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Digital strategist and service designer ✨ Leyton lowlife 🤷♀️
Another beautiful
#monkigras
🥰 Such an eclectic mix of speakers, and (as ever) incredible food and drink.
5 days ago
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“The way you communicate a plan is as important as the plan itself”
@mattlemay.com
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5 days ago
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Sid Rini
5 days ago
"If we make responding to change part of the plan we are more likely to actually do it.". -
@mattlemay.com
Sounds like
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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
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Lily Lachance
5 days ago
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
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@wiredferret.bsky.social
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Paul Johnston
5 days ago
Speaker book recommendation: "Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression" by Iris Gottlieb
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Paul Johnston
5 days ago
Intersex births are about 1.7% of births which is about the same as the percentage of kids with red hair.
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Lily Lachance
5 days ago
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.
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Lily Lachance
5 days ago
“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.
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Sid Rini
5 days ago
An actual prepper talk with Chad Metcalf talking about the US variety of the movement. "Prepping is about personal agency".
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Ricardo J. Méndez
6 days ago
“Enshittification comes from an asymmetry of power”
@danielroe.dev
talking about ATProto
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Sid Rini
6 days ago
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.".
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Ana Hevesi
6 days ago
“The teacher is also the learner. And a commitment to learning means being continually revealed to yourself.” -
@suesmith.lol
#monkigras
Whew.
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Rachel Stephens
6 days ago
I love that
@nathenharvey.bsky.social
is making sure we all have enough fucks to give
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Sid Rini
6 days ago
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.
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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 🍻
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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
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Kai
6 days ago
Centering GMT on the world means time "caught colonialism from its humans" -
@ashley.rolfmore.com
Lmao what a way to say it!
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Wiredferret!
6 days ago
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
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Design for safe failure modes, says
@ashley.rolfmore.com
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It’s
#monkigras
time again!
6 days ago
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Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)
13 days ago
"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. 🚇
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Sid Rini
6 days ago
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
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Platypuss Divva
6 days ago
“Skepticism is the main cornerstone of being prepared” - Laura Tacho
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My JND is 0.0032, whatever that means 🎨 Found this game weirdly therapeutic
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
#WhatsMyJND
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What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AUEjKP___974
8 days ago
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Beautiful live sketch notes from Jenny Leonard 🎨
28 days ago
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Christopher Mims
28 days ago
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...
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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
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
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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.
28 days ago
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Astrid Wynne: “The first rule of sustainability is: don’t“. Efficiency metrics are helpful, but prevention of unnecessary products/services is more powerful.
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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.
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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 🤯
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Claire Robinson is passionate about net positive (net zero doesn’t go far enough!)
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Mary Creagh: “ICT is already responsible for 4% of global emissions… how we design, build and buy digital technology matters!”
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Venue for the GDSA Summit is 👌 Institution of Civil Engineers is very fancy.
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Tom Loosemore
28 days ago
AI agents will join up government before government joins up government. This may be a mixed blessing. Blog post. with some reflections about my recent agentic adventures:
loosemore.com/2026/02/25/a...
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AI agents will join up government before government does
AI agents will join up government before government joins up government. This will be a mixed blessing for citizens, with big implications for trust, equity and accountability. Let’s say you …
https://loosemore.com/2026/02/25/ai-agents-will-join-up-government-before-government-does/
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Chris talking about his work with the Green Web Foundation 🌱@mrchrisadams.bsky.social
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Speaking at Land Talks next week - come along!
luma.com/ba8uvclo
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Land Talks #4: Land-For-Flats, A New Forest City, Undead Property Taxes & More! · Luma
🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…
https://luma.com/ba8uvclo
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🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.
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Mike Schuster
about 2 months ago
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
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Hourly Spaced
about 2 months ago
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dame
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Pavel
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Good post from Ayesha about the clash between product and programme thinking
ayeshamoarif.substack.com/p/making-pro...
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Making Product Work in Public Services
If you want to adopt the product playbook, you need to change how the game is played
https://ayeshamoarif.substack.com/p/making-product-work-in-public-services
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Welcome! 🤗
@franco-grech.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Martha Edwards
6 months ago
“AI isn’t taking your job, the people making the decisions are” “Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced” “Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position” “Be hopeful AND cynical” Necessary truth bombs from
@elmosmoe.bsky.social
at
@sdingov.bsky.social
#sdingov
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Clara Greo
6 months ago
Brilliant keynote from
@rdietkus.bsky.social
at
#sdingov
about public services as care. She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal. “There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”
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Love the focus on choice: we can choose how/if we use AI! Dystopia is not inevitable!
@elmosmoe.bsky.social
#sdingov
6 months ago
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Samina
6 months ago
So many great points being made by Steph Wright on AI in today’s keynote.
#sdingov
Copilot Agents are here, slowly creeping into our workflows. Local Gov needs more support in how to: - design for fairness - mitigate bias - measure accuracy of agents - design for human in control
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Martin Jordan
6 months ago
“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services”
@nikolagoger.bsky.social
sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at
#SDinGov
:
reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
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The 10 year health plan mentions the NHS App 55 times! How can the NHS App team live up the weight of expectation, manage their roadmap, and avoid becoming a
[email protected]
#sdingov
6 months ago
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