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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 4h

Enshittification.
Default typeface; logo created in Word in 3.6 seconds; a name that rolls off the tongue about as smoothly as if you were trying to say it with a snow globe in your mouth. Teejyjo, Teajeedjo, Teagueyjones.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 4h

After 110 years on Cornmarket, stationery shop W.H. Smith has been rebranded T.G. Jones – a name invented by investment company Modella Capital, which acquired the high street shops in June. The Abingdon branch was renamed in August. www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/e...

The new frontage on Cornmarket - alas, not Smith but Jones

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 7h

It would be much safer this week to cycle to a school in Scotland. There are notably fewer cars on the roads.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

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

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 22h

Egypt crime index 47
USA crime index 49

Both categorised as moderate

Source: Numbeo user polls

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know for sure, but my best guess would be a by-product from Dixon's Blazes, the ironworks that was just along Aitkenhead Road.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

The questions are fairly simple. Do you believe in the aims of public transport overall? Is the urban wildlife corridor that currently exists on part of the route only on the tram route or are there houses with relatively large gardens on each side? Is it possible to regenerate woodland? 2/2

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

If the people of Edinburgh want a second tramline, moving lots of non car-owning people efficiently from Granton, (the pink bits on the map of multiple deprivation) through the green bit (the highest scoring possible on the index) to the city centre and beyond, then they have a decision to make. 1/1

A map showing part of Edinburgh with areas of higher deprivation in shades of pink, and the richest areas in shades of green. The route of the proposed tramline is roughly overmarked in blue.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Third strip hoodoo.

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

A ten at this stage? Game's gone. #strictly

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Exceptionally genocidal, they stood for the values of Hitler, Pol Pot and Idi Amin, as they waged an assymetric war against innocent civilians, journalists, medics, and aid workers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Looking at the right hand end, and anticipating the painter up some steps, gives me the absolute fear.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 3d

You might like this newspaper photo from 1976 when the Subway was extensively modernised. St Enoch mainline and its hotel with its St Pancras style raised approach has been demolished for a car park, and the Subway station floats above a huge hole in which the modern station is now located.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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The Highland Council @highland.gov.uk · 4d

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ These are fake 'RingGo' QR codes that have been found by enforcement officers in #Inverness. Do NOT scan them. They will take you to a fake website. All our parking machines accept card & cash payments directly on the ticket machine.
@HighlandCouncil

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 3d

a man stands in front of a microphone with the word do written in yellow

Alt: a man stands in front of a microphone with the words do you ski written in yellow

media.tenor.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 3d

A photo meme showing two small children cowering in a corner with the caption "conservatives". They are looking to the opposite corner where there is a rabbit and a wooden bucket with the caption "shit Conservatives made up".

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

There's always next year, after the successful suppression of the Portland Frog riots.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

Bring back Cieran Slicker on Sunday for the lols. #scotland

Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

It was grim. No self belief. You wonder what it is in the Scotland camp that turns players at the peak of their game into showroom dummies. Actually not what, but who.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

300 Scotsmen #hampdenthermopylae

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

Saving their energy for midnight snacks and the darts tourney back at the team hotel.

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like a hazy pale. Fine carbonation (as promised), light smoke flavours, tiny hint of biscuit. Very nice.

A pilsner glass half full of hazy Grodziskie style smoked beer stands beside a brown bottle with a blue label

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Tom Hogg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tomhogg.bsky.social · 4d

That's quite something.

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