Don't get sucked into discussions of which types of jewellery confiscation is fair. Use the Kirby method. Eat the narrative framing. Say what is happening. Say that Labour are being inhumanely cruel in a way that fascists approve of.

When will our direction of travel shift towards being the best rather than the worst? We keep resetting the scale and we see each time that the next government will try and make things nastier, meaner, crueller, more pinched.

"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."

After having to stand for more than an hour on a train with two kids, the absolute hide of the conductor to come on the system to apologise for it being hard to buy a ticket because she's not walking through the train. Delay Repay but your trip is free if you have to stand.

What I'm actually trying to find out is "if I buy tickets for a specific train, and it's then a rail replacement, am I allowed to use reasonable routes rather than take the bus?“

This is no place for fucking whimsy.

DBT published an evaluation of its use of Copilot, earlier this year. It found no evidence that time savings led to improvements in productivity: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Last 4 before bed.

Films are back. I don't use IG so get my dopamine from friends liking photos here. This is on my new 80s Praktica.

Ah, personal responsibility for fact checking. That'll definitely work.

It sure is interesting to revisit this 18 months later. Obviously I am in favour of responding to change as more important than following a plan, but sometimes it is nice to remember what the outcomes were. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_...

Why would the oven have a cypher on it? Stanley?

Hire a content designer.

Journal of Museum Education is apparently a page turner for the under 3s

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

I think this might be the most perfect troll map in existence.

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 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's a good morning to be a greyhound by a radiator.

Absolutely cackled at the result.

Having an ac uk account means you get a load of... interesting emails. But you do get to play "sincere wingnut" or "LLM".

After teaching today one of my students said they'd found a meme which summarised our lesson. I don't know if this is the point I was trying to make about epistemology but it made me laugh

A thing I've liked about Norwich since moving is the use of redundant churches for community purposes (circus training, skate park, artist studios, antiques, exhibition space). They're great buildings for lots of things the community needs/wants. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

@jukes.ie Did you get that garden office in the end, and how is it if you did?

Another day of spreading the good word of "doing things properly with data", this time to citizens of Leeds, London and New Bedford.

“We didn’t remove the comment”. They never do, so do we remove ourselves from the platforms, or remove the platforms from our lives. Never one for censorship but the hate those techbros shows are peddling. Radicalising hundreds of former middle managers called Steve

I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside). I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice. Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good. Thx :)

There never was any data. It was always just codified social relations.

It's eye check day. My pupils are enormous and all light is too bright.

Couple of pieces today suggesting Reform will be fine because they can't enact the cuts they want to, and honestly feel like I need to point some people's heads at other countries and emphasise that the cuts are only part of the proposition.

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Need some #advice from the #entrepreneurs out there – I keep sending my kid surveys asking her to rate my performance as a parent. The open rate is good but engagement is horrible. Should I be offering discounts? Maybe a giveaway? For context, she's three and can only spell her best friend's name.

Saying: you can ask us for data, we'll "review your request and provide the data in a suitable format within the stipulated time frame*", isn't publishing #opendata. *No stipulated timeframe mentioned on the page.

Seeing loads of posts about how Halloween is overtaking Bonfire Night, but is it not simply because there are almost no free council run community fireworks left post-cuts?

Very much waiting (and hoping to get in early on) a millennial food craze for soda bread. It's so quick. It tastes incredible. It is perfect with blue cheese. Why bother feeding a sourdough starter like a shit pet when you can have this?

Climate scepticism has gone from denying climate change, to denying it's man made, to accepting it is but denying it's going to be disastrous. The next step is to accept that it's real, it's man made, is going to be disastrous but apparently it's too late. Because of them.

... but they were, all of them, deceived, for a seventh factor was made...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Why the long face?

Obviously don't take your cues from a survey conducted by an online furniture company, unless they coincide with _my_ cognitive biases.

star trek: tng, but Computer has an obsequious attitude like ChatGPT data (as picard): computer, recognize picard, jean-luc. alpha two clearance. computer: certainly! I'd be all too happy to recognize you. a key point in recognizing you is for you to provide your clearance, which you have done,

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You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

If, like so many people, you've found yourself captivated by the exploits of our crack team of librarians, applications for the House of Commons Library Open Day are now open. Why not pop along and see them in their natural habitat? bsky.app/profile/clai...

wait, a kinship terminology angle in the news? anthropologists, it's your chance to get that public-facing opinion piece out

Bleak. BLEAK. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

Trying to explain The Terminator to a 5 year old.

Every time a UK politician pedals fear and hate, it gets us closer and closer to the possibility of this as a scenario in the UK. Every single time. We are only ever a whisker behind the US in our domestic aspirations to "progress".