dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
charli xkcd @ky.fyi body { will-change: transform; }
💌 https://ky.fyi
📺 https://hypertext.tv
🏳️⚧️ @namesake.fyi
Haylzz @haylzz.bsky.social - W Will Richards @williamrichards.bsky.social
mcclowes @mcclowes.com 
James Reeve @jereeve.bsky.social Husband, dad, chemist, services, gardening and thinking the best of people
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Stacey Crump @staceyc.bsky.social LCFC supporter, going very grey, older and sometimes wiser, fighting my natural levels of sarcasm. Working to be the best i can at leading innovative and transformative people and teams. Also fitting in parenting 3 amazing kids.
Abe Greenspoon @worldofabe.bsky.social Canadian 🇨🇦 interested in public service, politics, history, sports, and community building.
📍 Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
Mike Rose @mikerose.co.uk I am often found talking about *intellectual property rights* and how they manifest in *digital* and *data* stuff.
I also often share dog and Dorset photos!
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Annie Heath @annieheath.bsky.social Head of Tech, Data, Experience Reigate & Banstead Borough Council. Public Sector Endurance Medallist. Wife to music writer Harold Heath. Daughter of a loop da loop era.
Katy Beale @katybeale.bsky.social Cycling, running, raving.
Ceramics.
Local gov, tech for good & public purpose.
Design and digital.
🏳️🌈
Currently: CDEO, Westminster City Council
Previously: Hackney Council, DHSC, Equal Experts, Yodomo, Caper.
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Doug Knox @dougknox.bsky.social Dad (he/him) | Trumpeter | Head of Technical Services Group at Forestry and Land Scotland | Passionate re leadership & forestry | Unofficial 🌳🌲
Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Esko Reinikainen @reinikainen.eurosky.social Systems Change Sherpa
Helping people understand and access generative AI tools
Creative Industries (again)
Supporting Ukraine defend against the genocidal invasion by our barbaric neighbour
Tango dancing
Sauna enthusiast
Study level flight simulators
Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
Stefan Janusz @ndajz.bsky.social International responsible AI and Data Governance projects. Working with @ceimia.bsky.social & [birdsite] @GPAI_PMIA. Dad-Dad-Dadio x3 ex-@OfficeForAI @ODIHQ @royalsociety @QMUL Nanotech PhD. Born at 340.01ppm
Catherine Hope @catherinehope.bsky.social Data analysis, theatre, food
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Stamanfar @stamanfar.bsky.social Service designer, DHSC. It's more than what you bargained for but it's a little less than what you paid for.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Andy Loughran @andylockran.dev Citizen focussed digital worker. Keeps fit, loves #parkrun, and is trying to work out what it means to be a good citizen so that I can be one.
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org Co-author Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions. Independent consultant & trainer specialised in technical leadership, software architecture, and #sociotechnical systems design. #DDD #TeamTopologies #DeepDemocracy
Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does coaching with senior practitioners & leaders.
adrianhoward.com | quietstars.com/coaching
Antony Poveda @tonytoners.bsky.social Some sort of designer/Head of Morale, mainly content. Working for users of government. Stealing all your best ideas since 2014 (reading stuff, not much posting). antonypoveda.design Sheffield.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Tom Lubbock @tmlbk.bsky.social Opinion Research, Insight and Strategy | Co-founder
@JLPartnersPolls | #rstats | #tidymodels| #dataviz | via @UniofOxford
jlpartners.co.uk
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social Design leader in 🇬🇧 with Irish roots 🇮🇪 | Obsessed with better products, faster feedback loops, and long runs around Manchester.
Semplestudio.com
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Gethin Jones @getjo.bsky.social AFK
Megha Wadhawan @meghaw.bsky.social All things Design
Victoria Stead @victoriastead.bsky.social Service Designer in HE, Natural Voice Leader, inclusive singing circles and workshops. 
Duncan McAlester @mcalester.design Design Technologist • Dot Connector • Culture Builder
Former Lead Astro UX Design System
Sarah Mount @snim2.org Service Lead at dxw | author | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | recovering academic
allyhook.bsky.social @allyhook.bsky.social Welsh Coventrian, loves waterparks, making stuff accessible and finding better ways to do things. Would like to be able to keep plants alive.
Salman @schdhri.bsky.social Strategic designer. Curious about political economy.
Shannon Leahy (she, her, hers) @shannonleahy.bsky.social Mum, wifey, snuggler of Ginger Snap and Muffin. Content design, UX, and asking questions are my jam. Leopard print is the best neutral.
Arvind Venkataramani @avenk.bsky.social human experience researcher, ritual technologist, neuroatypical in unsatisfactory ways. i sense and work towards emergent futures. let’s make the world a place of flourishing for all life.
dorianmfreeman @dorianshmorian.bsky.social Retired from a career in tech (UX). Volunteer for a local food pantry garden in Massachusetts. Managing care for my elderly father.
Profile picture: sculpted cement head with a plant growing out of the top.
Jay Spanton @spanty.bsky.social Researcher/ designer. Currently UKRI. Formerly National Archive, Land Registry, DEFRA, Met Office, GDS, cxpartners, eBay...
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com Senior Content Designer & Strategist specialising in trauma-informed content. Dutchman living in France, working in London. Passionate about AI’s impact on career and workplace, diversity 🏳️🌈 and creating content that truly serves people. Dog owner.
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Sharon Stern @backoftheboat.bsky.social 
Claire Duxbury @cosmiccow01.bsky.social 
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Osian Rhys Jones @osian.cymru Bardd. Poet | Dylunio cynnwys. Content Design @cdps_cymru
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
vaughn @vaughn.bsky.social idk tbd \\ marseille \\ pizza \\ grouchy
www.vaughntan.org
Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social Lapsed Glaswegian / born again Berliner.
"our go-to drill rap expert"
⭐⭐ Daily Mail
"the Flintstones is, canonically, set after the Jetsons"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wall Street Journal
"Sent from my Blackberry®"
⭐⭐⭐ Pravda
https://mixcloud.com/BryanBlessed
Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
Support me on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
Katharine Sutton @katharinesut.bsky.social Director of Aspire, Betterforus campaign - all for blue sky thinking - posts on labour markets, discrimination, procurement, equality, poverty, inequality and regeneration www.aspirecommunityworks.com www.betterforus.org.uk
Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social An anti-poverty charity and community of food banks working to end hunger together 💚
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Anthony ♾️🌏💡❤️🏳️🌈 @anthonymagee.com Neurodivergent AuDHD ♾️ (he/him, “Anth-o-knee”) | Data + tech for good 💡 | Heart-first ❤️ | System-aware 🌍 | Inclusion advocate 🏳️🌈 | Quiet joys, bold ideas.
Here for the big questions, quiet joys, and real connection.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
HappyToast.co.uk
patreon.com/HappyToast
redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/explore
https://ko-fi.com/happytoast 
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
Rich Prowse @richprowse.bsky.social I help organisations build the capability to design better services for the people they serve.
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Anya @anyaso.bsky.social A librarian. I work at / for the House of Commons Library.
Interested in how Parliament works and how Parliament makes its work available to you. Domain driven librarianship. Something along those lines.
Wary of pragmatists.
@wisht on instagram
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
Senior delivery manager at @tpximpact.com
https://www.cattell.com
Janet Hughes @janethughes.bsky.social Director General Reform and Efficiency, UK Cabinet Office
Allotmenteer, reader, over-enthusiast.
Here to learn and make things work better.
Katherine Bradshaw @katherinebradshaw.bsky.social Content design at the BBC.
New to this place.
Rob Mathison @robmwrites.bsky.social Writing & other content things. Writing instructor at University of British Columbia. Slowly writing #VWFC & #HMFC football books when not freelancing. linktr.ee/robmathison
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
Website: https://britishprogress.org/
steve @visitmy.website workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
TheMightyTRex @themightytrex.bsky.social Dinosaur. West Ham season ticket holder (Block 221). Like boxing and MMA, used to work as a content designer. Massive geek. From Northern Ireland. ⚒️ COYI ⚒️
Jasper @jasprr.bsky.social Here for content design, accessibility fun and cats.
Mostly harmless.
Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Longer hair than you.
Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as @Edent on most social platforms.
Bit obsessed with #SolarPower […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@Edent, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ben Davies-Romano @bendaviesromano.bsky.social UX, Product, AI 🪐 Currently a Group AI Content Design Lead in FinTech. Opinions are my own and questionable.
Found in central London, wearing velvet clothing, and spilling coffee everywhere. 🏳️🌈 and 😴
#contentdesign #productmanagement #ux #tech
Anna Hepburn @annahepburn.bsky.social Content design leader, currently Head of Content Design at Justice Digital, previously Head of Content on GOV.UK, Head of Digital Engagement and Creative Content at Defra and Head of Digital Communities and Channels at DHSC
Lisa Jeffery @lisajeffery.bsky.social Hello. I'm a public sector connector and digital human. Always learning. I'm interested in design, culture and change 🌱
Anne Ramsden @ramsdenanne.bsky.social Lead Content Designer in UK Gov digital. A bit deaf. She/her. #BWithTheT
Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social human in the loop. Je suis #Fabula https://fabula.productions/
Michael_Modal @michaelmodal.bsky.social I am an American who cares about democracy, opportunity, and fighting autocracy in all its forms.
By day, I work to make IT usable and empowering.
I love jazz, America's art of collaboration, improvisation, and self-expression.
Register Dynamics @register-dynamics.co.uk Our team of #data, #digital and #technology specialists help the UK Government and startups to get ahead with #data.
https://register-dynamics.co.uk/
Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social Dad, public servant, sports nut. Making better use of data to deliver better outcomes, keen to see how this app works out
Claudia Hopkins @claudiahop.bsky.social Printmaking • Design • Equity • Advocacy
Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
Imran Hussain @imhuyorks.bsky.social Love all things collaboration and community. Founder of GovCamp North and Design System Day. Organiser UKGovCamp, Services Week and GovJams.
Currently doing community @gdsteam.
Site: https://www.imranhussain.uk