My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever

Remember I convinced myself that we could run a free storytelling festival at King's in early June? Well, we are definitely doing that and the tickets are now available so please explore and sign up: it's open to all and you don't pay a penny! www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

Tessa Quinn: “Scotland welcomed 29,000 Ukrainian refugees… we had 2 ops staff and a spreadsheet” #campdigital

How to work with Content Designers - explained in memes 👌Candi Williams at #CampDigital

Who knew that the GOV.UK website design was inspired by tried and tested motorway signage? (even sharing the same font). The things you learn at #CampDigital

“Don’t be a research vampire, going in and sucking out what you want from the community” @rochellegold.bsky.social Reminds me of patient involvement group who coined “we want to be at the table, not on the menu” 🧛 #CampDigital

Powerful keynote from Himal Mandala on the parallels between personal burn out and organisations that require heroics from individuals in order to simply cope. Slack in the system is necessary for organisations and humans - it’s the space to sense risk and set boundaries 🙌 #CampDigital

Anti-AI stickers arrive in time for #CampDigital. On the value of being human #AI #Phenomenology

Rochelle Gold on neighbourhood care in the NHS: less “what’s the matter with you?”, more “what matters to you?” #campdigital @rochellegold.bsky.social

Really honest and insightful personal reflections from @himal.bsky.social about slack as mental capacity, how when we lose this we also lose the ability to notice signals, and how heroics can feel good and can be useful in a crisis but we don’t want to be in a perpetual crisis #CampDigital

Feeling thin? Don’t be a Bilbo #CampDigital

Burnout loops in organisations - how do we break the cycle? #CampDigital

Hello #CampDigital 👋 A hopeful start to the day 🌅

i should probably print this out and pin it to my monitor to save me the trouble of a lot of online arguments.

Our next event! 🚨 6PM, WED 29th April 🚨 At the MoJ or online. Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, LGA : State of digital Local Government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come ​Jonathan Slater, Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL luma.com/7nu2j853 Please share! Thanks 🙏

It's exactly this kind of thing that's fantastic but at the same time nowhere in the national media. The government should fire their comms people and find someone who can actually land their announcements. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Another beautiful #monkigras 🥰 Such an eclectic mix of speakers, and (as ever) incredible food and drink.

“The way you communicate a plan is as important as the plan itself” @mattlemay.com #monkigras

"If we make responding to change part of the plan we are more likely to actually do it.". - @mattlemay.com Sounds like #monkigras

Resilience in communities, in Oaxaca and Minneapolis, boils down to recognising interdependence and simply helping others when they need it @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social @wiredferret.bsky.social #monkigras

It is so inhuman to take what other people need. I think there are a lot of people with a “wendigo spirit” in power right now. Great talk on resilience in communities by @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social and @wiredferret.bsky.social #monkigras

Speaker book recommendation: "Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression" by Iris Gottlieb #monkigras

Intersex births are about 1.7% of births which is about the same as the percentage of kids with red hair. #monkigras

I’ve never played it but I have friends who have — love @azimman.bsky.social using Silksong as an allegory for describing the experience as a cis parent raising a trans child. #monkigras

“We can have a future where every student and teacher is supported by cognitive aids built for their benefit and growth. Not for exploitation and surveillance.” Really appreciate the optimism in this talk, @daniloc.xyz, admittedly I’ve been quite pessimistic lately. #monkigras

An actual prepper talk with Chad Metcalf talking about the US variety of the movement. "Prepping is about personal agency".

“Enshittification comes from an asymmetry of power” @danielroe.dev talking about ATProto #monkigras

Absolute comedy from @danielroe.dev talking about npmx #monkigras btw . He is about communities but says 10x developers is bunk. "Life is about building a sense of community.".

“The teacher is also the learner. And a commitment to learning means being continually revealed to yourself.” - @suesmith.lol #monkigras Whew.

I love that @nathenharvey.bsky.social is making sure we all have enough fucks to give

Immigration and trans rights. Everything is super fucked up and trans people are increasingly having to become legal experts. @lizthegrey.com on, for example, what it means to be a refugee or stateless person. Important talk at #monkigras. The UK EHRC ruling is also super messed up.

Small Beer is a B Corp brewery in Bermondsey, focusing on low-medium ABV 2.5-2.8%. All the flavour, none of the headaches - cheers to that 🍻 #monkigras

Learning requires going from abstract to practical and back to abstract, in semantic waves. Learning by doing when coding cements what has been learned @suesmith.lol #monkigras

Centering GMT on the world means time "caught colonialism from its humans" - @ashley.rolfmore.com Lmao what a way to say it! #monkigras

A system always includes the mental model of the people using it, the people, the tools, and the dialogue. Numbers are scary because they change how the world affects people. Show your working Be correctable, not just correct Extent existing mental models Design for safe failure

Design for safe failure modes, says @ashley.rolfmore.com #monkigras

It’s #monkigras time again!

"AI" is now shorthand for "I don't trust this." I'm speaking at #MonkiGras next week about the gap where engineers and humans meet: the number on the screen, and what that means for the ongoing crisis of trust in institutions. Preview: Medieval accounting meets 90mph LiDAR. 🚇

Bloody hell this talk is already great. @lauratacho.com crushing it, arguing and explaining how our sense of wonder can blind us to the realities of the situation. #monkigras is go.

“Skepticism is the main cornerstone of being prepared” - Laura Tacho #monkigras

My JND is 0.0032, whatever that means 🎨 Found this game weirdly therapeutic www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd... #WhatsMyJND

Beautiful live sketch notes from Jenny Leonard 🎨

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Christine Liang, DSIT: “1.6m people in the UK are offline…Blockers can include cost of device/connectivity.” Programmes to refurb old gov devices and pass them on to digitally excluded people address both waste and exclusion at the same time.

Astrid Wynne: “The first rule of sustainability is: don’t“. Efficiency metrics are helpful, but prevention of unnecessary products/services is more powerful.

Carbon is just one metric we need to consider in environmental impact. Including the cost of mining precious metals and processing physical materials requires a full life cycle assessment, which is much harder for organisations to do.

Emma Charles worked out that a recent procurement process had an equivalent carbon cost of 4 tonnes! An average of 300 hours contributed by 30 suppliers competing for a relatively small government contract 🤯

Claire Robinson is passionate about net positive (net zero doesn’t go far enough!)