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Professionally awkward. Still trying to make government work better for people.
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Now hosted at 18F.org, the archive of guides and resources! 18f.org/guides/ De-risking procurement, design methods, accessibility, agile, and more…

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

18F alum here. While I appreciate the well-deserved attention the 18F team is getting, let's address a fundamental misunderstanding of why 18F was so effective in working with other govt agencies to improve their digital services and why starting a consulting company is not a substitute. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Mood -

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I enjoy the current approach to balance: “On the right, we have a cartoonish League of Doom villain straight out of central casting. For a perspective from the left, we’ve brought in George W. Bush’s former speechwriter” #OvertonWindow

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

An important aspect of giving false legitimacy to far-right maunderings about a US takeover of Canada is that 👉this is right out of the Russian playbook,👈 from Ukraine to the Baltics. It starts with astroturfing a fifth column that will then claim it's being "persecuted", and call for an invasion.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Have been warning of this for some time - our refusal to appropriately resource critical infrastructure in rural & remote regions in a country that is as big as Canada leaves us vulnerable in many, many ways.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 11 days ago • 2247 comments

Me in 1999: “That South Park movie was wacky, imagining an American imperialism so deranged that they decide to invade Canada in a crusade of censorship. 😂” Me in 2025: 😐

submitted 17 days ago • 210 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 28 days ago • 124 comments

I have missed @danhon.com ‘s threads. This one is a must-read

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

“Canadian companies could sell jailbreaking kits for inkjet printers that disconnect them from “subscription” services and disable the anti-features that check for and reject third party ink” - Cory Doctorow doctorow.medium.com/canada-shoul...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Canada’s biggest labour organization is calling on the federal government turn off the taps, “cutting US access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted” 75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources

submitted 32 days ago • 72 comments

The world needs more people like Theaster Gates. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I refuse to let myself spin into doom-scrolling. I've spent the past 45 minutes writing. I will make time every day to create something of value for the world.

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Boring magic ftw

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Unexpected Cold Snap Billie Rae Busby 2013

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

The new few weeks, months, years, will likely not be pretty. Get this guide to surveillance self-defense to your communities. It has printable PDFs as well as tailored reccomendations for certain activities, types of people, etc. ssd.eff.org

submitted 46 days ago • 59 comments

I haven’t been posting as much as I used to in nearly all the channels except some work and work-adjacent things. And while I have all kinds of reasons, @annehelen.bsky.social ‘s piece on Posting Less really resonates, particularly this quote-

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Listen to me (not pictured) talk about the history of the American civil service @npr.org www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

Closing Glory Franz Johnston 1932

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

USDS becoming the new host to DOGE. I'm sure the DS has hosted its share of naive parachuters over the years (though folks I've known there were serious, ready to listen, & often stayed in govt) but this is different. these are wreckers, & it's awful to see something created to help turn this way

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

Nine lousy bucks completely erased traffic in Manhattan. 8:30am on 8th Ave looking south from 41st. Unlike last Monday, it's not cold or snowing today.

submitted 51 days ago • 61 comments

"Many of the problems that we are going to face over the next many years will stem from publics that have been deranged and distorted by social media in ways that lower the odds that democracy will be a problem solving system, and increase the likelihood that it will be a problem creating one."

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

submitted 57 days ago • 110 comments

Forever and Ever Nicki Ault 2023

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Be it through Andrew Tate, JD Vance, or Jordan Peterson—the same toxic ideologies that inspired this horrific massacre are surging back with frightening ease. It’s 2024 and the desire to punish women for daring to claim their place in the world remains the same. NEVER FORGET.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

So thankful for all of the smart people who gathered over the past month to chat about Platformland with @honeygolightly.bsky.social and myself. What a treat it's been. And, as if it couldn't get better, so thankful for @richardpope.org joining us today to answer questions and discuss the book.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

We have a bunch of #BCParks #jobs posted ATM. Rangers, Student Rangers, Rec Services Officers (who manage the Park Operator contracts), as well as a very-rare executive director role (see next post) - find them all at bcpublicservice.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/JobSe... + search “BC Parks.”

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

“But this legislative move is not the latest salvo in the so-called ‘war on the car’ (or bike, depending on your perspective). Rather this bill is part of the war on facts - on evidence and data - that we are witnessing spread across the continent.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age is running its first case study competition: www.teachingpublicservice.digital/case-study-c...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

TLDR: Public services could and should work much harder for the public. But that won’t happen through more design thinking or liberal sprinklings of AI. It won’t come through better “data sharing” either, which = photocopying data. Or just digitising services as they exist today.

submitted 181 days ago • 2 comments