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Noel Dolphin @noeldolphin.bsky.social · 2d

Lincoln had a tram every three minutes, now it just has traffic jams (1/2).

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Another 55mins of Farage carried live by BBC and Sky, in which he rambled for twice as long as briefed, and yet managed to say little of substance.

Why can broadcasters not simply give us 3mins of the low-lights after the event, as they would do with most other politicians? ~AA

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 2d

Worth reading this whole thread. The popular narrative of Reform surge being driven by desperation in the face of deprivation is little more than a useful myth. It’s mostly just the same old tories getting nastier and more openly racist

Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 2d

Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 2d

On average, about 5 people are killed and another 82 people are seriously injured on UK roads every day. Lets by all means take what happened on that train seriously, but let's not go mad treating public transport as if it's dangerous.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 3d

Public transport often treats bikes as a luxury—or worse a competitor—but without them leaves revenue on the table.

For 25 years, the Dutch have extended the reach of their railways through investments in (300,000) parking spaces and (25,000) shared bikes. The result? A doubling of train ridership.

A blue and yellow shared bike stands in the aisle of a bright white underground parking facility in Amsterdam.

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Croxley Exile @croxleyexile.bsky.social · 3d

Came across a new-ish looking cycleway in Northolt (London Borough of Ealing). Part ok, part odd, part pointless.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 5d

I am begging Hollywood to make this a movie.

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 5d

A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.

Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."

cbsn.ws

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 9d

Farage: epic grifter

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Croxley Exile @croxleyexile.bsky.social · 11d

Also, for non-soccer games in London you often get an "event" crowd rather than a sports crowd who are there to socialise rather than support a team (same at club rugby union games played at bigger stadiums, T20 cricket).

Croxley Exile @croxleyexile.bsky.social · 11d

I was there, I reckon at least half the crowd were from up north. We (England) didn't really have anything to cheer for... when Wembley is only 2/3rds full its always difficult to build atmosphere there.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 12d

Is £25bn every five years building more 2, 3 and 4 lane roads not already more than enough?

When similar numbers were proposed for expanding the railway network everyone shat their pants about the cost of it, but apparently cars (which don’t recoup investment through ticket sales) are fine.

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Croxley Exile @croxleyexile.bsky.social · 12d

Utter nonsense in The Independent today...

Newspaper headline: " Pedestrianising Soho may rob the area of its charm"

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 14d

Five parties on 15% or more. This is unprecedented in UK politics.

What it shows:

✅ No single party can speak for the whole country.

✅ Voters want real choice - not the lesser evil.

✅ British society has moved on from the two-party era. Now our voting system must follow.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 15d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (19-20 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 26% (-1 from 12-13 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 15% (-1)
Greens: 15% (+2)
SNP: 4% (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 15d

Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?

Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 17d

Bloody hell

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17d

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock’s network of AI-powered license plate readers, to enable police and ICE request doorbell footage for investigations.

This is the first time I’ve seen cross-app integration built to serve law enforcement instead of end users.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20d

British.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 20d

Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 21d

This summer, a driver was fined $153,000 for going 27 km/h over the limit in #Lausanne.

The fine is based on the “personal and economic situation of the offender at the time of the ruling.”

Speed cameras are everywhere...some disguised as chunks of emmenthal...

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21d

Brexit has been destructive to our economy, and has cost us £140 BILLIONS already.

Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."

Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

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