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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It's also possible to have more than 1 NI number...
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It was another great episode. Was re-listening to the last one with The Simpsons the other day - it's one of my favourites
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, trans by Ginny Tapley Takemori
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It's both amazing and unsurprising that treating people well at work, paying them fairly, giving them security all translates to productivity and successful projects. And yet the emphasis on productivity driven profits continues and continually results in failure
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm a low user and it doesn't matter what fix I sign up to, paying £250.35 a year in standing charges is about a third of my bill - about which I can do nothing :(
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Friends, using gen AI to create user personas is a *really* awful idea. 🚩☹️🚩 This suggestion comes from the AI Knowledge Hub prompt library on GOV .uk. Here's the problem: AI is designed to give you back only what you already know. It will generate what it thinks you want to hear.
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Persona-Based User Stories
Develops user stories tailored to different personas based on their goals and challenges

User Research - Stakeholder Engagement - Project Planning
Usage notes
This prompt is intended to support early thinking and ideation. Use it as a companion to spark discussions. It is not a substitute for user research. Always validate insights through real engagement with users.
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Project Overview: [BRIEF, 1-2 SENTENCE SUMMARY OF YOUR PROJECT] 

Personas: [PROVIDE PERSONAS]

Instructions: Using the provided personas, create a set of user stories that will guide the development of this project. 

User Story Format: As a <type of user>, I want to <feature/function> so that <reason/benefit>. 

INVEST Criteria: 

Independent: User stories should be independent of each other. 
Negotiable: The specific details of a user story can be negotiated. 12 equity and justice questions about AI

These questions help teams think through and talk about the consequences of using AI.

This will help mitigate possible harms, consider hidden effects and check in against organisational values.
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
So it turns out parts of DWP still tell people to go to the Directgov website in their letters
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
this site wants me to share credit card details with it, yet it won't save my setting that I don't want auto-play on videos...
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Even if it's anonymous, they must have an option to not provide it You're absolutely right tho - in the midst of completing a form for employment, who wants to jeopardise their application and argue about incorrect fields in forms? 😒
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
WOW. Is there an option to say 'Prefer not to say'? Because I thought compelling people to reveal protected characteristics wasn't allowed in the UK?
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
So if I've understood correctly, more people have lost their jobs after attending a Coldplay concert, than Post Office senior managers who have lost their jobs as a result of their involvement in the Horizon IT scandal (0)
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
How beautiful! Planted some for the first time this year (in a pot) and they're just starting to climb
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Sometimes I go to unlock my front door with my Oyster card...
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I've asked people to consider their device volume on public transport several times - and in some cases received a genuine 'sorry'. There's a lot to be said for how you ask and not embarrassing the person
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
😂
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
And it's so inaccessible. It doesn't even support left-hand mouse users so I now refuse to use it
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Something that gets (understandably) overlooked about the 7/7 London attacks is the digital aspect. The immediate aftermath was the first real resilience test for TfL and the Met Police's websites, as people flocked there for updates. TfL site went from 100k uniques to 2.5 MILLION in minutes. /1
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 01/07/2025
The loud drumbeat that companies should "embrace AI now or be left behind" has more in common with high-pressure sales techniques than biz strategy. And that's fine - tech firms have something to sell. But the rest of us needn’t confuse it with anything more profound. www.ft.com/content/4688...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
me too!
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
yes! I noticed that too with the outdoor plants
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Hmm - so not just in London Second time this week my little greenhouse has toppled over: plants lost, pots smashed, much mess
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Anyone know why London has had such ferocious winds for the last week?
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
And also their referring to annual savings is misleading - because tarrifs change every 3 months!
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
That was fun! Although I think there are some bugs with the same name appearing both red and black in places (so don't kick too hard)
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
every now and again I remember that thirty years ago britain and france built the longest underwater tunnel in the world, still not beaten, and the thing that limits how many people we can shove through it is the tiny cellar underneath the train station that we use for security theatre
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
People who executive managed a company into a debt-ridden ground, now being paid *extra* to continue the same crappy behaviour...
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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Applying Lessons From the Armenian Genocide to Gaza www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2025...
yesmagazine.org
On Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Lessons for Gaza
Armenians know from experience that genocide is a process, not an event, and they have lessons for those fighting for peace in Gaza.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Keep conservatives away from Dolly Parton at all costs
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
At at the Eurostar terminal in Rotterdam!
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Oh, I think this is very much a specific skill that needs development and practice. A bit like management - just because people are good at something, doesn't make them a good senior manager or a meeting moderator
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Esther Webber @estwebber.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The govt could make a start by addressing how hilariously inaccessible the whole disability benefits system is - reliant on forms you can only fill out by hand (!) and helplines which need use of keypad/voice commands
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
An excellent example of why alt text on images matters
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I second the recommendations for a proper hiking type backback with added cushioning around the shoulders and lower back, and extra straps maybe at the hips and chest too. They're made for all-day carrying and with all the stuff we lug around have lots of handy pockets!
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Enfield Council closing nearly half its libraries to save £500,000 a year (a puny amount in the grand scheme of council spending)
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Wow. Thames Water just sent next year's bill - and it's £183 *more* than this year so they can waste even more money
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That same tax law change also affects death-in-service payments made from defined benefit pension schemes, so some people will have to pay that tax on a death-in-service payment and other types of schemes won't. But no one is talking about that one
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
If they are Direct Debits, I just cancel the DD instead
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's really interesting how we just assume that people understand how the technology they use works most effectively without any training. I live by shortcuts but have had to be really active in learning them
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Once more for those at the back: Palestinian people are not Arabs
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
SO excited to hear there's a the new Charles Paris story on Radio 4 tomorrow. One of the best dramas they've ever made 💕
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Very much pondering how it is that White Britons are 'expats' yet Black and Brown people are always 'immigrants' often with a derogatory adjective before it
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So fed up of these pale male stales on generous pensions and House of Lords payments (for just turning up) telling people about the modern workplace of which they have little to no experience of
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hallo Ripley! so nice to have found you here :)
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Also recommending London Centric - recently signed up and the content and style work for me (you subscribe for free to try it out)
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Once more we talking about the public sector 'doing *more* with *less*'. It is not possible to do this to get productivity gains. Have we learnt nothing?
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Nora @norabee.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Finding it hard to believe that Y2K was 25 YEARS ago 😮
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