This is excellent and exactly the kind of thing it'd be great to highlight on @abundancepod.com -- cc @jamesomalley.co.uk mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/23/d...

So this guy says one way to stop doomscrolling is to choose to do something creative when we feel the urge to reach for our feeds or whatever. I just spent four hours doing creative things, and I even got a blog out of it. I feel satisfaction and mild enthusiasm instead of the usual despair. Yay!

At this point it's just 🤷‍♂️.

Sadiq Khan's team on Trump's comments about London crime The homicide rate in the US is seven times that of London

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor. I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

The mismatched figures which raise questions over borough climate targets Matt Burn from Enfield Climate Action Forum's land use working group looks at the borough's heat network project enfielddispatch.co.uk/the-mismatch...

I was only just saying there wasn't a blog for this. I've manifested it into existence! Really excellent work being done here by @demos-uk.bsky.social and @camdencouncil.bsky.social .

It's so hard to even try and raise the requisite amount of rage for each new thing these days - it's exhausting :disappointed:. www.gov.uk/government/n...

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Extremely good (and important) video from J. Draper with far too few views. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHv...

The latest email update from @demos-uk.bsky.social about their collaborative democracy pilot, Waves, in conjunction with @camdencouncil.bsky.social is excellent. But because they haven't also blogged it I can't share it here. Sign up for email updates here : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

This is really good. I wonder how many people subscribe to this blog. moderncivilservice.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/17/e...

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This is Oxford Street, completely transformed & traffic-free. It was fantastic to see community spirit in the heart of the West End. By removing traffic, this created the space to stride, stroll and explore. This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

This is everything and will never be changed without a complete overhaul of the American electoral system. I'll be over here holding my breath...

Great - but it's *insane* that this is being posted by an individual and not via a government account on here.

I predict that in my lifetime we'll have a Prime Minister who is under 35 and started out as a TikTok influencer.

I really appreciate what these folks are doing and I wish them success. However, I don't like the use of a crown logo very similar to GOV.UK's implying a connection to government which isn't there.

This made me think of Because Internet. In that @gretchenmcc.bsky.social has a simple test that outputs when you started using the internet and in what context (it got me bang on).

Quick thread on some a programme of work we're starting on around better democratic communication - where we're going to be working to improve writetothem.com and adapt it to solve democratic problems that exist today.

Local Digital (MHCLG) once again knocks it out the park. This is exemplary open comms. More video show and tells please! mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/18/b...

Useful AI bits and bobs from GDS. www.gov.uk/government/p...

It's sickening that somehow our government can make a statement like this and yet not sanction Israeli goods, trade or government leaders. www.gov.uk/government/s...

@dxw.com continuing to do leading work in the open. www.dxw.com/2025/09/ai-i...

Looking forward to another excellent #pddatabites

Again, this is nice (and a way to justify the "spend billions on AI and then hope to find something to do with it" policy) but can someone please pitch just having a single cross-gov staff directory or even just a whole-civil-service wiki... www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is good an' all but surely DEFRA's had a existing agile / digital / transformation strategy for the last 20 years. Why now all the effort to develop something new? defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/17/t...

HMLR continues to do good work in the open. hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/18/h...

Went for an ultrasound this morning. The MRI receptionist and the X-ray / ultrasound receptionist spend all day every working day sharing info verbally because they don't have the authority to log into each other's systems and the syncing between them "only works occasionally".

With the #AssistedDyingBill soon to be debated in the House of Lords, I just wrote to peers asking them to back choice, dignity, and compassion – you should too! #HumanistsUK humanists.uk/action/ask-t...

@ledbydonkeys.org hasn't posted their "Donald Trump at Winsor" video on Bluesky so here's a link to it on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DOsVh55jC3n/

I remember all the user research and training that went into moving to Google in the first place and now this mess. www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/c...

Really excellent piece from James summing up my thinking perfectly.

"The machine (of government) is breaking before our eyes and if we're not careful it's going to be dismantled," says @jamestplunkett.bsky.social kicking off #SDinGov. We'll be looking at how to bring a more curious, humble, and systemic mindset to the work of govt tomorrow afternoon.

So, I'm reading this and it's all excellent until.. Arg! Why does the MoJ have 20 internal staff networks? Why aren't they building and supporting cross-government networks? mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/16/w...

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (3?) is showing Dad her skills. First she balances on one foot. Whoa... tricky but doable. Then the other... yeah this one's harder. She looks at Dad for approval. He nods with a grin. "Not bad. eh." She beams. This is everything. (1)

What we're missing is a massive open wiki of all the things that need to be put back after all this insanity has ended.

Looks like maybe the Fediverse will get to be popular after all. Assuming they don't block all non-state-sanctioned VPNs.

When government doesn't have a coherent policy we get positive things like this on one hand and pro-actively following the terrible advice of the EHRC on the other. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.

Thank you again for the regular respite from the *gestures broadly*.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Their concerns are that they don't like brown people. Starmer's concerns are that they will vote for someone else. No-one seems to be measuring how much of a polling up-tick the government might get if they loudly told these people where to go.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police