I’m sorry but if it’s on BBC One at 9pm on a Friday night you simply cannot call it a podcast, “visualised” or not

just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away

"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend" And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...

Answers to the nine most common questions I get about the (now delayed) Leeds tram. tomforth.co.uk/tramquestions/

I could not love this transport poster more.

Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway. It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything. Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨

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Been paying for an Adobe Lightroom license for 11 years. They quietly upped the price by 50% this month, and have the temerity to demand an £83 cancellation fee just to cancel. This company can get in the bin.

The enshittification will continue until morale improves www.theverge.com/news/834655/...

Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are): adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...

My charity @protect.earth is five years old this week. Some stats. 🧵 - Planted 157,453 trees - Created 4,985m of hedgerow - Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam) - Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.

"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"

Booked to have my smart meter upgraded about a month ago. They’ve sent me 1 email, 2 texts and 1 robo phone call PER WEEK for the last 4 weeks just to remind me it’s still booked. Of course, now the day comes, zero indication of when in their half day window they might arrive.

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Just realised Daniel Zeichner has been my MP for 10 full years and I’m yet to notice him express a single meaningful opinion about anything.

I smell a rom-com

These scientists have to be stopped www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I can think of something else that’s actually out of control and dividing the country.

Is it 'online training course'?

At the

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

We're so close to having the ultimate vehicle on our roads

Thanks to open data, it's possible to look at what the spending on the cycle to work scheme is compared to other similar schemes, say vehicle salary sacrifice. Both involve buying things before tax on wages so reducing your tax bill, giving an idea of the tax raising potential from each.

“Cycle to Work should be about helping ordinary commuters switch to greener travel, not giving tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills”. To the contrary, £4k can get a young family out of a car and onto a cargo bike in a cycle lane.

"Where's your fucking poppy!?"

If your “visual podcast” is only available on a streaming platform, YouTube and Spotify, I regret to inform you that what you have made is in fact a (low budget) TV show

They are investing in the Oxford-Cambridge arc but blocking the global scientists who we need to make it dynamic. Too much contradictory policy.

Happy “all my scheduling based code fired alerts at the weekend let’s find out if the code or the alert is bad at daylight savings” Monday

Please kill me

This is an excellent piece of student journalism that clearly spells out how troublingly ignorant the University of Cambridge seems to be of some basic facts concerning the legal status of the EHRC's now-withdrawn Interim Code of Practice!

Tax flight is NOT A THING. Rich people don't move because of high cost of living; that's what makes them rich! Being forced out due to high costs is a poor person thing, not a rich person thing. Can you imagine a billionaire saying they moved somewhere lame because of expenses? Insane.

Bloomberg calling Zack Polanski ‘the British Zohran Mamdani’

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Helm chart is available

The govt published its strategy to revitalise local communities last week There is a heavy focus on directing funding to high streets and community spaces, which is part of the reason for declining "pride in place" But it seems misguided for a few reasons Short thread www.gov.uk/government/p...

No room for your car? Just leave it on the road, on the pavement, on a verge - anywhere really.

This article from a UK Councillor on how he is engaging with school children about road safety around their schools makes for a valuable and practical engagement guide: bsky.app/profile/tyne... @tynetom.bsky.social

This is GORGEOUS.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Remember, we’ll never get a good sense of what people will do under safe conditions, by watching what some are willing to do under unsafe conditions. Building smart mobility is about supporting the choices we need more people to make, by providing smart, safe, enjoyable infrastructure for them.

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

I don't believe in mob violence nor government censorship of speech but it's very hard not to notice that the government that are imprisoning pensioners for opposing genocide with writing on cardboard are worried that people might not be free enough to call for acts of violence against trans women.

Are we about to find out what will make people leave substack? [ ] Hanging out with Nazis [ ] Lower revenue due to Apple tax Take a guess.