Chris Fleming

@e17chrisfleming.bsky.social

Partner and healthcare lead @publicdigital.bsky.social Walthamstow via Durham.

Honestly, this Test & Learn event is joyful. There are so many examples of the real-life transformation of public institutions - quicker, more responsive, more human, more purpose-driven and fun to work in. e.g. these slides are from a brilliant example from Nottingham 1/n

A slide from a presentation - ‘Where we started’ and ‘Where we are now’A slide from a presentation about test and learn work in NottinghamA slide from a presentation: “Spoiler alert: We’re still doing it and it’s making things better for children”A slide: “Conditions we need leaders to create now, to enable Test Learn and Grow
	1.	Build governance that enables test and learn
	2.	Make space for people to lead the work whatever their level
	3.	Be visible in spaces where new ways of working are being tried
	4.	Invest in user research expertise
	5.	Encourage people who instinctively value this way of working to find each other”

For the morning crowd… If you’re a senior dev, engineering mgr, senior devops, tech team lead, tech arch, tech community of practice lead or other technologist and fancy a change in career, come join my team to help orgs around the world adapt to the digital age.

Dafydd Vaughan@daivaughan.uk · last yr.

Come join my team @publicdigital.bsky.social! We’re looking for technologists from all kinds of backgrounds to join us and use your hands-on experience to help leading institutions around the world adapt for the digital age. apply.workable.com/public-digit...

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · last yr.

Escalating to escalate. "Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."

Big Software Procurement Lifecycles 1: Award a $500 million contract to do the thing 2: Declare that there will now be a Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 3: Declare that there will now also be Phase 1a, Phase 1b, and Phase 1c 4: Declare that the project is scoped down to Phase 1a Success!