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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Better things happen when we connect the dots. Feeling tired and exhilarated after another brilliant #UKCharityCamp Here's the one photo we managed to get of the Poteris Team today - we were too busy having great conversations and sharing ideas to take more 🫣

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It's my favourite day of the year! #UKCharityCamp Here's my tired and excited face waiting for my Birmingham bound train 🚂

A very tired white woman in her (late 😳) thirties waiting for her train to Birmingham.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The memory of bed tech weighs heavy.

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A key thing worth knowing about the AI super intelligence claims is that scientists who study cognition are clear we don’t even have a model of human intelligence, so how can you look at an AI and say it’s the same or better? We confuse lots of metaphors for cognition with knowing how it happens.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

When your MO is to be helpful and useful, but you also run an agency...how do you make sure you come across as wanting to help and be supportive, rather than wanting to book billable time? #AgenciesForGood #TechForGood

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Why hasn't Microsoft added an auto number system for images in a thesis? Helping my partner to work his way through at 2 am with a toddler to look after tomorrow is just a bit much. Also, why is the table of contents so crappy looking?

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

When they're so good, all you need is to see an image to get the ear worm 🐛

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Recently I've had the privilege to start working with an organisation that is truly aiming to be equitable in it's employment strategies and the way it delivers for the sector. I need to start talking more about what it is we do, and our ambitions. Where's the best place to share these days?

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UKCharityCamp @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

UKCharityCamp is back for 2025! This unconference event is built around its participants, specifically folk in the UK charity sector, with a focus on all things digital. It'll take place on 13th November at the Studio in Birmingham, and you can now get your tickets here 👉 www.ukcharitycamp.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Trans and non-binary rights do not diminish or negate women's rights. Attacking trans and non-binary individuals does. It creates an atmosphere, as currently seen, where if you don't fit into a neat little box you can be discriminated against.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'd love to connect with some charity folk local to me, hands up if you're #Dartford (or Kent) way?

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Maddy Rose @maddyirose.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

When the government talk about 'more people getting support to move into work', they often mean requiring people to meet with work coaches. But a focus on ticking boxes means work coaches often aren't providing meaningful support to help people move into/progress in work. Great report

"95% of the job of the [work coach] interview was looking for controls to see if I was going to be sanctioned and about 5% was having a discussion about helping you to find a job. So I thought that the work coach's job should be to coach me towards the job market and look at my CV and help me to find things to look for. And she was leaving me to sink or swim to find jobs for myself" - UC Claimant

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This year, I have attempted to self refer into a lot of post natal support, but after having to deal with awful bots instead of a quick and sinple form I've struggled instead of using the service. Can we please make bots better or just stop using them?

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This month, I shifted from a "have boob, will travel mamma" to a "have to pack everything under the sun, cause weaning and now on bottle 🙈." How do people do this? Especially when mamma has ADHD and is currently not medicated?

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John - Plunk Fdn Executive Director @privacyevangelist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The fine comes after the authority found OpenAI processed users' personal data to "train ChatGPT without having an adequate legal basis and violated the principle of transparency and the related information obligations towards users." www.reuters.com/technology/i...

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Italy fines OpenAI over ChatGPT privacy rules breach

Italy's data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) after closing an investigation into use of personal data by the generative artificial intelligence application.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Even though I plumped for the tree that no one else chose (the one on the left), it's settling in quite nucely, waiting for decorating tomorrow afternoon with a cheeky Christmas movie 🎬

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The pressure of the Christmas tree choice on your own is real. Which would you have picked?

A man stands in a barn holding two Christmas trees.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

These settling sessions at nursery are more for me than for Asa, I'm totally sure of it.

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Cass Review found no evidence about harm (according to their own criteria of sufficient evidence, a randomised trial). That’s very different from finding evidence OF harm. There is considerable evidence from longitudinal work and clinical and patient testimony of benefit and need. The ban is wrong.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I hate the vitriol towards immigrants in the HoC. Too few politicians are prepared to stand up for their amazing contributions to our society or to defend those fleeing asylum. It’s utterly depressing.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Forty per cent of men under the age of twenty five in prison today were in care. For me they have already been failed by society." Prison reform campaigner, Matthew Torbitt, explains why early Government intervention could prevent imprisonment and save money. #Newsnight

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Got a busy KIT morning tomorrow, getting a proposal together for a little training project, and reading a few briefs that I've been invited to respond to - then trying to respond too. Return to work now feels real!

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 09/12/2024

Hoping to do a talk at SXSW London about digital public services and missions along with Ravi Gurumurthy from @nestauk.bsky.social, but need votes. If you have 5 minutes to go here and search for "public services" it's much appreciated sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com

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David Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 07/12/2024

This is *exactly* the kind of incredibly vital behind the scenes work that will be critical for the government to land it's missions. Excellent to see them working in the open. mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/06/d...

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Digital Planning: Developing planning applications specifications in the open

The first collaborative sessions with the planning community to develop data specifications for planning applications have taken place. Find out about the ambition, the progress being made and how you...

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

When your brother in law works in digital marketing for things no-one really needs and the creation of which is killing the planet, and he says Iver dinner that he wants to "diversify" into more climate conscious products (last year it was charities) & you resist the urge to get on your soap box.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Great to connect with @thirdsectorlab.co.uk this morning and chat about a little support project to get my teeth into, followed off (because the creche is at a gym) by a good run on the cross trainer. It's been a reviving kind of day 😊

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just booked my place at @carefultrouble.bsky.social's Community Tech Meet Up in January 🙌 Who will I get to recomnect with there? Event page 👇 lu.ma/v3v6b8fk

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Community Tech Winter Gathering · Luma

Join us in person to celebrate the spirit of collaboration and curiosity in our community tech community of practice. We are delighted to invite you to an…

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Well now www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Seema Malhotra, the migration and citizenship minister, said the government had postponed a planned full shift to the new digital immigration system amid "real fear" of another Windrush-style scandal among minority communities.
It follows complaints from eVisa applicants who have failed to gain access to the new digital immigration system so they can demonstrate they have a right to return to their homes in the UK.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Letting Relate go to the wall seems absolutely nuts, given how much good relationship/family counselling must save the state. So much support for families has fallen away www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Counselling charity Relate goes into administration

Charity on verge of insolvency amid collapse in funding from NHS, school and local authority contracts

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's so sad that by being out on maternity leave, I didn't know it was #DisabilityAwarenessDay until I sat down in front of @channel4news.bsky.social this evening 🙃

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NEON @neonuk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Come and join the Comms team at NEON! It is a really special role in an amazing team - with a budget to commission messaging research, a training component, rapid response work and working with the Spokes Network & Worker-led Transition programmes. www.neweconomyorganisers.org/about-jobs/h...

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| Work at NEON

The purpose of this role is to lead the messaging programme at NEON. That means developing messaging guidance, training and coaching support. You will be the go-to person for messaging work in the Com...

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#UKCharityCamp If anyone's early like me, there's a great place called 200° coffee on Temple Row

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

About 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern #Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid workers and not receiving food or medical supplies despite warnings of famine, via @savethechildren.bsky.social www.savethechildren.net/news/norther...

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Northern Gaza: 130,000 children under 10 deprived of food and medicine during 50 days of siege

Children living in North Gaza and Gaza governates have been almost completely cut off from supplies of food, water, and medicine since 6 October 2024 when Israeli forces declared the area to be a clos...

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UKCharityCamp @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We can't wait for you to join us this Thursday for #UKCharityCamp Reminder of the timings 9.30am arrival, 10am start, we will wrap up by 5.30pm. The Studio is a 2 minute walk from New Street train station.(Video below showing the walking route) See you there 👋 youtu.be/n1-o5aLTwqU?...

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Walking to thestudio... from Birmingham New Street

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Mine (Bobi) doesn't seem to exist, but our unusual name for our baby girl is slowly gaining in popularity 🤪

A graph showing the amount of babies called 'Asa' in the USA slowly rising from close to 0 in the 1940s to almost 600 in 2020.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 25/11/2024

Harvey Goldsmith's predictably dismissive remarks about the legimate questioning of this season's ubiquitous Band Aid track, as “busybodies and woke do-gooders” speaks volumes. White privilege will always try to silence black voices - and allies - that believe it's long overdue to retire the track.

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The obsession of our national debate about the benefits system with how it should respond to people 'refusing to work' has massively hindered progress towards more effective support It would be like discussing how to be a good employer almost exclusively in terms of managing disciplinary processes

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here’s my take on the government’s rhetoric & the reality of their plans on work, disability & benefits: 🧵 1. This kind of rhetoric is damaging, even though the reality is rather different. The benefit system is a source of fear & shame for many…1/6 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain

The Prime Minister uses an article in today's Mail on Sunday to promise changes to try to tame the £137 billion bill for welfare benefits - including a blitz on cheats and those who 'game the system'.

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Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Very excited to have started chats around my first database project as a nice gentle return to work gig 🥳

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