I just received this message on LinkedIn. I've never wanted to change my name by deed poll but I do now

For example, suppose you could buy walk-up tickets without even specifying a date? With discounts for buying multiple? With online refunds any time if unused? You'd just need to activate a ticket before boarding a train, then it'd become non-refundable.

So, it turns out that the UK national security report on nature -only published last month thanks to an FOI request - omitted the most serious forecasts. I've updated my earlier piece here with the @itvnews.bsky.social revelations: medium.com/the-new-clim...

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

This is so exciting!! More of this everywhere please!!!!

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

For centuries, the average human did not consume the sheer amount of meat we consume today. We literally do not need to eat 'franken-chickens'. How did we let things get this bad? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sad to see that latest polling for Gorton and Denton has 'Sir Oink a Lot' of the MRLP at 0 votes.

I genuinely can't believe this. Everyone had a rough time of COVID, academics included. Jobs were weird! And that's for people who *had* jobs! Yet the marketisation of education has gone so far, that students feel like they alone can scalp a public sector institution for all it's worth? Despicable.

Okay, at the risk of ragebait: I was cycling in today and thinking about the way cyclists and pedestrians interact in London. It almost feels like we need some new guidelines for how not to cause other road users grief: 1. Never call another cyclist or pedestrian an idiot (or worse). (1/5)

Te queremos mucho, Catharina Doria

Deadline is this friday for contributions to our PGR sessions. We didn't want to bust out the library of "cats on transport", but you forced our hand 🙀⛐ Contributions via the quoted post!

The absolute slam dunk when Oli is asked how should we pay for higher education and he just cleanly points out that the state used to pay for it. Perfect stuff.

'this is how you spell "hahaha we destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux-romantics"' has to be an alltimer

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

Whoever was responsible for this in the ScotRail comms department should face disciplinary action. The motif is egregious, but moreover, any public sector organisation calling AI a 'visualisation' needs swift reprimand. It is the opposite of that!! It often shows the outright impossible!!!!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Standards continue to be terrifyingly low in my hometown

Hugely behind this proposal that a) creates new public realm and b) allows London to have a mediterranean climate in promotional renders

🗒️✏️The TGRG has announced three sessions for postgraduate students at this year's RGS-IBG Annual Conference. 🌎🎙️ The deadline for all three is 20 February - get your submissions in now! 💥 Full details here: siskiyoucedar.github.io/callforpaper...

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

considering becoming a single-issue "on the spot fines for using speakers on TfL" London Mayoralty voter. A power the mayor actually _has_, could reasonably _enforce_, would be revenue _positive_, while also _not_ being targeted only at young people

Our last cat, Dayve, was fed in the garage. Michael is not allowed in the garage as she is too small. The cat flap is locked. Michael resents this.

Building this to the same spec as HS2 will be construed as gold-plating, and hence a waste of money. Building this to a lower spec will be construed as little different from the status quo, and hence a waste of money. HS2 should have been built in full. What we've ended up with is HMT's bin fire.

This #MapMonday we're taking you back in time ⌛ We've just added over 9,000 out of copyright Ordnance Survey maps published in 1975 to our Map Images website. What did your neighbourhood look like fifty years ago? 🗺️ 🔗: maps.nls.uk/additions/#191 #MoreMaps

'District Line' (1978) by Guy Beggs (London Museum)

Quantitative geographer street cred

It’s worth mentioning, though it’s been said repeatedly: the Lizzie Line carries 1/6th of UK daily rail passengers (not including the Tube) and has already paid off its entire costs. And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.

Given that the cancellation/postponement of the Leeds tram was also announced today, can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME how reducing protection for various species would have helped here? Seems to be a bigger blocker might be HMT?

Roses are red You give them to a lass

Spain wants to introduce a national public transport ticket along the lines of Deutschlandticket A few reflections on when you do public transport policymaking through a shock like this: jonworth.eu/flat-rate-ti...

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/

Reverting to type via Bluesky word cloud (but also see: horse) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

We’ve mapped the mansion tax. You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you. Full interactive map here 👇

NEW | Our latest research exposes just how lightly private jet users are taxed — and how much the UK is losing because of it. It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.

kind of obsessed that the Centenary of the general strike has a logo

I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB AND THEN I FOUND A JOB AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊 www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

So brazen, they celebrate temporary eclipse of Angela Rayner. Labour Yimby now a membership organisation dedicated to sidelining social & affordable housing

I could say this is (further?) evidence of south west London being the n-th circle of hell, but this could just as easily be Angel, Camden or Clapham. We need to call this out before it's everywhere.

Why does Norbert look like this Christmas will be his last

yeah that's a functional ticketing structure

Forget Looking for Growth cleaning tube carriages, this is the real good stuff.

🔔 New study🔔 What is the relationship between air transport and economic growth in Europe? Dr Felix Pot and I break it down like never before in our new report for @neweconomics.bsky.social and T&E: /1

I'd absolutely love to see someone do this for London.

Jesus Christ.

This is not the gift of a government. This is the gift of the sun. And it has some really interesting implications… #actuallyexistingsolarpunk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This isn't a serious proposal. It's a grift from a think tank called Looking for Growth, with connections to Dominic Cummings and Katie Lam. The housing crisis is real. This proposal is anything but.

I don't usually go in for Ian Dunt, but it's good to see him calling this out. Miliband being shunted off stage every time he *actually does his job* fighting the climate crisis is really insidious - and mind-bogglingly counter-productive, given this is a priority for the British public!!

I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"