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Steve Senior

@stevensenior.bsky.social
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Consultant in Public Health. Recovering civil servant. Lapsed neuroscientist. Ex-paper boy and former donut stand operator. Ultracrepidarian. Elaborate food pipe. Denizen of West Yorkshire. Opinions my own, re-posts are not endorsements.

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particle dogs @particledogs.bsky.social · 9h
I usually don't angry post but,
a post with reflectors that look like angry eyes
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 2h
We'd be lost without it. Literally, I mean you can see the damn thing from everywhere.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 4h
Ladies and gentlemen, the youngest.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8h
If "guy writing a blog" defines the next era of leadership we're in even more trouble than I thought...
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My theory about RFK Jr. is that this is individualism taken to its extreme: don't regulate food, don't mandate vaccines. If you get sick, you should've done your own research. Your health is your own responsibility, even when corps. are allowed to put you at risk. The privatization of public health.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time etc.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ok, but only on the condition that the shitposting continues uninhibited.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
i'm going to be piloting a new, free public health newsletter in the coming weeks. if you've been wanting to benefit from my public health news addiction and analytic experience in peace without all the shitposts or tangents in between, this is for you! 😊
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The AI team, coming to add references to 'digital' and 'AI' into the independent review into mental health conditions.
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Door Wrestling: Man Kicks Door Open
Alt: Door Wrestling: Man Kicks Door Open
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Crushed It: Man Says YES
Alt: Crushed It: Man Says YES
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've just learned about Lady Di’s Lammasoft Lemmings jumper.
Diana, Princess of Wales, in an incredible pink 8-bit knitted sweater with llamas and blue haired people, maybe, in a line.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have a few questions: 1. How do I join the Turing police? 2. On a scale from 1-10, how cool will the uniforms be? 3. What kind of weapons do we get?
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The Electric Monk @electricmonk.invalid-handle.com · 10/10/2026
Everything is interconnected. Your actions and even your quiet thoughts ripple outward, affecting both yourself and others. When you recognize these links, even a small act becomes meaningful. Live with the awareness that you are part of a much larger whole.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There's an excellent episode of Brooklyn 99 where Holt and Peralta get mumps.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Belief in an invisible hand that guides our behaviour is surprisingly common as well.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The 'executive summary' is how long??
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OMG. This is *really* good. Personally I'd have gone even further in challenging the status quo, but this is a solid rock on which to build the national mental health strategy. Please read it (yes, all 500 pages of it. It's a magisterial report). www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final report
Final report detailing the findings of the independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Has to be said that reading it is driving me to despair. Everything that Fonagy is now telling us has happened over the last 15 years is exactly what those of us in public heath were warning about 15 years ago. So frustrating.
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The Electric Monk @electricmonk.invalid-handle.com · 10/10/2026
When the world feels overwhelming, remember that you can witness the chaos without being consumed by it. You do not have to carry every struggle as your own. By creating a small space between what happens and how you respond, you find a strength that remains steady.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
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Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 10/10/2026
‘Death comes with Anti-Vaccination’ Patrick Kroon, 1920-30 www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
 The personification of Death (wearing a top hat and carrying a scythe labeled "ANTIVACCINATIE") strides across numbered grave markers or tombstones.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I had a fess published a few years ago about how I couldn't connect with my lifelong pals cos all they wanted to do was booze and take coke. I told them how I felt, turned out they thought the same and now we climb Munro's on Sundays. Lads, talk to your pals.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Booo 😬
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People. Get. Paid. To. Do. This. Unbelievable
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good primer on vaccines in England www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
kingsfund.org.uk
Vaccines In England Explained | The King's Fund
An explainer on vaccines in England, covering vaccine safety, immunisation programmes, uptake rates, inequalities and public health outcomes.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some public health guy: “I wish they cared more about prevention”
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The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
Alt: The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Painfully on the nose
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Excited to see the word 'prevention' being stretched to the point of meaninglessness. Just like the words 'local' and 'place' before it.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I do, honestly, want to like more things, they just need to be better.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
HMT civil servants are encouraged to think of themselves as the cleverest civil servants.
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 08/10/2026
Exclusive: the government doesn’t want you to know who’s advising it on civil service reform medium.com/state-of-the...
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Exclusive: the government doesn’t want you to know who’s advising it on civil service reform
The short version
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Python ahead of R? Booooo.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How much dataviz people get paid, expressed as a dataviz by dataviz people new.datavisualizationsociety.org/soti-report-...
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Cutting the wrong programmes.
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been puzzling over Gini coefficient scores this morning. Essex has a dashboard that gives these for income for local authorities but they are wildly different to regional scores. Why is the top ranked LA 0.14 when ONS gives a score of 0.58 for London? data.essex.gov.uk/dataset/ineq...
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Inequality in England: Gini Index Dashboard
The above dashboard provides information about the extent of inequality at local authority level in England in the following domains: Income Rate of employment deprivation Rate of those not entering…
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Gladwell effect.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Agreed. But considering the author I shouldn’t have been surprised.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anything but make better programmes I guess. We don’t use the iPlayer much because there isn’t that much want to watch on it. But sure, go add some AI and other stuff that makes it harder to get to the few things we actually like. That’ll help 👍
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hint: it’s not this.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The real puzzle here is why I persisted to the end of that article.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🙃 yeah makes sense.
me looking in mirror 
Slacker parent who didn't want to walk more than a block for a pint ends up going to the other side of the world to preach laziness.
Sep 22/23 - Dublin - Trinity College
Oct 21 - Minneapolis Safe Routes To School Conference Oct 28 - Sydney, AUS - Australasian Road Safety Conference
Oct 31 - Christchurch, NZ - Shifting the narrative on road safety with creativity Nov 6 - Wellington, NZ - Details TBA
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looking forward to this conference in a few weeks with a keynote where I will push my evil agenda of not wanting to go far for a pint.
Screenshot of a website for the Australasian Road safety conference with a picture of me and my name in a bio
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Teenage life, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New addition to favourite bookshops: Topping & Company in York. It's massive. It's beautiful.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Fire Elmo
Alt: Fire Elmo
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Genuinely, it's not a paradox - it's that in this era, a "public intellectual" is nothing more than a newspaper columnist with no expertise who writes about nothing specific. John Maynard Keynes it is not.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Or, completely unironically, Machine Head covering Message in a Bottle by the Police. Come @ me.
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sleepmakeswaves covering Robert Miles' Children live youtu.be/De8I6O1VfAg?...
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sleepmakeswaves cover Robert Miles 'Children' for Like A Version
YouTube video by triple j
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