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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 14h

(It’s not a mid life crisis I just keep being convinced that music I liked when I was in my mid 20s is better than anything out now.)

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 14h

Today in music nostalgia - Meursault’s The Furnace.
Because of course I still love a modern folky beepy angsty stramash of a song. songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pissin...

Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues, by Meursault

11 track album

songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 2d

And here is the percentage of the world's land area setting a new all-time monthly maximum temperature record in each decade:

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 2d

Around 78% of the world has seen all-time maximum monthly temperature records set since the year 2000, with 38% set in past five years alone. In a new analysis over at The Climate Brink I take a look at where and when records were set: www.theclimatebrink....

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City Infinity @cityinfinity.bsky.social · 1d

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council.

This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

What makes side road junctions pedestrian-friendly?

ForewordThis post has a companion written by Robert Weetman. We have been working collaboratively on something which we think needs to be more widely known, but we also thought it might be fun and …

cityinfinity.co.uk

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 2d

Fans of the London cable car will be familiar with its themed events and special ticket prices.

Meanwhile, on the Silvertown cycle shuttle as a special Halloween experience in October, they’re leaving the lights turned off in the saloon. Spooky.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Around this time eight years ago I saw the National Theatre's production of Oslo. Perhaps a revival is due for heaven knows we need some hope that enemies can find peace, and away from the desire of extremists on both sides to insist their history is the only one. www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/j...

Oslo: the smash hit about the peace accords that's been scrutinised by 1,000 UN delegates

How do you turn a grinding peace deal into a sellout show that’s up for seven Tony awards? Easy, says JT Rogers. Just violate your heroes – and stir in some Noël Coward

www.theguardian.com

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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 13d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 3d

Now to inflict it on more people!

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 3d

However, the bit I liked has now gone. The tab count feature on the dishwasher itself has disappeared!

This future is crap. Half a mind to start a tally in dry-wipe marker on the front of the dishwasher.

(current tablet count ~176!!)

Screenshot of the Bosch app when it used to count tablets remaining.

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 3d

I think over two years they sent me two separate welcome packs for two different services and then paid me £75 for a feedback session to explain how I used and didn't use the feature.

The last 96 tablets as an apology for shutting the service come on top of a good 200 welcome ones I got before.

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 3d

My dishwasher came with a feature that counted how many tablets you had left. I kind of liked it, but only ever connected it to the (inevitable) subscription service for tablets to get free tablets.

The tablet counter was an easy way to double check if I needed to buy tablets when I was in Lidl.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 5d

For people unfamiliar with Israeli politics, Amichai Chikli was part of Naftali Bennett's party, and shanked him to bring down the government and bring Netanyahu back. Netanyahu rewarded him with a sinecure, naming him Minister for Diaspora Jewry. Since then he's been doing stupidity like this.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 7d

Sadly not surprised by Panorama showing such shocking behaviour by police, but also thankful they have documented what’s actually going on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is not a particularly new finding; as Susan Soloman and colleagues put it in their groundbreaking 2009 paper, "the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop" www.pnas.org/doi/10....

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve not seen happy end but I’ve loved tomorrow I’ll wake up… and who wants to kill Jessie for ages. Was delighted to see a proper release. Careful when you watch the video essay as it seems to recommend a good few dozen more films!

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 9d

This is a pretty average chunk of the video essay.

Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t mind me, I’m just only going to watch this peculiar genre of Czech sci-fi comedy for the next few months.
(The video essay on the history of the genre on this disc is astounding)
thegeekshow.co.uk/who-wants-to...

Who Wants to Kill Jessie (1966) Review

A brief reprieve from Frightfest, we head to the former Czech republic for an outlandish sci-fi comedy from second run. This out out, who wants to kill Jessie?

thegeekshow.co.uk

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 12d

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

Chart showing road fatalities by road user involved in collision. Data for Great Britain in 2024

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 12d

Specifically, I will sleep like this log.

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 12d

Four days of cycle touring and camping are lovely but gosh it’s nice to be back in my bed. Time to sleep like one of the logs blocking the national cycle network.

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 12d

You could also add the superloop routes on to a map…

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 13d

tired: defensive walking

wired: offensive walking

photo of a white car driving on a road. obscuring the car is a service pole with a sign on it that says: "BE SEEN - GRAB A BRICK! 1. GRAB 2. LOOK 3. WAVE 4. CROSS" the sign has an illustration of a person holding a brick and standing in a confident pose. beneath the sign, there is a yellow basket full of bricks mounted on the service pole

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