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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Prepare to be shocked. There is a light drizzle in progress.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When the Father Ted generator delivers body horror:

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your last picture of him was lovely.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We had to say goodbye to Bruce this afternoon after he went into liver failure with kidney disease. 13 years old, a decade with us. He was a proud, heraldic doofus who lived for chips. Calm, gentle, reserved. He will be missed greatly every day.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Surely you can just sit there and remember an outdated radio sitcom three times a day?

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm redoing my Ukulele Society's website (the previous WP-with-1000-carousels monstrosity crashed and burned a few months ago and I volunteered to fix things). I was just going to do something in Jekyll, but am I missing any particular new things in the world of static site generators?

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new age metric is thinking about how, soon, I'll be the age that Dermot Morgan was at the start of Father Ted.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Try to float. Accept what you can't change. Stretch goal make your team/direct reports feel as much stability as you can (in practices and support if not in goals or work).

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Future PhD: "Chagnon or Apted: which was the biggest arse?"

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Keep seeing data as an acquisitive asset rather than a perishable service delivery consumable.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one of the things I find fascinating is that, even though I constantly hear about how AI (previously "big data") is going to improve everything, it's apparently no one's job to anticipate that the pavement will be full of bikes and the road full of holes at the same time as it's also bin day

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a. & b. but I only managed c. in 2004

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

6yo asks me "DO WE NEED ANY BEER?" every time we're going round Morrisons. Shame.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, that's a public service. I was actually surprised at the stats for the Maradonna question today. Though that would be totally in the gutter.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am glad I got put on to @catfishing.net, it is a great quiz. But the number of questions that are "name this incredibly obscure (to a non US & non NBA fan) basketball player - I'll make it easy for you by telling you which college team they played for" drives me nuts.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No link left behind should not be old hat.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A friend on here used to work in a building shared with a slightly notoriously antsy union where the door code was the date they'd ousted the last general secretary.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got a bit of a feeling that I'm going to be upping my list of long-term things going on with my body the next time I get a GP appointment. I'd avoided ones where the main symptom was "pain" for quite a while so that is the obvious next step.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Delightful. Good luck. If only NHS data were sufficiently consistent and trusted that this sort of stuff did not need this level of advocacy.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency

"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"you never actually got off the 1130 to Liverpool Street"

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Went out to the @dxw.com summer party last night and it's so nice to see a good company full of people you have time and respect for doing well. Also so many faces from the Old Days, was like being in 2013 again.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would Kurt's indigestion have survived the Wings of Death *mimes wafting mouth*

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 24/09/2026

ahahaha this fucking rules; RETURN THE OPERA TO THE PEOPLE

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminds me of an old digital government hand telling me about the 80s/90s when they'd make fake people in the tax system and chat by appending notes to Mickey Mouse's record.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We had this with one of the Latin teachers. Everyone's older brothers swore he'd locked himself in a cupboard and starting making chicken noises. He was an odd man, but I don't think that's how his breakdown would have manifested.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Premiums to also cost the same as a house.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm working on the boy by reading this page with the additional line "you're going to get some hop-ons".

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Save that shit for LinkedIn, the home of Thought For The Day, but Product Management.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I wang on about product management I use this analogy of “tasting menu vs taco chain” - balancing innovation/vision-based leading products with iteration/demand-based following products. And tl;dr you always need some of both. You sure as hell can’t run a country on cheap tacos. 🤷‍♂️

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A reminder of my favourite quote in the whole thesis:

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I absolutely insist that the news must stop happening.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Be real though, he's been shit at things for years, Palantir are buying the UK equivalent of "Pokémon Go to the polls".

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, I will never miss the joy of trying to get edtech suppliers to meet my open interoperability of data requirements. Like explaining a magic trick to a dog.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another one - and an absolute banger - for the “doing whatever I want to do instead of helping is the moral high ground, actually” gallery. That’s it. That’s the entire EA/long term/Silicon Valley philosophical project.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feel the only way you could have made it more complicated would have been to transcode the data into QR codes, have it printed like an encyclopedia and then reassemble it with cameras and Audacity.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've been trying to write in the DPhil about how early twitter brought tech people and civil servants together in context collapse. Positive framing was so much nicer to think about than sketching the walls of the prison.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Keep thinking about the affordances of software. What does a new playbook of open work look like if the canvas it's drawn on is (almost always) Teams?

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just saw some thick as mince commentary (good point -> bad point -> worse point) and remembered "hey, this guy annoys me every single time someone earnestly reposts him. I can just mute and get on with things". Good stuff.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From what I've gleaned there is basically a latitude above which your crocodile/ shark/ irukanji jellyfish risk becomes unpleasant. And they chose a city above that latitude.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember the morning after in junior school (I was also 11) and the teachers literally playing "Things Can Only Get Better" on the hi-fi in assembly.

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