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Text excerpt from Digital ID explainer saying "Digital credentials will be stored directly on your own device"

I wonder what the implications of this are for people who don't have/want a smart phone? Or who lose their phone or who have run out of battery when their ID is requested?

Only good omen for #ManUtd is that in 1992/93 they went on to win their first league title in a quarter of a century! #MOTD

Join us a week today!

Speakers include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS, on 'Surfacing Local Insights: Mapping, Scrollytelling and (Semi)Automation'
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Foundation, on their data dashboard
- Leonardo Mazzone, Dept for Business and Trade, on matching companies across datasets

Neat tool from @forensicarchi.bsky.social for live tracking the #Gaza #flotilla. 22 ships currently sailing flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

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🚨 NEW DATA BITES 🚨

Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me in person/online, 6pm, Thurs 18 Sept, for Data Bites #58!

Speakers will include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Fdn, on their dashboard
- DBT on matching companies across datasets

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Have you never wondered what made up places you might find between #Iceland and #Ireland, or between #Northampton and #Southampton? Today, you can open up this new world of possibilities with #PlaceNameTweener, inspired by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social! bothness.github.io/placetweener/

Ps, if you liked this, you might also be interested in visiting my MySpace bsky.app/profile/both...

Made up place names between Iceland and Ireland on a map. Including Iceland, Ieeland etc

#PlaceNameTweener was inspired by this exceedingly silly map by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social. All of the code is open source and can be found here on GitHub github.com/bothness/pla...

Have you never wondered what made up places you might find between #Iceland and #Ireland, or between #Northampton and #Southampton? Today, you can open up this new world of possibilities with #PlaceNameTweener, inspired by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social! bothness.github.io/placetweener/

Living down in the Portsmouth/Southampton conurbation these days, and could easily imagine a rebranding of the local lines here as a metro rail service. I suspect there'd be a problem with capacity though as the trains would have to run on the same rail lines as the mainline services

More frequent, modern trains and a bit of branding make a world of difference. I lived round the corner from Highbury & Islington station in 2005 and always tried to use the old Silverlink service when I could. Trains were small, dirty and infrequent (maybe just 2 per hour?) and used by nobody.

Norwich City FC results in 2025/26 season showing four consecutive 2-1 away wins

Just realised that every @canaries.co.uk game so far this season has ended in a 2-1 away win. Pitty we played half of them at home!

According to YouTube ads I need to invest in "ETFs". I think this might also be something incredibly important that people need to know about...

Interesting how the average +/- change is higher than all the individual grades. I'm guessing that's got something to do with grade inflation?

This is amazing

A must watch.

That should be $158.4 trillion in total I think. Standards slipping at the NY Times?

Trying to protect your IP online is increasingly impossible. Up yours WeTransfer.

This looks like a #HIGNFY odd one out round. I'm guessing the one with the three old men on the moon cos the other three are magazine covers?

Yeah. Didn't spot they'd changed it for other pages now!

Does that sound like a democracy to you?

I'm pretty sure the header has been blue since they overhauled search last year. I fear they're just paying for the dot🤦

I was betting on them changing the GOV UK part to a more approachable lowercase. Wasn't even on my radar that the dot or its colour might be in need of an overhaul. I guess that's why I'm not paid a squillion quid an hour for my brain labour!

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Wow, this event looks like a proper treat!

Turn Any Place into an Interactive Map Puzzle Put your geographic knowledge and skills to the test.

Looks like #AnyMapPuzzle has been doing the rounds. Featured write up on maps.com this week and also last month in @flowingdata.com's #dataviz newsletter! www.maps.com/interactive-...

Registration — Outlier

If you're interested in Data Visualization, get your ticket for the data viz conference Outlier. If you're a Data Visualization Society member, virtual tickets are only $150!
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I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025.

It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

Judge rules October raid on my home was unlawful I have won back my computers and phones.

I won! “A resounding victory for press freedom.”

Police were denied access to my devices by a court. The raid and the warrants used for it were unlawful.

My full statement:

asawinstanley.substack.com/p/judge-rule...

Wouldn't that be vOwElcAsE with a lowercase w? I guess there should also be a CoNSoNaNTCaSe and of course I missed SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to distinguish constants from variables