It's being spent on hotels lolololololololol
I'm the original UX Coach, #GDS and #LocalGov alumni. Still fighting the good fight, and believing there's a better way to make businesses
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It's being spent on hotels lolololololololol
Absolutely not. There's too small a Charcount for me to express my absolute hate watch of an experience
Turns out, having your brother move in has perks
It's all worth the time. Lea than a fiver, last ages
Mines under house arrest because he's got an infected wound. I've bought a tub of grow your own catgrass
Today we've been talking about solving needs instead of scratching egos. Here's a billion dollar itch that has been scratched for 10 years despite everyone saying - this.is.shit.
Came here to say I'm doing the same with a cat 🥴
I will maintain until my deathbed - the CSS Zen Garden and every version that was out on the internet was the greatest thing to happen to the internet, and one day we'll all be wishing there were coffee stains on our web pages
I was hoping to be in Edinburgh at #SDinGov and supporting @cjforms.bsky.social with her excellent session this afternoon 'Garbage in, garbage out? Measuring error rates and data quality to get ready for AI' If you want to be part of it make sure you don't tarry over lunch as it is a capped session
what if we explained Service Owner as being the Managing Director for a mini company inside a biggy company?
Imagine what you'll need to consider when I release my new game called Weekendfest which has an estimate playtime of 52wks
Mitchel and webb aren't helping. If this was ~1999 everyone at work tomorrow would be sating Traaaay! Tray! Tray! In the tray
Not at SDinGov again because I cannot afford that on my own. It's such an important ecent I can't help feel is only attainable if you have a business sponsor I really do hope next year I get to be there all week, and make the most of the entire experience
What's fucked is that figure accounts for 25% of the entire USA sales for the year in farm produce. Brilliant example of someone failing to ask how much IS 25%
Hello #GovDesign crowd! I’m en route to Edinburgh 🏴 and @sdingov.bsky.social, while working on content for our Friday workshop on finally making end-to-end #serviceDesign happen. Despite the grim weather forecast, the weather in Scotland looks gorgeous. It’s almost a #BlueSky right now! See you!
Bath plugs
More street fighter II turbo championship edition
Or that there's mice running the whole thing
I'm sure at this point the reason why the globe is buying in wholesale is decades of blatent, intentional political misinformation becoming the norm and realising nothing matters in this world, nothing is real, and knowledge is power you'll never obtain without a trust fund
Notify itself does this
There's hundreds if not thousands of examples of this, I promise you Email is email
Why index on google search at all, i thought the strategy now was to make sure it's cited in all the GPT results
I'm still waiting for the nanofactories, death of IP and printing all the things that break. Based on point one, I'm interested to ask my nephew and niece what they think
easyJet efficiency rating is 66% for Gatwick routes. Does anyone know the last Easyjet flight to depart, or arrive at London Gatwick on time?
Still can't sort out TNTs shit quality feed though can they! I've pirated shit better quality than what I pay them for
Good surf atm, or flat?
I promise you, it was great & provided absolutely amazing passive aggressive comebacks you're only allowed to use when you're 70 and I cannot wait
Which is cracked, because it only requires a teenager to open it!
I've watched every episode in spite of absolutely hating every inch of its existence, as soon as yet another popular song from 1992, release of date Alien 3 ends an episode I want to scream. In my house, Nobody can hear you scream
Done a stupid thing and tried to repair guttering through intermittent downpours. Fell through the ladder. Luckily on the 2nd rung coming down but shinned myself a goodun
All season the picture quality delivered by TNT sports channels via VirginMedia has been 2 shades of shit. #MotoGP #TNTSport @suziperry.bsky.social - it does take away from the teams excellent delivery
We are all, as we are continually reminded, an aging population
Every QR code is that bee game in Flash Gordon
40yr olds. Not 40 patrons. Which is simple math apparently the average 25yr is incapable of doing when there's no signal in the tunnel
That was a sold out theatre of 40 something comedy appreciators. The train home: 25yrs of a failing education system in group monologue format. My mind is blown
Nothing spells, I've made a mistake than Castley Carey station carpark. I have no idea how I managed to escape that trap for 2yrs 🥵
At this point i genuinely wonder what would happen in Black Sheep if you ask for an espresso
1 week to go: Next Friday afternoon, @karakane-kk.bsky.social and I will be running a workshop on making end-to-end #serviceDesign finally happen. Join us if you’re attending @sdingov.bsky.social. The format is just coming together – after (as always) valuable input from @claragt.bsky.social.
Jeeezuz. 20yr olds are fucking thick
Today, I came out from under the cloak. It's true, I've returned to #GovDigital Next slide.
You're alienating the good fascists
Do you know someone working at a chain coffee retailer? This - and only THIS, is a Flat White. It's 6flOz with a 1:1 ratio of espresso coffee and WHOLE MILK. Everything else is a Latte. Not a Large Flat White, not a Medium Flat White. The name explains to contents. The Ministry of Coffee Snobs
Maybe there is still a ☀️ after all
Once, I had to remove a very traditional plant from a bed full of trees bearing fruit because it had told all the fruit trees in their culture they were lesser. It's still the worst experience I've had as a 'leader' of anything. It was a good plant in the wrong coppice. I found somewhere to replant
And unfortunately the thing is always a human, I mean pretty flower
I'm going back to Red Dead Redemption 2 because in that world, I know I'm the asshole, and can make amends by helping the folk out in town, maybe help the Mormon family raise a barn, and eventually, I'll discover 🦖 🦴
I float between this every 1hr on the 1hr every day and I still don't know. In some groups there's the individual maturity and cognition that means you can hold the space, and water as needed. Contrast is when you've had someone plant species that kill each other and you got to rip it out
Ditto 3am airport run 4am cat angry about not being allowed outside (healing an injury) 5am cat angry because he's hungry-feed cat and give antibiotics 6am cat wants toilet doesn't want to go inside 7am cat crying at bottom of stairs because wants to go out I'm seeing a pattern for my day
Summoning intl #GovDesign talent— At @digitalservice.bund.de, we have now hired folks from 3 other digital government units. An engineer from 🇳🇴 Norwegian NAV, the digital unit of the welfare department, a designer from the 🇦🇺 Australian Digital Transformation Agency and designers from 🇬🇧 UK’s GDS.
Day 3 since returning from holiday and finding my 'trustedhousesitter' failed to notice a massive wound on Doug Judy which by Sunday was infected. Poor dude now on antibiotics and house arrest and not happy about it. Neither am I.
World premiere: Today, we are running the ‘Intro to #ServiceDesign’ in German for the first time. It’s the training that @claragt.bsky.social and I started in UK government back in 2018. Sabrina @feuerherd.bsky.social is steering it. I am assisting. Cross-gov folks from BDR and DRV are here, too
Go on holiday and weeks earlier than expected the reshuffle begins
that's bad times figuratively and literally marching towards a centenial anniversary event i fear
that is very exciting indeed, I await the first roll!
What backs are you going to use with it? I'm still a bit confused how it evolved and seems to now use instax medium format? But it's based of large plate? I'm intrigued. Anything that can get close to Hassleblad is worth a go
Just going to say it. Alien Earth is a millenial nostalgia circle jerk mess. I'll give episode 3 a try and it needs to figure out wtf it is doing
this is true yes, you can pay attention and choose a VPN that does not use your IP as a service. How many people in the last month have read the terms or know what to do beyond some pil on TikTok showing them what to use because they're being paid to promote it?
can you imagine
Been thinking about this for a long time. Qualitative user research as an example diminishes the value of a real voice by aggregating many voices into one homogenised statement. When we do something with a subject matter expert we cite them by name and position to weight the statement as higher
Foundation is becoming very good
I started my creative existence co-creating a fanzine. We had 30 subscribers, bu post out of NME back pages. I got inviting to album launches in pubs when I was 14, and years later wrote for Rocksound. All because I loved pritt-stikk and glitter and trips to Kallkwik on a Saturday for the print run
I'm concerned that I know which brand you mean but cannot untangle that logo and will forever be YIKYAK in my mind and most likely a frozen yoghurt shop
It only takes one 🫘
The fact the piece says absolutely nothing about the contents of the book indicates nobody read it, and it has no substance and it was easier to take the press release and vomit it onto the site
The guardian piece is riddled with comedic gold. Like zuck - curious about subjects he did not excel in. Like, someone who sold out the literal foundations of a political party they were in charge of for their own ego
VPN isn't anything new. Streaming services being Geofenced and ISPs blocking traffic created a proliferation of services over 20yrs. What people don't know is these services use your house as a proxy for other customers amd you don't know what they're looking at but it's coming from your house
Asking for advice and taking it are not the same
My problem with flags. I live on the coast. A union jack flying on a beach makes sense. IF you happened to be lost at sea, this is an important navigation device. A 12 inch St. George cross hanging out your car window is a dog whistle.
Not working a market stall and trading crud a carboots?
For a long time, there was a bird that forever taunted me. I'd paint murals of train tunnels, and it would swap them for real tunnels. Was forever playing chase with me but manipulate the situation so I ran off cliffs, then would have the gaul to play a slide whistle whilst I fell
In 1 train ride you could social engineer just about anything as long as you're on a peak commute train
Being back on the commute world 3 things that haven't changed in 5yrs. People: wearing building passes on transport so I can see their full details Writing sensitive official emails on the train I can read including the full CC list Answering phone calls and discussing people, and things
OK, hear me out 1. Yes, this has made someone's day. It is coming at the cost of their vulnerability being used to monetize an individual/brand callit what you want. It's important to consider whether you are taking advantage of an individual, or truly being generous, kind, decent human being
I wrote almost the same article about Medium in maybe 2012. You can choose what to use based on personal morals and ethics, it doesn't stop views other than your own from existing, and probably shouldn't
Yes to all. We already have automation, it's very good because collective smart people have crafted the scripts and continue to do so based on many factors that an LLM can never do. It can be this as well as this, but never only this
Circling another monologue on why holacracy and other formations like it do not scale but that doesn't mean you cannot start there, just continually check before you've already outgrown it
Yes.
Maybe I'll start a teachable course for anyone over 18 about to get a bar job. It will teach you the fundamentals that somehow got lost in 2020. It's your job to know who's next. Modules on Headcounting, pouring Guinness whilst pouring something else, and when to load the bar on busy nights
Post brain rot pre AI slop era circa Gen-Z stare
If you haven't got 40 divs wrapped around it all set to display inline you're a n00b
Amazing what can be achiev6when you actually give money to the organisations that need it
It's encouraging to see more service design roles being advertised in #localgov, in recent months. This example is at Westmorland and Furness. recruitment.cumbria.gov.uk/trentl_webre...
To have slepwalked into precrime law and enforcement is on every voting adult in the UK. We could have blocked this ever happening in 2017 and countless times since We now live with wholesale apathy, ignorance won, proved democracy was a lie and demonstrated it in the open - we did nothing
This is the cliché privacy debate. In Norway - I van actually find out your salary, and your profession. The state is that we have nothing to hide. Then of course there is the inverse. Neither are perfect, because perfect doesn't exist PTO
Harmony
I've started following all the wrong people. This platform is awash with endless whining about how the world is doomed and AI all the things. Where's the cats? Where's the obscure local band? Where's the people making random shit in their back yard?
Last night: Pelican supported by REZN at The Dome in London. First chance I've had to see Pelican since 2004. Great show
wikipedia lost against the online safety act. 🙃 this country is fucking doomed. nothing like censoring facts under the guise of “protecting the children”.
A pattern of shit developers - not using button and hacking a dozen nested spans that are emulating a button, except I've disabled something and none of the buttons do anything on my phone and now I can't pay my card bill
The next One Team Gov North breakfast and co-working session is on Tuesday 19 August 2025 in Manchester www.eventbrite.com/e/oneteamgov... #OneTeamGov #Manchester
intl-govdesign-team@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk I think I know where it goes and it is on public pages. I would have DM'd you this, but my nation requires me to prove I'm an adult human to use messaging on this app...........
I've wasted over 1 month emailing every day two companies. Varia Brewing Company Bean Bros (UK) I have a warranty covered grinder. It's still broken and in my house. Every day I email both companies asking for a postage label to return it. Every 3 days I get a lying response that it will be today
This reminds me! I found an email address related to the Intl community network - and I have no idea where it goes
Need to go to London tomorrow night and all I'm seeing is replacement bus services between Victoria and Lancing - but no details on if it is the whole route or a bit. I.Hate.London
Not quite, but close
PLAYBOOKS tell you WHAT to do, but more important HOW to do it. Everything else is just that wanker in the pub who thinks they are a better England manager. Stop calling your untested opinion a playbook, please and thank you
