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Steve Scott

@manuscript.bsky.social
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Spend my days working with smart people in the research science space. Truffle hunter. Scottish. Likes to ride bikes. Also have side projects building www.afterloss.uk and www.spendapenny.uk.

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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 18h
Booked a window cleaner a few days ago. Asked him if he’d like me to see if our neighbours would be interested in having their windows done too (we have a street WhatsApp). Result - one visit, five houses done. Now thinking there’s a business model here.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Canada the trains are very, very long. If you make it to the end of this video and post the name on one of the last few carriages you’ll win a prize.* I sped it up x2 after the start but it’s still long. *not really
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last week a user working through his own AfterLoss plan told us a guide to GOV.UK's online Lasting Power of Attorney service would be helpful. It's live now: afterloss.uk/guides/making-an-lpa-online
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How to Make a Lasting Power of Attorney Online: Step-by-Step Through the GOV.UK Service
A screen-by-screen walkthrough of the GOV.UK online LPA service for England and Wales: what to have ready, what each section asks, and what happens after you print, sign and post it.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Currently in a town near Niagra Falls on Lake Ontario. The locals are making their views clear.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wrote this before an AfterLoss user completed their full family pack in just over 3 hours... so 'nobody does that' was a lie. Apologies.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Excited to see what the community submits!
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My day job includes running our annual Catalyst Grant - an equity-free grant of up to £25,000 for early-stage ideas on a science-based theme. This year's theme captures the current moment well. All will be revealed tomorrow... If you know anyone who might be interested, feel free to DM.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your family knows your Netflix password. Ask them where your will is. Play the AfterLoss game to find out the other things they'd have to guess at. www.afterloss.uk/could-they-f...
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I built the thing and couldn't have done it that fast.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My Sunday to-do list: nothing. A real* AfterLoss user, opened an account this morning: funeral wishes recorded, added multiple contacts, 5 digital accounts, all key documents located, and downloaded the finished family pack for the family. Under 4 hours. www.afterloss.uk/family-pack *really real
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What to Leave for Your Family When You Die: The AfterLoss Family Pack | AfterLoss
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you. See a filled-in example.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You are not going to sit down one evening and sort out your entire death admin. Nobody does that. So don't. Add a few things at a time, for you or a loved one. The Family Pack is now live in Planning Ahead on AfterLoss. Read a free example - no email required: www.afterloss.uk/family-pack
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What to Leave for Your Family When You Die: The AfterLoss Family Pack | AfterLoss
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you. See a filled-in example.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your family knows your Netflix password. Ask them where your will is. Play the AfterLoss game to find out the other things they'd have to guess at. www.afterloss.uk/could-they-f...
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Receiving emails from users is always rewarding, good or bad. Given AfterLoss’s users are either dealing with a bereavement, or planning their own affairs, feedback is limited. So to hear ‘Your product is first class’ by a planning ahead user was a real lift for me today. www.afterloss.uk
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AfterLoss - Bereavement support and funeral pre-planning for UK families
AfterLoss guides UK families through bereavement tasks like registering a death and closing accounts, and helps you plan your own funeral and end-of-life wishes in advance.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When you have a few minutes to spare, why not start Planning Ahead and create your own printed pack to share with family. The pack can be written gradually and reprinted whenever something changes. Download a free filled-in example (no email required). www.afterloss.uk/family-pack
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What to Leave for Your Family When You Die: The AfterLoss Family Pack | AfterLoss
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you. See a filled-in example.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
AfterLoss now comes in A4 size! Planning Ahead users can now produce their own printed pack to share with family. The pack can be built gradually and reprinted whenever something changes. See a free filled-in example (no email required). www.afterloss.uk/family-pack
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What to Leave for Your Family When You Die: The AfterLoss Family Pack | AfterLoss
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you. See a filled-in example.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
AfterLoss now comes in A4 size! Planning Ahead users can now produce their own printed pack to share with family. The pack can be built gradually and reprinted whenever something changes. See a free filled-in example (no email required). www.afterloss.uk/family-pack
afterloss.uk
What to Leave for Your Family When You Die: The AfterLoss Family Pack | AfterLoss
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you. See a filled-in example.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One thing I have learned building AfterLoss: people still like to hold things in their hands. So our Planning Ahead Family Pack now prints in one click, already filled in from your plan. Something changes? Update it, print again. No crossing out, no starting over. www.afterloss.uk/family-pack
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What to Leave for Your Family When You Die: The AfterLoss Family Pack | AfterLoss
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you. See a filled-in example.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Hold music has no bereavement policy. Your family will hear all forty verses. Our game counts the calls you could cancel in advance: afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Billions of pounds sit unclaimed in dormant UK bank accounts, much of it belonging to families who never knew the account existed. £31.1 billion more sits in lost pension pots. In the AfterLoss quiz bank accounts are the lowest-scoring answer. What would you lose? afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Billions of pounds sit unclaimed in dormant UK bank accounts, much of it belonging to families who never knew the account existed. £31.1 billion more sits in lost pension pots. In the AfterLoss quiz bank accounts are the lowest-scoring answer. What would you lose? afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it
afterloss.uk
Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gianni Infantino and The Hood. Have they ever been seen together…?
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gianni Infantino and The Hood. Have they ever been seen together…?
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Chalk Farm
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Or if you're into the Rest is History, here's George Washington
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My father in law happens to be a celebrated sculptor. A fellow of the National Sculpture Society in the US no less. Here’s one of his works - a personal favourite of mine. More here: alexpalkovich.com
Pope John Paul II
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When it finally does rain in London, should we lean out of our windows and bang pots and pans? Feels warranted.
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New book quote from Prue Leith: “A surprisingly fascinating read. I thought I'd got my departure sorted, but now I know there's plenty I hadn't thought about. Who thought death could be so interesting?” geni.us/getaheadofbe...
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Get Ahead of Being Dead: Your Handy Planner for the End of Life
Get it now:
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The ward he was in at the community hospital has now closed due to cutbacks, but I can honestly say that his quality of life near the end was improved by that place. Whatever Andy Burnham can do to give other families that peace of mind I'll support 100%.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We were warned he couldn't be kept there due to others needing more care, so did what all families have to do - look for a private care home to take him when the bed was needed. He moved to a private care home in September and passed away in early December.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
After he fell and smashed his face, my dad eventually went to an NHS community hospital in Scotland. He had dementia. Up until then, he lived at home with my saint of a sister caring for him 24/7. The community hospital was a godsend - he stayed there for about 4 months and the care was incredible.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What people don’t understand is that anyone, and I mean anyone, can set themselves up as a funeral director. Building AfterLoss brought many surprises, but this fact tops the lot.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You've insured the phone. You backed up the laptop. Your ACTUAL life? Sitting in a drawer, or in a filing cabinet at the back of a wardrobe, unlabelled. Our game opens the drawer. Eight things, two minutes: afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A good time to check your potential inheritance tax exposure at AfterLoss - www.afterloss.uk/tools/iht-ch... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Could a death tax give Andy Burnham £18bn a year to fix social care?
A succession of prime ministers have entered office promising to solve the problem of social care but none have succeeded
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The pandemic didn’t seem to last this long.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is why Ritalin is so over-prescribed in America.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Basil Brush and Sir Cliff at the next FA Cup final half time. Make it happen.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And the bit the brochures gloss over - the process leaves a lot of sterile liquid behind, and what to do with it is the real question. Anyway, all 43 sources are in the writeup if you fancy a proper look. www.afterloss.uk/guides/water...
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Water Cremation: What the Evidence Shows
What does the research actually say about water cremation? A plain-English review of the science, the environmental claims, the effluent question, and the law.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The honest version - it probably does beat flame cremation on energy and carbon, and it skips the mercury. But no one has properly compared it against both burial and cremation yet, so the bolder 'greenest send-off ever' claims are running a little ahead of the evidence.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Water cremation became legal in Scotland this year, and the internet has Opinions. Greener, gentler, barely any energy. Some of that holds up. So we reviewed 43 research papers so you don't have to, and sorted the actual science from the sales pitch. www.afterloss.uk/guides/water...
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Water Cremation: What the Evidence Shows
What does the research actually say about water cremation? A plain-English review of the science, the environmental claims, the effluent question, and the law.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When certain politicians retire from public office, they become honest, human and relatable. To the point that you wish they’d always been like that. England are playing like they just quit their cabinet post.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'm still dealing with my dad's estate, but in the meantime built something to help other's avoid some of these issues. www.afterloss.uk/could-they-f...
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Film reviews of The Odyssey on the other place today...
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me to a friend at around the 70 minute mark. Tuchel should have listened to me.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The UK's toilet deserts: every council ranked. I spent some time this weekend analysing the UK's ~20 thousand loos, because reasons... The gap between the best-served area (City of London) and the worst (Walsall) is 105-fold. See them ranked at www.spendapenny.uk/toilet-deserts
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Public Toilets Near You | Free UK Toilet Finder
Find public toilets near you anywhere in the UK. Live open/closed status, wheelchair access, baby changing, and free or paid, all on one map.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Park Life.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Getting your affairs in order" sounds like something people do in films, usually with a violin under their arm. In real life it takes an afternoon and a cup of tea. Our game is the trailer. Two minutes, no violin: afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Steve Scott @manuscript.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It's Sunday: the banks are shut, the council is shut, so nobody can put you on hold. A perfect afternoon to find out whether your family could actually find your will. Eight questions, two minutes: afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it
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Could They Find It?
A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
London. This is next Thursday and it's free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/get-ahead-...
Eventbrite page for an evening with Evie King at Poetic Endings London. Thursday 16 July 7-9pm.
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