Michael Armstrong
@medialator.bsky.social
Continually in transition, so just as soon as I get round to writing this description it will be out of date. Currently wrangling python code to monitor TV subtitles.
Also to be found at @[email protected]
Also to be found at @[email protected]
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e-scooter hire schemes improve cycling safety: a natural experiment www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ma... (Bristol) injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl... (Injury Prevention)
Electric scooter schemes reduce bicycle collisions by 20%, study suggests
Electric scooter schemes appear to reduce the risk of bicycle collisions by around 20%, according to a University of Bristol-led study. The research, funded by the National Institute for Health and C...
www.bristol.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
e-scooter hire schemes improve cycling safety: a natural experiment www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ma... (Bristol) injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl... (Injury Prevention)
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The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop.
Please use - and share with your networks.
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The BBC must stop attacking trans people | Good Law Project
The right wing accusations of ‘pro-trans’ bias are back to front. It’s time for the BBC to live up to its duty to be impartial on trans issues.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop.
Please use - and share with your networks.
goodlaw.social/2j5q
Please use - and share with your networks.
goodlaw.social/2j5q
Streeting is the Labour Party's equivalent of Liz Truss, all ambition and funded by right wing organisations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why some in No 10 think Wes Streeting is plotting to become prime minister
Health secretary has always been open about his ambitions but recent actions hinted at reasons for potential coup plot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Streeting is the Labour Party's equivalent of Liz Truss, all ambition and funded by right wing organisations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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So the "report" about the doctored Trump quotes was itself doctored....
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So the "report" about the doctored Trump quotes was itself doctored....
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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Congratulations to our newest Green councillor, Cllr Mike Dunn, on winning the Long Ashton ward by-election in North Somerset with a huge Green vote!
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Congratulations to our newest Green councillor, Cllr Mike Dunn, on winning the Long Ashton ward by-election in North Somerset with a huge Green vote!
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The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Wes Streeting should be sacked. He is trying to privatise the NHS. He is more right wing than many Tory MPs and also a nasty transphobe.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Wes Streeting should be sacked. He is trying to privatise the NHS. He is more right wing than many Tory MPs and also a nasty transphobe.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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BBC programme with blatant product placement. I wonder who profited from this.
Faithful to Defender: How Celebrity Traitors has sent Land Rover interest through the roof
#WorldNewsToday #latestUpdates #TrendingNow #GlobalNews
#WorldNewsToday #latestUpdates #TrendingNow #GlobalNews
Faithful to Defender: How Celebrity Traitors has sent Land Rover interest through the roof - World News Today | Truth in Every Pixel
The Celebrity Traitors final airs this evening, with Britain on the edge of our sofas as we wait to see who is crowned winner.
worldnewstoday.live
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
BBC programme with blatant product placement. I wonder who profited from this.
Tim Davie - the man who repeated the word impartiality so often because he was anything but impartial!
Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Tim Davie - the man who repeated the word impartiality so often because he was anything but impartial!
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It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
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What a coincidence!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a coincidence!
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Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.
Maitlis admits she was one of the anti-trans campaigners in the BBC.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Maitlis admits she was one of the anti-trans campaigners in the BBC.
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"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
goodlawproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
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Weird request: in July @amnestyuk.bsky.social said they’d done a report on anti-rights groups in the UK
Does anyone have a copy of that report?
Their website only has this blog summarising it, not the report itself. News articles about it also only link the blog. I wanna read the full report!
Does anyone have a copy of that report?
Their website only has this blog summarising it, not the report itself. News articles about it also only link the blog. I wanna read the full report!
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Weird request: in July @amnestyuk.bsky.social said they’d done a report on anti-rights groups in the UK
Does anyone have a copy of that report?
Their website only has this blog summarising it, not the report itself. News articles about it also only link the blog. I wanna read the full report!
Does anyone have a copy of that report?
Their website only has this blog summarising it, not the report itself. News articles about it also only link the blog. I wanna read the full report!
Good riddance to one of the worst DGs the BBC has ever had.
I challenged him on a zoom call over the institutional transphobia infecting the BBC newsroom and he had no answer.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I challenged him on a zoom call over the institutional transphobia infecting the BBC newsroom and he had no answer.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was ‘my own decision’ but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Good riddance to one of the worst DGs the BBC has ever had.
I challenged him on a zoom call over the institutional transphobia infecting the BBC newsroom and he had no answer.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I challenged him on a zoom call over the institutional transphobia infecting the BBC newsroom and he had no answer.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Wow! BBC newsroom having an existential crisis suddenly because the way they cut the Trump documentary was too woke? After all these years of airing climate denialist, anti immigrant, anti trans narratives in the name of balance, THIS is what makes resign?? 🙃
BREAKING: BBC has confirmed Tim Davie is to step down as BBC Director General
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wow! BBC newsroom having an existential crisis suddenly because the way they cut the Trump documentary was too woke? After all these years of airing climate denialist, anti immigrant, anti trans narratives in the name of balance, THIS is what makes resign?? 🙃
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The wealthiest, most powerful men in the world want slaves without having to see a Black person, girlfriends without having to talk to women, the thrill of being a Hollywood director without having to build any creative skills, and the ability to cheat death. We must mock them ruthlessly.
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The wealthiest, most powerful men in the world want slaves without having to see a Black person, girlfriends without having to talk to women, the thrill of being a Hollywood director without having to build any creative skills, and the ability to cheat death. We must mock them ruthlessly.
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Send the bill straight to Nigel Farage he gets £20,000 a week in 'donations' and '2nd jobs' so he should be able to pay it easily.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Send the bill straight to Nigel Farage he gets £20,000 a week in 'donations' and '2nd jobs' so he should be able to pay it easily.
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The ultimate aim should be that all pedestrian crossings are green for pedestrians by default and motorists should have to press a button to activate the lights so they can cross the footway.
Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The ultimate aim should be that all pedestrian crossings are green for pedestrians by default and motorists should have to press a button to activate the lights so they can cross the footway.