“It’s not “unethical” to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That’s just “a search engine”” Yesterday, 100k hits to mapit.mysociety.org by “Mac” “Chrome” (50k of them 5:30-6am). 72,831 IP addresses. Blocked at 8:20am. It’s not unethical in theory. It is unethical in practice.

Help us improve Government Licensing guidance www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/digita... UK Government preparing the ground to deprecate the Open Government Licence? The link to CC Signals is disingenuous – that proposal advises *against* more restrictive licensing #opendata #opengov #datapolicy

I've passed the first step of my Coaching & Mentoring certification, and will now do partially supervised coaching/mentoring within my organisation. If you are a Civil Servant at any grade – especially at HMRC/DWP – and interested in being a coachee/mentee, please reach out.

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

Being chased by zombies and escaping using bus rides that cost 5 raspberries. Got to love a fever dream 🧟‍♀️🚌

🚨 Come to our Power and participation in public tech conference in Manchester on 6th March! 🚨 There'll be inspiration and lessons from practitioners, reformers and activists, as well as time to connect and discuss the topics you care about with peers. Sign up at connectedbydata.org/events/2026-...

For anyone at #ukgc26 today usually based in Sheffield: the next 'X-Gov Sheffield meetup' is on 27 Jan! We're doing breakfast and lunch meetups in the cafe of Union St Co-working space / If you'd like to come along for either, or both, find out more and sign up 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

“Defence against the Dark Arts” how do you deal with people bringing you the solution? @publicdigital.bsky.social facilitating an open discussion at #ukgc26

And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who took part in #ukgc26 and made it such a success! Write ups of the sessions can be found at ukgovcamp.com/grid. All the till next year! 👋

#ukgc26 where even the doors are enthusiastic 🙌

If it's your first time at #ukgc26 and it's a bit overwhelming, I'm Ian, come and say hello, I'm the old beardy guy that's not @jukes.ie 😁

PSA for those heading from London to Birmingham for @ukgovcamp.com - all trains from Euston currently cancelled, head to St Pancras and change at Leicester... #govcamp

Unconferencing tomorrow so thought I'd pop in here and give a 👋 to anyone coming along to #ukgovcamp #ukgc26 in Brum

London, you were at your best today. Thank you to the passers by who stopped to pick me up off the floor, offer help and make sure I was ok. In a gloomy world it is lovely to be reminded of the goodness of strangers and to be made to feel safe when I was at my most vulnerable ❤️

On my way! See you in a bit, la 🙌

Heading to Liverpool for DataBites. Say hi if you're about 👋

Second year on the trot that I've filed my Self Assessment before the end of May 💅

Yeeeesssss!

Come on Austria

My (always controversial and non-winning) favourites: Latvia 12 points Austria 10 points Lithuania 8 points My money is on Sweden.

Gimps. DRINK!

#HappyToast #Eurovision #Drawalong Sweden

If Vic and Bob did pop songs #sauna

Drink Tracey, drink! Another one lost her skirt! / @traceya.bsky.social

Thank god. The cat has finally got off my lap. This far in and zero wine 😵‍💫

#HappyToast #Eurovision #Drawalong Finland

We're in for a wild ride with this one I hear

Are the ood from Europe?

Well I liked it even if no one else did 🙃

I don't have a dog.

Please take some time to give us your feedback. We provide most of our services for free without you even needing to provide your name or login. It is so important that we can demonstrate our outcomes to our funders and improve our work to make the best use of those funds. 👇

former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org

Wondering if @openbenches.org has realtime bench tracking in its backlog 🤓 BBC News - Tribute bench washed 80 miles in stormy sea reunited with family - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As everyone's becoming an expert on Nvidia stock prices and moats and Jevons paradox, I've got a new Green Paper out on inclusive innovation, social capital, and technology diffusion - three things that literally no one is talking about! www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...

The Intellectual Property Office UK's Consultation on #Copyright and ✨ #ArtificialIntelligence. Provide your views on this topic by 25 Feb 2025. ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...

This is so wholesome ☄️🧡

Cool post and article for the knitters on here.

A good thread with good questions from James. My experience from both sides of the fence is that risk based funding is hard for HMT to support. Grants are already a tricky process with massive overheads for funders and applicants alike. And providing commercial funding is just too painful

I looked for it, couldn't find it, so there it is: a Starter pack for Service Design practicioners. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/7ksuZN

#UKsnow SK11 2/10

I’m in the House of Lords now, with @theabb.bsky.social setting the context and introducing tonight’s speakers who will discuss Ai and school social media use; parental views of use of EdTech & implications of children’s rights

I'm in awe of the amount of care, thought and love that goes into curating these virtual advent calendars every year. Now a beautifully designed book for our real-life Christmas stockings.

A quick reminder on how to contribute to uksnowmap.com ahead of any possible #uksnow tomorrow 👀 Post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode, and a snow rating x/10 and help draw a real-time map of where it is snowing in the UK.

Some BIG jobs in this weeks [slightly early] #jobs newsletter newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...

I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.

It's a crap day to be sharing good news? But for anyone looking to permanently join Edinburgh's lovely philosophy department and EFI's Centre for Technomoral Futures (@technomoralfutures.bsky.social) we are hiring a new Lecturer in Ethics of AI - closing date is 6 December. Please RT/share widely!

I've made a playlist. It's bouncing between anger, melancholy and defiance.

We’ve created a book! It includes 24 essays that we’ve published between 2020 and 2024 as part of the 'I Thought About That A Lot' essay advent calendars. You’ll be able to pre-order it next week for a December delivery 🎄 🎁

This is so well observed and beautifully described. It's raised my heart rate to 'steeplechase-level' by just reading it.

Clapton Jumble Sale is such an inspired idea. Run as a fundraiser for the local school. Pay £10 and they put you on a map and you run a jumble sale from your front garden. Hundreds of people doing it up and down the local streets. www.claptonjumbletrail.co.uk