Ian Ames
@ames.world
I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Anagram of Amnesia.
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This is the 446th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
I'm going to try and do a DM 'special' at the weekend so please let me know of any agile delivery vacancies you see out there.
I'm going to try and do a DM 'special' at the weekend so please let me know of any agile delivery vacancies you see out there.
Internet of Public Service Jobs - 19/11/2025
This is the 446th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukesie
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November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is the 446th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
I'm going to try and do a DM 'special' at the weekend so please let me know of any agile delivery vacancies you see out there.
I'm going to try and do a DM 'special' at the weekend so please let me know of any agile delivery vacancies you see out there.
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During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
Not really in a spot where I can #WeekNote openly at the moment (and haven't been for some time), so I'm trying something different, not talking about specifics but more the abstract problems looping through my head each week an #UnorderedNote if you will. ames.world/en/posts/uno...
Unordered Note 14/11/25
A new attempt at weekly reflection.
ames.world
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Not really in a spot where I can #WeekNote openly at the moment (and haven't been for some time), so I'm trying something different, not talking about specifics but more the abstract problems looping through my head each week an #UnorderedNote if you will. ames.world/en/posts/uno...
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... "Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime." ...
Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime. If someone has lived here for nearly two decades, worked, paid taxes, raised children, and built roots, then to say “pack your bags, your country is safe now” is not policy, it is cruelty dressed up as process.
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
... "Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime." ...
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Good lord people… “Product-led” was never meant to mean “Product manager-led” 🤦🏼♀️
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Good lord people… “Product-led” was never meant to mean “Product manager-led” 🤦🏼♀️
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Hey, hive mind! I’m looking for a new rucksack (big enough for laptop, water bottle, cables) that can also be clipped onto a pannier rack, that *isn’t hideous*. Please send me your recommendations…
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Hey, hive mind! I’m looking for a new rucksack (big enough for laptop, water bottle, cables) that can also be clipped onto a pannier rack, that *isn’t hideous*. Please send me your recommendations…
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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🗣️“Cutting support does not lead to people getting work. Those of us pushed into work by cuts will end up in precarious jobs, we will be there for a few months before the work has made us even sicker.”
DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
The jobs disabled people are pushed towards - and what they really need
Campaigners warn the Government's approach risks trapping disabled people in unsuitable roles
inews.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🗣️“Cutting support does not lead to people getting work. Those of us pushed into work by cuts will end up in precarious jobs, we will be there for a few months before the work has made us even sicker.”
DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Was any of last nights briefing from Number 10 done with the public in mind? Hard to think of a more perfect example of why so many people are now thinking, whatever the risks we may as well roll the dice on Reform/the Greens/someone else because it’s perma chaos as it is.
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Was any of last nights briefing from Number 10 done with the public in mind? Hard to think of a more perfect example of why so many people are now thinking, whatever the risks we may as well roll the dice on Reform/the Greens/someone else because it’s perma chaos as it is.
I was today years old when I learned Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden was on the Sooty show! 😍
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The Sooty Show - Hidden Talent (1987)
YouTube video by Aiden Slater
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November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I was today years old when I learned Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden was on the Sooty show! 😍
youtu.be/j4RULCFhh2Y?...
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Today's attire:
-Stripey t shirt
-Black shorts
-Boots
Oh shit I'm Pugsley Addams!
-Stripey t shirt
-Black shorts
-Boots
Oh shit I'm Pugsley Addams!
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today's attire:
-Stripey t shirt
-Black shorts
-Boots
Oh shit I'm Pugsley Addams!
-Stripey t shirt
-Black shorts
-Boots
Oh shit I'm Pugsley Addams!
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
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Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Floella Benjamin for DG.
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On this day 1989: The Berlin Wall falls as thousands of Germans unify in a desperate attempt to flee the singing of David Hasselhoff.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
On this day 1989: The Berlin Wall falls as thousands of Germans unify in a desperate attempt to flee the singing of David Hasselhoff.
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This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Hello what no sorry I can’t hear you I’m saving up to buy this now and everything else is a footnote. £349 is a perfectly reasonable price to spend on an ornament what no sorry can’t hear you.
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hello what no sorry I can’t hear you I’m saving up to buy this now and everything else is a footnote. £349 is a perfectly reasonable price to spend on an ornament what no sorry can’t hear you.
Joe's going to go full Mad Max
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Joe's going to go full Mad Max
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Someone gif that Nick ‘oh fuck’ please. #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Someone gif that Nick ‘oh fuck’ please. #CelebrityTraitors
How HOW did Alan win? Astonishing, fair play
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How HOW did Alan win? Astonishing, fair play
Come on Claude hold it together
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Come on Claude hold it together