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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 18h

Latest #openaddresses from local government: Mid Devon District Council, in the South West of England, has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... (with download link, yay!) #FOI #UKhousing #proptech #localgov #opendata

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 6h

Please use alt text, so that the content of your images is available to people with visual impairments. You can turn on a setting to "require alt text before posting": bsky.app/settings/acc... Alt text also makes the images searchable.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 16h

@bionomia.net Another failure, adding Q141609796 (despite the error message, they were human, had a surname, and are very much dead).

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/09/2026

For those who got blocked by the paywall: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...

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GovCamp Cymru @govcampcymru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to catch up with so many people at this year’s GovCamp Cymru! We’ve made more tickets available- so grab your ticket now to spend the day connecting, sharing and plotting for better public services!

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/09/2026

TBF so does someone at the top of the Oxo Tower

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As per my previous blogging about real history being age-gated, a folk song merely about the 1966 Aberfan disaster now requires age verification. Which is a fairly awful irony. Chapeau @cjforms.bsky.social

YouTube screen cap showing “sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users”. The song is about Aberfan.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/09/2026

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/09/2026

"To ask His Majesty's Government why photographs on the Number 10 Flickr account are being published with a Creative Commons license which is not compatible with the terms of the Open Government License."

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/09/2026

More of a non-answer, but thank you greatly; much appreciated.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/09/2026

#firstbirdofmyday outside my Norwich hotel - a pair of Collared Doves. That's more than I've seen in north Birmingham in half a decade.

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Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're proud to be part of the new N-RICH project, exploring how Wikidata and Linked Open Data can act as a shared connective layer for UK cultural heritage, helping collections, data services and research infrastructures connect across institutional boundaries.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 28/09/2026

I have so many stories about this, from my mother's time in hospital

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 28/09/2026

^might, but the risk is very real

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 28/09/2026

On a train with no power sockets, like some primitive 20th-century re-enactment

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 27/09/2026

Handy if your have a camera without GPS - take a record shot of the watch

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 27/09/2026

Not here. Note the exit sign at the start, and the pin badge on his lapel.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 27/09/2026

Seems a pity they removed the trees

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I never thought I'd be laughed at for saying I bookmark stuff on my phone for quick reference and use wikipedia daily for looking up stuff that interests me, but today, at work, I was. Imagine life never having gone down a wiki rabbit-hole. How utterly dull.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 26/09/2026

The Pope had visited Lourdes. If the US has a new president in the morning, you'll know why...

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 26/09/2026

Good at rolling round, but doesn't like being made to lie flat all the time.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 26/09/2026

Should all be gone now (bogus academies; if not your cold)

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 26/09/2026

Please use alt text, so that the content of your images is available to people with visual impairments. You can turn on a setting to "require alt text before posting": bsky.app/settings/acc...

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 26/09/2026

We need to protect free use/ fair dealing provisions

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/09/2026

My tip would be "don't take iced coffee to the interview" Good luck

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/09/2026

They should refer to it as "The gulf, above Mexico"

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Something for my fellow Wikipedians to be aware of (the article notes the absence of Wikipedia pages for such organisations)

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/09/2026

A proper long-distance transport policy would bring back HS2 and put direct Eurostars on it from Manchester and Birmingham

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

And always with no alt text; hence my polite request.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

He held it up to the light and found it full of holes where, it was eventually admitted by a young family member, they had been poking it with the needle they subsequently lost!

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

My Uncle Harry did this job for Harvo (the Birmingham malt loaf makers who ceased business in around 1973). He one went to a house where a needle had been found inside a loaf. He asked for the wrapper, which was duly retrieved from the waste-bin.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Are you waiting tables, or cleaning?

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

More astute readers will also note that my original post refers to "images", plural.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Well if you could point out where I "demand a repetition in the alt-text", I'm sure we'd all be impressed. Perhaps you could also point out where the post mentions the dog, the railings, or the colour of the flowers, and other things that we can see in the image that are not in the text you quote?

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Please use alt text, so that the content of your images is available to people with visual impairments. You can turn on a setting to "require alt text before posting": bsky.app/settings/acc...

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