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Emily Macaulay

@emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social

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Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data. #RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Trustee: LGBT+ Consortium & Reading List Foundation. 🏳️‍🌈 She/Her. https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 3h

The irony of the clickbait article about the pope's condemnation of clickbait being the most viewed article...

The Guardian Most viewed list of articles is topped by one reading "You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned"

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 13h

They were wonderful 😍

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely incredible moment tonight seeing wild otters (for the first time) playing together in the River Tone.

Breathtaking.

[sound on advised]

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like I must know someone / an organisation that this would be of interest to … heck, it was of interest to me…

“MOPAC would like to commission a SME / VCSE organisation to coordinate the London Hate Crime Stakeholder Reference Group”
www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/05863...

Coordinator Service for the Hate Crime Stakeholder Reference Group - Find a Tender

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 1d

My #weeknotes (albeit three months after the last) for my freelance work with an announcement that I’m working with @jamestplunkett.bsky.social to support his setting up of a wonderful new alliance, @kinship.works (still doing WRKWLL too).

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Freelance weeknotes

Yikes. There must be a line when it is no longer appropriate to call these reflections "week" notes as my last ones were mid July.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 3d

This weekend I did my first stint as Run Director at Longrun Meadow Junior parkrun.

I love volunteering most weeks with the team there and feel very lucky to have been invited to step up to join the gang of Run Directors.

High vis, clipboard and a position of power…I was in my element! 😉😆

Photo of Emily wearing a blue and white vest that reads Run Director. She is giving a briefing and people are listening to her.

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant night at Taunton Brewhouse with @tabisw.bsky.social, crying with laughter at Suzi Ruffell.

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 5d

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 5d

I think Kate McKinnon is ace, and the idea that weird Barbie is the one that really knows what’s going on is fab.

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 5d

#FinishedWatching Barbie.

Finally got to watch it and enjoyed all the social commentary that people had been talking about when it was dominating the cinema. Also chuckled out loud too. An enjoyable watch.

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a woman in a pink jacket is doing a split while standing in front of a colorful wall .

Alt: GIF of weird barbie in a pink jacket is doing a split while standing in front of a colorful wall .

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 6d

My #weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including reading @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @timdavies.org.uk (finally), and thinking about analogies for AI.

connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...

Emily Weeknotes

What I’ve been doing As I planned last week I’ve finished the Board minutes drafting and they’re now with the Board for review. I also enjoyed an insight meeting with our India based partners around l...

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks very much 😊

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 11d

Tee hee - yep 🥶

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you - both were a shock!

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 11d

Fab weekend at home starting with my 150th parkrun (and fastest of 2025), then a sauna and ice plunge session, before Taunton 10K race today - at which I astounded myself by finishing in under an hour (I thought such a goal was beyond me!) #RunningIsFunning

Selfie of Emily looking hot after parkrun. She is wearing her 100 ParkRuns black tshirt and is walking through the park.

Photo of a wood fired sauna. It is a wooden cabin on wheels. A paddling pool style ice plunge is visible outside.

Photo of Emily running. She is wearing her running club top and grimacing slightly.

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 12d

12% so a little way off yet…

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 12d

Ooooh thank you. I’m adding those to my app!

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 12d

Nice!

Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 13d

Trafalgar Way?

I enjoyed Lanhydrock mainly because I have in to it and slowed right down to a jolly jaunt 😃

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 13d

It's the governance mechanisms around that data that I'll be particularly keeping an eye on. Who holds it? Who gets access to it under what circumstances? What's it linked to? Where's the transparency? What happens when things go wrong? How robust will guardrails be against future regime changes?

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 14d

My #Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including having the team back, the Employment Rights Bill, and some work related reading.

connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...

Emily Weeknotes

What I’ve been doing It’s been a lovely week having all the team around. I don’t mind working remotely but I do miss having the chatter with team mates online - whether text (Discord) or face to face ...

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Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social · 19d

The Mothership is visiting, so I took her on a trot around Longrun Meadow #parkrun.

Selfie of Emily and her Mum running together.

Photo of a group of people running along the edge of a patch of grass. Emily and her Mum are in the middle.

Photo of Emily and her Mum running past a blur of bushes. It suggests they are running fast. Reader, they were not.

Photo of Emily and her Mum approaching the finish. Emily is giving a double thumbs up to the camera. Her Mum is concentrating.

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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 21d

Normalise writing alt text like you’re narrating a nature documentary. “Here we see… a social media manager… holding a pumpkin spice latte… clicking ‘add alt text’ button on a post about pigeons.

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