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Find myself agreeing with Eddie Reeves here. Subsidise buses rather than parking!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 13 days ago • 934 comments

It’s damn clever, and it might have been funny if it wasn’t horrifying.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

And yet, not as dumb as Brexit, the dumbest trade strategy that painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing ‘dumbest plans are here again’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A third runway at #Heathrow in the midst of a climate emergency is a vile act of vandalism. Rachel Reeves is happy to burn the planet for a tiny (probably elusive) increment of GDP. How does this benefit us? Article coming later today.

submitted 26 days ago • 81 comments

I am absolutely furious and terrified at this. Third runway at Heathrow, freezing fuel duty and hiking the bus cap: this Labour government are almost literally pouring petrol on the climate crisis. Shame on them.

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

submitted 28 days ago • 39 comments

✅ Hate "No ball games" signs ✅ No longer policy ✅ Took them down ✅ Recycled ✅ Not 12ft tall so need a new plan for this last one 😭

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

The point of the Labour party now is that it isn't actually fascist, and believe me I'm very grateful not to be governed currently by actual fascists. But it is, a few outliers aside, a centre-right party holding much the same views the Tory party did before it started frothing at the mouth.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

remember five years ago? that was ten years ago. feel old yet

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

submitted 31 days ago • 415 comments

One of the things that bothers me a lot about AI* search/website generation is its effect on what I tend to think of as 'boring facts'. Recent examples for me: * Obligatory note: 'AI' covers many things, some of which are useful (and/or have been re-named, see 'machine learning'...)

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Italian bear bollards if you need some distraction

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

The Germans, always ready with a new word when we need one: "dunkelflaute" a period of dark still cloudy weather like today when there is essentially no renewable energy to be had. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

As opposing the city's major bus prioritisation scheme, Oxford Labour wants to destroy the only accessible cycling route connecting Littlemore and Blackbird Leys with Cowley, Florence Park and the City Centre www.oxfordlabour.org.uk/crowell-road...

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

This is basically the adult version of "if you keep doing that I'll take away your tablet" isn't it?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

TIL: In FIBA you can be credited with an assist for a pass that leads to a shooting foul leading to a made free throw, but not in the NBA.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Mood.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Traffic is a major problem but let’s just not do anything because it makes drivers sad.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 35 days ago • 68 comments

Without this fiction, the concreting over of Bertie Park would not be allowed :-( "a better use of site, providing more housing, whilst retaining and improving public sports and play spaces" www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2486875...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

"I come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow, And the lassies shout where'er I go -- Donald, where's your troosers?"

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 40 days ago • 379 comments

I suspect this will be horribly slow, but theoretically I could commute to work near the Churchill using this service.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

submitted 39 days ago • 103 comments

Accidentally googled "is fairphone on bluesky" without turning off the AI bullshit. AI response was "No, Fairphone is not on Bluesky, but it is available on Sky Mobile." Several of the problems with this kind of AI demonstrated in one go there.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Just received an email from @fairphoneofficial.bsky.social which contains loads of words but no information at all except a link to a page which contains loads of words but no information at all www.fairphone.com/en/2025/01/1...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know: thanks to Eric Pickles it’s illegal to enforce parking fines using photographic evidence. One of those “one weird tricks” that Labour can do to just reverse a Tory law that makes the country worse, for free

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments