Louise
@louiseislouise.bsky.social
Boss at Nerd Nite London (@nerdnitelondon.bsky.social). Interested in policy and politics amongst other things.
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A tale I must tell today on my late mother, and in doing so, I mean no actual disrespect to the Cheney family, grieving as they are for the actual loss of their loved one. The humor that follows is that of the Simon family's dark and dystropic sense of humor and so, an apology in advance.
However...
However...
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A tale I must tell today on my late mother, and in doing so, I mean no actual disrespect to the Cheney family, grieving as they are for the actual loss of their loved one. The humor that follows is that of the Simon family's dark and dystropic sense of humor and so, an apology in advance.
However...
However...
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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Useful advice
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
A little kindness goes a long way - Refugee Council
Not everyone agrees all the time. It’s normal to have different opinions on immigration and asylum. But there are some things we can all agree on.
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Useful advice
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
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Let’s make this happen #KidicalMass #Insurance donate and share in your networks @walkridegm.org.uk @rideleicester.bsky.social @bricycle.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @camcycle.bsky.social @yorkcycle.bsky.social @kidicalmass.bsky.social www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/km-insuran...
Kidical Mass Insurance
Insurance for 2025-2026 will be £2,521.42 for all Kidical Mass groups in the UK. This is for public liability and cover for our volunteers.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Let’s make this happen #KidicalMass #Insurance donate and share in your networks @walkridegm.org.uk @rideleicester.bsky.social @bricycle.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @camcycle.bsky.social @yorkcycle.bsky.social @kidicalmass.bsky.social www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/km-insuran...
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If you or anyone you know is still considering ranking Andrew Cuomo for mayor, please read this piece from @rtraister.bsky.social - the NY Mag journalist who covered the sexual harassment allegations against him
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This Fucking Guy
I lived in New York City for twenty-five years and I don’t live there anymore.
substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you or anyone you know is still considering ranking Andrew Cuomo for mayor, please read this piece from @rtraister.bsky.social - the NY Mag journalist who covered the sexual harassment allegations against him
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A good British summer is a joy and a delight. 32⁰ is too hot, and a sign that our climate is in crisis. #showyourstripes
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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June 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A good British summer is a joy and a delight. 32⁰ is too hot, and a sign that our climate is in crisis. #showyourstripes
showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...
showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...
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Looking for something to do this weekend? There's a family friendly #communityride leaving from Pond Square in Highgate this Sunday lcc.org.uk/events/highg...
June 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Looking for something to do this weekend? There's a family friendly #communityride leaving from Pond Square in Highgate this Sunday lcc.org.uk/events/highg...
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"our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. [Those] deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized."
How To Do Soul-Craft With State Tools
On Literacy and AI
jacmullen.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. [Those] deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized."
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No one anywhere would want voters to elect a tier of government that just runs one largely invisible thing badly with rules and obligations it doesn’t set using money it doesn’t raise. Yet, thanks to a generation of failure on social care policy, that is now what “local government” means here.
June 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
No one anywhere would want voters to elect a tier of government that just runs one largely invisible thing badly with rules and obligations it doesn’t set using money it doesn’t raise. Yet, thanks to a generation of failure on social care policy, that is now what “local government” means here.
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Since I posted this last Thursday, nearly 50 people have offered their support to try and set something up and more than 250 have expressed an interest in joining. Not sure what it is yet - a union, a professional body - and how it relates to other orgs buttondown.com/justenoughin...
A Union for Hopeful Technologists
What if progressive people who work in technology had an advocacy body?
buttondown.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Since I posted this last Thursday, nearly 50 people have offered their support to try and set something up and more than 250 have expressed an interest in joining. Not sure what it is yet - a union, a professional body - and how it relates to other orgs buttondown.com/justenoughin...
And there it is. #whamaggedon thanks to a busker at London Bridge. Curses
December 13, 2024 at 6:09 PM
And there it is. #whamaggedon thanks to a busker at London Bridge. Curses
This sits really nicely alongside Mimi Onuoha's Missing Datasets project bsky.app/profile/anab...
"There are advantages to nonexistence. Every missing dataset is a testament to this fact. Just as the presence of data benefits someone, so too does the absence. This is important to keep in mind."
I re-visit Mimi Onuoha's formative Missing Datasets project often: github.com/MimiOnuoha/m...
I re-visit Mimi Onuoha's formative Missing Datasets project often: github.com/MimiOnuoha/m...
GitHub - MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets: An overview and exploration of the concept of missing datasets.
An overview and exploration of the concept of missing datasets. - GitHub - MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets: An overview and exploration of the concept of missing datasets.
github.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM
This sits really nicely alongside Mimi Onuoha's Missing Datasets project bsky.app/profile/anab...
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I met Thi earlier this week and he is now my number one example of what management science could and should have been
Wise words from C. Thi Nguyen for a world chasing measurements. issues.org/limits-of-da...
The Limits of Data
Policymakers want to make decisions based on clear data, but important factors are lost when we rely solely on data. A philosopher writes:
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December 13, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I met Thi earlier this week and he is now my number one example of what management science could and should have been
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I hadn't originally intended to post this - not so much because it must be one of the most harrowing (but brilliant) pieces of reporting I've ever read, but because many wouldn't be able to access it anyway. Apparently (and apologies if this isn't the case), however, it's currently free to read.
I sat in court at the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial. This is what I saw
Gisèle Pelicot became a symbol of courage when she waived her anonymity to attend the trial of her husband and 50 other men accused of raping her — and ignited fierce debate about the law surrounding ...
www.thetimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:33 AM
I hadn't originally intended to post this - not so much because it must be one of the most harrowing (but brilliant) pieces of reporting I've ever read, but because many wouldn't be able to access it anyway. Apparently (and apologies if this isn't the case), however, it's currently free to read.
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What are good things you've read about time, and how people think about their time, organize it, etc.? This is one of my favorites
rosszurowski.com/log/2018/sma...
rosszurowski.com/log/2018/sma...
On Small Seasons and Long Calendars
rosszurowski.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:28 PM
What are good things you've read about time, and how people think about their time, organize it, etc.? This is one of my favorites
rosszurowski.com/log/2018/sma...
rosszurowski.com/log/2018/sma...
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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Young Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)
Women Speak Volumes Between Generations - Words of Colour
wordsofcolour.co.uk
December 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Young Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)
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Three things DALLE-3 can’t do: “relations (e.g. “a picture of a potato under a spoon”), negations (e.g. “a picture of something that is NOT a potato”), and discrete numbers (e.g. a “a picture of 6 potatoes”).”
In the paper "Relations, Negations, and Numbers: Looking for Logic in Generative Text-to-Image Models", explore how DALL-E 3 handles logical structure in generated scenes. They conclude that image generators need explicit mechanisms to represent relationships.
December 3, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Three things DALLE-3 can’t do: “relations (e.g. “a picture of a potato under a spoon”), negations (e.g. “a picture of something that is NOT a potato”), and discrete numbers (e.g. a “a picture of 6 potatoes”).”
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New blog from me on seven tests for the integrated national transport strategy. The strategy could demonstrate joined up thinking by government and drive tangible improvements in communities across England before the next election. What do we need to see for it to live up to its potential?
Joined up thinking: Seven tests for the integrated national transport strategy | IPPR
Transport isn’t working for people. It is also not living up to its potential in supporting the government’s missions. The Labour government inherited tran
www.ippr.org
December 2, 2024 at 2:29 PM
New blog from me on seven tests for the integrated national transport strategy. The strategy could demonstrate joined up thinking by government and drive tangible improvements in communities across England before the next election. What do we need to see for it to live up to its potential?
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November 30, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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This is horrific. A single mother asked for her 2-year-old to be temporarily fostered while she stayed in hospital as her baby had heart surgery. They said no as she had no recourse to public funds. She had to ask an acquaintance to look after the toddler, who was not properly supervised and died.
Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Social workers declined to provide short-term foster care for Mazeedat Adeoye whose mother had overstayed visa
A two-year-old girl who drowned in a bin containing 9cm of water in a back garden in east London was a victim of “gross failures” largely by…
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 6:09 PM
This is horrific. A single mother asked for her 2-year-old to be temporarily fostered while she stayed in hospital as her baby had heart surgery. They said no as she had no recourse to public funds. She had to ask an acquaintance to look after the toddler, who was not properly supervised and died.
Why do starter pack pic posts routinely show the profile pics of men that have been included and not women? Is it just a function of the fact that men's accounts tend to have more followers and the algo selects the accounts with the highest follower counts to display the pics of?
November 29, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Why do starter pack pic posts routinely show the profile pics of men that have been included and not women? Is it just a function of the fact that men's accounts tend to have more followers and the algo selects the accounts with the highest follower counts to display the pics of?
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The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country. x.com/bladeofthes/...
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country. x.com/bladeofthes/...
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x.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:03 PM
The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country. x.com/bladeofthes/...
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country. x.com/bladeofthes/...
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Happy White Paper-mas everyone!
Some early-breaking detail from Personnel Today.
Key things to note (from my perspective): 🧵
✅'Improved digital offer' will be met w/scepticism from some, but our research show lots more to do here, and many 50+ want it
Some early-breaking detail from Personnel Today.
Key things to note (from my perspective): 🧵
✅'Improved digital offer' will be met w/scepticism from some, but our research show lots more to do here, and many 50+ want it
Lots of helpful detail here on the Get Britain Working white paper: youth guarantee, localised employment support pilots, less of the tick box in jobcentres and more personalised focus. 🧵 1/3 www.personneltoday.com/hr/get-brita...
Get Britain Working: DWP unveils employment support reforms
Government unveils biggest reforms to employment support for a generation with the publication of its Get Britain Working white paper.
www.personneltoday.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Happy White Paper-mas everyone!
Some early-breaking detail from Personnel Today.
Key things to note (from my perspective): 🧵
✅'Improved digital offer' will be met w/scepticism from some, but our research show lots more to do here, and many 50+ want it
Some early-breaking detail from Personnel Today.
Key things to note (from my perspective): 🧵
✅'Improved digital offer' will be met w/scepticism from some, but our research show lots more to do here, and many 50+ want it