markruddy
@markruddy.bsky.social
Data science and Geospatial @Arup.
Liveable cities.
Music!
Ex-palaeo and archaeo person. Views from my brainbox.
SUFC:UTB; CCFC:Tons
Liveable cities.
Music!
Ex-palaeo and archaeo person. Views from my brainbox.
SUFC:UTB; CCFC:Tons
Reprehensible
I missed this in the budget!!
“She announced a further £891m further public money going into what the government contends will be a privately financed solution” for the Lower Thames Crossing - the vast new motorway tunnel linking Essex to Kent. 😫
Just the PFI consultancy is costing £24m!!!!
“She announced a further £891m further public money going into what the government contends will be a privately financed solution” for the Lower Thames Crossing - the vast new motorway tunnel linking Essex to Kent. 😫
Just the PFI consultancy is costing £24m!!!!
4/4 Budget unbundled plus where next for walking, wheeling and cycling?
Podcast Episode · Calling All Stations - The Transport Podcast · 05/12/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reprehensible
Julie London evening
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Julie London evening
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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To find out what happened when we met him, read this 👇
In a Costa in east London, we finally put some questions to Andrew Milne
Why is he sending threatening letters? Does he think he’s committed fraud? And will he be paying the money back?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
To find out what happened when we met him, read this 👇
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Ever since we started covering Andrew Milne, the solicitor who's been sending letters asking Sheffield leaseholders for thousands of pounds, we've been building up a list of questions.
Unfortunately, he's not been keen to answer them. So we eventually tracked him down to a Costa in east London.
Unfortunately, he's not been keen to answer them. So we eventually tracked him down to a Costa in east London.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ever since we started covering Andrew Milne, the solicitor who's been sending letters asking Sheffield leaseholders for thousands of pounds, we've been building up a list of questions.
Unfortunately, he's not been keen to answer them. So we eventually tracked him down to a Costa in east London.
Unfortunately, he's not been keen to answer them. So we eventually tracked him down to a Costa in east London.
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The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC) | Past Lives
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December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
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Among other issues with Zipcar's model in London: Having to negotiate individually with 32 boroughs, some of which charged thousands of pounds per car. Meanwhile, Croydon council outsourced much of their employee car fleet to Zipcar and may be a bit screwed. www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
Why Zipcar gave up on London
The car-sharing scheme was hit by rapidly increased costs, a new congestion charge, and a lack of support from councils.
www.londoncentric.media
December 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Among other issues with Zipcar's model in London: Having to negotiate individually with 32 boroughs, some of which charged thousands of pounds per car. Meanwhile, Croydon council outsourced much of their employee car fleet to Zipcar and may be a bit screwed. www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
A: where can I get that hat?
B: where is the spatio-temporal transporter to take me to this place with my bicycle?
B: where is the spatio-temporal transporter to take me to this place with my bicycle?
Monday mood
Popular in the mountainous regions of Japan and France the 1970s, "pass hunting" involved riding or carrying your bike over mountain passes.
Cycle Sport (Japan)
December 1978
Popular in the mountainous regions of Japan and France the 1970s, "pass hunting" involved riding or carrying your bike over mountain passes.
Cycle Sport (Japan)
December 1978
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A: where can I get that hat?
B: where is the spatio-temporal transporter to take me to this place with my bicycle?
B: where is the spatio-temporal transporter to take me to this place with my bicycle?
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#MondayMotivation - check out our videos over on YouTube!
@mattpope.bsky.social on a beautiful April day at London Zoo! Find out more about the PAPA MSc degree🪨
📹 youtube.com/shorts/elds7...
@mattpope.bsky.social on a beautiful April day at London Zoo! Find out more about the PAPA MSc degree🪨
📹 youtube.com/shorts/elds7...
Find out more - Palaeoanthropology & Palaeolithic Archaeology MSc
YouTube video by UCL Institute of Archaeology (IoA)
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December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#MondayMotivation - check out our videos over on YouTube!
@mattpope.bsky.social on a beautiful April day at London Zoo! Find out more about the PAPA MSc degree🪨
📹 youtube.com/shorts/elds7...
@mattpope.bsky.social on a beautiful April day at London Zoo! Find out more about the PAPA MSc degree🪨
📹 youtube.com/shorts/elds7...
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One of the things I love about this chart is that as one of the editors of the site there'll be loads I am not familiar with here – praise be to all our writers for introducing us to so much excellent music, and to our subscribers for funding this.
Thanks for the great reception to our AOTY Chart - have you found any new favourites?
buff.ly/HP76GUt
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December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
One of the things I love about this chart is that as one of the editors of the site there'll be loads I am not familiar with here – praise be to all our writers for introducing us to so much excellent music, and to our subscribers for funding this.
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The artificial island where The Bridge becomes The Tunnel is named Peberholm, to complement the preexisting island of Saltholm, which lies next door.
Something thematically appropriate I released from the paywall while in Copenhagen
Something thematically appropriate I released from the paywall while in Copenhagen
A Dispatch From the Øresund
Bron/Broen and other fixed links. Also: Britain’s lost helicopter network.
jonn.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The artificial island where The Bridge becomes The Tunnel is named Peberholm, to complement the preexisting island of Saltholm, which lies next door.
Something thematically appropriate I released from the paywall while in Copenhagen
Something thematically appropriate I released from the paywall while in Copenhagen
See also DfT traffic forecasts
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
See also DfT traffic forecasts
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Just as I have smoothed this lump of jet
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just as I have smoothed this lump of jet
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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This is the Neude in Utrecht. It spent decades in the late 20th century as a car park before being returned to the people and becoming a vibrant public square once again. Your city could do this too - it’s a political choice.
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is the Neude in Utrecht. It spent decades in the late 20th century as a car park before being returned to the people and becoming a vibrant public square once again. Your city could do this too - it’s a political choice.
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'Kepler believed the planets each had their own pitch, defined by their orbits’ nearest and furthest points from the sun. Mercury sings soprano, the earth alto, and so on. The maternal earth singing to its children.'
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
'Kepler believed the planets each had their own pitch, defined by their orbits’ nearest and furthest points from the sun. Mercury sings soprano, the earth alto, and so on. The maternal earth singing to its children.'
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Shout out to u/BuffaloCrapSmeller on the retro anime subreddit for posting this, I had no idea where this meme came from until today!
Anime: The Brave of Sun Fighbird, 1991.
Anime: The Brave of Sun Fighbird, 1991.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Shout out to u/BuffaloCrapSmeller on the retro anime subreddit for posting this, I had no idea where this meme came from until today!
Anime: The Brave of Sun Fighbird, 1991.
Anime: The Brave of Sun Fighbird, 1991.
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Via Popbitch. What the actual??? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Via Popbitch. What the actual??? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Last week we visited Aldo Rossi's surreal San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena. Here's a thread of photos of his unfinished postmodern masterpiece (THREAD)
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Last week we visited Aldo Rossi's surreal San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena. Here's a thread of photos of his unfinished postmodern masterpiece (THREAD)
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Just to say something about the process…I’ve had these tapes for years but made new recordings, mastered them in audacity to get them sounding as nice as I could, then fed them into some free vocal removal software, where I was able to crudely separate them into drums/voice/ghaita files.
#nowplaying - great Moroccan traditional Aissawa trance music recordings, with added effects, reverb and dubbing from Marc @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp link here: hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-ssao...
Bandcamp link here: hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-ssao...
Aïssaoua: Sufi Trance from Morocco, by Hive Mind Records
4 track album
hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just to say something about the process…I’ve had these tapes for years but made new recordings, mastered them in audacity to get them sounding as nice as I could, then fed them into some free vocal removal software, where I was able to crudely separate them into drums/voice/ghaita files.