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Matt Eason
@matteason.me
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Designer & developer working in digital government

ambiph.one / govukvue.org / matteason.co.uk/scotbeats / stationlifts.org.uk

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Matt Eason @matteason.me · Nov 12
Hi BSky, here are three things I made that you might like

Thing #1: Ambient ScotRail Beats

ScotRail made all of their tannoy announcements available under FOI and I put them over an infinite stream of ambient lofi beats. You can add your own music too
Ambient ScotRail Beats - train announcements over ambient music
Train announcements over ambient music
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I'm glad Donald Trump has ruled out taking Greenland by force, because he is a man of his word and has never lied in his life
January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Do factor in the additional time it will take to retrieve them from the gents at Mar-a-Lago
mrosenbaum.bsky.social Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social · 4d
From today you can make a FOIA request to the Trump Presidential Library for records from Trump's first term of office - www.trumplibrary.gov/research/sub...
Submit a FOIA Request | Donald J. Trump Presidential Library
www.trumplibrary.gov
January 20, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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A remarkable one-two punch of homophobia and transphobia from Radio 4 news's report on this, including:

"The nurses believed Rose had a female partner and was sexually active" - Ok? What does that have to do with anything?
Female nurses win employment case over NHS changing-room use by trans colleague
Judge finds Durham trust violated nurses’ dignity and created intimidating environment by allowing use of single-sex space
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Happy Monthly GitHub Outage to all those who celebrate
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Unfortunately my entire personality is now "man who will tell off people using their phone in the theatre"
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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There's an Elphaba's Sex Lair Lego set but there's no cardigan and they just enjoy a lovely cup of tea
A Wicked For Good Lego set of Elphaba's retreat. In a wooded hideaway, Elphaba pours Fiyero a cup of tea surrounded by various woodland animals
January 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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This is heinous. Why are TfL still abusing wayfinding signage like this?

See also: Burberry Street www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023...
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Is there a reason seatplan.com has gone to shit? Did they get bought or something?
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Reposted by Matt Eason
mrosenbaum.bsky.social
New releases from the National Archives of government records from 2005 show how ministers and officials reacted uneasily to the implementation of FOI, and how they handled some initial cases - "This is becoming a real problem". What I found in the files: rosenbaum6.substack.com/p/tony-we-ha...
Memo about FOI from Jonathan Powell, chief of staff, to Blair: “This is becoming a real problem”. The prime minister writing in reply: “What is the solution?! I need a recommendation”.
December 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Congratulations to everyone in Sainsbury's whose first day on Earth is today! You'll get there champ!
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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CHEESE CRIME HOTLINE
Security sticker on a pack of Co Op cheddar reads "This product is security tagged. Thank you for buying at Southern Co-op. If found for resale elsewhere call 01202 059734 or email info@uk-pac.com"
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Free therapy from the ticket machine
"Change is possible" message on car park ticket machine
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I don't like rejections like this - "It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for"

Why wouldn't parliament be able to legislate on volume levels for adverts and enforce via Ofcom/ASA? There are plenty of other regulations in place around advertising
December 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Just filled in my tax return and every single one of these issues I found last year is still broken. Self Assessment is such a mess
matteason.me Matt Eason @matteason.me · Dec 21
Join me as I nitpick how janky HMRC's self assessment service is while I suffer through completing my tax return

This warning text should be vertically aligned with the exclaimation mark icon
Warning text says 'Optional' indicates that completion is voluntary. It's next to a white exclaimation mark in a black circle, but they're not vertically aligned
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Fun, my first legal threat!

Network Rail have taken offense so my version of the Rail Clock will be coming down later today
OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE-COMMERCIAL OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE-COMMERCIAL It has come to Network Rail's attention that you are using a design ("Infringing Design") which substantially reproduces the Clock Design without Network Rail's permission. The Infringing Design is displayed at https://railclock.matteason.co.uk/ as per the below image: The reproduction of the Clock Design without Network Rail's consent amounts to the infringement of its copyright in the Clock Design pursuant to section 16 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Network Rail appreciates that you may not have been aware of its rights in the Clock Design, but, particularly in light of its importance to Network Rail's branding and history, it does not allow its unauthorised use. By making the source code for the design available, you are assisting others to create their own infringing versions of the Clock Design. This has the potential to cause significant damage to Network Rail and may amount to authorisation of infringing activities by third parties. In order to resolve this matter, Network Rail requests that you remove the Infringing Design and related source code from https://railclock.matteason.co.uk/ (and any other websites where it is displayed) and confirm in writing within 14 days of the date of this letter you have done do, by sending an email to redacted
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Lukewarm take: Using the flag for this is fine, actually, and we need to do everything we can to reclaim it from the lamppost wankers anyway
todaysrailwaysuk.bsky.social Today's Railways UK @todaysrailwaysuk.bsky.social · Dec 8
Tomorrow the new blue, red & white GBR livery & brand will be launched. The new design will be displayed on digital displays at a number of major stations. The DfT says the livery will appear across already publicly owned train operators from spring 2026, with the roll-out being gradual. 📷DfT
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I propose Whampocalypse, where you lose if you even _think_ about Last Christmas. This is Whamageddon with the gloves off.
December 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The judge reading Joey Barton's sentence should be a voice actor
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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This isn't new and it's a colossal failure of leadership in the DVSA that it remains a problem

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks
Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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American/Canadian/Australian/New Zealand Taskmaster fans! Last chance to order these Christmas tasks is this weekend! Last posting dates are looming

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matteason.me Matt Eason @matteason.me · Nov 5
I've just added these Christmas Taskmaster tasks to my Etsy shop if you'd like to make someone's Christmas significantly more high-pressure

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A Taskmaster-style task on folded card reads 'Have the merriest Christmas. You must exclaim "I'm so very merry!" with increasing enthusiasm every time you feel merry. You have until New Year's Day. Merriest Christmas wins. Your time stars now." A red keyring in the style of a wax seal with the initials GD in a typewriter-esque font, sealing a white folded task card
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Pleased to say this has now been fixed, 5 months after I reported it: www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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How do I kill this fucking banana
Button in Google Slides reads 'Beautify this slide', with an icon of a banana because Google's image AI is called Nano Banana because they're so quirky and random
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Stacks of Taskmaster keyrings and Christmas tasks going out today!

If you already have the official advent calendar this would be a lovely way to round it off on Christmas day...

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A pile of red wax seal keyrings with various initials on
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"You wouldn't steal a car" antipiracy meme replaced with "You wouldn't visit a URL"
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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pagescms.org is great - I haven't used it before and used it today to add a CMS to an existing @nuxt.com Content site (with multiple collections, media libraries, frontmatter schemas etc) in under a morning. Just flexible enough without being overwhelmingly complicated
Pages CMS: The No-Hassle CMS for Static Sites Generators
Tired of juggling Git and YAML to update your Next.js, Astro, Hugo or Nuxt website? Make it easy on you and your team, get a user-friendly CMS running straight on top of GitHub.
pagescms.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM