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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Climate change isn’t just about heatwaves and emissions targets. When climate and nature loss affect food, migration, economies and geopolitical stability, they become national security issues too. That conversation is long overdue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026
🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ireland/Dublin @loudowne.bsky.social is doing a mini book launch event with @ncad-ireland.bsky.social design labs on the 7th October in the evening. Tickets in the post below!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/09/2026
More than 500 children are now in shelters, their parents missing or declared dead since the August 26 floods.
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‘Orphaned' by floods, more than 500 Nepali children face uncertain future
More than 500 children are now in shelters, their parents missing or declared dead since the August 26 floods.
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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 19/09/2026
I’m not scared, I’m angry. My sites still work, as I have spent a lot of time dealing with the issue (especially last week when scrapers started to overload the server). I wouldn’t even care about them scraping (for my specific things) if they had any indication of community, care or consideration
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David Heath @davidheath.org · 18/09/2026
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As I've mentioned ad nauseum, I've spent my summer writing up the foresight review on safe adoption of AI in engineering that I've been working on for the past year (will be published in December). At the heart of it are some observations about AI safety culture (which is the hottest of hot messes)
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! On September 11th, the preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature measured 2.98°C above the 1991-2020 mean, which was 4.03 standard deviations above the mean. No previous year has broken 3SD. The Climate 8-ball is feeling oblong.
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OWASP® Foundation @owasp.org · 01/09/2026
OWASP OASIS is now an official OWASP project. A community of application security specialists validating AI-generated fixes for open source vulnerabilities, so maintainers get patches they can actually trust and use.www.owasp-oasis.org/.... Free to join: owasp-oasis.org #AppSec #OpenSource
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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 01/09/2026
At our September meetup, we will hear what #digitalSovereignty entails, why it’s desirable and how we get there. We will hear from @sovereign.tech’s @powen.net, @digitalservice.bund.de’s Anke O​bendiek & @deloittedigi.bsky.social’s Lisa Steigertahl. Join us on Wed, 9 Sept at @tsbberlin.bsky.social
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Meetup #14 — Building digital sovereignty, Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
European governments have created great external dependencies in their digital infrastructure. Much of public digital infrastructure depends on foreign components, platform
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 31/08/2026
Solo working, not just screen time, has driven the surge in time young adults spend alone More in our latest research ➡️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa
Infographic panel stating 18–29‑year‑olds are spending more time alone, reporting diary data that young men spent six and a half waking hours a day alone in 2023 and young women spent an extra one and a half hours (about five hours total).Young adults feel lonelier than older adults: 14% said they felt lonely all the time—twice the rate of 60–69‑year‑olds—and young people in poor health spent three more hours a day alone in 2023 than in 2014–15.Infographic panel saying surging screen time is linked to increased loneliness — young people almost always online were 4 percentage points more likely to be lonely (16% vs. 12%), with a smartphone projecting a glowing network brain.Panel 4 of an infographic arguing working alone is increasingly important: paid work drove most of the rise in time spent alone, and work should be included in debates about young people’s wellbeing alongside screen time.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mountain glaciers are losing mass increasingly fast world-wide over the past 75 years in response to #globalwarming. This and permafrost thawing can destabilize mountain sides and cause glacial collapse and flash floods. Graph: World Glacier Monitoring Service wgms.ch/global-glaci...
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m delighted to be hosting a press conference organised by MIND and Rethink later today which introduces a pioneering new way of organising mental health care proven to reduce hospital admissions & improve quality of life for patients. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Treatment involving patient's family cuts mental health hospital admissions, study finds
The approach focuses on the patient priorities, seeing the same clinicians, and involving people close to them.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 26/08/2026
HR in the Civil Service has been stripped to the bone. And nobody takes staff management seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chloe Moffat: Dad of woman who took her own life says Treasury failed in its duty of care
Chloe Moffat died last year, after she was told of allegations she had shared sensitive confidential information about colleagues, which she denied.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s really important that independent organisations can hold Government to account. I’m on the Board of @nao.org.uk which does this and we are looking for two new Board members. Could you help spread the word so we can get the best possible field of candidates roles.saxbam.com/advert-detai...
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David Heath @davidheath.org · 24/08/2026
Out of my entire computer science course Queuing theory stuck with me the most. It stuck with me because it can be proven using fairly simple mathematical probability models that queue lengths grow exponentially with processor busyness regardless of processing time or inter arrival time.
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Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The machinery of government now having its cogs re-engaged, yet another automated account from everyone's favourite Library. Should you be partial to computers. kulcha, meeja or sports, @ddcms-answers.bsky.social may well be for you. Why not be the first to follow?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 11/08/2026
A partial solar eclipse AND a meteor shower all on Wednesday? Man, the triffids are really giving it their all.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
It started with the UK's Government Digital Service, public-spirited hackers (many ex- of the BBC, where they'd been tempest-tossed by endless internal power-struggles over the internet in public service media) who retooled many of the UK government's most important administrative front-ends. 12/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9
Elinor Ostrom receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a older white woman with gray hair and glasses, wearing a long batik dyed dress, and holding the certificate and medal (in a box).
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Elinor Ostrom the first woman to win a Nobel in #economics was born today 7th August 1933, she worked on commons ownership, deep democracy and tackling #climatechange. We should respect her rules for radicals! www.plutobooks.com/product/elin...
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl, cobalt blue with yellow/green spirals, fire-polished, with diameter of 5in (13 cm), dating from 2nd/3rd century BC. Convincing 3-D effect of spirals when seen in detail (at R). For details of the ancient technique used, see www.bonhams.com/auctions/113...
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David Heath @davidheath.org · 06/08/2026
A rich curation of agile history. Huge effort to bring this together with care and helpful commentary.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026
Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Flags on the Abingdon Road
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David Heath @davidheath.org · 02/08/2026
“The Civil Service substitutes process for leadership, reorganisations tor transformation, assurance rituals for taking personal accountability and being bold, business cases for doing something, micromanagement for trust and empowerment. That needs to change but how will it?”
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 02/08/2026
In a total coincidence I've just read this great article from @peterdt847.bsky.social about the early GDS era . www.civilservicereformuk.com/single-post/... I really enjoyed it and agreed with the majority but it has a few bits that caused me to give it a bit of a side-eye
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A barium meal: what the Government Digital Service’s story reveals about a Civil Service that struggles to reform itself
Source: A GDS story 2013. The first birthday of GOV.UKThe creation of the Government Digital Service in 2011 was the start of one of the boldest and most impactful reforms of the last 60 years. The GD...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
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Jochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@henkvaness.bsky.social is shocked and has more details on this Google move www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In memory of: Saher Nael Ali Harara / ساهر نائل علي حرارة Age: 25 We will not forget you.
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David Heath @davidheath.org · 29/07/2026
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/07/2026
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 27/07/2026
A common misunderstanding about sharing knowledge is that it's mostly about talking. Really, it's about helping teams connect, learn from each other, and stop solving the same problems twice. See how this was done at GOV.UK Home Office at scale →
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GOV.UK Home Office — Adapt Together
How Axiologik achieved alignment and acceleration of digital engineering at GOV.UK Home Office via shared standards, cross-team assessments, and spotlighting effective practices.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/07/2026
Meta's performance review culture is becoming very problematic for its engineering culture. I said this a month ago in @pragmaticengineer.com (screenshot #1), and Semi Analysis said the same last week (screenshot #2). Engineers at Meta are world-class at optimizing for PSC...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Been reflecting on this a bit more, and I think the optics of this are very telling. AI apparently "not a priority" for Burnham, so presumably this is all low-stakes scraps for him, and meanwhile Purnell gets a govt that looks comfortingly like 2009 to play with
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David Heath @davidheath.org · 22/07/2026
Really interesting point
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 22/07/2026
A very useful explanation. And it all comes down to a mistake by humans.
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David Faden @util.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Grateful to @lizthegrey.com and the rest of the Honeycomb team for making www.honeycomb.io/observabilit... available for free. Looking forward to reading it!
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Honeycomb’s O’Reilly Book Observability Engineering, 2nd Ed.
Let authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker explain how to apply Observability successfully in your organization.
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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Join @mahabali.bsky.social & colleagues for Understanding Culture and Bias in AI! 📅July13| 2:00PM GMT Explore how culture and bias shape AI, and discuss strategies for fostering critical AI literacy in teaching. Register: myfest.equityunbound.org Free registration: email unboundeq@gmail.com #AI
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MYFest26 - MYFest26
Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners ever...
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 19/07/2026
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