The Elizabeth line covers the width of that more or less
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The Elizabeth line covers the width of that more or less
As she should
The comment sections are a hoot, a mix of lefty hollering mixed with stupidly technical economic analysis
Great to see flags flying in Poole 🦀🦀🦀
As a British @theonion.com subscriber I feel attacked theonion.com/report-finds...
Lucy Connolly is a far-right extremist who called for hotels full of fellow human beings to be burned. She’s disgusting, and anyone who has an ounce of sympathy for her is a danger
I read the print edition for the ads, these social media/online types are missing out!
Munich orange?
Things which are not the answer: Digging a network of canals in Bournemouth. Last month someone suggested a monorail, so it’s only a matter of time before there are demands to research and build Star Trek matter transporters.
Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...
On this VJ day I should tell the tale of my Grandad, he served in the Hong Kong Police and spent the duration of the War after the fall of HK in an Internment camp in Stanley. Before it fell he met the Japanese delegation demanding their surrender. He returned to the Hong Kong Police after the war
No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out
@jonty.bsky.social
Just gonna state for the record that this is appalling, and the tell it's rooted in bigotry rather than women's safety is that it risks preventing trans men - a group assigned female at birth - from accessing using toilets. It's an unworkable bloody mess, and those pushing it should be ashamed.
cycle.travel
I was a volunteer at Boston and had to get down to Spalding to get my train, I just hopped on a bus with my Brompton rather than riding it through the wind, yesterday there were random strong showers too
Everyone understood *for decades* that shouting abuse at minority colleagues out of contempt and disgust for them would drop you in deep shit with HR. This wasn’t controversial until reactionary cranks decided it was totalitarian and they had an unlimited right to behave as horrifically as they want
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My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
I've told you my Kevin Warwick story right? Where I made a snide remark about him whilst stood next to him whilst looking at a conference timetable? Good times
I went to The Triumph of Art event in Trafalgar Square on Saturday and it was glorious
Mathmos factory was in an industrial unit adjacent to where my dad worked, we got a free lamp for him doing some kind of favour for them
The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
What a misleading headline. The casual reader might think she was killed by someone on an ebike. In fact she was knocked off her ebike by someone in a land rover. Get a grip, BBC.
Angry People in Local Newspapers, while hilarious, has fueled and increase in stories that are specifically written to get on that page, knowing that readers nationwide will click, read, and comment on it.
You've got a busy September coming
Today on London Centric: those blue jacket knife-crime fundraisers (Inside Success) and why no one seems to be able to get rid of them www.londoncentric.media/p/inside-suc...
RESPECT NO DATA - dashare.zone ADMIN
Cynically wondered if it's because they were in the way of filming use this summer
It's alright, they'll help you get the hang of it.
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Once again it’s amazing that the government intervenes about 1,300 jobs at risk at Lotus cars who sold a piffling 12k cars to rich people last year but is happy to let the Higher Education sector with 400,000 employees die on its arse. Labour intervene when MANLY jobs are at risk you see
This July 4th, Americans will celebrate the freedoms they used to have.
My British-Indian ex-boss at a North London college was brought up in Kenya, as we were getting coffee she was chatting to the lady in the café in Swahili, a language I didn't even know she spoke up to that point.
Walk down a quiet American street a few decades ago, and chances were good that you’d come across a vision of the Spielbergian sort: a gaggle of school-age children charging down the block on bikes, armed with a steely sense of purpose, and without any protective headwear. +
I'm sure he'd be the first to moan when DVSA doesn't take effective action against any dodgy foreign trucks and truck drivers
Given how long it takes it might be doable to outpace it between London terminal stations on foot
DeStantis is absolutely a micron-tolerance perfect fit for "the career path of a guy who ends up administrating a concentration camp"
"Hi, can you paint a cashpoint gold for us? Yes, gold"
Is it even unlawful discrimination to only hire people called Al? Name isn't a protected characteristic
And if Cuomo wins Byford might have to deal with him again! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/n...
Brompton World Champion Social ride! And Happy 50th Anniversary @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social we put all of Brompton Bicycles into a number 50!🤩
Lovely to pop by! And nice to meet streetfilms.bsky.social!
Kind of annoying that there's been a crackdown on using your own music so easily on mobile, I used to listen to stuff I had on CD using Google music and now everything wants a monthly fee from you, I did start setting up Jellyfin at home but it's still "to do"
Bluesky is a hotbead for the #furry community. Quit a lot follow or share my stuff 👋 A few years ago I hung out at a furry gathering for @privateeyenews.bsky.social Furry forums were both thrilled & annoyed they couldn't figure out who I was on the day
Open on Sundays in rural locations
Went along to the free roller skating on campus this evening "Student: Are you Student or Staff? Me: I don't look young enough to be a student surely? Staff. Student: Oh no, some of the people on my course are elderly!" 💀💀💀
To my shame I didn't know Peter was an artist, I've been terrible at keeping track of people from years ago
Chicago
“there are a few bad actors in LA” oh girl there’s more than a few
Well, if you've got any voice left I might be down in London tomorrow, I've an afternoon off and was considering going climbing before a pub meet in the evening, I could go down to Vauxwall which is down that way
Here's one stark comparison: £39bn over ten years for affordable housing. £300bn+ over ten years in housing benefit - in large part due to lack of affordable housing and high private rents
Day 2? How many days are you stuck in there?
why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this
When people say that ”things were better back in the day,” I can only assume they're talking about 1983 frog phone
HOLY FUCK THIS PLACE IS SELLING A SHREK GRAVESTONE
News just in, 100% of upholsterers also drink water, more as we get it
Have you seen this #Saxon #rainbow? #OldEnglish inscription in the #Saxon church at #Breamore: “HER SWUTELAÐ SEO GECWYDRÆDNES ÐE” (Here the covenant is revealed to you). The stone arch becomes a #rainbow - like the sign of God's covenant in the biblical story of the Flood. 🌈 Happy #PrideMonth all 🌈
one of the worst people in human history. a Pol Pot level of monster www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Google Streetview from 2019 still shows a forest of lampposts, it's not far from me so I might have a look at some point to see if they're still there
I was tempted to have a look at the "Shock Vibration Digest" this morning, probably earthshattering stuff in there.
Ware?
The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield 'Biscuits' (First Picture Book, 1970)
Prosecuting for it on one type of social media may also have a deterrent effect for other types, unless it had absolutely zero reach it seems appropriate
No. Get fucked.
If it follows the New Barnet gasworks model it'll be remediated properly but at a cost more eyewatering than first realised which means more money has to be made to cover it
She’s done it! Is Sarah Ruggins’ astonishing JOGLEJOG world record the ride of the decade? road.cc/314037 #cycling
I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case
Overheard just after leaving the @herring1967.bsky.social gig "It was so dark, I thought it was going to be about a ball going over a fence and his kids" ⚽
@timleunig.bsky.social (h/t @stephenkb.bsky.social) Source: timleunig.substack.com/p/internatio...
this is not an exaggeration
Adjusted for inflation I think I would have been tight on the income requirement for a spousal visa, no such requirement in the early 2000s! Just no recourse to public funds.
Not entirely sure Heather could have come here with current regime as opposed to early 2000s regime, you'd have to be completely deranged to call it open-door or easy.
It is _already_ a horribly expensive ordeal to immigrate and settle in the UK. Especially compared to, say, Germany. Making this worse serves nobody. It will have cost about £10,000 by the time my wife is a citizen here. Increasingly, we wonder why the fuck we stayed here.
Now Silvertown tunnel bedding in and southbound PM queues are getting worse. Today five miles of congestion from Blackfen back to area Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels now converge in Greenwich. Little coverage of this negative impact from much of the media, politicians or TfL.
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
This week I had so many readers get in touch about an apparently fake online astroturf campaign in *support* of festivals taking over London parks. So I dug into it. www.londoncentric.media/p/five-gays-...
And yet we've had pushback to improving cycle permiability very slightly on an industrial park near here because of lorrys, the busier unimpoved through road that the estate feeds on to is where cycling's at!
When you think you're buying a church on eBay and don't read the measurements properly.
Sci-Fi Showrunner: In my show Black Mirror I invented a way to speak to an AI recreation of a dead loved one as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the AI recreation of a dead loved one from classic sci-fi program Don’t Create Anything We Do in This Show.
To celebrate people voting for Reform, here is a thread of comics made a few years ago
Just discovered another cultural difference between my wife and I after 22 years of marriage from Taskmaster, US Schools have pull down roller blind maps?
I used to do Cycling without Age volunteering for Time and Talents in Rotherhithe and actually met a very elderly lady who claimed to remember Dr Alfred Salter when we took a visit to his statue by the Thames
My standard rule is that before anyone is allowed to talk shit about a university's economic role, they have to tell me how many people they think it employs. They're normally wrong by a factor of ten. This should also be the first question to any MP offering thoughts on the topic.
We were attacked by a monkey.
A nice write up of the all-nighter mystery marathons @princecharlescinema.com observer.co.uk/culture/film...
What an amazing ride last nice with the Critical Mass. We rode our bikes through the new Slivertown Tunnel. What a lovely experience.
Yeah, but a number of the old buildings were being actively re-used, Arch Climbing had a decent sized bit that was a bouldering centre nicknamed "The biscuit factory", they're now in another oldish building across the yard (Building One).
If anyone is planning to buy from Alpkit within the next five days, I've got a voucher code for £5 if you want to DM me
I have a similar email from Alpkit and I think they said you can also donate it to charity?
Is part of it that you're more of a signpost than a weathervane in the Benn parlance?
My wife just quoted double the NUJ freelancers tariff when a media group nicked photos off Flickr
Knipex? Flash git
This is literally a quote from the satirical comic strip "The Wizard of Id," which focused on a "tyrannical, dwarfish monarch...ruling a rundown and oppressed shabby kingdom." economicsociology.org/2015/08/28/r...
Hammersmith Bridge has finally reopened for both pedestrians and cyclists after being closed for over seven years. Although there was a brief reopening last year, it was short-lived and limited to cyclists only. Now, seeing it fully open again feels great.
SXSW is coming to London from 2-7th June, and its exactly as you might expect: Expensive, AI, NFTs. I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates. An distributed affordable community thing across London, about technology, music, and art. No central org. Just put on an event. Yes?
"An Act to confer powers on the Metropolitan Board of Works with respect to the making of a new street in the parishes of St Andrew Holborn and of St James and St John Clerkenwell, the establishing and regulating of a Ferry across the River Thames at Woolwich, the providing of Recreation Grounds .."
