Simon Everest
@simoneverest.bsky.social
Head of Product and Experience at @DCMS . Trying to do less better. All views my own, not my employer's. RT and likes not endorsements.
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I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
Another 10 to find them in the first place…
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Another 10 to find them in the first place…
Surely 'Live Tides for Chelsea' over Boney M's banger 'Nightflight to Venus'…?
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Surely 'Live Tides for Chelsea' over Boney M's banger 'Nightflight to Venus'…?
All the time it's not 'air solid with midges' and/or 'horizontal 70mph sleet' I still think you're winning…
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
All the time it's not 'air solid with midges' and/or 'horizontal 70mph sleet' I still think you're winning…
Guilty as charged… 😉
October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Guilty as charged… 😉
Are you ‘gauge changing’ at Zweisimmen? Absolute witchcraft on the Golden Express…
October 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Are you ‘gauge changing’ at Zweisimmen? Absolute witchcraft on the Golden Express…
I’m an absolute vegetable today…
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I’m an absolute vegetable today…
:sobs quietly on train home:
September 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
:sobs quietly on train home:
Excellent talk Dan!
September 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Excellent talk Dan!
It’s giving me transformation programme flashbacks…
September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It’s giving me transformation programme flashbacks…
Thaís was definitely faster… I shall see you tomorrow!
September 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thaís was definitely faster… I shall see you tomorrow!
👋 from (I think) coach ‘C’ of your train…
September 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
👋 from (I think) coach ‘C’ of your train…
My literal 1999 introduction to government web publishing… a half day course on HTML, provided by the library team at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who were responsible for running the website in the 90s. First result… webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200004...
UK Government Web Archive
This Page is [ARCHIVED CONTENT] and shows what the site page http://www.maff.gov.uk:80/foodrin/poultry/default.htm looked like on 7 Apr 2000 at 20:12:31
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My literal 1999 introduction to government web publishing… a half day course on HTML, provided by the library team at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who were responsible for running the website in the 90s. First result… webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200004...