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Accusing people advocating for more public and active transport options of not considering disabled people while ignoring the way that the current paucity of public and active transport options limit disabled people's mobility isn't disability justice advocacy, it's enforced car dependency advocacy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Storytime Assembly has become an important part of our school. The valuing of stories and the collective experience of sharing has made a real difference. It started as a selfish thing on my part as I didn’t get to read to a class now it’s part of what we are. smithsmm.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/s...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

I’ve written something about Noel Edmonds

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

Well it’s a bit tight - we still need 66 more signatures by 8:45am on Saturday..surely we can do that?! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

Worth repeating: local authorities that refuse to contract towing companies to remove badly parked cars are announcing their official approval of this kind of use of public space.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

He thought he was making the right choice. He wasn’t. John’s story, told by a cardiologist, exposes the real-life harm health misinformation can cause. When facts are ignored, lives can be put at risk.

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“I cannot see ANY of this happening if more women were leaders... Take the Massive Ordnance Penetrator - which sounds more like a sex toy than a bomb - for example.” @maitlis.bsky.social is criticises male-dominated leadership for stoking fears of WWIII through reckless global brinkmanship.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

As the author, I’m immensely proud of this report. But mainly I hope people read it and take notice. This is about the rise in ‘fake e-bikes’, and what’s driving it appgcw.org/resources/in...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

I still can’t believe the UK did this to itself. Most importantly - to its youth and their opportunities, chances and aspirations.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

On holiday recently near Hadrian's Wall, really struck by the population diversity nearly 2000 years ago on the edge of empire: Syrians, North Africans, never mind people from present-day Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria #islandofstrangers

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Muslim doctors saved my life. Muslim mayor made London a fairer, safer city. Muslim friends enrich my life. Muslim values align (broadly) with those of all the world's great religions. Most Muslims I know were born in Britain. I too am the descendant of immigrants. I will not be triggered to hate.

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True - I've been in five countries by train in the last 2 weeks (if you count lunch and a stroll in Brussels), you just don't see these bodge-job ebikes on the roads; you barely see delivery riders on ebikes. Worker protections can stop the economic necessity for delivery riders to dice with danger

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Because a watermelon may hurt someone's feelings, while the actual civic annihilation of a people via war crimes is a subject to be dodged continuously? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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What happens when a political agenda takes over any semblance of journalistic standards Telegraph admits its story about private school family not being able to go on five holidays was complete nonsense and not remotely fact-checked Beyond embarrassing www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/the-t...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Great work by @alchapman.bsky.social in revealing the travel behaviours of 'ultra frequent flyers'. This group are "consuming vastly more than their fair share of the aviation sector’s carbon budget". NEF argue this group should pay a new tax reflecting the environmental cost of excessive flying.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Its #Friday so its #market day here in #Ramsgate. These lads were zooming about causing #chaos in pedestrian area and just looked at me when i wouldnt move #kent #photography #photo #blackandwhite #monochrome #mono #photographersofbluesky #humansofbluesky #photooftheday #streetphotography

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

They pacify him like he’s a toddler who didn’t get a nap. When he leaves they get down to business. The world is moving on without us b/c we elected a malignantly narcissistic man child with the intellect of a door knob & the attention span of a gnat. Not sure we’ll ever regain our world standing.

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

You know, it's really hard to read through this long thread and not conclude that given Ofcom was given the power to block access to platforms (which overall I'm rather eeehhhhh about) there's not really a good argument for it to not be used against a site that acts like Twitter now does.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... Come on folks, the #parkypetition is in danger of falling behind the run rate - we need c650 signatures a day if we’re to hit our 100k target by September 10 and today we’ve only done about 500. Let’s have a big push to get above 46,000 tonight

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Illustrated covers by Charley Harper for Ford Times magazine in the 1950s designreviewed.com/designer/cha...

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A colour calendar for Mathers International by Pino Tovaglia scanned from Pagina, No. 2 June 1963 designreviewed.com/artefacts/pa... #pinotovalglia

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

Insect art ❤️ I love the patterns they make over time in the garden.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Timeline cleanse. Enjoy a minute with the raccoon kits at the water bowl. Sibling shenanigans continue. 😁 #mammals

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach. But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

Interesting new study finds that, although people say they need the flexibility that a car offers, drivers' journeys are no more flexible than people who travel with other modes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 8 days ago • 1920 comments

ICYMI - Politico: "Former Conservative MP Craig Williams and 14 other defendants will appear at Southwark Crown Court on July 11 charged with gambling offenses relating to the 2024 election. Williams did not enter a plea when appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court this afternoon"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Loved this piece

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Tree of the Day, Gaza. With thanks to Mandy Blackman, sending me the view from the hospital compound where she is working, and who loves to see trees still standing when so much else has fallen

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

🔴 The End of Thatcherism? Rachel Reeves has Opened the Door to the UK Becoming a Nordic-Style Economy The Chancellor’s Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, I argue @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Getting ~children to run adult and children's services is a novel approach from Reform UK, I'll give them that... new.basw.co.uk/about-social...

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Reform UK can’t catch a break. In just six weeks, the party has somehow managed to lose nine of its newly elected councillors. How many more will it lose to incompetence, infighting and shoddy vetting? Read our newest blog: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/13/d...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Hearing this from quite a few people in Reform UK-controlled councils. From a local reader: "There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments

This is what happens when politicians and media use, repeat and amplify hostile rhetoric about migrants, they inflame and embolden violence against communities. As with the far-right riots last year, nothing about this is to do with any form of "legitimate concerns". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I like Brian Wilson because he understood how painful beautiful things can be and he figured out how to live in that with joy

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

NEW RESEARCH: new car bonnets are trending higher every year and drivers of high fronted cars unable to see children as old as nine 😱🚙🚸❗ #Carspreading is out of control. What’s the latest? 🧵1/8 @transenv.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

You have to love the Brexiters losing their collective shit over Gibraltar becoming part of the Schengen Area. It's happening BECAUSE of Brexit which has made life very difficult on the Rock and that's why 95.9% of Gibraltarians voted remain.... but apparently Starmer is giving it away

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

Lego cat 😂 #CatsOfBlueSky

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Today’s spending review dodges the truth: had we not done Brexit, the UK’s public finances would be in a far stronger position. It blew a hole in our economy, and we’re still counting the cost.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Today’s Big 45 @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

How it started vs how it ended. 😁 Spotted Towhee #birds

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

This is incredible

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

Some of my earliest memories are of my dad putting Beach Boys records on and singing along. Brian Wilson was a genuine genius who created some of the most beautiful music the world has ever seen. RIP.

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