Jess Bowie
@jessbowie.bsky.social
Co-editor of @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. Civil servants are my bag.
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
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Day after the solstice and oh boy the nights are really drawing in aren’t they
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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.
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.
When I searched to see if Mary Shelley and Jane Austen could have met in Bath, Google AI informed me that they were, in fact, sisters...
June 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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.
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
June 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Can you imagine emailing someone and actually receiving this as their out of office? Lol
This is what they tell me…
May 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is what they tell me…
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!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Changemakers: Fostering innovation in government
Podcast Episode · The Civil Service World Podcast · 12/05/2025 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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[Youth Pastor voice] You know who else had a man cave?
April 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
[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
April 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The placement of these googly eyes on this poster has brought me so much joy
Something has happened to French restaurant names since I last came here… a 🧵
April 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Something has happened to French restaurant names since I last came here… a 🧵
There is a Simpsons moment for everything ❤️
March 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There is a Simpsons moment for everything ❤️
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Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
March 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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!
March 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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!
This would be almost funny if it weren’t so serious www.bbc.com/news/article...
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.
www.bbc.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This would be almost funny if it weren’t so serious www.bbc.com/news/article...
Empowering, humble, candid, sweary (!) & v witty opening keynote speech from Baroness Louise at CSW’s inaugural Collaboration Conference #CSWcollab25
January 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Empowering, humble, candid, sweary (!) & v witty opening keynote speech from Baroness Louise at CSW’s inaugural Collaboration Conference #CSWcollab25
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...
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...
www.civilserviceworld.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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...
Traitors: peacock shriek overdone. Discuss.
January 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Traitors: peacock shriek overdone. Discuss.
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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
January 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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)
Dominic Cummings is reportedly advising Elon Musk on his interventions in British politics. Chimes with what I have heard recently of Cummings' interest in harnessing big tech to launch a challenger movement in the UK.
Elon Musk and Dominic Cummings 'in plot to sabotage UK politics'
Boris Johnson's former No 10 adviser is planning a new 'StartUp Party' which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system and is understood to be communicating with Mr Musk on WhatsApp.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
⬇️ 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)
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Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
January 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
We are just sending the final pages of the new issue of CSW to press and I think this - from a feature about machinery of government changes and defunct departments - might be my favourite bit
January 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We are just sending the final pages of the new issue of CSW to press and I think this - from a feature about machinery of government changes and defunct departments - might be my favourite bit
4yo daughter took pic of me on the loo with her sub-polaroid camera and waved the pic in my face saying “you can only have this if you stay in your bed all night!”
Parroting my words back at me, yes, but she came up with the sextortion part all on her own. Impressive.
Parroting my words back at me, yes, but she came up with the sextortion part all on her own. Impressive.
January 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
4yo daughter took pic of me on the loo with her sub-polaroid camera and waved the pic in my face saying “you can only have this if you stay in your bed all night!”
Parroting my words back at me, yes, but she came up with the sextortion part all on her own. Impressive.
Parroting my words back at me, yes, but she came up with the sextortion part all on her own. Impressive.
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This is insane?
Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Facebook and Instagram
They will have bios, profile pics and can share content
(via Financial Times)
They will have bios, profile pics and can share content
(via Financial Times)
December 30, 2024 at 7:27 AM
This is insane?
@alexolorenshaw.bsky.social will you lurk, or treat us to your thoughts?
December 27, 2024 at 10:13 PM
@alexolorenshaw.bsky.social will you lurk, or treat us to your thoughts?