Joe Lanman

It's a designer's job to design for people who use - screens - screen readers - screen magnifiers - touch screens - trackpads - voice input - keyboard-only (a non exhaustive list) #a11y #accessibility #design

No jail sentence. No driving ban. Free to continue driving around Edinburgh after assaulting a cyclist, leaving them with a traumatic brain injury, a smashed skull and a bleed on the brain. news.stv.tv/east-central...

2 x G6 Service Owner civil servant jobs: Help GDS help the public sector make services that are: - accessible & inclusive (SO: Accessibility & Inclusion) and; - delivered by local government (SO: GDS Local) Agile and user-centred designer types please. 'Servant leaders' please. Link in thread.

If you’re a lead or head working on a digital service, you’re going to be held to account by more than GDS’s guidance. And it doesn’t all live in the same place. My favourite governance nerd, Oli Lovell, has pulled together a compass. Have a peek. publicdigital-delivery-compass.netlify.app/trial/

The expression “I’m so OCD” is used so often and so casually by people who don’t have it that I have to say “I’ve got diagnosed OCD” to clarify that when I say it I mean that I checked the sofa 43 times for hidden wasps last night rather than I don’t like my coffee in the wrong mug.

A programmer's wife tells him, "While you're at the grocery store, buy some eggs." He never comes back

I mean you can stop Social Network after the first scene You're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

So interesting to see @rowlandmanthorpe.bsky.social reporting on Sky News about the effect AI is having on public-facing services - and that @whatdotheyknow.bsky.social is cited. Our open source data makes this sort of reporting possible 🤓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0Q...

The sixth game in the classic co-op escape series We Were Here is out now! Solve asymmetrical puzzles with a friend inside a futuristic facility in We Were Here Tomorrow!

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are the worst www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ugh firework season again, can't stand them, when are we going to regulate them to licensed events?

Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.

"Verbinski was also set to direct a film for Universal based on the video game BioShock. However, budgetary and creative disputes stemming from Verbinski's wish to incorporate a functioning underwater rail transport system, driven by his noted fascination with trains, derailed development."

My report on the above:

Any favourite autumn recipes? I like this one www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/butt...

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/afte...

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Anthropic is banning 'abuse' and 'cruelty' towards Claude www.anthropic.com/news/2026-us...

O2 overcharged me and their support is chatbot hell, both online and phone. Time to switch I guess

Oof. $20bn especially big as a revision when you realise the annualised revenue figure now stands at $50bn www.ft.com/content/b66a...

Scientific experiment in my garden: can squirrels eat too many grapes?

Happy 18th birthday, this spider

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The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

LLMs are useful for some things, but 'synthetic research' is not one of them. The whole point of research is to find out new, true things from real people.

LLMs are useful for some things, but 'synthetic research' is not one of them. The whole point of research is to find out new, true things from real people.

Things we learnt designing Register to vote (2014) designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/14/t...

So is Google Photos going to ask me to turn on face recognition every time I open it now? Because that really sucks

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Here is the metric that signals most clearly why: the history of 12hr waits (remember long waits probably kill perhaps more than 20k patients every year): ...

Wonder how the Guardian decide whose adverts, sorry "letters" to publish

Why good stats matter: ‘The rise in inactivity was a key concern for the Bank of England in setting interest rates, and a factor influencing then Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s introduction of a £5bn-a-year childcare subsidy in 2023.’ www.ft.com/content/78ec...

Britain’s poorest households are now worse off than those in Slovenia and Malta after a decade of economic stagnation. Rising inequality is “a stark indictment of the UK's economic social model,” says NIESR senior economist Max Mosley.

The Guardian’s Visual & Data Journalism team is expanding! We have three exciting new roles, and we're looking for people who can help us push the boundaries of how we find, report and tell stories. 🧵⬇️

Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter

I say all this to say that you should expect Meta to take every opportunity to steal as much data as they can. As soon as I saw that Muse was from Meta, it was a hard no for me. And here we are. With them proving me right yet again.