Steve Senior

Mines been playing up a week now. Hayfever in February! Global warming really has gone too far this time.

Anyone else's hayfever playing up? Because this doesn't seem fair at all.

Especially this one bsky.app/profile/smol...

These are good guidelines.

I have no Middle East expertise, AMA

(Many industry regulators are funded by those they regulate of course.)

Woman smiles while using a hula hoop, in a green park

ONS data shows healthy life expectancy is falling. This matters for our communities across #GreaterManchester, but change is possible.

Through place-based investment, we (and other @activepartnerships.bsky.social) are working with partners to remove barriers and make movement part of everyday life.

SHELVE YOUR AXE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ENNUI. AND YOU WILL WIN.

“In 1 of the simulations, 8x out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appt she would not live to see… Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care.”

“40 million+ people reportedly ask ChatGPT for health-related advice every day”🧪

Motion to ban Karl Urban from doing any kind of "accent".

Huskar Pit - Wikipedia

A few of my distant relatives died as children in the Huskar disaster (also near Barnsley) in 1838. No prosecutions but did contribute to early child labour reforms (inadequate as they were).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huskar_...

Should everyone be taking statins?

New episode of HARD DRUGS!

Should everyone be taking statins?

Statins have revolutionised heart disease and they're one of many reasons for the long-term decline in cardiovascular mortality.

WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.

Economists: you know I love you, but I think it's time you gave it a rest with all these "which jobs are most exposed to AI?" analyses. www.ft.com/content/8d3b...

closeup of hand throwing food in green bin "Innovative parent throws fruit and veggies directly into the kitchen garbage skipping the arduous step of packing it in kid's lunchbox"

Innovative parent throws fruit and veggies directly into the kitchen garbage skipping the arduous step of packing it in kid's lunchbox.

"we all knew where it would end up anyways"

Happy Friday let's rave

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Nice jolly vibe on BlueSky this morning. Seems like something funny might have happened? Keep it up.

The civil service people survey results are out

DHSC has the largest drop in engagement (staff morale) among Whitehall departments, 6ppts from 63% to 57%

The dept also had a *13 ppt* drop for its leadership and managing change theme

Seems like NHS England abolition is causing serious discontent

The men trying to do friendship, better – podcast

open.spotify.com/episode/7zS2...

This was really good. There isn’t only one valid way to be connected with people.

30 seconds a slide seems totally reasonable. That'll leave 10 minutes for questions.

This is citizen of nowhere thinking.

Data is most useful when people can interact with it.

We’ve created a gallery of data applications built by the Jumping Rivers team, including healthcare dashboards, validation tools, and interactive analytics apps.

Take a look → www.jumpingrivers.com/data-science...

A friend and I were on a few 'system leadership' courses over the past couple of years and you could boil most of it down to 'don't be a dick'.

Sure, Rawls is fine I suppose. But has he ever beaten Death at Twister? No.

Not even joking when I say Bill and Ted and Terry Pratchett books are 95% of my ethics.

In Time

Be excellent to each other.

open.spotify.com/track/6fzcYV...

Me wearing a tee shirt with the words 15 minute cities in blue. No big conspiracy just lazy below. Don’t wanna go far for stuff in Orange at the top

"Don't Wanna Go Far For Stuff"

The 15 Minute City rebrand t-shirt.

Someone just released a pedal that uses an LLM interface (via laptop) to let you describe a sound you want in natural language and it'll come up with suggestions and create them by combining basic effects. Totally gimmicky but is it really worse than trying to sell us *another* reverb pedal?

Even Billy Corgan wouldn't dare.