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📣 Hackney UNISON 🇵🇸 @hackneyunison.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We recently spoke at @hackneycouncil.bsky.social Scrutiny Commission about the school closure proposals, how we got here, and impacts of the previous closures. Watch it at buff.ly/4i7NiLQ Many thanks to @londonspy.bsky.social for their useful report: buff.ly/4igZ8DC
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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Amazing map work by @londonspy.bsky.social on bike theft in London: biketheft.thelondonspy.co.uk Can show by total bike theft volumes or as rate compared to cycling in census. Latter is particularly fascinating IMO - as it shows 'risk' of your bike being stolen by area. @londoncycling.bsky.social
biketheft.thelondonspy.co.uk
A detailed map of bike theft in London
Explore hotspots in your local borough
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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · 21/11/2024
The little London newsletters like @londoncentric.bsky.social @londonspy.bsky.social and a wonderful app called opencouncil.network @opencouncil.bsky.social
opencouncil.network
Open Council Network
Know what your local councillors are doing for you, every day. Weekly summaries, videos and transcripts of meetings held by local councils across the UK.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
My favorite thing in the world is historical records of ancient people being incredibly petty or complaining a lot
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 18/11/2023
I live in the people's republic of Camden. You get one small general waste bin allocated at birth. I'm going to have give up a kidney for a replacement
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Don’t you just hate it when that happens? www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
kentonline.co.uk
‘Spoons staff accused me of taking cocaine - but I was just blowing my nose!’
A “shocked” customer was mistakenly accused by Wetherspoon staff of sniffing lines of cocaine after getting a bit of tissue stuck under his nose.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 16/11/2023
Exciting news: We’re taking another step to making Bluesky an open network for public conversations. Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
I wonder if she'll ever get bluesky... 🥴
standard.co.uk
Susan Hall shrugs off liking Enoch Powell tweet saying offence ‘wasn’t intended’
The Tory London mayoral candidate said she ‘can’t remember’ supporting a tweet with Islamophobic undertones about rival Sadiq Khan.
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
yep — and to be fair it’s notable he’s already polling 14%, despite no active campaign. wonder how much higher he could go in the polls…
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
just dropped — believe this is the first London mayoral poll to include Corbyn: 🔴 Khan: 39% 🔵 Hall: 24% 🟣 Corbyn: 14% 🟠 LD: 7% 🟢 Green: 6% www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
standard.co.uk
Sadiq Khan to beat Susan Hall even if Jeremy Corbyn stands in London mayoral race
If Mr Corbyn does not stand Mr Khan appears on for an easy win for a third term in City Hall
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Yay it’s MySociety’s 20th birthday!!! Absolutely trilled to be here
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
tonight we starting replying to all of the recent FREELANCE PITCHES that have been arriving in the Spy inbox — so exciting! if you’re interested in contributing to a new local mag for London too, more deets here 👇
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We're hiring freelancers! Plus a design sneak peek
Spread the word — a paid version of the Spy is coming
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
shoutout to the Colouring London project, which launched officially recently it’s a huge open data project on building information — land use, construction date, architectural style also, it looks beautiful — worth your time! colouringlondon.org
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
still thinking about this kitten saved in Woolwich recently — was stuck in a cars innards and those passing by heard its mews x.com/thegwn_/stat...
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
big news for Wimbledon locals fighting the new tennis courts a Wandsworth planning officer has recommended councillors vote *against* the expansion plans at their meeting next Tuesday it's already over?
theguardian.com
Wimbledon expansion plan dealt blow as planners advise rejecting it
Wandsworth council officers snub scheme to build 8,000-seat stadium show court and 38 grass courts
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
these charts showing rapid increase in cycling in Paris over the past year are crazy will dig out the same stats for London at some point...
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
love videos like these of pigeons correctly using the doors when the tube stops
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SMARTEST PIGEON uses the underground in London !!!
This pigeon was wandering around the tube looking for bits of food off the ground. As soon as the train started slowing down, it made it's way to the door to...
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Hounslow fire: House being made safe ahead of investigation
bbc.co.uk
Hounslow fire: House being made safe ahead of investigation
The adults who lived at the property are named locally as Aroen Kishen and his wife Seema.
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
air fryer mag market is booming in sainsburys
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
actually crazy how much harder it is to buy in London now, even with the recent fall in prices extra £1,000 a *month* in mortgage payments to buy the average London home in nov 2023 interest rate rises have been brutal…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
This is how you hit back at these Nazis. Well done Arsenal. "Following yesterday's horrifying footage, we will be reviewing our own CCTV tapes to identify this individual and ensure he will never again enter the Emirates stadium. Kick racism out of football.”
Nazi thug causing trouble at Waterloo
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Probs the weirdest link we included in yesterday’s issue of the Spy: someone was caught ‘watching porn and masturbating’ while driving through central London 👀 The latest unhinged stuff from across the capital here 👉 www.thelondonspy.co.uk/p/your-ultim...
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 13/11/2023
You can't just bring back David Cameron he was killed off in season 3 you'd have to pretend Boris Johnson era was a different branch of the multiverse and erase Greensill. Jesus some spad has taken that Vanity Fair deep dive on Marvel very much to heart
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 13/11/2023
Hats off to Chris Mason for using the phrase "big bananas" in his story.
Chris Mason's BBC News report, which says: "Here are two words that have been used to me about today's reshuffle, from different folk, this morning.
"Massive" and "seismic"
Let's see - and language at Westminster is easily inflated - but the early indications suggest these words might be entirely reasonable.
The home secretary is out. The foreign secretary is in Downing Street. And a former prime minister has turned up.
That is big bananas in reshuffle terms already.
Plus more junior ministers are indicating they are leaving - which points to this shake-up having depth as well as breadth.
It's going to be quite a day."
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 13/11/2023
Bluesky has just hit the 2 Million User Mark!!!! It's been just about 2 months since we hit 1M users Daily stat changes from 1M -> 2M Users: Posts per Day: ~500k -> ~800k Likes per Day: ~2M -> ~3M Daily Active Posters: ~100k -> ~160k Daily Active Likers: ~140k -> ~240k
Screenshot showing network-wide stats from https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats.
It shows >2 Million Users, ~1.14 million posters, a mean post count of 74.86, and a total post count of ~85 million
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
would be interested in users by country — wondering how many others from UK are on here !
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kiltedN8 @kiltedn8.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
#CruellaBraverman has been sacked according to the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk...
bbc.co.uk
Suella Braverman updates: Home secretary sacked as home secretary - BBC News
Suella Braverman has been sacked from her role as home secretary, following days of speculation
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12/11/2023
Happy Exploding Whale Day to those who observe
oregonlive.com
Oregon's exploding whale turns 50: Here are 10 ways to mark the milestone
Between the viral video, the song and the incredible stories, there are plenty of ways to mark the milestone this year.
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Many hoped London’s house price ‘crash’ would make the city more affordable. Instead, the very opposite has happened 💀 The 10 things you should know about a weird year of housing in the capital leads today’s Spy 👇
thelondonspy.co.uk
Your ultimate guide to London's house price 'crash'
One of the toughest housing markets in the world is only getting tougher
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
morning — here are some delightfully grim snaps from a recent walk in the Walthamstow Wetlands 🌧️
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
okie dokie — fair enough!
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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 11/11/2023
And with the goat with a cone on its back!!!
A statue of a goat with a cone on its back.
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
huh?
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
a beaut
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Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Greenwich Town Hall 1939 Clifford Culpin & Partners The southern and eastern suburbs have lots of great town halls and civic centres, such as Greenwich. Discover them in our new guidebook, Modernism Beyond Metro-Land right here ⬇️ unbound.com/books/modern...
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
salut! 😊
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
bougie
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Lol what city is this in?
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
petition to get city hall to drop the new Superloop bus plans in favour of a huge fleet of dinks
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
8. Millionaire towers: Your guide to the luxury skyscrapers reshaping London's skyline 🏙️ you might know One Blackfriars as the ‘boomerang’ or the ‘vase’ we revealed the 50-storey tower recently broke a new record: it logged the most expensive ever flat sold in a UK skyscraper
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Millionaire towers: Your guide to the luxury skyscrapers reshaping London's skyline
There's been an explosion of residential towers across the capital — mostly catering to the super-rich
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
7. Mapped: London's most notorious graffiti writers back in the summer, we shone a light on a secretive subculture — the underground world of the city's taggers we mapped the ten most prolific names and answered: what drives them to risk their freedom and even their life nightly?
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Mapped: London's most notorious graffiti writers
Once you know them, you see them everywhere
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
6. the plan to make London more like Hong Kong, not Los Angeles urban sprawl is out, densification is in — apparently here's what housing experts make of the government's latest strategy to boost London's housing supply 🏘️
thelondonspy.co.uk
The plan to make London more like Hong Kong, not Los Angeles
Michael Gove wants to build upwards in the capital, not outwards
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
5. the London boroughs where homophobic crime is rising in the wake of an attack on two men outside a popular gay bay in Clapham, we examined London's recent uptick in homophobic hate crime prominent campaigner Peter Tatchell gave us his take, and didn't mince words about the police response 🏳️‍🌈
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The London boroughs where homophobic crime is rising
Peter Tatchell tells the Spy the Clapham attack was "shocking but not surprising"
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
4. something stinks in east London 😷 much misery when rubbish piled up throughout the East End during the bin strike in September a legit industrial dispute taking its course? or a cash-strapped council sleepwalking into an entirely avoidable mess? we took a look
thelondonspy.co.uk
Something stinks in east London
We can't help but wonder — could the bin strike have been averted?
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
3. London's drug lords got hacked. Did it matter? last month we took stock of Operation Eternal — the Met's big crackdown on organised crime using hacked encrypted messages hundreds of arrests — and yet the capital's drug supply and purity seems untouched 💊 www.thelondonspy.co.uk/p/londons-dr...
thelondonspy.co.uk
London's drug lords got hacked. Did it matter?
Hundreds have now been jailed in Operation Eternal — but the city’s drug supply, purity and use seem untouched
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
2. the absolute state of London's bike storage in a city where bike theft is commonplace, protected lock-ups have become prime real estate we got our mitts on exclusive data showing the dire waits for on-street bike hangars across London 🚲
thelondonspy.co.uk
The absolute state of London's bike storage
‘I waited years for a hangar — but by then I’d moved'
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London Spy 🕵️‍♂️ @londonspy.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
THREAD 🧵 what better way to start our sleuthing on bluesky with some recent fav pieces — starting with 1. the employers quietly dropping their London Living Wage status we found posh auctioneers Sotheby's, culture centre the RSA and the hip Camden Town Brewery have all left the decent wage scheme
thelondonspy.co.uk
Revealed: The employers quietly dropping their London Living Wage status
Big names appear to have had cold feet over the decent wage scheme
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