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Meet Smeena, your helpful AI assistant! From Crowley Time Episode 40 with special guest Paul F. Tompkins. crowleytime.com
@pftompkins.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
From tomorrow 🕺🏽
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*

people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*

STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO

www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
mischief underway at Rural Concerns live @fscmcr.bsky.social

🙌 @alovelytime.bsky.social @chriscantrill.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Avant / Après la métamorphose en deux temps de la Rue Damrémont dans le 18ème. Vers 2010: la largeur fut réduite pour insérer une piste cyclable protégée à contre-sens à droite du stationnement. 2025: en plus les deux rangées de stationnement ont disparu pour de la végétation et une bande cyclable.
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Kids don't always want to be on screens, they just need spaces and places to live, grow and play independently.
December 18, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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the human experience
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The use of motorway services in this image really underlines this is about excluding people from public life. When you stop at a motorway services, you're on your way somewhere else. It's the most banal space possible. Now we'll all have to check we conform to gender stereotypes in order to pee.
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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It's time for Eleanor & Alasdair Read That! We're talking Watership Down: a cutey-cute rabbit book for babies. In this month's episode, I become a Male Feminist™ and @eleanormorton.bsky.social sings the X-men theme.

linktr.ee/readthat
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What what what what what what what

Ahwoogah

:klaxon: :klaxon: :klaxon:

etc
I am restarting my podcast, 'Not Today, Thank You' tomorrow. Well, midnight tonight. Eckhart Tolle gonna make you holler, Greedy Pigs In Space, & a book recommendation (Paradox Lost by @vrling.bsky.social , if you can't be arsed to listen)
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You
Listen to the politics audio show Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You from Swanburst Media in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Overcast and other podcast apps
podnews.net
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Eh … ?
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I can't believe we're having to have these fights in the 2020s. No serious highways authority should be proposing endless bypasses over green belt as a solution to congestion, let alone when a Climate Emergency has been declared by the council.
The draft GM 2050 Transport Strategy is out. It's 272 pages so forgive the focus on one detail.

In the map of long-term transport priorities, two ancient road schemes just won't die. The A6–M60 bypass and, somehow, the Disley and High Lane Bypass, which has been dead 30 years.
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Manchester & Salford,
November 18th 2025

First Light: 06.17
Sunrise: 07.40
Sunset: 16.07
Nightfall: 17.30
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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It is a bad day.
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The Netherlands is to invest up to €1 billion in cycling infrastructure to connect hundreds of thousands of new homes nationwide.

Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/dutch...
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Investing in cycling to address the housing crisis? That's exactly what the Dutch government is going to do!

€2.5 billion is being invested to make housing projects accessible. A large portion of this will go towards cycling infrastructure, such as continuous cycle routes. 👌

nos.nl/artikel/2589...
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, @alisonstenning.bsky.social discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored, devalued and undermined in urban planning.
When Cities Aren’t Playable: Placing Children’s Play in Urban Environments
Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, Alison Stenning discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored,...
www.mediapolisjournal.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Once again I must stress: If you think I defend the BBC because I've worked for it, you've completely misunderstood. I, and anyone else in this position, am defending the BBC *despite* the fact I've worked for it.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Synth Dads
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Tickets trickling away for @sohotheatre.bsky.social we start in just over a week. Whosoever might like to attend, make yourself known! JE x
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Wow! Free bikes trial schemes in 3 areas showed a 12x returning investment.
Reduced expected cases of disease by 16% and deaths by 6%.
What a win. We should be rolling these schemes to all deprived neighbourhoods.
road.cc/content/news...
Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people's health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows
The trial took place in three areas across the UK and found the scheme also resulted in healthcare savings in relation to preventable deaths and disease
road.cc
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This is also great reminder that cities aren't noisy; vehicle traffic is. The fewer vehicles on the road, the quieter your life is.
Voorstraat in Utrecht: a true fietsstraat where bikes come first and cars are guests. It’s not just safer and more relaxed to cycle - the whole street benefits. Outdoor cafés, quieter homes, and a vibrant public space. When you design for people, cities flourish.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Bellamystraat, Amsterdam in 1981 and today
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM