Moderation on this site is a bit over the top. And anyone without a VPN or having provided their ID can't even see stuff like this

Idea for growth: run public transport at the time of year when everyone wants to travel across the country in order to give people things they will have spent money on

Ins: not reading your ins and outs. Outs: writing ins and outs.

-laughs maniacally- Shut the motorway network too

OK, actually there are specifically two trains running in the whole of the UK today. One is going between Heathrow Central and Heathrow T5, and one is going between Heathrow Central and Heathrow T4.

My local corner shop, usually open until midnight, is only open until 11pm today. Slackers.

Did you know London used to run at least some buses and tubes on Chrsitmas Day, and they were all free? www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/...

Last episode of Pluribus was pure cinema, beautiful. What an amazing series. The wait for the second one is gonna be difficult!

@juoig7799.bsky.social Hi Juo, can you follow back so I can DM please?

This reminds me! Five years ago I had a chat with the local council official who created “Winterval” in 1998. A real canary in the coal mine of future British culture wars. TBH the real story is that councils used to have money to spend on cultural events. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Tech is too centralised

This sign means no bikes, buses, or taxis right?

Press freedom groups warn that UK plans to break end-to-end encryption, affecting tools like Signal and Whatsapp, would pose "extreme danger" to "investigative journalism and even to the lives of journalists" www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

I went to Winter Wonderland so you don't have to! uk.news.yahoo.com/winter-wonde...

If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.

Legalize growth

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

How do people in London calling for resistance against Israel (a nation state which has illegal settlements) have anything to do with the appalling antisemitic attack against Jewish people in Australia? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There's an incredibly sad story that's been aggregated across most national and local newspapers today. A 29-year-old mum called Jana Bahvalova found dead in a Manchester canal after failing to pick up her kids. Her family are raising money on GoFundMe for her two small kids on the eve of Christmas.

‪The leader of Islington Council has told Lime and Forest to cease operating between 11pm and 6am anywhere more than one noise complaint has been raised. How utterly ludicrous. www.islington.media/news/dockles...

Fantastic detail from the PA court coverage of Lib Dem peer Lord Razzall getting his second driving ban of the year.

"Finally, Greaney says Doyle was jailed for 12 months in 1994 after biting off the ear of another man while in a fight." Just your average father-of-three/businessman/friendly neighbour then as described by much of the press for months news.sky.com/story/paul-d...

The description of the dashcam footage from the Liverpool road rage attack is horrific. Worth reading back the Sky liveblog: news.sky.com/story/paul-d...

Fining cyclists £50 for going 16 mph rather than 12 mph is legitimately insane and I question Wandsworth Council's priorities. How many fines have they handed to mostorists going over 20? www.londoncentric.media/p/speed-came...

Standard local shop experience. Step 1: I won't order bike lube on Amazon, I'll try the local shop. 2: Walk there on my 30-min lunch break 3: "Back in 5 mins" sign. 4: Wait 10 mins 5: Order on Amazon outside the shop and walk home, unlikely to ever return

I gave the Washington Post my TikTok history a while back and they've just given me this! Cool! (I am pretty sure the Taylor Swift bit is people poking fun at her album release strategy)

And now, TfL's e-bikes are getting in-dock charging! Exciting! (Technically not 'UK's first' as you can see below, though potentially will be the UK's only in operation since Glasgow's short-sighted decision) tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-joi...

I do find it funny that local shops closed in the time when the chain stores are absolutely heaving (as everyone has left work). Makes me think some local shop owners miiiight be able to get some more customers if they were willing to work when they were ready to shop.

This is so depressing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

guy who gets deported for using a railcard before 10am without meeting the minimum spend

Drive straight on to the pavement and then reverse in! Great technique. What could go wrong.

NEW: 50+ transport and health groups have written to the Government calling for clear targets in the upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3, as well as a comprehensive plan for a national active travel network, matching the long-term strategic focus given to roads.

Happy Birthday from Nintendo to me

So many of London's buses have like three double deckers running next to each other to maintain capacity... Have they heard of trams?

Build HS2 in full inews.co.uk/news/warning...

Pointlessly cruel. Utterly disgusting and shameful. www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

The magistrates system leads to things like giving someone a criminal record for a £1.60 rail fare mix up. The idea that we should extend that system to cases where someone could remain in prison for three years in genuinely terrifying. www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2464107...

please get your flu jabs signed someone who gets sick

This World AIDS Day, some pictures I took of some of my lovely friends raising money for Terrence Higgins Trust and the Mildmay Hospital at the Red Run on November 22. Cam - www.justgiving.com/page/cameron... Dave - www.justgiving.com/page/dave-bi... Tomas - www.justgiving.com/page/tomas-s...

Google messages app doesn't have an option to crop an image but does have an option to use AI to "remix" it

Just got a sofa on Freecycle so obviously had to get someone on a @pedalme.bsky.social cargo bike to deliver it (ty @leuconeura.bsky.social for the help taking it down two flights of stairs)

We now get Home Office press releases about immigration nearly every day. Interesting to note the language. They obviously want to be seen to be taking action, but “illegal migrants” are not the same as “asylum seekers”

The irony is that the prototype interiors for HS2 trains include significant space for bikes to be stored, without hanging them vertically. HS2 is better for cyclists as a railway line, because it’s the only way we’ll get capacity for bikes on trains again. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned: And that's it!

These people are wild

I don’t know how many ways there are to say “Manchester’s economy is growing, so if we’re not going to do much proactive on infrastructure, can we at least not do stuff that’s actively damaging” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Build HS2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

The BBC is dead www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Absolutely brilliant prick tease of a story, contains barely any facts, just a load of hyperventilating men talking in code about what will turn out to be a small wall at an angle no one has seen before, 10/10, great content. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...