "platforms" and do continue R&D and innovation.

Time vortex beginning today. Plan accordingly.

🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨 A new amendment would give the government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications. That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers. Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️

“Meet the TAG” event kicking off at Samsung KX London with an overview of “what are web standards” anyway?

Will be heading to Samsung KX in London this evening for “Meet the TAG!” w3c.social/@w3c/1161371....

At #FOSDEM2026, the CRA in Practice DevRoom showed how developers, maintainers, foundations, & manufacturers are turning the EU #CRA into workflows, powered by open collaboration, practical tooling, and community-driven processes. 👉 Recap: openssf.org/blog/2026/02...

Monday, Jan 12, at 6:30pm in London A vigil will be held at the US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London. Wear black and bring an umbrella for a peaceful vigil. Thank you to @ukstoptrump.bsky.social, Tesla Takedown, @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social, and @indivisibleabroad.bsky.social for organizing.

UK rejoining Erasmus is unambiguously good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We can judge Farage not just by the words he, allegedly, shouted as a child, but by the words and actions he has chosen as an adult." Zack Polanski on why Farage should be judged on his record as a politician which has seen him echo conspiracy and language of the far right.

Happy Thanksgiving to all US persons! (Except the fascist ones!) ✨

The fact that social media trolls are often not who or where they appear to be is not news. This is well known. “Superman” even had a joke about it. Don’t engage. Block liberally.

I just filled out the UK Government's consultation on the proposed changes to settlement status (#immigration). If you live in the UK, I encourage you to do the same. Be warned: there is a lot of double-speak in this consultation. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Hey OpenSSF community, thinking about going to FOSDEM next year? The #FOSDEM2026 devroom CFPs are now open, with just a little over a week left to submit! Submit your proposals here: pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026

Just published a deep look at where open social networks stand in 2025: Mastodon’s leadership change, Bluesky’s trajectory, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, cross-network tools, and more. For newsrooms and public service orgs, this moment really matters. werd.io/the-state-of...

ICYMI 👻 Attackers are using AI… and it’s spooky. Great insights from Hugo Huang + Canonical on why securing AI is the next battleground and how open source helps. Read more 👉 openssf.org/blog/2025/08... #OpenSSF

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Ok heading down to the US embassy for No “Tyrants” London. 🇺🇸 #nokings

We're happy to share that @sovtechfund invests in Web Security and Privacy Documentation! Over the coming year, Open Web Docs will be working on creating and updating Security and Privacy documentation for web developers on @mdn. Full announcement […]

It goes without saying that London is not “under Sharia law.” However, the statement itself is (also obviously) a xenophobic dog whistle in the first place. To their credit, BBC did a good piece picking this apart www.bbc.com/news/article... and putting it in context.

Apropos of nothing....

On August 15, GitHub’s Open Source Friday spotlighted the OpenSSF Global Cyber Policy WG in a live session hosted by Kevin Crosby, GitHub. 📖 Read the recap blog, watch the replay, and explore ways you can join the conversation: openssf.org/blog/2025/09... #OSSSecurity

⏳ The clock is ticking. PQC migration is due by 2030. In the latest What’s in the SOSS? podcast, Keyfactor’s David Hook & Tomas Gustavsson join Yesenia to unpack #postquantum cryptography, crypto agility & entropy -- and why orgs must act now. 🎧 Listen → openssf.org/podcast/2025...

Once again writing to my MP to ask that the UK Government show more (or any!) leadership on both Immigrant rights and trans rights.

I'm still not particularly happy about passkeys and figured I might want to share my thoughts on why. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/2/pas...

On my way to Amsterdam 🚄 this morning to speak at Open Source Summit Europe! I'll be talking about how to “engage” the “next generation” of open standards leaders, including increasing the diversity & inclusion of technical standards orgs. Plus Star Trek.🖖 osseu2025.sched.com/event/25Vsc/...

Images from our day trip to Deal in Kent. It’s on the high speed line from London. Spooky castles, visibility to France, the ocean, lovely food, nice people, sustainable energy (massive wind farm on the horizon, not pictured), anti-fascist graffiti… what’s not to like? ⛱️