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LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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someone got in touch recently to say they got a job after watching my video to get up to speed with the GOV.UK Prototype Kit, so that's nice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puxo...

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(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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🌏🌳🔥 NEW 'Environmentally sustainable services' guidance, just added to the UK government's Service Manual: www.gov.uk/service-manu... Looking forward to getting more detail in there soon. #govdesign #govdigital #climateemergency #sustainability

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If Switch 2 has a less reflective screen, I'm in

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Understanding power structures is so important. I regularly see posts like 'devs need to do this' 'why did the designer do that'. Of course we all make choices, but in any decent sized org a lot of fundamental decisions are made at a much higher level. We need to discuss leadership more

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Anyone used one of the services to easily get rid of books? Something like this? Are they good, anything to watch out for? play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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At this point I have a really long list of codes in my authenticator app, any tips on organising? I'm worried about deleting any in case I need them

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What are your favourite houses/architecture in film? I Am Love and Parasite have some good ones

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I can’t get over the fact that two separate people did Nazi salutes at CPAC and it’s so normalized at this point that it’s barely even notable on TV news. In any halfway normal era that shit would warrant wall-to-wall coverage.

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What are your favourite houses/architecture in film? I Am Love and Parasite have some good ones

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Looking for recommendations for Paris: -smaller galleries and museums -places to eat/drink -vintage stores or markets -second hand bookstores

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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One of my favourite film genres is when someone has to come out of retirement because they're The Best, but they swore they would never do it again because something traumatic happened

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'All models are wrong, but some are useful' 'The map is not the territory' What are other good data sayings/principles? (Also, are these good?) #data

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It's time to call it. AI is built on a house of cards of intellectual property violations starting with Facebook which is starting to look a lot like a crime scene as held back discovery documents begin to be compelled and unsealed in court. /1

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hello world, 15 mins old

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"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner” Robert De Niro's design hypothesis tips

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A reminder that Axe-Con, the worlds largest virtual #accessibility conference, is next week! I’ll be talking about how to design for neurodiversity with lots of practical examples! If you don’t fancy that, there’s a whole line up of incredible speakers, and registration is free! lnkd.in/ert_uZe2

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It looks like Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at the end of his CPAC speech.

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at least part of the point of DOGE is stealing sensitive data for Grok

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blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-bac...

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Ah I see the UK gov tech grifting community is popping up on LinkedIn to offer some "whatever you think of Musk he is a high agency individual who gets things done" commentary. Folks: don't let the light in for technofascism. There are no winners if we do that.

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The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

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