David Wilding
@drwilding.bsky.social
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Not a real doctor, just initials. Sorry to disappoint.
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I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London.

I said:

"No. It'll be ULEZ."

(The low emissions zone)
The fact that Sadiq has cut vehicle emissions by a phenomenal amount and made the air cleaner for people to breathe healthy air after about 200 years is an astonishing achievement.
More than any other London mayor has ever done.

No more children dying from pollution related illnesses.
All sorts of Chimney Sweep drama playing out in my emails.

Another reason why I exclusively use Dick Van Dyke.
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this exists it is called thinking
“Yeah we definitely need the big tech bosses”

“And the media moguls”

“Politicians, royalty, ok. So anyone else we’re missing?”

“The winner of the US PGA tournament in 1992”

“Of course, can’t believe we nearly forgot him”
Nick Faldo?! Hahahaha, fabulous.
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Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
Wow. Has nobody got any backbone anymore?
Kemi Badenoch refusing to acknowledge that Tommy Robinson is "far-right", now on LBC, and refusing to condemn Elon Musk's words. In fact she says what Musk said *isn't* incitement. So what would be incitement then? How violent would his words have to be before he was deemed a threat to this country?
Fouls and handballs in the box should result in an indirect free kick from where the incident happened - not a penalty. Penalties are too big a punishment for a lot of minor offences especially given how specialist a lot of takers are these days.

Also Brighton are just really annoying, sorry.
Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.
lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.
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Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"
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I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
Well either way I’m not renaming the cat :)
Won’t accept any Nuno slander!

A great manager and a great man (see example below + how he conducted himself around Jota’s tragic death).

Also our cat is called Nuno (he’s about 5 years old) and he’s a great lad too.
The problem for Meta is that when you read stuff like this very few people’s reaction is “well that doesn’t sound like the sort of thing they’d do”
A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
www.washingtonpost.com
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My mum keeps this in the kitchen, but I decided to move it. So far, she hasn’t noticed.
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Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.
Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.
not to mention the social media haters
Some of the worst public figures we have are cock a hoop that Rayner’s resigned and that makes me sad.
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Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.
Refreshing to hear some Isak perspectives I’d not heard before.

@larssivertsen.bsky.social’s point about planning for Salah leaving was very well made (and his mic set up is world class).

Excellent pod today, thank you @maxrushden.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social @beardedgenius.bsky.social
“Hateful, spiteful, pointless and embarrassing. Something meant to intimidate, to incite and to exclude an imagined “evil force” that does not exist.

This is brilliant from @roisinlanigan.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social (and very funny on her experience working in Belfast in 2012)
The existence of Barney Walsh makes this entirely plausible.
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Andrej @tepid.meme · Aug 27
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...