Since 1898, cars have been banned on Michigan's Mackinac Island. Locals still get around by bike, foot and horse drawn carriage, even the fire trucks are electric or animal powered.
Brixton Hatter
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Riding bikes and mixing records. Chef de Party. Teams like Luton. No pasaran.
#OtD 20 Sep 1961 22 unions at Ford in the UK initiated strike action against attacks on workers' tea breaks. Management had offered a pay increase and 40-hour week if workers gave it up stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9332...
Funny how when people are skint it’s always “let’s reduce tax on fuel” rather than “let’s reduce bus and train fares.”
Liberal Democrats@libdems.org.uk · 3w agoPetrol and diesel prices are higher than they've been for a long time and people need help now.
Got the TV on for the Ipswich v Liverpool game & we’ve just had a rave classics line up: - Papua New Guinea - Future Sound of London (Specsavers advert) - Bicep - Glue (O2 advert) Not sure whether to be proud or outraged
IDF narrative arc: -no one died -ok someone died but it wasn’t us -we won’t investigate -ok we’ll investigate -we’ve investigated & it was hamas -ok it wasn’t hamas -it couldn’t have been us tho -ok it was us but it was an accident -actually it wasn’t an accident, we did it on purpose lol
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...
#OtD 22 Jul 2005 Brazilian commuter Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed London police at Stockwell tube station. Despite being restrained, he was shot seven times in the head and once in the torso. No officers faced charges related to his death stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9487...
i will never ever be chill about this
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3mo ago#OtD 22 Jul 2005 Brazilian commuter Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed London police at Stockwell tube station. Despite being restrained, he was shot seven times in the head and once in the torso. No officers faced charges related to his death stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9487...
Unbelievably excited to announce that I’m running the London Marathon for Luton Foodbank. It’s a charity me and you have supported for a few years now through sales of my book, who do genuinely brilliant work across the town for those most in need. Your donation will make a real difference. #TTAGU 🧡
Luton Foodbank@lutonfoodbank.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're delighted to announce long-time Foodbank supporter Kevin Crowe as the first of our two runners in London Marathon 2027. Please sponsor Kevin at 2027tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kevin-crowe GOOD LUCK KEVIN! @wearelutontown.bsky.social @weareluton.bsky.social @kevinscrowe.bsky.social
A few weeks ago, after two years of work, I published a story unlike any I’d encountered in my 18 years at ProPublica. I’ve been off social media for a while, but I felt compelled to share some of my reporting journey here. 🧵
I hope you’ll read the story here: www.propublica.org/article/alic...
The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...
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Before the end of the year, Grok Imagine will create a full-length movie in which Elon Musk has friends and a family which loves him, with him telling them jokes which are funny
Happy Birthday to Bontcho Guentchev - hope he has a good one! astickersworth500words.blogspot.com/2020/05/190-... Rich Allinson on going up and down the leagues. #LokomotivGO #Etar #SportingCP #ITFC #LTFC #CSKASofia #HendonFC #CarshaltonAthletic #Bulgaria #WorldCup #FACup #PL #EFL #football
190: Bontcho Guentchev, Ipswich Town, Merlin’s Premier League 95 Sticker Collection
Today Richard Allinson takes us on a trip from the World Cup to the Ryman League via Ipswich which sounds similar to some of the away days ...
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Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT
AI data centers are buying up memory chips, forcing up the price of virtually all our consumer electronics. It was great to have @papapishu.bsky.social back on the show to understand why this is happening, how’s benefiting, and what people are doing in response.
Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 3mo agoApple is hiking its hardware prices. Xbox consoles are going up again. Sub-$500 laptops basically don’t exist anymore This week @papapishu.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the RAM crisis is coming for everyone—all thanks to the data centers. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/335_...
Vital, authoritative 🧵 from Dan on the UK govt's archconservative immigration plan.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 3mo agoSo we have the Home Secretary's statement on changes to immigration and asylum, and, despite the attempt to spin it otherwise, they are some of the most regressive measures we have seen. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...
Tonight’s listening 😎 My mate reckons he saw Daddy Freddy in Loughborough Junction yesterday, so I had to dig it out… #OldSkool
Nothing at all fishy going on here over the weekend, I assume
Always worth thinking: punishment for what crime? And in the case of Cuba it is: taking the CIA's offshore brothel and gambling island off it.
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is evil collective punishment.
For anyone struggling with the heat today, here's a map of where you can cool down in London apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/
Cool Spaces
Cool Spaces Map displays indoor venues open to all where Londoners can take respite on hot days.
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With the price of fuel going up by the week, change lanes to avoid the impact. Bus tickets are capped at £20 a week. Walking and cycling short trips is free. Fewer short car trips also means less congestion, more reliable public transport, safer and better roads, cleaner air, and healthier people.
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
Working with a broken controller hasn't been fun, but I've tried my best. 1 hr 35 mins of house/deep techno that I'm loving right now. Shares much appreciated. You could also suport me on kofi if you like my mixes/design, it's always appreciated Cheers 😊 www.mixcloud.com/deandeep/dea...
Dean Marsh - Isolation Forty Eight - March 2026
Iso 48 for March is finally here, I'm working with a broken controller which has hampered things so much... but i've done my best! 1 and a half hours of all things I'm loving right now (with my oblig...
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The rebranded Evening Standard, now weekly, is a pale imitation of the former paper. Main story about two nepo babies. Barely any news about London. Content taken from social media. More like a Sunday magazine than a newspaper. Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed.
The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti
DfT press release on footway parking. They've bottled a national ban and so will rely on local action with new powers (which are not explained, but area-based). A postcode lottery as now then? I await actual details. www.gov.uk/government/n...
New local powers to keep pavements clear for those who rely on them most
Local councils will be given the power to crack down on problem pavement parking.
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