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Matt Eason
@matteason.me
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Designer & developer working in digital government

ambiph.one / govukvue.org / matteason.co.uk/scotbeats / stationlifts.org.uk

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Matt Eason @matteason.me · Nov 12
Hi BSky, here are three things I made that you might like

Thing #1: Ambient ScotRail Beats

ScotRail made all of their tannoy announcements available under FOI and I put them over an infinite stream of ambient lofi beats. You can add your own music too
Ambient ScotRail Beats - train announcements over ambient music
Train announcements over ambient music
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It's a really bold move to announce you've discovered an ancient tree-dwelling crocodile, decide to use AI instead of an artist to render it, and then still release the image when the AI generates a crocodile that couldn't be any more on the fucking ground
Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
Scientists say the crocodiles hunted like leopards by climbing trees and killing prey below.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Dare I suggest you buy them for your whole family and a Taskmaster trophy of your own head and make them scream how merry they are all Christmas to win your approval and golden face? DARE I??

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November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Joe Marler on the bridge
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23h
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I've got the news on in the background and Camilla is at a Remembrance Day event at Paddington with a choir singing songs from Wicked in the background. We're remembrancing with promotional movie tie-ins now
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Dare I suggest you buy them for your whole family and a Taskmaster trophy of your own head and make them scream how merry they are all Christmas to win your approval and golden face? DARE I??

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I've just added these Christmas Taskmaster tasks to my Etsy shop if you'd like to make someone's Christmas significantly more high-pressure

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A Taskmaster-style task on folded card reads 'Have the merriest Christmas. You must exclaim "I'm so very merry!" with increasing enthusiasm every time you feel merry. You have until New Year's Day. Merriest Christmas wins. Your time stars now." A red keyring in the style of a wax seal with the initials GD in a typewriter-esque font, sealing a white folded task card
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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What in the Live Laugh Love is this
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7d
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I'm attempting to inoculate my dog against fireworks by playing them on Ambiphone all day, wish me luck

ambiph.one?m=1-Firework...
Listen to Fireworks & thunder, an Ambiphone mix
Ambient music + sounds for work, study and relaxation
ambiph.one
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I'm going to buy an ant farm and never work again
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is a brilliant idea but the design is an abomination
Inside Royal Mail’s Solar Powered Post Boxes
Royal Mail has announced that it will be rolling out solar powered post boxes that will now allow customers to post up to a shoe box sized parcel
sustainabilitymag.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Notes app screenshot from the Mother of Parliaments is an interesting choice
houseofcommons.parliament.uk House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk · 9d
What's on in the House of Commons this week? 👇
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
3-7 November Monday from 2.30pm - Second reading of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill Tuesday from 11.30am - Opposition day (12th allotted day). Debate on a motion in the name of the Official Opposition. Subject to be announced. Wednesday from 11.30am - Prime Minister's Questions, Consideration of Lords message to the Employment Rights Bill, Consideration of Lords amendments to the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill. The House will rise for the November recess at the conclusion of business on Wednesday 5 November and will return on Tuesday 11 November.
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The Criminal Formerly Known as Prince
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I'm using (and really liking) lucide.dev icons for a new project and am desperately trying to engineer a scenario which would call for a 'Bean Off' icon
A white outlined icon of a bean, next to the same icon with a diagonal stroke through it with the label "bean-off"
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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DPD: We tried to deliver your parcel 😟 but you weren't in 🥺 we have proof! 😢

The proof:
DPD tracking page says "Sorry, we missed you. Your driver Adam won't be back today but we'll be back Wed 22 October with your parcel". Below is the 'proof of delivery' image: a featureless grey/black gradient
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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First two trophies on their way today! 🗿
matteason.me Matt Eason @matteason.me · Oct 12
I'm making tiny Taskmaster trophies now if you'd like to be a tiny Taskmaster

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Antique gold trophy of a woman's head on a black base with red wax seal with letters 'LT'. Labels say 'Your face here and your initials here'. In the corner, a polaroid photo of the same woman
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The Dan Brown book tour is getting out of hand
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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For the design nerds, here's Network Rail's official design manual for Rail Clock

It incorporates a sonic pigeon deterrent.

www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/u...
4.9.3 Pigeon Deterrents Sonic deterrents incorporated inside hanging bracket casing to be directed at the top of the clock to prevent pigeons from perching on the clock. No physical deterrents should be deployed.
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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There's a cool new clock at London Bridge called Rail Clock! I've made an online version of it: railclock.matteason.co.uk

Code here: github.com/matteason/ra...
Rail Clock
A reproduction of the Great British Railways clock
railclock.matteason.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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There's a cool new clock at London Bridge called Rail Clock! I've made an online version of it: railclock.matteason.co.uk

Code here: github.com/matteason/ra...
Rail Clock
A reproduction of the Great British Railways clock
railclock.matteason.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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What's wrong babe, you've barely touched your AI Slop Personalised Swearing Tortoise Debenhams Whiskey Bottle?
October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Shout out to past-me for making qr.matteason.co.uk and saving present-me from wading through the crap Google results for 'qr code generator' because I always forget to bookmark the good ones
QR code generator
A simple, free online QR code generator. No tracking or ads.
qr.matteason.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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I'm making tiny Taskmaster trophies now if you'd like to be a tiny Taskmaster

pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Antique gold trophy of a woman's head on a black base with red wax seal with letters 'LT'. Labels say 'Your face here and your initials here'. In the corner, a polaroid photo of the same woman
October 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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NFTs really were the perfect celebrity rube magnet. If I were a scammer I'd be looking at whatever celebrities were flaunting their apes and specifically targeting them with my next magic bean switcheroo
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Reading this made my mouth suddenly taste like a 9v
fesshole.bsky.social fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · Oct 7
I love licking the top of a PP3 battery. It gives a lovely little tingle. I'm on my third battery this year.
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I just added a vacuum cleaner sound to ambiph.one and I'm taking bets on how long before I have to change this icon for being too baffling to anyone outside the British isles
Sound activation button labelled 'Vacuum cleaner' featuring a cylindrical vacuum with a smiling cartoon face
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM