CW
@cwassermann.bsky.social
Television multi-tasker, expatriate Weegie
This is really not good for the modal shift the Mayor of London is trying to achieve in London. I Hopefully an alternative service will move in to fill the space.
Zipcar is shutting down its UK operations, basically the only car club that worked in London. Massive kick to anyone who tries to live in capital without owning a car. Having been a customer for 17 years and used Zipvans to move house repeatedly, this is.... very bad! (Zipcar is owned by Avis)
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is really not good for the modal shift the Mayor of London is trying to achieve in London. I Hopefully an alternative service will move in to fill the space.
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Great to see the Bow Neighbourhood Forum launch this e-petition against Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s plan to allow a “more permissive” approach to new tall buildings across most of Tower Hamlets. Please support it and share amongst your TH friends/neighbours. democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Great to see the Bow Neighbourhood Forum launch this e-petition against Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s plan to allow a “more permissive” approach to new tall buildings across most of Tower Hamlets. Please support it and share amongst your TH friends/neighbours. democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
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🎄 5 days and counting until the start of our @biggive.bsky.social Christmas Challenge!
Last year, our Big Give Christmas Challenge raised an amazing £211,772!
With your incredible support and generosity, this has enabled us to:
Last year, our Big Give Christmas Challenge raised an amazing £211,772!
With your incredible support and generosity, this has enabled us to:
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🎄 5 days and counting until the start of our @biggive.bsky.social Christmas Challenge!
Last year, our Big Give Christmas Challenge raised an amazing £211,772!
With your incredible support and generosity, this has enabled us to:
Last year, our Big Give Christmas Challenge raised an amazing £211,772!
With your incredible support and generosity, this has enabled us to:
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The @saveoursaferstreets.org community team is appealing the results of the judicial review on Tower Hamlets decision to remove the liveable streets measures in Bethnal Green.
Keeping everything crossed for them. 🤞
Keeping everything crossed for them. 🤞
📣APPEAL HEARING CONFIRMED
We are appealing the result of our judicial review at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26 Nov.
Please join us for a photocall at 8.30am at the pedestrian area near St Mary-Le-Strand. We'd love to see you there, DM if you're coming!
We are appealing the result of our judicial review at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26 Nov.
Please join us for a photocall at 8.30am at the pedestrian area near St Mary-Le-Strand. We'd love to see you there, DM if you're coming!
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The @saveoursaferstreets.org community team is appealing the results of the judicial review on Tower Hamlets decision to remove the liveable streets measures in Bethnal Green.
Keeping everything crossed for them. 🤞
Keeping everything crossed for them. 🤞
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📣APPEAL HEARING CONFIRMED
We are appealing the result of our judicial review at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26 Nov.
Please join us for a photocall at 8.30am at the pedestrian area near St Mary-Le-Strand. We'd love to see you there, DM if you're coming!
We are appealing the result of our judicial review at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26 Nov.
Please join us for a photocall at 8.30am at the pedestrian area near St Mary-Le-Strand. We'd love to see you there, DM if you're coming!
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📣APPEAL HEARING CONFIRMED
We are appealing the result of our judicial review at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26 Nov.
Please join us for a photocall at 8.30am at the pedestrian area near St Mary-Le-Strand. We'd love to see you there, DM if you're coming!
We are appealing the result of our judicial review at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26 Nov.
Please join us for a photocall at 8.30am at the pedestrian area near St Mary-Le-Strand. We'd love to see you there, DM if you're coming!
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💚 Inspiring talk at Brick Lane Mosque from Dr. Rachel Bower
@livingstreets.bsky.social on the health benefits of walking & cycling - including lowering blood sugar levels.
Many said they want to cycle but several feel unsafe. This is why we need to protect our LTNs: they save lives.
@livingstreets.bsky.social on the health benefits of walking & cycling - including lowering blood sugar levels.
Many said they want to cycle but several feel unsafe. This is why we need to protect our LTNs: they save lives.
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
💚 Inspiring talk at Brick Lane Mosque from Dr. Rachel Bower
@livingstreets.bsky.social on the health benefits of walking & cycling - including lowering blood sugar levels.
Many said they want to cycle but several feel unsafe. This is why we need to protect our LTNs: they save lives.
@livingstreets.bsky.social on the health benefits of walking & cycling - including lowering blood sugar levels.
Many said they want to cycle but several feel unsafe. This is why we need to protect our LTNs: they save lives.
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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Tonight Tower Hamlets Labour cllrs will oppose Mayor Lutfur Rahman's plans to allow an even more permissive approach to tall buildings across Tower Hamlets. As well as compromising the historic character of the East End, this plan will result in thousands more residents losing sunlight + daylight
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Tonight Tower Hamlets Labour cllrs will oppose Mayor Lutfur Rahman's plans to allow an even more permissive approach to tall buildings across Tower Hamlets. As well as compromising the historic character of the East End, this plan will result in thousands more residents losing sunlight + daylight
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
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Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
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Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
If you haven't seen it, My Old School is currently on iPlayer. A top, top documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
My Old School
The story of Scotland's most notorious impostor. A 16-year-old boy is the new kid at school and becomes a model pupil - until he is unmasked.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
If you have #ME/CFS or know someone who does, Action for ME have launched a new survey. They only do this every five years so it's a big deal. Please take part of your are affected or share with someone who is. www.actionforme.org.uk/research-cam...
2025 Big Survey
Find out how you can contribute to our 2025 Big Survey - a vital research project aiming to illustrate the impact of ME and long Covid.
www.actionforme.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you have #ME/CFS or know someone who does, Action for ME have launched a new survey. They only do this every five years so it's a big deal. Please take part of your are affected or share with someone who is. www.actionforme.org.uk/research-cam...
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![4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifiwgrkbhiwy4pflbhpba4x7ordt7w6sv7ihwxzqasx2jcgtnncgy@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY
Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London
[FREE TO READ] Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up
September 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up
I met @evandunfee.bsky.social on the metro during the Paris Olympics last year, he was very nice despite being accosted by random athletics fans. Thrilled to see him win today - it was emotional.
GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦
EVAN DUNFEE IS THE WORLD CHAMPION
The Canadian comes from fifth to first and wins gold at the World Athletics Championships.
A remarkable race by @EvanDunfee in his seventh appearance at worlds. What a start for Canada in Tokyo.
EVAN DUNFEE IS THE WORLD CHAMPION
The Canadian comes from fifth to first and wins gold at the World Athletics Championships.
A remarkable race by @EvanDunfee in his seventh appearance at worlds. What a start for Canada in Tokyo.
September 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I met @evandunfee.bsky.social on the metro during the Paris Olympics last year, he was very nice despite being accosted by random athletics fans. Thrilled to see him win today - it was emotional.
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On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
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This is Jude. He had a long day and just wants to relax with his tunes. Which he can notably turn on all by himself. 13/10 (TT: heyjudethebeagle)
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is Jude. He had a long day and just wants to relax with his tunes. Which he can notably turn on all by himself. 13/10 (TT: heyjudethebeagle)
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What a gift this is, from the Brodskys to us. Available until September 9th. Thanks so much for the heads-up on Shosto's deathday, @leerandall.bsky.social
www.brodskyquartet.co.uk/memoriam
www.brodskyquartet.co.uk/memoriam
In Memoriam / | brodskyquartet
www.brodskyquartet.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What a gift this is, from the Brodskys to us. Available until September 9th. Thanks so much for the heads-up on Shosto's deathday, @leerandall.bsky.social
www.brodskyquartet.co.uk/memoriam
www.brodskyquartet.co.uk/memoriam
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Queuing for Jaws, Halifax, 1976, photo by Martin Parr.
August 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Queuing for Jaws, Halifax, 1976, photo by Martin Parr.
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zooooooooooooom
August 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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