Reposted by Jay SpantonT @toneg99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Some mind-boggling stuff coming out of the Tory conference: “The party has also pledged to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, “moving to a more streamlined regulatory landscape to protect our environment”. 022
Reposted by Jay SpantonTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120463125
Reposted by Jay SpantonMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 01/10/2026www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really...worksinprogress.newsWhy the Bronze Age collapsedHistorians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back. 174
Reposted by Jay SpantonJustin Stach @stach.uk · 29/09/2026Fuck me sideways, Meta really is a fucking toxic business. Totally ignoring the privacy and hoovering 187,000 lines from a journalist’s Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being off. 022
Reposted by Jay SpantonRichard Pope @richardpope.org · 29/09/2026The Nuffield Family Observatory email a ‘Chart of The Month’, which I think is a nice, slow, passive way to consume data visualisations. This month’s chat shows that kids entering the care system are increasingly likely to ... richardpope.org/2026/09/29/the-nuff… 002
Reposted by Jay SpantonRichard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Meta-glassed journalist interviews meta-employees. 23319
Reposted by Jay SpantonSev @sevitz.com · 21/09/2026Absolutely appalling. Costs have gone up 10-20x when I got mine. The government shouldn’t be a profit Center. These people (as / was I) pay taxes. But you know, immigrants. So acceptable to squeeze. For reasons. 042
Reposted by Jay SpantonLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monacobbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 721180326
Reposted by Jay SpantonOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet 2642451265
Reposted by Jay SpantonBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express 852810346
Reposted by Jay SpantonAlastair Somerville @acuity.design · 20/08/2026Pining for old days of The Independent and royal news being buried in column underneath chess news 021
Reposted by Jay SpantonHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Look at what reservoir capacity we used to add, and what we’ve added since the early 90s… From @hannahritchie.bsky.social’s excellent substack hannahritchie.substack.com/p/uk-reservo... 12920
Reposted by Jay SpantonSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We should definitely have more sporting champions that are also English literature grads. Amy Hunt's interviews are excellent. 616118
Reposted by Jay Spantontimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Even here, this form of solar panel at this height could easily be installed on grazing land and livestock grazed under it without the remotest bother. I would suspect that were you to offer connections and/or grants, there would be an absolute stampede of farmers towards this. 919883
Reposted by Jay SpantonPaul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Beginning to see the Odyssey crop up everywhere…. 2294
Reposted by Jay SpantonAlastair Somerville @acuity.design · 07/08/2026AI is twice as efficient when management dislikes both staff and users A barrier layer not a tool 022
Jay Spanton @spanty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Used the fab Condens.io at www.ukri.org can’t recommend enoughcondens.ioCondens | UX Research Repository and AI Analysis PlatformCondens centralizes your customer research and keeps every insight backed by evidence, so your team and AI agents can act on it with confidence. 010
Jay Spanton @spanty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Somehow managed to do this…but certain I could retrace my steps. I am expecting they’ll be some apologies and grace when half their users fail. Nice how-not-to case study too. 000
Reposted by Jay SpantonRob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026@daivaughan.uk on ‘Why some #DVLA digital #Services don't work at night’. 🚫 🚗 🌃 dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/wh...dafyddvaughan.ukWhy some DVLA digital services don't work at nightEvery few months or so, somebody asks on social media why a particular DVLA digital service is turned off over night. Rather than answering it every time, I’ve decided to write this post, so I can poi... 063
Reposted by Jay SpantonErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026the tldr is freaking everyone out more is the most tempting communication strategy, but it's the opposite of what works some clear, realistic idea of what a better future looks like and the steps to get there would help we don't get there riding on the back of a starving polar bear 0288
Reposted by Jay SpantonTechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"Welcome to our Gander reveal party" "Don't you mean gender reveal party" "No" *Dozens of geese burst out of a cake. Ominous honking fills the air. There are no genders only chaos* 522170
Jay Spanton @spanty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This post about getting/ doing design work in the NHS is great www.designswarm.com/blog/2026/08... Also think it applies to the rest of government design work. Thanks for writing it @designswarm.bsky.socialdesignswarm.comWeeknote 8: what it means to be a designer in the NHSI’m on holiday so I shouldn’t really be writing a weeknote but I’m getting lots of designers reaching out to me on Linkedin who have never worked in the NHS, wanting to work there… 000
Reposted by Jay SpantonDavid Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 31/07/2026If every LA decides to procure 5 new API-less monstrosities it will be catastrophic. Potentially even more so if they decide to vibe-code them up themselves or get taken in by Shiny AI Shysters. 222
Reposted by Jay SpantonPer Axbom @axbom.com · 01/08/2026The backlash made Google pause the feature that made it easy, but it's of course still possible, and now put in everybody's heads. It was so hard for Google to predict the harm. Asking experts is a struggle for tech companies 🤪 www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...npr.orgGoogle pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the skyJournalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one. 1289
Reposted by Jay SpantonSteven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I've been doing some research into locations in Prague using Google Maps, and either the guy who was tasked to take the photos got the camera position wrong, or there's a small hairy ghost haunting large swathes of the city. 28955292
Reposted by Jay SpantonBrian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026A scams-based economy is not one that will last. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden 215744
Reposted by Jay SpantonJames Arnold @jamesarnold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026On bumping into Bill Oddie at the local North London recycling centre. Michael Palin’s Diary, 1998: 013132
Reposted by Jay SpantonRob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 23/07/20261,001 #Ampersands #Poster. creativepro.com/1001-ampersa... & ⅋ & ⅋ & ⅋ & ⅋ 042
Reposted by Jay SpantonLincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 09/01/2025Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has lashed out at billionaire Elon Musk for interfering in European politics, accusing him of undermining democracy. 830385
Reposted by Jay SpantonChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026So you are saying that you don‘t know how to generate rents from an increasingly commoditised technology, and want the government to help preserve your valuations? 1631175
Reposted by Jay Spantonchildren of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 21/07/2026i just had this little image flash through my brain of the government getting too deep into chatgpt/claude/copilot/whatever while those companies are massively subsidising token costs and when they actually jack up the prices to their real rates the state is fucked to the tune of billions of pounds. 4259
Reposted by Jay SpantonSean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma. 845222213628
Jay Spanton @spanty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026That’s one fiddly logo, not so visible from the other side of the street. Guessing AI generated 000
Reposted by Jay Spantonlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026England - France final, winner keeps the Bayeux tapestry. 2029140
Reposted by Jay SpantonDr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“While me and the Dark Lord Sauron often disagreed on his will to dominate all life, I will fondly remember his quick wit and his passion for jewellery” 4391105
Reposted by Jay SpantonCathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk · 10/07/2026In a break from my usual Funding service posts, I’ve written about my other portfolio. And one of my favourite things, Portals! The portal trap cathydutton.co.uk/posts/the-po...cathydutton.co.ukThe portal trapNo one likes portals, one-stop shops, single front doors or gateways, so why are they the go-to solution for so many large organisations? 3166
Reposted by Jay SpantonMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 10/07/2026It’s probably worth looking at Starmer’s industrial and tech strategies, such as they are, as being essentially cult’ish in nature. They are not rooted in evidence, believe in some nebulous future saviour, and treat non-believers as heretics. 1257
Jay Spanton @spanty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Good day to visit Cliveden, no one else stupid enough to endure the heat 000
Reposted by Jay SpantonPaul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Having failed to interest any papers in this story, I resorted to writing a letter to The Times, like in olden times. So when all that's left to watch is NASCAR racing sponsored by Cheetos, I can at least say I tried. #ITV #Sky #Comcast 22774309
Reposted by Jay SpantonKev Lawson @editkev.football · 06/07/2026A pal of mine posted this on the other place. I'm done in. 6248118