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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

goodness me Chris Mason is a ponderous, self-indulgent and theatrical journalist.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man City have ruined 10 years of football, buggered it for every club near the top. £100m extra cash per season. No wonder we were good. Messing with the careers of every pro footballer, the emotions of every fan. Shammed it for everyone, betrayed everyone. I'm a fan, and I hope we're crushed.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A good month for #boardgames, was September. And a good start to October, heading for a day at Airecon West...

A grid showing the covers of 9 boardgames, including dune Imperium Uprising, high society, Clank and Codenames

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And there was me worrying that as Man City supporters born since 2012, my sons were spoiled, took success for granted, thought City had always surely been like this. They spoke a bit like those entitled and superior United fans. At least now they've got proper football woes to carry around forever.

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Board Game Hot Takes Podcast @boardgamehottakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

100%. Also save money. Also less environmental impact. Like cars and houses, preowned is the way to go with board games.

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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking to speak to anyone who's migrated their organisation from @microsoft.com to #Linux, especially end user devices, please. #opensource

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This sounds like a great and very important job that someone excellent should be doing.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New job role at GDS: Deputy Director for Digital Standards and Inclusive Design. Deadline end of 8th October. Public sector only... Come be my boss! If you're nice, and good. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Quick Check Needed

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I worked full time in an office, like the old days, there's no way I'd go to work feeling like this. But working largely from home, there's huge pressure (from me) to sit and work and not fully rest.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watched the Dark Knight Begins with my boys last night. We discussed who the best Batman actor is. For about 3 seconds. youtube.com/shorts/VTZsN...

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Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb... |#movie #batman #shorts

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They tell you to 'Be bold!'. So you're bold. Then they don't like it and want you to shut up again.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The value of openness at and about work. Fully and publicly open. A really interesting conversation between Matt Jukes and Russell Davies 👉 www.undermanager.com/the-defense-... I do wonder if openness _can_ be as powerful these days. @jukes.ie @undermanager.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"You're not a drop in the ocean. You're the entire ocean in one drop." - Rumi I like that.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm enjoying Ted Lasso. I see why it's so popular. But it's terribly made. Particularly the football bits. And it's a shame they couldn't set it somewhere more in need of a boost than Richmond.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I do not allow my kids on algorithmic media. Much. And limit their time on phones. But still they seem to struggle with focus and ideas.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Smartphones and algorithmic media are ruining our lives. Particularly young people's. It's an epidemic in attention loss and enthickification.

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Tom Colborne @tomcolborne.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Would need to include: “WHICH EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT POLICY WILL BE MAKING AFFORDABLE FOR ALL”

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I appreciated the emergency alert yesterday. It's deadly serious. Now send another please, cutting to the root cause of this dryness - "THE CLIMATE IS DANGEROUSLY HOT. SWITCH TO LOW CARBON TRANSPORT AND FOOD IMMEDIATELY"

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Antony Poveda @tonytoners.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A weeknote, in which it turns out not quite everything at the organisation was where I left before my hols: antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/09... #weeknotes

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Back - 3 to 7 August

New service ownership and sticking around.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It was a human chat, btw, eventually.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now you have to explain the evil thoughts, surely...

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yes. With an emailed code to confirm my identity half way through.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I could not be saved, even by the expert. My loyalty knew many bounds. Shame on me, I was weak. Forgive me, Sky.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trying to get a Sky chatbot to cancel a £1 a month sim contract. It's connecting me to a 'Loyalty Expert'... 🤮

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

On this date in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin, and the efforts by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan race” were undermined by the success of African American athletes, notably Jesse Owens.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

People brought even tables, wind breaks, and tents dedicated to game playing. We also used the carport.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

July was my most boardgamingest month ever, largely thanks to the camping weekend we had. Lovely. #boardgames

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I would rather clean 2 toilets than change the bedding on 1 bed.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

loved it there, underrated. Happy birthday!

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our neighbour's spring has run dry. Ours is slowing down. The grass is getting crispy. I live in fear of fires, already. Soon of course it'll turn to floods, as the rain comes all at once onto hard ground. And this in Wales.

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

They say humans are the most intelligent species on the planet! Where is the intelligence?

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am just a consumer, crushed under late stage capitalism, asking it to deliver a large milkshake that is worth the calories

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 22/07/2026

That is also why this slide/poster from @loudowne.bsky.social and @rufflemuffin.bsky.social resonated so much with me: bsky.app/profile/ruff... It’s such a burden if service designers have to do that all. That’s why having a transformation manager nearby as an ally is fantastic. 5/X

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 22/07/2026

It’s a role we created about 3 years ago after realising having multidisciplinary teams work w/ low-capability depts doesn’t work, or at least not smoothly enough – cause there is such a wide cultural, mindset and experience gap. Their tagline is: “We ensure that change isn’t an accident.“ 1/X

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nice work! What do the Transformation Managers do?

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Matt Eason @matteason.me · 21/07/2026

That's kinda sorta how it worked originally, at least for digital service delivery, with spend approvals and centralised service assessments. They had teeth and it was controversial but shit got done

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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 21/07/2026

So GDS moves to DCMS. Bit of a shock if I am honest.

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

that was a nice few days off work and away from the world... wonder if everyone else at GDS and DSIT had nice weekends...

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