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Richard Edwards

@richardedwards.me
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Co-director at @outlandish.com, designing + building socially positive tech (eg nookcrm.com for the #communityenergy sector 🥳). Also UX at openux.design

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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 24/09/2026
At the ‘Retrofit, Obviously!’ conference today in London. The emergency briefing’s part around the economic opportunities was the most energising argument I’ve heard in a long time.
Delegates sat in conference room. A screen says National Emergency Briefing.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 23/09/2026
Read this thread if you're interested in land-use issues related to farming and solar photovoltaics.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thread on solar vs. farmland debate: 1/n Enviro writer Bill McKibben: "“If you care about the future of agriculture on this planet,” he added, ​“you should be focused on driving down carbon emissions so we will still be able to grow things.”" www.canarymedia.com/.../lowell-v....
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 23/09/2026
In 2 weeks I’ll be joining some wonderful speakers (and trying to be as interesting as them!) at this #cleanenergy event. 👇 Come learn about energy efficiency + transition tech, meet folk & make connections! And it's hybrid, so my face WILL be beamed all over the UK. God help us all! #greentech
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How Can We Use Good Technology to Scale the Green Energy Sector?
A event showcasing inspirational emerging technologies that are helping us overcome barriers to scale the UK's clean energy sector
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 10/09/2026
Hi clean energy friends. This October I'll be at... ** How can we use good technology to scale the green energy sector? ** ☀️🍃 It's free, it's hybrid online/in-London and has some great speakers (even if I say so myself!). Maybe see you there? #cleanenergy #communityenergy #tech
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How Can We Use Good Technology to Scale the Green Energy Sector?
A event showcasing inspirational emerging technologies that are helping us overcome barriers to scale the UK's clean energy sector
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 31/08/2026
One more bump for Friday's great and FREE talk with Fionn! #designfutures, #uxdesign, #systemsdesign 🎯
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 15/08/2026
Just a few weeks to go! Join us at our next design meetup to talk #designfutures, #uxdesign, #systemsdesign and more, with Studio AndThen's Fionn! 🧙🌞
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#23: Futures Design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony | Open UX Design
In our next Open UX Design meetup we’ll be meeting and hearing from Fionn Tynan O'Mahony. Fionn and his colleageus at Studio AndThen design for the long term. They work with governments, the National...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 05/08/2026
Easily the tiniest, most rewarding change I’ve made to get off US tech is installing Vivaldi AND THEN updating my phone’s default browser settings. 🍎 I can’t yet bring myself to cut Chrome completely, but now random, unimportant links I click open in an ethical browser! 💙 vivaldi.com
vivaldi.com
Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 04/08/2026
This Sept join us at Open UX for a REALLY exciting chat about #futuresdesign: designing in complex regulated environments + turning policy ideas into design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony 🙌 #uxdesign #uxui
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#23: Futures Design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony | Open UX Design
In our next Open UX Design meetup we’ll be meeting and hearing from Fionn Tynan O'Mahony. Fionn and his colleageus at Studio AndThen design for the long term. They work with governments, the National...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 03/08/2026
Moving off Google part 2 (and a nice mental hump to get over): deleting all my files on Google Drive and uploading them to Proton ✅ Next stop, the emails 😬😬😬
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 03/08/2026
Interesting! We get asked about Gantt charts for Nook - typically when a “case” is a potential project (eg when cases relate to assessing potential sites for solar generations). One to check out methinks!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 02/08/2026
Love the vibe of this keyboard #accessibility. Also, support your local library!! ✊
A photograph of a black computer keyboard with letter keys in bright yellow and large font.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 23/07/2026
This has to be my new favourite argument to people who fret about taxing the hyper rich! 🥳
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 21/07/2026
Since when did the iPhone Chrome app have sponsored ads in the Discover feed? Did I miss that?? 😱 11 ads in there since yesterday. What?
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 20/07/2026
So… did you see that ludicrous display last night?
A meme headshot of Moss from the TV show The IT Crowd
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 14/07/2026
#civictech is ✊✊✊
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 11/07/2026
Weaning myself off Google services…
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 09/07/2026
Just wrapped up a very fun game of #CommunityEnergy Data Dilemmas! Thank you to all our adventurous #LondonDataWeek players. 🍌🎲🥳 I’m going to port this into a standalone game/workshop activity for anyone making tech products. Hit me up if you’re interested!
A graphic showing a range of colourful human characters excitedly and thoughtfully looking at some data displays.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 07/07/2026
On Thursday I’m hosting THIS game-based workshop for London Data Week: Community Energy Data Dilemmas! 🥳😳 It’s sold out but if you’d like another chance to take part (maybe you work in this field / want an inspirational team activity) DM me. It’d be amazing to run it again. #communityenergy
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Community Energy Data Dilemmas · Luma
Imagine with us radical creative ideas and doomsday scenarios around data, tech and approaches for community energy. Using gameplay and creative activities,…
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 12/06/2026
Hello fellow Friday folk. Come join me at July’s #LondonDataWeek event: Community Energy Data Dilemmas! 🎉 Come for creative fun, doomsday scenarios and tech discussion aplenty! luma.com/lgswwidv #communityenergy #data #productdesign
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Community Energy Data Dilemmas · Luma
Imagine with us radical creative ideas and doomsday scenarios around data, tech and approaches for community energy. Using gameplay and creative activities,…
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juliamanc.bsky.social @juliamanc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It doesn’t make things better today. But #OmarElAkkad is one of the few people brave enough to talk sense about the current abhorrent world situation #Gaza Essential reading - searing account of how we have got here
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 18/03/2026
At the Connected Places Summit today. Lots of talk about AI, SMEs and data infrastructure. Should be interesting!
A plenary / welcome speaker in front of the Connected Places Summit branding and presentation screen.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 16/03/2026
Next week I’ll be chatting to awesome designer Fran Cook about what it means to be a freelance #ux designer PLUS what it’s like to start a collective / studio. Come hang with us on Thursday ☺️ #uxuidesign #uxdesign
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From freelance to studio UX, with Fran Cook, Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup
In **[our next Open UX Design meetup](https://community.openux.design/c/events/21-from-freelance-to-studio-ux-with-fran-cook)** we’ll be meeting and hearing from **Fran Coo
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius: “There will be no military participation.. We have a situation which we did not provoke.. This war started without any consultations.. What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates in Strait of Hormuz that the mighty US Navy can't manage alone?"
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 14/03/2026
Excuse me for reposting this thread but, frankly, it took me a while to write and I quite like my little rant 🥸☺️ #genAI #AI #uxdesign
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 12/03/2026
A really good thread! Thank you! I should use this with our clients 😅 🧵
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 10/03/2026
My US Big Tech iPhone keeps trying to autocorrect “sociocracy” to “sociopath”. Figures 😅
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 07/03/2026
I'm really rooting for this 👉 TechFreedom, a short course for social purpose orgs who want to understand their tech risks and DO SOMETHING about it. Importantly you leave with a plan for reducing your dependency on US Big Tech 🙌🙌🙌 techfreedom.eu via @dougbelshaw.com @tomcw.xyz #digitalsovereignty
techfreedom.eu
TechFreedom — A clearer forecast for your organisation's digital future
TechFreedom helps organisations understand their technology dependencies and start making deliberate choices.
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Tom watson @tomcw.xyz · 06/03/2026
Have you heard me banging on about tech sovereignty, adaptability, big tech and resiliency? About how your tech is an organisational cultural choice? If not, how? If you have...well, would you like some more? tomcw.xyz/why-we-creat...
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Why we created TechFreedom, and why we think it's important
Launching TechFreedom a cohort based programme to help you make choices about your tech. Why we created it, why we think it's important, what it's all about and an invite to join us!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
Jakob's Nielsen's UX newsletter has dropped in my inbox. Let's see if I can gird my loins and board his techno-optimist #AI train! Hot takes ahead! What’s this? A comic. We'll begin with its rousing cover! 1/
A comic-book style cover of a titan-sized Marc Andreessen crushing a city whilst pulling a lever labelled "AI". The title is "Time to Build: Marc Adreessen on Lenny's Podcast".
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 27/02/2026
Ugh.
The roof of a church at night, looking in from outside. The curve ceiling through the large window, and two hatches in the window, make it look like a frowny face.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 24/02/2026
I took a ride on an AI train to the future. And it definitely was NOT dystopian, contradictory and colonial at all! #genAI #UXdesign #data
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Rejecting Jakob Nielsen’s AI train to the future. Toot toot!
Oh Jakob Nielsen! Oh one-time champion of the human within human-centred interaction! It’s the 9th of Feb 2026 and your latest UX newsletter has thudded into my inbox. Now I say “UX newsletter”. but ...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 11/02/2026
Happily exhausted after a day of coding workshops with @repoweringlondon.bsky.social London + @bhesco.bsky.social ☺️🎨🧑‍💻✊ #retrofit
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 04/02/2026
Just seen an announcement that the BBC is now partnering with YouTube, going all in on producing dedicated homegrown content. The benefits of its revenue model are being touted in a time when its current license fee is being so questioned. 1/
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Croydon Community Energy @croydoncommenergy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🌞 We’re hiring a part-time CEO to help Croydon Community Energy turn Croydon rooftops into community-owned solar power! Apply via CharityJob below (Closes Fri 27 Feb 2026, 5pm) ⬇️ www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/croydon... #CommunityEnergy #Recruitment
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 29/01/2026
This live skeeted thread has been the funniest / most depressing (funnessing?) things I’ve read in ages! #AI
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Visualising Climate @visualisingclimate.com · 28/01/2026
Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Are you a #co-op or co-op curious in London? Join this drinks meeting with Dutch coops on Thurs 29th Jan, 5-7pm luma.com/clicv5rh with @outlandish.com and others
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Futures x Co-ops: UK/NL drinks & dialogue · Luma
Drinks at Space4 to bring together the futures and co-ops community in London and from the Netherlands. Over drinks we will explore: What can we imagine for…
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 17/01/2026
After a healthy break of thinking, reading + reflecting, it's time to #openUX! Our first meetup of 2026 is gonna be on effective UX research. Come swap notes! #uxui #uxdesign #productmanagement
community.openux.design
#20 - Beyond Research Theatre: Making UX Insights Actually Change Things | Open UX Design
So many of us have been there: research that exists to rubber-stamp pre-made decisions; and organisations that say they’re "user-centred" but ignore uncomfortable findings. This 1 hour roundtable dis...
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Doug Belshaw @dougbelshaw.com · 13/01/2026
"You are here. In 2026. Systems are tangled, feedback loops are everywhere, time delays mask cause and effect, and linear thinking fails constantly. The mental models that help you see that clearly are your compass to navigating the polycrisis."
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 13/01/2026
Hey tech #coops, in 2026 you should be exploring ways to align with the govt’s Industrial Strategy. That = thinking about #netzero, #cleanenergy, local infrastructure (e.g. data tooling and place-based projects) & responsible #AI tied to raising civic capacity 🏡🙌 outlandish.com/blog/net-zer...
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Net zero, AI and 2026
2026 feels like a next step to me – a chance for Outlandish and other tech co-ops to gather business momentum...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 10/01/2026
Big tech wants to push a narrative of co-create, co-design and copilot with #genAI because it spins a narrative that this is an equal entity. It is not. It is a tool, and this is important. 1/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 29/12/2025
I’m increasingly uncomfortable over Jakob Nielsen’s newsletters for his uncritical use & promotion of #AI. His latest celebrates that he’s generated 20,000 AI images in 2025. I did a Google and that’s up to 40,000kWh… Or enough energy to power 14 UK homes for a year. 😧🫢😢 #uxdesign #uxui
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 21/12/2025
Saw a Kingfisher in St Albans! Such wonderfully beautiful birds 💙
A small reddish brown chested kingfisher perches on a brick wall
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 19/12/2025
Every Christmas my kids watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas. They titter once or twice, but mostly stare agog as Jim Carrey goes FULL ON JIM CARREY for 90 unrelenting minutes 😲🙀😬 I mean, it must be doing something right but… YIKES!
Jim Carrey gurns like bananas in green makeup as the Grinch
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 19/12/2025
Just in time for 🎄🧑‍🎄 ! This week the NookCRM team finished ‘Nookifying’ a #communityenergy group’s existing CiviCRM setup, bringing 4000+ #energyadvice & #fuelpoverty cases into the Nook-o-sphere. 🙌 Should we call it that? 🧐 Probably not! 🎄🎄🎄🎄 🎄🎄🎄 🎄🎄🎄
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 19/12/2025
YES! This could be for you! **£5,000 cash funding** 💸💸💸 for startups / orgs working on everyday challenges (like food, housing & retrofit, transport, care), PLUS training PLUS help setting up as a workers co-op 👇👇 via @workers-coop.bsky.social #coops #socialimpact #retrofit #care
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Own The Future: Our first co-op support programme starting in March! - workers.coop
Workers.coop is launching Own The Future, its first co-op support programme for workers leading the transition to a new economy. Democratic worker
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Co-operatives UK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
GET INVOLVED: We’re coordinating a response to the call for evidence on how government can best support and grow the UK’s co-operative sector. 📈 As part of this, we’re running three webinars for our members to have their say and hear more about the process:
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 17/12/2025
Hey up, @workers-coop.bsky.social is hiring! Looking for a "strategic organiser and collaborator". Freelance in tech? This part-time role may be something you can do alongside other work! #coops #socialimpact #techjobs
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We're hiring a Business Operations and Movement Building Coordinator - workers.coop
Business Operations and Movement Building Coordinator Salary: £36,000-£38,000 FTE, dependent on desired benefits package.Location: Remote (UK
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