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blu3id.bsky.social
Technology, Healthcare, Developer, Troublemaker, Libertarian leaning. Strong views that may not be my own. Post may or may not be contemporaneous.
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Intelligent transparency shouldn’t mean putting a spreadsheet several layers into gov.uk. It should mean making data on how the government is doing available AND understandable to the general public.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"See it, say it, sorted."

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

WTF?! Merseyrail. Clear perjury by your staff - who should be prosecuted by their own admission - and you facilitating it. Also shame on the magistrate. What escalator was being misused at Rock Ferry station? Please point it out on the map www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/roc...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Can't tell if sitting back with 🍿 to watch the USA burn is the right thing to be doing. What else is there that I can do 🤷? I don't think my mental health can take it if I let this escape the "it's a problem I can't do anything about" box.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I had forgotten what a North American statesman looks like.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Pang of guilt/ sadness/ remembrance just now as I did a quick sanity check on the data download from Twitter and the tweet I randomly landed on was a conversation with @henryhammerbeck from 2019. 🌳🌳🌳

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I would have been using Twitter for 16 years next month 🤯 Finally logged back in and made my account private (as a step to deactivation & deletion) and did one last data download to use with github.com/marcomaroni-...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Nope. Nope. Nope. To think 4 years ago there was hope, yes the blond thing was still the UK PM but there light was at the end of the tunnel. We are lost.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Deep and meaningful sigh. 😔

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

SNAP3: We are delighted to share the first major publication from SNAP3: Characteristics of older patients undergoing surgery in UK @claireswarbrick.bsky.social @rcoanews.bsky.social @cri.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social What does it tell us? 🧵 1/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39765405/ #AnSky

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Wending it's way to the Indie Compliance mailing list right now, the world's least snappily titled listicle: Five things you need if you run a small, low-risk user-to-user service Also, date still tbc, but there'll be an Ofcom webinar in mid-Feb buttondown.com/indie-and-co...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

We are holding another NHS Hack Day!! 🤓❤️🏥 🗓️ On the 1st and 2nd of March 2025 📍 In Cardiff 🎟️ Tickets at nhshackday.com Can't wait to see you there! 👋

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

One of my own political "single-point-of-departure" sliding-doors fantasies.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos nothing but... I have been reflecting today on cases from the last few weeks and how long 90 seconds actually is. One fairly reminiscent of the QT. Another supervising a novice where experience and me intervening early denied them the opportunity to work through 3-6 in the QRH.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

📣 NEW PAPER KLAXON 📣 "Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 2022" With Ed Fieldhouse, @caprosser.bsky.social, @jack-bailey.co.uk, @jonmellon.bsky.social (@britishelectionstudy.com) Just published at Parliamentary Affairs: academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments

Got to love a bit of #dataviz to explore a dataset and help communicate the "numbers" in a meaningful way that others will hopefully intuitively understand. Got to ❤️ Pandas, Matplotlib, and Jupyter notebooks. Yes Python > R...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment