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Joe Lanman

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Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit joelanman.com

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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 25/08/2026
The Elden Ring movie's looking good
still from Monty Python Holy Grail - the black knight with no arms kicks the white knight, his sword and arm on the floor, in a forest
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 28/07/2026
I mean,
picture of a pipe (symbol)
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 23/07/2026
We added a nice visualisation to our Electricity collection page www.data.gov.uk/collections/...
line chart showing electricity generation sources over time. Renewables starts very low but ends up highest,  fossil fuels starts highest and drops to 2nd, nuclear starts second but drops to 3rd place. Total peaks around 2006 and dropped since
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 19/07/2026
bees are so funny looking
slightly blurry close up of a bee in flight over a lavendar - very fluffy, and looks a bit like they're jumping
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 13/07/2026
alright, I _think_ my London bus frequency visualisation is now correct? Any feedback welcome! buses.joelanman.com
bus map frequency - yellow bus routes on a dark map of london
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 12/07/2026
working on a bus frequency visualisation, not sure the numbers are quite right yet but getting there I think
dark map of london with yellow bus routes overlaid - brighter where there are more buses
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 03/07/2026
makes sense, babies dont buy much stuff
Top stories
Fewer babies could boost the economy
41m ago
396 readers
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 27/06/2026
a rightmove description.. with prompts included
The property is offered freehold and would make an ideal purchase for families, first-time buyers or investors alike.

If you’d like it slightly more premium, more concise, or more family-focused, I can tweak the tone easily.

yes its great but could you add a room description walk through with room sizes please too? xxx

Of course — glad you liked it! Here’s a fully “bumped-up” version with a smooth walk-through room description and room sizes worked in naturally. I’ve kept it estate-agent ready and easy to read ??

Offered for sale with no upper chain, this well-presented three-bedroom mid-terraced family home is located on a popular residential road in West Watford, conveniently positioned for local schools, shops and transport links.
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 23/06/2026
Simpsons, Mr Burns and smithers stand around a model of Springfield with a shade over it.
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 07/06/2026
Inbox
Your portway neigh... 
I have noticed a neighbour
Is this normal?
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 05/06/2026
data.gov.uk has been rebranded the National Data Library, and we have big plans for it!
National Data Library
Collections
Data manual
Directory
The home of UK public data to inform decisions and build services
Find out more about the National Data Library
Collections
Curated collections of high-quality, accessible data
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 04/06/2026
disappointed with @octopus.energy for not advertising their salaries, important for inclusion, diversity and fairness. And it would waste less time if you advertised the salary.
SALARY QUESTION 🐙

What are your salary expectations? The reason why we ask because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - however it's important to make sure we aren't wasting your time if your expectations are too different!✱
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 01/06/2026
why is Safari putting "bookmarks" in scare quotes? Also weird capitalisation
Add to Reading List
Add to "Bookmarks"
Add Bookmark to...
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 17/05/2026
Giant skeleton looms over a garden wall outside a house
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 08/05/2026
hmm yes on re-read this section seems to rule out GA:
If your processing goes beyond this, the exception won’t apply and you must get consent. For example, if you: 

make inferences or take decisions about people (or categories of people) based on information like their IP address or category on your service; or
retain the individual-level information (after aggregating it).
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 06/05/2026
dunno what everyone's complaining about, I think Nolan's Odyssey looks great
Ray Harryhausen's stop motion cyclops looking fierce
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 01/05/2026
not entirely sure what these maps are but some of them look nice webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/MapsPor...
old yellowed hand drawn map of something coastal, there is an Index of signs and colors
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 27/04/2026
People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Chart showing decline in healthy life expectancy in recent years, from about 63 to about 60
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 21/04/2026
Wild bird numbers in the UK dropping at a growing rate www.gov.uk/government/s...
Graph. The ‘all bird species’ index has declined by 18% in the UK and by 19% in England since 1970. Following an initial upturn, the indices have shown a shallow decline between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s. The indices then remained relatively stable until 2015, since then they have shown a modest but continuous decline, with the UK indicator declining by 4% and England by 7% in the five years since 2019. The overall decline observed in the all bird species indicators, each composed of more than 100 species trends, masks considerable variation in the different habitat indices and in individual species trends.
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 13/04/2026
lol
Mindful Chef

Substitution in today's box

Unfortunately, due to a supply issue, we've been unable to source 10g Roasted Peanuts for your meal this week. We've instead replaced this with 20g Roasted Peanuts.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause

METHOD ALTERATION

Please use half the peanuts in your recipe
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 11/04/2026
Put a few of my mission patches online joelanman.com/mission-patc...
Transition tool - a tarantula on a red background
GOV.UK Cookies - a teddy bear cookie on a blue and white checked background
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 02/04/2026
www.gov.uk/government/p...
table - linked in the post
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 02/04/2026
nice site design www.thenation.com
Screenshot . Huge white title 'The Nation' on a bold red background. Text reads The Olympics Is Repeating One of Its Worst Mistakes
The IOC’s new anti-trans testing regime revives some of the most discredited and discriminatory policies in the history of the games.
MICHAEL WATERS
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 25/03/2026
Very proud of the team, this is just the start of the new data.gov.uk! dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/25/w...
new data.gov.uk site on an ipad. Text reads 
data.gov.uk
Home
Collections 
Data manual 
Directory
The home of UK public data to inform decisions and build services
Find out more about the new data.gov.uk
Collections
Curated collections of high-quality, accessible data
Business and economy
Company information, prices, trade, economic indicators
Environment
Nature, climate, floods, mapping
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 10/03/2026
Ponyo Ponyo
Willem Dafoe looking up in fear meme
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 17/01/2026
fly.io's new site is very nice, they have an illustrator on the team, very cool fly.io
a home page with a whimsical illustration of a bird person in a sandbox, imagining many different things. Slogan: Build fast. Run any code fearlessly.
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 16/01/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
old black and white photo of a tall tree growing up above various other foliage
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 04/01/2026
well this is lovely science.nasa.gov/specials/you...
The word 'hello' spelt out in aerial photography, for example of fields or lakes
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 01/01/2026
Dig Into an Enormous Archive of Drawings Unveiling the Complex Root Systems of 1,180 Plants www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/wage...
An intricate sketch of the plant Alyssum montanum, showing both its above-ground growth and its extensive, highly detailed root system.

A small, low-growing cluster of thin stems with tiny flowers

Below the ground, a massive and complex network of roots about 10 times as large as the plant above ground
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 09/11/2025
The V&A Storehouse is really cool
A dark aisle of tall shelves, a painting is lit at the endSuper wide shot from high in the storehouse looking down and across. We see three levels around a large open space, all full of items and people looking at themAn interior designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it's softly lit dark wood with 3 large orange stools, and wooden shuttersA wide shot over the storage area, many white metal cabinets in rows, with black fluorescent lamps hanging above
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 07/11/2025
lol Economist finally updated the bizarre misleading image on their Trump approval tracker
Before - a photo of Trump with 2 line graphs going upAfter - a photo of Trump with 2 line graphs going down
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 29/10/2025
Not sure about the new Met Office forecast design. There's less visual hierarchy and distinction between data types
new design - 10 degrees, clear. It's dark and minimal, there's a row of days but they all look the same apart from a thin yellow line highlighting today. Below is the hourly forecast but the temperature, humidity and wind all look very similarold design - first row is days but today is a clearly a selected tab, much bigger than the other days. There is more information - UV, air pollution, sunrise and sunset times. Below is the hourly forecast, the rain and temperature designs are distinct
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 24/10/2025
Beautiful work notimefortv.biz/gallery-24/
a grid of 6 abstract images, they are all generative artworks, round shapes either in vivid gradients of greens, pinks, purples and yellow, or black and white. They all feature a tactile half tone effect
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 23/10/2025
reminds me of my least favourite office I've seen - daily telegraph
massive open plan office with many desks, plus lots of large screens and projections of money tickers and that sort of thing. no natural light at all
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 12/10/2025
Sebastian
close up of a white cat licking his paw on a wall, backlit by very bright sunshine, a tree heavily out of focus in the background
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 21/09/2025
so extremely ugly and much less usable
new desktop showing the glass and blur effects - text is hard to read, buttons had to make it, it's just a smudgy mess
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 08/09/2025
randomly found this pic of Peter Capaldi
Bill Paterson, Joe McFadden, and Peter Capaldi in The Crow Road (1996). Peter has a large head of curly dark hair
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 01/09/2025
Very happy white retriever squinting in the evening sun with their tongue out. Other dogs in the background
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 30/08/2025
2025 version
Three men sat around a table. Rupert Murdoch sat in the middle with a plate holding a massive pile of cookies, pointing at the dark skinned man on the left with no cookies. Says to the light skinned man on the right with one cookie 'careful mate that foreigner wants your cookie'
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 29/08/2025
They just keep getting away with it
Three men sat around a table. Rupert Murdoch sat in the middle with a plate piled high with cookies, pointing at the dark skinned man on the left with no cookies. Says to the light skinned man on the right with one cookie 'careful mate that foreigner wants your cookie'
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 29/08/2025
wide shot of double rainbow over a park, very dramatic skies with dark clouds on the left turning to blue skies on the right
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 26/08/2025
playing around with it
the word headphones in a curve following the shape of headphones, the word ON inside the headphones
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 26/08/2025
Avery Edison
@aedison
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 15/08/2025
got a good screenshot from The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
pixel art of a stream in the moors. A little girl in a grey dress shakes her fists and says 'He's such a little shit!' to a woman standing nearby
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 11/08/2025
Day out in Deptford
Pub interior, red and blue walls, a large decorated mirror, light coming in through a skylightA fluffy cat in a pram on the undergroundPub interior, padded leather effect bench, a glass cabinet lit pink with small bottles inside, two guitars hanging in frontPub interior, looking up there's a large metal and glass chandelier, a red bicycle hanging on the wall and other nick nacks
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 02/08/2025
Ophelia
a bright orange space hopper floating in a river, a tree cascading in behind it
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 24/07/2025
Interesting, Bluesky are complying with new UK internet regulation by blocking direct messaging until you prove your age
Choose a method to verify that you are an adult

The Bluesky Social Team has partnered with KWS to confirm that you are an adult.

By selecting a verification method below, you confirm that you have read KWS’ Privacy Policy.

Face Scan
We use Yoti to scan your facial features and estimate your age.
Credit Card
We use Stripe to authorise your card. Your card will not be charged.
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 22/07/2025
Do you have anything without any AI in it?
Monty Python spam sketch - people sat in a cafe, including a table of vikings
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 21/07/2025
Pretty happy with this one, very dramatic skies today
low shot of a funfair being set up - a huge crane like ride towering over the trucks, below a very ominous sky with huge grey clouds
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 06/07/2025
Bee dance
Close up of bumble bee appearing to dance on a lavender flower
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