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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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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My best thinking is done away from my desk. I highly recommend getting a dog to help as dog walks are so good for this and also necessary every day.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

13 years ago today I had my liver transplant! It's quite unbelievable. As always, my thoughts are with my donor's family at this time of year. I remain unspeakably grateful for the incredible gift of life and the privilege of growing older. Do think and talk about organ donation - it saves lives.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Making floppy drive noises to indicate that I am upset and/or loading

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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 11/08/2026

You voted, we listened! UKGovCamp 2027 is officially heading to Manchester. Want to help shape the event or have venue ideas for 200 to 250 people? Reply here or email organisers@ukgovcamp.com to join the conversations.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

💥 GDS Local is hiring! 💥 We are recruiting for three roles. Associate PM, Senior UR, Senior Service Designer - links in thread🧵 The roles are located in Bristol, London or Manchester.

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Stamanfar @stamanfar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hallo! I have finally got my bum in gear and posted the next upcoming One Team Gov meetups, both in-person (London) and virtual, if you want to sign up you can do so on the link below and please RT! www.linkedin.com/posts/onetea...

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Luma | OneTeamGov

We've had a great start to the year with 3 in-person breakfasts in London and 3 virtual OTG meetups. We've just listed the next 3 months meetups and you'll find them on Luma here: https://lnkd.in/eViN...

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I would really like to do some user research on the 2 mins 10 seconds of pre amble when I try to call my GP telling me about flu vaccines, child nasal flu vaccines, COVID symptoms, and what time I can ring for things. What does *any* of this achieve?

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Last week I had to go to the GP to fill in my name, address, phone no., email and NHS no., on a paper form and then hand it to the receptionist for her to verify from The System. She stamped it and handed it back to me and then I posted it to another bit of the NHS. This... Doesn't need to exist.

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Si Manby @cthimon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We're looking to fill a couple of Senior Content Designer roles across the OPG and Probation digital teams www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

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Senior Content Designer:National

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Come join @rumens.uk and me at GDS Local as our Senior Delivery Manager. Closing date: 9 Feb Location: Bristol, London, Manchester. Help us bridge central and local gov digital to create seamless experiences for users. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Please please vaccinate your child against measles. This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

As a user I need to know if my clinic permanently changes location so that I can attend my appointments.

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Phil Rumens @rumens.uk · 17/01/2026

The Roadmap for Modern Digital Government has a commitment that GDS works with #localgov to co-create a vision including shared products and components of a technology stack. If this is of interest to you what are your thoughts? roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/join-up-serv...

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Joining up public services through stronger local and central government collaboration

GDS Local is driving collaboration between central and local government to build faster, user-centred digital services.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Probs a day for tea and seed sorting and tentatively stepping into the garden and reconquering the veg beds from the squirrels and their hidden nuts. Gardening has helped my sometimes-a-bit-anxious-and-sad brain rethink January and reimagine it for all the possibilities of the coming growing year.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Lots of good conversations as always at #ukgc26. Some takeaways: - hypothesis-driven practice Inc 'vibe coding' needs an acceptance it might fail - thinking about spaces to discuss failure that include #localgov - product jobs are never the same - still many barriers to data sharing

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I have no idea what time I'll get in but I am at least on a train to Birmingham #ukgc26 Come talk to me about GDS Local - keen to hear any thoughts about opportunities or learnings and generally mingle with folks interested in all things #localgov

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The chances of going to #ukgc26 are getting slimmer... 🥲

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Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

PSA for those heading from London to Birmingham for @ukgovcamp.com - all trains from Euston currently cancelled, head to St Pancras and change at Leicester... #govcamp

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My prescription fee exemption cert expires soon. To get it renewed, my GP must full out the FP92A paper form return it by post (there's also a process to order copies of this form!). But I also need to put in a request to ask my GP to do this process. This process feels like it could be better...

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Made some Irish brown bread. Added a bit too much wheat bran. The crust tastes almost like digestive biscuits. That's a win, I reckon!

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Rounding out 2025 walking with my favourite boy along one of our favourite walks in North Devon - on the cliffs, undulating beside the sea. Zero hospital admissions this year which makes for a change from the last few years!

A landscape image of late afternoon winter sunlight, golden and bright, facing into the setting sun, with light stratus clouds, and a lens flare strikes through to the foreground. The sea is to the right of the image and to to the left a grassy path along a cliff. In the middle of the image, a good distance from the viewer, is a very small black silhouette of a whippet. The image projects calmness and natural beauty.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Слава 💙💛💙💛

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My 13th Christmas with my donated liver. This year, for the first time, I've had some irregular blood tests and no answers yet so I go into 2026 with uncertainty. I find myself even more grateful for more than a decade of totally normal function. Banality is the greatest gift. Merry Christmas 🎄 🎁

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 24/12/2025

My colleague @juliacushion.bsky.social made a “sunlight optimism” spreadsheet, my colleague @zarino.co.uk said there should be a postcode lookup version, I have the day off, the kid has gone swimming, and so, I present: The Sunlight Optimism Calculator: dracos.co.uk/made/sunligh...

A screenshot of the calculator showing various upcoming days when there will first be 9 hours of daylight, or a 7am sunrise, or a 6pm sunset, etc, along with sunrise/sunset times, total daylight, and a countdown

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Oisín Murphy-Lawless @bikesnbukes.eurosky.social · 21/12/2025

If you’re not doing anything at 8.40, you should join a chunk of Irish people as we watch the solstice online. RTÉ radio news just made a point of saying that there is no cloud cover over Newgrange today. bsky.app/profile/bike...

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

And that's a wrap on work for this year as well as my time at MHCLG (for now). New things in the new year... But first, some rest.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My year as a product manager in the public sector unwrapped: - 0.5 FTE saying "but what problem does this solve?" - 0.2 FTE saying "that sounds like a great assumption we can test" when some announces their opinion. - 0.2 FTE cursing Mural. - 0.1 FTE sighing.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is an absolute treat to watch. There's something quite evocative about seeing in real time a moment of intense connection to the past and the natural present simultaneously.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Forget to share this milestone: we are back to lengthening evenings. Yesterday the sun set a whole 8 seconds later than on Sunday. 🕯️✨

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Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Plus ‘Digital’ as a brand (IMO) has been incredibly damaging, as it’s just pigeonholed us into tech delivery- rather than a problem solving profession, whether the solution is a product or not.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Why is *everything* a subscription now? It's not more convenient. It all requires a lot more admin.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Writing a blog on discovery and so far I've referenced "We're going on a bear hunt" and "Let it go". I am not a serious person and yet I hold down a professional job.

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Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Example 99 for why I didn’t use the Welsh language option of a service. A new one: m&s Shrewsbury till froze and crashed when I selected Welsh. Moved to another till, and selected English.. in case it happened again. Had a train to catch… in a rush.

Photo of a self check out till with blue square saying “you’re about to be signed out”

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This review, with honest subjective opinions by the author, reminds me of how much a lot of people like to diss pre-chopped veg like onions or carrots. Maybe it's not for you, as part of the able majority. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future – an astonishing look at how tech is changing disabled people’s lives

Prepare to have your perspective shattered by the comedian’s visits to our US tech overlords. The upcoming advancements for those with disabilities are life-changing

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

At one of the hospital trusts I go to, at the blood test unit, it advises you need your hospital number to speed up the tests. Unless you know it off, you must load the app and afaik it's only in a "letter". But letters don't load there, despite being on NHS WiFi.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's a two-blanket day for our poor whippet, Cecil. Thoughts and prayers for his shivering little soul.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Getting fed up of the cliché that discovery work isn't "progress". I'm as allergic to discoveryitis as the next person but sometimes discovery is the right thing to do.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I suppose Ireland is the only country where you can wear zogabongs, but hardly anyone does that anymore.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Every time I take a nebuliser my air purifier is like "ALERT ALERT POISON IN THE AIR!!!!" Yeah alright chill out mate, it's prescribed.

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My communication style is always preferring to find an appropriate emoji on Slack to avoid using any words. I am noting this to put this in the next 'manual of me' I have to do: I will not use words but mere mini pictograms to convey my thoughts. I am a child of MSN. 😌

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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Man who, seemingly unknown to her, used Rosalind Franklin's work to underpin his career has died.

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