Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱

A screenshot from a customer support chat. It says "Transferring you to our next available Colleague" and "Hang in there. You're number 1 in the line."

An ADHD attack is when you are #15 in line to talk to customer support because you have already collected your order but it's still showing as ready to collect on the website, and you need to get that fixed, and then a loved one says "does it really matter?" and your brain goes to war with itself 🤯

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Why ADHD Diagnoses Get Rejected And what needs to change

Even after years on the ADHD waiting list, your diagnosis can be rejected.
Sent back to the queue. No support. No reason.

Here’s how to fix it:

1. National standards
2. Regulation
3. Reciprocal recognition
4. Shared care framework
5. Review process (not redo)
6. Joined up data

Kind of love my commute! 🦢

Suki, a tortoise shell kitten sits up in a slightly human pose with a groggy little "why have you disturbed me?" face. She's adorable and you love her.

🤨

A flyer for Joseph Westbury's "reality reimagined" live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He's on at The Strathmore from the 5th to 8th August at 12.30pm. the poster shows a young man holding a rubik's cube and advertises an award-winning magician performing live. He's a member of the magic circle. Note that the venue is 18+.

What's up Edinburgh Fringe! This young man is a wizard and you should go see him perform. 🪄

It gives me a glimmer of hope to know that so many Americans are getting my book.
It may seem silly… but it ain’t.
Get it at your favourite bookstore or here: MagnaCata.com

What screen time really does to children's brains Screen time has become synonymous with bad news - but the science may not be as straightforward as it seems

The science on screen time is not as straightforward as media coverage on the issue may suggest @zsk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This one is amazing.

I really enjoyed this talk by Sroop Sunar about tidy code and technical debt. It's 30m of your life well spent. Thank you!
brightonruby.com/2019/life-ch...

Severance was fun

NEW: Israelis have marched through the capital Tel Aviv demanding an end to the starvation of Gaza.

Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.

A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

A screenshot of a survey from ECOVACS, asking the question "just imagine ECOVACS has a personality, how old would he/she make you feel?"

Every question in the feedback form was like this 🙄

YouTube video by Hat Trick Comedy Father Ted | End Of The Ice Age

How will you celebrate the end of the ICE age? ❄️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNTI...

A little plant sits in our garden, behind a few cut logs. Behind the plant two little black ears are sticking out. It's Momo, one of our cats. He thinks he's invisible. Ssssh! Don't tell the sighted folk!

Master of disguise.

The Behavioural Insights Team, a part of @nestauk.bsky.social, the UK's innovation agency for social good, are recruiting for 2 technical roles:

1️⃣ Lead stack developer
www.bi.team/vacancies/le...

2️⃣ Data engineer
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#Innovation #Tech4Good #Recruitment #Vacancies

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We all know someone who wants to join our fight but isn’t sure where to start.

Fight Back with Friends is a new program designed to break down that barrier. Join our upcoming training for new tools to help get your friends and family off the sidelines.

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

medium.com/nightingale/...

Cats can't be vegetarians, LEWIS! 😂

Of course they're already doing this! That's what I get for not reading it in full. The HBO is available here, in OWL and ROBOT (spreadsheet) formats: github.com/HumanBehavio...

NB. It's a part of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology. Fair to say it's not an ontology for all human behaviour.

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One (1) clod of earth. Who is out there buying cat toys?

I cannot comprehend how this (seemingly) sisyphean effort comes close to categorising all human behaviours.

💡Pitch: Maintain it as open source software. Publish structured data in a public git repository and accept community contributions.

#OSS #BehaviouralScience #CollectiveIntelligence #CI

I'm not a behavioural scientist, but I know a few and we like some of the same movies 💕

I think if I were, I'd be very excited about an open ontology of human behaviours 👉 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-2...

It feels like the sort of thing that roboticisits should care about too 🤖

A 3-panel comic with 3 screens from Adventure Time. In the first, Demon Cat (a blue thing with yellow eyes, sharp teeth, a smirk on its face, and a little red tail (I think!)) says "Greetings... Frank the human boy" Finn (the human) replies "How did you almost know my name!?" Demon Cat replies with a grin, "I have approximate knowledge of many things"

Prescient. #AdventureTime #FinnTheHuman #DemonCat

A babushka (Russian stacking doll), which is opened up to illustrate that inside each is another. At the centre is a tiny little complete doll. Text over the meme reads "My technical debt has technical debt"

Technical debt always accumulates. Unchecked, it'll slow your development team to a crawl. So what can we do about it?
👉 instantiator.dev/post/5-reaso...

I've been cycling to work since May 15th, 2025. This graph shows the cumulative distance I've travelled since I started. It begins as a gentle incline, with some steeper and some shallower sections and... a couple of uncomfortably long plateaus, courtesy of broken bikes and a rather long wait for the cycle to work scheme to come through for me!

I have been cycling to work for a while now, and I crossed the 2000 mile mark on the 25th June! 🙌
Here's some data about that...

A cat lies in front of the front wheel of a push bike.

Insurance scam! #CatsOfBlueSky

May we not be blind to the needs of others, nor deaf to their cry for food.

A red theatre, with curtain closed, and the magic circle emblem projected on the wall near the front.

Back at Magic Circle HQ for a performance including my very talented nephew!