socialsoup.bsky.social
Service Designer in UK Gov. Anti-fascist.
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Smaller scale but Art A level at college when I kid wore an amarni T-shirt for painting. The price of the T-shirt was a months worth of food shopping for me from Netto.
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The 8am scramble was partly due to the policy commitment of an appointment within 48 hours. It never really culturally changed after that.
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I use a screenreader like Martin, when I’ve reached my dyslexia reading limit for the day.
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Thank you, Slowwwwwly learning to give myself some grace- it’s not very natural to me. Self-flagellation is normally more my style.
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Things I did positively:
- showed up when I felt like hiding
- gathered experts across a huge organisation to talk through similar goals, values and challenges.
- juggled 2 kids on half term and a full time job with scattered childcare
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1910 Newcastle
Men, women and classes shoulder to shoulder.
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
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On return, she resumed her militant activity- later disguising herself as a working class woman “Jane Wharton” to prove the injustices of force-feeding against women of lower social status and in 1910 she was force fed in Walton Gaol, Liverpool.
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When in prison she went on hunger strike with her fellow working class suffragettes, and was force fed via a tube.
Being posh, she had nicer digs and was let out a little earlier than the rest.
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Owing to her social status, she was offered the alternative of being bound over however she refused the offer and pleaded guilty to the charges.
Just to make it clear she shouted in court “My disorderly behaviour of throwing a stone with violence in a public space was deliberate and intentional”.
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Lady Constance Lytton. daughter of the first Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India.
She lobbed a stone at Lloyd George’s car visiting Newcastle. She was done for assault and disorderly behaviour.
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Oh I imagine. Currently seeing the fall out of AI POCs after realising the horror of our systems/ data layer (s)/ policy lasagna. That’s when we get green vs brownfield conversations of our services, as it all seems too hard to carefully reimagine and rebuild rather than just blow up with dynamite.
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As a community we need to push back on the damaging narrative of “if only we had a genius to fix it, then those civil service idiots will see the error of their ways”. It’s been via consultancies for ages, but just emboldened now.
Cheers TechBro, never thought of that, going to help move off COBOL?
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In the US I suppose there's also the
+ "politician wants to favour messages being sent via notification platform they own and profit from"
problem
eek
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I live in the NE of England and was taught about Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and other defining US points of history, such as Cuban Missile Crisis.
I however was not taught about Britain’s part in The Famine, Kenya or Bengal. Funny that.
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My mam once scolded me for buying a certain branded butter with the line ‘you’d think you’re made of money!’… for butter 😂 Guilt still real though.
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🙌.
This is also why I hate talks on class. On paper I’m socially mobile but I still hoard, mentally calculate every cost, ashamed of spending I’d deem frivolous & worry constantly that my kids might go without.
I do however know how to sew, repair loads & make 4 different meals out of 1 chicken!
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I’m Geordie, same craic. Screaming ‘advisor, advisor!’ Is basically my default for any IVR.
Siri music requests; so hilariously inaccurate, it’s become a family game to get the most obscure one back.
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We’re in the process of saving up. Really angry about being forced into a private route - but the school has been ace, which has helped massively.
We have a SEN plan rather than a EHCP, but school reviews periodically. It’s felt a little bit like ‘he’ll sink or swim’ type of approach to education.
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My 6 year old was on the waiting list, then thrown off the waiting list, then back on it. It’s been a tough slog, but the diagnosis part seems to legitimise his needs - rather than oh he’s just a naughty/ angry/ argumentative boy. Hope your and sons journey is smooth.
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My worst one was accidentally on purpose poisoning the whole Home Economics dept with Cif.
Long story short, I thought it would be funny to turn staff milk bright green. I now know that
a) colour of milk doesn’t matter in coffee
B) food colouring is more suitable than (nearly GBH) kitchen cleaner
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Snorted out loud at this
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‘we will also act upstream, working with international partners to address the humanitarian crises which lead people to flee their homes, and to strengthen support for refugees in their home region.’
Explain how *exactly* you addressing the cause of the crisis in Palestine and supporting Gazans?
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Absolutely missed a trick there.
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I’d like to see the service standard/ design principles applied to programme funding, not just when a digital product want to be put on GOV.UK.
‘This is for everyone’ needs to be said over and over until people feel ludicrous to suggest otherwise- that goes for CS job roles too.
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This is too true and it makes me feel sad.
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Pretty sure we have a tech for good pitch here.
Between our skills, we just need a man with a van and a vet and we’re sorted!
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I think some enterprising hedgehog breeder would make a mint in the ‘40+ trying to not use chemicals allotment holder’ demographic.