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eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 2h

As you probably know, there's an alternative version of the story of this site with an active local conservation group campaigning to save the numerous mature trees in an otherwise treeless part of the city. Development could have been framed to preserve these.

Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 4h

Fond farewell to Baltic Wharf trees making way for much-needed brownfield site homes
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

'This is not about trees versus homes'

Like many people, Anna Haydock-Wilson was aghast at the devastation at Baltic Wharf after dozens of trees were felled

www.bristol247.com

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 15h

The Onion meme where a person labeled “Sickos” is outside a window says “yes hahaha … Yes” but it’s a photo of mark zuckerburg wearing Meta Glasses.

The subtext is that Meta glasses bring up concerned of use by stalkers, predators, and for other socially unacceptable behaviors.

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 3h

Things like this make me so angry - I don't know how wanton selfish disruption of public space like this, particularly affecting (and endangering) less able people, became acceptable and tolerated.

If it doesn't make you angry too, Im genuinely curious as to why?

Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 3h

Bournville Lane, alongside the ‘Men’s Recreation Ground’ …

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 14h

In the middle of a lake, I took a photo of the sun without looking at it, and ended up with this

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

See also not replacing cars, fridges etc because most of the replacements are stuffed with half-baked technology - not just things we don't need, but things we we positively don't want.

Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

If AI is so good then why are so many people not updating their software etc to avoid getting the AI version?

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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 21h

This is how much the price of having a child has shot up in the past 5 years...🤯

🤱 Cost of parenting: +70%
🌈 Nursery costs: +20%
🧸 Toys and games: +9%
🍦 Cost of an ice cream: +42%

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23h

The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️

Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system.

It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed.

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A Wren stands upright on a mossy branch, beak open in full song, small but defiant. Against a soft golden blur, it seems to speak out for nature itself: a clear voice cutting through the noise, refusing to be ignored.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Still flowering on the allotments

A pink rose of multi-layered folds with green leaves underneath it.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 1d

This but also: there's a gaping hole in *useful info if you're just a person whose partner/friend/dad etc has gone off the deep end and don't know how to talk them out of it* ie both a public health/deradicalisation strategy on a national level & a relationship level one.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 2d

Ukraine announces the "heating season" will start later + finish earlier to try to ease the energy crisis.

But that means most people's apartments will not be heated until November. The average daily high temp in November is just +5c.

I worry about the poor and the old.

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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 2d

Got distracted while getting ready for work. The combination of a fox and autumn colours in our garden was irresistible. Started with my phone but then had to grab my proper camera.
#autumn

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 2d

The new 'Citalian Express'.

www.eastbank.org.uk/citalia.htm

Citalia Express, by train and ship to Italy

www.eastbank.org.uk

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 2d

If Trenitalia gets approval for its proposed London-Paris service, it has pledged to call at Ashford International. www.railtech.com/new-routes/2...

Italy’s FS vows to reopen Ashford and revive Kent’s Channel Tunnel link

  Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) has become the first would-be Eurostar rival to make a concrete pledge to reopen Ashford International, the Kent station shuttered since 2020.…

www.railtech.com

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 2d

There, bound off the neck of the #MandelbrotSweater.

For the second time.

Tomorrow, grafting the armholes and maybe washing and blocking before I start on steeking.

The yoke and collar of a colorwork sweater. It is light aqua, dark pine green, medium blue green, and natural white.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 2d

Ketamine. Panadol. Doughnuts. Suburb plagued by delivery drones
news.sky.com/story/food-d...

As food delivery drones take off in Ireland, here are the most popular items

The drones cruise at 232ft, carrying burgers and chips, fresh meat and eggs, with the packages dropped on a biodegradable string, but locals call the noise "very stressful" and compare it to helicopte...

news.sky.com

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d

Another slice of Cornmarket Street is to be snapped up by the owners of the Clarendon Centre. Goldmoney Inc, the vehicle of Canadian investor Roy Sebag, is to buy the café area in front of Carfax Tower from Oxford City Council. The council has already sold the adjacent HSBC building to Goldmoney.

Carfax showing the cafe area (Chris Rycroft at flickr.com, CC-BY)

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Hamas.
Lost more than half of Gaza's territory.
Gave Israel the justification for a genocidal war which killed tends if not 100s of thousands.
Do those who cheered them two years ago, still think they expanded the imaginary for possibilities of resistance and freedom?

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

How dare you

January by Marcin Wasilewski Trio on Apple Music

Album · 2008 · 10 Songs

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 2d

On BlueSky I share thoughts about sustainable transport and environmental psychology, plus interesting links

I'm going to try a newsletter for when I want to explore ideas in more depth

Sign up? simple.ghost.io The first entry, to tell you what's going on, is at simple.ghost.io/the-simple-n...

The Simple Newsletter is coming soon

Because you can never have enough email

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 2d

Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr

This week's North Sea Nexus post explores the rich linguistic inheritance of words for the watery realm between land and sea

Words of the wetlands

Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr — the languages and dialects which skirt the Southern North Sea abound in labels for the watery realm between land and sea.

northseanexus.substack.com

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