Stefan Czerniawski

Exemplary response from @mythic-beasts.com in managing PHP - quietly and rapidly patching having given clear advice and explanations to customers. One of those services which most of the time is invisibly efficient. And just occasionally is very visibly efficient.

Tom has been thinking harder about this than most of us - this is a good distillation and a. prompt to read some of his longer posts

The theme of the walk was green revived

@edent.tel Hmmm

A ghost of the past, hiding in very plain sight over Canary Wharf. The European Medicines Agency, no longer at home in the UK.

"Quite often the technology is simply the place where a much messier organisational problem has chosen to make itself visible." @sharonodea.com in characteristic top form on what ineffective search demonstrates about intranets and their organisations - much of which resonates much more widely

Good for the British Museum to be bringing the logistics of the battlefield to life and not just the fighting

TfL uncharacteristically responsive to feedback

A little gem for @paulclarke.com (via @diamondgeezer.bsky.social) "Unfortunately, there is incorrect signage in place where the image of the motorcycle has been omitted" tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...

Still not over Horizon, in so many creative ways: “He gave an account that he would go to a car park at Asda, and someone would give him a carrier bag full of cash, and he would then take it away, and then send them some crypto,” said Highway. “He didn’t feel that was suspicious. We did.”

Seventeen percussionists (and two more on timps) at tonight's prom for Varèse's Amériques. It was quite a ride. Is there anything else that comes close - or needs more still?

Please be sure not to overlook this superb, alarming book, finally published in its uncensored version in English translation by Sean Bye. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

The theme of the walk was aridity* *Not applicable to golf courses

"A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely." - more great statistical thought provocation from @laurenleek.eu

The sale of indulgences may be keeping the NHS afloat

I really need someone to form a social movement standing up for people (me) who have used em dashes for decades and are also big fans of Emily Dickinson. No one really enjoys the appearance of a colon in a sentence and, to be clear, I do not care about the grammatical rules.

Describing this as merely having blogged rather undersells the breadth and depth of this grand tour of how government works and doesn't.

Here we go again

Unsuitable for motor vehicles. For the avoidance of doubt.

Sheep delineate shadow

Out to dinner in the English countryside. Polish chef spots a Polish name on the order chit and adds a complimentary off-menu mizeria in a spirit of solidarity. Perfection achieved.

In pleasing coincidence, this quotation appeared moments after finishing @bluejo.eurosky.social's Everybody's Perfect, a beautifully written ode to the hazy rumour of the Serenissima, set in a world where the stones have yet to harden.

An anecdote told against Burnham, but which actually illustrates why the Treasury is such a defective organisation. (I have no idea whether he can or would make tough fiscal decisions, but this story tells us nothing either way)

The northern line is experimenting with autonomous route creation. This is a southbound train with ideas of its own. As an opening move, Borough has been relocated to the Charing Cross branch. But wait for the punchline in the final seconds.

The postman delivers a single CD in a ludicrously oversized box. Which suddenly makes sense when the box is opened - a page to disc ratio of 230:1 must surely be unbeatable

Thanks @jukes.ie - the only endorsement a job can ever need :-)

Help me find an outstanding Senior Digital Comms Manager - with a brief to build something new and exciting by helping an organisation shift on a generation in its understanding and approach. And getting to work with the incomparable @joannerewcastle.bsky.social - either of us happy to talk/DM

Tube strike with a twist - trains, but apparently not for passengers