I hope nobody asks me 'when did you last cry?' in the near future as I will have to say, during the new Spiderman film. Twice.
@aptshadow.bsky.social made it all the way through, didn't beat the heart (sorry, everyone else I know has a stoopid wordle group)
“According to the finance ministry’s calculations, the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro/km. On the other hand, every km travelled by bike yields societal gains of 60 euro cents thanks to the health benefits of cycling, transport efficiency gains, & lower infrastructure spending.”
Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities
Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.
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If you're coming to the #Edinburgh Festival, 1) YAY! and 2) if at all possible (eg, add for free to your train ticket), please please please bring your own bicycle. Our transport infrastructure at the moment is, as the french say, *bien fucké*
Kermit the Frog Riding a Bike
ALT: Kermit the Frog Riding a Bike
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I could not donate to these guys fast enough gofund.me/6c0cd608a
Donate to People vs Elon, organized by Everyone Hates Elon
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Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 2w agoJust if your days are filled by devising measures to stop the customers using your product to harass and secretly spy on others do you think you'd wonder if your product was bad? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped
After a year of research and writing, I'm nervous to present my new Audible show - a deep dive into the information ecosystem and Russia's attempts to manipulate it. hope you'll give it a listen UK link: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Influence... US link: www.audible.com/pd/Influence...
Influenced: The Tenet Media Plot
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In September 2024, Canadian influencer Lauren Southern suddenly found herself in the eye of a media storm, accused of spreading Russian propaganda. The US g...
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New Substack day! About our curious house substack.com/@thatwriterj...
Pride
A wee story about our house.
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a perfect sketch. one of the funniest things ever put to film, imo youtu.be/n-Bfkc6lZok?...
Save Corncob TV | I Think You Should Leave | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke
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Oh boy if I could SING songs as well as I can remember every single stupid last lyric to every song I heard up to the age of 18, I would be so made up.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you could trade away one thing you're good at to be as good, but no better, at another thing, would you, and for what?
I genuinely think people who aren't writers massively underestimate the egos of people who are. If I refuse to use spellcheck because, c'mon; I'm hardly going to let a flattery robot think it's better than me.
Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social · 2mo agothis is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...
I first heard this song a year ago when Blake played it at the kitchen table and said, “Here’s something I’ve just written”. I thought, oh yeah that’s gorgeous. And now Waitjng on Nina is out in the world, the second track from the forthcoming Family Stereo album out on Bella Union in July 🔥🔥
You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo agoInheritance, theft, whatevs.
New substack day! nb the answer to the closing question was an unequivocal 'of course!' substack.com/home/post/p-...
Loved and Kissed
Susie Boyt
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"hi, I'm a padded package with a book in it" "cool, padded with bubble wrap I expect" "oh, absolutely not" "so instead you're padded with..." "carpet scraps, cigarette ends, and asbestos, yeah" "and opening you might leave me covered in those?" "buddy, I guarantee it."
I hate it when the seppos wake up and it's all J.B. Chickenshit III, Chadley Bumgardener Jr, Flip Dickspangles, Rock Sassy and Randy Weensteener have banned all black people from voting.
Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · 3mo agoGod forbid people who are not Americans discuss things important to them on this platform.
I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app
Attenborough at 100 — A Nature Documentary Archive
Explore nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, or theme.
attenborough-100.vercel.app
Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people
Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 3mo agothis really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe
