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Bread and Rosie
about 12 hours ago
Interesting choice of words. "PEOPLE wouldn't be able to get past." People can't get past now unless pedestrians - particularly disabled pedestrians - don't count? And the assumption that the alternative to parking on the pavement is blocking the road rather than not parking there. Jesus wept.
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mindflakes
3 days ago
I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"
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Dr. Lucky Tran
4 days ago
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!
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~daniel_barker~
5 days ago
Sick of the relentless adult content I see on Bluesky: back pain, interest rates, tax brackets, that noise you make when you stand-up sometimes.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
5 days ago
Killjoy NIMBYs
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Lucas Seehafer
6 days ago
Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on
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7 days ago
If we can build power-assist speed limiters on bicycles (15mph), how come we can't do the same for motors? Needs a change in the law - some hope!!!
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Richard Fairhurst
7 days ago
Urban “quiet routes” are… literally LTNs? Which your party continually equivocates about?
oxfordlabour.org.uk/labour-backs...
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Charles Apple
13 days ago
Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.
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Ruth Harley
8 days ago
"You can use ChatGPT to produce a risk assessment which complies with your organisation's guidelines." Nooooo! The point of risk assessment is not just to produce the document. The point is to actually assess the risks. Using your actual brain.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
9 days ago
The hoopla about social media is an excellent example. No one is even asking whether older people are radicalised, or damaged more, or in greater number, than digital natives. We just kneejerk demand the removal of the autonomy of younger people.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
8 days ago
THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.
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Paul Kirkley
11 days ago
Science fiction story Man goes to a friend, reveals that he is in fact an alien (they have known each other for many years). He must now leave the Earth which is threatened with extinction, and offers to take his friend with him. (Notebook in Douglas Adams Collection, St John's College)
#TowelDay
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Politics UK
11 days ago
🚨 NEW: Sarah Wakefield is the Green Party candidate in the Makerfield by-election She is a charity director and a Manchester City Councillor
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Cowleyforniadreaming
10 days ago
The people of Makerfield deserve better.
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Charles Louis Richter
11 days ago
when the pope says a good thing, i don't think "oh good, the guy who talks with god confirms that my moral position has divine validation" or "finally, moral guidance from someone with authority" i think "good, more respected leaders should say things like this to their constituencies"
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jenny tightpants
12 days ago
oh THAT's how google ads work now
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madeline odent
12 days ago
the thing about this heatwave is that it rained for fifty days straight four months ago so I think we should all place bets on how many days until Thames water introduces a hosepipe ban
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Trish Greenhalgh
13 days ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Dan Davies
15 days ago
It does strike me that a lot of equality lawyers are going to find it hard to avoid words to the effect of "look I am not saying you should do this but all these problems go away if you stop providing women only services"
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Gareth Roberts
15 days ago
Anglophone visitors to Wales often seem weirdly obsessed with "Dim Parcio". But—from an etymological point of view—parcio is honestly far less interesting than it might look. The much less promising looking Welsh word "car" (which means "car") turns out to be quite a bit more interesting... 🧵
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The Green Party of England & Wales
15 days ago
"We can't let this election be dominated by a Westminster Psychodrama. It must be about protecting what makes Makerfield special." - Chris Kennedy, Green Party Candidate for Makerfield
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Jonathan Portes
16 days ago
- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.
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It's becoming increasingly clear that the Green Party should contest the by-election hard.
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Paul Johnson
18 days ago
Quite. We have lost more than 1% GDP in fuel duty over last 20 years. Every chancellor for 15 years has promised at least to maintain real value of duty. Not one has done so. And now this govt backs down at first sign of trouble. Expensive & poorly targeted
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AZB
16 days ago
This bung is going to only save £60 a year for drivers but will cost tax-payers £2.4bn (yes BILLION). That's 16 times larger than the entire UK-government annual spend on cycling AND walking. Imagine the positive impact that you could make with £2.4bn spent on improving cycling and walking.
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PM tells Commons extending the temporary 5p cut is a necessary response to cost-of-living pressures
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/20/planned-fuel-duty-rise-to-be-scrapped-says-keir-starmer
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Ian Loader
16 days ago
Climate destruction and tax relief for the most wealthy in one go. Great job!
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Planned fuel duty rise to be scrapped, says Keir Starmer
PM tells Commons extending the temporary 5p cut is a necessary response to cost-of-living pressures
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/20/planned-fuel-duty-rise-to-be-scrapped-says-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Andrew Sissons
17 days ago
I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery
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How have English councils’ funding and spending changed? 2010 to 2024 | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Increases in council funding over the last parliament have not reversed big cuts made during the 2010s, with spending on many services still down 40%.
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/how-have-english-councils-funding-and-spending-changed-2010-2024
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Marisa Kabas
17 days ago
this is a masterpiece
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The Ranty Highwayman
17 days ago
As Marx* said: "Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others." Disgraceful from Labour. *Groucho
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy42x3g7r89o
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County Council to continue to bribe people to start their journey in a car rather than by bus.
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17 days ago
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This is exactly what I was asking for yesterday :-) Icknield Road please, so it becomes safe to get the bus to Braziers Park Corner and walk to Braziers Park!
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Comfortably Numb
18 days ago
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Bread and Rosie
18 days ago
If Labour had promised to spend £2.5 billion on public and active transport - which would disproportionately support poor and disabled people, and would be a long term investment rather than a short term sop - everyone would be demanding to know where the £2.5 billion is going to come from.
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Cllr Emma Garnett
18 days ago
Everyone listen to Jake! ⬇️
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell
18 days ago
Obviously, if you include citations that turn out to be fake, that raises huge questions regarding your credibility and it is understandable that a journal would not want to publish you going forward. I always think AI discourse overcomplicates things. Falsification is already academic malpractice
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Prof. Ian Walker
19 days ago
So much about this has me screaming into my motonormativity cushion. Why further subsidise all the wealthy people who drive? Why NOT subsidise the poorer people who don't drive?
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The last, country, mile needs fixing at Braziers Park, but also everywhere else.
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Matt Green
19 days ago
My prediction: the UK government puts in a bid for the Olympics in the north of England, but then at the last moment changes it to taking place between Birmingham and Old Oak Common.
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This weekend I went to Wood Festival by bus. Oxfordshire has pretty good bus services: 40 minutes to Braziers Park Corner, every half hour. But the last mile's walk in the countryside is awful: narrow country lanes with 60mph limits. If we want people to use buses, this last mile needs fixing.
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Sarah Murphy
20 days ago
Who looks at these flags on roundabouts and lampposts and feels pride? Far right thugs and racists. And who looks at them with fear and loathing? Everyone else. National flags are being used as Nazi bunting by Reform and the far right. Let’s call this what it is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group
Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/15/man-hit-by-van-birmingham-residents-take-down-union-flags-put-up-by-anti-migrant-group?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Wanderfound
22 days ago
🎵 The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine. 🎵
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Eric Ravenscraft
22 days ago
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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The Ranty Highwayman
22 days ago
Just a couple of beers at an event this evening so it's not the beer talking. For goodness sake pedestrianise Soho.
#London
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
23 days ago
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Ruthi Brandt
22 days ago
Of course staff should be entitled to participate politically etc, but that's one hell of a conflict between the goals of your job and your political beliefs. 😳
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Euan
about 1 month ago
me in 2015 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister vs me in 2026 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister
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Phil Burton-Cartledge
23 days ago
If this ends in a recall by-election, it's in the gift of the people of Clacton to do the funniest thing.
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Living Streets
23 days ago
Legislation to enable local leaders to prohibit pavement parking in England has been included in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. Some of our supporters have been telling us what new freedoms this will bring them.
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