A left hand stained blue/ purple from black hair dye.

When you have 3 days of meetings in another city starting tomorrow - but you also helped your emo teenager with their hair…

AI has all but shut down the routes to proving yourself via grunt work in so many industries. All the best juniors I trained came in via that way. They didn’t have the social connections or money to position themselves for the success they proved more than capable of, AI is gutting social mobility

Newcastle's castle was built in 1080 by William the Conqueror's eldest son Robert Curthouse. It is by no stretch of the imagination a "new castle"> Geordies should stop living in the past. Boody, Chesvegas

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Structure of north Tyneside council- with 51 out of the possible 60 council seats currently held my Labour councillors, 8 by conservatives and 1 independent

This is my council currently. I honestly think it’s going to be a reform swing, and the only campaign Labour seem to be running is voting Green will be a spoilt vote.

It’s a very odd feeling of a break up I didn’t initiate or really want, but here nonetheless. The NE will be vilified as racist morons if Reform get in, but actually I think a huge wave of people are just hurt, let down and don’t know where to place that.

Labour canvassers knocked. Just an overwhelming sadness of explaining that I didn’t leave the party my family fought for- they left me.
My miner grandad was a local Labour councillor; trade unionism, community care and mutual aid are core tenants of my upbringing. Profound grief at the loss.

The issue is everyone want their local councillors to focus on community cohesion, crime and caring for the elderly, but Reform do that by scapegoating and othering our neighbours. This leaflet doesn’t mention that though, it could easily be a Labour or Greens leaflet and that’s scary.

#research #design #designforchange #leadership #engagement #diversityandinclusion #training #traininganddevelopment #abundance | Tayo Medupin | 11 comments Hey all, after a slow unfurling over the last three months, I'm excited to share that Black Design Guild is back. 🎉 We're now recruiting for our 2026 cohort. As a reminder, it’s a fully funded, fi...

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How ridiculous of NASA spending billions of pounds to come up with the non-stick frying pan. In the weightlessness of space, the astronauts' sausages are just going to float right out of the pan. If anything, they should have been developing something to make them stick. J Boxbury, Norfolk

A tween child in a blue wheel chair wearing black shorts and a grey hoodie. They have a black knee brace and holding crutches. They are giving a thumbs up sign.

First day of the Easter 2 week half term- and kiddo #1 goes and tears their MCL. How’s yours going?

As a recovering catholic, Pope Leo gives me hope that ‘old school’ Catholicism, grounded in socio-economic based theology is making its fire and brimstone return.

No one ‘wants’ their child to have to be forever to jump through endless hoops, just for the mere accommodation of their needs.

In order to get chemotherapy you need a cancer diagnosis. In order for my child to access medical care, I need a neurodiversity diagnosis. It’s not that hard.

The new grid north by ordnance survey, showing a 24.6 degree change left wards. This means Newcastle is, like, proper northern now.

Always knew Geordies, especially Northumbrians, were ‘high up’ latitudinally (55-N) but seeing it like this shows just how much higher.

We’re more northern than Dumfries, The Isle of Arran, Stranraeh, Quebec and parts of Denmark and Alaska.
Nee wonder it’s a bit nippy.

Picture of a forlorn looking girl in blue dungarees and a pink T-shirt. She’s leaning with her head in her hand in a school desk with a pencil and school work in front of her. The picture accompanies a Sky News headline “Youngers incentivised to get ADHD and Austin diagnoses”

Oh just F off.
Emotional and violent outbursts, hurting themselves, being left out of friendship groups, falling behind, endless referrals back and forward to CAMHS, stuck in limbo on a right to choose pathway which is paused & may never start back up again or paying £1000’s in private medical fees.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

Woah. My immediate response is ‘who owns that now?’

Wishing all my fellow haters of hate safe trips back home.

Reform say people in Sunderland should be happy with the below inflation council tax increase.
Labour run Sunderland council.

Reform lost their 1 seat in Washington South in 2024, then gained back 1 seat in the Hetton 2025 by election. 1/ 75 seats.

He might mean Durham which is a different county

It seems huge, but 10 out of 12 NE councils have more than 25% of kids in poverty. 40% in Newcastle and Middlesbrough. (Dept hub presence)

So if 2/3rds of the NE population are ‘deprived’, let alone common-or-garden working class, statistically 52% is still depressingly disproportionate.

Aye, I’m a Geordie gobsh*te designer so I’ve hit my ceiling 😂

I wonder if this is broken down further with the area/ skill attributed to them? e.g policy, delivery, technology, design, analysis, operational.
My hunch is there’s massive disparities e.g. Policy is posh and ops is where the majority of the 18% are.

In fact is there even any design SCS’s?

Why am I not even surprised to see that the Harold Wilson years were more progressive than the Boris ones, over half a century later.

Heading to a protest this weekend?

We’ve got resources for you. 🧵 (1/7)

The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's BYKER: GIRL ON A SPACEHOPPER, 1971. Black and white Photograph of a young g girl in a woolly jumper with a fabulous sequin covered dress bouncing on a space hopper in a terrace house back lane. The cobbled back lane is immaculate, with no rubbish or weeds, or graffiti.

Black and white photo of 5 elderly woman, all with short grey hair hitching their dresses up to dip their toes into the sea. They are firm friends, and really happy, so happy you can feel the joy through the image.

2 girls, one black with short black curly hair and one white with a blonde Bob. They are about 6 or 7 both in black welly’s and sheep skin coats. They have their arms around one another, with their faces pressed against each other and smiling beautiful full grins to the camera. Taken by Thomas Blower in Hattersley, 1977.

A black and white photo taken by Tiah Murtha titled Richard and Louise. It’s taken from the Elswick Kids series. It shows 2 young white children, 1 boy and 1 girl starring into one another’s eyes lovingly. While 3 boys laugh and run behind them.

Can we just celebrate working class joy please?

What’s your favourite picture of community joy? Anything by Tish Murtha, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen or Thomas Blower always does it for me.

Can only speak about the working class men I know (ex mining area in north east of England)
Friendships are the backbone of boxing & football clubs, barber shops, working men’s clubs. Laughter thunders in these places with generations of friendships.

Can only assume it’s a rich white men problem?

Best of luck, know it will be a corker of a read already.

Woah who would have thought that generational Labour voters want to vote for the ‘labour’ policies* we fought for.

*Communities over corporations, nationalisation of utilities, safeguards against wage/ rent exploitation and not witchhunting our neighbours because they happen to be brown.

UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them. Stakeholders want to vibe code and have designers clean up after them afterwards. But rather than helping with velocity, there is just more noise and more work for everyone.

Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design.

AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships.

So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

Probably far too much information for a Wednesday, but that’s my nickname from being a kid, on the account of having ginger curly hair. My god kids even call me Aunty Spuggy.