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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I would like to launch a formal complaint against Gen Z. I am increasingly noticing members of this generation writing things like “Sureeee no problem” or “OMG I would dieeee”. They are extending the wrong vowel sound and frankly I haaaaate it

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Day after the solstice and oh boy the nights are really drawing in aren’t they

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop. If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Can you imagine emailing someone and actually receiving this as their out of office? Lol

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It's what Tony Benn would have wanted... #ai

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is what they tell me…

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thrilled that the Civil Service World podcast is back, after the briefest of (5-year) hiatuses! Ep1 of the revamped series features DSIT innovation guru Claire Donaldson. Have a listen & add us to your feed - there'll be lots more episodes over the next few weeks! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Changemakers: Fostering innovation in government

Podcast Episode · The Civil Service World Podcast · 12/05/2025 · 32m

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

[Youth Pastor voice] You know who else had a man cave?

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The placement of these googly eyes on this poster has brought me so much joy

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Something has happened to French restaurant names since I last came here… a 🧵

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

There is a Simpsons moment for everything ❤️

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Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I am so sick of things “hitting different”. I just saw an ad for a fruity shower gel on the back of a bus with the words “NATURE HITS DIFFERENT” emblazoned in massive letters. Fuck that!

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Empowering, humble, candid, sweary (!) & v witty opening keynote speech from Baroness Louise at CSW’s inaugural Collaboration Conference #CSWcollab25

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Traitors: peacock shriek overdone. Discuss.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Still obsessed with this: after all the DOGE guff literally the first thing that Trump has said he will do is establish a new arm of the federal bureaucracy on Day One

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

⬇️ this is deeply alarming and upsetting. (Also, an account by the name of dominiccummings is replying to all the replies with emojis. If it is the man himself, it would appear that spreading misinformation and undermining our democracy is all just a game to him)

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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

We are just sending the final pages of the new issue of CSW to press and I think this - from a feature about machinery of government changes and defunct departments - might be my favourite bit

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

4yo daughter took pic of me on the loo with her sub-polaroid camera and waved the pic in my face saying “you can only have this if you stay in your bed all night!” Parroting my words back at me, yes, but she came up with the sextortion part all on her own. Impressive.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

@alexolorenshaw.bsky.social will you lurk, or treat us to your thoughts?

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

To me this screams non-story. If, for example, each of the DWP’s c.90,000 officials — after years of austerity/pay restraint/inflation — has taken home a shopping voucher worth £68 as their bonus, good for them. Richly deserved I say.

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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲 Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported. You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

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colonus.bsky.social @colonus.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Despite popular demand, I am once again thrusting horrifying Victorian Christmas cards under your noses. First: Frog on Frog violence

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The remake of You’ve Got Mail looks shit

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Just falling asleep when you remember you didn’t move the effing elf on the shelf. I never wanted to be an elf on the shelf family, damnit!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

He's hiring a ship He's packing his cloak He's moving to England To follow some bloke Dracula is coming to town

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Me: you’re not getting a drone for Christmas 7yo: Ok fine. How do you spell lip balm? 7yo: Actually I already know

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 13/12/2024

As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.

bbc.com

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline

Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Strong “wrong-kind-of-snow” vibes from Southeastern this morning as my train is delayed because of “slippery rails”. Ummm we live in a permanently damp country??!

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Our first reaction piece to the new cabinet secretary's appointment (there'll be a more in-depth one coming in the next couple of weeks) www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...

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Meet the new boss: Positive reaction to Chris Wormald's appointment as cab sec

PM's top civil servant pick 'suggests willingness to take public sector reform seriously' but unions warn of need for pay reform

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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour: 1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.

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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Massive away win for the little fella.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Teenage babysitter to me and husband just now: “You and your lime bikes. You’re like millennials!” Me and husband: “We ARE millennials” Her: “Oh! I thought you were boomers” 😑😑😑😑😑😑

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Matt is always at his best when he brings together two topical stories. Tomorrow’s cartoon is just 👌👌👌

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In memory of Jim Abrahams, spoofer extraordinaire, here is one of my favourite scenes from Airplane 2

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

PSA: For anyone wondering what’s in Snoop’s red wine, this is what it says on the back of the bottle 🧐

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Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A classic example of AI being put to good use, doing what it does well IE classifying and pattern spotting - and helping the red squirrel population in the process www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Conservationists turn to AI in battle to save red squirrels

The tech is being used to automatically control the creatures' access to feeders at sites across the UK.

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Government press office, sharing literally the most anodyne information imaginable, which is also already in the public domain: ‼️ PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS STRICTLY ON BACKGROUND AND NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION ‼️

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

CSW is now on Bluesky! Sign up for all your civil-service-related news, comment and gossip

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

He follows me on there too! Since back in 2009. I don’t think his team understood how it worked - think they felt they HAD to follow anyone who was following his account

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

tragically malicious

Newspaper article headline reads “Thief takes off with Lucky Charms cereal.”

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Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

When I met the Fiscal Crumpet at an IfG event i told him it was like meeting a celebrity. He told me - not in so many words - that that made me a bit of a loser. But I stand by it!

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