Aoife
@chiefbreenie.bsky.social
product manager trying to make UK public services better
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
Every time I take a nebuliser my air purifier is like "ALERT ALERT POISON IN THE AIR!!!!"
Yeah alright chill out mate, it's prescribed.
Yeah alright chill out mate, it's prescribed.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Every time I take a nebuliser my air purifier is like "ALERT ALERT POISON IN THE AIR!!!!"
Yeah alright chill out mate, it's prescribed.
Yeah alright chill out mate, it's prescribed.
My communication style is always preferring to find an appropriate emoji on Slack to avoid using any words.
I am noting this to put this in the next 'manual of me' I have to do: I will not use words but mere mini pictograms to convey my thoughts. I am a child of MSN. 😌
I am noting this to put this in the next 'manual of me' I have to do: I will not use words but mere mini pictograms to convey my thoughts. I am a child of MSN. 😌
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
My communication style is always preferring to find an appropriate emoji on Slack to avoid using any words.
I am noting this to put this in the next 'manual of me' I have to do: I will not use words but mere mini pictograms to convey my thoughts. I am a child of MSN. 😌
I am noting this to put this in the next 'manual of me' I have to do: I will not use words but mere mini pictograms to convey my thoughts. I am a child of MSN. 😌
Man who, seemingly unknown to her, used Rosalind Franklin's work to underpin his career has died.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Man who, seemingly unknown to her, used Rosalind Franklin's work to underpin his career has died.
Ryanair insisting on downloading the app and refusing to accept printed boarding passes is quite a move. I hope they're prepared to give assisted digital support to their customers.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ryanair insisting on downloading the app and refusing to accept printed boarding passes is quite a move. I hope they're prepared to give assisted digital support to their customers.
Oíche Shamhna shona 's athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh.
Happy Halloween/Samhain 🎃👻🕷️🕯️🦇🧚♀️🐈⬛
Happy Halloween/Samhain 🎃👻🕷️🕯️🦇🧚♀️🐈⬛
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Oíche Shamhna shona 's athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh.
Happy Halloween/Samhain 🎃👻🕷️🕯️🦇🧚♀️🐈⬛
Happy Halloween/Samhain 🎃👻🕷️🕯️🦇🧚♀️🐈⬛
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Q for the public sector digital hive mind: I want to land a point about the difference between how a user experiences a problem vs how gov solves a problem (esp. showing it might be many teams across orgs...?) Any pointers on a visual for this welcome 🤗
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Q for the public sector digital hive mind: I want to land a point about the difference between how a user experiences a problem vs how gov solves a problem (esp. showing it might be many teams across orgs...?) Any pointers on a visual for this welcome 🤗
Q for the public sector digital hive mind: I want to land a point about the difference between how a user experiences a problem vs how gov solves a problem (esp. showing it might be many teams across orgs...?) Any pointers on a visual for this welcome 🤗
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Q for the public sector digital hive mind: I want to land a point about the difference between how a user experiences a problem vs how gov solves a problem (esp. showing it might be many teams across orgs...?) Any pointers on a visual for this welcome 🤗
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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🚨 Request for help! 🚨
We want to invite people in some specific government communities to join us at Gov Camp in January.
To do that we're looking for people who already have personal connections to the leaders of the specific organisations below.
If that's you please get in touch!
Thanks 🙏
We want to invite people in some specific government communities to join us at Gov Camp in January.
To do that we're looking for people who already have personal connections to the leaders of the specific organisations below.
If that's you please get in touch!
Thanks 🙏
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🚨 Request for help! 🚨
We want to invite people in some specific government communities to join us at Gov Camp in January.
To do that we're looking for people who already have personal connections to the leaders of the specific organisations below.
If that's you please get in touch!
Thanks 🙏
We want to invite people in some specific government communities to join us at Gov Camp in January.
To do that we're looking for people who already have personal connections to the leaders of the specific organisations below.
If that's you please get in touch!
Thanks 🙏
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217 people have now registered for UK Gov Camp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.
Register to attend or sponsor via UKGovCamp.com, repost this message and share with your colleagues.
We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not.
#unconference
Register to attend or sponsor via UKGovCamp.com, repost this message and share with your colleagues.
We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not.
#unconference
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
217 people have now registered for UK Gov Camp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.
Register to attend or sponsor via UKGovCamp.com, repost this message and share with your colleagues.
We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not.
#unconference
Register to attend or sponsor via UKGovCamp.com, repost this message and share with your colleagues.
We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not.
#unconference
My latest theory is I should spend more time actively not "doing stuff". I've had lots of medical appts lately which has been an opportunity. My analysis of *stuff* has jumped on by merely sitting (on a train, in a waiting room) and thinking. Anyway, many know this already, I've just caught up.
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My latest theory is I should spend more time actively not "doing stuff". I've had lots of medical appts lately which has been an opportunity. My analysis of *stuff* has jumped on by merely sitting (on a train, in a waiting room) and thinking. Anyway, many know this already, I've just caught up.
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Register is open for UKGovCamp 2026!
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
UKGovCamp 2026 Registration
Our next annual in-person event is:
free to attend,
in Birmingham,
on Saturday 17 January 2026.
Please note: Registration does not guarantee a ticket because:
the event is always oversubscribed,...
forms.gle
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Register is open for UKGovCamp 2026!
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
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We're recruiting for a Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) on our team, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) :National
www.jobtrain.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We're recruiting for a Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) on our team, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Got both Covid and flu vaccines done for the winter this morning. Took less than 5 minutes at the pharmacy. Please get vaccinated. I'm immunosuppressed so will have a lower response to them which means I still need to avoid exposure. Vaccines save lives - perhaps yours, but mine also.
October 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Got both Covid and flu vaccines done for the winter this morning. Took less than 5 minutes at the pharmacy. Please get vaccinated. I'm immunosuppressed so will have a lower response to them which means I still need to avoid exposure. Vaccines save lives - perhaps yours, but mine also.
From an ad for a water flosser on a week-known online marketplace. I clicked on the product because the images were full of spelling errors and I was rewarded with this. Dental plaque in the shape of the Republic of Ireland.
The internet is broken and it's time to turn it off and on again.
The internet is broken and it's time to turn it off and on again.
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
From an ad for a water flosser on a week-known online marketplace. I clicked on the product because the images were full of spelling errors and I was rewarded with this. Dental plaque in the shape of the Republic of Ireland.
The internet is broken and it's time to turn it off and on again.
The internet is broken and it's time to turn it off and on again.
Today is my 12th liver transplant anniversary. I don't have much to say except what a joy it is to be alive. There is nothing like the quiet feeling of gratitude for nothing more than the simple act of living; to be here indebted to the generosity of a stranger. It is amazing and I am so grateful.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Today is my 12th liver transplant anniversary. I don't have much to say except what a joy it is to be alive. There is nothing like the quiet feeling of gratitude for nothing more than the simple act of living; to be here indebted to the generosity of a stranger. It is amazing and I am so grateful.
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Bluesky help:
I'm pulling together a reading list around digital transformation. I've got all the usual recommendations: Lou Downe, Kate Tarling, Giles, Richard Pope, the PD book and other publications etc etc.
What else is essential reading? Books, reports, blog posts etc
I'm pulling together a reading list around digital transformation. I've got all the usual recommendations: Lou Downe, Kate Tarling, Giles, Richard Pope, the PD book and other publications etc etc.
What else is essential reading? Books, reports, blog posts etc
July 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Bluesky help:
I'm pulling together a reading list around digital transformation. I've got all the usual recommendations: Lou Downe, Kate Tarling, Giles, Richard Pope, the PD book and other publications etc etc.
What else is essential reading? Books, reports, blog posts etc
I'm pulling together a reading list around digital transformation. I've got all the usual recommendations: Lou Downe, Kate Tarling, Giles, Richard Pope, the PD book and other publications etc etc.
What else is essential reading? Books, reports, blog posts etc
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If anybody is free Monday afternoon at 3pm I'm going to do my final preview of my #CampDigital talk to work out the final kinks and timings - I might be talking to myself but it would be nice to have a little audience so I don't feel insane!
lu.ma/x0oh5wm8
lu.ma/x0oh5wm8
Preview of Camp Digital 'Working in the Open' talk · Luma
I'm doing some last minute working out the kinks and the timings of my #CampDigital talk (https://www.nexerdigital.com/campdigital/2025/matt-jukes/)
I might…
lu.ma
June 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If anybody is free Monday afternoon at 3pm I'm going to do my final preview of my #CampDigital talk to work out the final kinks and timings - I might be talking to myself but it would be nice to have a little audience so I don't feel insane!
lu.ma/x0oh5wm8
lu.ma/x0oh5wm8
Help we are drowning in french beans.
A tasty lunch ahead with all this from the garden. Such a different growing year from last year – only one bean plant survived the slug onslaught last year whereas this year we will have a glut!
June 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Help we are drowning in french beans.
A tasty lunch ahead with all this from the garden. Such a different growing year from last year – only one bean plant survived the slug onslaught last year whereas this year we will have a glut!
June 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A tasty lunch ahead with all this from the garden. Such a different growing year from last year – only one bean plant survived the slug onslaught last year whereas this year we will have a glut!
And with that... Winter is coming.
The June solstice is today, 21st June, 2025. Today the sun will be directly above the most northerly latitude of the Earth for a moment, before heading off south again. And that moment is now, 03:42 Dublin time (i.e. 02:42 UTC).
June 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
And with that... Winter is coming.
Superb day at #ProductForThePeople.
My top 3 from today:
1. Learning about the concept "trust battery".
2. Great tried and tested ideas to navigate working with people with fixed mindsets
3. Can't not mention the pastry from Medicine bakery and the afternoon ice cream.
My top 3 from today:
1. Learning about the concept "trust battery".
2. Great tried and tested ideas to navigate working with people with fixed mindsets
3. Can't not mention the pastry from Medicine bakery and the afternoon ice cream.
June 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Superb day at #ProductForThePeople.
My top 3 from today:
1. Learning about the concept "trust battery".
2. Great tried and tested ideas to navigate working with people with fixed mindsets
3. Can't not mention the pastry from Medicine bakery and the afternoon ice cream.
My top 3 from today:
1. Learning about the concept "trust battery".
2. Great tried and tested ideas to navigate working with people with fixed mindsets
3. Can't not mention the pastry from Medicine bakery and the afternoon ice cream.
Really enjoyed this post which echoes Scott Colfer's very insightful presentation to our product community this week: product managers in the public sector need well-developed social skills to lead and succeed in a complex social system. It's not just the digital tech skills.
Digital leadership is not just about leading digital transformation but also about creating new behaviours, norms & identity in digital environments.
June 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Really enjoyed this post which echoes Scott Colfer's very insightful presentation to our product community this week: product managers in the public sector need well-developed social skills to lead and succeed in a complex social system. It's not just the digital tech skills.
I have just had to put a blanket over my slightly chilly dog because I had the audacity to not allow him to bask in the 30° sunshine and get over heated. It is still 26° in our living room.
June 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I have just had to put a blanket over my slightly chilly dog because I had the audacity to not allow him to bask in the 30° sunshine and get over heated. It is still 26° in our living room.