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Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why. Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

tech bro is short for technically broken

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

A huge thank you to everyone who's already filled this out (or otherwise dropped me a line)

Survey for anyone using/running an API (esp around government) to help inform some ONS work open until THIS FRIDAY 👇

Dear UK government, Let's be clear: our mental health is getting worse, and cutting benefits won’t help. You claim mental health is being “overdiagnosed”, but where’s the evidence? The reality is that our environment affects our wellbeing - pandemics, the cost of living crisis, political unrest and ongoing concerns around climate change are all taking their toll. But when people seek help, they face months, or even years, of waiting. Rhetoric like this is dangerous. It reinforces stigma and stops people getting support. If you’re serious about change, listen to those affected. We can turn this crisis around - but only if the government works with us, not against us. We look forward to hearing from you, Mind

Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

Unifying staff engagement and collaboration across four children's hospitals Building on our successful partnership with Children's Health Ireland (CHI) - where we previously unified their five hospital websites into one platform - we tackled their next digital challenge: four...

Building on our partnership with Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), we recently turned to their next challenge - bringing together four separate intranets that were creating major barriers to effective information sharing.

Read the story in Ben's write-up: torchbox.com/work/wagtail...

A woman with brown hair (me) in a red and white striped top, looking directly into the camera and pointing.

I’ve worked in intranets, digital workplaces, and comms long enough to see the same cycles repeat, the same mistakes made, and the same bright ideas crash and burn.

So here are the hard truths. Are you ready? Let’s go. 🧵

Do I know any (freelance) data scientists who could help with a small-ish bit of quant analysis, to help a really high profile bit of public policy? And/or can this post reach anyone who could help?

#GovDataScience

Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.

In her new book “Predatory Data,” D&S affiliate Anita Say Chan traces a throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley, showing how data has been used to devalue human beings along eugenicist lines — both past and present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Base 4 — Deploy Django on DigitalOcean In the last article from the series — Lint and Test with GitHub Actions, we created a boilerplate for a Django project with Poetry that is…

Take a look at my six stages step-by-step Django boilerplate development story:

From installing with Poetry medium.com/@zalun/djang...

Through Deploy on DigitalOcean medium.com/django-unlea...

To install Wagtail with files in S3 medium.com/@zalun/base-...

#django #tailwind #python #cms

Our key takeaways from UKGovCamp 2025 Ellie, Andy and Miles recently headed to UKGovCamp to share ideas and tackle challenges around making public services work better for everyone. In this blog, they reflect on key themes and takeaways.

Here's me and @andy-gordon.bsky.social reflecting on a wonderful #ukgc25 torchbox.com/blog/takeawa... lots of creative & problem solving fuel and community vibes from a brilliant day

the only crypto I care about is cryptography

Good luck (and may you have all the patience)!

A lit fireplace in the background, a pair of fit warming up, and a laptop screen with the Wagtail GitHub in the foreground

Holiday mode on

Gauging Community Interest: Wagtail Space 2025 The Wagtail Space organization teams are considering having a joint (US & Europe) Wagtail Space 2025 in Iceland. Before we commit to this idea, we need to have a better idea of interest. Please let…

We're exploring the possibility of hosting a Wagtail Space in Iceland in 2025. Please fill out this super-quick survey if you think that would be a great idea: https://buff.ly/4fjyVl0

#Wagtail #Django

Went to the cinema. Came back with a fancy cushion we randomly won. Stay weird, Bristol!

Django people! We need input from our community 💚 Take and re-share the 2024 #Django Developers Survey: jb.gg/i0gq35 – collab with @jetbrains.com, makers of the PyCharm #Python editor

Trying this thing out as well. So far the experience is fairly smooth. I’m into Python, Django, Wagtail, cycling, sci-fi, craft beer and food.