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Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting

Theme for Great Cities Love Song Promised You A Miracle Waterfront New Gold Dream

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Had to switch off all news today … so grim. That lad, those horrible people and the ghouls making awful fascist hay.

Fishfingers #poetrychallenge

Hottest spring ever!!!…… And we all seem to be twiddling our thumbs and ignoring #climatechange

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My World Cup song for Scotland: a techno version of Scotland the Brave (The Highland Granny)

The most amazing thing you’ll see today I guarantee is this frame-by-frame animated remake of “Sabotage”. youtu.be/lgXSDPmOWCE?...

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I’m dead lucky, managed to get an extended break from work - mid June to mid August. So I need some great book / reading recommendations. Hopefully the lovely Bluesky peeps, music nerds and #mdant ‘s can help. 🙏

I like it. A great solo listen all the way through.

Touching base with peers pushing AI productivity boundaries, two observations: 1. Over time Claude worsens with use due to full context windows and unreliable instruction following. 2. AI as thought partner aids brainstorming, but sycophancy gaslights you into thinking bad ideas are genius.

If this happens, can we please call the city "Bonkers" instead of "Forest CIty"? www.ft.com/content/e50f...

I may have had a drink or seven… youtu.be/s11BuatTuXk?...

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I can’t imagine why the EU would want to protect themselves…..

"In the first four months of this year, the Ukrainian defence ministry has reported exponential growth in the production of reconnaissance drones (up 441% on the total for all of 2025), mid-strike drones (up 312%) and deep-strike systems (up 53%)" www.ft.com/content/7bee... Cheerful story

Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...

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Build more bloomin houses!

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32.3ºC at Kew Gardens is the hottest May temperature on record at the station since records began in 1881, beating its previous May maximum by 2ºC (30.3ºC, 25th May 1922). It beat its maximum temperature date record for the 24th of May by OVER 2ºC (30.2ºC, 1922), exceptional.

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Beer is good and brings joy

This is on the Boring Internet is exactly right and very well written. Read the whole thing terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...

There was a coherent argument made here that you start it in the north Wouldn’t have had to tunnel through the chilterns and disguise air vents as farms or whatever it was they did

The relative underperformance of North England’s economy is a mystery…..

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Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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Is @andyburnham.bsky.social going to be the first football casual Prime Minister…….? Can’t wait to see which trainers he wears in Downing St. Possibles Adidas - Gazelle, Trim Trabb, Spezial ? Puma - G Villas, States ? Diadora - Borg Elite ?

GDP per capita rose by 0.6% in the first quarter of this year – confirmation that the economy was looking notably healthier pre-Iran.

Great argument for high quality data infrastructure- if only there was a company building this for the global frontier economy right now 😉. @thedatacity.bsky.social

And this is exactly why we are building @thedatacity.bsky.social

The compiler of the government's briefing notes on the King's Speech is subtly telling us that the justifications are wrong.

Build more bloomin houses!!

Everyone should dance more !

Pretty happy being a Centrist Dad TBF

IYKYK #Seville

Convinced that using the Wikipedia app is equivalent to Claude etc….

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 Untitled (Ochre and Red on Red), 1954 Oil on canvas 92 5/8 × 63 ¾ in @phillipscollection © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

Accidentally in Cordoba during their patio festival- muy beuno!

Reform is what you get when empty vessel and selfish tw@t David Cameron thinks he can dial in a fight with zealous eurosceptics and then run a half arsed referendum.

Any leader would just say - go away and get me better options.

On May 7th, 1991, 35 years ago today, Saint Etienne released their single Nothing Can Stop Us, the first to feature St Etienne's Sarah Cracknell on vocals. The single was released on 7 Inch, CD, & 12 Inch in the UK by Heavenly Recordings. B-side was downtempo-ish Speedwell. Did you pick up a copy?