pretendcato @pretendcato@mastodon.social

I’m away from Delib at the moment, but it’s cool to see big things happening. A brand new geospatial tool built and out in the world to make the process of submitting place-based data much better. No more drawing on a map and posting it in, or other suboptimal options: https://www.delib.net/citizen_space/geospatial #gis #geospatial #maps

We’re hiring for a security engineer and a product engineer. We do good things, are non-evil, we quietly rage against unnecessary bureaucracy, and we care about the people who use our products (government and citizens). Want a piece of that? Apply! https://www.delib.net/jobs #job #hiring

Second 10km run of 2021 completed. An icy adventure ❄❄❄

Parliament’s role in scrutinising the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a farce

https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/parliaments-role-in-scrutinising-the-uk-eu-trade-and-cooperation-agreement

‘What happens when your product is used for a national conversation’ - a blog post about working on a large government engagement project as a supplier (plus doing that remotely and to a very short deadline): https://link.medium.com/QvD8bRFsCcb

I did a maternity handover a while back and couldn’t find anyone writing about doing one for the cultural bits of a job, so I wrote about it here: https://link.medium.com/9ADoLUYDBcb

#weeknotes s05 ep06 - We’re all ridiculous
https://weeknot.es/s05-ep06-were-all-ridiculous-a98dc348f256?source=linkShare-fdfe39be24e0-1537730465

Our next full Practical Democracy Project event will be in Dublin on October 24th: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-importance-of-listening-the-practical-democracy-project-6-tickets-49096723622?ref=eios&aff=eios
Great speakers, beer, and doughnuts 🍩

The pre-pickle phase in my beetrooting experiment. Two handfuls of lovely #beetroots plucked out of their pot, scrubbed and trimmed

#Weeknotes finally, Stay Light (from In Time by Sly and the Family Stone), testing, tweaking, uncertainty and democracy puzzles https://weeknot.es/s05-ep05-stay-light-373685385b2a?source=linkShare-fdfe39be24e0-1537044731

Today, I’m making happy soup
*does running man*
https://medium.com/@notnowcato/happy-soup-a6b9ac2fd6bb?source=linkShare-fdfe39be24e0-1536408736

An excellent #job from our friends at Senedd Outreach helping to involve Welsh citizens in the Assembly's work and democratic processes. One for the good eggs out there: http://www.assembly.wales/en/gethome/working/recruitment/jobs/Pages/AC-028-18.aspx

I'm going to "The Practical Democracy Project Meetup: Bristol". See you there? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-practical-democracy-project-meetup-bristol-tickets-49295154133?aff=estw

If you would find yourself in the centre of a Venn diagram of ‘people interested in improving democracy (in practical ways)’ and ‘people who can get to #Bristol UK on October 4th’ then you should also find yourself at this Practical Democracy Project meet-up we’re running. Come along! https://t.co/6LKNunWUJl

In case anyone is thinking, I wonder if there’s a way I could look like Michael Myers out of the Halloween movie franchise while giving my skin a treat? 🤔 I give you the Boots no7 sheet face mask range

I have just finished the Dalaï Lama’s book ‘A Call for Revolution’ and I’m ready to bring some more compassion to my days, weeks, months and lifetimes

Wooden Spoon #weeknotes, with an unforgivable cake analogy and my views on spas: https://weeknot.es/weeknotes-s05-ep04-wooden-spoon-dae89147d4ea

Currently singing ‘He ain’t heavy, he’s my onion’ to The Hollies’ 1969 UK number 3 hit ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ (which featured a young Elton John on piano - thanks Wikipedia) on account of chopping a fairly light onion while crying