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Emily Turner

@etwritehome.bsky.social
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Storyteller and prolific public transport rider. Host of Roundel Round We Go podcast. Professional gadabout usually found on a bus. Trying to visit every branch of every chain supermarket in London. she/they linktr.ee/emilytakesthebus

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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 5h
Curious to hear @jonnelledge.bsky.social use the term 'sunbirds' in his new book. In Canada, I've only ever heard 'snowbirds' for people going south for the winter but apparently 'sunbirds' are people doing this in the opposite direction according to urban dictionary? Fascinating.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
While one of my favourite quotes about my home nation is Naomi's Klein's 'Canadian smugness is a powerful drug', all these EU/Canada memes have reminded me what a privilege it is to come from a country that people just generally feel so positive towards.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A side issue, but the thing that is always cited is “gas prices” and — I know I always say it — but we won’t make any global progress on climate change until Americans get used to paying *a lot more* for petrol. Have you looked at British petrol prices any time recently? Now double them.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Both Russian and pro-Trump U.S. actors are amplifying and spreading misinformation about Alberta separatism in the hope of fraying Canadian unity and sowing distrust.” An overt attack on Canadian sovereignty, meant specifically to manipulate Canadians. That’s what’s fuelling Alberta separation.
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Russia and U.S. amplifying Alberta separatist narratives to stoke division, distrust: report | CBC News
Moscow has long tried to meddle in foreign elections. What's newer is Canada's neighbour overtly trying to influence and fan flames of referendum bid, warns a new report on foreign interference.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Not entirely relevant here, but is he cosplaying as Sainsbury's employee in this picture?
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Maybe I read The Power Broker too recently, but I am hoping that someone, somewhere is writing some fan(?) fiction in which Robert Moses and Zohran Mamdani exist at the same time. Can you imagine the disdain Moses would have? Take him down, Zohran.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My younger self feels extremely called out by this!
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I've been trying to hand-pollinate my pumpkin plant because it's not producing any fruit but it turns out it's also only producing male flowers so I'm really just pushing homosexuality on it but it continues to produce male flowers so clearly it likes it.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The London authorities have produced this map of places where you can cool down for free:
apps.london.gov.uk
Cool Spaces
Cool Spaces Map displays indoor venues open to all where Londoners can take respite on hot days.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Keir Starmer’s speech on nudity apps encapsulates much of Labour’s MPs frustration with him. “Ultimatums” rather than action. Talk big, act small. Perhaps you then eventually do act big but not without losing an awful lot of goodwill in the process.
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Marcus Payne @nowtro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s all kicking off in Richmond.
TGJones in Richmond. The name has been crossed out and replaced with WHSmith (its former name) by a disgruntled graffiti artist.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/05/2026
Cannot 👏 emphasize 👏 this 👏 enough
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Nicholas Cage is READY for this!
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As an act of mayoral solidarity, perhaps Sadiq could post one of these to Andy.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Immigration enforcement is far from new, but it has got worse under Labour. There's always a significant degree of racial profiling in raids, along with a routine failure to protect victims of exploitation and modern slavery, favouring Instesd to penalise them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE
They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy
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Kate @katesonanadventure.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
THIS FRIDAY… If you’re a woman who loves railways and wants to make friends with other women who love railways, come and join us this Friday at Kings Cross. Please share this with all the lady rail enthusiasts you know. Even if you can’t make it yourself. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1972849450...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is what we call "Facebook weather" because it's too scared to go to London, for zero logical reason.
bbc graphic showing heavy weather hitting a good chunk of England and Wales, except London for some reason.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I decided to choose a random place in the UK I'd never been to to have my citizenship ceremony in 2021 and I picked Hull and I really loved it there! Up with Hull!
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Every day I get more and more livid with the narrative around London. I work with tourists, and they're taking ubers from destination to destination and have their phones strapped to their bodies. I LOVE this city and can count on one hand times I've felt unsafe here. I'm so tired of the bullshit.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy home-office-assigned birthday to all refugees who were disbelieved about their date of birth and un-safeguarded as one of the many experiences of state-sponsored xenophobic cruelty that is the asylum system in the U.K. Let’s keep working for a just, restorative and eminently sensible system.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This year's gingerbread station is... Kennington!!
A gingerbread version of Kennington Underground Station.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/12/2025
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
People shouldn't send long voicenotes? Fuck that. I want to listen to your whole story. What I HATE is having to interrupt my podcast for a 10-second voicenote that the person could have easily typed. But 15 minutes I can listen to while walking? More of that!!
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Have you seen the speeds on the circle line lately?
A screenshot of google maps showing King's Cross to Sloane Square. It shows it as leaving King's Cross at 7:00, and then 11 more stations at 7:00. At 7:01 it goes through 4 more stations.
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Amid all the hoohah around the cancelled/reinstated fast 7am Manchester to London train, it's worth remembering that the journey time with HS2 built in full was projected as 67 minutes...
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a man in a black and white striped sweater is laying on a bed with #schitts creek written on the bottom
ALT: a man in a black and white striped sweater is laying on a bed with #schitts creek written on the bottom
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It's been ONE YEAR since a mass group of railway nerds descended on Northampton Station and Elliot still emails regularly about new station to remove from the spreadsheet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNb... With @geofftech.bsky.social @jenonthemove.com @nattj.bsky.social @nickbadley.com and many more
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A Ticket From Every Station to Northampton
YouTube video by Geoff Marshall
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 19/11/2025
good morning specifically to Claire Sharpe www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
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Natt @nattj.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If anyone is still wanting to order custom orders they’re still open for guaranteed Christmas delivery until the end of November, I will also be uploading a few new designs in a week or so just before the final Christmas rush If anyone doesn’t already have the link: natts.art
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/11/2025
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Always fascinating watching people underestimate the size of London vs other UK ciries. On an average weekday, more journeys are made on JUST the Elizabeth line than the ENTIRE population of Liverpool. If the Tube was a city, its average daily passengers would make it the 2nd largest in the UK.
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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR 2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We’re only 2/3 the way through the year @gojauntly.bsky.social – gave me a bit of a panic! There are still 4 months left!
A notification on a go Jauntly walking challenge that says we’re 3/4 of the way through the year.
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Labour MP spreading the blatant lie that that asylum seekers are being treated to pleasurable hotel stays, rather than the reality which is that they're converted to functional, cramped dormitories. Of course they haven't paid. They aren't even allowed to work.
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Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The fact that the DBS update services web address still includes "CRB Checks" in it, despite the fact they haven't been called that in over 10 years is hilarious to me.
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Dude Points (what do I do now) @dudepoints.fun · 31/07/2025
In London over the next few months?Drop by 130 Fenchurch Street on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays to see a great photo exhibition of Bernice Mulenga's portraits & images of the gardens & gardeners of TfL. The people in them are all creating amazing spaces with constraints. Thanks National Trust!
Images of some of the exhibition Marisa next to her photo
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Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com · 27/07/2025
@64streetcar.bsky.social AND I ARE GOING FROM THE MEXICAN BORDER TO THE CANADIAN BORDER USING ONLY LOCAL TRANSIT!!!!! It's scheduled to take six days but that's VERY ambitious and this trip has some of the tightest connections I've ever had the bravery to plan...
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