James M Watson

Principal User Researcher | James M. W. 📢 Who fancies a well-paid, senior research role working on policing and security? Well, read on! 📢 We're looking for a principal user researcher (£74-85K + up to £9k skills bonus) to lead user-...

My team is looking for a principal user researcher to lead on discoveries and it'll be awesome because you'll get to work with me

SpongeBob Patrick being booed

"Your boo's mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer."
- Patrick Stancil

An ale tap in a pub featuring Ruddles Best at an extremely reasonable price of £1.79

Broken Britain? Hogwash!

My only relationship that thrives on zero trust

Too much scrutiny, whatever the context, can end up crippling the system it’s meant to improve

Gosh. Who doesn't watch the watchmen?

We had just two departments in the 1700s: Home Office for domestic or 'home' affairs (everything from mental health to highways and housing) and Foreign Office for the rest of the world – bureaucracy was so much simpler then!

If this conference taught me one thing, it's that the 'Home Office' is a really stupid name but the minor history lesson behind it is a slam dunk conversation starter

"Keep drinking until you come up with a password that has exactly 12 characters, no repeating letters, and somehow includes the entire history of dairy farming."

I'm starting to think this is the only news account I'll ever need

Taylor Swift as the color of SP500 stocks:

Thread 🧵

New from the Home Office: 'The impact of drug-related law enforcement activity on serious violence and homicide: A systematic review.' www.gov.uk/government/p...

New research finds "permanent exclusion is associated with approximately a doubling of the risk of having a conviction or caution for both serious violence and for homicide or near-miss homicide in the 12-month period following the exclusion"

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

I'll be heading to this next month. Pls pluck me out the crowd to say hi if you are too, though note I'm now minus frosted tips.

The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

Trending BETA What people are posting about. Sixers A Complete Unknown King Henry Joel Embiid Pentatonix Jayson Tatum Jrue Holiday Scrooge Travis Kelce Mavs Mikal Bridges

Hey everybody! You may notice Trending start to appear in your app!

Here’s some quick info:

- This is a beta
- Search page on mobile, right sidebar on desktop
- You can disable it with the X button on the trending section
- English only for now, while we test it

Merry Christmas!

Finally found a way to ensure my tea is properly steeped in poor taste

Good evening Europe!!

Mercury Retrograde has ended.

Honourable mentions: bullet points reshuffling all numbering; images refusing to align; tables EXPLODING across pages; track changes becoming a rainbow mess; SmartArt

Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits While Design Thinking gets all the attention, it is not the same as (Digital) Product Design.

"I’ve noticed my students tend to use the term 'design thinking' as a synonym for UX/Digital Product Design. This is a dangerous smallification of design and a source of shoddy work."
@cwodtke.bsky.social writes about Design's unsexy yet important middle bits: cwodtke.medium.com/designs-unse...

Screenshot of the House of Commons account

Screenshot of the House of Lords account

This is a significant move for UK institutions towards Bluesky.

The UK Parliament has arrived here today! 🦋

Accounts are verified.

@houseofcommons.parliament.uk
@houseoflords.parliament.uk

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

Hey folks!

Looking for any reading / contacts / best practice around how support services (like a helpline) can improve how they refer individuals to other support organisations.

Anything or anyone I could be directed to would be amazing—thanks! 🙏

Police responses to rape and sexual assault: Op. Soteria survivor survey Online webinar series to mark the 16 Days of Activism re: Violence Against Women and Girls

More (free) tickets released for today’s online seminar on the findings of our latest #OpSoteria police experience survey for survivors of rape and sexual assault. Book a place here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/police-res...

YourWestminster is serving up some srsly festive good boy

Not Pop Crave sneaking onto BS... guess I can finally call this place home bsky.app/profile/popc...

All I want for Xmas is for people to stop magically finding and recycling 4:3 templates 🥲

Ha really tickled me