Arctic air arriving so thought we'd have both wood burners out of action for a week and a hole in the kitchen ceiling, and just rely on the air source heat pump.

In govt, I think the point of all that stuff is to build a dam against the Waterfall? #govdesign

I can see why IMDB users gave A House Of Dynamite just 6.4 - maybe frustrated by incompleteness, needing a happy or unhappy ending? I think with 2 more minutes of storyline it might've been an 8. Fascinating look behind the madness of nuclear weapons. www.imdb.com/title/tt3237...

"The question is whether spare time released [by using AI tools] really translates into frontline care. Or, does it actually provide capacity that’s consumed by more admin?"

"The question is whether spare time released really translates into frontline care. Or, does it actually provide capacity that’s consumed by more admin?"

Some #weeknotes from the #GDS Service Standard & Service Manual team: 🖋️ Looking at how a senior 'Managing Editor' + strategy + singular IA might help GDS organise and improve its wide array of often-not-very-well-joined-up-or-designed content products 1/6 #govdesign

I am thinking far too much about Earthborne Rangers and Vantage. Both 'open world', 'sandbox' type #boardgames. A bit like Arkham Horror, perhaps. Which I barely get round to playing. So why buy ER or Vantage? Why not? Oh god.....

3 words I overuse happily because I think it makes me look clever: overarching product-service holistic

BBC Today presenter laughing off the idea of 'Cli-Fi' (climate-change fiction). "Nice try!". V revealing about his understanding of the changing climate, what it means and amounts to. The Road Oryx and Crake Brave New World Lord of the Flies Dune Mad Max Interstellar Waterworld Wall-E The Matrix

This week, I got to see New South Wales’ Sludge Finder tool that is supporting their sludge audits. I heard about it during my @oecdgovernance.bsky.social visit 2 weeks ago. Quite impressive how journeys and can be enriched with qual and quant data. This can be a powerful #serviceDesign tool!

GSA lawyers have sent a takedown request for my little archive of the 18F site. Sadly will probably take it down, but remarkable they care that much about defunct agency content online 🤷🏻‍♂️

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.

Our stickers have arrived in time for @govcampcymru.bsky.social on Friday! Who's going? 🙌

Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.

I delete all my emails and messages every morning. If it's important, they'll contact me again the next day.

The #ServiceStandard codifies how service teams should work when building services. The service quality criteria describe the attributes of what the service teams produce. Service teams need to know how to progress and what the end goal should look like. These need to be connected frameworks 1/X

Huang was great, but both my opponents disliked the conflict, so it didn't exactly come to life this time. Easier to get your head around than Tigris and Euphrates. More straightforward battles. Maybe a bit less subtle, nuanced and varied? V good tho. I really liked it tho. 8/10. #boardgames

Huang was great, but both my opponents disliked the conflict, so it didn't exactly come to life this time. Easier to get your head around than Tigris and Euphrates. More straightforward battles. Maybe a bit less subtle, nuanced and varied? V good tho. I really liked it tho. 8/10. #boardgames

ruddy Sarah, filming me chopping wood!

I really like Gareth Southgate.

Zaytoun stuff looks good for Christmas presents. 'Zaytoun is a social enterprise founded in 2004 to support the resilience of Palestinian communities through fair trade.' zaytoun.uk/products/

That's my pumpkin effort.

Blogging about public sector work is valuable, but we need the time to read them too. All teams should have daily dedicated reading time.

Kinda says it all. @weisenthal.bsky.social $UPS

I like this from @jukes.ie, spelling out what 'working in the open' means to him. Broadly ✍️ Blog, post on social media, (good) weeknotes 📍 Public roadmap 📜 Design histories 👥 Meetups 🍿 Open show and tells 👩‍💻 Github digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/08/m... #openworking

It's here! 🚂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥃 🐏 🍞 🧀 🪵 🪨 Clans Of Caledonia - Industria 🚂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥃 🐏 🍞 🧀 🪵 🪨 #boardgames

Short week for me, not in tomorrow or Friday, so... #weeknotes from GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual team... 🤧🏖️ Lots of lurgy and holidays in our little crew, and at homes 🤸 Arranging more refresher training in Agile services 1/3 #govdesign #gds

Bill Gates urging a 'new approach' to climate change, but... have we tried the first one yet? Properly? Keeping fossil fuels in the ground? Or does My Drill Baby Drill just wreck all that...

The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

I have had a bug, the same one I think, for 3 weeks now. Boring. And this weekend it's dumped me back in bed. Annoying. My partner's away this week, and it's half term. Wish me luck!

'Where will three more years of this decline leave us? And what if the three years turns into something even longer, since there is no one to restrain this president from deciding that a third term is necessary, perhaps for national security reasons?' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🙇 Sorry it's been a while, but here are some #weeknotes, or #quarternotes, from GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual team. We've been... 🏉 Getting the new team together, shaping our roadmap for continuous improvement 1/6 #govdesign #gds

Once again, trigger discipline of a guy playing a video game in an arcade. These rejects are playing Call of Duty on our streets.

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

Entire government is an extortion racket.

I just ran 4k. And played tennis this morning. Golf yesterday. Tennis the day before. Somehow still overweight. Absurd.

#NoKings Miami!

Ah ha, @martinjordan.com. I'd better do more #govdesign posts then.

Felt like making a starter pack for #GovDesign. Here it is: go.bsky.app/Anw2ykD

Why all the new followers overnight, I wonder...

I would pay good money to watch The Last Jedi without the green milk milking and slurping moustache milk cow alien nonsense. Nearly as bad as Binks.

Re-reading @beckymiller33.bsky.social's post from 2019, and still, as she was then, "trying to understand my agency as a civil servant in respect of the climate emergency." medium.com/@beckymiller... #climatebreakdown #actnow #climatecrisis

Some news shared in visual format (more details in blog post #linkinbio). Please swipe for a short heart-felt summary of my health and if you need an illustrator/artist please do get in touch! Thanks for reading 🙏

My 13yo is due on his first flight on Thursday, a 3-night footballing school trip to Spain. He's down with the lurgy and last night I put him through the first hour of Cast Away. I'd forgotten the traumatic plane crash scene. Fingers crossed for a physical and psychological recovery...

Preview: Designer Kristian Amundsen Østby talks about the creation of Tax the Rich, a trick-taking card game (co-designed with Kjetil Svendsen) featuring a modern setting that will resonate with some and alienate others: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Landed in the UK 7 hours ago! Industria expansion on the island, at least, at last... #boardgames

Bought something on ebay. Arrived in amazon packaging and an amazon van.

My dad died of MND. I really feel for Lewis Moody and those who care about him. But this headline, ffs. He hasn't been 'singled out'. And his 'braveness' on pitch doesn't make his MND crueller than for anyone else. Also not sure what 'men' has to do with it, but that's a different matter.

What ICE is doing is terrorism.