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Peter Scott Reid
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Cambridge, UK
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i think it is an ode to the bird shaped lemon squeezer that my parents had
metal lemon sqeezer in the shape of a bird
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Hi Scott
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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About the GOV reuse library

dev.reuselibrary.service.justice.gov.uk/about.html
Productivity is lost across government in trying to find or create elements that already exists - all because we work in silos. The GOV Reuse Library aims to fix this problem by surfacing reusable elements for all departments to use. This includes: Design systems Manuals Products Service patterns Standards Our aim is to reduce duplication, increase transparency and promote cross-government collaboration. This is in line with the Government's blueprint for a modern digital government to ‘join up and act as one public sector' and 'strengthen and extend our digital public infrastructure'. A team from the Ministry of Justice UK has built this site in collaboration with the Government Digital Service and the Department for Education.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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GOV Reuse Library
- Find and reuse digital service elements
- Building public services together - one reusable block at a time

dev.reuselibrary.service.justice.gov.uk
GOV Reuse Library Find and reuse digital service elements Building public services together - one reusable block at a time Filters for departments, type of content, and profession links to department design systems
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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LUNCH for PETER in Zohran text
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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'Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.'
When writing to a journalist friend, I just said that it’s a bit unravelling, right now, to be on the receiving end of this kind of belated real-time education in elite metabolization. Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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moonrise over in Gaza City, by Dawoud Abu Alkas
moonrise over Gaza City, collapsed buildings in the background and three people in the foreground
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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'...Sometimes that means through layers of intermediaries, user researchers, service designers and workshops. All of that has its place, but nothing beats an engineer being there in person to witness the problems first-hand.'
For years, public sector technology has often been built at a distance from the environments it serves. Sometimes that means through layers of intermediaries, user researchers, service designers and workshops. All of that has its place, but nothing beats an engineer being there in person to witness the problems first-hand.
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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does anybody know how Defra's styling came about?

www.gov.uk/guidance/sty...
Capitals for government departments Use the following conventions for government departments. A department using an ampersand in its logo image is fine but use ‘and’ when writing in full text.
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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big news for em-oh-jay or modge people

it is 'MOJ', not 'MoJ'

design-patterns.service.justice.gov.uk/content-stan...
Use (fully capitalised) MOJ for Ministry of Justice. This follows the GOV.UK naming convention for government departments.
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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lol, explain
You have indicated that you are married to this partner but they have not changed their surname since birth, explain
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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'Ms Gazeley said she had used AI to help create her submission and accepted it may not be a perfect document.'
One of the legal representatives of the Cambridgeshire County Council challenged Ms Gazeley on her evidence and questioned its credibility. They highlighted an example in her written submission of a reference she made to an article about the impact of moving trees, which they said did not actually exist. They said: "You referred to a reference that does not exist. It has been made up and hallucinated by AI." Ms Gazeley said she had used AI to help create her submission and accepted it may not be a perfect document.
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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it's great they have a /culture-wars-things tag for anything that doesn't fit into /culture-wars
Ruth Dudley Edwards byline where the second 'culture wars' tag links to a URL of culture-war-things
October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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One of the more baffling traits of middle-to-upper management is the use of military language.
Post-it saying 'WAR ROOM '
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Here are pictures of my process for thinking about how people cope with the recovery from having a stroke. For all the faff, having it on paper helps me think through the categories we use and claims we make

July 2018
Transcripts and notes strewn across a desk Post-it notes across a desk on large bits of coloured paper
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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At that stage of research - trying to bring the ideas back together
Post-it notes and pens on a train table
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Most of the time there are better ways than a pie chart to display data

#3

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Two pie charts, one showing the competitions that Memphis Depay has scored his Dutch goals in, one showing which national team manager they have been under
October 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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A beautiful London evening
Train platform with long shadows and blue sky
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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they have packed these agencies ethnonationalist freaks, utter freaks
DHS tweet Giga chad meme in a USCIS cap “Communist?” DENIED. “Terrorist?” DENIED. “Globalist?” DENIED.
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I *think* Adams Rd is a couple of streets up from the bus route
Bus route proposed and Adams road on a map below
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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oh no

0_o
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September 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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a photo from day one at Cambridge Assessment
Polaroid of Peter in a light shirt with lots of flash, titled PSR
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Microsoft formatting SURNAME, FIRST NAME has meant it is sometimes easier to just go by Scott
Hi Scott
September 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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the challenge of working with namesakes
Hi Peter Tuesday 2 - 3 or 3.30 - 4.30 work for us. Thanks Peter
September 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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some trees are turning
A copper-coloured tree between green trees on a wide street in sunlight
September 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM