Simon Everest

Aitch's close bond with his sister Gracie and the reason he's on I'm A Celebrity On last night's I'm a Celebrity... the rapper opened up about his relationship with his sisters

If you have been watching ITV's "I'm a Celebrity" you may have seen sibling and rapper Aitch as one of the contestants. Aitch has a sister Gracie who has Down's Syndrome. www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv...

This is where you lost me…

This is a lovely listen, and Mark's website is an absolute diamond in the slop if you're travelling anywhere where rail travel is an option…

Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.

Sthg I don't specifically call out in this blog post on AI notetakers is how awful some bits of govt meeting culture appear to be. The bit about presenteeism directly reflects feedback from
junior folk who talked about how important it is to turn up to meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.

Actually upgrading to a 3/10 #uksnow GU3

#uksnow GU3 1/10

Another 10 to find them in the first place…

In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country - YouTube

This kind of morning… youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Surely 'Live Tides for Chelsea' over Boney M's banger 'Nightflight to Venus'…?

Hallo!

The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.

You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...

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🙌Danke,
Imran

All the time it's not 'air solid with midges' and/or 'horizontal 70mph sleet' I still think you're winning…

If you want your thing to last, and you can make your thing into a static website: You should.

Not because it's less infrastructure. Not because you love javascript. Not because self-hosting. Not because offline.

Because it can be archived and preserved for the future.

Guilty as charged… 😉

Are you ‘gauge changing’ at Zweisimmen? Absolute witchcraft on the Golden Express…

It is important that young siblings who are growing up with a disabled brother or sister are able to look forward to exciting things in their future. Read our parent tip on helping siblings achieve their own ambitions. #siblings www.sibs.org.uk/parent-tips/...

Spy Dog: Children's books pulled over explicit weblink Schools have issued a warning to parents after a URL directed readers to inappropriate content.

A domain is for life, not just for Christmas.

This is why I mostly use subdomains for my things (apart from a couple of obvious ones), and keep memorial pages on our removed services.

If I were a publisher, I’d say all links had to go through my site. But then I know I’d be able to maintain that!

I’m an absolute vegetable today…

:sobs quietly on train home:

YouTube video by Perplexer - Topic Acid Folk (Low Speed)

Being serenaded southwards from Edinburgh by this fondly remembered 90s banger… youtu.be/C2RhDaPcYmE … perhaps file under ‘of its time’…?

Excellent talk Dan!

About I am a designer currently working as a UX Lead at Student Loans Company. I previously worked at the the Government Digital Service (GDS), and have also done work for the Department of Work and Pension...

Ooofff… ‘Be more like Vicky Teinaki’ just hit hard in @maredwards.bsky.social session at #SDinGov25 – ‘much missed’ isn’t big enough. www.vickyteinaki.com/about/

It’s giving me transformation programme flashbacks…

Thaís was definitely faster… I shall see you tomorrow!

👋 from (I think) coach ‘C’ of your train…

View across the river tweed in Berwick from a train window

Photo of the Inspiration Train at Darlington station, part of the 200 years of rail travel celebrations

Lighthouse at the end of a breakwater in Berwick-upon-tweed, photographed from window of passing train

Very distant view of Lindisfarne Castle from the window of a speeding train

Beautiful evening for a trip to SDinGov in Edinburgh tomorrow… who’s going to be there this week? I’m looking forward to some unplanned catchups (and sorry to hear you won’t be there @pixlz.com – best wishes to you and your fam).

My literal 1999 introduction to government web publishing… a half day course on HTML, provided by the library team at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who were responsible for running the website in the 90s. First result… webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200004...

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#DisabledSky we're selling Phoebe's tri-ride, barely used she struggled with the accelerator with her motor control in her hand but if that doesn't affect you it's a great bit of kit: ebay.us/m/anJazx Please ReSkeet