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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

'Speaking of Muslims in Britain, Councillor Feeney said “they're in our judiciary, they're in our schools, they're in our healthcare, they're everywhere, and they are not working on our side, they're against us".'

When out knocking on doors, Councillor Feeney said “if it's an Asian name, I'm not even knocking at the door, they’re not voting Reform and I ain’t wasting my time". He calls his approach to campaigning “Alan’s racist canvassing”.

Speaking of Muslims in Britain, Councillor Feeney said “they're in our judiciary, they're in our schools, they're in our healthcare, they're everywhere, and they are not working on our side, they're against us".

He said he believed that “no more than one percent of British population can be non-white”.

“When a house comes up for sale, white people need to be in there,” he told ITV’s undercover reporter. “You almost need to out-Muslim the Muslims.

“You'd need a proper nuclear option, like literally drag them at their homes, stick them on planes and f*** them off to Pakistan. Which you’ll never do in a month of Sundays.”

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes in government you have to work with unsavoury people

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

just realised who the peace envoy plonkers remind me of

Rodney and Del Boy from Only Fools And Horses

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Reading about Sobers and seeing photos of him was part of how I fell in love with Cricket

Sobers cutting the ball hard, square of the wicket

Sobers cutting behind square past keeper and slip, black and white photograph

Sobers sitting beside Muhammad Ali in the dressing room, smiling - Jun 16 1966

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

'I am still grateful to my tutors who were incredibly dedicated to making sure I was safely launched into the wider world after graduation. One helped me find a fascinating job in a firm of antiquarian book dealers, Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Another suggested I do some book reviewing in my spare time.'

Portrait of James

James Marriott, matriculated 2011

Subject: English Literature

“I am still grateful to my tutors who were incredibly dedicated to making sure I was safely launched into the wider world after graduation. One helped me find a fascinating job in a firm of antiquarian book dealers, Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Another suggested I do some book reviewing in my spare time. And so, I spent three years working in the book trade and writing literary journalism in the evenings. My writing career became busier and busier until eventually I landed a job as the assistant books editor for The Times. After a couple of years that job developed into a weekly opinion column. I'm now working on my first book.”

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

'...it requires no effort to measure out your life in World Cups...not only which year it was and who won but where you were and who you were with and why you were with them and what the preoccupations of that time were from which it was possible, however briefly, to escape.'

In English, it’s called the World Cup, but I prefer the stirring names by which it’s known in other European languages—Mundial, Mondiali, Weltmeisterschaft—and which better convey the idea that this is not a sports tournament but something closer to a cosmological event, heavy with meaning. For soccer people, it requires no effort to measure out your life in World Cups. Just a few seconds of footage, or even a photograph, is usually enough—the color of the turf, the haircuts, the uniforms, the exact shade of summer blue—to ascertain not only which year it was and who won but where you were and who you were with and why you were with them and what the preoccupations of that time were from which it was possible, however briefly, to escape.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026

'On any given day, roughly three million tractor-trailers ferry goods along American highways, and it is only because of some perverse collective disavowal that any of us, in our dinky cars, agree to share the road with them.' Looking forward to reading this piece by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

Most of the time there are better ways than a pie chart to display data #4

Andreessen Horowitz linkedin post

Marc Andreessen’s information diet: 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books.

"The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily."

Pie chart in quarters

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

'I’ll also outline challenges, including future problems like the mutability of allegedly unique and persistent biometrics like iris or even DNA , and speculate about the possibility of reflecting social structures properly in designs to create more fair and resilient systems'

We have many forms of identity, whether socially constructed (kinship, personas, relationships), or issued via organisations (employers, banks, clubs, government). These identities can be partly stored as a digital twin (e.g. by recording biometric information plus some identifier/number, and then possibly linked to other information credentials or entitlements – e.g. citizenship, age, health, finance, educational records and so on).

These digital ecosystems can be designed to allow us to control (access to) such data, or they can be part of state and commercial surveillance. The trustworthiness of such ecosystems is highly questionable. I’ll walk through alternative designs and give examples of benefits and disadvantages, including threats (fake id, denial of service etc).

In this talk, I’ll also outline challenges, including future problems like the mutability of allegedly unique and persistent biometrics like iris or even DNA , and speculate about the possibility of reflecting social structures properly in designs to create more fair and resilient systems that might be more acceptable than many deployed or proposed today

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 23/02/2026

TIL about the British Cattle Movement Service 'the easy way to check and report your cattle information' secure.services.defra.gov.uk/wps/portal/c...

British Cattle Movement Service site - 'the easy way to check and report your cattle information'

An older looking website with information about Cattle originating fromt he Isle of Man or Guernsey, the webchat, and guidance for reporting cattle changes

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 21/02/2026

'promoted ideas of British decline' is certainly one way to put it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026

why does he look like a vacant pooh bear

winnie the pooh looking gormless, mouth slightly open

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 15/01/2026

Some incredible photos in here www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

An skateboarder finds an improbable line, launching across the void of the ancient Jaipur stepwell. Lines of staircases intersect with each other as he jumps across.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 26/12/2025

MCG Boxing Day Test: a childhood dream realised

Inside of an enormous stadium just before the test cricket begins - overcast skies

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 16/12/2025

Wow 'A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life: Inuuteq Storch set out to rediscover Inuit culture that was suppressed by Danish colonizers, by finding its traces in the everyday' By Dawn Chan www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 30/11/2025

'...writing in any language is a kind of collusion between sound and sense...when you’re writing, without even thinking about it, you’re pulling into service innumerable allusions to life as it is understood by your audience, a kind of cultural context…”

“Translation is almost an oxymoron – when I hear translations of my own plays I don’t have to know the other language to be absolutely certain that you can’t do what the English does a lot of the time – not just because of the obvious things like wordplay, but because a lot of writing in any language is a kind of collusion between sound and sense, and you can’t get the sound by inserting an equivalent sense. Furthermore, when you’re writing, without even thinking about it, you’re pulling into service innumerable allusions to life as it is understood by your audience, a kind of cultural context…”

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 13/11/2025

i think it is an ode to the bird shaped lemon squeezer that my parents had

metal lemon sqeezer in the shape of a bird

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025

About the GOV reuse library dev.reuselibrary.service.justice.gov.uk/about.html

Productivity is lost across government in trying to find or create elements that already exists - all because we work in silos.

The GOV Reuse Library aims to fix this problem by surfacing reusable elements for all departments to use. This includes:

Design systems
Manuals
Products
Service patterns
Standards
Our aim is to reduce duplication, increase transparency and promote cross-government collaboration. This is in line with the Government's blueprint for a modern digital government to ‘join up and act as one public sector' and 'strengthen and extend our digital public infrastructure'.

A team from the Ministry of Justice UK has built this site in collaboration with the Government Digital Service and the Department for Education.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025

GOV Reuse Library - Find and reuse digital service elements - Building public services together - one reusable block at a time dev.reuselibrary.service.justice.gov.uk

GOV Reuse Library
Find and reuse digital service elements
Building public services together - one reusable block at a time

Filters for departments, type of content, and profession

links to department design systems

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 09/11/2025

'Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.'

When writing to a journalist friend, I just said that it’s a bit unravelling, right now, to be on the receiving end of this kind of belated real-time education in elite metabolization. Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 06/11/2025

moonrise over in Gaza City, by Dawoud Abu Alkas

moonrise over Gaza City, collapsed buildings in the background and three people in the foreground

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 06/11/2025

'...Sometimes that means through layers of intermediaries, user researchers, service designers and workshops. All of that has its place, but nothing beats an engineer being there in person to witness the problems first-hand.'

For years, public sector technology has often been built at a distance from the environments it serves. Sometimes that means through layers of intermediaries, user researchers, service designers and workshops. All of that has its place, but nothing beats an engineer being there in person to witness the problems first-hand.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 04/11/2025

does anybody know how Defra's styling came about? www.gov.uk/guidance/sty...

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 04/11/2025

big news for em-oh-jay or modge people it is 'MOJ', not 'MoJ' design-patterns.service.justice.gov.uk/content-stan...

Use (fully capitalised) MOJ for Ministry of Justice. This follows the GOV.UK naming convention for government departments.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 24/10/2025

'Ms Gazeley said she had used AI to help create her submission and accepted it may not be a perfect document.'

One of the legal representatives of the Cambridgeshire County Council challenged Ms Gazeley on her evidence and questioned its credibility.

They highlighted an example in her written submission of a reference she made to an article about the impact of moving trees, which they said did not actually exist.

They said: "You referred to a reference that does not exist. It has been made up and hallucinated by AI."

Ms Gazeley said she had used AI to help create her submission and accepted it may not be a perfect document.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 16/10/2025

it's great they have a /culture-wars-things tag for anything that doesn't fit into /culture-wars

Ruth Dudley Edwards byline where the second 'culture wars' tag links to a URL of culture-war-things

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 16/10/2025

One of the more baffling traits of middle-to-upper management is the use of military language.

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 10/10/2025

Here are pictures of my process for thinking about how people cope with the recovery from having a stroke. For all the faff, having it on paper helps me think through the categories we use and claims we make July 2018

Transcripts and notes strewn across a desk

Post-it notes across a desk on large bits of coloured paper

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 10/10/2025

At that stage of research - trying to bring the ideas back together

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 10/10/2025

Most of the time there are better ways than a pie chart to display data #3 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Two pie charts, one showing the competitions that Memphis Depay has scored his Dutch goals in, one showing which national team manager they have been under

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social · 03/10/2025

they have packed these agencies ethnonationalist freaks, utter freaks

DHS tweet
Giga chad meme in a USCIS cap

“Communist?”

DENIED.

“Terrorist?”

DENIED.

“Globalist?”

DENIED.

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