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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 11d

I wonder what the implications of this are for people who don't have/want a smart phone? Or who lose their phone or who have run out of battery when their ID is requested?

Text excerpt from Digital ID explainer saying "Digital credentials will be stored directly on your own device"

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 24d

Only good omen for #ManUtd is that in 1992/93 they went on to win their first league title in a quarter of a century! #MOTD

Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 24d

With just four points from four games (W1 D1 L2), this is Manchester United’s poorest start to a league season since 1992-93, when they also had four points from their opening four matches under Alex Ferguson. (opta)

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 27d

Join us a week today!

Speakers include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS, on 'Surfacing Local Insights: Mapping, Scrollytelling and (Semi)Automation'
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Foundation, on their data dashboard
- Leonardo Mazzone, Dept for Business and Trade, on matching companies across datasets

Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 28d

Do you like hearing from people doing interesting things with data?

Do you enjoy chatting to fun data people over some free drinks?

Can you tolerate a few bad jokes with some charts?

Then next week's @publicdigital.bsky.social Data Bites is the event for you - 6pm, Thursday 18 September

Join us!

Data Bites #58 — Public Digital

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Sep 6

Neat tool from @forensicarchi.bsky.social for live tracking the #Gaza #flotilla. 22 ships currently sailing flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 NEW DATA BITES 🚨

Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me in person/online, 6pm, Thurs 18 Sept, for Data Bites #58!

Speakers will include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Fdn, on their dashboard
- DBT on matching companies across datasets

public.digital/events/data-...

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#58

18 September 2025
18:00 GMT

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 28

Have you never wondered what made up places you might find between #Iceland and #Ireland, or between #Northampton and #Southampton? Today, you can open up this new world of possibilities with #PlaceNameTweener, inspired by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social! bothness.github.io/placetweener/

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ps, if you liked this, you might also be interested in visiting my MySpace bsky.app/profile/both...

Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Dec 24

Ever wanted to waste infinity hours doing tile puzzles of every place in the world? Well, now you can with #AnyMapPuzzle

You can play for free, forever (literally), at bothness.github.io/anymap

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 28

#PlaceNameTweener was inspired by this exceedingly silly map by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social. All of the code is open source and can be found here on GitHub github.com/bothness/pla...

Made up place names between Iceland and Ireland on a map. Including Iceland, Ieeland etc

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 28

Have you never wondered what made up places you might find between #Iceland and #Ireland, or between #Northampton and #Southampton? Today, you can open up this new world of possibilities with #PlaceNameTweener, inspired by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social! bothness.github.io/placetweener/

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 24

Living down in the Portsmouth/Southampton conurbation these days, and could easily imagine a rebranding of the local lines here as a metro rail service. I suspect there'd be a problem with capacity though as the trains would have to run on the same rail lines as the mainline services

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 24

More frequent, modern trains and a bit of branding make a world of difference. I lived round the corner from Highbury & Islington station in 2005 and always tried to use the old Silverlink service when I could. Trains were small, dirty and infrequent (maybe just 2 per hour?) and used by nobody.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just realised that every @canaries.co.uk game so far this season has ended in a 2-1 away win. Pitty we played half of them at home!

Norwich City FC results in 2025/26 season showing four consecutive 2-1 away wins

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Aug 8

According to YouTube ads I need to invest in "ETFs". I think this might also be something incredibly important that people need to know about...

Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jul 31

Interesting how the average +/- change is higher than all the individual grades. I'm guessing that's got something to do with grade inflation?

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Maarten Lambrechts @maartenzam.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is amazing

The Pudding @puddingviz.bsky.social · Jul 28

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:

🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Jul 26

A must watch.

Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 26

"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt.

"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”

youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...

Former US Green Beret says Israel committed war crimes at Gaza food distribution site | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jul 15

That should be $158.4 trillion in total I think. Standards slipping at the NY Times?

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · Jul 15

Trying to protect your IP online is increasingly impossible. Up yours WeTransfer.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jun 28

This looks like a #HIGNFY odd one out round. I'm guessing the one with the three old men on the moon cos the other three are magazine covers?

Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yeah. Didn't spot they'd changed it for other pages now!

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jun 26

Does that sound like a democracy to you?

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jun 26

I'm pretty sure the header has been blue since they overhauled search last year. I fear they're just paying for the dot🤦

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jun 26

I was betting on them changing the GOV UK part to a more approachable lowercase. Wasn't even on my radar that the dot or its colour might be in need of an overhaul. I guess that's why I'm not paid a squillion quid an hour for my brain labour!

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jun 10

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wow, this event looks like a proper treat!

Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · Jun 4

Join us for another funny & unique Information is Beautiful LIVE show in London Mon 30th Jun. IIB founder David McCandless will host a rare night of ‘performance journalism’ - full of graphics, numbers, knowledge and jokes geni.us/IIBLive

A promotional image for Information is Beautiful LIVE depicts a man on stage presenting data visuals. A list of tour dates reveals several sold out gigs in London, several US cities and online.

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