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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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Whyyyy would they post this
sconner.net Shaun Conner @sconner.net · 18h
If these weren’t bad enough, I found this one. This is real, by the way.
APOLOGY STATEMENT We would like to address some matters brought to our attention. It appears that our efforts to give every child the best start in life have had some unexpected consequences. Our Best Start Free Breakfast Clubs have served over 2.6 million meals, creating unforeseen levels of concentration in our classrooms and have left parents facing alarming amounts of unexpected free time at the start of the day. 30 hours of government-funded childcare have saved parents £7500 per child per year, triggering an outrageous increase in household savings and putting a shocking new focus on the importance of school readiness. With our drive to tackle school absence getting 140,000 children back in class and thousands more teachers recruited into our schools, our classrooms have become bustling hubs of learning, teeming with ambitious young people set to achieve and thrive with the help of this government. We put this down to our Plan for Change, which it seems has raised the bar alarmingly high. It turns out that when you have a mission to break down the barriers to opportunity, you end up making working people's lives better. We completely understand the urge to find out more - go to the Education Hub or beststartinlife.gov.uk. Department for Education Social Media Team
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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ambiph.one
Issues at Cloudflare are causing slow loading and other problems on ambiph.one. Sorry if you're affected!
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Taskmaster Christmas orders are starting to come in thick and fast so I made a keyring designer to speed them up 💌
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Guy behind me in the queue at Co-op, deadly serious, said he saw me put something in my pocket and to take it out and they'd wind the CCTV back? And kept going on about it for like a minute? Then said he was just having a laugh and not to take it so seriously?

I need to stop going outside
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Amazing that in 2025 the only way to initiate a download in JS is to construct a sacrificial <a> and pretend to click it
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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This Parliamentary briefing on station accessibility has:

- A bitmap infographic with tiny text on mobile and incomplete alt text

- An autocomplete with broken keyboard accessibility and no screen reader compatibility

- A map with a key based only on colour

- A data table embedded in an image
houseofcommons.parliament.uk House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk · 6d
How accessible are railway stations in your constituency?

Our new briefing and dashboard can help you understand what makes railway stations accessible, and how accessible railway stations are near you.

Explore now: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/how-accessib...
House of Commons Library graphic promoting new research. Search engine bar containing: “How accessible is my local railway station?” Green text boxes: “There’s a Library briefing for that. Get the facts at commonslibrary.parliment.uk” Decorative background image showing trains waiting at platforms in a large railway station.
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It's a really bold move to announce you've discovered an ancient tree-dwelling crocodile, decide to use AI instead of an artist to render it, and then still release the image when the AI generates a crocodile that couldn't be any more on the fucking ground
Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
Scientists say the crocodiles hunted like leopards by climbing trees and killing prey below.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Dare I suggest you buy them for your whole family and a Taskmaster trophy of your own head and make them scream how merry they are all Christmas to win your approval and golden face? DARE I??

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Joe Marler on the bridge
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 8d
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I've got the news on in the background and Camilla is at a Remembrance Day event at Paddington with a choir singing songs from Wicked in the background. We're remembrancing with promotional movie tie-ins now
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Dare I suggest you buy them for your whole family and a Taskmaster trophy of your own head and make them scream how merry they are all Christmas to win your approval and golden face? DARE I??

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
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
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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What in the Live Laugh Love is this
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14d
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I'm attempting to inoculate my dog against fireworks by playing them on Ambiphone all day, wish me luck

ambiph.one?m=1-Firework...
Listen to Fireworks & thunder, an Ambiphone mix
Ambient music + sounds for work, study and relaxation
ambiph.one
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I'm going to buy an ant farm and never work again
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is a brilliant idea but the design is an abomination
Inside Royal Mail’s Solar Powered Post Boxes
Royal Mail has announced that it will be rolling out solar powered post boxes that will now allow customers to post up to a shoe box sized parcel
sustainabilitymag.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Notes app screenshot from the Mother of Parliaments is an interesting choice
houseofcommons.parliament.uk House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk · 17d
What's on in the House of Commons this week? 👇
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
3-7 November Monday from 2.30pm - Second reading of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill Tuesday from 11.30am - Opposition day (12th allotted day). Debate on a motion in the name of the Official Opposition. Subject to be announced. Wednesday from 11.30am - Prime Minister's Questions, Consideration of Lords message to the Employment Rights Bill, Consideration of Lords amendments to the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill. The House will rise for the November recess at the conclusion of business on Wednesday 5 November and will return on Tuesday 11 November.
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The Criminal Formerly Known as Prince
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I'm using (and really liking) lucide.dev icons for a new project and am desperately trying to engineer a scenario which would call for a 'Bean Off' icon
A white outlined icon of a bean, next to the same icon with a diagonal stroke through it with the label "bean-off"
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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DPD: We tried to deliver your parcel 😟 but you weren't in 🥺 we have proof! 😢

The proof:
DPD tracking page says "Sorry, we missed you. Your driver Adam won't be back today but we'll be back Wed 22 October with your parcel". Below is the 'proof of delivery' image: a featureless grey/black gradient
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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First two trophies on their way today! 🗿
matteason.me Matt Eason @matteason.me · Oct 12
I'm making tiny Taskmaster trophies now if you'd like to be a tiny Taskmaster

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Antique gold trophy of a woman's head on a black base with red wax seal with letters 'LT'. Labels say 'Your face here and your initials here'. In the corner, a polaroid photo of the same woman
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The Dan Brown book tour is getting out of hand
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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For the design nerds, here's Network Rail's official design manual for Rail Clock

It incorporates a sonic pigeon deterrent.

www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/u...
4.9.3 Pigeon Deterrents Sonic deterrents incorporated inside hanging bracket casing to be directed at the top of the clock to prevent pigeons from perching on the clock. No physical deterrents should be deployed.
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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There's a cool new clock at London Bridge called Rail Clock! I've made an online version of it: railclock.matteason.co.uk

Code here: github.com/matteason/ra...
Rail Clock
A reproduction of the Great British Railways clock
railclock.matteason.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM