Alex
@blangry.bsky.social
Generalist civic technologist (& final year DPhil). Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
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See the problem with this story is that you’re trying to get us believe that a profoundly racist man is really very racist. And racists - and let’s face it, that’s his target demographic - aren’t going to be put off by that.
Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
See the problem with this story is that you’re trying to get us believe that a profoundly racist man is really very racist. And racists - and let’s face it, that’s his target demographic - aren’t going to be put off by that.
After 20+ mins on hold to change a hospital appointment time (button in app to do it returns a number (also listed on the website) that gets an error). Not even at digital transformation, just at "get the numbers right on your website".
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
After 20+ mins on hold to change a hospital appointment time (button in app to do it returns a number (also listed on the website) that gets an error). Not even at digital transformation, just at "get the numbers right on your website".
Eldest currently loves doing maths (turns out she's not bad at it and will obviously outpace me very shortly). Means I have found my favourite computer game from when I was her age: Merlin's Maths. It's so refreshing to have a game not on a website, not attention dragging everywhere.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Eldest currently loves doing maths (turns out she's not bad at it and will obviously outpace me very shortly). Means I have found my favourite computer game from when I was her age: Merlin's Maths. It's so refreshing to have a game not on a website, not attention dragging everywhere.
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Wasn't expecting @anonopin.bsky.social to take an infrastructural turn.
It's a real shame that no-one publishes a 3D map of our cities that shows the underground as well as the surface. Seeing the tunnels used by pedestrians, trains, roads, clean water, sewage, gas and electricity would be great. Hidden infrastructure that needs to be seen.
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Wasn't expecting @anonopin.bsky.social to take an infrastructural turn.
Delighted to be of the age where trains you grew up with and rode into your 20s are now firmly heritage.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Delighted to be of the age where trains you grew up with and rode into your 20s are now firmly heritage.
My insulin pump has been having really regular problems with crashing for which you have to: remove battery, press button, replace battery, reset time and date (no board battery) rewind plunger, remove canula from body, re-set plunger to cartridge depth, prime tubing, swear fealty to demons.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My insulin pump has been having really regular problems with crashing for which you have to: remove battery, press button, replace battery, reset time and date (no board battery) rewind plunger, remove canula from body, re-set plunger to cartridge depth, prime tubing, swear fealty to demons.
Tired: red team
Wired: annual leave
Wired: annual leave
Chaos test your org. Tell a leader to suddenly take a week off with no handover and find out how much of a bottleneck or single point of failure they are.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Tired: red team
Wired: annual leave
Wired: annual leave
This 1000% applies to digital government people too. You're standing next to the demon core and worrying that the other room with the lead shielding might feel comparatively chilly. (from @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com) youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This 1000% applies to digital government people too. You're standing next to the demon core and worrying that the other room with the lead shielding might feel comparatively chilly. (from @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com) youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
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There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
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ooh jfc, the guy says he did this in his "Innovation Lab" & refers to it as "civic tech". I'm going to need to lie down.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
ooh jfc, the guy says he did this in his "Innovation Lab" & refers to it as "civic tech". I'm going to need to lie down.
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The growth duty: as was pointed out many years ago the hero of GDP growth is someone undergoing very expensive cancer therapy.
GDP doesn’t distinguish between money spent bringing joy and money spent cleaning up after an oil spill.
GDP doesn’t distinguish between money spent bringing joy and money spent cleaning up after an oil spill.
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The growth duty: as was pointed out many years ago the hero of GDP growth is someone undergoing very expensive cancer therapy.
GDP doesn’t distinguish between money spent bringing joy and money spent cleaning up after an oil spill.
GDP doesn’t distinguish between money spent bringing joy and money spent cleaning up after an oil spill.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We've designed some new tools @jointogether.online to make it even easier to join a union.
jointogether.online/post/2025-11...
jointogether.online/post/2025-11...
The Master System was absolutely class. Games were pocket money prices in the mid 90s. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Master System at 40: the truth about Sega’s most underrated console
Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System dominated the markets in Japan and the US. But in Europe, a technologically superior rival was making it look like an ancient relic
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Master System was absolutely class. Games were pocket money prices in the mid 90s. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Very close to recommending most things be hosted as a flat markdown file on a Raspberry Pi connected to a AAA battery as the lord intended.
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Very close to recommending most things be hosted as a flat markdown file on a Raspberry Pi connected to a AAA battery as the lord intended.
Had a momentary chuckle to this.
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Had a momentary chuckle to this.
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
2
McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
3
CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
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EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
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EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
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EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
8
[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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[Customer looks inside the cup]
10
[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
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EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
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There's a very short and effective phrase that I would like to offer up to British politicians and political journalists this week - it's simple, clear, classic, and I think it would really help:
"What? No. What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"What? No. What the fuck is wrong with you?"
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
There's a very short and effective phrase that I would like to offer up to British politicians and political journalists this week - it's simple, clear, classic, and I think it would really help:
"What? No. What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"What? No. What the fuck is wrong with you?"
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Ultimately, the future of digital at so many organisations will need to seem quite boring (to some) for a while.
Seeing this everywhere at the moment! Maybe we need to resurrect maintain.community
Seeing this everywhere at the moment! Maybe we need to resurrect maintain.community
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ultimately, the future of digital at so many organisations will need to seem quite boring (to some) for a while.
Seeing this everywhere at the moment! Maybe we need to resurrect maintain.community
Seeing this everywhere at the moment! Maybe we need to resurrect maintain.community
Booked the train. Who will I see at Databites/the pub after Databites tomorrow?
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Booked the train. Who will I see at Databites/the pub after Databites tomorrow?
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Don't get sucked into discussions of which types of jewellery confiscation is fair.
Use the Kirby method. Eat the narrative framing. Say what is happening.
Say that Labour are being inhumanely cruel in a way that fascists approve of.
Use the Kirby method. Eat the narrative framing. Say what is happening.
Say that Labour are being inhumanely cruel in a way that fascists approve of.
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Don't get sucked into discussions of which types of jewellery confiscation is fair.
Use the Kirby method. Eat the narrative framing. Say what is happening.
Say that Labour are being inhumanely cruel in a way that fascists approve of.
Use the Kirby method. Eat the narrative framing. Say what is happening.
Say that Labour are being inhumanely cruel in a way that fascists approve of.
When will our direction of travel shift towards being the best rather than the worst? We keep resetting the scale and we see each time that the next government will try and make things nastier, meaner, crueller, more pinched.
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When will our direction of travel shift towards being the best rather than the worst? We keep resetting the scale and we see each time that the next government will try and make things nastier, meaner, crueller, more pinched.
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"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
After having to stand for more than an hour on a train with two kids, the absolute hide of the conductor to come on the system to apologise for it being hard to buy a ticket because she's not walking through the train. Delay Repay but your trip is free if you have to stand.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
After having to stand for more than an hour on a train with two kids, the absolute hide of the conductor to come on the system to apologise for it being hard to buy a ticket because she's not walking through the train. Delay Repay but your trip is free if you have to stand.