Annelise Jespersen
@abysstalks.bsky.social
Content designer/editor. Living at intersection of Spurs, healthcare and politics. Hoping to look at the world from the back of a motorbike.
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Reims approved 2005 - opened 2011
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
What a fucking joke this country is. If we can’t build a tram faster than the late 2030s, we should just give up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds-Bradford £2.5bn tram plan delayed after government review
West Yorkshire's mayor says she is confident the trams will be running
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reims approved 2005 - opened 2011
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
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This was literally a Parks & Rec joke
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This was literally a Parks & Rec joke
Slavia Prague claim their fans are merely Hotspurophobic, not homophobic.
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Slavia Prague claim their fans are merely Hotspurophobic, not homophobic.
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Moments like today show exactly why visibility matters. LGBTQI+ fans shouldn’t have to shrink to make others feel comfortable.
Tonight our flag still flies and our community will continue to stand strong. Pride will always have a place at Our stadium and Our Club #COYS
Tonight our flag still flies and our community will continue to stand strong. Pride will always have a place at Our stadium and Our Club #COYS
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Moments like today show exactly why visibility matters. LGBTQI+ fans shouldn’t have to shrink to make others feel comfortable.
Tonight our flag still flies and our community will continue to stand strong. Pride will always have a place at Our stadium and Our Club #COYS
Tonight our flag still flies and our community will continue to stand strong. Pride will always have a place at Our stadium and Our Club #COYS
This is great. I'm still thinking of boycotting it all, but at least this tells me when my boycotted viewing times are!
Made a 2026 World Cup schedule, with both local and UK fixture times on it. If that sort of thing is helpful to people.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
World Cup Schedule
docs.google.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is great. I'm still thinking of boycotting it all, but at least this tells me when my boycotted viewing times are!
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December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The year is 2025 and French public authorities are still incapable of emptying an away sector in safe and secure conditions.
Left: Marseille-Newcastle
Right: PSG-Tottenham
Left: Marseille-Newcastle
Right: PSG-Tottenham
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The year is 2025 and French public authorities are still incapable of emptying an away sector in safe and secure conditions.
Left: Marseille-Newcastle
Right: PSG-Tottenham
Left: Marseille-Newcastle
Right: PSG-Tottenham
Has sudden second thoughts about taking half my cookery books to the charity shop.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Has sudden second thoughts about taking half my cookery books to the charity shop.
This is a great form of protest. We should try it at the Spurs Shop - buy a Europa League winners t shirt, then immediately return it.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is a great form of protest. We should try it at the Spurs Shop - buy a Europa League winners t shirt, then immediately return it.
The board could blame Levy for the Ange/Frank decision and just put everything right again. Might not work, but we'd have some fun.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The board could blame Levy for the Ange/Frank decision and just put everything right again. Might not work, but we'd have some fun.
Will this be the day a pundit or journo finally criticises Frank's 'pragmatism'?
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Will this be the day a pundit or journo finally criticises Frank's 'pragmatism'?
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
See, this is where the Beeb goes wrong, thinking we need to know the evidence-free opinion of Larry from Bristol because it 'balances' the other view.
![Extract from BBC website: Over on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning.
Nicky Campbell has been fielding callers opinions on Trump's threat of legal action against the BBC. Here's a whip-round of what you told us:
"If we have to pay a penny to Trump, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to pay my TV licence,'' says Simon from Truro. He thinks the BBC needs to "stand up" to Trump.
Larry, from Bristol, says Trump "covered all bases" in his letter threatening to sue the BBC for $1bn.
"I don't think the BBC has got any out in this other than [paying] the appropriate amount of compensation," he says.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kynqzjjwncd5ehmbfnkuujde/bafkreidroppc4qsn6ysz7e2rf7judhoqkysn6fkr67b4auc5gz7dzx2g2m@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
See, this is where the Beeb goes wrong, thinking we need to know the evidence-free opinion of Larry from Bristol because it 'balances' the other view.
The only solution is for every BBC news programme to include a verbatim quote of the most incoherent and deranged thing Trump has uttered that day.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The only solution is for every BBC news programme to include a verbatim quote of the most incoherent and deranged thing Trump has uttered that day.
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Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
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And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
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I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
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One more time for this.
youtu.be/ei0EPS_DhYo?...
youtu.be/ei0EPS_DhYo?...
City of Immigrants by Patti Griffin, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, James McMurtry and The Mastersons
YouTube video by Michael Hess
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
One more time for this.
youtu.be/ei0EPS_DhYo?...
youtu.be/ei0EPS_DhYo?...
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I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.
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Too early for final results, but we're seeing — once again — losses for conservatives in school board races in multiple states. Stay tuned.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Too early for final results, but we're seeing — once again — losses for conservatives in school board races in multiple states. Stay tuned.
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the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit