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Social housing plea for Fishponds amid gentrification fears

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 21h

Local residents in Fishponds & Hillfields have launched a campaign calling for the huge plans for thousands of new homes there to include a significant % of council houses or homes for social rent.
Big test for the council.
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www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

"Finding a house in Bristol is getting impossible"

Green-friendly Bristol suburb turns against 'road blocks' scheme

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

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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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 1d

An in-depth report on the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood, from the latest consultation event in Southville
Full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Inside the council's 'consultation'

Campaigners to take legal action over Downs van-dwellers

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 2d

The @protectthedowns.bsky.social group are taking legal action against Bristol City Council over the vans & caravans on the Downs & are organising a big public meeting later this month
Latest here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

"The council has had plenty of time to act"

Bristol protests live as police battle to separate two sides

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 3d

THREAD: There’s a huge police presence in the centre of Bristol today as ‘enough is enough’ anti-immigration protesters will try to march, and counter-protesters will try to stop them.
Follow the latest updates here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Anti-immigration demonstrators will be met by counter protestors

GWR fined £1m over 'preventable' death of woman on train

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 3d

GWR has been prosecuted & fined £1m for the preventable death of a passenger on a train from Bath to Bristol. The train company had been told to make its 'droplight' windows safer but didn't.
Full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

She was killed when she looked out of an open window on a train between Bath and Bristol.

Bristol bus strikes called off as drivers agree pay rise

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 7d

Bus strikes in Bristol are OFF as drivers at Lawrence Hill & Hengrove accept new pay offer.
Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Their union says the deal is a "fantastic win"

Shock and horror at Islamophobic graffiti in South Bristol

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 7d

The council cleaned this off pretty quickly after it was reported.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

'It's totally unacceptable. There is no place for this in our community'

Flags pulled down from the front of Bristol's most patriotic pub

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 8d

There have been England flags on the Three Lions in Bedminster for almost 30 years.
The landlord is not happy about being dragged into the current 'divisive debate' about flags...

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

'I take great pride in our country’s flag as a symbol of our great nation, not as a divisive or racist tool'

Shock and horror at Islamophobic graffiti in South Bristol

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 8d

No place for this in Bedminster, say community leaders
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

'It's totally unacceptable. There is no place for this in our community'

E-scooter and e-bike scheme to go 24 hours this week

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 8d

The e-scooter and e-bike hire scheme is going 24 hours in Bristol & the West of England.
Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

The 'Cinderella Curfew' of midnight is being scrapped

All you need to know about the law around flags on lampposts

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 9d

The flags in Bristol & S Glos
Who's putting them up & why?
Why don't others like it and why are people taking them down?
What do the councils say?
What does the law say?
Hopefully everything you need to know about this thorny issue...
please do read more:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Why is it happening? Why are people against it? Is it legal?

Buyers left waiting as 'landmark flats' development delayed

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 12d

People who have put down deposits for the new ‘landmark £30m affordable homes development’ at the end of North Street have been told there’s a problem
Read more 👇🏼

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Some were originally told they'd be moving in last year

Two-week Bristol bus strike 'suspended' as drivers reconsider

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING:
First Bus say next week's fortnight-long Bristol Bus Strike is on hold while drivers consider a new offer from the company
Full story here:

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

A revised pay offer is now on the table

Major marathon route from Bristol cut short due to unusual hazard

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 12d

Organisers of a cross-country marathon between Bristol & Bath this weekend have had to cut a mile from the course...
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

The course is now 25 miles rather than the usual 26.2

Buyers left waiting as 'landmark flats' development delayed

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 12d

People who have put down deposits for the new ‘landmark £30m affordable homes development’ at the end of North Street have been told there’s a problem
Read more 👇🏼

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Some were originally told they'd be moving in last year

Police called after flag row breaks out on Bristol street

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 13d

The police were called to heated scenes and allegations of theft and assault, as a group of residents taking down lamppost flags in their Bristol street were confronted by those who said they put them up.
Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Police tried to mediate an agreement

'Intimidating' and 'divisive' flags will be removed, says council

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 13d

"'Intimidating' and 'divisive' England flags will be removed". South Glos Council takes a stand against all the Union & St George flags on lampposts (something Bristol's Green-led council have not done).
Read the full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Unauthorised Union Jacks and St George's crosses will be taken down

Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 15d

Why Bristol band Massive Attack are taking all their songs off Spotify...
read the full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Spotify says the reasons why are 'misinformation'

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 15d

During the 18th & 19th centuries, metal plaques such as this on AhhToots at the bottom of Christmas Steps were installed to buildings to prove the residents had paid their insurance to private firefighting companies who’d only put out fires of those who’d paid their fees.

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 15d

My colleague John Wimperis, an LDR, was there and I was talking to him about what happened just now. Watch this space - story about it incoming.

'We're the University for Bristol' says boss as new campus is a year away

Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 15d

Had a tour of the new Bristol University 'Enterprise Campus' next to Temple Meads station today, and asked the boss of the uni, Prof Evelyn Welch about it, and the impact on the city of the expanding universities.
Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Vice-chancellor Evelyn Welch says the new campus by Temple Meads will be a game-changer for the city

Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 15d

Why Bristol band Massive Attack are taking all their songs off Spotify...
read the full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Spotify says the reasons why are 'misinformation'