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In Japan there are 36 words for walking! Like Japanese cities, the language is highly pedestrian friendly

Coming up March 11th at 1pm UK time with @livingmaps.bsky.social Savyasachi Anju Prabir will present on radical mapmaking in India. Tickets here: shorturl.at/dkRbM part of the Mapping Fluid Worlds seminar series #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #CounterMapping

Rock On! We had a great community walk last Sunday For the Festival of Terminalia - all about the rocks along the coast of Granton and the islands Inchkeith and Cramond and the rock music studios...concrete...cairn walkingwithoutadonkey.com/2026/02/24/r...

It's possible that the new Green MP Hannah Spencer is the only parliamentarian who had a manual job immediately before election. Are there any others?

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

thanks to Mandelson’s lawyers we now know why the police accelerated their investigation yesterday www.ft.com/content/5910...

A big ask for my #Letterpress friends! I would like to ask a few working printers (amateur or pro, different experience levels welcome) to share their thoughts about the current state of the craft with a particular emphasis on their feelings about deep impression / debossing as … 1/2

VACANCY: Research Associate on interdisciplinary project exploring how ppl experience poor air quality, using community and creative qual approaches. £37-39k full time, 2 years, start 1 June 2026. @sophierwoodward.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Shh! Jeanne Claude and Christo have been making secret artworks on the streets of Hackney.

Bernd & Hilla Becher show at Spruth Magers in London is phenomenal.

#OtD 22 Feb 2018 20,000 teachers across West Virginia walked out on a wildcat strike protesting low pay and health benefit cuts. Rank and file teachers organised themselves, defied the union's call to return and stayed out until they won a 5% pay rise. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9469...

We want to support Girlguiding and the Women's Institute to remain inclusive. We think the law is on our side, and we're offering to cover all their costs. But we need you to tell them how important trans inclusion is to you 👇

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Just thinking quickly, they probably would do well at the sifting screen as those are usually hip height and need some strong arms to disperse the dirt. This group probably would be the best to ask: disabledarchnetwork.weebly.com This also might be helpful: www.bajr.org/wp-content/u...

Pre Valentine's day scenes in #hackney... Would love to know the story behind this?! The steak is best before the 17th? Why why is it in the street? And with the Viagra? Maybe it's the opening scene of a novel?

Today's adventure in transporting stuff by bike... A free eames chair off the local what's app group (!) brought home in my trailer #carfree #hackney #cycling #urbantravel 🚶‍♀️🏙️🚲

Great to see another WalkCreate article out: 'Cripping Desire Lines' discusses the impact of Covid-19 on disabled people’s experiences of walking in the UK. Our data comes from covid times, but with loads of ongoing, pressing relevance! and it's open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Absolute hell: Irishman with valid US work permit held by ICE since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for five months despite having no criminal record Originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, wife Tiffany Smyth is a US citizen www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Very moving vigil for Irene Leardini by side of A2 in New Cross Gate tonight. She was cycling here two weeks ago. RIP. Sad we are still gathering at the side of busy roads asking why nothing has been done to make them safe. Thanks to all at @lewishamcyclists.bsky.social for organising the vigil.

Tonight! 6pm UK time @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' seminar series continues with The Waterways Collective multi-disciplinary mapping of Atlantic Salmon migration, tickets here: tinyurl.com/yfh8a9ar 🐟🌊🗺️ #fish #ocean #mapping #water

Tonight! 6pm UK time @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' seminar series continues with The Waterways Collective multi-disciplinary mapping of Atlantic Salmon migration, tickets here: tinyurl.com/yfh8a9ar 🐟🌊🗺️ #fish #ocean #mapping #water

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

The neighbourhood what's app is going off tonight with LTN v anti LTN chat, plus a wholesome dose of random requests for hand me down football kit and thrush treatment thrown in 🧐😅🍿🏙️🚶‍♀️#hackney #ltn

Around 600 votes needed; gap closing fast. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

guests: Alisa Oleva, Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social Cathy Turner, Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social, Dee Heddon @deeheddon.bsky.social Elspeth Penfold @threadandword.bsky.social Helen Stratford, Keira Chapman, Sarah Benjamins,Saffron Swansborough Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

My new post on Substack tells the story of Clay Cross council's famous 1972 rents rebellion against the Conservative Government's plans to raise council house rents: ‘Doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation' municipaldreams.substack.com/p/clay-cross...

You can donate to Omar’s family here: chuffed.org/project/1400...

More of London's roads will have safer speed limits because there's irrefutable evidence it save lives: 📉 25% fewer main road collisions 📉 34% fewer people killed or serious injured on local roads 📉75% fall in children killed on local roads @itvnews.bsky.social itv.com/news/london/...

A rare victory for artistic freedom and common sense. Proof that everything could be different.

Pavement parking ban for Birmingham to end 'completely out of control' danger in huge change: www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

I have walked to work for 2.5 years, a little under a mile each way: it has changed my life

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

A year late to the party, just as enthusiastic! I just bought the ebook version, which was on sale on the Routledge site (because I don’t have access to a library where I am.) i’m excited to read 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️

Free on our open library. All the works we undertook in an attempt to find somewhere to build the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge. wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/plugins/book...

I wrote about some very strong feelings I have about the royal family. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Counterpoints Arts has been selected by The Observer as the beneficiary of their Christmas Appeal 2025. A new article by Philippe Sands on how migrants enrich our cultural life, and why this work matters. 🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa... #ObserverAppeal #CounterpointsArts

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166 browser tabs and a few windows now closed! It's getting easier to find things and my dock is less cluttered. The open tabs require me to do more work, but I'm going to read things properly before closing them. Please join me in #TabClosed2026! #NYE2026

Beautiful moonrise over the Regent's canal tonight. January's super moon is looking 💫

A long poem An invisible line A 270-mile walk “The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”. New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian' ngmeridian.wordpress.com

Similarly, I want nature docs that consist of someone knowledgeable ambling round a patch of landscape, periodically saying 'Ooh, look at this'.

In the words of the drawing I made in 2008 (part of a series that put together texts from pizza flyers and religious leaflets) It is time to rewrite our destiny...

An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

www.spiegel.de/panorama/jah... „In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das war die Silvesternacht.“ Es wird immer so weitergehen.

An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny

Time for my annual #MendingSpree ! Instead of buying stuff in the post holiday sales, why not spend some time repairing things you already own? I got the sewing machine out and started with this beloved dressing gown today. #MakeDoAndMend #repair