Monday afternoon rush hour. This will continue for at least another hour, interrupted only by the short moments when the traffic lights are red.

This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It’s been opened to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life for people, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things. Language matters. HT @dmoser.bsky.social for the pic. #OpenStreets

The London plane ensures essential infrastructure remains in place, like this postal box in Hammersmith.

The London plane originated in the mid-17th century through natural cross-breeding and, since then, none is known to have died of old age. They are an ideal city tree, able to withstand heat, cold, drought, flood, pollution, compacted soil, and this…

Talking to people in the Makerfield constituency- the great @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ae2b...

Just remembered we've passed the 10th anniversary of this untruthful tweet

Why are there so many Ecuadorian Farage fans on X? A weird number of users with such names as Yvonne1388552 are based in Ecuador and relentlessly push Reform propaganda www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Three competing pianos on the concourse of St Pancras, two upright, one grand, all being played well.

If you're a wheelchair user or someone with a disability, come join this inclusive roll event in Seward Park on Sunday! rollingwashington.org/roll-the-par...

We stand with Albania! 🇦🇱 #SheShed

I’m still not over how that power company told the community that they’d have to find a different company to provide their electricity because the data center would take too much of theirs. They didn’t tell the data center to find a different power company. They told the humans.

New from 404 Media: companies are using Reddit manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search. The strategy is to systematically manipulate answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material those chatbots scrape—in this case, a popular subreddit www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Inside my head is a whole Dreams vs Reality Father Ted moment Not saying it’s tricky trying to find a bon menuisier hère, but I’m nearly at point of trying to find bifold door manufacturer/fitter in UK who will come to France and install!! Seriously if anyone knows anyone, get in touch!

Mandelson messages could form a manual in the dark arts of wielding power and keeping it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Hungary has signalled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO.

Q: If the president is in such perfect health, why does he keep going back in for checkups? DR OZ: I think he likes the results. He does really well. He aces the test every single day.

Woke to the sound of a fox managing to get into our food bin despite the fact that its handle was in the lock position and there were two bricks on top

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Also, don’t wear contact lenses anywhere near a tear gas environment

Trump: “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, DONALD J. TRUMP”

Yay Uber has invented the bus

E. Jean Carroll didn't just accuse Trump of sexual assault, she took him to court and he was found liable. All headlines should reflect this fact. Now Trump is using the full power of the United States Government to punish her for this action. This is a new level of fascistic political persecution.

On my neighbour’s wall: “Dear Postie, please don’t put our mail in the letterbox: there is a nest with eggs. Please put it in the Leonidas bag” (bag is just out of the picture but how Belgian to use a chocolate bag)

Areas where Airbnb dominates lose their sense of community and leaves residents feeling isolated. Will Wales show the way forward?

Couple of weeks ago was thinking it'll stay cold forever, now thinking I'll never be cool again. (In France)

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

When you've got a posh dinner at 6pm, but need to be on site all day.

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...

Fantastic video about drowning and self-rescue. Really worth the extra couple of minutes if you've gotten this far. bsky.app/profile/hydr...

❄️⦵ Transport for London services with air conditioning, as of May 2026: 🟢 District line 🟡 Circle line 🩷 Hammersmith & City line 💗 Metropolitan line 🟪 Elizabeth line 🧡 London Overground 🚈 Newest Trams in Croydon 🚌 Certain routes with newest Electric Buses

"We started a war we can't win. Let's blame Europe." 🤣

Farage claims his phone was hacked by Russia and that this highlights the “threat they pose to British security”. Which is odd because 7yrs ago he had the chance to strengthen laws against Russian interference but he voted against it, saying the claims were “baseless” The man is never, ever right.

60 Minutes confirms Iran is bypassing the US blockade and exporting 100,000 more barrels of oil per day than before the war. Most of it is reportedly going to China.

May 25th is "Towel Day" in celebration of Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" #TowelDay #HitchhikersGuide #HitchhikersDay #DouglasAdams #42 #42IsTheAnswer #DontPanic #ArthurDent #FordPrefect #ZaphodBeeblebrox

Can a future President reverse the IRS decision that Trump and his crime family will avoid scrutiny? And can he or she demand that the hidden tax returns be published?

Lucy Rigby boasts about the govt making buses free to use for children in England in August. Why just kids & why just August? Make buses free to use for everyone all the time. It would have a massive immediate impact for so many people.

"A German court in December 1926 awarded...the military leader of the Kapp putsch, back payment of his pension to cover the period when he was a rebel against the government and also the five years that he was a fugitive from justice." - William Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 109

Agree with Emily Thornberry here.. this is a properly shit decision from the govt. How can you just throw them under the bus

Ashamed I had to be told about this, but the search filters on YouTube are excellent! Search for videos by length or location or whether they have subtitles, etc. So glad I read to the end of this Card Catalog post: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/youtube-is...

A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper

They just took out dedicated bike lanes in the nearest major city to me, against the wishes of the businesses, in the name of "restoring retail traffic." Even though the businesses TOLD the city council sales were better with the bike lanes.

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.

Do what???

I know we are numb, but the Trump Administration has created a $1.8 billion fund of taxpayer money to compensate its allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden Administration. edition.cnn.com/2026/05/18/p...

The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is swiftly unravelling following an election last month ​that abruptly ended his rule... Senior figures at some of the most prominent pro-Orban ‌outlets have been pushed out. www.reuters.com/business/med...