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Stone Dweller Lucy

@stonedwellerlucy.bsky.social

Newbie beekeeper, ex narrowboat dweller, she/her @narrowboatlucy on Twitter

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Stone Dweller Lucy@stonedwellerlucy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Love this graphic, which perfectly captures my personal experience. Commuting to school in urban West London in the 90s, the air was awful. Black snot, filthy shirt collars, the works. Now, I cycle and walk in central London to work, and it's far FAR better.

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 3mo ago

Yesterday marked 70 years since the UK Clean Air Act 1956 - the first national legislation to tackle air pollution, introduced in response to the devastating Great Smog of London in 1952. The graphic below is courtesy of airqualitystripes.info. 🧵 1/5

Alt text: Graphic shows London’s particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) concentrations from 1850 to 2022. Concentrations rose overall up until 1960s and then declined rapidly. Title says: what do the air quality stripes tell us about London's air quality? Text at bottom of graphic says: for more information visit www.airqualitystripes.info. The graphic highlights the 1952 Great Smog event when air pollution levels were poor. It also mentions the introduction of the UK Clean Air Act. Additionally, it says from the 1960s to 2026 there was increased legislation and a shift to cleaner technologies, leading to improvements in air quality.
Stone Dweller Lucy@stonedwellerlucy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Despite being an avowed heathen, I find this deeply moving. The very essence of humanity. And also, objectively, quite funny

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org · 11mo ago

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

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