Steven Hirschorn
@milh0use.bsky.social
A really thought provoking article about river catchments and one of the reasons our rivers end up so polluted:
actforealing.org/2025/10/28/u...
actforealing.org/2025/10/28/u...
Urban Pollution impacts on Ealing's Rivers - ActforEaling Climate Action Hub
Fines for pouring coffee down the drain is unfair, but urban pollution is the biggest hurdle for healthy inner city rivers.
actforealing.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A really thought provoking article about river catchments and one of the reasons our rivers end up so polluted:
actforealing.org/2025/10/28/u...
actforealing.org/2025/10/28/u...
I've had to complain to Lime for the second time about an unhandled path in their rental terms. Ealing now has designated parking rules.
October 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I've had to complain to Lime for the second time about an unhandled path in their rental terms. Ealing now has designated parking rules.
This is why the police need to arrest tweeters, because Elon Musk will do fuck all to take down incitement to violence.
A very worrying escalation of online harassment.
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
x.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is why the police need to arrest tweeters, because Elon Musk will do fuck all to take down incitement to violence.
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I saw Nish Kumar interviewing Jimmy Wales yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society. Wales was asked for his favourite Wikipedia page and offered this one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
Inherently funny word - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I saw Nish Kumar interviewing Jimmy Wales yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society. Wales was asked for his favourite Wikipedia page and offered this one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
I saw Nish Kumar interviewing Jimmy Wales yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society. Wales was asked for his favourite Wikipedia page and offered this one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
Inherently funny word - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I saw Nish Kumar interviewing Jimmy Wales yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society. Wales was asked for his favourite Wikipedia page and offered this one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...
🤦♂️ Slow handclap, SNCF.
It's now official: Due to the French government withdrawing support & SNCF unsupportive, the Paris-Vienna & Paris-Berlin Nightjet sleeper trains will be discontinued from mid-December. presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
The Brussels-Vienna Nightjet will continue, 3 times per week.
The Brussels-Vienna Nightjet will continue, 3 times per week.
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🤦♂️ Slow handclap, SNCF.
I've made the mistake of offering to help an elderly neighbour get her SkyTV working. It's reached the point where we've twice needed to reset her Sky Q mini box, so I believe the system is malfunctioning. Does anyone know how to speak to a human being at Sky?
September 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've made the mistake of offering to help an elderly neighbour get her SkyTV working. It's reached the point where we've twice needed to reset her Sky Q mini box, so I believe the system is malfunctioning. Does anyone know how to speak to a human being at Sky?
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Tomorrow is voting day in Switzerland, with proposals on the ballot at the federal, state & local level
Ever wondered how much power Swiss #directdemocracy gives to its voters? Just look at the city of Zurich, where citizens will decide whether to ban leaf blowers outside of fall season #Laubbläser
Ever wondered how much power Swiss #directdemocracy gives to its voters? Just look at the city of Zurich, where citizens will decide whether to ban leaf blowers outside of fall season #Laubbläser
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Tomorrow is voting day in Switzerland, with proposals on the ballot at the federal, state & local level
Ever wondered how much power Swiss #directdemocracy gives to its voters? Just look at the city of Zurich, where citizens will decide whether to ban leaf blowers outside of fall season #Laubbläser
Ever wondered how much power Swiss #directdemocracy gives to its voters? Just look at the city of Zurich, where citizens will decide whether to ban leaf blowers outside of fall season #Laubbläser
This Lime bike is missing a pedal but, despite me reporting it, Lime still leaves it available for the next customer's time to be wasted. @londoncentric.media
September 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This Lime bike is missing a pedal but, despite me reporting it, Lime still leaves it available for the next customer's time to be wasted. @londoncentric.media
@dashlane.com Why do you make it impossible for customers to speak to a human for support enquiries, while making it so simple for them to end up subscribing twice? Please get someone other than your chatbot (which is awful, by the way) to contact me.
September 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
@dashlane.com Why do you make it impossible for customers to speak to a human for support enquiries, while making it so simple for them to end up subscribing twice? Please get someone other than your chatbot (which is awful, by the way) to contact me.
I thought maybe they were demolishing it, or the scruffy scaffolding was some post-modern architectural statement, but after more than four years under wraps, the covers are finally coming back down off Arc Tower in Ealing. Have people been living in it the whole time?
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I thought maybe they were demolishing it, or the scruffy scaffolding was some post-modern architectural statement, but after more than four years under wraps, the covers are finally coming back down off Arc Tower in Ealing. Have people been living in it the whole time?
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10 yr old then comes downstairs and says look at this. It’s the video of Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck. When I tell him it’s real, he is genuinely upset and said he thought it was AI. Yes, he is using TikTok on restricted mode, but the parental restrictions are basically useless.
September 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
10 yr old then comes downstairs and says look at this. It’s the video of Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck. When I tell him it’s real, he is genuinely upset and said he thought it was AI. Yes, he is using TikTok on restricted mode, but the parental restrictions are basically useless.
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So that's a problem. Luckily for us, it's currently an American problem. But social media is undoubtedly corrosive of civility in any political system.
September 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
So that's a problem. Luckily for us, it's currently an American problem. But social media is undoubtedly corrosive of civility in any political system.
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Of course there are idiots, as there will be on any site with millions of users.
But in the age of Musk's X, the idea that it's *this* site which is promoting extremism, radicalising opinion and driving political violence is a fantasy - and it's sad to hear a Today presenter casually pushing it.
But in the age of Musk's X, the idea that it's *this* site which is promoting extremism, radicalising opinion and driving political violence is a fantasy - and it's sad to hear a Today presenter casually pushing it.
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Of course there are idiots, as there will be on any site with millions of users.
But in the age of Musk's X, the idea that it's *this* site which is promoting extremism, radicalising opinion and driving political violence is a fantasy - and it's sad to hear a Today presenter casually pushing it.
But in the age of Musk's X, the idea that it's *this* site which is promoting extremism, radicalising opinion and driving political violence is a fantasy - and it's sad to hear a Today presenter casually pushing it.
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I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.
I think I might just have seen a video of someone being shot dead on Twitter and the "Report" functionality demands more evidence. "Are you sure they are actually dead?"
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I think I might just have seen a video of someone being shot dead on Twitter and the "Report" functionality demands more evidence. "Are you sure they are actually dead?"
Hi @willnorman.co.uk , I need to get from West Ealing to Kew. I'd normally use a Lime bike when I can't use my own, but though Lime bikes are in my area in a usable density, my journey takes me through Hounslow so I need to use another.
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Hi @willnorman.co.uk , I need to get from West Ealing to Kew. I'd normally use a Lime bike when I can't use my own, but though Lime bikes are in my area in a usable density, my journey takes me through Hounslow so I need to use another.
So that you don't have to go to the Daily Mail to help the police identify these people
August 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So that you don't have to go to the Daily Mail to help the police identify these people
This seems like a potentially quite useful and straightforward automation. I just don't trust my kids not to do the bare minimum to keep the WiFi running - the dishwasher's finished, we have to switch it off to keep the WiFi running!
Me: they have made appliances way too complicated and ridiculous not everything needs access to the internet…
But also:
But also:
August 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This seems like a potentially quite useful and straightforward automation. I just don't trust my kids not to do the bare minimum to keep the WiFi running - the dishwasher's finished, we have to switch it off to keep the WiFi running!
"As many of them expected, the latest reports do not address systemic discrimination against gay or trans people, and they remove observations about rape and violence against women."
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador.
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"As many of them expected, the latest reports do not address systemic discrimination against gay or trans people, and they remove observations about rape and violence against women."
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NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.
Then the harassment began.
Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.
Six credible threats to his life.
More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
Then the harassment began.
Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.
Six credible threats to his life.
More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
August 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.
Then the harassment began.
Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.
Six credible threats to his life.
More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
Then the harassment began.
Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.
Six credible threats to his life.
More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
@fairphone.com I bought the Fairphone 5 about 6-8 weeks ago. I've been checking your online store occasionally for a spare battery and it's been out of stock the whole time. When is it likely I'll be able to buy one? Could you add a notice to the page clarifying the supply issues?
July 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
@fairphone.com I bought the Fairphone 5 about 6-8 weeks ago. I've been checking your online store occasionally for a spare battery and it's been out of stock the whole time. When is it likely I'll be able to buy one? Could you add a notice to the page clarifying the supply issues?
#openstreetmap moments: I added a note about a path I thought was labelled incorrectly (the main section of the route up the mountain has been closed for 20 years, now considered too dangerous because of rockfall). This is reflected correctly in the tagging, but has left stubs in unexpected places.
Note: 4775354
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
www.openstreetmap.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#openstreetmap moments: I added a note about a path I thought was labelled incorrectly (the main section of the route up the mountain has been closed for 20 years, now considered too dangerous because of rockfall). This is reflected correctly in the tagging, but has left stubs in unexpected places.
Every time the kids ask for an account to be added to the Playstation (or something similar) I get angry at quite how difficult a huge corporation like Sony can make this. They exist in a world before UX testing.
July 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Every time the kids ask for an account to be added to the Playstation (or something similar) I get angry at quite how difficult a huge corporation like Sony can make this. They exist in a world before UX testing.
It seems to be increasingly common to have to upload all personal details to a website to rent an AirBNB too. It would make me feel more confident if the websites looked like they had been created by someone with web development skills. One website also allowed us to unlock the apartment we rented.
Amid a lot of, frankly, nonsense about age verification to see erotic content and send DMs on Bluesky, this thread is very good. Not to alarm anyone, but your personal data is frankly only as secure as the least competent person you had to give it to in order to buy or rent the place you live!
I don't object to the principle of age verification, but I do very much object to uploading scans of my passport/my face/card details to some random third party.
July 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It seems to be increasingly common to have to upload all personal details to a website to rent an AirBNB too. It would make me feel more confident if the websites looked like they had been created by someone with web development skills. One website also allowed us to unlock the apartment we rented.