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stephenbln.bsky.social
🇩🇪Berliner since 1983. From London. Lapsed Runner, Social Historian. 🏳️‍🌈 I post on Architecture, Books, Buses, Maps, ÖPNV, Trains, Trams, Public Transport. Sometimes I'm not at my desk, but in the toilet https://x.com/StephenBln. I block bots.
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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

Labour wins a by-election-It's bad news for Labour. Labour loses a by-election-It's bad news for Labour. Reform wins a by-election-It's good news for Reform. Reform loses a by-election-It's good news for Reform. That's the take of #r4today over and over again.

Fare evasion has been falling on London's transport network for years. A reminder that one of the times evasion actually did rise in recent years was when the last Conservative mayor spent hundreds of millions of pounds building a fleet of new buses with entirely open backs

Margot ❤️

Congratulations to @albomp.bsky.social and his party on their victory in the Australian federal election. Europeans and Australians are not just friends – we’re mates.

At last. That Farage's shilling for Putin has not been front-and-centre of every Labour message is just amateurish.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.