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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 2h

Come on then @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @benmiskell.bsky.social

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 8h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 5h

I like the bit where the *driver* unironically complains about how much traffic there is

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 5h

The 'Download all' button in Slack messages has improved my life immeasurably. Sad, really

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

He'd bought six packs the day before? And needed to buy four more? He won't be around much longer at that rate

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

Adrian De La Touche? #LondonType #QueerSort

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

The 'new decade' referenced in the lyric was the 1990s 😭

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for the next chapter! Hoping you also covered the equally bonkers/ahead of its time extended version of 'California Style' www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVnC...

California style

YouTube video by Droopus Tunes

www.youtube.com

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love the sleeves from this era

Róisín Murphy – 'Let Me Know' sleeve design - Róisín stands next to a park bench as two small children look on

Róisín Murphy – 'You Know Me Better' sleeve design - Róisín sits at the bar in a pub in full pop-star regalia with a pint of Guinness

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

Motorists in the French capital can suck a bag of dicks

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 1d

'Yes, I broke the speed limit but, given that I sit in the House of Lords, surely the law doesn't apply to me?'

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

D’Souza faces ban after raising 20mph speeding tickets with Met commissioner

Lady D’Souza used House of Lords headed paper to query her offences with the Metropolitan Police chief.

www.independent.co.uk

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

Private Danger

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 1d

That's making me reconsider my contempt for people who walk along looking at their phone 🤔

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 2d

'Radical', pfft

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 2d

And to leave X

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 2d

Some great bending and pointing there from sportswear grandad

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 2d

Or save with Instapaper

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully you’ll include some highly specific but irrelevant details about your own situation

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 3d

Well fuck-a-doodle-do

Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History @brianwernham.bsky.social · 3d

"we’ll play some more soon!!!!”

Email sent by Prince Andrew to Epstein 2 months after he told BBC that he had broken off communications

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 3d

When you’re accustomed to impunity, accountability feels like oppression

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 3d

Was at the in-laws last night, the only beer they had in was Foster’s, and it was actually… fine?

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 6d

*checks it's not April 1st*

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 6d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 7d

Fuckwitocracy

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 7d

Suspect Amos 'wants to be his dad' in an oedipal sense
www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...

What my GB News incest row critics fail to understand

If reproductive and non-reproductive incest are so bad, why do people resort to personal attacks as opposed to moral arguments?

www.spectator.co.uk

Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 7d

Jonathan Chud

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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