Jess Bowie

I would like to launch a formal complaint against Gen Z. I am increasingly noticing members of this generation writing things like “Sureeee no problem” or “OMG I would dieeee”. They are extending the wrong vowel sound and frankly I haaaaate it

Day after the solstice and oh boy the nights are really drawing in aren’t they

Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop.

If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

Can you imagine emailing someone and actually receiving this as their out of office? Lol

It's what Tony Benn would have wanted... #ai

This is what they tell me…

Changemakers: Fostering innovation in government Podcast Episode · The Civil Service World Podcast · 12/05/2025 · 32m

Thrilled that the Civil Service World podcast is back, after the briefest of (5-year) hiatuses! Ep1 of the revamped series features DSIT innovation guru Claire Donaldson. Have a listen & add us to your feed - there'll be lots more episodes over the next few weeks!
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[Youth Pastor voice] You know who else had a man cave?

The placement of these googly eyes on this poster has brought me so much joy

(Thank you to the genuinely beautiful town of Troyes for furnishing me with these silly pics)

Finally this ⬇️
My French is a bit rusty but I’m pretty sure this ain’t right

Not to be confused with the O’Multifood family

Ah yes, the O’Tacos. A lovely Irish family so they are

Presenting… Rosaparks 🤦🏻‍♀️
(by “way more” do they mean…civil rights? 🧐)

Something has happened to French restaurant names since I last came here… a 🧵

There is a Simpsons moment for everything ❤️

Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

I am so sick of things “hitting different”. I just saw an ad for a fruity shower gel on the back of a bus with the words “NATURE HITS DIFFERENT” emblazoned in massive letters. Fuck that!

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US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers - BBC News It is having problems contacting people who were fired in Trump's blitz to shrink the federal workforce.

This would be almost funny if it weren’t so serious www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Have you read Demon Copperhead? Blew me away

Empowering, humble, candid, sweary (!) & v witty opening keynote speech from Baroness Louise at CSW’s inaugural Collaboration Conference #CSWcollab25

Arrested development: Interview with former DFID perm sec Mark Lowcock CSW speaks to Mark Lowcock, the longest-serving perm sec of the Department for International Development, about the rise and fall of the department...

Great interview by my colleague @tevyemarkson.bsky.social with the ex-perm sec of DfID Mark Lowcock. Lowcock does not pull his punches when talking about his former department's decline... www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...

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Traitors: peacock shriek overdone. Discuss.

Ugh how annoying. I’ve had loads of pornbots follow me recently which was disappointing enough but no DMs like this. Nightmare

Still obsessed with this: after all the DOGE guff literally the first thing that Trump has said he will do is establish a new arm of the federal bureaucracy on Day One

⬇️ this is deeply alarming and upsetting. (Also, an account by the name of dominiccummings is replying to all the replies with emojis. If it is the man himself, it would appear that spreading misinformation and undermining our democracy is all just a game to him)