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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 7d

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London.

I said:

"No. It'll be ULEZ."

(The low emissions zone)

rooflight1.bsky.social @rooflight1.bsky.social · 7d

The fact that Sadiq has cut vehicle emissions by a phenomenal amount and made the air cleaner for people to breathe healthy air after about 200 years is an astonishing achievement.
More than any other London mayor has ever done.

No more children dying from pollution related illnesses.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 18d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · 18d

Pigeons in Old Market, Bristol

#sharemondays2025 #iphonephotography

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · 25d

Plants growing in the granite at Hound Tor

#sharemondays2025 #dartmoor

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 24

‘I fell in a deep puddle running from police’: photographing London’s underground raves

Away from the light and glamour of mainstream clubbing, Yushy spent three years recording a shadowy parallel scene: one built on mutual trust and secret group chats

www.theguardian.com

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Sep 24

Beautiful Eryri 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

View from Miner’s Path up Yr Wyddfa
Llyn Gwynant
A dip in Llyn Padarn
Aberglaslyn Pass

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Sep 19

Grey Heron, hanging out in Riverside Park by the M32 in Bristol #birding

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · Sep 16

Queen

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Sep 16

It was my first experience of rugby and I really enjoyed it! Watched the England game from the comfort of a dry sofa the next day though! It was very rainy 🌧️

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Sep 15

Spent the first half getting mild sunburn and the second getting rained on!

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Sep 15

A scrum at the Canada v Australia Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter final at Ashton Gate over the weekend 🇨🇦 🇦🇺

#sharemondays2025 #womenssport

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Sep 13

This piece by @iandunt.bsky.social is well worth a read… open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Three reasons to feel hope

Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe.

open.substack.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Sep 13

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Sep 2

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Leadership elections results

New Leader

Zack Polanski

Photo of Zack Polanski

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

Green Party

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nige can wear his poppy with pride this Nov: nothing says patriotism like funding an Islamic fundamentalist regime…

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Aug 27

With Reform UK saying it would be reasonable to pay the Taliban to return migrants to Afghanistan, how many Britons this would be acceptable?

Acceptable: 17%
Unacceptable: 61%

% acceptable by party
Reform: 35%
Con: 23%
Lab/Lib Dem: 7-13%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Clem At a Wood @monsteratt.bsky.social · Aug 26

👋🏼 goodbye to the green and pleasant land 😭

Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · Aug 26

The UK's new normal is here: hotter and drier summers.

The summer of 2025 will almost certainly be the warmest on record (we'll get confirmation next week).

As this @metoffice.gov.uk graph shows, it looks set to break the record by a big margin too
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 25

Playing with ribbons at Monster Chetwynd’s Thunder, Crackle and Magic installation at the Tate Modern last week 🌈

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#iphonephotography

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Aug 21

The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA

Three screens showing stressed out medical staff, "MIGRATION CRISIS" and an inflatable vessel full of people.

Same three screens as before but the middle one now shows "immigration has been falling".

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 18

Pigeons, apparently finding tasty stuff in the foliage as they scaled the wall 🐦

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3 pigeons scaling a wall in search of food in the weeds

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 14

Apparently, Silicon Valley thinks eugenics is the only way to save humanity from AI-fueled extinction. They insist their eugenics isn't bad eugenics, because theirs involves parents choosing to screen and selectively implant embryos based on genetically predicted IQ. But choice is a slippery slope.

From the WSJ:

"The most unusual motive for making smarter babies is emerging from a brainy group of computer scientists in Berkeley. Known as the rationalists they fear that AI poses an existential risk to humanity.

"'They think one of the ways that possible we could make safe AI is if we had smarter humans building them,' said Hsu, the Genomic Prediction co-founder. 'Some of the guys are committed to a long-term eugenics program where they create smarter humans, and the smarter humans are the ones that make AI safe.'

"Benson-Tilsen, the son of a rabbi and a leader in this effort, likes to phrase his aims very carefully. He said he wants to 'enable parents to make genomic choices, including raising the expected IQ of their kid.'"

"This element of parental choice, he said, is a critical difference between the rationalist push for smarter babies and the dark history of government eugenics programs, such as Nazi Germany's elimination of 'undesirable' people."

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 14

Rock climbing pigeons 🐦

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 11

Virginia Creeper… 🌿🍂

#sharemondays2025 #iphonephotography

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Lizzie @ledarville.bsky.social · Aug 8

Bramble: sun worshipper

#internationalcatday 🐈‍⬛

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